Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Soap opera on a planning page
Over on another thread, Alistair M asks for support in objecting to a planning application for an all-night pharmacy in the Laurels Health Centre by Chestnuts Park.
I must say, I've never before come across what amounts to a conversation (and quite a heated one at that) being conducted through submissions to a planning application. It seems that the main upset in that conversation is the applicant's submission of letters apparently in support of the application, including one from the local vicar. A number of later submissions (work up from Consultation Response 37) express anger since these letters refer to a proposal for a 37 hour a week operation made a year ago, rather then the 100 hour one currently on the table.
Soap opera on a planning page.
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Permalink Reply by 0nt5yp988rwbo on
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Thanks Hugh. Yes - unfortunately the applicant seems to have tried something incredibly sneaky by posting letters of support for their previous application for a 37 hour pharmacy dating a whole year ago (which nobody had a problem with, although I should add that we were STILL never consulted even for that) on this planning application, to make it look like they have support for this 100 hour enhanced services pharmacy, which they absolutely do not.
Haringey Planning wouldn't take it down, despite it having nothing to do with this planning application, so we have had to come and post again to point out that it shouldn't be there - a discussion which, as you point out, isn't what the site was designed for! It really seems as if the Bridge Renewal Trust will stop at nothing to try and force this through.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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It's not really competition for HoL. Yet.
But it's well worth the effort of opening a few of the Consultation Responses. If only to see a textbook example of how not to win friends and influence local residents, by an organisation which aims: "To represent the voices of our communities . . ." (Source)
Of course, if lots of Planning Applications get as lively and contentious as this one, I expect they'll be blocked by the Council's webquisition software.
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Permalink Reply by Zena Brabazon on
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Hi Hugh
You are right - the argument about this issue is being conducted through the planning application. That's because the pharmacy needs the 'secure hatch' to dispense prescriptions out of hours and it is a change of use. This is a really serious issue for local residents, and especially those in Turner's Court. It is good to see so many people having their say in public. And it isn't just the issue of the pharmacy - the other, and to my mind key issue here, is about the Bridge Renewal Trust's accountability to the local people who have to live with the consequences of this proposal, and who in the end are providing the public funds for the project.
Zena Brabazon
Councillor, St. Ann's Ward
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