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RSH+P back Oxley Woods residents

January 12, 2012

Oxley Woods residents had a busy time over the Christmas break, scrutinising the new Taylor Wimpey proposals and spotting many inaccuracies and omissions.We also met with planning officials to ask questions about the planning process.

In the course of our discussions, we picked up that it had been suggested to planning officials that the original architects Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners (RSHP) didn’t want to be involved in completing the site.

Now that just didn’t chime with what we knew from our positive engagement with RSHP over the past year. We’ve worked with them to host visits to Oxley Woods from interested architects, BBC Radio 4, a TV company, and the mayor and councillors of Tower Hamlets council. We knew first hand the passion and commitment that RSHP have for their Oxley Woods scheme.

And now we have that confirmed in writing from RSHP themselves. Ivan Harbour has once again taken the trouble to write to Oxley Woods residents to share RSHP’s views on the designs put forward by Taylor Wimpey. He also reconfirms their continued willingness to develop alternative designs for the site based on the original concept.

All Taylor Wimpey has to do is ask… how about it?

Attached are Ivan Harbour’s letters to Oxley Woods residents from March 2011 and January 2012.

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{Guest post by Chris}

Tags: Architecture, CMYK, Oxley Woods future, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, RSHP, taylor wimpey
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Meeting for Residents

December 30, 2011

Chris has arranged some meetings for those interested in the proposals to drop the Oxley Woods plans.

While short notice, we would encourage those interested in the plans to try to attend one, or both of the meetings.

The meetings will be held at the Oxley Park Community Centre (building next to Oxley Park Academy school), and be held on Friday 30th December, 4pm – 6pm and Monday 2nd January, 4pm – 6pm.

Tags: Future of Oxley Woods, oxley woods, Planning
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Christmas is Coming!

December 7, 2011

Well, it’s nearly upon us, the festive season is kicking in to full swing and decorations and lights are starting to go up around the Oxley Woods development, and the wider Oxley Park area.

We just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all our fellow residents and the workers still here in high winds and tough conditions building more homes, all the best for the Christmas season and best wishes for the New Year.

Here’s hoping that last years Christmas conditions return, as shown below in this photo taken in December 2010!

Tags: Christmas, Festivity, fun, snow
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You know you live in a cool place when you can buy a teatowel with your house on it.

October 2, 2011

It is claimed that many people don’t like the look of Oxley Woods houses, at least at first glance. We residents know that the truth is different, as we get to see the admiring looks of people passing by.

Of course it’s only natural that the residents here will champion our houses until the cows come home. After all, we’re the people who know that once you’ve experienced the natural light, ample spaces and clean lines of the designs it is difficult to contemplate living in a standard house again.

But of course it is always nice to have our point of view backed up by external experts. We knew that we lived in an iconic location, a haven of architectural brilliance in a sea of brick. And now we have further proof that we were right.

First there was the BBC, interviewing Gill for Radio 4 Moneybox. Then we had a visit from a TV production company contemplating locations for a possible series to be called ‘Living in the Future’.

But now we have something much more tangible:

Teatowels.