tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post2583338224069915526..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: EXCLUSIVE: Locals Object to Blairs' New Home Planning ApplicationIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-91032414074339614372007-04-25T00:32:00.000+01:002007-04-25T00:32:00.000+01:00So tell me; since when have CCTV Cameras been a de...So tell me; since when have CCTV Cameras been a deterent to suicide bombers then?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-6591638653693729692007-04-24T09:22:00.000+01:002007-04-24T09:22:00.000+01:00There is are serious issue here that has been touc...There is are serious issue here that has been touched on by a prevous post.<BR/>1 The integration of 2 houses into one.<BR/>2. The size of the house and the possible use of it by the Blair Foundation and the police would mean that this application could have been incorrctly submitted. At the very least there should be a planning condition that the house should only be used as a residence and no commercial work or trade be allowed to be carried out within it. <BR/>The fact that there is a requirement for CCTV would indicate that someone will be monitoring them. This leads me to question whether this application was properly submitted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-28187992970860190772007-04-23T23:13:00.000+01:002007-04-23T23:13:00.000+01:00"Given that planning applications and consultation..."Given that planning applications and consultation responses are meant to be available to the public on the Council website (but in this case do not appear to be)can someone explain under what law or regulation they have been censored, if they have been? I can understand why detailed floor plans should not be public but has someone been over-zealous?"<BR/><BR/>Gotta agree. The papers should really identify the Para of the Local Government Act (as amended) that allows the information to be exempt from publication? <BR/>I don't remember the exemption "because its tony"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-12749971983971279842007-04-23T22:48:00.000+01:002007-04-23T22:48:00.000+01:00Iain, shouldn't you get a piccy to go with this po...Iain, shouldn't you get a piccy to go with this post ? After all, this story is now on the 'front page' of the Guardian's website !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-27757263767737018802007-04-23T20:24:00.000+01:002007-04-23T20:24:00.000+01:00The planning committee can always reject the case ...The planning committee can always reject the case officer's recommendation (fingers crossed). Alas, there is no third party right of appeal! As pointed out, the neighbours should scrutinise the conditions of the permission (if granted) and contact the council if they are infringed, to start enforcement action (that would the Wicked Witch bleating about her "yooman rights")<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, Levy would have been asked some awkward questions about a change of use from residential to business use if his flat hadn't "caught fire".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-44384758723157351842007-04-23T18:30:00.000+01:002007-04-23T18:30:00.000+01:00Given that planning applications and consultation ...Given that planning applications and consultation responses are meant to be available to the public on the Council website (but in this case do not appear to be)can someone explain under what law or regulation they have been censored, if they have been? I can understand why detailed floor plans should not be public but has someone been over-zealous?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-88713942808368096132007-04-23T17:53:00.000+01:002007-04-23T17:53:00.000+01:00anon 3:40Not only do I live in westminster , I als...anon 3:40<BR/>Not only do I live in westminster , I also have experience of their planning policies having tried for permission to put up a three storey house.<BR/>They are wankers and start out with the point of view that the decision will be turned down , typical clueless civil aervant arseholes.<BR/>They dont even have to refer you to the planning commitee , thay can just turn you down.<BR/>Iain if you know anybody on the planning commitee who could help, theres a drink in it for you! (+;<BR/><BR/>(will a bag of sand do?)The Hitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007793676288933155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-65965913967972280342007-04-23T15:40:00.000+01:002007-04-23T15:40:00.000+01:00I have just looked at Westminster Development Plan...I have just looked at Westminster Development Plan and would like to amend my post at 3.02. <BR/>The planning application is contentious. It is contrary to Policy H1 of the plan. “Preventing the loss of housing”… Inter alia…planning permission will not be granted if the proposal results in a loss of housing both in terms of dwellings and floorspace. <BR/>Well the proposal will result in 1 dwelling not 2 and it looks like it envisages a loss of accommodation in floorspace terms. It is also fairly certain that parts of the building will be used as offices or to house security staff. <BR/>This policy is to encourage family life in Central London. Incorporating a family mews house into a large family house to make it into a house of ambassadorial proportions is hardly in pursuit of that goal.<BR/>The planning process is now "Plan-led" which means that great weight is given to what it actually says in the Plan as opposed to other possibly relevant criteria - this gives everyone a degree of certainty, so the neighbours who relied on this policy to keep the area as family friendly when they bought are right to object.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81375658436439583582007-04-23T15:38:00.000+01:002007-04-23T15:38:00.000+01:00All this money and bother to protect Ceaucescu and...All this money and bother to protect Ceaucescu and Elena. Why can't they take their chances, like everyone else?<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, if there is a balcony on the first floor, that might be a nice place for them to emerge onto to wave at their adoring public ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14003507615892695262007-04-23T15:33:00.000+01:002007-04-23T15:33:00.000+01:00Visionary decision of Blairs to live right alongsi...Visionary decision of Blairs to live right alongside the biggest concentration in London of Muslims from the Middle East. Perhaps a marauding terrorist will disguise himself as an Englishman. Wait for the closing of that side of the square to all traffic, registration of all neighbours with the police etc. Is that why he wanted identity cards?<BR/><BR/>Or maybe it's just a bit of speculative property development before sale, as they have now realised what a daft idea it always was to live there?<BR/><BR/>Alternatively maybe he could do a deal with Ted Heath's estate and put his stuff from Salisbury in there, along with some of his own, in return for the use of the house in Salisbury? "The Museum of Failed PMs" has a certain ring does it not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18839255096628064402007-04-23T15:20:00.000+01:002007-04-23T15:20:00.000+01:00The trees in large sqaure pots in the front of the...The trees in large sqaure pots in the front of the mews, likely conceal steel bollards to prevent vehicle ramming attacks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-88370150721962603802007-04-23T15:02:00.000+01:002007-04-23T15:02:00.000+01:00The interesting thing is not the planning applicat...The interesting thing is not the planning application which is not very contentious, but the listed building consent. Local residents might like to keep a very careful watch on works, eg do they seem to have commenced before permission has been granted (looks like it to me) and do the works absolutely follow the terms of the consent. Since absolutely everything down to the last plug hole is protected in a listed building (barmy law - I think courtesy of the Conservatives) most building works are almost impossible to carry out without infringing the law.<BR/>Breach of listed building consent is a criminal offence. <BR/>Keep watchingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80642846295137945702007-04-23T14:11:00.000+01:002007-04-23T14:11:00.000+01:00When the commotion outside of the house where Pino...When the commotion outside of the house where Pinochet was held under house arrest, and its determined every day presence is recalled, then the residence of another considered by many to be a war criminal is likely to be just as much a target, and the neighbours will suffer in the same way. <BR/><BR/>The Blairs cannot possibly think of living there; I know it's Bayswater but it really isn't fair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-49032027918534220562007-04-23T13:46:00.000+01:002007-04-23T13:46:00.000+01:00If peter fondlebum managed to bilk the tax payer o...If peter fondlebum managed to bilk the tax payer out of £150k to provide "security" for a relatively modest flat several years ago, just imagine how much the Mersey tunnel will be trying to fiddle.The Hitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007793676288933155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38147572276712130822007-04-23T13:45:00.000+01:002007-04-23T13:45:00.000+01:00"...the Blairs will be a sitting target in this ho..."...the Blairs will be a sitting target in this house."<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, you have to look on the bright side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-91795994900935029442007-04-23T13:41:00.000+01:002007-04-23T13:41:00.000+01:00"I can understand if his neighbours do not want wh..."I can understand if his neighbours do not want what may be considered a war-criminal and a terrorist target living next door to them."<BR/><BR/>More to the point, Bayswater is the preferred workplace of about 20,000 whores. I shouldn't imagine they appreciate the tone of the neighbourhood being lowered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-39997239502584584472007-04-23T13:35:00.000+01:002007-04-23T13:35:00.000+01:00Well if Ribble Valley Tories refused repeated appl...Well if Ribble Valley Tories refused repeated applications for a mosque on the gounds that the people who would use it are brown (as reported in the New York Times before any British national papers), I suppose these Tories could refuse Blair on the grounds that they don't like him.<BR/><BR/>Why do your job impartially and properly when you can persue personal prejudices and vendettas instead?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-59309967400609248052007-04-23T12:37:00.000+01:002007-04-23T12:37:00.000+01:00It qualifies as bona fide news to me - well done I...It qualifies as bona fide news to me - well done Iain for getting this.antifrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211299136528160895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-60896378838406937542007-04-23T12:28:00.000+01:002007-04-23T12:28:00.000+01:00Tony Blair may think CCTV is some sort of magic wa...Tony Blair may think CCTV is some sort of magic wand that has made Britain safer, while assualts have quadrupled under his premiership, but the Blairs will be a sitting target in this house. <BR/><BR/>Any amount of CCTV will not stop a missle launched through a window or a truck filled with explosives driven at speed into the house or a determined assassin. Somehow the Blairs will have to leave and enter this house. At any time they could be targetted. <BR/><BR/>Clearly, given Tony Blair's history and the level of anger over his association with Bush and the Iraq war, it is not sensible for the Blairs to think they can live in a house like this that is so exposed and unprotected. Despite their millions, they will never be able to live like the rest of us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-87789935970494764202007-04-23T12:18:00.000+01:002007-04-23T12:18:00.000+01:00Terminate their plans with extreme prejudice ! Yay...Terminate their plans with extreme prejudice ! Yay !¬Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-19046037838037455502007-04-23T11:23:00.000+01:002007-04-23T11:23:00.000+01:00Objections have been raised to the CCTV equipment....Objections have been raised to the CCTV equipment. The proposed cameras are discreet in size, design and colour and so should not be obtrusive. (Iain)<BR/><BR/>If this is a security measure and it's to be anything like the ugly, - security equipment festooned, corporation green painted, high security fenced - police station that's been set up in two houses a few doors away from the government minister who is my MP, I don't blame local people for objecting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-87635898713849761622007-04-23T11:02:00.000+01:002007-04-23T11:02:00.000+01:00A key issue here is who is paying for the renovati...A key issue here is who is paying for the renovation of this house. If this is to involve yet more taxpayer funded security for the Blairs then the nature of the work and the cost should be very closely scrutinised. <BR/><BR/>Will the cost of any security measures installed in this and other properties the Blairs own be refunded to the taxpayer on the sale of the properties?<BR/><BR/>This is also raises of what the future security burden of Mr & Mrs Blair and family on the taxpayer will be once Blair is no longer Prime Minister and how this compares with the security costs other former Prime Ministers and their families.<BR/><BR/>Auntie Flo'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1558755270142807872007-04-23T10:51:00.000+01:002007-04-23T10:51:00.000+01:00Paul Bergin: "former Prime Ministers are still con...Paul Bergin: "former Prime Ministers are still considered terrorist targets until the day they die..."<BR/><BR/>Tony Blair is widely hated for helping Bush to bomb Iraq unlike any other PM. He is far more of a target than any other ex-PM. I don't recall effigies of previous PMs burnt by angry crowds in the middle East and chanting wishing he was dead. <BR/><BR/>This house is totally unsuitable, being virtually right on the street with properties adjoining. There is no protection at all.<BR/><BR/>I can understand if his neighbours do not want what may be considered a war-criminal and a terrorist target living next door to them. <BR/><BR/>The Blairs should live in a fortress away from others. They will always be a liability and a security threat. Blair sent boys and girls to sacrifice their lives and Iraqi lives. It is time he made his own small sacrifices and it is time he thought for once about other people instead of himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-87831690317283492902007-04-23T10:48:00.000+01:002007-04-23T10:48:00.000+01:00Anonymous, not true as far as I know. The people w...Anonymous, not true as far as I know. The people who put it up put it slightly in the wrong place and it had to be moved. But he had indeed applied for and been granted planning permission. <BR/><BR/>Another New Labour astroturfer dealt with...Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-79901738029422068002007-04-23T10:46:00.000+01:002007-04-23T10:46:00.000+01:00Did I miss your post on Cameron having to take his...Did I miss your post on Cameron having to take his wind turbine down because he didn't apply for planning?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com