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.
Would you help some of us by giving bullet points with which to object? Your link to OBJECT is so quick and direct, well done
ReplyDeleteIf this application really is the same as the previous one then the Planning Authority, RBKC, could and should reject it now on the grounds that it is the same as the previously refused one.
ReplyDeleteThe development of Heythrop College was supposed to be a luxury “later life facility”, where residents such as the Dame could take afternoon tea on a landscaped deck and play croquet on a manicured lawn. Now the plans hang in the balance, as it has been revealed that the South African developer Zenprop has sold the site to hotel operator, Arora.
ReplyDeleteKnowing the Dame she will be dead against anything Arora plan. Why not send her details
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