FW: Planning Application Alert Hanbury Street
Jackie Remfry
I have just had some interesting information about planning objections. A new rule is in force at LBTH. You must have 22 or more individual letters of objection and/or a petition with more than 22 names on it before it is considered at committee. You cannot have the same names on the petition as have signed the letters of objection as they would only count as one objection not two. I am a trustee of SAFE Studios and this has come up against us in our fight to retain the studios.
If you have less than 22 objectors a planning officer can make the decision and it will not go to committee.
Regards
Jackie Remfry
Manager
SsBA Community Trust/Poetry in Wood
Montefiore Centre
Hanbury Street
London E1 5HZ
020 7375 3933
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From: Sandy McCreery
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Subject: Re: Planning Application
Alert Hanbury Street
For your information, this is our email objecting to the proposal:
Subject: Objection to planning application no. PA/10/01617
From: Sandy McCreery <sandy.m...@mac.com>
Date: 2 February 2011 18:43:08 GMT
Re: 45 To 47 Hanbury Street, Brick Lane, London, E1. Erection of a basement plus six storey building to provide a 67 room hotel (Class C1) with ancillary bar and conference facilities on the ground floor. Application no. PA/10/01617.
Dear Beth Eite,
We wish to object to the above planning application on the basis that it constitutes a gross overdevelopment of the site. Constructing 3069 square metres on a site originally intended for two houses must define the very notion of 'overdevelopment.' The existing planning permission for a hotel granted in 2004 was, in our opinion, too large. To enlarge that by a further 35% is, frankly, outrageous.
We would point out that the precedents cited to support this over-development have been established by the applicant himself on his adjoining building at 49 Hanbury Street. In 2006 retrospective permission was sought in respect of a roof extension that had been erected there without planning permission. Now that roof extension is being used to justify a similar enlargement at 45-47 Hanbury Street. Similarly, the rear addition at 49 Hanbury Street is now taken to establish the rear building line at 45-47 Hanbury Street, even though that is a long way behind the original building line.
Judging from the Design and Impact Statement alone, it seems unlikely that the designer of this scheme has the experience or qualifications necessary for planning a building of this scale, particularly one that is open to the public. There is a vaguely comical disregard for the conservation area status of the site. Added to that, it is almost certainly impossible to squeeze a six storey building within the profile of the existing planning consent for a four storey building. Much of the ground floor and basement will be made up of windowless bunkers. Indeed we doubt the structural viability of this design, and whether it provides the ancillary spaces necessary for operating a 67 room hotel.
We must also draw attention to the inadequate consultation over this application. Although we will be directly overlooked and overshadowed by the proposed scheme, we did not receive any notification from Tower Hamlets council.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander McCreery & Celia Kekwick
26 Woodseer Street
London E1 5HD
On 2 Feb 2011, at 16:00, James Imrie wrote:
So should we write to the
development/ planning department at LBTH
dr.develop...@towerhamlets.gov.uk
explaining our worry and dislike
to this application?
Development: Erection of a basement plus six storey building to provide a 67
room hotel (Class C1) with ancillary bar and conference facilities on the
ground floor.
Location: 45 To 47 Hanbury Street, Brick Lane, London, E1
Application No: PA/10/01617
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