| Topic: | Re:Application for 6-story blocks of flats in Lamas Park | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 17/02/25 17:30:00 |
| Planning applications are supposed to be decided on their merits and whether they conform to legal requirements and other statutory obligations. Planning committee members should have read and considered the paperwork before the committee meets and should ask questions of the planning officer involved in each case. Applications do get refused, notably the original Gurnell application, turned down because it was on Metropolitan Open Land. No such qualms from the committee subsequently as the new proposal was waved through recently. One wonders if pressure has been brought to bear in that instance. Events unfolding in Hounslow last week show that committee members do get pressured into supporting applications that they might otherwise oppose. That will equally apply in Ealing (where one Cllr Peter Mason pledged theee years ago that there would be ‘no more tall towers’.) In Ealing there has been no conservation officer for several years to provide expert advice on buildings and open spaces. A new officer is now in place and will be required to investigate this application. What’s obvious to anyone with some knowledge of Lammas Park that this would be an inappropriate development. It will loom over the surrounding park and the adjacent road. As for Boris Johnson, you have to remember that the mayor of London is under pressure to crack on with house building. Khan has approved equally outrageous overdevelopment, including some locally. What’s never discussed is how the supposed social housing element in these massive developments is diluted to the point of disappearance. That’s the scandal. |