Application Commitee Meeting
After several months of no news, it seems the developers are reigniting their plans to develop 874 dwellings on the harold wood hospital site.
The following Meeting will be considered by the councils Regulatory Services Committee in the Town Hall, main Road, Romford at 7.30pm on Thursday 12th November 2009.
The council are allowing a PATHETIC 2 people to speak for 2 minutes in objection to the application - and only if they have pre-registered and ALSO previously objected. I suspect by the time anyone reads this, those 2 places would have been taken, but i urge you to call Darren Rogers on 01708 432689 as soon as possible. I suggest the first question should be “how can a serious objection be considered from an entire community if you are only prepared to allow 2 people to voice their objection ???”
In addition, the letter dated the 5th, arrived on Friday 7th and they are asking for 2 days notice prior to the meeting the following Thursday!! It sounds to me like they dont want the hassle of people objecting.
Please try and attend the meeting. For reference, the details are available from www.havering.gov.uk/planning reference is P0702.08
November 19th, 2009 at 9:18 am
FAO Nigel
Please contact he administrators of this site for my email address. I will then mail you some info. I’d like to remain as anonymous as I can at the moment
November 18th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I am interested to discover WHERE Fletch bought into a Countryside development. At the meeting last Thursday we were told by the representatives of Coutryside that they are award winning developers. Clearly Fletch’s experience suggests otherwise. I am seeking ammunition to pursue the argument against this development.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:00 am
As one of the people who lives on Sackville Crescent/The Drive bordering where this will be built, I am thoroughly disgusted that we only found out about the meeting via a note from the residents association posted through the letterbox so late (no fault of the association who I think do fantastic work) before the meeting took place. We were away when we got it last week, and arrived back when the meeting was taking place - not exactly what I call giving fair notice. They may as well have posted the notice on the bottom of a drawer in a locked filing cabinet - the effect for us was the same!
Reading between the lines of what I have read and the way the council are approaching this, it sounds to me like the decision has already been taken and they are just trying to push it through as quickly and quietly as possible. i doubt it is coincidence that while I was walking to the (soon to be overcrowded) station to go to work, that someone was putting up nice pictures on the site walls apparently painted by some of our local children and proudly sponsored by Countryside Properties.
I would like to know what they have paid out and where in order to grease the wheels of “democracy” . I also wonder how many benefits in kind our elected officials have enjoyed in the process. It stinks as bad as one’s moat that needed to be cleaned!
Given the fact that this council cannot keep their existing roads and neighbourhoods adequately repaired, I have no faith that they can support these new properties and their residents. Sackville Crescent for example is in an appalling state - the road is in worse condition than most of the ones I have driven on in rural towns in China! A good example is the raised drainhole covers on the corner nearest B&Q where the road has obviously sunk, and is now sticking up so high the cover closest the A12 scrapes the bottom of our car every time we drive over it!
Personally, i think there needs to be a public enquiry into how this council is run. Their attitude to this application is just the latest in a long chain of problems, and I can’t believe people are still voting for them!
November 10th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Firstly I would suggest that no one asks why only 2 people are allowed to speak as the answer will be spread out to use your entire 2 minutes, wasting 50% of your arguyement time.
Countryside will ruin the area for you. Please do all you can to stop them in their tracks
November 9th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Tony, I agree with your comments and i agree that residential properties are a far better choice than the others you mention. I dont think anyone is really expecting a park or golf course (How great would that be though!!) The real issue is the number of properties that are being crammed into a site that will have a fundamental effect on the town.
The 2001 census stated Harold Wood population as 12000. This new development proposes 874 dwellings. Assuming an average of 2 people per property, that increases the population of the entire town by over 10%!!
Yes, the doctors can be increased, roads can be widened, more schools built…..but then Harold Wood becomes just another urban town in the M25 that most of its resident would rather not live in.
The decision to build so many properties is not for the good of the community or to the benefit of existing residents. It is solely because the property developers can make more money.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Sure it would be nice to have a nature park or even better a nice golf course on the Hospital site, but that is not going to happen, is it. What about more industry or a prison or another supermarket?
I am sure that most residents of our village were against the development around Tescos for much the same reasons as now. But these ‘new’ residents are the people now against the development of the Hospital site. They are part of the community who care about the area as I am sure the residents of the new development will, unlike the people who worked and visited the hospital from outside of Harold Wood who couldn’t care less about the residents, and also the theives etc that it attracted and still attracts. I for one can’t wait until they knock down the eyesore that the hospital has become. I completely uphold the need for our doctors, schools and traffic to be sorted to cope with the extra demand and have already sent my comments to all the parties concerned, this is the area I feel we need to press. These issues are covered on the councils website www.havering.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=19822&p=0 sent to me by Patrick Keyes.