http://https://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/documents/s200293/1%20Burlington%20formatted%2023%20April%20HH%20Final.pdf. Hounslow planning officers recommendation to approve despite the many objections.  The Old Chiswick Protection Society has strongly objected  to that planning report with the following concerns: “The report refers in an overall summary to the council’s own conservation officers’ objection to the proposal but does not set out the nature, scale and detail of that objection. The applicant has had sight of that/those documents. It is clearly important for elected members and for the public to understand what areas of significance council officers believe will be harmed by the proposal and why in forming a view as to what weight should be given to the important opinions of the expert council officers who know this area best. The absence of the council Officer’s own analysis leading to the objection is an important and unexplained omission in the report. It must be remedied. Please in any event send the council’s own conservation officers’  consultation response(s) to this application to the OCPS so that  we may properly address elected members as to their views and the weight to be afforded to that analysis in the overall balance. As a public document referred to in the report on a decision which is public and is meant to be transparent there should be no difficulty with such disclosure. We have registered to speak on 1st May and would like to see the relevant documentation in good time. Further, the report contains a significant number of photographs to aid members’ decision. The commentary refers on occasion to the limited nature of the intervention in the relevant view. The report accepts the importance and significance of St Nicholas Church and its setting as a listed building in a riverside Conservation Area. Historic England (HE) the government’s main advisors on heritage identify the highest harm from the proposal as being to the Old Chiswick Conservation Area as a result of the scale bulk mass and materiality of the proposal especially associated with setting harm to the listed St Nicholas church which is embedded in the CA. And yet the single image ( set out below) which displays this most important and most harmful impact of the proposals on this significance has inexplicably NOT been included in the report. HE’s strong objection letter refers directly to the photograph as part of its  careful analysis and the viewpoint was also carefully chosen at pre-app stage to be representative of one of the most relevant views to the determination. Clearly in this view (see below)  the intervention of the proposal is not limited but is on any view profound. And it is on the most important part of the setting of the listed church whose significance resides heavily in its setting. This is the parish church which dominates spiritually and physically the special riverside area. The Report asserts that the  “ Church ..sits prominently on the river …. to make a superb historic riverside prospect. That is a correct analysis reflected in the Conservation Area Appraisal. But the report does not include the key image which allows a judgment to be made on the impact of the proposal on that specific and most important element of significance and which we and HE say ( among other impacts ) establishes the unacceptable harm to that dominance. As a result the report is seriously misleading on this critical point: an error of law. Please could you also  remedy this omission.“

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Object today to bigger development at Hogarth roundabout ruining riverside views	25/04/25 18:43:00	Sophie Sainty
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