Plans have been lodged to add three new floors to a building in Wealdstone and convert some of the existing floors into homes. A planning notice from Harrow Council in this week’s Harrow Times outlines the proposal to add a fifth, sixth and seventh floor to Premier House in Canning Road. The notice, advertised because it is a major development setting of a listed building, also states developers wish to convert a ground floor banqueting suite and floorspace on the second and third levels into 43 “residential units”, as well as changing part of the first floor for commercial use.
Emergency services made it clear that any road changes should not affect their response times (Photo: Pixabay/Atish Anand) Changes have been made to some of the contentious ‘Streetspace’ schemes in Harrow following concerns raised around access for emergency services. Harrow Council confirmed some roadblocks, which form part of low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) measures in Headstone South and Vaughan Road, would be altered to allow emergency vehicles to pass. It is also removing part of a pop-up cycle lane in Honeypot Lane to allow easier access to Stanmore Fire Station. The Streetspace programme, implemented using funding from Transport for London, allowed the council to make road changes to assist with the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and encourage active travel.
Low traffic neighbourhoods could become crime hot spots , police warn
Police have found roads closed with planters and bollards are allowing criminal to flee officers making them potential criminal hot spots
19 December 2020 • 7:00pm
Campaigners against low traffic neighbourhoods have held a series of demonstrations across the country
Credit: Heathcliff O Malley
Roads closed with planters and bollard as part of Grant Shapps’s “green transport revolution” risk creating crime “hot spots”, police have warned.
The Metropolitan Police Service has written to councils expressing “concerns” that street closures introduced to create low traffic neighbourhoods could slow 999 response times and even encourage criminals to favour those areas because they can more easily escape pursuing officers.