Hackney Council approves Peacocks site apartment block plan by developer Rothas
How it will look: artist’s impression of the new tower
Yet another tower block containing expensive private flats is set to be flung up in Dalston after Hackney Council granted developer Rothas permission to build a 15-storey building at 51-57 Kingsland High Street.
Rothas’s original plans for an 18-storey complex on the Peacocks store site opposite Ridley Road Market were downscaled following a campaign by planning specialists OPEN Dalston, but the group remains critical of the proportion of the new homes that will be affordable.
OPEN Dalston says that of the 98 privately owned flats to be built as part of the scheme, just 15 will be earmarked as affordable.
The group is a longstanding critic of the proliferation of tall buildings in Dalston.
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we really do have the worst planning department and the least competent councilors in London don’t we?
first the sainsburies at Stoke Newington, then this tower, next the destruction of the Eastern Curve Garden in Dalston, not to mention the affair of the Georgian terraces in Dalston the council wanted ti demolish – see the recent Private Eye….
still..I suppose people will vote for them all again…