Wednesday 31 August 2011

Haringey Journal: "High rise scheme will ‘destroy’ Alexandra Palace views"

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" 'Appalled' critics claim the ambitious Haringey Heartlands development - sandwiched between Wood Green and Hornsey, and due to go to a planning panel in the coming weeks - will completely destroy the vista from the Palace with 'Soviet-style' housing blocks up to 10 storeys high.

"Colin Marr, chairman of the Alexandra Palace and Park Conservation Area Advisory Committee, said:
"We do not object to height per se, and might have welcomed one or more higher buildings - it is the sheer bulk of the series of uninterrupted blocks that we find so objectionable.”

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