Shocking plans have emerged for a COUNCIL ESTATE in the middle of the private housing and commercial units on the Broadway.
The Bunns Lane car park development is a FOR RENT estate with 50% at 80% market rent or lower ( Affordable Housing )
It clearly states on the new website www.bunnslane.co.uk that Barnet Council will manage these units as part of its Council Housing,
"Barnet Council are the landowner and will own and manage the homes once completed. They will serve as the landlord and offer secure rental agreements for local residents and the wider market."
With the new Labour government looking to house 300,000 Asylum seekers across London the majority of which are Muslim from the Middle East and Asia - it seems that this development will give them over 600 spaces in order to meet this demand.
Bunns Lane and Millway and The Broadway are completely Private housing and renting. Plonking a council estate on this site will knock down house prices by at least 10%
`There are two major flaws with this development.
1. INFRASTUCTURE
The Broadway and Neightbourhood Forum had planned to put a Cinema and a Food Pub ( Youngs or Wetherspoons as anchor tenants ) under a development as well as a Hotel.
If there were three towers of 20 + 20 + 25 floors and an underground car park this would have easily been achieved. With an Underground car park and Cinema at Second Florr level and Wetherspoons at Ground Floor level.
2. STEP FREE ACCESS
A step free access station would be built at the Broadway end of the Car Park with lifts and escalators to all 4 platforms and a proper entrance and foyer with gates on the ground floor. The funding for this was achieved before Covid of £8 million. A pedestrian entrance is all that is provided and just replaces the current one onto Platform 4 - which is rarely used and daytime trains run from Platform 1 and 2.
The new development provides NO benefits for the area at all. It is purely a land grab for developers and for Labour's migrant housing policy. Comparing this development with Edgware, Colindale and others outside the area in say Tottenham Hale - this is the only Station Development which provides ZERO for the local area. The Broadway does not have ONE place of entertainment or a single chain pub with food.
The Station will be unable to be expanded into a proper one ( 2 million + passengers a year squish into an appalling entrance with only 3 gates and room for two abreast up to the platforms via steep stairs. It used to have a proper station before the M1 and a proper station is well overdue.
An exhibition is taking place on 16 and 17 July. Details are on the website above. We urge you to go and ask questions about why this is just a Council Housing.
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