We (laymen volunteers in our spare time) are ploughing through the thousands of pages of the developers’ application for the monstrous Goodsyard scheme.
Here are details from the light study (complete document HERE, summaries below) conducted by the developers showing which properties are affected and how much light they stand to lose if the monstrous towers are built (note: the developers picked where to look in terms of measuring potential impact).
Fancy a picnic in the park in the dark? Need a torch to walk down Redchurch Street for your afternoon coffee? Pick up a jumper for your summer afternoon coffee on the roof at Shoreditch House or the Boundary? Hello long, dark, perennial shadows over Shoreditch and Spitalfields.
In summary:
- 56% of windows affected do not meet guidelines on acceptable visible sky. Of the 56% losing their sky, 25% have a major adverse impact.
- 34% of rooms will be dimmer and will not meet guidelines on acceptable diffuse daylight. Of the 34% whose rooms will be darkened, 21% have a major adverse impact.
- 44% of windows will have less sunlight over the year. And it looks like 43% of those windows have a moderate or major adverse impact.
- Sun on the ground at public amenity spaces? Major adverse impact.
- Transient overshadowing? Major adverse significance in March and December, and minor in June.
Click HERE and HERE to see how your address is affected (note - the addresses were chosen by the developers). Scroll through the addresses using the colour code to decipher the results:
- Green = less than 20% impact (“negligible”, according to the BRE guidelines)
- Yellow = 20% to 29% impact (“minor”)
- Pink = 30% to 39 % impact (“moderate”)
- Blue= greater than 40% impact (“major”)
If your answer is hell no! click HERE to get started on your objection letter. It's not too late, but time is short. Over five hundred people have already objected (more than were involved in the developers’ “consultation” process).
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Together, we can exercise our right to light.