Impression of the 24-storey skyscraper

• AFTER a protracted legal battle we are relieved to hear that the 100 Avenue Road developers Essential Living (EL) may now avoid Winchester Road and the Eton Avenue market route altogether while building their 24-storey skyscraper.

However a new draft Construction Management Plan (CMP) is to instead send 52-foot articulated lorries through the Swiss Cottage open space and the parkland section near the library. The hoarding will be pushed out onto the parkland and may also further encroach upon the main path.

These articulated lorries are massive, almost twice the size of what was originally proposed, so there are serious questions of safety due to tight turning arcs required within the hoarding – along the very busy public right of way path by the green and children’s playground area.

This is by no means the same proposal that the community proposed last year for all lorries to be kept to the A41 only. Given this is a radically different CMP from what was approved, Camden’s section 106 manager assures us that there will be a new public consultation.

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JANINE SACHS
Save Swiss Cottage