Save Wellesley Avenue
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Dear neighbours
We are a group of residents living close to the ex Nicholas Mee garage on Wellesley Avenue in Brackenbury Village. We urgently need to raise money to defend against a second planning appeal that has been made by a developer seeking consent for the second time, for a 3 storey office building to accommodate over 150 people in the middle of the Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation area. This is an oversized and unneighbourly building which, if consented, will create a precedent for developing large scale commercial buildings within the heart of our residential neighbourhood. This, we believe, will destroy the character of the area and place undue pressure on our already overburdened roads and parking facilities.
Despite, once again having been rejected by LBHF, the developer seems confident of success and is once again making an appeal. Objections now need to be made to the planning inspector by 9th July.
We have identified that the developers weakest arguments relate to the massing and inappropriately design of the building given its setting within a conservation area. As such, we are seeking to instruct a renowned planning and conservation area expert, Stephen Levrant of www.heritagearchitecture.co.uk to make a professionally reasoned case to defend our neighbourhood. We are not against the redevelopment of this site, we simply want to see this developer come forward with a scheme which would be proportionate and which respects the charm and character of the neighbourhood that we all live within.
Having so far raised around £2,500 from immediately adjoining households - we are asking whether other friends and neighbours in the Brackenbury, Ravenscourt Park and Starch Green areas would join together to help raise another £10,500 to enable us to instruct professional experts to defend against this development and set a precedent for the future protection of our area.
We are hugely grateful for your continued support. Should we be able to, once again, have this application refused, we hope the developer will consult and listen more proactively in the future, to bring forward a more appropriate development.
We are a group of residents living close to the ex Nicholas Mee garage on Wellesley Avenue in Brackenbury Village. We urgently need to raise money to defend against a second planning appeal that has been made by a developer seeking consent for the second time, for a 3 storey office building to accommodate over 150 people in the middle of the Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation area. This is an oversized and unneighbourly building which, if consented, will create a precedent for developing large scale commercial buildings within the heart of our residential neighbourhood. This, we believe, will destroy the character of the area and place undue pressure on our already overburdened roads and parking facilities.
Despite, once again having been rejected by LBHF, the developer seems confident of success and is once again making an appeal. Objections now need to be made to the planning inspector by 9th July.
We have identified that the developers weakest arguments relate to the massing and inappropriately design of the building given its setting within a conservation area. As such, we are seeking to instruct a renowned planning and conservation area expert, Stephen Levrant of www.heritagearchitecture.co.uk to make a professionally reasoned case to defend our neighbourhood. We are not against the redevelopment of this site, we simply want to see this developer come forward with a scheme which would be proportionate and which respects the charm and character of the neighbourhood that we all live within.
Having so far raised around £2,500 from immediately adjoining households - we are asking whether other friends and neighbours in the Brackenbury, Ravenscourt Park and Starch Green areas would join together to help raise another £10,500 to enable us to instruct professional experts to defend against this development and set a precedent for the future protection of our area.
We are hugely grateful for your continued support. Should we be able to, once again, have this application refused, we hope the developer will consult and listen more proactively in the future, to bring forward a more appropriate development.
Organizer and beneficiary
Concerned Neighbours
Organizer
England
Fiona Wolstenholme
Beneficiary