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| GO AHEAD FOR‘GATED GHETTO’ |
Controversial plan for Arsenal
stadium goes through
ONE of London’s biggest gated communities got the go-ahead
last night (Thursday) following a gruelling near five-hour meeting.
Nearly 100 residents packed the meeting room of National Children’s
Homes, in Highbury Park, Highbury.
Islington Council’s four-strong corporate services committee,
which voted three to one in favour, insisted that a number of conditions
would be subject to the scheme going ahead.
This includes a structural survey of properties near to the construction
site; no movement of construction lorries during the times children
are going to and leaving school; a review and possible removal of
traffic humps to reduce the vibration in nearby homes and the provision
of a full-time environmental health officers, available 24 hours
a day on site.
The meeting was chaired by Lib Dem councillor Margot Dunn, who voted
for the scheme along with councillor George Allan and Stefan Kasprzyk.
There was only one dissenter, Labour councillor Adrian Pulham, who
declared: “This is an inward-looking gated ghetto for the rich,
that turns its back on the rest of the community.”
Arsenal officials declared that the scheme was architecturally high
quality and the and architects and developers had gone to great
lengths to create a complex that would enhance the local community. |
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