| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Watermans Gone | |
| Posted by: | Mark Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 05/04/24 09:24:00 |
| I'm not a planning expert but all the scenarios you outline here are completely wrong. This is not akin to someone building an illegal extension - the council has ample powers to stop the flats being sold if the developer tried to do so before the arts centre was complete. Even if the council decided to be complicit with the setting aside of the original conditions of the planning permission it would find itself challenged in the courts for breaking the law. The Hounslow Arts Trust remains active and presumably would remain the operator of the new centre therefore they would be working with the developer on the design. As far as I can tell the two developments are too intwined to be treated separately. The only way that the riverside flats could be developed on their own is if Hounslow Council reassumed control of the site and brought in a new developer with a completely new planning application but this seems very unlikely. |