Goldhawk Industrial Estate - planning decision postponed
(Posted30/7/09)
We had expected that the proposal to redevelop the Goldhawk Industrial Estate would be heard at the next Planning Applications Committee (PAC) on 5 August. A couple of days ago, however, we heard that the Environment Agency had renewed its objection to the application so that the developer, London & Newcastle, could supply more information on flooding. We're making enquiries and representations. If you would like to be on our Goldhawk emailing list for further details, just get in touch. We also have a site on Facebook - just write 'Goldhawk' in the Search box - great visuals. And on Wednesday, 5 August why not join us at the Town Hall at 7.00pm for the PAC meeting (sans the Goldhawk estate proposal)? Sooner or later developments affect us all - just as well to see Council decision-making in operation.
Goldhawk Industrial Estate, the planning
committee and Patrick Clarkson QC
On 5 August, 7.00pm onwards at
the Town Hall the fate of the Goldhawk Industrial Estate off Brackenbury Rd will
be decided. At the Planning Applications Committee (PAC) meeting we will hear if
enterprises such as Innocent Smoothies may continue, or will London and
Newcastle get permission to raze the lot and cram in an office block and
residential accommodation? To discover what the planning officer says in his
report this coming Tuesday (28th), click on
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/Council_and_Democracy/Decisions_meetings_and_agendas/Other_Committees/68510_Other_Committees.asp
. Then click on Planning Applications Committee and go to 5 August which will be
highlighted by Tuesday. In there we should find the agenda and other documents,
including the officer's recommendation for the Goldhawk Industrial Estate
application. But it's not up to him to decide to pass or refuse the application
- that's the job of councillors on the PAC.
From past experience we know that officers advise the PAC to accept an
application because not to do so would invite an appeal from the developer. With
this in mind residents and the Soundhouse on the estate have instructed Patrick
Clarkson QC to examine the officer's report to the PAC. Mr Clarkson is a top
planning barrister who acted for the Council - and won - in the Allied Carpets
appeal.
Join us on 5 August at the Town Hall.
AGM 2009
Annual General Meeting - date for your diary
The Annual General Meeting of BRA is booked for Tuesday, 7 July (evening) at the
Grove Neighbourhood Centre.
BRA's 10th Anniversary!
We cordially request the pleasure of your
company at the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Brackenbury Residents
Association on Tuesday, 24 February.
It’s 10 years since the Brackenbury Residents Association first drew breath, and
you’re invited to help celebrate a decade of successful community activity:
10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
ON 24 FEBRUARY
6.30 – 9.00pm
Godolphin and Latymer School, Iffley Rd
Guest of Honour:
Cllr Andrew Johnson
Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham
Meet neighbours, friends & invited guests over wine and canapés
Tickets cost £4 in advance, or £5 on the door – 1st drink complementary. (Then a
modest contribution of £1.50/glass.)
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Tickets from BRA, 45 Bradmore Park Rd, W6 0DT. Cheques payable to Brackenbury
Residents Association; cash – hand deliveries only. No tickets issued in advance
– to be collected on the door, on the evening.
Please book ……… persons to the Celebration on 24 February
My name………………………………………Email address or tel. no…………………………………..
I enclose a cheque or cash for £…………. (£4 per person).
Goldhawk Industrial Estate update
Keep in touch with the Goldhawk
Industrial Estate redevelopment through our regular emails. Last Saturday a
Gazette photographer took our photos by the entrance to the estate (thanks to
the 20 plus people who came along), a delegation is meeting Cllr Greenhalgh and
our Ravenscourt Park councillors tomorrow, and on Wednesday you're invited to
attend Council Questions at the Town Hall, 7.00pm in the public gallery of the
Council chamber (be there at 6.45pm); three residents local to the Goldhawk
estate will be asking questions. If you'd like to be added to our Goldhawk
emailing list just let me know. We've also got a Goldhawk group on
Facebook. Come along, see what's on offer and join up. We should have some
new visuals very soon, produced for the meeting with councillors tomorrow.
Rubbish and recycling bags
From next week, the rubbish collectors
will pick up orange recycling bags if easily visible from WITHIN your premises
at street level. Put the bags out, say the Council, from 9.00pm the night before
and before 6.00am the morning of collection. Rubbish will not be collected from
basements. The contract requires the rubbish collectors to return bins to the
property, with the bin lid replaced. Please report missed collections, or non
bin/bin lid replacement, to cleaner.greener@lbhf.gov.uk as this will help to
implement the contract effectively.
For clarification (says the Council) black bag rubbish has always been collected
from frontages as well as street pavements. When the orange bag system was
introduced, residents were asked to present them on the pavement to aid
collection. Since all residents are now assumed to be participating, the rubbish
collectors will collect from your premises.
Xmas Tree Recycling 5th - 16th Jan 09
LBHF will again be recycling Christmas trees this year and will also be collecting them from the kerbside as well as 4 designated drop off points. To see more details see the LBHF Website.
For a map of which
day they will be collecting in your area click
here. Goldhawk Industrial Estate Redevelopment -
Public Meeting
P U B L I C M E E T I N G:
Wednesday, 7 January: Brackenbury
School, Dalling Road,
W6
If you live in the vicinity of the Goldhawk
Industrial Estate you may have seen a flyer pop through your letterbox just
before Christmas, announcing a public meeting this coming Wednesday, 7
January.
And here are the details: Goldhawk
Industrial Estate – proposed major commercial & residential development near
you:
6.00pm: L
7.30pm Public Meeting with speakers: Angela Clarke, chair, Hammersmith Society ~
Richard
Winterton, architect, Brackenbury Residents Association
Chair: Cllr
Stephen Cowan
London and Newcastle proposes to redevelop the site
from 11 light-industrial units to 52 dwellings and 11 commercial units. See the
developer’s application
HERE.
This may affect YOU if you live in -
…
BRACKENBURY ROAD or nearby - extra traffic, parking stress and noise;
…
DALLING ROAD or CRESSY COURT - loss of privacy and noise, extra
traffic;
… GOLDHAWK ROAD - security, light, intrusion and loss of
privacy.
It is also concerning
that the building works are so close to Brackenbury School. How, for
example, to pile drive an underground carpark so that neither the school nor
residents are unduly disturbed? There are security and privacy matters
also.
All are welcome to the Public Meeting on 7
January - hear about this development - ask questions. Even if you
think it won't affect you the ripple-out effect of increased traffic and parking
demand will go much wider than the immediate area.
We've started a group
on Facebook. Called Goldhawk Industrial Estate Redevelopment
Ha! it's at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=42160945966&ref=nf. You don't have to be signed up to Facebook to see it, but if you want
to contribute it's easy to do. Why not click through and have a look
at comments made by residents, photographs of the estate, mock-up of the
4-storey block as seen from Goldhawk Road and an architect's drawing of the
proposed housing as viewed from Dalling
Rd. Also a pic of the site for four proposed 'mews houses' on Vinery
Way - thus creating the perfect bottleneck along the service
road.
Goldhawk Industrial Estate -
Public Meeting
London and Newcastle proposes to redevelop this site
(off Brackenbury Rd) from 11 light-industrial units to 52 dwellings and 11
commercial units. In conjunction with nearby residents the Brackenbury Residents
Association has arranged a Public Meeting on Wednesday,
7 January at Brackenbury School. See attachment for further
details.
If the Council accepts the planning application the
redevelopment will have significant effects on you if you live in Brackenbury Rd
(or Brackenbury Gardens, Carthew Villas, Benbow Rd and Coulter Rd west), Dalling
Rd, Cressy Court or Goldhawk Rd. Increases in traffic and parking stress will
ripple further afield along Cardross St, Carthew Rd, Iffley Rd, Nasmyth St,
Tabor Rd, Wellesley Avenue and Wingate Road.
This is a big development.
Come to the Public Meeting at 7.30pm to hear all about it; and meet London and
Newcastle and visit the exhibition beforehand at 6.00pm.
Rubbish/waste
collection
The Council informs us that this is changing in our area
to Wednesdays from 2
February.
Garden waste
service
You may recall that we requested your views on the
continuance of the white sack garden refuse collection service, following a
letter from the Council setting out three options: stopping collecting, booking
a service or continuing existing service with reduced subsidy. We received some
responses but they were not conclusive. Some members have already submitted
their responses directly to the Council. If you wish to do so then go to
www.citizenspace.com/local/lbhf; you can view other residents' responses which
may be helpful in formulating your own.
Godolphin and Latymer School
Ancient Greek and Roman
Breakfast Club:
The breakfast club recommences on Friday, 9
January, with 'Visualising Virgil' by Dr Christine Spillane. Breakfast:
£2.00 at 7.45am. Talk: 8.00-9.00am.
Cinema Club: 'Top of the World Ma'
: American Dreams, American Gangsters.
Monday, 12
January, 6.30pm in Room 5, the Main Building. Contact Stephen Ridgwell via email
at
sridgwell(at)godolphinandlatymer.com.