These public hearings took place from 2nd April to the 15th April and were held at the offices of London Councils in Southwark Street.\u00a0 \u00a0We and other local organisations complained to OPDC about the distance of this location from the area covered by the Local Plan.\u00a0 While convenient for OPDC staff, the venue involved a journey across London for local residents who wished to attend.<\/p>\n
Despite this, many residents and community groups did come along to one or more sessions.\u00a0 The Grand Union Alliance had a ‘hot seat’ at the table for all the hearing days.\u00a0 This allowed Robin Brown from Just Space to contribute evidence on many topics, and for other local residents to provide input on their own particular concerns.<\/p>\n
The Old Oak Neighbourhood Forum gave evidence on several issues:<\/p>\n
Copies of our Written Statements on these issues, as provided to the Inspector, can be downloaded via links in our February 2019 post.<\/p>\n
As the Inspector chairing the sessions, Paul Clark seemed willing to listen to views and evidence from community organisations and individual residents. We hope that we gave a good account of ourselves.\u00a0 Apart from Cargiant, few developers\/landowners attended to make representations.<\/p>\n
The planning consultant for QPR made some contributions.\u00a0 \u00a0There was no sign of planning officers from Hammersmith & Fulham.\u00a0 LB Brent contributed on some specialist sustainability issues.\u00a0 Friends of Wormwood Scrubs (FOWWS) set out the legal position on protection of he Scrubs as Metropolitan Land and the parameters of 1879 Wormwood Scrubs Act.<\/p>\n
At the last session before adjournment, we explained the difficulties for local people resulting from the lack of clear information in the Draft Local Planon what exactly is proposed for Old Oak North (the first intended phase of development).\u00a0 \u00a0The Inspector has himself asked for further substantive information from OPDC on this subject.<\/p>\n
The Inspector also explained at the hearings that the outcome of his Examination may be a set of ‘minor modifications’ which could be made by OPDC, enabling the Local Plan to proceed to adoption.\u00a0 If he considers that ‘major modifications’ are needed, this would require a further (fourth) round of public consultation.\u00a0 \u00a0We think this latter outcome is quite likely, given the extent of change to the context for the Local Plan since OPDC first embarked on its preparation.<\/p>\n
We have submitted a FoI\/EiR request to OPDC for sight of the Corporation’s autumn 2018 application to central government for Housing Infrastructure funding.\u00a0 \u00a0The sum of \u00a3250m has been awarded (in March 2019) and we would like to know how this will be applied.\u00a0 So would Cargiant.<\/p>\n
Our FoI request has been refused\u00a0 (see at\u00a0150419 OPDCCOO-Letter_to_HenryPeterson<\/a>)\u00a0and we have asked for this decision to be reviewed\u00a0OONF follow up on FoI April 2019.final<\/a>.<\/p>\n We cannot see why a funding application to central government from a public body such as the Corporation should not be available to the public.\u00a0 Any commercial content that is genuinely sensitive can be redacted.\u00a0 We will appeal to the Information Commissioner if OPDC does not release the documentation.<\/p>\n The closing date for applications for the post of OPDC Chief Executive Officer is 1st May.\u00a0 \u00a0Details are in this pack\u00a066367_Candidate_Brief_FINAL<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0The ‘competitive salary package’ is not disclosed.\u00a0 The information about the position includes a ‘Company Overview<\/em>‘ whereas\u00a0the OPDC is a public body expensively funded via the London Mayor’s precept on London’s Council Tax payers, as Cargiant has pointed out in its press releases.<\/p>\n Meanwhile David Lunts (GLA Executive Director of Housing and Land) is acting as Interim Chief Executive on a part time basis, with Tom Cardis as Interim Director of Planning.\u00a0 We will post a further update once a date for a final session of the EIP hearings is known, and when the further information provided by OPDC is published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These public hearings took place from 2nd April to the 15th April and were held at the offices of London Councils in Southwark Street.\u00a0 \u00a0We and other local organisations complained to OPDC about the distance of this location from the area covered by the Local Plan.\u00a0 While convenient for OPDC staff, the venue involved a … Continue reading “The Local Plan EIP hearings in April 2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}