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Saving Spelthornes Green Belt
Response to article in Surrey Voice magazine. We were dismayed to read the misleading and one-sided article on ‘Saving Spelthorne’s Green Belt’ in the winter 20/21 issue of Surrey Voice. Like all Surrey boroughs and districts, Spelthorne is under great pressure from...
Winter Newsletter 2020
LOCAL NEWS The vandalised swimmer has been repaired and returned to the Memorial Gardens. Marks & Spencer has closed, except for the food hall, which has gone to the Waitrose site. There will be a new Co-op in the High St at the Majestic development. Debenhams...
Charter Square, Phase 3 (formerly Majestic House)
20/01112/FUL, Charter Square. This is another oversized block of undersized flats, grossly out of scale with Staines town centre, but we accept that permission has been granted in principle for the overdevelopment of the entire Majestic site, in the same brutally...
Appeal response – Burger Plus, 25 Church Street
Appeal response - Burger Plus, 25 Church Street (re opening hours) The original application to extend opening hours (to 3am) was refused by Spelthorne Borough Council, the applicant has since made an Appeal to the Secretary of State, against that decision. Planning...
Moratorium on new high-rise development in Staines
Moratorium on new high-rise development in Staines. A coalition of 5 Residents Associations opposed to the proposed 14 storey, 300 bed hotel & 200 residential unit development on the Bridge Street Car Park site, have asked Spelthorne Borough Council for a...
Spelthorne BC served with Formal Freedom of Information Request
2 November 2020 RESIDENTS RIVERSIDE COALITION FIRE UP CAMPAIGN TO OPPOSE 14-STOREY HOTEL IN STAINES CONSERVATION AREA Five residents’ organisations in Staines have joined forces to oppose the construction of a 14-storey hotel and apartment complex on the Bridge Street...
Thameside House ref. 20/00344/FUL
Unlike the organisers of the Green Belt petition, Staines Town Society does not support the idea that Staines should bear a disproportionate share of the burden imposed by the Government’s housing targets. Staines is a comfortable riverside town, not an inner-city...
Burger Plus, 25 Church Street, Staines
Burger Plus - Application for extended hours to 3am. The Staines Town Society wishes to make a strong objection to this application, which proposes a variation of condition 4 (hours of opening) of p/a 19/00042/FUL (Change of use of ground floor office (Class B1) to...
Osmanstead, Laleham Conservation Area
Application to demolish Osmanstead & build 6 houses The Staines Town Society is disturbed by the inappropriate design, the number of dwellings and the loss of green space in the proposals for the Osmanstead site in the Laleham Conservation Area. The very essence...
Call for 3 Staines councillors to resign
Letter to 3 Staines councillors Monday 27 January 2020 Dear Councillors Doerfel, Lagden and Siva You were elected to represent the views and interests of the people of Staines, but instead you are promoting a scheme to fill the town centre with over 4000 high-rise...
Ex-Servicemen’s Club
Ex-Servicemen’s Club
We note there has been an amendment to Ex-servicemen’s Club 19/01237/FUL however, no notable Design & Access update or any other text, merely a series of plans, actually mostly elevations. It's hard to see what the difference is from the original but the...
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