You can find it here on the Council's website.
The blurb says thus:
2011/02930/OUT: New Shepherd`s Bush Market Uxbridge Road London.
Outline Application: Outline planning application for comprehensive, phased redevelopment of Shepherd`s Bush Market and adjoining land to provide a mixed use development, involving demolition of existing buildings on site, provision of a maximum of 212 residential units (up to 27,793sq m) comprising a mixture of residential flats and mews style housing (along the Pennard Road boundary); a maximum of 14,050 sq m non-residential floorspace to include up to 6000 sq m of retail/market space (A1), 4000 sq m of food and beverage uses (A3/A4/A5) along with ancillary floorspace, landscaping and amenity/open space, vehicular access and servicing facilities, basement parking (for up to 85 vehicular and 457 cycle spaces), and associated works.
The "demolitions" the application talks about are a reference to the historic row of shops on Goldhawk Road, which Council Leader Stephen Greenhalgh promised to preserve if the current occupants wanted him to at a public meeting. He appears to have since gone back on that promise, as has been the case with the Hammersmith King Street development too. In each case it appears the prospect of luxury flats and happy property developers trump the wishes of local people, even when you've given your word.
Is it any wonder people don't trust politicians any more.
All is not lost, however, with Ken Livingstone promising to make this an issue at the forthcoming Mayoral elections and the traders who inhabit the Goldhawk Road block themselves having obtained a Judicial Review, which as we saw with the proposed cuts to Sure Start, can be a way for local people to stand up to the Council and win. I'm told the Traders are expecting a court date towards the end of this month or early next.
Interesting times ahead.
1730 UPDATE - As some of you have spotted H&F Council have now taken the planning application down from their website in response to this article linking to it! Have they changed their mind and are now bowing to public pressure? Don't count on it - but I have written to their press team to get their take on why this has provoked them to go back behind the scenes again...you know where to come for local news folks...
TUESDAY UPDATE - The Council have, after thinking about it for 24 hours, given me a curious response to explain their decision to remove the planning application. Here's what a spokesperson has just told me:
1730 UPDATE - As some of you have spotted H&F Council have now taken the planning application down from their website in response to this article linking to it! Have they changed their mind and are now bowing to public pressure? Don't count on it - but I have written to their press team to get their take on why this has provoked them to go back behind the scenes again...you know where to come for local news folks...
TUESDAY UPDATE - The Council have, after thinking about it for 24 hours, given me a curious response to explain their decision to remove the planning application. Here's what a spokesperson has just told me:
“This webpage has been temporarily removed to allow the council to upload all of the relevant planning application documents onto the online system. Residents will be able to view the full application within the next few days.”
Well as you can see from the above it was pretty thorough anyway, and I should warn the Council that I have cached pages of what was on there beforehand - so it will be very interesting to see what is added - or removed - in the coming days. I also note no denial of the fact that it was this article and the interest in generated that led to the planning application being withdrawn!
Best of luck to the traders. Slap those Tories down like the fat, spoilt rich kids they are once again. Show them that running a London borough means you have to listen to the people, not treat them like an inconvenience at best and like they don't exist at worse.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see that it's business as usual with the developers and council regardless of the fact the shopkeepers have been awarded a Judicial Review, which is awaiting a date to be heard in the courts. I am not a lawyer but my question is are they showing the same disregard of the law as well as they are the people?
ReplyDeleteYes, let's preserve the jerry-built commercial developments of yesteryear - the passage of centuries has conferred on them the status of a Taj Mahal or Great Wall of China. And, while we're at it, let's go back to living in caves - they were good enough then and are good enough now!
ReplyDeleteOr let's just go ahead and bulldoze and build regardless. Let's line the pockets of our developer chums and attract nice rich people to the borough. They're so much easier on the eye than the unwashed masses we have to put up with currently.
ReplyDeleteIt's just astonishing how this Tory council wants to bulldoze away any character and history LBHF has....not only this monstrosity but two other projects spring to mind which have aroused the ire of residents and led them to create two campaigns - Save Our Riverfront and Save Our Skyline - to try to thwart the council's greedy and ugly plans. Why are they (the council) doing this and to whose benefit?
ReplyDeleteI don't think that preservation of the "jerry-built" shops is to do with the appearance or age of the buildings but the fact that they house businesses which have been built up for years.
ReplyDeleteViv
Tried to follow the link to the application... seems the Council has deemed it to be confidential and taken it off the website!
ReplyDeletetry https://www.apps3.lbhf.gov.uk:443/cus/servlet/ep.redirect?id=68c763167048
ReplyDeleteCuriouser and curiouser:
ReplyDelete"Sorry, the details of this application cannot be displayed as London Borough Of Hammersmith & Fulham have deemed it confidential."
Just what we need in London..... More luxury homes that only the privileged few can afford.... It's a form of gerrymandering. It's happening all over H&F and also on the border with K&C.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Does "Sorry, the details of this application cannot be displayed as London Borough Of Hammersmith & Fulham have deemed it confidential" mean that the application has been withdrawn for now, or that H&F will consider the application behind closed doors? Surely the whole point in planning applications is for the public to view them and voice their opinions?
ReplyDeleteHow on earth in hiding planning applications legal? I'd suggest that you try and take this one to higher forms of media, Chris.
oh I think it has attracted some interest, believe me!
ReplyDeletePerhaps local voters will think more carefully before electing a Tory council next time? I wish...
ReplyDeleteChef Lennie is right: those 'privileged few' are supposed to be more likely to vote Tory. (Remember Shirley Porter and her council flats renovated to sell to the rich?) Also, over 200 dwellings and 85 car spaces? Will they all be BoJo clones and ride bikes? I don't think so - you can't bike to Gloucestershire for the weekends. I doubt if they will be buying from local shops either if they can afford a flat in a new development.
ReplyDeleteI make that about 108 square metres per flat. A reasonable 3 bed flat, but not for your average oligarch. Still, maybe the taps are gold-plated.
ReplyDeleteOf course they won't be buying from local shops. They'll have it all delivered from Harrod's.
ReplyDeleteIts just another example of the contempt the local authority hold their populace in. Again and again they try to sneak these things in and I think genuinely believe each time the residents of H&F are too stupid or too uninformed to do anything about it.
ReplyDeleteKeep proving them wrong guys...
So you want to preserve a row of crumbling shacks that no-one has bothered to look after for decades? If they had, demolition would not be on the cards.
ReplyDeleteYou forget one thing. The Tory Council was ELECTED. You don't like it. Get over it.
Longterm resident is correct... The Tory council was indeed ELECTED.... However that does not mean that we have to sit back and accept everything that they do. I for one don't like many things that they have done in the borough in which I was born and raised. The giant advertisements everywhere that make the place look like something out of Bladerunner, the charge for the disposal of large household items where it was previously free and has in my opinion increased flytipping and the selling off, for short term profit, of anything that they can get their greedy hands on... including a section of Hammersmith park. So I would prefer not to "get over it", but hopefully in time to get rid of them
ReplyDeletethe buildings are old, They were not great to start off with. A new better iconic image can be created. The problem is that the reason for the development is nothing more than for some developers to make some money. Why have the council allowed this as a strategy? Either they are too stupid and short sighted or they are benefiting and corrupt. Either way I do not believe that their attempts to improve the area are any more than placating any critics and papering over the true Orion vision of money making.
ReplyDeleteFor me it's not a question of whether I want to preserve the 'shacks' or idealise them in the manner of the Taj Mahal (although, for the record, I love Shepherds Bush Market), I simply loath the attitude of Hammersmith and Fulham council.
ReplyDeleteIf it were not clear already, I feel they regularly attempt to ride roughshod over the very people they should be supporting and are only interested in getting a new demographic into the borough at the expense of those who, for whatever reason, don't earn the amount the H&F Tories feel qualifies you to live on their patch.
And if they can line their own pockets, and the pockets of developers who are pricing so many people out of London, in the process, so much the better.
Why is everyone so against this project? The shopkeepers are not being swept away, this is to be mixed development so there will still be stores. Also planning for residential units this size must include a good proportion of affordable homes run by a Housing Association. And, for anyone outside London, Shepherd's Bush is already a very expensive area. I agree the skyscrapers overlooking the river is out of order, but when Councils look to energize and renovate run down areas why should you be reduced to whining about Tory vs Labour. Not all developing is by rich Tory boys!
ReplyDeleteIt seems some people are against this project in principle just because there is a Tory council.
ReplyDeleteThe market needs updating. The theatre needs visitors. The people need jobs. The shops need customers. Workers need affordable homes. They all want to live in an environment that doesn't look like a shanty town.
All this can happen, but the only people who have shown any willingness to do the immense amount of preliminary work necessary need something in return: a profit out of SOME of the apartments.
There is no doubt that the vast majority of people living in Shepherds Bush want the market to be refurbished.
Do you really think someone can provide all this for nothing?
Yes, there are some people think all this should be provided for nothing.
ReplyDeletePeople who think money grows on trees!
Refurbished? Or hidden beneath a hideous building?
ReplyDeleteIs it just me, or does the whole right side of the development look like a pound sign (£)! Very apt!
ReplyDeletehttp://myshepherdsbushmarket.com/survey
ReplyDeleteObject here
and here..
ReplyDeleteEmail objections by 15th October to:
planning@lbhf.gov.uk
FAO case officer: Shelly Watson
Application ref: 2011/02930/OUT
Alexander says "hidden beneath a hideous building".
ReplyDeleteHow do you know it will be hideous? It could be beautiful.
That's just pure prejudice.
Why shouldn't the ordinary folk of Shepherds Bush have some modern, decent buildings to look at & why shouldn't we be able to shop in a clean market like it used to be?
If a developer can smarten the place up then that is good. I've lived here forever & the place went down hill a while back. It needs some investment. Believe it or not the natives don't actually like living in squalor. Leave your politics out of it & look on the bright side. Give us back a bright lively market where I can buy food without thinking I might end up in hospital if I eat it.,
As a dispassionate observer who works in Shepherds Bush I would say that it is utterly obvious that the market area needs improving and the reasonable answer is to allow some flats to be built; enough to sustain the improvements with a proportionate mix of affordable and higher cost homes.
ReplyDeleteThe planning process involves give & take so that a balanced outcome can prevail.
To say that no development should take place is unreasonable. Reading some of the objections it seems obvious that they are being made not by near residents but probably by business people who don't want their rents to rise.