| Topic: | Re:Isn't it strange that Planning control were happy with his plans. | |
| Posted by: | Judy Jaafar | |
| Date/Time: | 16/03/13 04:30:00 |
| I am the next door neighbour at 41. The proposed development at 43 is devastating, for the Conservation Area yes, but for me personally even more. Dr. Sahota wants to knock down his side wall and join his house onto mine! We are part of a run of 7 fully detached Victorian villas, 130 years old, and yet this sort of trespass and destruction is not overseen by planning law. Likewise his plan to excavate a massive basement recreational area under a house that has had such terrible subsidence that it is almost totally underpinned with huge concrete blocks. The re-engineering required to hold the house up while they demolish and rebuild load bearing walls and dig out a basement is incredibly precarious, and if things go wrong, as happened recently in West Ealing in a similar project, my house could be terribly damaged. Planning also washes its hands of these issues- not within their remit. Apart from appalling mistakes being made by town planners, we really need to be looking at why such things as dangerous sub-foundation intrusions into neighbouring properties and the forced joining of two properties when one does not consent is actually not within the remit of planners but left to civil law. This whole area needs to be rethought by our legislators. In the meantime, I am sitting listening to next door's side gate banging forlornly in the wind, as nobody has been to the house since the planning site visit last Saturday. The gate is attached to my side wall and the banging reverberates through my whole house. Yet again, I'm going out with my torch to prop the gate open with bricks, else I will not get a wink of sleep. The villa has now, after 16 months of emptiness, assumed an air of desolation and dereliction. There is an aura of sadness settling over it, a beautiful old house crying out for a loving, caring family who will revel in and respect its uniquely Ealing heritage. |