Hands Off Our Green! PLEASE OBJECT NOW, TAKES TWO MINUTES
Many of you will have visited St Dunstan's Gardens or its sister green, the community garden at Friars Gardens, just north of Poet's Corner. These are much used parks with an unusual status. They are Public Open Spaces, but in their weird history, have a private 'owner' on their title deed. Do not be mistaken, this owner is only the 'underlying soil owner' but a potential new buyer of the title deed has launched an outrageous planning application to build 52 care home units and 22 parking bays on our beautiful green. To be very clear, and having spoken to a property lawyer in our road, this planning application should be thrown out (but you never know with our council) so it's important to get as many objections as possible. PLEASE PLEASE OBJECT NOW. IT TAKES TWO MINUTES. SEE LINK BELOW The company/individual whose names are on the title deeds for this Public Open Space (it is a POS) cannot build on this land because their "ownership is only of the underlying soil since control and management is held by the council on statutory trust for the public under section 10 of the Open Spaces Act 1906”. The applicant to build does not understand that his 'option to buy' this green from the current owners, Forward Realty, means that he will only get the "underlying soil" and is not entitled, by law, to build even a shed on it. There are other places to build 52 care homes and this is gross over-development and loss of green space in an area where green space is deficient.https://pam.ealing.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=R7AJZHJMGHA00
Juliet McDonald ● 1263d6 Comments