If you oppose the current planning application to build the Octave Tower (on the existing Bondway site), please sign our petition http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-to-octave-tower.html
The planning application for the twin towers at the Vauxhall Island site is now on the Lambeth Council website here
The proposals had already been previewed during a number of public consultations that the developer undertook - the taller of the towers is 41 stories (140m) and the lower is 32 stories (115m). The development would contain 291 flats, a 179-room hotel, a dentist and a cinema. It would have just 30 car-parking spaces for the whole development (which is a mixed-blessing. Fewer cars is good, but there is a danger that it just increases parking pressure in surrounding streets).
In the development’s favour, the proposal seems nowhere near as overbearing as the dreaded Bondway development (now entering the second week of the public inquiry at Lambeth town hall) and the developer here has done a better job of consulting with locals. But it does seems like over-develop of a tiny site, and twin towers are notorious for ‘wind tunneling’, which would make the area around the bus station even more hostile to pedestrians than it is at present.
The consultation documents from Lambeth say that comments on the scheme should be made by 8th August, although when VV checked at the weekend it appeared that site notices had not yet been posted, which means objectors may have a little longer to make representations.
Lambeth Council Transport & Planning had hired a hall, mailed approx. 460 households, produced posters, mounted a really good exhibition, prepared a presentation and waited for people to walk through the doors. And waited … and waited.
In all only ten people turned up – only some of whom were cyclists!
Very disappointing considering the amount of effort that Kees and his team from Lambeth Council had put into floating this cycle parking initiative and staging this event based on feedback from the local community.
Click on article from yesterday’s Evening Standard
And click here to see the exhibition boards from the recent public exhibition.
This is the model at the Inquiry. Click on the photo to get a better idea of comparative scales:
Name ‘em and praise ‘em. Here’s who’s speaking as who at the Inquiry:
Andrea Hofling / Viva Vauxhall
April Hilling / local resident
Charles Pender / Fentiman Road etc residents’ association
Charlie Boxer / Italo
David Spofforth / Harleyford Road Garden Association
Dræyk van der Hørn / Bonnington Café
James Booth / local resident
Jane Vuglar / local resident
James Fraser / Bonnington Square Garden Association
Polly Freeman / Friends of Vauxhall Park
Pauline Gaunt / Regent’s Bridge Gardens Residents’ Association
Patricia Holland / Vine Housing Co-op
Rita Keegan / Bonnington Centre
Victoria Conran / local resident
Kylun Ltd has now submitted its planning application to the London Borough of Lambeth for a sustainable mixed-use tower development on the island site at Vauxhall Cross. The scheme being proposed is for two buildings, one of 41 storeys, the other 31 storeys and will include:
You can read Kylun’s letter to Viva Vauxhall here