Thank you for the link. Being a simpleton, I couldn’t get my brain around the technical stuff on the council website.I noticed that some of the dwellings are studio flats, or as my generation use to call them, bedsits. I live in one and know that bedsits are not the way to go. They lack the storage, space of modern-day living, they lack the capacity to entertain to modern day standards. Invite a son or daughter around with the grandchildren and it hits you like a ton of bricks. The open plan kitchen design is an issue. Cook a smelly meal or burn toast and the furniture absorbs it like a magnet for days afterwards. Every time the fridge kicks in the bedsit fills up with the noise. Try using a clothes horse while guests are around. Bedsits are not a viable option in modern day living. They are like fly paper waiting for a fly.The twenty-two story tower is high enough to get a grandstand view into some of the properties, and that completely changes the lifestyle of the occupants. well as devalues their property values.The plan is not to touch Bideford Road which brings into question the shared access of Tesco’s own HGV traffic and the tenant traffic to the new development. There is regularly a HGV parked outside on the proposed access road to the development. I can see no solution, or I’ve missed the solution in the myriad of documents. The Tesco loading bay access is right on the apex off a bend in the proposed access road. I have seen first hand what can happen when a delivery HGV meets traffic, and if you throw in the traffic generated by this new development you are going to have serious issues. Now the access road is shared by buses, traffic from the restaurant, HGV delivery traffic, and the traffic from the car park. I can see serious issues from children being killed at school kick out time. The HGV and bus traffic is reliant on free running traffic in the rest of Britain, throw in a hold up and you get HGV and sometimes buses backing up outside on the proposed access road. The Bideford Road access point is a simple painted blob roundabout. The HGV regularly demolish the pedestrian crossing point at the start of the access road. Even now it has been flattened at one end. Who will maintain the access road, and what legal assurances are there that it won’t impact the council’s wallet?The E5 bus is a small single deck job. The bus cannot be any bigger otherwise sections of the route would be inaccessible to it, Are there any planned changes to it?Perivale station is not fit for purpose anymore. It has an island platform in which the passenger traffic traveling in both directions share the same platform. Can it handle the extra load generated by this development during its peak time usage?While trawling through the myriad of documents on the council website I came across concern by both the council and the lot up the Thames regarding only ten percent of the development of the dwellings will be affordable to mere mortals. The developers are only saying the quota for affordable dwellings are yet to be decided after agreement with Ealing council. What assurances are there that nothing happens until that figure is finalised between the two?Finally, the developers are going to make a payment under CIL and S106 (link below for those who don’t know what that means). What are the details? Ten years ago, I would not have dreamed of asking the final question, but since then corruption has stepped in to Ealing council. What is the breakdown of every penny passed between those connected with the developers and those connected with Ealing council?CIL linkhttps://www.local.gov.uk/pas/pas-topics/infrastructure/cil-regulations-and-dclg-documentsS106 linkhttps://www.local.gov.uk/pas/pas-topics/infrastructure/s106-obligations-overview
Dennis Bailey ● 2623d