Quatro successfully steered a contentious residential-led project through planning and engaged 15 supportive young people to attend planning committee, the first time this had happened in the borough.
- Two planning applications linked by the S106 contribution - a 62 storey tower and a 200 home development primarily for social rent
- Negative local audience
- Considerable anti-campaign established
- Turbulent local politics
- An unpredictable planning committee
- To start afresh with the local audience
- Widen the debate
- Raise the profile of the housing situation in the borough
- Early engagement with select residents to discuss plans and consultation strategy
- Three full public events and a Q&A session
- Project websites and series of informative newsletters
- Local councillors and those with an interest in local housing issues were brought on board
- Engaged local media
- Run a workshop with young people from the local school to discuss planning and housing issues
- A supporters petition contained some 100 local signatures
- 15 young people attended planning committee to support the application, the first time this had happened in the borough
- Young people wrote an open letter to the chair of the planning committee and its members urging support for the scheme
- Planning permission was granted for both schemes
London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Glenkerrin, an Irish and International property development company focussing on developing large scale residential and commercial projects.