Hampshire School is proposing to convert 19 Mallord Street, the old Chelsea Telephone Exchange, into a school with upwards of one thousand pupils. Hampshire School claims to be the world's largest private education provider and is heading for an IPO.
The big mystery is who is financing it....
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It seems the freeholder is more enamoured with the idea than residents. They are furious with Sloane Stanley for even considering leasing the building for such inappropriate use-especially as the development will have a hugely detrimental impact of property values in the area.
A school of this size will create massive traffic movements per week causing chaos in a residential street.
The only way this can be stopped is for Sloane Stanley to act in the interests of Chelsea and find a more suitable use.
Richard Everett, the manager of Sloane Stanley, is a decent fellow and one hopes he will have a re-think....
1000 pupils is a monster school. Holland Park School is 1400 strong. The police refer to the "starburst" and "thunderclap" at 3.30pm every day when the little monsters hit the street. Elderly residents are terrorised, and the local shop keepers draw in breath and restrict entry to 20 pupils at any one time. Pupils who steal from shops and are caught on CCTV complain to their N Kensington parents whose fathers invariably vist the shop keepers and threaten personal violence for not showing respect to their offal offspring. It has even been known for cars on Campden Hill to be set fire by the little monsters. The Borough pays for 30 Special Constables to patrol the streets in term time to maintain social order.
ReplyDeleteChelsea, you have been warned
Kensington and Chelsea is awash with secondary schools already. In addition to the massive Comprehensive sponge called Holland Park, there are the recently opened academies in Chelsea and Kensington. Where are the students for another new school coming from?
ReplyDeleteThis a bonkers proposal
ReplyDeleteThe problem with these projects is that they gather momentum under the radar, residents are kept in the dark, even if there is a bogus "consultation", and then it is too late.
ReplyDeleteA local activist needs to pick this problem up, obtain local support to resist the proposal, create a huge pressure on the Ward Councilors, get press support, get residents to write letters of objection to the Director of Planning, and then make a strong presentation at the Planning Committee.
At this particular time, the Director of Planning, Graham Stallwood, is on his way to his next job and is totally disengaged. The juniors in the Planning Department will be dizzy with brown envelopes. Especially if the promoters are from the Middle East, as reported by the Dame
Wake up local residents or you will get rogered
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ReplyDeletePlease call my private number (WESton 6969) and I will explain. Otherwise I can be found at the HELLFIRE Club on the First Sunday of every month. The Password is PENetrate
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ReplyDeleteThe Hillgate Residents Association is good current case study of how to stop development madness. But it requires organisation, determination and support.
ReplyDeleteThis lot in Chelsea sound as though they are dead from the neck down. They will get what they deserve.
Seems like this lot of residents are super sleepy. Do nothing, get nothing is the way it works
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