WALTHAMSTOW: Huge crane for tower block build (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
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WALTHAMSTOW: Huge crane for tower block build
10:29am Friday 3rd February 2012 in News By Daniel Binns
THE transformation of Walthamstow's skyline will start this month when a 30 metre crane is erected to help build a 14-storey tower block.
Developers Solum Regeneration has announced the device will be put up by Walthamstow Central station on February 11 but insists disruption will be minimal.
The tower, which is due to open as a budget Travelodge hotel in the summer, forms part of a £20million development including two adjacent eight-storey housing units.
Solum says the crane will not hang over any homes or the railway, and will not force road or station closures.
A second crane will be installed within months. The development was opposed by residents who said it was ugly and intrusive, but Solum argues it will boost the local economy.
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tjw422 says...
7:42pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Hundred's of adult local residents put their names and addresses and signatures opposing this high-rise to the council, mainly because the height of the development would totally take away any existing residential privacies. Some residents windows will be less than 25 metres from the development's overseeing windows. The residents may just as well brick in their rear windows. Cllr Ebony Vincent stated that the feelings of the people she had spoken to were 50/50 in their views. One must ask where these people live. Leytonstone?? We would ask again, can she please release names, addresses and signatures of the people she said support the development. She probably doesn't even know what she has put her name to against the wishes of the residents she is supposed to represent as ward Cllr.