The late and great Marcus Sieff, one-time chairman of Marks & Spencer, loved the store in King's Road.
How horrified he would be to know a mysterious Jeddah-based Saudi family planned to raze it to the ground and replace with the monstrosity below.
It might suit Chop Chop Square in Jeddah but not our beloved King's Road.
The developers, Jeddah based HALJ group, is headed by Osama Al Haddad; he's someone well known to the Saudi Crown Prince.... the man accused of ordering the torture and brutal murder of one of his critics.
another Osama.....
If councillors grant permission for this horror residents will have lost all control over their community and we will have only ourselves to blame.
So, those of us who love Chelsea and King's Road need to wage war against this crude Saudi invasion.
Markham Street Residents Association are leading the charge so please click HERE
STOP PRESS!!! The Dame has received a furious and fuming email from a Miss Grossman of the Markham St RA saying the RA does not want to be associated with any protest about the development so the old Dame imagines that Markham St RA is in favour of Saudi plans....the old thing is confused....
You can immediately and directly object to RBKC PLANNING PORTAL
We all need to man the barricades and defend Chelsea against rapacious Middle Eastern invaders with no care for our community.
DP9 are behind the application: the same firm behind Earls Court
ReplyDeleteIronic isn't it...Saudi Arabia, a country that hates Israel and the Jewish people is about to destroy an Anglo Jewish beacon of retail excellence.
ReplyDeleteAs a citizen of Saudi Arabia I am very insulted by your depiction of my country. We are very socially advanced the extent the UN has invited us to join the Human Rights Committee. Most people agree that taking the sword to those committing adultery is justified.The Crown Prince is modernising the country at pace and I can assure women can wear mini skirt in privacy of their home.
ReplyDeleteSaudi's are hypocrites. In their country they say their religion bars immodest dress but are going to build a development that pays their rent flogging immodest dresses. Buzz off
ReplyDeleteFrankly, what is the point of protesting against developments when as recently as Thursday, the not-fit-for-purpose Planning Committee - in a another display of how local democracy is bust - cosied up to developers, approving a glaringly obviously unsuitable, 9-storey box proposed in Old Brompton Rd - now a yardstick outlier for high-rise hell to follow at the Earls Court site - that will loom like a cancerous carbuncle over Brompton Cemetery, Eardley Crescent and conservation areas adjacent? It mattered not a jot that over 350 objections from individuals,numerous residents societies, heritage advisors, LBHF et al were submitted against a paltry 7 for the monstrosity. Far too often, RBKC planners appear to think their role is to facilitate speculative developers while often clueless councillors fall for PR spin, dismissing residents' concerns as irrelevant. As one Tory councillor infamously put it "“We hear residents but we don't listen." Spot on, dearie!
ReplyDeleteWhich councillor made that shocking comment? Name and shame please
DeleteThe Dame's 28.11.20 post refers: https://fromthehornetsnest.blogspot.com/search?q=weale
DeleteCllr Mary Weale. Cabinet Member for Finance.
DeleteVery sad
08.16 is presumably a Labour Party supporter.
DeleteConsultation has to be undertaken by Planning authorities but does not have to be heeded. The real question is, "When does consultation become notification" by the Local Authority.
It is not just the Tories who fail to "heed" consultation. Former Labour Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, commented that the consultation for the Extension of Western Congestion Charging Zone was not a "referendum" when he acknowledged that the overwhelming majority of Chelsea residents opposed it.
Yeah, Livingstone just wanted to soak the rich in Chelsea and did not care that people did not endorse his proposal during the consultation process.
DeleteIt would never do for Red Ken to propose an Eastern Zone Extension of the Congestion Charge and apply the congestion charge to the lower orders and ne'er do wells in Stepney and Bethnal Green.
No, '8.16' is categorically not a Labour supporter. Labour just as bad as Tories on planning front but as a native of RBKC, I have no first-hand experience of a Labour-run council by way of comparison.
Delete22.35 As a native of K&C you do have experience of Labour run councils. The GLA is a Labour run Authority and the people of K&C pay for it in the Council Tax.
DeleteOne of the greatest wastes of space is the extremely thick Cllr Walaa. Her interventions was so off the wall that it led one prominent campaigner to declare, "I was transfixed by her....but not in a good way". We pay the idiot £13k a year yet she is incapable of acting on behalf of residents.
ReplyDeleteTotal Walaa, that one.
DeleteThe Dame, seeing the fate of others who offend Saudis, has beefed up her personal security.
ReplyDeleteShe is now surrounded by a cohort of ex SAS soldiery so Osama don't try any of your tricks.
The Dame is not for turning or slaughtering.....
Have nowt to do with your Nextdoor neighbour!
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