Residents and those who work in RBKC and LBHF are invited by these councils to comment on the planning applications, which encompass the proposed mansion blocks to be built on the current site of the Earls Court 1 and Earls Court 2 exhibition centres.  All comments must be in by Friday, 31st January 2014.  If you live further afield you can still comment, as long as your comments have planning merit and you can explain why if you think the plans will be detrimental to the character of the area. 

Click below for further information and where to send your comments. 

Click below to see the illustration of the buildings (in yellow) which are to be commented upon.

Click below for further information on the Earl's Court Masterplan.

The Earl's Court Area Action Group has made the following comments on the Planning Application Notification from RBKC relating to:

PP/13/07062 Redevelopment of the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre and the Lillie Road Bridge Depot

PP/13/07064 Land bound by and including 2-4 Lillie Road/348-350 Old Brompton Road / hardstanding and forecourt to the Earls Court Exhibition Centre/car park and associated accessed from Empress Place

Education/Health/Community/Culture/Leisure

The site of the current international, iconic destination location of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre will have a mere 324 square meters for education, health, community, culture and leisure in an overall site of 290,170 square metres.  It is unspecified as to what this 324 square metres will be comprised of but it is just 0.1% of the first Phase of the Earl’s Court development—about the size of a luxury penthouse.

Scale

The proposed buildings are too high, and the massing in scale is out of proportion with the surrounding areas.

Light

Light and sun-on-ground light levels range from "imperceptible" to "major adverse". In Earl's Court these very poor light levels will adversely affect many business and residential addresses in Eardley Crescent and Philbeach Gardens.

Character of the Area

The buildings are out of character with the surrounding area, out of proportion to most existing buildings and totally out of context.  This failure to integrate with the surrounding area gives an inward looking “gated community” feel that we have tried to resist in Kensington and Chelsea.

Skyline

These buildings will infill the skyline, particularly impacting the heritage site of Brompton Cemetery irrevocably changing the context of this much-needed space within our densely populated neighbourhood.

Lillie Road Canal Bridge

From the illustrative material provided it would appear that the developers have included the Lillie Road Canal Bridge (dated 1821) and become a shared space for vehicles and pedestrians. This is not their land!

Transient Overshadowing

The proposed development will have "transient overshadowing".

Pre-existing site problems

There are pre-existing problems of water pressure, sewerage and drain-off with the site.  Part of the site that the developers call Counters Creek already floods under heavy rainfall.

Enclosure

The proposed buildings are too close to existing properties causing "enclosure".

Loss of Privacy

Buildings, which have windows at the rear, will overlook existing properties.

For further information on these applications go to:

http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/PP/13/07064

http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/PP/13/07062

All comments should be sent to:

Jonathan Bore
Director of Planning

Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
The Town Hall
Hornton Street
London
W8 7NX
jonathan.bore@rbkc.gov.uk

Planning Application Notification from LBHF

Visit the website below where you will see further details and how to email/write to the relevant Planning Officer and department in LBHF:

http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/earlscourtapplication

Local residents, trade unions, London Assembly opposition parties and members of Parliament were ignored today as the TfL Finance and Policy Committee, chaired by Peter Anderson, recommended that the TfL Board approve TfL entering into a joint venture arrangement with Capital and Counties Properties PLC (Capco).  

The TfL Finance and Planning Committee disregarded calls to defer their decision to enable  greater democratic scrutiny to take place.  The TfL Board will meet on the 5th February 2014 which is before the London Assembly Transport Committee meets on the 12th March 2014. 

LONDON ASSEMBLY AND THE RMT UNION UNITED IN OPPOSITION TO TfL FPC COMMITTEE DECISION ON EARL'S COURT REDEVELOPMENT BEING MADE TODAY WITHOUT DUE DEMOCRATIC SCRUTINY

The opposition parties on the London Assembly and the RMT Union are united in requesting that the TfL Finance and Policy Committee  which meets today does not recommend that TfL enter into a joint venture arrangement with Capital and Counties Properties PLC until after the issue has been discussed in Parliament and at the London Assembly Transport Committee meeting on the 12th March 2014.

Watch the adjournment debate tabled by Andrew Slaughter MP (Labour, Hammersmith) in Westminster Hall entitled 

"Contribution of Earls Court exhibition centre to London's culture and heritage" which took place on 21st January 2014. 

Andy Slaughter MP (Labour, Hammersmith) has secured a debate entitled "Contribution of Earls Court exhibition centre

to London's culture and heritage".  This will take place on the 21st January 2014 at 4pm in Westminster Hall. 

Mr Slaughter is against the demolition of the Earl's Court exhibition centre. He has Earls Court Two in his constituency as well as the Gibbs Green estate, the West Kensington estate and the Lillie Bridge rail depot. 

The debate should be available to view at: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Live.aspx

The debate will be recorded in Hansard which is the official edited report of proceedings of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/