August 2008 - SEC comments on Glenkerrin's revised plans
Glenkerrin ran a public exhibition of their revised proposals for the Arcadia site on 25 July and 26 July. SEC member organisations attended Glenkerrin's presentations. Based on the information available, SEC crafted a detailed response and sent it to Green Issues Communications, Glenkerrin's representative. Read the SEC comments.
We all must lobby our councillors to insist Ealing Council puts together an overarching integrated development plan, that combines residential, retail, transport, infrastructure and community facilities for Ealing Town Centre. This will attract the right type of developer for our prime sites and ensure that the developments, as a whole, will provide the right mix of facilities that will make Ealing the centre of the community once again.
25 & 26 July 2008 - Glenkerrin returns with revised Draft Plan for Arcadia site
A letter dated 11 July from Green Issues, on behalf of Glenkerrin, is currently being delivered locally inviting you to attend an exhibition of their revised plans for the Arcadia site.
The exhibition dates are Friday 25 July (2 pm to 8 pm) and Saturday 26 July (11 am to 4 pm) at Christ the Saviour Church's Parish Hall (opposite M & S). Please attend and make sure you have some really searching questions to put to the members of the project team.
June 2008 Status
On the 10th June 2008, Glenkerrin executives with building models returned to Ealing Councils' Perceval House. The Ealing & Acton Gazette, has reported that Glenkerrin expect to submit a revised Planning Application, to re-develop the Arcadia retail centre and its environs immediately to the east, in September 2008.
If this is the case, then Glenkerrin will be waiting to see the outcome of the Dickens Yard application, a similar development of 7 high rise towers on a 4.4 acre plot with 698 flats right in the town centre.
The Dickens Yard public consultation period ended on 27th June 2008 BUT the Authority must consider all comments, if it can, right up until the they take their decision in September. Please write and together we can make it clear to Ealing Council that we want ‘NO HIGH RISE DEVELOPMENTS’ in our town centre at HOW TO OBJECT.
History
The developer, Glenkerrin, applied to Ealing Council in September 2007 to build its 'Leaf' devleopment on over 4 acres of property they has acquired in the centre of Ealing - which included the the current Arcadia retail centre.
A prominent feature of this predominantly residential development of 704 flats accommodated in 6 high rise towers, was a 40 storey residential tower block to be built over the railway lines immediately west of Ealing Broadway Station.
Save Ealing's Centre (SEC) was formed in November 2007 in order to try and stop the Glenkerrin proposal becoming a reality.
Opposition was massive. The Council planners received more than 5000 letter and emails. English Heritage, the Government's architectural advisers CABE, the GLA and London's Mayor all objected.
This Planning Appication effectively 'failed' when in April 2008 Ealing Council postponed indefinitely its Planning Committee meeting to review the application and Glenkerrin withdrew their submission
Archive information on the "Leaf' development can be found at Glenkerrin 'Leaf'/Arcadia 2007.