Public Hearing - 1st August
NEW DEADLINE 10th July 2012
The St Helier Pub Group and The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) submited over 1,100 letters of objection to the planning appeal by Reef Estates to build shops and flats on the Morden Tavern. As a result of this huge response by the St Helier and Merton community the Planning Inspectorate has
agreed to hold a public hearing in to the Morden Tavern affair here in Morden on:

Wednesday 1st August 2012


Letters have been circulated by Merton Council advising of the pending hearing and giving a further
extension for anyone to register their objections until 10th July 2012. This is a great success on the
path to saving the last public house on our estate and enables residents to have their voice heard.
Please keep writing!
Anyone can register their objection to the plans, please go directly to the Planning Inspectorate comments page quoting Planning Appeal APP/T5720/A/12/2172973 in the subject line:
http://www.pcs.planningportal.gov.uk/pcsportal/ViewCase.asp?caseid=2172973&coid=2162696
Click on the ‘Comment on this case’ link at the bottom (not the LPA one)

In the new form that opens select ‘Interested party / person’ from the drop down list.
A written representation could include:
 that Morden needs a pub;
 the planned buildings are too dense and high
 the plans will compromise a locally listed building removing its important setting
 there has been a lack of consultation with the community by all parties
 contravenes local and national planning policies
 what the closure of St Helier's last pub has meant for you;
 how important it is for St Helier's sense of community that it retains a public house;
 this would be a community hub / social centre

It does not need to be overly long, but the Inspectorate will consider each one in its deliberations. We need to get over how strongly residents feel about this and that having a pub is core to St Helier's sense of community.


The SHPG is visiting households in St Helier both to explain the aims of our campaign and to facilitate residents’ objections to the planning application. So far we have visited over 1,000 homes.

We have been delighted at the overwhelmingly positive response from residents to the campaign.
We will continue to make these visits up to the 10th July 2012 deadline. We welcome the
ideas and comments made by the St Helier residents and your eagerness to support the campaign.
Without the support, of the St Helier Community, this campaign would have failed. You should
be proud of the fight you are putting up and developers will no longer look at St Helier as a ‘soft
target’.


The St Helier Pub Group
Formerly The Campaign for the Morden Tavern June 2012