| Topic: | Discrepancies in this case. | |
| Posted by: | Victor Mishiku | |
| Date/Time: | 15/03/13 22:32:00 |
| I would like to make some comments about the planning aspects of this case if I may. It was a strange Application made 4 days before Xmas. The notice from the Council on the lamppost referred to an application made by "Dr Sahota Onkar". The Application Form gives the First Name as "Sahota" and the Surname as "Onkar". The Application Form gives the home address of the Applicant as 43 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DJ. Both these pieces of information (stated to be true and accurate in section 14 of the Form) are not true. The name on the Land Registry Title NGL255900 states: "ONKAR SINGH SAHOTA". The address on the Land Registry home address of the Registered Proprietor is given again as "43 Castlebar Road" but as far as is known, Dr Sahota lives with his family at 19 Thorncliffe Road in Southall (as per the current Electoral Roll) and he has never lived at 43 Castlebar Road, Ealing. The house has been empty for 16 months. I understand that there are tax implications when a developer sells his own home as against selling a second property. According to the previous owner of No.43, Dr Sahota told a Labour MP that he had 7 properties (now 8) and this was when he was apparently being interviewed to become an MP. He was, I was told, rejected as not fitting in with "socialist" ideals. Of course, we support Dr Sahota's efforts to retain our Casualty Departments in local hospitals but we do not like the way he is muscling in on the Victorian estate ("Hanger Hill Estate, Ealing") of fine old houses some more than 130 years old and basically he is trying to butcher, it turns out, the very house where the builder himself (James Wills) of so many of these houses actually lived. Residents have engaged and defeated developers in a court case in Longfield Road in past years and protected the estate from unwelcome changes. Dr Sahota has now shown up here like "a bull in a china shop" presumably relying on the Ealing planners to pass almost anything these days - and no matter how much detriment to the heritage character of the area or distress to the neighbours. We have many letters of objection and unlike in L.B.Richmond, they are not available on the Council's Website, but we can post them up here via links, I think. I am very grateful to this site for providing public information. I believe that the local press may also be running a planning story next Friday. Victor Mishiku (The Covenant Movement) 15/3/13. vmfree@madasafish.com |