Geoff is a very difficult person to get an on the record response from. A couple of letters have gone unanswered. On a matter like this one, I prefer communications committed to letter.
I have however contacted and received responses from other bodies within the council, so will follow them up.
If Geoff is being evasive it does smell a little mmmmmmm iffy. Time to write to you MP I think. I would also try to find out who Geoff's boss is and speak to them.
If Geoff is being evasive it does smell a little mmmmmmm iffy. Time to write to you MP I think. I would also try to find out who Geoff's boss is and speak to them.
I am not going to say directly that any persons actions indicate foul play at this point. But I do think it would be appropriate for said persons to take us "little people" into consideration, and show enough respect to even recognise communications from people raising issues.
The matter has indeed been escalated to higher powers, and I agree with the comment on the MP communication. I shall try and get something sent asap, so thank you for that.
Any other contacts, councillors etc would be appreciated.
The matter has also been raised with other bodies in the council, requesting their assessment of the situations surrounding this whole matter.
For any written communications to the planning officers it does no harm to copy your local councillor(s). They are often able to follow up issues such as this on your behalf.
A member of the Forest Hill Society Executive has also been pursuing this issue with the planning officer concerned.
For any written communications to the planning officers it does no harm to copy your local councillor(s). They are often able to follow up issues such as this on your behalf.
A member of the Forest Hill Society Executive has also been pursuing this issue with the planning officer concerned.
Cheers Michael. I will do that once I find out who they are and how to contact them
I am aware of the FH Association's action also, and very grateful
According to Earlsfield Estates? website (www.earlsfieldestates.co.uk)
their address is 424a Garratt Lane, Earlsfield, London, SW18 4HN
Tel: +44 (0) 208 947 9201 | Fax: +44 (0) 208 947 9202
e-mail: william@earlsfieldestates.co.uk
And I also found this, an artist?s impression of their proposal for 6 Church Rise - ?Twelve Luxury Eco-Friendly Apartments? (Snazy: you?d better be sitting down when you see this) http://www.earlsfieldestates.co.uk/future_projects.htm
And I also found this, an artist?s impression of their proposal for 6 Church Rise - ?Twelve Luxury Eco-Friendly Apartments? (Snazy: you?d better be sitting down when you see this) http://www.earlsfieldestates.co.uk/future_projects.htm
Truly hideous. Looks like the seventies council block above the PO on Dartmouth Rd.
Looks like the council's planning website is having a spring clean and removing files, for example the documents for the original application no longer seem to be online.
Anyway here is the full story of Church Rise and fall in picture form....
Yeah seem to be a fair few bits and bobs missing.
Shame I cant find any pictures from BEFORE they started ripping the house apart, when Mr & Mrs Black owned the house in the 80's-90's. Was once a beautiful place.
Got loads of pictures of the transformation though, the mud pile, the fires etc.
Lets hope someone else gets their mitts on the land and does it properly.
I agree . Just looked at the devolpers pictures. This does not fit in with the other houses in
Church Rise. How could it be permitted. As others have suggested I recommend Mr Dowd plus local councillor. I am not far from you and Alan Till has been very helpful , not sure if you are in same ward.
An 'odd' decision made by Lewisham Planning Committee tonight (I am being polite in my language) involving basements and demolition. Echoes some of the concerns here. I don't think it appropriate to go into detail here as long term readers will know that I don't like using this site as a personal soap box, but any hard evidence of other 'controversial' planning decisions won?t go a miss. Obviously in SE23.
On a postitive side really drew the community, well most of the community, together, helped by a number of others. But community spirit doesn't count for a lot in front of the Commitee...