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Newsletter – Summer 2024
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We are again invited to Rosemary Williamson’s garden at 138 Thames Side, TW18 2JA, just upstream from Penton Hook Lock, for the Society’s summer tea party on Sunday 14 July from 3 – 5 pm. This is a lovely venue and we are very grateful to our kind...
Spelthorne – Design Code
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...
CPRE, Surrey. – small news item
Spelthorne doesn’t often feature in the CPRE Surrey newsletter but the following small item was included in the early May edition. Spelthorne aim to omit Green Belt sites from Local Plan Subject to ministerial intervention, Spelthorne Council proposes axing Green Belt...
Staines Ex-Servicemen’s Club
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 town...
Membership
NEW MEMBERS WELCOME Membership of the society is OPEN TO ALL, whether you live or work in Staines or are a regular visitor. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Individual £3.00 / Household £5.00 Please complete & submit the membership application form below, for Household...
Former Debenhams Site Consultation – March 24
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...
No – we don’t support more tower blocks in Staines!
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,...
Density of housing & heights of buildings
This situation re the Local Plan has been developing for years. About 25 years ago the Staines Town Society attended the hearings for the Surrey Structure Plan and asked unsuccessfully for an upper limit on housing densities, i.e. number of dwellings to the hectare...
Debenhams – Appeal dismissed July 2023
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,...
Our Local Plan is important!
Dear Councillor Staines Town Society supports the emerging Local Plan as the best compromise between local wishes and planning law. Anything denying the mandatory housing figure will simply be rejected by the Inspector, causing months of delay. The existing Local Plan...
Local Plan paused.
Local Plan paused. At a meeting of the council on 6 June 2023, the decision was taken to pause the Local Plan examination process, in order to allow the new council time to understand and review the policies and implications of the Local Plan. Spelthorne’s Chief...
Summer Newsletter 2023
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We are again invited to Rosemary Williamson’s garden at 138 Thames Side, TW18 2JA, just upstream from Penton Hook Lock, for the Society’s summer tea party on Sunday 25 June from 3 – 5 pm. This is a lovely venue and previous pre-Covid events...
Local Plan
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 pause. The...
Local Plan – Staines Development Framework
Response to draft Staines Development Framework August 2022 Staines Town Society commends the SDF as a thoughtful attempt to minimise the damaging impact of the Government’s housing requirements, and to make some real improvements to the townscape. We do however...
Debenhams – demolition
The Staines Town Society objects strongly to any agreement for prior demolition for this important building in this prime location; prior approval must be required for a proposed: Demolition of Buildings in respect of Debenhams. It would be premature to demolish this...
Our 2017 letter to CEO of Spelthorne remains relevant in 2023
2017 letter re Bridge St Car Park While acknowledging the disappointment of those who put a great deal of effort into negotiating this scheme, we can only feel relief that Staines has been spared this extremely unsuitable development. It aroused an extraordinary...
Former Masonic Lodge site – Appeal upheld
Planning Inspectorate upholds Inland Homes appeal. Following an Inquiry which was held in early December 2021 by the Planning Inspectorate, planning permission has been granted for the demolition of the former Masonic Hall and redevelopment of the site. The decision,...
The End Is Near!
The Staines Town Society fully support the following received from Keep Kempton Green (KKG). Finally, after years in production, the new Local Plan will soon be going through its final stages. The last public consultation on the completed Local Plan is scheduled for...
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