The new Tottenham Hale - sunrise plus 6 minutes
The old Tottenham Hale was an area of low rise and mostly well laid-out buildings.
The new Tottenham Hale was explicitly designed to reduce the proportion of social housing in Tottenham - as set out in Haringey Council's 2017 Local Plan policies AAP2 and AAP3.
Following the deselection of 22 social cleansing councillors in 2018, the two successive subsequent council leaderships have rowed back somewhat from that earlier objective.
This is inhuman design, with bad overlooking, a loss of privacy, and the exclusion of many homes, especially those at lower levels, from adequate access to direct sunlight.
The turning point of planning policy in the wrong direction came with the National Design Guide of 2014, which scrapped such previous standards as the 'seventy-foot separation rule', which originated in the Tudor Walters Report of 1918.
In the last ten years, developers have been taking the mickey with ever-denser designs, and they will continue to do so, until they are stopped.
For now, let's leave the last words with Tudor Walters, 107 years ago:
'Medical opinion is unanimous as to the importance of allowing plenty of sunshine to penetrate into the rooms; it is in the winter when the sun is low even at midday that its light and warmth are most valuable. This should be considered when planning the distance between houses facing one another.'
PS the two tallest blocks at Broadwater Farm are also seen here, on the left.
The new Tottenham Hale - sunrise plus 6 minutes
The old Tottenham Hale was an area of low rise and mostly well laid-out buildings.
The new Tottenham Hale was explicitly designed to reduce the proportion of social housing in Tottenham - as set out in Haringey Council's 2017 Local Plan policies AAP2 and AAP3.
Following the deselection of 22 social cleansing councillors in 2018, the two successive subsequent council leaderships have rowed back somewhat from that earlier objective.
This is inhuman design, with bad overlooking, a loss of privacy, and the exclusion of many homes, especially those at lower levels, from adequate access to direct sunlight.
The turning point of planning policy in the wrong direction came with the National Design Guide of 2014, which scrapped such previous standards as the 'seventy-foot separation rule', which originated in the Tudor Walters Report of 1918.
In the last ten years, developers have been taking the mickey with ever-denser designs, and they will continue to do so, until they are stopped.
For now, let's leave the last words with Tudor Walters, 107 years ago:
'Medical opinion is unanimous as to the importance of allowing plenty of sunshine to penetrate into the rooms; it is in the winter when the sun is low even at midday that its light and warmth are most valuable. This should be considered when planning the distance between houses facing one another.'
PS the two tallest blocks at Broadwater Farm are also seen here, on the left.