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Gateway tower scheme given go-ahead
6:56am Wednesday 7th May 2008
By Matt Smith »
A HEALTHCARE firm is being allowed to build a 14-storey apartment tower and medical centre in Southampton amid accusations of poor consultation with residents.
The landmark tower of 119 apartments, dubbed the City Gateway project, will be built on a car park at the junction of Stoneham Way and Thomas Lewis Way in Swaythling.
It will allow the Stoneham Lane Surgery to move from a cramped practice to new premises alongside a supermarket and pharmacy.
But residents claimed a 513-signature petition of support gathered at the surgery didn't make clear the scale of the development.
And they told city councillors that hundreds of nearby residents were not given notice of an exhibition of the plans nor received letters from the council.
Planning chiefs said they had done more than the statutory requirements.
CareCapital had been given exclusive rights to develop the council's 66-space Parkville Road car park.
It drew up a scheme for 67 onebedroom, 42 two-bedroom and 11 studio flats, with 72 spaces in a basement car park and 25 spaces within a courtyard for the shops and surgery.
The developer had reduced the height of the proposed tower by two storeys after objections from BAA, which owns Southampton Airport. It will be 44m high.
CareCapital executive director Rick Hayes said it would be a "landmark" building that would announce the entrance to the city.
But residents maintained it was too high and didn't include enough family homes or parking spaces.
There were are also concerns about traffic and overspill of parking into surrounding roads and the reprovision of a youth centre.
Councillors gave CareCapital the go-ahead but insisted that community facilities and a "surrogate"
development on the existing surgery site to offset a shortfall in affordable homes be built before the tower block was more than half filled.
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Osama Bin Laden, A Cave far far away says...
8:05am Wed 7 May 08
Sue, Southampton says...
8:06am Wed 7 May 08
hun free zone, swaythling says...
8:33am Wed 7 May 08
bingolover, southampton says...
8:40am Wed 7 May 08
Ron, Locks Heath says...
8:46am Wed 7 May 08
hmm, says...
8:50am Wed 7 May 08
Chav free zone, Swaythling says...
8:59am Wed 7 May 08
Fred, says...
9:28am Wed 7 May 08
hmm wrote:A routemaster is about 4.3 - 4.4 metres high. So that's ten buses sitting on top of each other.
How tall is this in double decker buses, Nelsons Columns, and football pitches?
I have not used the length as there were two models with different lengths.
Christoff, says...
9:31am Wed 7 May 08
Sue wrote:you kind of get the feeling that it is all part of the conspiracy for introducing street parking charges. Flood the city with flats/house/apartmen
True. Builders know the market for building homes is falling. Estate agents are closing. How many flats are there for sale in Southampton? Yet Southampton continues with the madness of building tower block flats. However they are not for the residents - but for students. Southampton cares nothing for the residents of this city. How much did the council or councillors receive for allowing this monstrosity to be built?
ts and no parking so that the roads get more and more congested and then charge people for it! Sly dogs.
It won't just be in the city centre, they are laying the foundations for everywhere.
Mark my words!
Adrian Smith, says...
9:34am Wed 7 May 08
"Have you got people persistently parking in your valuable staff and patient car spaces, who have nothing to do with your practice?
There are a variety of national parking enforcement companies offering a non-confrontational and cost effective way to manage your car park."
And
"Not only can this system be entirely free of charge, but the parking enforcement company will also give you £10 for every ticket they collect on."
H, says...
9:46am Wed 7 May 08
Jenny, Hedge End says...
10:34am Wed 7 May 08
Simon, Southampton says...
10:41am Wed 7 May 08
Chav free zone, Swaythling says...
12:12pm Wed 7 May 08
Isn't it funny though that the 25 percent social housing that council always insist on has been allowed to be situated on the site of the present surgery in Stoneham Lane. The developers know that no one will buy private flats if those nasty working class locals are living there (of which i class myself as 1)or they would have to reduce the prices.There a few part buy flats and of course they have the worst position north facing. Development was welcome by most of us as it is a bomb site but this is simply like fitting an envalope on a postage stamp. Oh well up to 20 years ago it was a mainly wooded site that most of us as kids could play on and keep out of trouble.
mr cynic, swaythling says...
1:17pm Wed 7 May 08
Toad, Bishops Waltham says...
1:43pm Wed 7 May 08
Estate agent, says...
2:31pm Wed 7 May 08
H wrote:I hope you truely can afford one of these flats. I hope you don't get caught in some awkward shared equity scheme that later makes it difficult for you to move on. I hope you get to control your monthly service charges for the gardens, lift, parking barriers etc.
These will be flats that people my age (22) can afford, in an area we want to live in. I imagine hey got away with so few parking spaces due it being so well connected to public transport not because the council wants to charge for permits
If not buy elsewhere.
Stephane Grichting, Southampton says...
5:08pm Wed 7 May 08
Osama Bin Laden, A Cave far far away says...
5:10pm Wed 7 May 08
Stephane Grichting wrote:Yes. Then we will kill you.
Will Housing Benefit pay for our Flat in this prime location?
Keith Oftergrass, says...
5:34pm Wed 7 May 08
Stephane Grichting wrote:Prime location ? It's in Swaythling sweetheart !!!
Will Housing Benefit pay for our Flat in this prime location?
Probably be classed as 'affordable housing' and filled with benefit scroungers to be inkeeping with the neighbourhood.
Diddyman, says...
6:42pm Wed 7 May 08
Toad wrote:No mate theyve already decided to strap a spitfire to it
Great! Will there be an ice rink on top?
southampton resident, says...
7:18pm Wed 7 May 08
lol, says...
7:26pm Wed 7 May 08
Thrush, southampton says...
7:29pm Wed 7 May 08
Kirsty, West End, Southampton says...
9:46pm Wed 7 May 08
Toad wrote:On the subject of ice rinks, does anyone actually know when we are getting our ice rink?
Great! Will there be an ice rink on top?
dinger, poole says...
11:42pm Thu 19 Jun 08
Thrush wrote:i'm a prison officer, and i caught max alexander giving another prisoner a blow job at HMYOI Castington, he cried his eyes out and begged me not to tell anyone, well you heard it here first
should keep boston ward and max alexander with plenty of customers send to casualty. sorry i got that wrong, i forgot the 7 or 8 others they need with them. thats boston, rikki johnsons mate?
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