Life on Mars

Let’s go back in time….

The alternative is too horrendous to contemplate. Up to 26 storeys, 1000 extra people with no improvements in social and community facilities, increased traffic on roads through Gospel Oak, no mention of council homes- only ‘affordable homes’, and we all know what that means!

Developer Mount Anvil has recently set up a subsidiary of the main company to foist this monstrosity upon us: MOUNT ANVIL BACTON LIMITED (March of this this year). No doubt they expect to be coining it.

They have recently submitted a planning application for a ‘Scoping Opinion’ seeking agreement to their proposed omissions from the Environmental Impact Assessment. The following is their reasoning of why socio-economic factors don’t need to be considered:

Here is the full list of factors they are hoping to ignore:

Socio-economics
Air Quality
Biodiversity
Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases
Archaeology (further detailed in separate report – Appendix D)
Ground Conditions and Contamination (further detailed in separate report – Appendix E)
Agriculture, Land Quality and Soils
Water Resources, Flood Risk and Drainage
Human Health
Materials and Waste
Vulnerability to Major Accidents and Disasters
Energy and Sustainability (addressed separately in Energy and Sustainability Statements)
Utilities
Light Pollution
Aviation
Electromagnetic Fields

They don’t mention the Gospel Oak and Haverstock Community Vision planning framework, that the Council spent our time and money developing!

They purposely miss out developments proposed at West Kentish Town Estate, Wending Estate and Regis Road Industrial Area when assessing Cumulative Schemes.

They claim that the site is a ‘brownfield’ site, and that the trees and green space that were bulldozed by the Council does not need to be re-provided: