HOW gratifying that Cllr Wheeler is supporting the restriction on the number of properties that can be converted into flats in order to prevent "damage to our family housing stock and the character of our residential areas," (Guardian, May 8).
Presumably the opposition to more flats is based upon such things as the impact on traffic and parking and increased pressure on local infrastructure and services.
How strange, then, to note that one of the areas for restriction is the High Street where the council supports the building of some 210 flats in a tower block on the Arcade site with little or no parking and no improvements to infrastructure and services in the area.
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The great majority of these will not be ideal for family occupation but the concern for "family housing stock" appears not to be so important in this instance.
What protection for the "character of the residential area" immediately adjacent to the site will be provided?
Perhaps it is a case of one rule for developers that the council favours and one rule for anyone else.
George Arkless,
Cleveland Park Avenue,
Walthamstow.
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