Showing posts with label Kilburn Square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kilburn Square. Show all posts

Thursday 1 December 2022

Kilburn Square – from the other end of the telescope

 

 

Guest post from Sara Hojholt in a personal capacity

 

 

It’s over two years (!) since Brent Council shocked our local community with a far too ambitious “Mini Master Plan” to build 180 new homes on the estate it owns in Kilburn Square – adding 80% to the 2019 population, on a smaller shared space.  Last September it finally listened to the near-unanimous rejection of that; and agreed to a re-think - acknowledging three major objections: the huge increase in density of residents; the loss of precious green space and mature trees; and the inclusion of a 17-storey tower.

 

But then in January it settled on a version only about 20% smaller, removing the tower but ignoring the other two objections. And despite good words about collaboration with residents, a scheme that would work for everyone, and not forcing homes on us… that’s essentially what they’ve now carried through to a Planning Application (reference 22/3669). And in the 138 documents of the dossier, they have failed to show clear evidence of substantial support from the estate residents or our neighbours in the wider community. 

 

So, here’s a message to our Council. For more information, search “Kilburn Square” on Wembley Matters, and visit our website https://save-our-square.org

 

The other end of the telescope

An Open Letter to Brent Council from a Kilburn Square Resident

 

Dear Councillor Butt and Ms Downs,

 

I live on the Kilburn Square estate, where you want to build an extra 139 homes. You sit in Civic Centre, miles away from Kilburn. All your justifications for this still oversized scheme are top-down, and viewed from an external perspective. But I’m pleading with you to look at things from the other end of the telescope. One of your Housing Officers described our estate to our MP as “brilliant”; we believe your scheme would undermine our physical and mental wellbeing, and the “sense of place” which Brent used to put at the heart of its development planning.  

 

Your arguments

 

You tell us there’s a huge waiting list, the GLA has grant funds, you’ve committed to numerical targets, you have a target proportion of larger homes and you can’t afford to buy land. We hear that; but you then use abstract or euphemistic terms like Infill, Densification and PTAL (accessibility to public transport). 

 

·      “Infill” suggests a few extra units here and there – not 60% more households than our original estate had in 2019, with a reduced communal space.

·      You tell us the GLA supports “densification”; but Kilburn Ward is already the most densely populated in Brent. As for the estate itself, the GLA has dropped its quantified measures of density of residents, as unfit for purpose; but Brent still has one – it’s called Amenity Space and our estate already fails to meet it before a single new brick is laid.

·      Your team have told us “if we had to respect that norm, we could hardly build anywhere”. Is that a justification?

·      Good public transport is of course essential if any development is to be car-free; but that doesn’t in itself justify adding more new homes than the site can reasonably absorb

You’ve already added a Block to the Southwest corner of the site. The next, little-publicised move to add more housing was a GLA grant allocation in November 2018 – for 70 new homes by demolishing one adjacent daytime use building. Then in March 2020 Cabinet approved a Network Homes agreement, with an increased target of 80-100 new homes – removing a second daytime use building. 

 

Had you stuck on that, the broad local community would have seen it as an acceptable compromise – and the new Blocks would be halfway built already. Contrary to your regular public assertions, neither we residents nor our supportive neighbours are NIMBYs.

 

Instead, your team chose to double their target. You thoughtfully offered us a second 17-storey tower - thankfully now cut to a “mere” 7-8 storeys. But you’ve persisted with three satellite Blocks (now merged to make two) on our existing communal space. 

 

·      Brent’s project website refers, to this day, to “the availability of significant parcels of land that could be suitable” for development – with no justification offered.

·      And now your Planning Application claims that the green space and trees where you want to impose a 37-unit merged Block C is “underutilised”. Outrageous!

·      We’ve told you for well over a year that this is not only a precious area for physical relaxation. It’s also our Green Lung – a crucial visual and environmental amenity for the whole community, on and off the estate.

West Kilburn is already in Brent’s worst category for green space deprivation – and your own Climate Strategy seeks to increase green space not remove it. But don’t just take it from me, read the second Comment posted on the Planning Portal, from a Barrett House resident. Here’s an extract:

 

“My flat , it's dark and I have very little sunlight come in, I have significant health conditions including my lungs being damaged thanks to black mould, covid and asthma . I also struggle with other conditions. Taking away trees [and] green space will Impact on our health and quality of life. We utilised the green space in lockdown it was our neighbourhood connubial area!! It got us through tough times. Because we are poor and not privileged does that mean we don't deserve quality of life? In the long run it will cost the council more as mental and physical health will decline. Several other neighbours object to this work but due to either lack of English or learning difficulties have been unable to make objections. Please don't take away our trees, sunlight and quality of air!!!”

 

That’s the view of your Block C from our end of the telescope. And Block E would be shoehorned in unacceptably close to two existing Blocks.

 

In the meantime, the long-planned and urgently needed refurbishment of our existing tower block is no closer to being carried out. 

 

On a broader front, you’ve not explained why you have pressed this scheme on us Kilburn Square residents rather than, for example, devoting the whole Cecil Avenue site – Council-owned and with Planning Permission in place – to Brent-owned affordable homes. That would not be financially viable?... Ah, but wait a minute: you’ve publicly acknowledged to Cabinet that the Kilburn Square Planning Application as submitted IS NOT FINANCIALLY VIABLE. How misleading is that?

 

When our local newspaper asked the Council last week LINK  to comment on the scheme’s viability, your spokesperson dodged the question; nor did they comment on the number of units to be available at social rent level (the answer is none). The report to Cabinet is unambiguous: to achieve viability, most of Block B would need to be converted, after Planning Permission is granted, to Shared Ownership; and there’s even a hint of Open Market Sale!

 

For two years, your project team’s laborious pre-engagement process has tightly controlled the agenda, and has failed to gain the trust and support of the great majority of us residents. We do trust our Independent Advisors – 60% of our households gave them their honest views last year and they reported “There is no measurable support for the scheme, nor for the process”. But for subsequent “consultation” on alternatives defined by the project team, they were sidelined.

 

So, in summary, as the Council moves further away from meeting the needs of the truly most needy on the waiting list, towards becoming just another developer, the view from our end of the telescope is looking less acceptable than ever! For more information visit https://save-our-square.org

 

Sara Hojholt, Kilburn Square Resident

 

 

Thursday 1 September 2022

LETTER: Kilburn Square Housing: Brent Labour vs Barnet Labour…

 The Kilburn Square Development (Photo: Brent Council)

Dear Editor,

  

Remember Alice through the Looking Glass…? Here’s an Open Question to the Brent Housing team, as they press on to an imminent Planning Application with a scheme the local community strongly believes is still too big…

 

PRE-ELECTION

https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/19937298.residents-lose-latest-fight-save-east-finchley-green-spaces/

  • Conservative Barnet council wants to build houses on green space
  • Labour opposition backs residents’ objections

 

POST-ELECTION 

https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/east-finchley-green-space-saved-from-development-9241434

  • Labour gains control
  • The scheme is cut back to preserve the green space

 

IF BARNET LABOUR CAN DO THIS… WHY CAN’T BRENT LABOUR DROP BLOCK C-D ON KILBURN SQUARE? 

 

Feel free to comment on here!

 

Details of the scheme heading towards a Planning Application:  https://legacy.brent.gov.uk/media/16420412/kilburn-square-final-exhibition.pdf

 

For more background see https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2022/05/letter-brent-is-prioritisng-housing.html  . To join our campaign please email savekilburnsquare@gmail.com

 

Keith Anderson.

NW6 6QA

Monday 18 July 2022

LETTER: Windmill Court residents join others in pinpointing flaws in Brent Council's infill proposals

 

The site in context. Red rectangles are the development areas


 Brent Council's Key Plan

Dear Editor,

In your earlier article on controversies over Brent Council infill proposals, Common threads emerging as council tenants rebel over Brent's infill plans, you missed out Windmill Court on Shoot-Up Hill which is close to Watling Gardens.  We are one of the three in the Cooperation Agreement with Network Homes alongside Watling Gardens and Kilburn Square.


The Windmill Court application went before the planning committee on the same night as Watling Gardens.


One councillor objected to the application and one, Cllr Kennelly abstained on fire safety grounds (he’s no longer on the committee).


The head of planning, Mr Ansell, chose to ignore the legislative requirements under land use planning for fire safety and even directed the committee members that it was not a matter for them and could be dealt with at building control.(See video  below)


This is against the current fire safety requirements and a breach of the legislation on fire safety in high rise buildings that came into force on 1st August 2021. 


The legislation, Planning Gateway One, came from the Dame Judith Hackett recommendations to ensure that fire safety and access is dealt with at the earliest possible stage. 


Under Planning Gateway One Windmill Court tower block at 17 storeys with 120 households is a relevant building. The legislation requires a change in culture in that the existing building and the land around it has to be part of the planning process and taken into proper consideration regarding fire safety and access. This should be done at planning committee but Brent have clearly not incorporated the necessary change in culture to take proper account of the legislative requirements. 


You would be aware that planning would usually have been concerned only with what was being proposed and not the existing buildings and residents. I am unsure whether they deliberately chose to overlook the legislation on a proposal where the design concept being put forward is fundamentally flawed.


I noticed you picked up on the sale of some of the properties at Watling Gardens. Under the Mayor’s affordable housing this does allow for shared ownership to be included under the banner of affordable housing.


Windmill Court is financially unviable to the tune of millions and we did notice in an early Cabinet document where they included us along with Watling Gardens in a mention about increasing sales!


Whilst this is all being done under the banner of new council homes the chance is that they will be offloaded onto another housing organisation and a large number will be sold.


As for the affordable rent and local lettings policy. This is problematic for existing residents wanting to downsize or requiring a larger property. The council quite recently produced a document showing council rent’s for all sizes of homes with regards this year’s increase of 4.1%. 

 

When you compare this to the Mayors affordable housing rent benchmarks and include the service charge the differences are quite stark. Someone downsizing from a two bedroom property to a one bedroom property would be paying an extra £60 per week. Someone here at Windmill Court in a one bedroom flat with a child or children requiring a two bedroom flat would have an increase above an extra £60 a week and would lose having a separate kitchen and lounge. The option to consider staying in their one bedroom property with a kitchen that is large enough for a table and chairs and utilising the lounge as the parental bedroom would save them over £60 per week.


This is creating a two tier system on Brent estates where existing residents are having amenities removed to allow for new residents at higher rents being given what was previously shared communal space as private outdoor space as per GLA requirements.


We have had the same shoddy work with misrepresentations and misinformation and lack of communication. The submitted documents for planning also have misrepresentations and misinformation.

 

The submitted fire statement contains erroneous information and this has to be the most concerning. 


Our committee members have been researching every area including the council submitting the Lambeth Methodology Survey on available alternative parking spaces which includes 37 spaces on the A5 Shoot Up Hill that have 0% stress! That’s because they don’t exist! And listing CPZ’s in Camden as being available to Brent residents!


An anonymous consultant appears to have been paid  £43,340:00, mostly in £1,750:00 amounts, according to the Windmill Court submitted invoices.


I am attaching the video from the planning committee where fire safety is discussed. The first part with Mr Ansell explaining the change in legislation and stating this is a genuine serious concern then proceeding to direct members that it’s not a matter for them which is advice that is against the law. The second is Clr Kennelly expressing dissatisfaction with the reply and suggesting deferral of the application.


Yours sincerely,


A Concerned Windmill Court Resident

(Name supplied)




Tuesday 3 May 2022

LETTER: Brent is prioritisng housing targets over community support on Kilburn Square

 Dear Wembley Matters Editor

 

You have previously published reports of the long-running saga of Brent’s “Infill” housing expansion scheme on the Kilburn Square Co-op estate. I’m a near-neighbour, and have friends who live on the estate itself.

 

Despite good words from the Cabinet Housing Lead and various Officers, the project team is now preparing for Planning Application a design that our combined local community still considers as much larger than what the site can reasonably support without transforming its character and damaging the health and wellbeing of current and incoming residents.

 

I find bitterly ironic the contrast between this scheme and a mirror-image story about a current project in Barnet: https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/19937298.residents-lose-latest-fight-save-east-finchley-green-spaces/ . A Council facing acute housing shortages seeks to build houses on green space next to existing homes, in an area deprived of green space, against the protests of residents. Sound familiar? The twist is that this is a Conservative Council; and the Labour group are defending the interests of the current residents…

 

Kilburn Square was a major topic at a Kilburn Ward Zoom Hustings hosted last week by Kilburn Village Residents’ Association and two neighbouring RAs. As the election is almost upon us, I’d like to share with your readers the following Letter which the Brent and Kilburn Times Editor is about to publish

 

Yours sincerely

Nicky Lovick

 

“Dear BKT Editor

 

In the heart of Kilburn, just off the busy and polluted High Road, Brent plans to impose a major housing expansion scheme – currently 144 extra units - on a well-balanced and mature estate that a Brent Housing Officer has described to our MP as “brilliant”. Our local community is incensed.  Here’s the story:

 

·      On its Kilburn Square estate, Brent Council has been seeking for over 18 months to design a scheme for further housing expansion, that “can work for everyone” and “balances” the acute need for new social housing with protecting the health and wellbeing of existing residents

·      Engagement last Summer produced near-unanimous rejection of the scale of the original scheme by estate residents and neighbours

·      In agreeing to design a smaller scheme, Brent acknowledged three major objections: a new tower, the loss of Trees and Green Space, and the much-increased density of residents.

·      It is now preparing a Planning Application for a scheme (its “Approach A”) https://legacy.brent.gov.uk/media/16420113/kilburn-square-newsletter-issue-2-2022.pdf  that addresses only one of these (the tower)…

·      …and retains two new blocks that would remove green space and mature trees, aggravate an existing deficit of Amenity Space and increase the resident population by 67% vs 2019

·      Kilburn Ward is in the most deprived category for green space in the whole Borough – and the Climate Strategy is supposed to INCREASE green space, not remove it

·      A three-month Council engagement effort, with tightly constrained options and the exclusion of trusted Independent Advisors Source Partnership, identified only 10% of estate residents willing to express any support for Approach A

·      Brent has sought to exclude the local community from debate before fixing the project scale, despite representations from the Kilburn Square Stakeholder Group (KSSG) and over 50 recent emails from concerned neighbours seeking a smaller scheme

·      Lack of any serious communication going to ALL neighbouring streets means many close neighbours are still in total ignorance of the expansion plan

 

For more details, see https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2022/03/letter-response-to-cllr-southwoods.html

 

Brent’s Housing Director has said publicly they “would not want to force homes on anyone, so where they had built had been with the support and encouragement of local residents and Ward Councillors”. Empty words in relation to Kilburn Square!

 

Estate residents and neighbours alike acknowledge the social housing crisis and will accept SOME further development – but this scheme is still too big, and unfair to current estate residents.   

 

Wouldn’t it be great if all candidates standing in Kilburn (Brent) Ward would promise that, if elected, they will NOT support a Planning Application for the scheme in its current shape, and will work closely with the KSSG and all their electors to propose a more balanced and fairer scheme…?

 

At a Ward Hustings last week, hosted by three Residents’ Associations, three Party speakers agreed with that sentiment… and one did not. I’ll leave your readers to guess which one.

 

Nicky Lovick

Brondesbury Road resident (name and address supplied)”

Monday 14 March 2022

LETTER: Response to Cllr Southwood's mollifying statement on the Kilburn Square development from silenced infuriated resident

 Dear Editor,

 

Thank you for publishing (LINK) the text of my Kilburn Square petition speech to Cabinet on February 7, with a brief summary of Cllr Southwood’s response. We residents of Kilburn Square have enormous respect for Cllr Southwood; and with two thirds of residents being Council tenants, we are acutely aware of the shortage of affordable housing and the Council’s housing targets.

 

But as Cllr Southwood is well aware of our concerns, and did have advance sight of my speech, I’m afraid we found her response deeply unsatisfying.   

 

Here is a full transcript of her statement; and, in italics, the comments I would have made if we had been allowed a dialogue.

 

Councillor Southwood response to Margaret von Stoll’s petition speech to Cabinet, Feb 7 2022

 

Thank you Margaret, for giving us a really helpful and detailed overview of some of the journey we have been on over the past year or so and outstanding residents’ concerns.  

 

Throughout the process and I guess starting with our initial commitment which was always to balance the need for and our response to the need for family sized, genuinely affordable homes with improvements that are made possible during a development programme, improvements that will benefit people already living on Kilburn Square. 

 

The balance needed all along has been between the acute housing need in the borough, which we recognise, and the human rights and wellbeing of the current – and for that matter incoming – residents of Kilburn Square.

 

It became clear last Summer when we’d done the sort of first round of engagement that residents did have several considerable concerns; 

 

My speech included the unambiguous conclusion from the resident survey by our independent advisors Source Partnership “There is very little demonstrable support for the Council’s proposals or trust in the consultation process “

 

one was certainly around the height of the proposed tower. I appreciate there was also concern about density and overcrowding and it was and has been throughout really clear that residents on and off the estate really value the green space that’s available

 

Our neighbours raised all three of our concerns, not just green space, in their emphatic rejection of the original scheme

 

and I sort of took that  informally to Cabinet colleagues around the table, that feedback; and we collectively agreed to extend the pre-consultation process 

 

We welcomed that, and you promised the re-design would be done in collaboration with estate residents. But in practice the project team continued dictating the rules just like in the previous phase; see this Letter to our local paper from a fellow resident:

 

The Kilburn Square re-think – a plea for meaningful collaboration

From the Brent and Kilburn Times Dec 16, 2021

Dear Editor. As a resident on the Kilburn Square Estate I’d like to register a protest at Brent Council’s approach to the re-think (LINK: https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/housing/brent-council-rethinks-kilburn-square-8385078  ) on its oversized expansion project.

·       They promised a collaborative approach, but in reality it’s the project team who are making the rules – just like during the months spent discussing the original scheme.

·       At a first pair of Drop-Ins  - wrongly labelled Design Workshops - each visitor (12% of households turned up) was presented with five ways of distributing a reduction in scale of about 25%

·       A Newsletter then told us we had “chosen” two Approaches labelled A and E, each removing only 20% of the original scale, and neither fully addressing even one of our three main objections acknowledged by Brent: No second tower, preserve green space and trees, reduce density/overcrowding.

·       A would reduce the tower but still have ten storeys; E would remove one but not both of the satellite Blocks on the green space - and keep almost the full tower.

·       They quote outdated density ratios; but omit Amenity Space rules laid down in Brent’s own Plan.  On those, the Estate already has a serious shortfall; and either A or E would more than double that shortfall”. And Brent’s Climate Emergency strategy seeks to increase green space, not reduce it.

·       After two further Drop-Ins drew barely any residents, the project team has resorted to knocking on doors to seek “votes”. But they aren’t using our independent advisor, Source Partnership, whose neutrality gained our trust in the July survey that prompted the re-think.

·       And we are told throughout that these are the only options; asking to discuss a greater reduction is not allowed. An online questionnaire allows us to comment on the wider picture only after ‘voting’ for one or the other Approach.

·       We’ve seen scant details of the provision, or re-provision, of community facilities and services; and tenants complain that despite repeated promises they’re still awaiting details of priority access to the new homes referred to by Cllr Ketan Sheth, in his recent Times article.



Brent, you’ve said you “want a scheme that can work for everyone” and “will not force homes on anyone”. This is no way to honour those words!

 

Yours sincerely, Charlotte O’Sullivan. Further information   https://save-our-square.org

 

 

This obviously was a considerable change to the original plan and I tasked the architects with coming with several options, not worked up in detail obviously, we are  always resource constrained, which did in different and varying ways meet some of those concerns.  

 

And those options were then whittled down to two, A & E, on which we got residents’ feedback.  

 

Only 24% of our households were persuaded to “vote” and the majority of those chose the other Approach – see below for details  

 

I realise there will be remaining concerns and differing views about the extent of the process, about the extent to which residents meaningfully were able to engage. 

 

I think that is something that we will probably have to agree to disagree on.  What I am confident about having reviewed all the various engagement mechanisms is that the team have done their best to engage through this pre consultation process.

 

What the team consciously chose NOT to do in the re-design process was ask our trusted intermediary, Source Partnership, to provide a neutral channel for residents to express their honest views, with no fear of recrimination; or to engage residents in exploring what they value about the estate and what kind of designs and improvements could both meet the need for new units and address their objections, collaboratively.

 

We are not at the end; this was, if you like, an additional opportunity for consultation – rightly, in line with the Mayor’s guidance.    

 

GLA funding requires an engagement process which is “transparent, inclusive, responsive and meaningful“. We strongly argue those criteria have thus far NOT been met

 

And also our own commitment as a Council to make sure that residents are/have the opportunity to engage meaningfully when we have development plans like this……… which are significant and we accept that. The reduction in the height of the tower which you see in Option A I think does respond to concerns about the height of the tower.

 

But that (almost) responds to just one of our three key objections – which you have acknowledged

 

 I hear that there are outstanding concerns about density and overcrowding. Much of that rightly can be picked up through the planning process so I think there is absolutely scope for residents to continue to provide that feedback and to seek assurances. And obviously all the relevant reports will be appended to the planning application which demonstrate the density being in line with expectation in the area. 

 

Brent’s own “Amenity Space” rules already show a deficit on the current estate; Approach A would double the deficit. And it would add 68% more households vs 2019, on a smaller footprint  – how do you think that will not transform the character of what one of your Officers described to our MP as “a brilliant estate”?  

 

Since the Co-op was established 30 years ago, residents have worked hard to establish a peaceful, sociable and crime-free estate; we are concerned that this plan puts at risk our ability to sustain that

 

Just to clarify on allocations because there has been some talk of overcrowding:  obviously we made recent changes to our allocations scheme which means families who are overcrowded who live on the estate and who are eligible for housing transfer will be prioritised with new housing, just to make that absolutely clear. 

 

And the final thing to say is obviously  our number one commitment is to families living in temporary accommodation and have been doing so for many years in some cases,  in chronically unsuitable unaffordable homes and those residents, for lots of reasons don’t have much of a voice in these processes. And one of the things that, I think, I and the team have been careful to do throughout is to consider those residents as well.   

 

So I am enormously grateful to people on and off the estate who have given a massive amount of time and energy through the process and we are in a better place because of it that is absolutely unquestionable. 

 

It doesn’t feel like a better place, Councillor, when all you are offering, after well over a year of patient dialogue with you and your team, is a 40% reduction in a tower that never belonged in our local skyscape in the first place

 

We now move into a stage which is to put Option A into the planning process that residents will have opportunity to continue to provide feedback and comment on the Planning Application as we go into that formal phase 

 

This expansion is not even in the Local Plan!

 

We cannot for time reasons because we are committed to certain deadlines with the GLA for funding we cannot extend this process any further and I will be looking forward to working with you all as we move into the formal planning process which will also include work around the green space. It is quite clear that a lot of the green space on the estate… (?) so we’ll be focusing on that (Margaret interrupts, visibly unhappy)

 

I do appreciate that passions run high in this and that is the demonstration of how much people care about Kilburn Square and that is entirely as it should be.  

 

So we will be looking at how to make better use of the green space that does exist and also taking a look around the estate; and I can’t make clear commitments today, but Officers are looking at opportunities for other improvements we might be able to make locally and we will continue to work with everyone locally and to make those a reality through the planning process. 

 

It’s hard to imagine what those offsetting green space ideas might be – on or off estate. But also our collective unhappiness with Blocks C and D is not only about the green space and mature trees they would remove, important though that is; but also about their visual impact on the estate character and the local setting, and their contribution to the 68% increase in the estate population vs 2019  

 

We are asking you to drop those two Blocks as well as reducing the tower to the height of surrounding buildings - before preparing the scheme for a Planning Application

 

I think I’ll leave it there but I really do appreciate Margaret, you coming and expressing so eloquently the views of local residents. 

 

The outcome of the post-reset engagement process October to January 2021-2

 

The team has now published the results of its efforts to engage with KS residents (the views of the local community have been deemed irrelevant until after the scale and shape of the revised scheme is fixed) from October to January [https://legacy.brent.gov.uk/media/16420115/kilburn-square-summary-and-feedback.pdf ]

 

Read the team’s commentary in conjunction with Charlotte’s letter above; and then look at the data:

 

Of the 270 households (including Sandwood, the 24-unit pre-phase of Infill, completed in 2020)

 

·      64 (24%) were persuaded to express a preference between Approaches A and E

·      10 (4%) said they wanted neither, even though that was not presented as an option

·      Of the 64, 26 (10%) said they favoured Approach A – which Brent now wants to take to a Planning Application

·      38 (14%) preferred Approach E – which would preserve some, though not all, of the green space and trees

 

In conclusion

 

Our message to Cllr Southwood, the Cabinet, the Leader and the senior Officers is this:

·      We’ve heard  your arguments for some further expansion on Kilburn Square

·      But we are still waiting for a scale and shape that “can work for everyone” as we’ve been promised

·      … and  please don’t try to tell us, the local electorate, or the GLA that Approach A has the support of residents and neighbours!

 

  Margaret von Stoll