-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Harvey [mailto:ron.harvey@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: 28 June 2004 10:33
To: 'john.wood@rucht.com'
Cc: 'M.Esom@richmond.gov.uk'; 'Vincent Cable (vincentcable@cix.co.uk)';
'N.Vasilev@richmond.gov.uk'; 'trees@richmond.gov.uk';
'cllr.jcoombs@richmond.gov.uk'; 'cllr.JMumford@richmond.gov.uk';
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Subject: FW: Mill Farm Site Conduct
To the Chief Executive of Richmond Churches Housing Trust, and whosoever tit may concern.
Dear Mr. John Wood,
What please is your disposition towards the message below from Mr. Esom? Does he tell the truth? If so you stand responsible for a disreputable state of affairs. We are not happy.
According to contractors on your development site, hence a letter to local residents from your Mr Lawrence Huntingford, trees are removed because of land contamination, albeit that our council's tree officer has since said that he had expected the same trees to be preserved. The foreman of the site has also insisted, even to a policeman (TW556) called to the scene of the crime, that permission was granted to fell the trees now lost. None of your people confessed to us at any stage to the existence a planning condition to protect the trees, nor did they say anything at all about a safety issue, the alleged result of their own malfeasance.
Is there then a good reason not to refer this to the police for further investigation?
I have put this together to illustrate the extent of the concern:
http://www.dragonslair.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/local/index.htm
Sincerely,
Ron (and Anne) Harvey,
Leaseholders under Richmond Housing Partnership,
75 Farm Road, Hounslow, (LB Richmond), TW45PH
020 8755 3587
-----Original Message-----
From: M.Esom@richmond.gov.uk [mailto:M.Esom@richmond.gov.uk]
Sent: 21 June 2004 08:53
To: ron.harvey@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: FW: Mill Farm Site Conduct
Martin Esom
Assistant Director Environmental Protection and Customer Services
Tel 020 8891 7319
Fax 020 8891 7702
Mobile 0790409 5604
Email: m.esom@richmond.gov.uk <m.esom@richmond.gov.uk>
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Esom
Sent: 21 June 2004 08:52
To: 'Ron Harvey '
Cc: Cllr John Coombs; Cllr James Mumford; Maureen Waygood; David Barnes
Subject: Mill Farm Site Conduct
Dear Mr Harvey
I refer to your email on the above subject
For the avoidance of doubt, I should first make it clear that the damage to
the trees on this site necessitating their removal was not sanctioned by the
Council or officers and neither I nor other officers condone or defend what
the contractors have done in this respect.
The officer's advice to remove the trees in the interests of public safety
having seen that they were unstable due to the contaminated earth removal
works, was based on a common sense assessment of the situation presented to
them as previously explained. The advice was not given as a formal decision
to vary or waive a planning condition but as a response to a situation that
had already taken place without approval from them or the local planning
authority. The formal procedures of considering any variations or waiving of
the conditions attached to the permission for the development have yet to
take place. When they do they will be subject to the normal and proper
planning control processes and the views of interested parties will be taken
into account before a decision is made.
The developer of the site and their contractors have been made fully aware
of their responsibilities in terms of the planning conditions in question
and the potential consequences of failing to comply with them.
Thank you for raising this with me
Martin Esom
Assistant Director Environmental Protection and Customer Services
Tel 020 8891 7319
Fax 020 8891 7702
Mobile 0790409 5604
Email: m.esom@richmond.gov.uk <m.esom@richmond.gov.uk>
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