Topic: | Opinions from Regeneration meeting 21 November 2012 | Forum Home |
Posted by: | Andrea Hall | |
Date/Time: | 22/11/12 10:28:00 |
I attended the meeting last night, and have been wondering what other people's views of how the meeting went were. Mine: - I thought Andrew Dakers, and the woman from the Chamber of Commerce made some very valid points (particularly about our invisible town centre manager who says £1.3m has been spent on Brentford - maybe some of that could have been used to fund a full-time town centre manager to focus on Brentford and not Hounslow) - Hounslow Council were superb at avoiding answering any question. Density of 198 hrh, when guidance says it should be 70-170 hrh for the size of and PTAL rating of the site....hmmmmm....Is it really conceivable that Ballymore, who have had meetings with the GLA (who apparently are happy with the density figures), and who will have spent somewhere between £500,000 - £750,000 to have got the planning application to the to a point of detailed and outline design stage (not to mention the maquette of the proposed development) will have done so without guidance and input from several Hounslow Council departments? According to the Senior Planning Officer at the meeting - that is what we are expected to believe. When asked about the density, the reply given was that the council are yet to assess Ballymore's planning application. - I saw one of our local ward councillors there - Ruth Cadbury. I think the meeting was a good use of her time - which was spent working on her Ipad. good on you Ruth. At least our MP sat in the middle of the crowd, gave the appearance of actually listening etc, and stood up and spoke. Not too impressed by our local ward councillors though. Be interested to read anyone else's thoughts on the meeting. |