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Site Proposals document
Representation ID: 15212
Received: 21/03/2018
Respondent: St Augustines Community Together (ACT)
The Magdalen Street/Botolph Street area has been blighted by inappropriate development since the 1960s. St Crispins Flyover, Inner Ring Road and Anglia Square cut off St Augustine's from the northern city centre and has led to a long-term withering of a once vibrant retail quarter. The current insensitive plans to redevelop Anglia Square, with its massive 25-storey tower block surrounded by looming blocks of flats up to 10-storeys high, cramming 1200+ dwellings, plus shops and parking spaces into so tight a compass will effectively complete the destruction of what remains of the area's human-scale "village in the city".
The Magdalen Street/Botolph Street area has been blighted by inappropriate development since the 1960s. St Crispins Flyover, Inner Ring Road and Anglia Square cut off St Augustine's from the northern city centre and has led to a long-term withering of a once vibrant retail quarter. The current insensitive plans to redevelop Anglia Square, with its massive 25-storey tower block surrounded by looming blocks of flats up to 10-storeys high, cramming 1200+ dwellings, plus shops and parking spaces into so tight a compass will effectively complete the destruction of what remains of the area's human-scale "village in the city".