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From: Ron Harvey [mailto:ron.harvey@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: 09 June 2004 12:04
To: 'lettersrtt@london.newsquest.co.uk'
Cc: 'cllr.jcoombs@richmond.gov.uk'
Subject: The Bare Truth

Dear Sir,

I write for those keen to preserve the green aspect of their borough, especially if they feel their time was well spent at a public inquiry or a local Planning Committee.  Lest you fail to believe what I tell, please take the trouble to visit the Mill Farm Site, Heathfield Ward.  According to a presently published  part of the current Unitary Development Plan site provision:

“Any proposal should include a buffer of land of nature conservation importance to link to the

area to the west of the site. A suitable buffer should also be provided to protect residential amenity.”

According also to an outline planning permission trees marked on drawings were to be protected by specific planning conditions and a small part of the site was also marked to accord with the said UDP provision.  

At that time hundreds of trees and thick vegetation thrived on the site, previously a scrap yard abandoned thirty years before.  At the east end of the site an unsold tract of land owned by the borough gives an idea of what it was like.  The rest is presently stripped absolutely bare, with all the wildlife, the trees, the vegetation and the top soil completely gone. 

Yours,

Ron Harvey,

local resident,

http://www.dragonslair.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/local/index.htm

75 Farm Road

Hounslow

(LB Richmond)

TW45PH

020 8755 3587