tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post7337411006759885551..comments2024-03-13T10:28:38.211+00:00Comments on OPEN Dalston: Barratt to complete Dalston SquareAbout OPEN Dalstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13209133949209769082noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-23303708440399467662013-05-30T00:59:31.338+01:002013-05-30T00:59:31.338+01:00I hope the Curve garden is not 'temporary'...I hope the Curve garden is not 'temporary' as u say... I have lived here for over 30 years and this is the best thing we have had in a long time...hope we do not loose it! I hope we ALL fight to not loose it when time comes!!Melodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11725821790100455464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-19775846819563081402010-06-06T12:23:11.579+01:002010-06-06T12:23:11.579+01:00Anonymous says of Dalston Square "its not all...Anonymous says of Dalston Square "its not all bad...". That's true - we need homes, and this development provides some. But it could have been so very much better.Clear Hardlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16048247783394975448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-39443142388742664772010-06-05T17:24:11.737+01:002010-06-05T17:24:11.737+01:00I'm afraid Anonymous is wrong, there is not go...I'm afraid Anonymous is wrong, there is not going to be green space where there was a derelict railway as part of this development, there is going to be more blocks of flats, infact almost twice as many as there was in phase 1. There is going to be a "public" square where there was a public road (Roseberry Place). The green space on a derelict railway track (across Dalston Lane) is separate from the Barratts development and is considered "temporary".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-78960178339585859752010-06-04T15:35:35.631+01:002010-06-04T15:35:35.631+01:00Clear Hardly
I think you're being a bit melo...Clear Hardly <br /><br />I think you're being a bit melodramatic. I honestly don't think that absentee landlords at Dalston Square are going to let their investments go up in smoke. Secondly, the whole point of the 'Sqaure' aspect of Dalston Square is that it will be a green space where there was formerly a derelict railway line. Agreed there is profit-making occuring through foreign markets and having a low number of social/affordable housing but it's not all bad....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-39129803358560334902010-04-14T22:28:56.910+01:002010-04-14T22:28:56.910+01:00Michael Rosen much as I admire much of what you ha...Michael Rosen much as I admire much of what you have done you are not living in the same reality as me when you say that it is not possible for people with children to live in these developments - whether or not they want to many will have little choice but to raise their children in high rise privately rented high density flats as many parents already do at the same school your child attends - not everyone is as privileged as you unfortunately and owning a trad family home is a dream many should never even countenance...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-7430071704064204602010-03-11T21:27:56.602+00:002010-03-11T21:27:56.602+00:00Right on their door step Hackney councillors ride ...Right on their door step Hackney councillors ride roughshed over a counservation area and allow the management of the Hackney Empire to fill it's empty coffers by flogging off its administration building at the back of the theatre on Wilton Way/Sylvester Path. The Hackney Labour administration are hell bent on destroying the makeup of Hackney with endless bland shoebox sized expensive high density flats. This block will be ideally located behind a Theatre and next to a pub! So perfect for noise complaints.Another planning disasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-23991485072158635662010-03-08T23:20:44.358+00:002010-03-08T23:20:44.358+00:00The question of buy-to-let is interesting. We can ...The question of buy-to-let is interesting. We can ask, to what extent are buy-to-lets filled by people who have any stake in the locality, and for how long? It's my view that a piece of social engineering is going on. Hackney want to minimize the number of families they have to cater for, and so are rushing to fill derelict (or spaces they have deliberately made derelict) with the kinds of settlement that can only be lived in by childless people. This builds in a cycle of habitation where a good number of those childless people will move on as and when or if they have children. In terms of profit per square inch, children are loss-making. If you can fill every square inch with rent-payers, then you maximise land and dwelling space. <br /><br />I am in no doubt that if I've been able to think this through, then so have Hackney and this is their larger project. Mixed use or not mixed use don't come into this new kind of equation. This new equation is about profit per square inch, and bugger the neighbourhood.Michael Rosenhttp://www.michaelrosen.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-8663420249191116442010-03-07T21:27:01.610+00:002010-03-07T21:27:01.610+00:00Dalston Square will be very high density, in one o...Dalston Square will be very high density, in one of the most populated wards, in one of the most populated boroughs, in London. With a deficit of green space there and in Dalston generally. Neither will it be a balanced community - with only some 12% affordable housing. And a lot, it seems, may be owned by absentee landords - look at the fire bombed georgian terrace in Dalston Lane to see the neglect which that can lead to.Clear Hardlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16048247783394975448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-53766981954659266302010-03-07T18:30:02.358+00:002010-03-07T18:30:02.358+00:00I know it feels depressing that properties are bei...I know it feels depressing that properties are being bought as buy-to-lets rather than homes as it feels there is a soial inequality to the whole process. However I'm not sure that moderately densely populated mixed-use developments are the bane of society that people think they are. To counter I'd say that faceless bland surburbia is much more detrimental to society as it boxes people off and then puts a moat around their 'castle'. Densely populated town centres within cities work well within other European cities and let's not forget that the culture of an obsession to purchase property is a particularly British concern. Why can't we be a community of people who rent their homes rather than buy them? Also, maybe I don't want to be best friends with my neighbours.....after all, it is only a communally shared wall or floor that we share but in terms of personalities we're all completely different. As long as one gets along civilly and respects thei neighbour isn't that enough?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-71481490762708942322010-03-05T19:21:50.209+00:002010-03-05T19:21:50.209+00:00"The more that Londoners are packed into a ti..."The more that Londoners are packed into a tiny space, the more repulsive and disgraceful becomes the brutal indifference with which they ignore their neighbours and selfishly concentrate upon their private affairs"Frederich Engelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14932341.post-19807700333686532112010-03-01T10:50:16.505+00:002010-03-01T10:50:16.505+00:00So depressing all of it.
Two-thirds of the 5,500 ...So depressing all of it. <br />Two-thirds of the 5,500 new houses and flats sold in London during the first three quarters of 2009 were purchased as buy-to-let properties. Makes me weep. Glad to know the Labour party are supporting private investors Far EastBroken Britnoreply@blogger.com