Pruden Close Re-development

Here is one of the proposed new buildings in the Pruden Close redevelopment.
This picture was supplied to me by the architect concerned at the recent Pruden close forum.

As I have posted earlier, the existing sheltered housing blocks will be demolished, together with the garages (hurrah!!) and replaced with 17 2-bedroomed flats to be populated by key workers as defined by Enfield council (doctors, teachers, police etc.) on a shared ownership scheme and 2 3-bedroomed houses which will be rented. The existing sheltered housing residents have all been relocated.

The designs are nice and we are promised that NO trees will be demolished. So as far as it goes, assuming no dramatic changes happen during planning permission discussions, I think we can give this the thumbs up.

However there are issues for Mayfield Avenue residents that need addressing as our road is the only way in and out of the development site:

1. While Acton Housing association waits for PP the council MUST seal off the garages, with barbed wire, concrete blocks, sherman tanks or whatever to help prevent its current use as an adventure playground for the local youths from getting out of hand.
2. Once PP has been approved Mayfield residents must have regular communication with the building contractors to ensure truck deliveries are handled sensitively and are known in advance.
3. We would like to see acknowledgement that work will not go on into the night, that weekends are respected, that any spillages on our road is immediately cleared up, that deliveries are done in batches posted well in advance rather than a constant stream of trucks coming up and down the road.
4. We would like assurance that the site will be well secured during the night/weekends as we dont want to attract hoardes of treasure hunters and youths letting off steam.

And I am sure there are other concerns I have missed. Bottom line we know that disruption is unavoidable, what is important is that the builders work with us, the residents, to minimise this as much as humanly possible.

Still, it looks like finally we will get rid of the garages at last!