Post 68 – 26/05/24 – Another Extension Please & HMO Planning Application (7 Minutes including Action)
I am needing another extension – the Surrey Police Story unfortunately is not ready. Apologies. We hope that it will be ready for next weekend.
In the meantime, we were wondering if you might be able to help the community out by objecting to another HMO planning application? It should take you no more than 5 minutes to complete and there would be no further action required once sent .
This one is an application for a 9 bed HMO in Firbank Place, Englefield Green. All you have to do is copy the below into an email and add your name and address at the bottom.
Body
I am writing to object to planning application RU.24/0584 relating to the property at 9 Firbank Place, Englefield Green.
The reasons for my objection are:
- The proposal to house 9 occupants would result in an increase in activity at the site and a consequential increase in harmful noise and disturbance. These consequences of high concentrations of HMOs have already been recognised by the council’s Planning Policy team in its work into the feasibly of introducing an Article 4 Direction on HMOs in this geographical area. Further, such un-neighbourly development and the significant impact of harmful noise and disturbance on neighbouring amenity is contrary to Policy EE1 and EE2 (noise matters only) of the Runnymede 2030 Local Plan.
- If so many occupants were allowed to live at this property then it is likely that several would be car owners. Although the planning documents indicate parking for 3 cars there appears to be an error in the planning documents submitted with this application as the boundary shown on one site plan (Doc ref ‘Site Plan’) has been changed to accommodate a third car and differs from the boundary shown in the document with Doc Ref ‘LocationPlan.pdf’. In any case, the number of car owners living in the property could be considerably more than 3. Firbank Place is a very narrow cul-de-sac with a lot of dropped kerb and more vehicles could result in obstruction of the turning space immediately outside the property, obstruction of the pavements and/or obstruction of the driveways to neighbouring properties.
- There are already 4 licenced HMOs (including this one) in this small road and possibly further unlicensed HMOs too so the area already has a high density of HMOs. If this application was allowed then it could set a precedent for the other HMOs to be expanded – or even new ones to be established – leading to an unacceptable over-concentration of this type of housing in this area.
Kind regards,
<Your name>
<Your full postal address>
Recipient
Then you need to send it to:
planning@runnymede.gov.uk
Subject
In the subject line add:
Objection to planning application RU.24/0584
That is it. Your objection will be logged and the planning committee will be required to discuss the matter if the number of objections reaches the threshold. (More than 10.) If you want to add your own views of course you can. Further information about planning objections can be found on the website:
https://weneedtotalkaboutroyalholloway.com/hmo-planning-applications/
The aim is to get this Planning Application in front of the new committee to highlight that we have a serious problem in our community with regard to HMOs and that policy is urgently required to tackle this problem.
Thank you again for taking some time out to help your community.
Best wishes,
We Need To Talk About Royal Holloway
Notices:
- Saturday 8th June: Event Details. Fancy making a placard over this long weekend? Only 13 sleeps left.
https://weneedtotalkaboutroyalholloway.com/event/ - For the benefit of people that have recently joined this group:
https://weneedtotalkaboutroyalholloway.com/timeline/ - Our Home Page that tells you more about us:
https://weneedtotalkaboutroyalholloway.com/ - To discuss the problems surrounding RHUL, consider joining the WNTT Forum Whatsapp group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BQmFKEHSa6gLsU55FU8QxN - Next Weekend’s Post: A Surrey Police Story.
- How Much Trouble Are UK Universities In? Following on from Post 61, this ‘Briefing Room’ listen might be of interest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zdws?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile