by Jackie | Jun 28, 2024 | Hot Topics, Latest News, Local Planning News, Uncategorised
Spelthorne Borough Council are creating a design code, incorporating rules that will influence the design of future buildings and public spaces in Staines. The authority has launched a public consultation in Staines to find out what people would like to include in the...
by Jackie | Apr 30, 2024 | Latest News, Local Planning News, Planning Applications
Staines Town Society objects to this proposal for a block of 9 flats on the site of the former ex-servicemen’s club. Whilst not large, the site is sensitive (riverside) and very prominent, sitting as it does on the riverside and at the eastern gateway to Staines...
by Jackie | Mar 15, 2024 | Hot Topics, Latest News, Local Planning News
We are very much in favour of the retention of the old Debenhams building, with its low level and elegant lines, but we remain totally unhappy and opposed to the tower at the rear (or any tower for that matter). However, it has been made very clear that the developers...
by Jackie | Sep 17, 2023 | Hot Topics, Latest News, Local Planning News
The Staines Town Society definitely don’t like either the proposed concentration of development in Staines, or high-rise blocks, but we are in support of the Local Plan because it’s the lesser of two evils; there’d be more towers built on more unsuitable sites,...
by Jackie | Jul 17, 2023 | Latest News, Local Plan, Local Planning News, Planning Applications
We welcome the news that the Inspector has dismissed the Debenhams appeal. We thank Spelthorne’s planning officers, who strenuously argued for refusal at the Planning Committee in June 2022 and again at the appeal in May 2023. Both decisions are on SBC website,...
by Jackie | Jun 2, 2023 | Hot Topics, Latest News, Local Plan, Local Planning News, Other News
At the special Council meeting on 6 June our councillors will be asked to vote on a motion to ‘pause’ the Local Plan process. Staines Town Society, along with several other residents’ groups across the borough, have asked councillors to refuse this...
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