Here is the skeleton of a presentation I am giving at the RTPI London Annual Summit 2019 on 20 November 2019. You’ll have to come along for the flesh, as it were.
I just wanted to do a basic trawl of what has been happening over the past year in terms of:
• Mayoral directions to refuse
• Mayoral directions that he is to be the local planning authority
• Secretary of State call-in decisions
• Secretary of State decisions on recovered appeals
Mayoral directions to refuse
Former Tesco car park, Conington Road/LB Lewisham
Affordable housing provision, viability review mechanism
The Tulip/City of London
Urban design, historic environment (including Tower of London world heritage site), strategic views, pedestrian movement, cycle parking
Harrow School/LB Harrow
Direction 29 November 2018 – no very special circumstances for development in MOL
Secretary of State allowed on appeal 31 October 2019, with costs award against Mayor
Mayoral directions that he is to be the LPA
Former Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey/LB Southwark – 1,342 build to rent units and other uses
Direction 7 May 2019 – housing and affordable housing
Public consultation on scheme amendments including to increase housing to 1,548 build to rent units and affordable housing from 27.5% to 35%
No representation hearing yet arranged
Osiers Road/LB Wandsworth – commercial with 168 resi units
Direction 10 June 2019 – housing and affordable housing
Raised AH offer from 39% habitable rooms to 100%
Representation hearing and planning permission 18 October 2019
100 West Cromwell Road/RB Kensington & Chelsea – 145 affordable housing units, 282 market residential units and other uses
Direction 1 July 2019 – housing and affordable housing
Revisions to scheme including increased quantum of affordable housing (427 total of which 186 affordable), reduced parking and improved community leisure offer. Increased height and other design changes
Representation hearing anticipated February 2020
Homebase site, Manor Road/LB Richmond-upon-Thames – 385 residential units and other uses
Direction 29 July 2019 – housing and affordable housing
No representation hearing yet arranged
Kidbrooke Station Square/LB Greenwich – new bus station interchange, commercial, 619 residential units – applicant Notting Hill Genesis & TfL
Direction 5 August 2019 – housing and affordable housing
Representation hearing was to be 31 October 2019
Kensington Forum Hotel/RB Kensington & Chelsea – hotel, service apartments, 46 affordable housing units (100%)
RBKC JR, direction quashed by consent order 16 April 2019
2nd Direction 23 April 2019 – visitor economy, housing and affordable housing
Public consultation on scheme amendments including increase in residential units from 46 to 62
Representation hearing and planning permission 21 June 2019
2nd JR by RBKC, going to full hearing 21 November 2019
Secretary of State call-in decisions
No London call-in decisions in 2019 but:
Purley Baptist Church/LB Croydon – 106 residential units and other uses
Refused by Secretary of State by 3 December 2018 decision letter , following 12 April 2017 call-in
Quashed by consent of parties March 2019, back with Secretary of State for redetermination
Vauxhall Cross Interchange/LB Lambeth – hotel and 677 residential units
Called in by the Secretary of State, May 2019
Inquiry commences 17 December 2019
Holocaust Memorial, Victoria Tower Gardens/Westminster CC
Called in by Secretary of State, November 2019, at request of applicant following WCC non-determination
Secretary of State decisions on recovered appeals
Slade Green SRFI/LB Bexley & Dartford BC
Dismissed 7 May 2019, following inspector’s recommendations
1 Cambridge Heath Road/LB Tower Hamlets – replacement foodstore, 471 resi units and other uses
Dismissed 10 June 2019 against inspector’s recommendations
• Fails to meet NPPF’s aims of creating an inclusive place
• Harm from loss of daylight and sunlight
The Curve, Great West Road/LB Hounslow – up to 325 residential units and other uses
Dismissed 19 July 2019 against inspector’s recommendations
• Harm to setting of designated heritage assets
Decision subject to legal challenge, permission to proceed to a full hearing, no hearing date yet
Harrow School (see earlier)
Simon Ricketts, 15 November 2019
Personal views, et cetera
Pic courtesy of https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Colin/London .
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