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Latest News from Staines Town Society
Below are the last six news items published by the Staines Town Society. To open one and view the detail you can either click on the image if one is present, the title or the read more link. The item will open full screen.
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...
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