We don’t want six storey buildings on Arcade site (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

We don’t want six storey buildings on Arcade site

4:25pm Thursday 19th November 2009 in

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I AM incredibly disappointed with the council’s current plans for the Arcade site. They are both unsustainable and financially unviable.

These plans will see a monstrosity of a development that neither local residents nor Greens want.

Labour councillors are completely going against the wishes of local residents by planning a development that is completely out of character with Walthamstow.

Local assets such as the Walthamstow Pool and Track should not come at the expense of a quick, election gimmick sell off.

Instead we should be seeing proper consultation to establish what it is local people want in their local area.

Residents and Greens don’t want buildings over six storeys and the usual chain stores that blight our town centres, but independent local businesses and state of the art green buildings.

Overall this development should maintain not destroy Walthamstow’s greatest asset – its diversity.

Daniel Perrett, Green Party candidate for Hoe Street ward.