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Sent: 30 October 2007 07:32
To: Simon Hoets
Subject: RE: Profitable Plots (PP)
Dear Simon Hoets,
Thank you for your last email back in September. I have been trying to do more
research on Profitable Plots. As such, they have just given all their clients
online accounts to which PP even provided pdf
documents they have supposedly proposed to Hounslow Borough Council regarding
the so-called Concorde
Village. They even claim
to be sorting out the green belt issue. I have attached all relevant documents
for your perusal.
Below in italics is the latest
announcement they have made in my online account, whereby they (or their
partner, DLP Consultants) specifically claim to have
contacted Hounslow Borough Council. I apologise if it is too long, or if
there are too many attachments, but my ultimate and hopefully final question
here for you is, can you confirm
if has anyone in the Council seen any of these attached documents, anytime, or
anyone connected to DLP or Profitable Plots. If no one has, then I will be
approaching the company to demand explanations and make amends, not only
for myself, but for many other unknowing investors in many countries. Thank you
so much for your help again, Mr. Hoets. I look forward to hearing from you
soon.
Yours Truly,
Latest Report from DLP Consultants:
Following the submission of documentation to
Hounslow Borough Council in February 2007 advocating the allocation of the site
in the forthcoming Local Development Framework documents the Council launched a
formal public consultation exercise in June.
The consultation comprised two parts.
The first was to seek views on the issues and options that will underpin the
Core Strategy for Hounslow – the Core Strategy is the first of a suite of
development plan documents that will in due course replace the current Unitary
Development Plan.
Representations were made supporting the
view that Hounslow cannot be treated as a single entity for the purposes of
future planning due to the diversity of different issues that arise in the
Borough which stretches from the urban areas of Chiswick to the boundaries with
the County of Surrey. There is, we believe, a strong case to take a
different approach to strategic planning in the western half of the Borough
– in which Concorde Village is located – where there are fewer opportunities for
urban regeneration but where there is vacant and under utilised land that can
deliver positive planning benefits.
The second part of the consultation was an
invitation to submit comments on potential development sites that could
contribute to future housing and employment provision. In making our
response to this part of the consultation DLP Planning submitted a revised,
edited and updated version of the document submitted in February 2007.
These submissions have been acknowledged by
the Council who will now consider the representation as part of the process of
defining a Preferred Option which will be subject to further consultation,
presently scheduled to take place in June 2008 (timed to allow completion of
the Further Alterations to the London
Plan).
The public examination of the Further
Alterations to the London
Plan took place in June 2007. DLP Planning adopted the role of observer
reflective of the fact that no fundamental changes are required to this
document in order to secure the eventual allocation of Concorde Village. The Report of the Panel is expected to be received
by the Mayor of London
at the end of September 2007.
Meanwhile, the Phase 2 Contaminated
Land Report for COncorde Village has been received. Mott
Macdonald, a leading geo-environmental consultancy, carried out an initial
appraisal of the site during 2006 and recommended further more detailed
investigation of the land to establish the true extent of any contamination and
landfilling known to have taken place prior to the
change in legislation on waste disposal in 1974. Their investigations
have taken over six months to complete, including the analytical studies
carried out on the results obtained from numerous boreholes across the
site. The extent of landfill and contamination confirms the original
expectation that some remedial work will be necessary but that there is nothing
within the site which would prevent its development or lead to abnormal costs.
Overall their conclusions are that the
level of contamination is not considered to be excessive, and it is considered
that it should be possible to develop parts of the site without excessive
expenditure on remediation.
The detailed analysis of the site is now being
subject to close scrutiny which will lead to the review, if necessary, of the
draft Master Plan
Subject:
Profitable Plots (PP)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:51:33 +0100
From: xxxxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
To:
CC: xxxxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx; xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Your email has been passed to me for a
response. You ask four questions and I will respond to each as you have put
them.
!. I understand that PP
purchased the site from Taylor Woodrow a couple of years ago but I have seen no
evidence of this so can not confirm it. I do know that other people have
questioned this.
2. 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.
3. 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. In my position as development control area
manager I would expect to be aware of any such enquiries.
4. I am not a
lawyer and can not therefore advise you about legal matters.
I hope this helps.
Simon Hoets
Acting Area Planning
Manager
London Borough of
Hounslow
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