planning.southwark.gov.uk
25/AP/0772
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Demolition of the existing buildings and the construction of three new buildings, providing flexible commercial floorspace (Class E (g)), ground floor retail (Class E (a-b)), science on display (Class E(g)/F1), community performance floorspace (Class E/F1), a Public House (Sui Generis); cycle parking, servicing, refuse and plant areas, public realm and highway improvements, and other works incidental to the development. Further details for consultation: This application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement (ES) submitted pursuant to the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended). Electronic Copies of this Non Technical Summary and the Environmental Statement are available free of charge and can be provided via a downloadable file provided by email. Printed copies of the Environmental Statement and NTS would incur a printing and postage charge. For further details, please contact hello@triumenv.co.uk with reference in the email header of Environmental Statement Request Snowsfields Quarter or telephone 44 (0) 203 887 7118
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Site Known As Snowsfields Quarter Including 92-95 Snowsfields, 96 Snowsfields (The Miller Pub), NCP London Bridge Car Park, And 111 Snowsfields (the Former Margaret House), London, SE1 3SS.
Dear Sirs,I would like to voice my serious concern in relation to the proposed new build referred to as Snowfield Quarters with regard to the following: 1) The height of the development is considerably too high for the surrounding area. While there is precedent for very tall buildings in the form of Guy's Cancer Unit and the Shard, this is no reason to keep adding very tall buildings to an environment otherwise dominated by two and three story buildings, many of them historic. It totally alters the character of the area. In addition, the proposed buildings will create a serious wind tunnel on Snowfields as air pressure drops, causing wind to move faster as well as circle. Both effects are unpleasant for the neighbourhood and anyone visiting. It is a phenomenon already in evidence on St Thomas St on many days through The Shard and its adjoining buildings.2) The Snowfields development will bring too much heavy traffic into the small and narrow surrounding streets. Many of the local roads have been made designated cycle routes which will become unsafe with the amount of traffic that the development will bring. Deliveries to these buildings will be challenging. Guy's Hospital is already forced to break deliveries down in their central depot as large vehicles find the Guy's loading bays and Weston Street too tight. Currently the development at the end of Weston Street is already causing traffic build ups of articulated and other lorries in a residential street. This unsafe, polluting, noisy and unpleasant. 3) The parking deck on Snowfields is the only public parking in the area that is close to Guy's Hospital and its Cancer Unit. It was in much demand during the pandemic by hospital staff and continues to be so by many patients of the hospital. Closing it without replacement would be irresponsible. 4) The development will bring considerably too many people to this mainly residential area. Its little green spaces and small roads will not be able to cope in a sustainable way.
