Park Road Allotments
Last year Northumberland Estates filed a planning application to build 127 homes on the Allotments at Park Road. Hounslow Planning Committee rejected the proposals for the development despite the Council’s planning officers recommending approval.Northumberland Estates have filed an appeal with the planning inspectorate. The Isleworth society has been granted Rule 6 status for the purposes of the hearing and will take the lead on opposing the application with the aid of barrister representation.Hounslow Liberal Democrats were collecting signatures for a petition opposing the development last weekend at a farmers and gardeners market in South Street, Isleworth.The Libdem petition calls on Hounslow Council to comply with its statutory obligation to provide adequate allotment plots in the borough and to this end, to investigate the feasibility of an application for compulsory hiring of the Park Road Allotment Gardens Isleworth, in accordance with the provisions of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908.Charles Rees, a retired Barrister and Liberal Democrat candidate for Homefields Ward in Chiswick said “Hounslow Council have the power if they wish to exercise it under s.39 of the 1908 Act together with Schedule Part II of the 1908 Act, Provisions for Compulsory Hiring of Land by Councils. These parts of the 1908 Act are still extant. Hounslow Council is a competent authority to exercise these powers under the Act by virtue of being a borough council. The Smallholdings Allotment (compulsory Hiring) Regulations 1936 also apply; they deal with the procedures involved in a Council compulsorily hiring the land for allotments.”The Petition is available online at https://hounslowlibdems.org.uk/en/petition/park-road-allotments-petition Please do support this community wide campaign to preserve the allotments
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