{"id":200,"date":"2013-02-11T18:45:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sthelensresidents.org.uk\/?p=200"},"modified":"2013-02-11T18:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:45:31","slug":"imperial-west-we-are-not-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sthelensresidents.org.uk\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Imperial West – we are not giving up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Association is working with lawyers Webster Dixon and\u00a0leading planning QC Gregory Jones, on a judicial review application to challenge the decision of Hammersmith & Fulham Council last December to issue a planning permission for Phase 2 of the\u00a0Imperial West development.\u00a0 More details are on our campaign website at www.imperialfolly.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We need to raise some more funds, roughly doubling the \u00a35,000\u00a0already contributed by\u00a0local residents (including a matching contribution from the Kensington Society).\u00a0 Please contact us at sthelensassn@aol.com<\/a> if you can donate something, however large or small.<\/p>\n

This legal action against the council will be joining other similar Judicial Review cases.\u00a0 The first of these was mounted by the shop-keepers of Goldhawk Road against the proposed Shepherds Bush development, and led to the High Court declaring as unlawful the council’s Supplementary Development Plan for the area.\u00a0 Further judicial review applications are making their way through the courts on the Capital and Counties scheme at Earls Court.<\/p>\n

Rarely has a local planning authority found itself at the wrong end of so many legal challenges.\u00a0 But then rarely has a council played so fast and loose with the planning system,\u00a0in its efforts to appease developers rather than listen to the views of the public.<\/p>\n

Redevelopment of the BBC TV Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stanhope PLC and the BBC are in the early stages of preparing 3 planning applications to redevelop the site of the BBC TV Centre on Wood Lane.\u00a0 The plans involve opening up the site to the public, retaining the listed buildings and Studios 1-3, and building new offices and up to 1,000\u00a0housing units.\u00a0 Under the partnership agreed between the BBC and Stanhope, some BBC production (and live shows) will remain on the site.\u00a0 More details are due to be published on a new website<\/a> for the development.<\/p>\n

Planning news for our immediate area<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Kensington and Chelsea side of the boundary, the latest news includes:-<\/p>\n