PENTAVIA Development MEETING THURSDAY 25 JULY

The long awaited consultation meeting about Pentavia takes place next Thursday evening. The Mayor will then decide on whether the homes go ahead.

The details
Over 800 homes
Including 345 affordable
On a brownfield industrial site next to rail and road infrastructure.

The objections
Mainly about traffic and pollution. Understandably there is not much the developer can do about this.

Good for Mill Hill
We think it is too big. If the main tower was brought down to around 10 storeys it would be more acceptable.

However, we do appreciate that housing in the area is needed. This housing is better built on brownfield sites around the motorway and rail than on the hill in the Greenbelt etc.

Mill Hill used to be fields. Every development has upset those living here already. Read the local histories. Therefore some people opposing are living in houses on former farmland which was opposed over 50 years ago.

If the developers can deliver a high quality set of properties and respect the area and the planning/ construction regs then we will welcome another 1,000 plus Mill hillians to the area. 

We can't build a wall around Mill Hill.  We at Broadway Blog Trust John Gillett to try and make the plans better for the area. He has worked tirelessly to examine the plans since their conception. We believe the Mayor will listen hard to his points.

However, the development will happen. The site is there to be built upon.  People need housing and the Mayor needs to deliver affordable housing for key workers. So we expect the plan to be passed but hopefully with changes to make it more acceptable for the area.

The roads in the area are already too busy. Therefore, the original argument years ago about traffic has been overtaken by the massive number of vehicles that Beaufort Park and Colindale has brought to our roads.  The scale is still scary but homes are needed.

Good luck to John Gillett and the Mayor.