This planning application does suggest that the previous efforts to shut the gate because provision of a ticket gate line on the down platform was not possible were, as we all thought, purely penny pinching at the customers inconvenience.
I would welcome the gates so long as
a. they are manned for people with faulty ticket problems
b. a ticket vending machine is also installed (no evidence of one in the plans)
I can't be the only one who is irritated by the lack of ticket purchase facilities on the southbound side?
Comments are on the way to the planning department accordingly.