| Topic: | Widespread local opposition to the Lionel Road Scheme | |
| Posted by: | David Giles | |
| Date/Time: | 11/12/13 20:30:00 |
| Adam, Thank you for that. Political balance is of course necessary. I am grateful to you for pointing out a certain bias on my part ! I spoke and wrote to some of the Conservative Councillors before the meeting and they were very careful not to express a view either way. In contrast to some of the Labour Councillors who prefaced their questions to the applicants by stating their support for the scheme, none of the Conservative Councillors expressed prefaced their questions by stating their opposition to the scheme. It is important to take into account the serious objections made by non-party political residents groups who represent many thousands of local people who live close to the proposed scheme. Members of these groups will have found it unnecessary to submit objections individually as they quite understandably felt they were represented by their local residents' group, society or association. The objectors included: 1. Brentford Community Council 2. Chiswick High Road Action Group 3. Strand on the Green Association 4. Friends of Stile Hall Gardens 5. The Kew Society 6. The Kew Residents Association 7. The Kew Bridge Owner's Association 8. The Isleworth Society 9. The West Chiswick and Gunnersbury Society 10. The Thornton-Mayfield Residents Association 11. The Temaire Place Residents Management Company 12. The Green Dragon Lane Housing Cooperative 13. The Grove Park Group (whose objections were mysteriously omitted from the Officers' Report). 14. The Isleworth Society Important national and local organisations that objected included: 15. London Borough of Richmond on Thames 16. English Heritage (whose objections will be a matter for consideration by the Secretary of State in accordance with Circular 02/09) 17. The Georgian Group 18. The Victorian Society 19. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 20. Kew Bridge Engines Trust (The Steam Museum) 21. The London Parks and Gardens Trust The Greater London Authority commented critically on the Report but did not lodge an objection at this stage perhaps because the planning application will now be referred to the Mayor in accordance with the Mayor of London Order 2008. |