URGENT OBJECTION DEADLINE JUST HOURS AWAY

 

BOXING/WRESTLING MATCHES, DRINKING AND LOUD MUSIC TO HIT RESIDENTS NEAR BURTON COURT: YOU HAVE JUST HOURS TO OBJECT

CLICK HERE NOW TO OBJECT

PLEASE NOTE...OBJECTIONS NEED TO BE MADE TODAY AND HAVE TO BE BASED ON ONE OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING

In accordance with the Licensing Act 2003, in order for a representation to be considered relevant, it must relate to the likely effect of the grant of the licence failing to promote one or more of the licensing objectives.  

The four licensing objectives are as follows:                             

·       the prevention of crime and disorder

·       the public safety

·       the prevention of public nuisance        

·       the protection of children from harm 

JUST ONE FTSE 100 CEO SUPPORTS LABOUR

Just one FTSE 100 CE

Rachel Reeves is being disingenuous in claiming that 120 business leaders support Labour. 

She said she was “really proud” of the support but critics were quick to point out that the list didn’t contain a single chief executive of a FTSE 100 company despite her “smoked salmon and scrambled eggs” charm offensive of corporate Britain.

This is not to denigrate her claim merely to point out that she is lying through her back teeth.

Only one FTSE CE is on her list and barely a big hitter is to be found among a register of 121 names. 

One source claimed there was a danger of demonstrating the precise opposite of what was intended, which is that big business had refused to back Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.

The only senior figure from Britain’s blue-chip elite was Andrew Higginson, chairman of high street tracksuit and trainer emporium JD Sports...hardly a industrial giant!

Nor was there a single boss to be found from the FTSE 250, the second-tier of listed UK stocks that is far more representative of the British economy that Labour claims it will be a responsible steward of.

This is NOT a snipe at Labour but all parties need to tell the truth or the Dame will be cross.

BOXING/WRESTLING MATCHES, DRINKING AND LOUD MUSIC TO HIT RESIDENTS NEAR BURTON COURT: YOU HAVE JUST HOURS TO OBJECT

PLEASE NOTE...OBJECTIONS NEED TO BE MADE TODAY AND HAVE TO BE BASED ON ONE OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING

In accordance with the Licensing Act 2003, in order for a representation to be considered relevant, it must relate to the likely effect of the grant of the licence failing to promote one or more of the licensing objectives.  The four licensing objectives are as follows:                             

·       the prevention of crime and disorder

·       the public safety

·       the prevention of public nuisance         

·       the protection of children from harm 

This is Burton Court....a rare oasis of tranquillity amid the bustle of Chelsea. If you live near Burton Court there is trouble ahead!

The Royal Hospital sneakily applied for this licence (details below). And don't think this will be the end of it. Expect further exemptions to be applied for.

Application for the Grant of a Premises Licence consisting of the main grounds and Burton's/Tennis Courts. Permissions sought:
Performance of a play both in and outdoors:
Monday to Sunday: 10:00 - 23:00

Exhibition of films indoors:
Monday to Sunday: 10:00 - 23:00

Indoor sporting events:
Monday to Sunday: 10:00 - 23:00

Boxing or wrestling entertainment both in and outdoors:
Monday to Sunday: 10:00 - 23:00

live music both in and outdoors:
Monday to Sunday: 10:00 - 24:00

Non-standard timings:
On up to a maximum of 30 days per calendar year, the permitted hours for recorded music may be extended as non-standard timings from 0800 hrs to 1000hrs prior to the start of the permitted hours and from 2400 hrs to 0100 hrs the following day at the end of the permitted hours for this type of regulated entertainment provided notice of each occasion has been served on the police and the licencing authority at least 14 days before each occasion and the police have given their prior written consent in each case

If this licence is granted tomorrow this will happen...

• Noise pollution 
• Antisocial behaviour from those attending events like boxing and wrestling.
• Vandalism
• Crime
• High levels of traffic

These sorts of events inevitably attract criminal activity. 

The police cannot cope with the current high crime level in Chelsea. If granted the police will be swamped. 

Putting on these sorts of events that extend into the night and early hours is irresponsible. Families will be affected and petty crime will soar.

THE AREA AROUND BURTON COURT IS DENSELY RESIDENTIAL. THIS LICENCE, IF GRANTED, WILL BLIGHT THE AREA.

You just have until tomorrow to object. Click OBJECT and stop this abuse of our beautiful park. 

Please circulate this to friends etc.

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STARMER ROBS PETER TO PAY PAUL

 asylum hostel?

4 in 10 parents are considering pulling their children out of the independent sector. 

These are parents who have made sacrifices to send their offsprings to some little known school with moderate fees. They will now be battling to find a place in an already under-resourced state sector.

Parents at the great public schools will be unaffected and those schools have huge resources will be able to bridge any funding gap.

Keir Starmer is a lawyer. His lack of commercial logic shows through in this clumsy attempt to rob Peter to pay Paul. 

This was never about helping the state sector: it was all about satiating the class hatred of Rayner and friends.

Hundreds of small schools will close. 

Maybe the government can buy the bombed out schools and convert them into asylum accomodation: the only growth industry in our benighted country

GREG HANDS AND HIS DUBIOUS CLAIM ON YOUR VOTE

 Greg Hands

"So, I am asking you to use your vote for me on 4 July, and vote for the candidate who will always be on your side."

Greg Hands's plea to voters. 

He cites local issues he has been involved with to back his claim on your vote.

All very well but he carefully sides steps national issues. These seriously impact our lives.

Here are a few.

• Unregulated immigration stressing our domestic infrastructure
• A socialist confiscatory tax policy in unreformed Inheritance Tax
• A Business Rates regime strangling businesses of all sizes
• Crime-ridden streets
• Stamp duty set at such a level that no one can afford to downsize
• Billions wantonly wasted during COVID

The country is seriously messed up and a vote for Labour is a Revenge Vote only.

WHEN DID IT ALL GO SO HORRIBLY WRONG?

Writing in The Times Matthew Syed claims, correctly, the UK has suffered a calamitous collapse in hard and soft power at a time when totalitarian  China and Russia are using economic muscle and warrior diplomacy to assert themselves.

It's a good piece but he makes a major error. He suggests all this has happened over the last fourteen years. 

Both Labour and Tory governments share responsibility this country's precipitous decline over the last few decades.

We have lost our way in a fast-changing world. 

You can read it LINK

THE VERY GRAND SKIP IHT.....MIDDLE CLASS/MIDDLE ENGLAND GETS STUFFED

 Dame, only the likes of you with your vast estates don't pay.

The wealthy with umpteen homes organise their affairs to avoid Inheritance Tax by converting properties they do not live into Trusts, thus taking those properties out of the Inheritance Tax calculation. 

They can also settle money on people under the normal seven-year rule.   Thus, the very wealthy never pay Inheritance Tax through clever legal advice: the very poor do not pay it because they have no wealth to tax. 

Inheritance Tax is paid by Middle England by people who own one house or flat with modest savings. 

Inheritance Tax is never paid by the fabulously wealthy who can avoid it. This is why the gentry keep their country piles. 

IHT is the politics of envy. 

RAYNE OF FEAR

Though the Dame sleeps soundly.....not last night 

She had a scary nightmare.....Sir Keir had keeled over leaving gobby and not-so-clever Angela Rayner as PM!

As this was all happening the Russians and Chinese decided to send a fleet of nuclear-armed warships on a 'friendly' visit to Plymouth. 

What would Angie do next...head a deputation of fellow dimwits to welcome them? Probably.

One thing is sure....Tony Blair for all his faults would never have given this woman a job...she's vacuous.

Blair surrounded himself with smart people.

HUNT IS PERNICIOUS

swanning around spouting rubbish

In an interview today Jeremy Hunt described inheritance tax as “pernicious”.

 “I think it is profoundly anti-Conservative because it stops and disincentivises people from saving for their future.”

Hunt clearly finds it all too much. 

The Conservative Party and Hunt lived comfortably with this 'pernicious' tax for fourteen years....now, with just 2 months to go before being cast into oblivion, he makes promises he will never have to deliver.

The man is nuts!

AND THEY ARE NEARLY OFF: CLLR ADAM JOINS HAMAS FAVOURING GREEN PARTY

 

Cllr Adam joins the Greens.The Green Party candidates support Hamas...those peace-loving people!

• Mona Abdulla Ishag Adam

  Green Party

  

• Felicity Buchan

  Conservative and Unionist Party

  

• Marc Burca

  Reform UK

  

• Garry Cattle

  Workers Party of Britain

  

• Emma Dent Coad

  Independent

  

• William Houngbo

  Liberal Democrats

  

• Joe Powell

  Labour Party

FREE PALESTINE?...BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

 

Salman Rushdie says those marching for a 'Free Palestine' need to understand a Hamas-run Palestine would be as repressive as a Taliban Afghanistan. 

• No freedom of speech
• No freedom for gay people
• Minimal education for women
• Extreme censorship
• Strict dress codes
• No democracy

All those liberated and chilled protesters may not find life in a Hamas-free Palestine to their liking.

KICK CLARKE OUT OF THE LORDS NOW

Clarke
 

Ken Clark has always been a smug, bullying boor.

The Inquiry into the infected blood scandal concludes that whilst health secretary he misled the public in an 'indefensible way' over the risks from transfusions. 

Because of the very avoidable blunders over 3000 people have died from HIV or Hepatitis.

Clarke claimed there was "no conclusive proof" AIDS/Hepatitis could be spread from infected blood.

The Inquiry also attacked him for his claim campaigners focused on him because he was a 'celebrity'.

Another of Clarke's excuses was that this was “the unavoidable adverse effects which can unhappily arise from many medical procedures”.

What is incredible is that the blood plasma was acquired from groups in the US known to be high-risk.

These were young, vulnerable children who were being experimented on.

Clarke? Do the right thing and give up your seat in the HoL and whilst you're at it apologise for your gross manners.

SUPPORT THE FIGHT AGAINST MONEY CRAZED DEVELOPERS

 

Brown canopy marks site

Dear Dame 

Thanks for posting the news on this planning proposal in March 2023 (PP/23/00916)  

With over 100 objections the application was rejected by the planning committee.

Despite a rejection, the applicant appealed to the  Planning Inspectorate.

This week, the applicant submitted a NEW application (PP/24/02813) for the proposed restaurant. The only major change is moving the 5-storey high extraction flue a meter or two away from homes in Chepstow Villas with the bizarre idea of  bricking up the flue to look like a chimney!

This time the applicant omits the detailed mechanical design report and many drawings on the proposed restaurant in a crafty attempt to play down the full impact of this 3000 sq ft mega restaurant! 

We are frustrated and angry at being forced through the same laborious objection process as the applicants try to wear us down. 

Nothing has changed from last year’s application as it is still applying for the installation of flue and serious mechanical plants to facilitate the 3000 sq ft restaurant. The only sop is the flue being bricked! All amenities and living conditions issues to local residents still stay the same. 

The public appeal consultation process for PP/23/00916 just ended last month and now another new application coming in May! 

....we will continue to fight and object.

It is worth noting that the application for the same site requests to have 76 Kensington Park Road as residential units (while keeping 65/7 Portobello Road as a shop) was approved last Oct 2023. The developer has an option on the site! 

They just want to get both residential and restaurant plans approved! 

As K&C residents we are all faced with developers disrupting our lives for profit. 

Please object by clicking HERE

Points to make include

• The 5 storey flue will cause noise vibration and odour issues inside and outside people’s home 

• Industrial plant and a massive flue are inappropriate for a residential street like Kensington Park Road 

• AC and kitchen plant ventilation machinery underneath lightwell on Kensington Park Road with smoke, noise, rising temperature, causing all kinds of environmental pollution 

• potential illegal parking for daily food supplies and rubbish collection on a narrow, heavily used part of the road with bus stop opposite 

• patrons of restaurants entering in and out at night disturbing residents in a predominantly residential area 

• a 3000 sq ft mega restaurant is not needed in this part of Kensington Park Road

Thank you.

HELP THE FOOLISH OLD DAME OUT....

 

Kiev Today

The Council is busy promoting homes for Ukrainians yet something puzzles the Dame.

A lawyer friend of the old thing was in Kyiv at the weekend. 

He asked the Dame what she thought conditions were like.

The Dame opined that the city must be living in terror. 

Quite the reverse said her friend. 

People were happily amusing themselves in sunlit cafes and the atmosphere was carefree and happy. 

Damage inflicted by Russian missiles was well outside the city limits.

Bentleys and Ferraris were everywhere: a little like Chelsea.

So, why are residents of this Borough expected to house refugees when the residents of non-violent parts of Ukraine doing nothing to help their compatriots?

LOOTING IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE

not a care in the world

Here is the most extraordinary sight. In broad daylight and with not a modicum of fear this piece of work has smashed the window of the Mercedes. You can watch the film in this link HELPED HIMSELF as he coolly helps himself to the contents. 

He wanders off, carefree, knowing if he gets caught he will be 'bailed to appear' and then disappear. 

The Council wastes money employing powerless community street wardens; an untidy-looking bunch who aimlessly wander the streets not knowing quite what their job is.

Instead, the Council should have approached Cadogan and other major landowners and suggested a joint funding of professional security patrols operating at all times of the day and night. Residents could even be invited to subscribe to such a service.

This is what one resident reported:

"Outside my flat in Pavilion Road there have been numerous violent robberies, people screaming as they are attacking for their valuables with machetes. I have been cycled at on the pavement by menacing hoody gangs, but I had nothing to steal as I carry nothing valuable with me."

A MOANING RESIDENT!

up yours!
 

we've never had it so good!

Dear Dame,

A question?

Why should I vote for either Buchan or Hands rather than sitting on my backside at home?

Let’s run through why sitting at home reading a good book is more interesting and productive than wasting an hour to travel to vote Conservative.

OK, I may not vote for Powell but at least I know what I will get from a Labour Government.

14 years of Conservative governments and we are now like a third world country….foreign , violent gangs infest our city streets and no one is safe. We cannot even stop a Channel invasion.

The only beneficiaries are the likes of Cameron and pals like Osborne,Hancock and Johnson who are now multimillionaires. 

Even Hands was taking a vast monthly fee from some French bank.

I am not crazy about Reform UK but I will vote for them to shaft the corrupt, greedy and self serving Conservative Party.

• Their party has never tried to abolish Inheritance Tax or at least set levels that reflect soaring house price inflation
• Allowed Stamp Duty to rise to unprecedented levels. Young people cannot get on the housing ladder: older and more affluent people cannot afford to downsize.
• Done nothing to reform Business Rates which are now at such a level that most businesses just cannot absorb them
• Wasted tens of billions on a rail link that was never needed in the first place
• Wasted billions during COVID
• Used COVID to manipulate the population into servility.

Others can add more…what a record of wasted opportunity.

Regards

Name redacted

'SW3 3RP'

LAWYERING DUDES

leader of men pose

Mayoral motor

Two charisma bypass lawyers now control the levers of power: one 'uman rights and the other criminal.

The Dame has nothing against lawyers: indeed she employs a team of lawyers to manage her vast investments but should they run a major city and a failing country?

In years gone by this breed was given minor portfolio jobs....now they have taken over our lives.

How the Dame yearns for the old days when clever, spirited and charismatic men like Ernie Bevin ran the country.

Ernie, an old friend of the Dame, would not have given house room to a couple of bleak and bone-dry lawyers.

THE ENTREPRENEUR IN FLIGHT

 

Many of the Dame's rich friends are moving out. 

Were they just relying on idle capital to live it would not matter. They can buzz off to Italy Spain or elsewhere and would not be missed.

These though are big contributors to the economic life of the country. 

Their entrepreneurial flair and drive create and maintain employment. 

Losing them because they feel they will have a tax target on their backs will further endanger the economy.

Their big worry is that the property dealer, Angela Rayner, will not share the same business-friendly attitude as Starmer and Reeves.

Still, we can take comfort in Emma Dent Coad's view that the public sector will provide any lost jobs!

RESIDENT CLAIMS TORY CANDIDATE TAKES THE BISCUIT!

Dear Dame,

I wanted to reach out as a dedicated follower of your work and someone deeply interested in local politics. I must share my disappointment regarding the lack of coverage of the Norland by-election on your blog.

I am really surprised and upset that you claim to judge each councillor on their merits yet have said nothing about the outstanding Monica Press. Are you being partisan?

Over the years, there have been both effective and ineffective councillors from all political sides in RBKC.

Exemplary councillors widely known and respected all over the borough include Sof McVeigh, Linda Wade, Sarah Addenbrooke, David Lindsay Cem Kemahli, Ian Henderson and Monica Press. 

There are many others. I won't speak too much about the bad, but one of the worst was Mr Invisible Graham whom most residents had never heard or let alone met.  

As a lifelong Conservative, I'm deeply disappointed to see that in recent times the local Conservative Association has been taking us Norland residents and our votes for granted, so I have come to mind that it is time for a change. 

That view has only been reinforced after learning that the Labour Party have selected former councillor Monica Press for the Norland candidacy. 

Mrs Press was an outstanding local councillor and she impressed me on the doorstep with her knowledge, experience and willingness to take on challenging work, especially on housing.

By contrast, the local Conservative Association has selected a candidate who doesn't appear to wish to discuss much with residents other than what her favourite biscuit is.

Very disappointedly,

One-time Tory