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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane
Posted by: Paul Corcoran
Date/Time: 28/01/20 09:30:00

Last night I was chatting to a very experienced lawyer who is going to be one of the hundreds of people in Chiswick who will be able to see this development from their home. He was spitting feathers about it and seems to be prepared to expend a lot of effort in getting it stopped.

He told me that Chiswick was far from being the only area in London where very tall buildings were being put up in the midst of Victorian and Edwardian terraces and various groups and individuals opposing them are already in contact.

Apparently a significant proportion of these developments are not by private developers but by public sector organisations like TfL and quasi-public sector organisations like Housing Associations. The scope for potential conflicts of interest is huge.

Such is the scale of these developments that it is likely to become a major issue in the Mayoral elections. Sadiq Khan, understandably wants to increase the number of new homes being built in London particularly affordable ones. To that end he has made it clear that developers can be confident of approval of even the most dense and tallest schemes if they have a sufficiently high affordable content. The problem is that a tiny proportion of the homes classed as affordable will be homes for people earning below the average income for London and most will go to the relatively well off.

His opponents in the election are being encouraged to make a major issue of this and there is apparently some enthusiasm on the part of the candidates who see an open goal. Nobody is going to be standing on a platform of building fewer new homes but the way it is currently being done appears to be fundamentally deficient and potentially corrupt.  State assets are effectively being sold off to build tower blocks that will blight whole areas, do not meet the need where it is most desperate i.e. family homes and will probably add to the already large stock of unsold vacant units of small but expensive flats.

The lawyer who was speaking to says he thinks that TfL have made a major error in adopting the wide boy type of tactics of the more dodgy developers such as not properly publicising exhibitions. The way they have done it with the Bollo Lane development is clearly a breach of the National Policy Framework and is likely to form part of any judicial review. This is common practice in the property industry but in this case any mud that will fly will be in the direction of the Mayor as he ultimately has responsibility for what TfL do. He isn't going to like that in an election year and if the project becomes the source of serious embarrassment to him it cannot be taken for granted that he will support the scheme.

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New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane16/01/20 10:04:00 Kevin Howard
   Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane16/01/20 10:39:00 Francis Rowe
      Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane16/01/20 10:54:00 Tony Mansell
         Reply16/01/20 13:02:00 Kevin Howard
            Re:Reply16/01/20 13:46:00 Mark Perry
               Re:Re:Reply16/01/20 14:07:00 Paul Campbell
                  Re:Re:Re:Reply16/01/20 15:21:00 Francis Rowe
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply16/01/20 16:39:00 Jennifer Selig
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply16/01/20 18:15:00 Paul Corcoran
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply16/01/20 18:34:00 Janice Evans
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply16/01/20 22:31:00 Simon Hayes
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply16/01/20 22:35:00 Janice Evans
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/20 01:59:00 Peter Evans
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/20 13:39:00 Janice Evans
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/20 15:49:00 Peter Evans
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/20 16:04:00 Janice Evans
                                       Reply18/01/20 22:49:00 Philippa Bond
                                          Re:Reply19/01/20 01:23:00 Peter Evans
                                             Re:Re:Reply19/01/20 14:34:00 Felicity Caborn
                                                Re:Re:Re:Reply19/01/20 20:11:00 Janice Evans
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply19/01/20 20:38:00 Claire Moran
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply19/01/20 20:51:00 Janice Evans
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply19/01/20 20:53:00 Janice Evans
               Re:Re:Reply20/01/20 22:01:00 Helen Martin
                  Re:Re:Re:Reply21/01/20 09:02:00 Julie Morse
   Reply20/01/20 10:29:00 Brenda OSullivan
   Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane20/01/20 22:33:00 Philip Hodges
      Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane21/01/20 08:16:00 Diane Brown
         Re:Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane21/01/20 15:10:00 Paul Corcoran
            Re:Re:Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane22/01/20 15:40:00 Francis Rowe
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane28/01/20 09:30:00 Paul Corcoran
                  Reply29/01/20 08:19:00 Andrew OSullivan
                     Four Communications30/01/20 10:20:00 Mark Evans
                        Re:Four Communications30/01/20 17:57:00 Paul Corcoran
                           Re:Re:Four Communications31/01/20 13:00:00 Francis Rowe
                        Re:Four Communications31/01/20 15:14:00 Julie Morse
                           Re:Re:Four Communications01/02/20 08:27:00 Mark Evans
                        Re:Four Communications01/02/20 12:05:00 Basil Finnis
                           Reply03/02/20 12:21:00 Andrew OSullivan
                              Stanley Road tower03/02/20 18:15:00 Peter Evans
                                 Re:Stanley Road tower04/02/20 10:38:00 Felicity Caborn
                                    Re:Re:Stanley Road tower04/02/20 17:58:00 Francis Rowe
   Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane05/02/20 18:21:00 Basil Finnis
      Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane06/02/20 18:04:00 Paul Corcoran
   Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane09/02/20 12:42:00 Philip Hodges
      Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane10/02/20 09:11:00 Dan Evans
         Re:Re:Re:New Exhibition on TfL's Plans for Massive Development on Bollo Lane10/02/20 11:41:00 Peter Evans

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