| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Alfa Laval/Brentford Nylons Tower | |
| Posted by: | Guy Lambert | |
| Date/Time: | 01/04/18 20:08:00 |
| I have been completely confused by all this. This is from a planning officer: "Starting from the beginning, back in 2007 The Planning Inspectorate granted permission on appeal for the ‘shroud’ advert that remains to this day. This permission has been renewed on a near annual basis since then, until late 2016 when we granted permission for 8 months only until Aug 2017. Following which, they sought a further 8 months until now, however we refused this back in July, as we were concerned about the impact on the new block of flats on the former New England site. This is the present appeal - PINS [the Planning Inspectorate] have such a backlog of appeals it is taking around about 7/8 months to initially process appeals, hence why all has been silent for so long. The Inquiry back in November was relating to a digital display associated with the Hyundai development. In early 2016 the car garage was approved but the screen was refused, and the latter was initially dismissed on appeal, but the developer took PINS to the High Court and the dismissal was quashed. So in November we had the rehearing of this appeal by means of Public Inquiry. This was subsequently allowed by the Inspector - but can only realistically be implemented with the wider Hyundai development. The current appeal relating to the shroud is under Planning ref: 00505/Z/AD45 and the Hyundai digital screen that was allowed following the Inquiry in November is under 00505/Z/AD41" I had to read that several times to make sense of it. We are constantly harassing the landowner to make the site secure and they did what I thought was a more thorough job a couple of months ago after the high winds brought some of the hoardings down. Sounds like I need to harass them again :( In effect, they can now build the Hyundai showroom together with its massive ad and frankly I wish they'd get on with it but there's nothing practical that a council can do to make people proceed with development. |