Canbury Business Park
Major Planning application - Canbury Business Park, Bounded by Canbury Park Road/ Elm Crescent/Cowleaze Road (Ref 17/12877) CNM Estates has submitted a proposal for what amounts to a mini-TOPO, right behind the Regal Cinema (which itself is an on-going CNM project, still shrouded in scaffolding awnings after over a year), on the site of the existing Canbury Business Park (CBP). Plans include demolishing all the existing buildings in Canbury Business Park to make way for a seven-storey building comprising offices and as well as a 14-storey building comprising offices, a medical centre and 302 flats. Site is located within the setting of three Grade II listed buildings, the former Gala Bingo Hall (Kingston Regal), the Former Sopwith Aviation Company Factory and the Former Hawker Aircraft Experimental Shop. Closing date for comments on this application is 07-Dec-2017. Full application details here Our blog here Our Questions and Queries here UPDATE: 7th February 2018 CNM Estates has withdrawn their application for the Canbury business park site. Surrey House
Major Planning Application Surrey House, Eden Street KT1 1ER Planning Application No18/12119 SIte includes a vacant office building, ground level retail units including the Post Office, BoConcept and the Hippodrome nightclub. The site sits within the Kingston Council's Eden Quarter Development Area Brief (2015) and follows the same planning and policy context used by St George's and British Land's plans in the same area. If goes ahead Kingston Town centre will have additional 1,000 residential units with no additional infrastructure commitment by the developers. Date Received 09/02/2018 Applicant Developer: SHP Opportunity Fund General Partner Ltd (SHP) More on: Salmon Harvester Full Application details here 'Opportunity Areas'
What the borough of Kingston will look like in the near future, including 'Opportunity Areas'. Where to put thousands of new homes and what infrastructure we should build.
Like it or not RBK is planning for significant population growth in the borough, and to support this its' planning policy - the 'Local Plan' - is being rewritten. The Kingston Futures quango has been given 4 million pounds to make it happen. Read more here RBK adopts the 'Direction of Travel'
On Thursday 13th Oct 2016 the Growth Committee voted to adopt the 'Direction of Travel' document without in our opinion properly addressing the concerns of the many residents that responded.
Read more here - News blog Public meetings
20 June 2018 Kingston Society, 7:30pm at the Judge Lecture Theatre, Tiffin School, Kingston KT2 6RL. An illustrated history of water sport on the Kingston Thames 6th June 2018 RBK Development Control Committee 19 June 2018 RBK Community Engagement Committee June 2018 (no Growth Committee meeting) "...Kingston deserves a lot better! The Council should wake up to the fact that by allowing such a proposal to be built it is destroying the very environment that it is proud of, and that it was elected to protect and preserve.."
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