For one night only …
We are (we hope) approaching the end of the struggle to keep Kempton Park green. It’s been nine years, can you believe it, since we first found out about The Jockey Club’s plans to put thousands of houses on the Kempton Park estate.
Defences against these crass plans for blight-ing development will, we hope, be made much, much stronger if Spelthorne Council can get its new Local Plan approved by a Planning Inspector at an Examination in Pub-lic. Not that it will be plain sailing from here – there are still some Councillors determined to delay things, and the politics of the Council are currently very unstable – but the last step before the Ex-amination in Public is what is called the Regulation 19 Consulta-tion, where we will all get our say on the proposed new Local Plan.
As the Local Plan currently stands, Spelthorne’s Green Belt will get the best protection it is possible to get, given the constraints passed down from Whitehall in the form of greatly increased housing tar-gets, which will affect the whole of England, and do not look like being reversed.
From Regulation 19 and onwards, this whole exercise becomes in-tensely legal, and KKG will have to retain the services of a QC to represent us. You have all contrib-uted most generously before to our Fighting Fund. Our QC has not charged us very much so far, but he can’t be expected to work for nothing. So we need to increase the funds we have available. It is vitally important that we can call on his expertise – planning hear-ings are notoriously complex.
So we hope you’ll join us, for one night only, to enjoy JOGLARESA!
By kind permission of Father Andrew, JOGLARESA will be performing at St Mary’s Church in Sunbury on Friday 29 April, performance starting at 7:00 pm. Cash/cheques are £20 at the door (Concessions £18); advanced sales £18 (Concessions £15). Please contact us on keepkempton-green@hotmail.co.uk for details of how to book in advance.
Boy, are you in for a treat!