| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking problems and proposed demolition of garages on Brook Road South | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 24/01/12 21:56:00 |
| The Conservation Area status, in terms of publicising the proposal, only adds the statutory requirement for the application to be advertised in a local newspaper. Regarding a lack of awareness amongst residents, looking on the Council's website the application was only submitted on 16th January. How did you find out about the application ? - by notification letter from the Council or by other means ?. Compared to most Councils, Hounslow is performing well if it is validating applications and getting neighbour notification letters sent out so soon after an application is received. Perhaps other neighbours haven't seen the letters yet or, as often happens, people are quick to bin the standard notification letters without actually digesting what the letter is about. As for reletting the garages, from a business perspective if the Council is going to be better off financially in the short term (and I have no idea if this is the case) by selling the garages and developing the land, then that's the Council's right if the proposal is acceptable in planning terms. The legal position is very clear - an application submitted by the Council relating to its own land can't be treated differently to how it might be if the landowner wasn't the Council. Sorry to be so blunt, but if it's a choice between keeping afew garages or the Council using the financial benefit resulting from such a development to contribute towards making sufficient savings to not have to raise my Council Tax, then it's goodbye garages... |