Information about the proposed development for the Sainsbury's Nine Elms site is now available at www.sainsburys-nineelms.co.uk.As the site explains:
We are proposing to move the store to the front and centre of our site, so it faces directly on to Wandsworth Road, with other retail spaces around and residential apartments above. The new retail spaces will be able to sustain about 150 new jobs in addition to the new jobs that will come as part of the new, expanded Sainsbury’s store.The plans will also create new ways for pedestrians to move through our site and to connect up to the exciting plans for a redeveloped New Covent Garden Market.A brand new pedestrian street going through the heart of our development, connecting up Wandsworth Road and through to the railway arches and then beyond to the river.
The site features three residential towers containing about 750-800 flats with private roof gardens on top of the store.
The location of the much talked about Nine Elms tube station is also marked on the plans.
There will be a public exhibition about the scheme at the store tomorrow (Saturday) from 10am to 4pm.
Update: The SE11 Lurker has - as ever - puts me to shame with their thoroughness. Read ALL about it here.
Went to the exhibit at Sainsbury on Saturday. It is all quite early stage, and there wasn't any information you won't find on the website. There were several helpful people around answering questions, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm keen to see development in the area get underway, but I'm concerned that the Council's policy falls short in a few areas:
- Planning for several tall towers will have been approved, and construction begun, before the first one is completed (St. George Tower, 2014), so there will be no turning back.
- There are few parks in the area - will they be enough for thousands of new residents?
- All of the schemes are heavily biased against private transport (very few parking spaces are allowed by the Council's development policy). Yet there is no concrete plan to increase public transport capacity, already busting at the seams. A new Northern Line stop at the Sainsbury site would be convenient, but would not decrease crowding on trains.