Following concern about confusion over the closing date for comments on the planning applications for the Willesden Green Library redevelopment I received this clarification from Andy Bates, the planning officer concerned:
I am writing to confirm that the applications will be advertised in the same way as the earlier submissions (press and site notices) and, as a result, the 21 day consultation period will always expire 21 days after the last consultation takes place. In this case, this is likely to be the press notice. My Colleagues in Planning Technical support tell me that this Notice is likely to appear at the end of this week, so the period you are querying will be 21 days from then.The intention would be to get to the planning applications to the earliest Planning Committee that would be in a position to consider the proposals. I would imagine that this would be likely to be in January/February 2013.
This makes it later than the two earlier deadlines given of November 28th and 29th.
However, I have written back to say that as the plans are not all up on the planning portal that the 21 days should count only from when they are all available or when the press notice has been published, whichever is the later. Clearly it is impossible to comment on something you can't see and residents can't comment if they don't know about the planning application.
The plans have begun to me uploaded but may take several more days. 12/2924 is available HERE and 12/2925 HERE
There is still no word on the progress of the Town Square application.
They do not seem to update the comments on the application in real time I placed a comment Planning Consultation - Ref. 1326223 on the 13th
ReplyDeleteand still says there has only been one comment made against it?