Next Steps for the Daubeney Road Garages

Many thanks to everyone who filled in our survey on the future of the Daubeney Road garage site; it was great to see so many responses.

We’re moving on to the next stage of the development and looking for local residents to help out – see below.

A significant majority of people told us that they were in favour of the regeneration of the garage site to provide studio / workspace for small business. We’ll keep the survey open and update our analysis as new responses come in.

Your feedback will help us shape the future of the site. A lot of people said how they would also like the site to be a green space for the whole King’s Park community, including growing space. Residents raised concerns about the impact on parking on Daubeney Road and the need for parking provision for staff at the school. And finally, lots of you made helpful suggestions about how we could ensure the regeneration was a benefit to local residents.

And so, the next steps….

Some of you will know that in the DaubeneyField’s User’s Group have recently been awarded funding for a “Pocket Park” on the site.  This will help clean up the site and provide growing space. It is great to see it progressing so well!  

A fuller regeneration of the site will take a little longer.  The next steps are:

• The Council will need to apply for planning permission for change of use for the site. As part of this they will formally consult with residents.

• If this is successful, they will tender for a partner to work on the regeneration of the site. This will take up until Summer 2015.

• After this we will work with the successful partner on the regeneration of the site. 

After discussing it with the council we expect that this will take a minimum of a year.  As the first step the Council need to appoint a surveyor to check the site to confirm that the proposal is possible. Once this has happened we should be ready to go….

Once we have confirmation that the project is possible, we’ll be looking for local residents who would like to get involved in the project, helping to develop the tender for the regeneration partner, help assess the bids, and importantly helping make sure we communicate and engage with as many local residents as possible.  We want to make sure a broad cross-section of King’s Park residents are involved in the process. If you can help out please get in touch - Kingspark@hackney-labour.org.uk.