MORE SHOEBOXES COMING – NATIONAL

by | Jun 16, 2018 | 2018 Summer Newsletter, Newsletters

The tide of planning applications for small flats continues.  The Government has published a list of legal minimum sizes, e.g. 50 sq.m. for a 1-bed flat and 70 sq.m. for a 2-bed flat.  Most new flats will be at or only marginally above these minimum sizes, and local...

HOUSING IN SPELTHORNE

by | Jun 16, 2018 | 2018 Summer Newsletter, Newsletters

The Majestic block of 260 flats in the High Street is under construction, and phase 2 will be another 104 flats at the back of the site.  Behind that is the Renshaw site, where a scheme of 275 houses and flats, creditably larger than the minimum sizes, has been...
AVIATION

AVIATION

by | Jun 15, 2018 | 2018 Summer Newsletter, Heathrow, Newsletters

We objected to Heathrow Airport’s plans for expansion connected with the third runway, swallowing up large parts of Stanwell & Stanwell Moor for ancillary buildings.  Spelthorne BC have woken up to the threat to the borough: their support for the third runway is...

Summer 2018 News

by | Jun 14, 2018 | 2018 Summer Newsletter, Newsletters

Spelthorne BC are consulting until 25 June on the new Local Plan, and in particular on where to put the 590 new houses a year which the Government insists are crammed into the borough.  All the options are dreadful:  a) high-rise high density building in all the...