Putney Place Decision Day: 06 November

Councillors will be determining the Putney Place planning application on Thursday 06 November.

The fantastic news is that council planning officers are recommending that councillors refuse the application.

They state emphatically that the application is unacceptable on five grounds:

1. Overbearing impact on the area
2. The adverse impact on surrounding residents
3. The loss of office space
4. Too few affordable homes
5. The buildings are not sufficiently environmentally-friendly

You can read the officers' report that councillors will be considering here.

You are also entitled to attend the planning committee meeting: it starts at 7.30pm at Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street and this application is the first item of business. I for one will be attending.

And I hope the owners of this site will now bow to the inevitable: there is no public support for their plan, there is no planning basis for it and there is no council support for it. If, as I expect, councillors follow the officers' guidance and reject this application Oracle should accept this verdict and not pursue an appeal to the independent planning inspectorate.