On Thursday 27 August 2015, British Land hosted a meeting with representatives from KRA and the Kingston Society. They talked us through their plans for the transformation of Eden Walk with new shops, homes, offices and public realm which will come with a 20 Storey Tower Block...
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While we are non partisan - we do operate in a context of political bodies and decision making that has huge influence over our built environment.
Our challenge is how to shine a light on this, and raise our conerns without ourselves falling into the mire. Maybe it is not possible, but lets try... Is it possible to make sense of the events leading up to St George withdrawing consideration of their TOPO application from the meeting of the 23rd June 2015?
Here is what we know... Some thoughts as we head towards the Decision
As we approach the Decision meeting we are faced with four insurmountable problems:
Late on Monday afternoon - the day before the meeting - we received a cancellation notice from Kingston Council.
Development Control Committee Tuesday 23 June 2015 7:30 pm, CANCELLED The politicians of Royal Borough of Kingston who think the ordinary residents of this vibrant and intelligent town cannot organise a campaign without a secret Political Party affiliation, this message is for you...
You may all know that on 14th May 2015, Kingston Town Planning Sub Committee met for the first time to review St George’s Application and to hear residents’ objections. A small group of residents presented KRA’s case. Subsequently St George’s were given time to respond to some of our concerns and disputed our objections.You can see below the Planning Officer’s report and a sound recording of the entire event here (starts from 1:26:26)...
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