Roehampton redevelopment planning news

The Council has published its planning news booklet alerting us to the application they have submitted to themselves (!) to redevelop Roehampton.

It should be delivered to all homes in Roehampton at the very least - look out for it; it looks like this>

The first thing that grabbed me was the image the council have put on the front page, supposedly a representation of what the development will look like. I've enlarged it below so you can really get a good look at it.

Amazing, isn't it?

Through this one development, Roehampton has suddently become a rural idyll. Children playing happily. No anti-social behaviour. Birds flying above.
...And not a car in sight! Remarkable, given that these plans will increase traffic catastrophically - sending thousands of shopper cars and articulated lorries down Danebury Avenue. Yet not a single car, bus or lorry in the illustration.

And also, look at all the grass! More grass, in fact than exists there now - when in reality the council intends to concrete over the grass and trees that are there now.



The Conservatives are perpetrating nothing less than a mass deception. They failed to adequately consult residents, sneakily staging an exhibition hardly anyone knew about in the middle of the Summer holidays. They steamrollered the results of that consultation through committee a few weeks later. They ignored Roehampton residents at the recent so called "listening to you" meeting. And now they're deliberately misrepresenting their plans.

We have until 08 December to make our views known to the council about this application. Since my own consultation at the start of September, the economic situation has made this crazy plan even less viable. If you want to have your say, here's how:

• Write to: Planning Service, Wandsworth Town Hall, London SW18 2PU
• Email: planningapplications@wandsworth.gov.uk
• Phone: Neil Shaw, the planning officer for this case on 020 8871 6632
• Fax: 020 8871 6003

Please quote planning application number: 2008/4552

The Council's planning page, where all the plans and responses can be found is here.