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Improve London Road and Isleworth Station meeting: Wednesday 30 September 2015

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Wednesday 30 September 2015

The Music Room, Spring Grove House, West Thames College

London Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 4HS

Doors open 7.15 pm, starts 7.30 pm, finishes by 9.00 pm

Many of us live by and use the facilities of London Road from Brentford to Hounslow, particularly the part in Spring Grove and Isleworth. It has seen better days and plenty of people want this decline reversed.

A number of residents and businesses have already agreed to come along on Wednesday in order to focus on ideas and solutions and to start working on a plan.

The aim is to have a working meeting so that people can quietly discuss issues and potential opportunities for London Road, St Johns Road and the station then feedback on ways forward.

It’ll be about finding out, ideas, solutions and avoidance of wasting time bashing the council, train companies or particular businesses.

Groups will focus on status, knowledge gaps and ambition for at least these aspects:

  • Isleworth Station (building, bridges, car park, access) and other public transport
  • Retail (the offer, fabric of premises, branding, business support)
  • Physical environment of London Road (road, pavements, street furniture, signs, trees)
  • Cleanliness, tidiness and community safety
  • Links to attractions and community facilities (Osterley Park, Indian Gymkhana, Brent Lea Recreation Ground, Syon Park, Thornbury Park, West Thames College, Brentford, the river).
  • Marketing initiatives, seasonal events, community participation.

I hope you may come but if not please drop me a line with any comments to tony.louki@hounslow.gov.uk.  Will try to keep you informed otherwise and via www.osterleyspringgrove.org

TL  27.9.2015

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Planning appeal on former telephone building behind Spencer Road turned down

A long running planning abuse case where a redundant telephone repeater station, with limited access, was turned into an illegal dwelling has ended with a win for long troubled residents and Hounslow’s planning enforcement.

Former telephone repeater station behind Spencer Road, illegally converted into a dwelling

Former telephone repeater station behind Spencer Road, illegally converted into a dwelling

The council served notice on the building owner mid October 2013 to stop the use of the building as a self contained residential unit; remove all kitchen and bathroom facilities, and installed gas piping and connections; remove all resultant debris (see report to Planning Enforcement Sub-Committee of 3.10.2013 here). Continue reading

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Dudley House 4: Almost as you were – second planning application also now withdrawn

At the end of a month where a public meeting at St Marys Church Hall saw over 60 residents attend, a petition with 91 signatures and 32 letters objecting, the remaining planning application to dilute Dudley House’s status as a nursing home was, last week, withdrawn.

Dudley House, The Grove: after a month of exercising neighbours, both planning applications now binned

Dudley House, The Grove: after a month of exercising neighbours, both planning applications now binned

On the eve of Hounslow Council planners refusing the removal of a condition allowing Dudley House to only operate as a nursing home, Pearl Resources Limited’s agent advised the authority that they would, “withdraw the application and submit a Certificate for Lawful Use to confirm the use of the property as any type of care home”.

The ambition and future application to use Dudley House as any type of care home may raise new issues and planners have been asked that should one be submitted, residents and councilors are advised and allowed to comment prior to any decision made.

TL 29.8.2015

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Dudley House 3: Hounslow Council planners recommending refusal of remaining planning application

Earlier this week, housing charity Centrepoint withdrew their planning application for the removal of a condition allowing Dudley House to only operate as a nursing home.

Dudley House extract from LBH Planning Pending Decisions List

Dudley House extract from LBH Planning Pending Decisions List

Planning officers have, today, placed the remaining application (ref 00523/C/12), made by Pearl Resources Limited, on the council’s weekly Pending Decisions List with a view to refusing planning permission in due course. The full list: Pending Decisions List 2015: Week 33 14th- 21st August 2015– Isleworth & Brentford can be seen here, Dudley House is referred to on page 2, item 3. Continue reading

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Dudley House 2: Centrepoint withdraws its planning application. Next week’s meeting is cancelled.

Following a reassessment of its proposal to seek the removal of the planning condition that Dudley House should only operate as a nursing home, Centrepoint advised this morning that it has withdrawn its planning application.

Dudley House,The Grove from Rightmove website

Dudley House,The Grove from Rightmove website

The meeting planned for Tuesday 18 August 2015 will now not take place (see earlier item here )

At the time of writing, the parallel planning application (although not as detailed as Centrepoint’s) submitted by Pearl Resources Limited remains live and comments on this would still be welcomed by Hounslow Council’s planners. Continue reading

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