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    • CommentAuthorGBP-Keith
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2015 edited
     
    Does anyone know the state of play over this building? the latest I can find is that the local council gave IKEA permission to demolish it last summer!
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    Sainsburys want to build a new store 3 times the size 500 meters away to accommodate a growing customer base.

    When Sainsburys negotiated the planning application in the 1990s to build the store, they managed to include a clause that means that the site can not be used for food retail purposes by anyone else. Rendering it useless for potential buyers as currently designed. Hence Ikea are interested in the site but will knock down the building.

    I remember when the new Wilsden Green Library was built. I hear its now been knocked down or will be knocked down to make way for luxury apartments.

    How is it green to construct these buildings at great expense and energy only to knock them down on an economic whim 20 years later??
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2015
     
    Green, Eco, Sustainable, migrating metaphors is why.
    Priorities, technologies and demographics change. Probably better to kill the baby early on than end up with a white elephant.
    • CommentAuthorGBP-Keith
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2015
     
    It's disgusting behaviour certainly and Sainsburys should be lambasted publicly for it.

    As far as I can tell the permission to knock it down was been granted to IKEA earlier this year and Sainsburys new store is open and running but I cannot find any news about whether it has actually been levelled yet.

    English heritage refused to give the building listed building status but i think it is iconic and its loss is a nail in the coffin of sustainable construction.

    Nothing on Google since about April this year so one wonders if Google has been encouraged to put a block on news about it?

    Do any forum members live near Greenwich??
    • CommentAuthorGBP-Keith
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2015 edited
     
    Planning law should have duty of care built in so that the developer or owner is forced to ensure/underwrite longevity of stuff they build. then they will think more carefully and produce higher quality developments that are 'adaptable'.

    But no, the Conservatives think that we don't actually need any planning restraints for major developments so behaviour like this will become more and more commonplace.
    • CommentAuthoratomicbisf
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2015
     
    Also outrageous that they've put a restriction preventing any other supermarket retailer from using the site. Seems completely wrong.

    Ed
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    Can anyone provide details of the sustainable elements that went into the design of the building. So far I can only find reference to the fact the the facade was clad in timber!
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2015
     
    Why such tiny soar pv and don't they know urban wind is about useless and brings safety issues.
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    Probably when it was designed and built in the late 1990s the price per watt for PV would have been a disincentive to put more
    • CommentAuthorGBP-Keith
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2015
     
    It was cutting edge at the time and gutsy in its conception that's what makes it precious.
    • CommentAuthorGBP-Keith
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2015
     
    Doug King, one of the designers of the store said: "The original store was designed to minimise its energy consumption without resorting to renewable generation. It was a true fabric first approach from long before the term was coined, as shown by my original design proposals, which I published to encourage plagiarism. At the time I estimated that the energy efficiency approach could reduce the carbon emissions by around half compared to a typical store. I have since calculated that, if all the original features have been maintained, this translates to a saving of around £500,000 per annum on the current energy costs for the store!"


    John Alker of UKGBC said last year "Sainsbury’s new store will use 75 per cent less energy than the existing store per square foot (and 40 per cent less absolute energy, even though it is twice as big) and that is something that should be welcomed."
    • CommentAuthorGBP-Keith
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2015
     
    If it's still there we should all go and squat it and convert it to a Green Building ......thingy
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