Following extraordinary activity the past fortnight on the former Conquest Club/White Lodge Club/Pyrene Sports Ground where its new owner, not satisfied with their many new hectares, decided to nick another belonging to the community, spoiling the view from 177 to 211 Syon Lane, wasting public money on an illegal structure and getting off on the wrong foot with hundreds of residents.
Category Archives: Planning
Conquest Club lands: New Lord of the Manor and 21st Century Enclosures
Filed under Education, Osterley, Planning, Wyke Green
Spring Grove to the rescue 2 – Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s and Tesco are less able to cut it with their big shops or the Germans so they’re coming to a High Street near you
Sainsbury’s has secured all permissions for the former Barclays Bank site at 459 London Road and Tesco is developing 1 Clifton Road.
The closure of the third and last of Isleworth’s Barclays Bank branches offered the orange team an opportunity to maintain their rivalry with the blue team, Sainsbury’s secured the option to buy the lease on the former bank site but they had to get their permissions first. Continue reading
Filed under College Road, London Road, Planning, Spring Grove
Spring Grove to the rescue 1 – Tesco
Tesco and Sainsbury’s seeking to reverse their superstore failures and fight it out on London Road
Tesco is developing 1 Clifton Road and Sainsbury’s has secured all permissions for 459 London Road Isleworth.
Soon after May 2014’s election, a couple of early cases featured Tesco Stores Limited; not the confident and connected market leader Hounslow had to deal with when their superstore expansion meant five giant sheds were built in the borough in the early 1990s.
One Tesco attempt was to wake their neighbours up really early morning by seeking to change their Syon Lane store opening hours from 8.00 am to 6.00 am. I felt that the council’s planners were going to allow this but I was able to get it on to the Planning Committee agenda for its 31 July 2014 meeting with the aim of getting its members to reject Tesco’s application. Continue reading
Filed under London Road, Osterley, Planning, Spring Grove, Thornbury Road, Wyke Green
The Conquest Club/Nishkam Academy Proposal
Conquest Club to Nishkam Academy: no planning application or permission granted – but site being bought with your money
Hounslow’s Labour council continues to invest local money in extending its primary schools to ease the demand for places for this age group. David Cameron turned up unannounced at the Green School recently to continue to punt his government’s money wasting free school dogma which means that Hounslow’s (councillors continue to be told) 3 new secondary schools needed by 2018 can only be developed by anyone but the local authority.
Despite this advancing, unproved and often controversial tax funded free market in education, Hounslow Council still has a duty to provide all children with a school place and, to attempt a fist at coordination, meets with other providers via a local Academy and Free School Reference Group. Continue reading
Filed under Education, Great West Road, Osterley, Planning, Schools, Wyke Green









