Issue
50 — June 2002
Canalside awaits developments
Bellway Homes have yet to put in a planning application
for the British Waterways-owned land behind the Church. Preliminary indications,
however, were worrying. Their development seemed to be reverting to the
high-density housing familar elsewhere. True, they envisaged a restaurant
and a small square. But this seemed much less imaginative than earlier visions
for the site. And since the square would be enclosed by the canal, the back
of the church and two blocks of housing, and unconnected with the new bridge,
it was unlikely to offer a lively public space.
