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18 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Key issue for Westferry Printworks
Tower Hamlets has missed its housing delivery targets set by the Mayor of London
Over last 3 years needed to deliver 11,002 homes in total (highest in country) but only delivered 8,106!
74% of target
Government rules
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 gov.uk/government/pub…
make it harder to resist development if you do not achieve at least 75% of your target
gov.uk/guidance/housi…
Developer will push this fact + economic development post-COVID of work starting on site
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But it turns out that putting most of your new housing targets into relatively small parts of Tower Hamlets may have been unwise (Council Local Plan)
Largest part of TH Central only has to deliver 14% despite excellent transport links in parts
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Council will attempt to refute this by updating analysis with the latest information and making an argument to do the analysis over 5 years because development in TH is lumpy (really big buildings rather then steady supply of houses)
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Andrew Wood Profile picture
19 May
There is no housing crisis in Tower Hamlets if you look at decisions actually made by TH Council on land it owns (even if in partnership with Poplar Harca)
Last night for the 2nd time Cllrs rejected my argument to add some height to Stroudley Walk in Bow
An estate regeneration
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on Council owned land
If you truly believed we had a crisis then you would wish to maximise density in a location with superb transport connections (Underground, DLR, bus, cycle superhighway) + lots of existing social infrastructure
But the proposed density is 896 habitable
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habitable rooms per hectare, a fraction of those achieved on the Isle of Dogs (we range from 1,400 to 5,000 HRPH) even though this site has better transport links then those on the island PTAL is 6A versus PTAL 3 to 5 on the island except North Quay which is also 6
3/
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15 May
Air Quality has been improving steadily for years in most parts of Tower Hamlets and is now below World Health Organisation safe levels on average
This downward trend has been happening for years even before ULEZ
During the 1st lockdown, the Council did not collect air quality
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so most data before 2020
One reason why this has not picked up in reporting is that the GLA only updates their London-wide analysis every 5 years, now out of date
My presentation based on a Council presentation that used old maps but where the text reflected what I am showing
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It is likely that the ULEZ extension in October (if it does improve air quality by 30% as TfL suggest) may well mean that large parts of Tower Hamlets will have levels of pollutants below World Health Organisation safe levels
Which are
who.int/news-room/fact…
3/
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12 May
You may be reading about proposed new #PlanningBill
It may if it survives have a big impact here (& we do not know full contents yet)
There will be a lot of political opposition (mainly from Conservatives!) but the planning system in England is crap - it does not deliver
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enough new homes, quality homes, affordable homes nor beautiful places - some of those failures are for other reasons not just the planning system
I am not sure I agree with government proposals but I won’t defend status quo
Tower Hamlets has to deliver around 1.82% of all
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new homes & I suspect opposition from suburban MP’s may push targets higher (this assumes people/market want more new homes here)
Part of the change will be zoning, a map will say this a Growth area where we want development but this area is Protected from development
3/
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9 May
Following the fire at NPW on Friday and the protest yesterday some thoughts about next steps
It is clear that there are a lot of lessons to learn from the fire, why did smoke spread so far, why did fire brigade struggle to access water supplies, waking watch etc etc?
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Barking & Dagenham Council commissioned a really good and useful report following the Samuel Garside House fire in 2019
lbbd.gov.uk/news/independe…
Tomorrow I will suggest to TH Council that they may wish to do something similar
To help collate all of the lessons
2/
I told the CEO of TH Council yesterday at the count how bad the fire had been
So while memories are fresh write down what happened on the day, what did not work, what did, what would you do differently next time. Save those pics and videos, and WhatsApp conversations
3/
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6 May
Polling stations now open
Polling stations are open now until 10pm (they are red dots in the map)
More information here
towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/council_a…
Take your own pen or pencil (but they will have spares)
Wear a mask unless exempt
You need to know your own name and address, you
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do not need a poll card if you lost it
Other than that same as a normal election except for changes in polling stations (Mellish moved to Arnhem Wharf, East India portacabin to the town hall), apparently, the NHS has taken all the spare portacabins!
Reminder 5 ballot papers;
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Mayor of London - 2 X first choice and 2nd choice
Local City & East Assembly Member - 1 X against a named person
London wide assembly member - 1X against a party list
Referendum - 1 X against Mayor or Leader
Referendum - Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Plan
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30 Apr
Good news or is it on NOX canisters?
At last TH Council has done something about the little silver canisters that litter our streets & are often linked to anti-social behaviour
But why did it take so long & why it may have little impact & why TH is so frustrating?
A new PSPO
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Public Space Protection Order was approved on Wednesday by the Mayor, it will ban the use of NOX nitrous oxide that people inhale via balloons from the canisters
It provides a short high so users have to keep inhaling more of them (& then for some reason do not pick them up)
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But NOX does have some negative health impacts
talktofrank.com/drug/nitrous-o…
& some of those who use NOX also cause anti-social behaviour, cause loud noise etc & a few have been violent when asked to keep the noise down
There is no need for it to be inhaled close to peoples homes
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