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From: Brendan Tinney
Sent: 13 November 2007 13:27
To:
Cc: Pratima Ahuja
Subject: RE: Concorde Village.

Ms,

Apologies for the time taken to get back to you. Firstly, I think it is useful to state that I have not seen a site plan indicating the exact ownership of the land called Concorde Village by Profitable Plots (PP). I understand it to be the open area of land west of Chertsey Road and south of Ashford Road, within the London Borough of Hounslow. I've spoken to our policy section and have copied Pratima Ahuja into this e-mail. From our conversation on the subject there would appear to be no current application relating to this site from PP, or anyone else and no history of three previous planning proposals. PP's claim that they are at Stage 4 of a current application would therefore seem doubtful in my opinion. The area that PP refer to as 'Concorde Village' is not known as such by this Council or, so far as I'm aware, by anyone else who is not connected in some way with PP. The area is a brownfield site by virtue of the fact that it has been previously developed in the past - in this case as a sand and gravel pit. This Council's development plan (Unitary Development Plan) designates the land as being within the Metropolitan Green Belt and also as a Nature Conservation Area. The fact that it is a brownfield site is of no statutory relevance.

The UDP is a statutory document that guides development (ie planning applications). Development within green belts is very restricted and housing development, such as that that I understand PP to be promoting, has little chance of getting planning permission in current circumstances. You can read the UDP on the Council's website (www.hounslow.gov.uk). Development plan policies are reviewed from time to time and green belt boundaries are due to be reviewed during the next 12 months; however I know of no reason to believe that this site will stop being green belt within the foreseeable future. There have been no planning applications for the residential development of this land, nor has this Council been approached, so far as I'm aware, with any such proposals prior to a planning application.

I understand PP have been in contact with our policy section regarding wider issues regarding development sites rather than specific planning applications. It may be worthwhile contacting Pratima Ahuja for more information on this.

In relation to your question on the actual planning process, if an officer makes a recommendation for approval and this is confirmed by management or elected Members then, provided all of the necessary planning conditions are satisfied, the applicant would need to contact the council's Building Control section. Building Control would inspect the site at various stages of the build and eventually sign it off with a completion certificate. It is conceivable that if permission was granted within eight weeks and all necessary conditions are met then, depending on the size, a development could be complete within a few months.

I hope this information is useful to you. Should you have any further questions please feel free to contact me on the details below.

Regards,

Brendan Tinney.

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Sent: 13 November 2007 03:36
To: Brendan Tinney
Subject: RE: Concorde Village.

Hi Brendan,

Thanks for your previous email.

Just wanted to check if the planning policy section has gotten back to you regarding profitable plots.

Also, You mentioned that the steps to apply for planning permission is to fill out an application form and then it will be assessed by the planning officers. Can i ask what other further steps are there? Does it mean that if the officers approve, whcih normally takes about eight weeks, companies like profitable plots can then start developing and then followed by selling off the land?

What we're trying to nail down is whether profitable plots is selling people pieces of land which will eventually have little chance of being developed. Pls advice.

Thanks so much for your time.

Regards,


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31/10/2007 10:42 PM

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Ms ,

The steps to apply for planning permission involve filling out a specific application form and providing six copies to the local planning authority (London Borough of Hounslow's Planning department) along with six copies of drawings and the required fee. An assessment is then made by planning officers who make a recommendation. In the majority of cases a decision will be made within the Planning department, by Area Team Leaders. This is normally an eight week process but for major applications the time limit is 13 weeks. If the recommendation is for approval but at least one objection letter is received then the decision is made by elected councillors at monthly committee meetings. If an application is considered to be a 'departure' from the development plan there is also a possibility that it could be referred to the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Government Office for London (GOL) (both are strategic decision making bodies). They would then have a further 14 days and 21 days respectively to direct refusal. Examples of when an application may constitute a departure that should be referred to the GLA or GOL can be seen in Circular 07/99: The Town and Country Planning (Development Plans and Consultation) (Departures) Directions 1999.

I am awaiting feedback from our Planning Policy section, who I know have had contact with Profitable Plots, to answer your other queries.

Regards,
Brendan Tinney.
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Sent: 31 October 2007 06:16
To: Brendan Tinney
Subject: Fw: Concorde Village.

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Hi Brenden,

Thanks so much for your email reply.

Just some points i need to clarify:

- If a company wishes to obtain planning permission for a certain plot of land, what are the steps? who to approach? Is the London Borough of Hounslow's planning department the department which eventually grants the planning permission?

- Also, profitable plots told me that they've been invited by the local council to make the first stage of the planning process and now they are at stage 4 of planning permission and have sent in three proposals, is that true?

- Also, they mentioned that their plot in hounslow, the concorde village, it's a total of 576 sq feet where 70 acres is in the green belt while 50 acres is a brown field which they are planning to work on. And they maintain that the part which is on the greenbelt will just be a landscape. Is that true or feasible?

Thank you so much for your time Brenden. I'm a journalist with a Singapore paper - The Straits Times. We're just checking to see if this company is out to scam singaporeans into buying plots of land which will eventually not have the chance of obtaining planning permission to be developed. So i would really love your advice. Hope to hear from you asap.

Thanks,


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Subject: Concorde Village.
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:17:06 +0000
From: xxxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
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Ms,
I have been forwarded your query on Concorde Village, Feltham. We have been receiving a number of queries on this site and our response is set out below.
It is understood that 'Profitable Plots' own this site in Chertsey Road. The site is part of London's Metropolitan Green Belt and is mostly also identified as a nature conservation area in the Hounslow Unitary Development Plan. Both of these designations mean that residential development is very unlikely to be acceptable. If you would like further information about green belt policy you could look up PPG2 (UK Government Planning Policy Guidance on green belts). This will tell you that any building construction in green belts, other than in exceptional circumstances, has little chance of getting planning permission. You can also see the London Borough of Hounslow's Unitary Development Plan online (hounslow.gov.uk) and this will give you the same message.
What I can not confirm is whether or not the site will remain part of the green belt. Profitable Plots have made a case to the Council to have it excluded. This will be considered at the appropriate time in the future - certainly not in the immediate future. The indications are that the likelihood of exclusion is limited.
In previous queries it has been stated that PP have indicated that there is a current planning application and that we have asked for a higher density. This isn't the case if we are talking about the Chertsey Road site - and I can't think of another that it might be confused with. I wonder if there might be a misunderstanding about the term 'planning permission'? To consider a site in the green belt it would have to be demonstrated that we could not achieve our current target for new housing development. The Council has demonstrated that we have enough housing land on previously developed (brownfield) sites available to meet its housing target for a least the next 8 years, and potentially considerably longer. We have also demonstrated through a recent development plan document that we have enough existing land ca! pacity to meet current employment growth projections for at least the next 10 years.
In conclusion, in my opinion there is no chance whatever of this land not being green belt this time next year. And this means that the chances of a speculative planning permission being granted, within this time, for residential development is next to nil. The chances for such a permission over the longer period depend upon major changes to the planning regime - not impossible to imagine but, in my personal view, unlikely in the foreseeable future.
Regards,
Brendan Tinney.
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