SaveHaroldWood.org.uk now has a sister website serving the community.
Haroldwood.org.uk is a growing source of information about the Harold Wood and Harold Court area, but also provides a forum for residents to share their views and comments to the community. In the same way that “SaveHaroldWood.org.uk” did for the hospital site, now you can raise any subject matter relating to the community.
Visit http://www.haroldwood.org.uk now and let us know what you think!
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this site by adding their views and comments for such an important subject. Although it now appears Countryside have the permission they required to progress, the team at “SaveHaroldWood.org.uk” intend to continue.
We will soon be expanding to other matters in the area. If you have any views or comments about anything in or around Harold Wood, and want to share it with the community, let me know. Thanks
Our last chance to affect the development is to write to Boris directly. The Harold Wood, Hill, Park Residents Association have put together a sample letter as well as a guide to help on writing a letter to the Mayors office about the planning application for the hospital site.
Time is against us and if you read the guide this will explain what you can do to help.
“If you have written a letter, preferably in handwritten form phone the contact numbers and they will collect from you. There are plans to present these letters to the Mayor at the GLA on Monday and you can meet at 1pm at County Hall or 11.30am at Harold Wood Station.
Regards
Darren Wise Cllr Brian Eagling
Harold Wood, Hill, Park Residents Association
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The Harold Wood, Hill and Park Residents Association are continuing to fight the cause against the hospital development…..
Dear Resident,
Following on from the planning meeting last week, there is a meeting at St Peters Church at 7-30pm this Wednesday 3rd November to discuss next steps and give advice on what we can all do to SAVE HAROLD WOOD.
We shall also in the next few days be sending you further information to help in our fight to save Harold Wood, so please accept our apologies if you are receiving a lot of emails from us at this time.
Regards
Darren Wise Cllr Brian Eagling
Harold Wood, Hill and Park Residents Association
Tonight we saw how democracy works in our Town Hall. The planning application for the hospital site came up for consideration by eleven councillors on the planning committee. Seven of the councillors were Conservatives. The other four
were Labour or Residents Association representatives.
Over two thousand letters were sent to the Council opposing the current plans by Countryside. Two of our local residents, Cat and Nigel, were allowed to speak for two minutes each. When I say two minutes I mean that exactly. Nigel was unceremoniously cut off in mid sentence even though he needed only about ten seconds to finish! Councillor Brian Eagling spoke out strongly against the plans.
Councillor Lesley Kelly wanted the plans deferred for further scrutiny because she was unhappy about them. A number of concerns were raised by councillors representing the minority parties on the committee. A motion was proposed to
defer the planning application but it only received four votes. A motion to pass the application received seven votes and you can guess who they were!
So despite a massive public campaign, thousands of letters, hundreds of residents demonstrating outside the Town Hall, support from both Residents Association councillor and a Conservative councillor – the Conservative councillors on the committee voted against us. At a time when Conservative MPs
are prepared to listen to the electorate and make compromises with the Liberal Democrats, we have local councillors who totally ignore the clearly stated concerns of thousands of local residents! But then none of them live in Harold Wood!
We have been advised that Countryside have sent out a Harold Wood Community Newsletter regarding their proposals and have asked for views to be sent back to them via a freepost address.
We would ask you to be vigilant and preferably we would recommend that you do not send this back especially if you are against their proposals as this could be used as one of their marketing tactics.
We would however urge you to send/air any grievances directly with the Town Hall Planning Department.
Kind Regards…Harold Wood, Hill, Park Residents Association
For regular visitors of this website, you will have noticed the new look. All the same information is here but now easier to navigate and find the information you need.
However, the idyllic image on the home page is not, alas, in Harold Wood. If anyone has any un-copyrighted images of Harold Wood that they can offer for the homepage, it would be greatly appreciated. Until then, please enjoy the anonymous lane provided!
