Owning your own home

our bit of Walthamstow - which is the nice quiet but, because it has nothing happening in it

ftfy :P

Given I'm literally buying a house on Rensburg Road because it's nice and quiet I can't say I was stoked to hear about it, but my view is more balanced than some of the local swivel-eyed loons (I watched the WHOLE of the two hour licencing meeting, so you don't have to).

The reality is that Waltham Forest (like all other local authorities) desperately need the money, and there's plenty more green space around there: it's not like it's the one park for miles or anything.

However, it's going to be attended by 4,600 people a night, who will nearly all arrive between 5.30 and 6.30 and be guided down the Black Path (that shared path round the back of the bread factory).

They will put up barriers to protect the cycle lane, but the punters will presumably have to cross it at some point and it's well used so I can imagine a potential conflict there. I think it will also be very hard to walk against the flow down the path when people are arriving/leaving.

Secret Cinema have said the following about the noise:

1. They can literally control the loudspeakers so that within a few metres of the perimeter of the fence line 'very little audio can be heard'.
   
2. "It's particularly useful for audio that is coming out of the back" and the speakers will be facing SW (away from the houses).
   
3. Levels of noise within the site needs to be taken in the context of levels of noise that are already in the area. With the train line and various different bits of industrial use it is c. 55 decibels on a normal day and they aim to match this (but as has been pointed out this is during the day, not the evening).
   
4. "Elements to the rear of site will have very low impact from sound levels as has been modelled by our noise consultant."
   
   

I hope this is true because the place we're buying is 400m away!

The big issue at the moment is that a lot of the pertinent information hasn't been shared in the planning paperwork. The route along the Black Path is redacted (presumably because they're 'Secret' Cinema) and the Sound Impact Assessment hasn't been uploaded, so the process is somewhat flawed currently.

These are my two main areas of concern so I'm actually talking to Waltham Forest about this at the moment. In their defence, the regeneration page for Low Hall which sets out all the details hasn't been updated for a while because the guy who looked after it died unexpectedly :(

Oh and the application is very hard to find, so much so I made a link for it:
http://bit.ly/lowhallapplication

It's open for responses until 14 Feb.