My response to the Danebury planning application

The closing date for comments on the council's planning application for Danebury Avenue has just passed and I submitted a detailed objection on five grounds: design, transport and access, housing and community facilities.

You can read my response here.

There is a wide array of opposition to this application:

• Myself, Putney Labour Party and the Labour Opposition on Wandsworth Council
• The Putney Society's Buildings and Conservation Group
• The Wandsworth Cycling Campaign
• English Heritage - in so far as they do not feel it is able to be determined as yet
• And most importantly of all the overwhelming majority of local residents as shown by the response to my detailed survey this Autumn

Like the Emperor's new clothes, the Council lacks even a figleaf to justify proceeding with this planning application and I very much hope that the planning applications department and the planning committee - which has a quasi judicial duty to act free of political interference from the Conservative administration - will determine this application on planning terms.

If they do so this application will be refused.