London development trust opposes west London Neighbourhood Area

The St Quintin and Woodlands Neighbourhood Forum (SQWNF) submitted an application to designate a Neighbourhood Area to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Most residents and respondents to the consultation supported the SQWNF.

WDT is a trust that regenerates and manages derelict land in west London. It said it "supports their [SQWNF's] aspiration to establish a Neighbourhood Forum and to produce planning guidance for those areas that are not already covered by the Development Plan policies of the two boroughs".

WDT has asked that some of the land included in the Neighbourhood Area plan is excluded from it.

"The Trust would be happy to see the areas immediately to the north of its landholding included within the NP area," said WDT in its response to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's consultation (6-0pages / 49KB PDF) "In view of this situation we would ask that the land already covered by the Core Strategy and the Westway SPD be excluded from the Neighbourhood Plan proposed boundary."

The SQWNF has said that it will continue to argue that the land should remain within the Neighbourhood Forum's area.

It will give "local residents more say in the detailed planning for what is due to become a major east/west pedestrian and cycle link when the planned new subway from the Imperial West site to Latimer Road is built," it said.

On the Hammersmith and Fulham side of the boundary, responses to the proposals for the Forum were much more mixed.  There are residents strongly in favour, and others who have signed up to a common response which opposes the Eynham triangle being included in the Forum area.

The two councils are expected to make a formal decision on the application this month.