"Over-densification and overcrowding is the main root of disease and infection and poverty and this current policy by the Mayor of London and happily pushed through without question by Hounslow Council among several others is blood on their hands." The last bit of your comment is out of order Raymond - decision makers have to make those decisions based upon the development plan, and planning policy, from national level through regional level to local level, encourages high density development.  And that approach has been consistently taken over the years by political parties of different colours. It is, after all, the current SoS for Housing, Communities and Local Government, who has thrown the emerging London Plan back at the Mayor saying that his efforts to provide additional housing within the capital have been a failure and the housing targets within the Plan need to be more higher.  And it is the Conservative party who have, and continue to, brought in more and more relaxations of planning control to enable commercial floorspace to be converted into residential units without having to adhere to the same standards residential units created by a full planning application have to satisfy. So to take your "blood on their hands" comment further, anyone who has voted Conservative in the last 10 years is more responsible than the decision makers who have to work within the confines of planning legislation and policies. Too often on this forum your posts are full of moans and criticisms directed at decision makers, organisations or authorities, yet you never acknowledge the restrictive confines those organisations or decision makers have to operate within. If you're that bothered, then why not stand to be a local Councillor yourself and then find out what it's really like to be a decision maker ?. As for this specific site, I note a planning application is yet to be submitted. However, for an objection on the basis of the loss of community facility to succeed, you'd need to demonstrate that it is a genuine community asset,  for example demonstrating that it is heavily used by local residents and the displacement would therefore have a severely detrimental impact upon the locality.  I'd expect the Council has already (pre-covid) commissioned regular surveys of the car park to establish the level of usage and whether the users are local residents, businesses etc., and that evidence will form the basis of a transport statement/assessment submitted as part of the forthcoming planning application.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Planning objection	02/07/20 09:10:00	Jeremy Weekes
Re:Planning objection	02/07/20 11:14:00	Anne England
Re:Planning objection	02/07/20 11:56:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Planning objection	02/07/20 12:42:00	Bernard Allen
Re:Planning objection	02/07/20 18:57:00	Jeremy Weekes
Re:Planning objection	02/07/20 20:21:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Planning objection	02/07/20 20:57:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Planning objection	02/07/20 21:36:00	N V Brooks
Re:Re:Planning objection	03/07/20 07:49:00	Jim Storrar
Re:Planning objection	03/07/20 09:13:00	Jeremy Weekes
Re:Re:Planning objection	03/07/20 12:22:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Re:Planning objection	03/07/20 16:08:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Re:Re:Re:Planning objection	05/07/20 17:21:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Planning objection	06/07/20 15:16:00	Steve Allum
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Planning objection	07/07/20 13:14:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Planning objection	08/07/20 19:28:00	Jeremy Weekes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Planning objection	08/07/20 21:10:00	Adam Beamish

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