Haringey (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Haringey Council unanimously approves a 36-home redevelopment at a Wood Green timber yard, despite objections over building height and privacy impacts.
At a planning subcommittee yesterday, Monday, the 8th, Haringey council members approved the totally private housing plan.
On the property of Wood Green Timber Co. Ltd. on High Road, blocks up to five stories will be constructed, with five mews houses in the back. John Silvester, the site owner, submitted the proposal, which includes ten three-bedroom homes, five two-bedroom homes, and twenty-one one-bedroom homes.
One accessible parking bay and about 400 square meters of amenity space are being offered, with the possibility of two more.
Oscar French, a homeowner on Trinity Road, claimed that the development had not “considered or respected” the impact on other properties.
He claimed that there was no proof that there would be
“no adverse affects”
and that the heights were not displayed early in the procedure.
Cathy Brennan, a Labour councillor and committee member, acknowledged his worry. The new construction will address the situation where residents of Trinity Road “had no windows” from other houses facing their gardens, but the councillor wanted to know what Oscar suggested.
Oscar added:
“When the application was submitted it became clear that there had not been that much regard for our concerns about loss of privacy, loss of outlook and the overpowering effect of the new boundary and buildings built directly at the end of our gardens.”
According to Oscar, locals desired a “different” design that did not overlook properties and gardens.
The first-floor bedroom windows of the Mews would “overlook the existing gardens” on Trinity Road, but not the residences themselves, according to Richard Truscott, a council urban design officer.
Sean O’Donovan, a committee member, discussed the worries that businesses near Neville Place had expressed since the expansion would affect access and they required trucks and big vans to supply supplies.
The plan
“didn’t change the existing situation,”
according to Maurice Richards, head of transport and travel at Haringey Council, and “that section of road remains narrow in terms of the parking.”
Although he didn’t “see it as a safety issue at this point,” he clarified that an impartial road safety assessment would be conducted to
“make sure the scheme is safe in terms of design.”
Samuel Uff, a council officer, clarified that £250,000 was being offered in lieu of providing affordable housing on the property, which was deemed unfeasible. “One family unit” or a “four-bed family home in the area” might be covered by the sum, he continued.
The plan was “carefully designed” and made “effective use of this highly accessible brownfield site for much-needed housing,” according to Frances Young, a Studio Y2 planning consultant who represented the applicant.
Council members unanimously approved the development after the almost one-hour meeting.
What mitigation is planned for loss of privacy to neighbours?
Haringey Council’s approval for the 36- home development at Wood Green Timber Yard includes sequestration mitigations similar as strategic window positioning, high- position glazing on upper bottoms, and boundary webbing to minimize overlooking into bordering auditoriums , particularly those in Trinity auditoriums.
Plans feature obscure or frosted glass on select elevations facing sensitive domestic areas, angled sundecks to reduce direct sightlines, and evergreen planting along Neville Place boundaries to produce a natural buffer, biddable with Original Plan sequestration norms.
Despite resident enterprises, the commission accepted these measures meliorated post-pre-application as sufficient under policy DM13, with conditions for landscaping perpetration and no inhabitable windows directly overlooking private hinder auditoriums within 21 measures.