Will French, chair of the Save Ealing's Centre (a voluntary alliance of 25 residents' associations and community groups drawn together as local stakeholders in response to proposed developments in the centre of Ealing) has been talking about what the new draft London Plan and Ealing Council's response to it.
Key points that come across are:
Concerns raised by people of Ealing:
- Unsympathetic over-development is ruining the borough's distinctive character.
- The borough’s CAs and other historic assets are not being well looked after.
- There is not enough affordable housing.
- New infrastructure not keeping pace with the growing population.
- Civic buildings and other assets are being lost to the community.
- The powers that be have little interest in our concerns
Consultation underway on the replacement London Plan (FALP)
Why it matters:
- It plans how London will grow to 10m people
- It contains legally recognised planning powers
- All ‘Lower level’ plans – eg neighbourhood & Borough plans - must meet its policies ...
- … they are policies the Council must adhere to when deciding planning applications.
- Consultation ends March 2018
- Following which the draft will be examined by inspectors …
- … who tend not to support representations from individuals or groups
His assessment on the response so far from Ealing Council:
- No comment on location of new homes
- No Local Planning activity
- the last Local Development Plan Advisory Committee met Nov 2015
- No public engagement
- No annual performance monitoring
- But Dec 2017 Cabinet approved £143m borrowing for its company Broadway Living to increase housing supply – for Perceval House, GSK and Copley Close
The full presentation with numbers, maps and what it means for Ealing is in the PDF file attached.
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