Another success!! Local Listing for Long Island...

This just out from the Watford Observer....

Latest planning decisions from Three Rivers....

Just to confirm the details of the latest refusal of permission by Three Rivers District Council on the proposed demolition and redevelopment of Long Island Exchange.

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=55ff99acc0accb4243107056d&id=b46878cdb7&e=8c765fd207

Good News at Planning meeting tonight

20th June 2013

The revised application submitted to Three Rivers District Council to demolish the current building and build 65 dwellings on the Long Island site - was tonight again refused with no objections,  by the Planning Committee.  The refusal was proposed by Cllr Shaw, seconded by Cllr Mediratta, supported by Cllr Lloyd and Cllr Sansom.

At Cllr Sansom's request, the committee agreed that the Archaeological officer at Herts County Council will be consulted further about the their statement on the archaeological value of the site.

Following the vote by the committee to refuse the application, Cllr Shaw requested that the Conservation Officer at Three Rivers District Council be asked to review the recent decision to refuse to list this building.  It was agreed by the committee that this be put to the conservation officer.

Local resident Peter Waters delivered a witty and succinct 3 minute speech against the application.

We have no doubt that this is not the end of this story... so please watch this space for more information.

Ready for tomorrow night?

Here is the agenda for the meeting of the Three Rivers District Council Planning Committee meeting tomorrow night - Three Rivers House, Northway - 7.30pm
http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/Default.aspx/Web/PlanningCommittee-20June2013
Hope you can be there to help defend another of our historic buildings scheduled for demolition and our only hotel.

New application to be presented to the Planning Committee

Town and Country Planning  (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2010

Application: Demolition of existing hotel and restaurant and construction of 65 residential units with associated accesses, basement parking and communal amenity space
Address: Long Island Exchange   Victoria Close Rickmansworth
Application No: 13/0480/FUL

This application is due to be considered by the Council’s Planning Committee on 20 June 2013. The meeting, which will be open to the public, is due to commence at 7.30pm at  Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, Herts. WD3 1RL

You can view the plans by visiting the Three Rivers Districts Council’s website and using the Planning Online facility at the following web address: http://www3.threerivers.gov.uk/online-applications/.

And... if you haven't written yet, you can still write, up until the time of the meeting.

New Flyer going out soon! Can anyone help distribute?

Final date for comments confirmed at 3rd May.

Closing dates for comments

It is not clear from various documents the exact closing dates, however being that the 2nd application 13/0480/FUL, was only lodged in the Watford Observer on 12th April and the closing date mentioned in that as the 30th April, this is the date that we are now working to.  We will double check... unless someone can confirm otherwise?

Refusal document for previous application

When writing your comments to Three Rivers we suggest that you use the reasons for refusing the first application as a basis for any further objections.  In our opinion these reasons are still valid for the second application.

Other historic properties saved from demolition

Not withstanding the fact that Rickmansworth needs a hotel and deserves a better offering than Greene King have given us in the last 25 years or so....

We cannot understand why the Victoria Hotel Building cannot be saved from demolition.

The Cross at Maple Cross was saved and sympathetically converted to residential houses..

And now this in the Watford Observer on 4th April 2013 where the Victorian Building that was Yorke Road School was saved from demolition by Three Rivers District Council....

2nd Planning Application Submitted...

The new planning application for flats on the site of the Long Island Exchange has been submitted to TRDC.  Comments must be in by 22 April 2013.   Details can be found on the TRDC website, looking for application No 13/0480/FUL.

The expected Plan B... full details. #savelongisland #Rickmansworth

For those who managed to get along to Watersmeet to see the first round of planning designs - you will already have received a copy of this brochure in the post.  For those of you who didn't,  here it is.

Following the rejection of the previous planning application, these renewed plans were expected. 

You can view them here....
In Standard pdf.... Long Island Plan B
In flip format.... Long Island Plan B (flip)

We would encourage you to email & write to Framptons Planning and also get as many others to email/write as you can.  enquiries@framptons-planning.com. 

We need as many people as possible to write for this to be effective.  Re-blog, facebook and re-tweet as much as you can.  The local community's voice is probably the strongest weapon we have in the fight to keep our local hotel and one of the last remaining, historic community buildings in Rickmansworth.

From this:

 

Avoided this....

To this....

 

The dreaded revised planning application has arrived!

More to follow - but as suspected a new application has been submitted - this time only 5 storeys high!  In our opinion - it still looks hideous, and even the attempts to use yellow bricks on Nightingale Place so the buildings are sympathic with the surrounding victorian, red brick conservation area, doesn't cut the mustard - just looks like it!