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Exhibition to win Dalby minds
THE developers behind a divisive 48-apartment complex in Kentish Town have invited their prospective neighbours to an exhibition and attempted to soothe dissent by pledging to leave an adjacent park untouched.
Trac Properties, who bought up vacant council land and a derelict house in Dalby Street before winning permission to build the seven-storey block, have invited residents to a two day exhibition in Talacre Sports Centre tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday.
Before welcoming in the viewers, they scrapped plans for a path through adjacent Talacre Gardens to be used as an access road to the works – a scheme which had sparked protest from residents alarmed that their park was to be cut in two.
Trac director and project mastermind Charlie Fulford said on Friday: “We have listened to residents’ concerns about the temporary access scheme and amended it. We are now keen to get the final approval to go ahead with a scheme that will deliver very significant benefits to the area.”
The development, designed by Primrose Hill-based architects Chassey and Last, will include a new medical practice into which the existing Prince of Wales Road practice will relocate.
Trac’s spokesman said the exhibition will highlight the new buildings “benefits to the local area”, which include an expanded crèche at Talacre sports centre, “improvements to highways”, “improvements to the planting of Talacre Gardens”, and better local security through lighting.
Concerns remain over the development’s size and the practicality of relocating the medical practice to a complex with few parking spaces and limited access, they claim.
Peter Cuming, who has spearheaded the campaign against the Dalby Street development, said the exhibition was welcome but residents would be watchful, especially about proposed changes to the road layout in Prince of Wales Road.
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