Responding To Your Feedback

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Responding To Your Feedback

Throughout our consultation events we had a lot of very useful and informative feedback from the local residents and amenity groups. We have reviewed this feedback and have made several changes to our proposals to ensure the new building will deliver we deliver the right mix of environmental, social, community and housing benefits.

Overview of Changes

Set back the left hand side of the western facade to increase the planting area on the basin deck.

Taper back the northern side of the building to introduce a series of planters to enable climbing and trailing plants on the facade.

Set back the southern side of the facade to align with 305 Kingsland Road.

Set back of the top storey’s southern elevation to lower the shoulder height.

Increased planted areas in front of the internal amenity spaces which will help with acoustic and visual screening.

Continuous planter along the length of the canal edge to provide screening between the canal boats and the office spaces.

A high planted wall to allow the CHUG community space to remain in its existing location.

A reduction in the number of units within the proposals from 128 to 121.
Due to residents concerns about the ecological impact of the development, Pause has undertaken a number of additional surveys to assess the impact that development may have. Working with our ecology consultants, we have now included the following features to enhance the ecology within the basin area:
  • Brown gravel roof for Black Redstarts
  • Wildflower planting on roof for solitary bees and other invertebrates
  • Bat boxes integrated into the wvalls in the quiet and darker parts of the scheme
  • Bumble bee nesting boxes on the roof
  • Swift boxes within overhangs
  • Heron platform to the area of the canal edge which are less disturbed by the canal boats
  • Artificial kingfisher nests to the area of the canal edge which are less disturbed by the canal boats
  • Climbing and trailing plants and trees, of varying species, to form green walls to the basin facade to encourage general biodiversity
There were some concerns regarding the impact of loss of light within the basin. Pause have now undertaken further assessment of the potential impact of shadowing which demonstrates that the proposals will result in limited additional shading.
Due to concerns regarding the impact of noise within the Basin, additional noise survey work has been carried out.

The increased planted area and set back will provide an acoustic baffle that will help to mitigate any potential increase in noise travelling around the Basin.
Residents from within the Basin expressed concerns about the potential impact on airflow through the Basin. A wind survey was carried out and found that the impact of air flow within the basin woud be not result in any adverse impact on micro-climate and is likely to reduce windspeeds in the basin as the proposed building will remove the wind funneling effect the current created by the current gap site.
There was concern from residents regarding the development blocking the flight path of bats that currently fly over the yard at 305A Kingsland Road. In response to this, additional bat surveys were undertaken to ensure that the proposals would not harm the local bat population.

As a result, it was confirmed that the bats do not use the site to roost on and do not fly over the current yard in their flight paths.
Residents expressed concern that west facing flats would be susceptible to overheating due to the exposure to the afternoon sun. Residents also suggested that vegetation should be used on the western elevation to mitigate potential for over heating.

Our revised proposals which significantly increase the planting area on the western elevation will help to mitigate any potential overheating. The building has been extensively modelled and by using high performance building fabric and incorporating overhangs and reveals the need for cooling has been minimized.