Morden Tavern
Please oppose the proposed redevelopment of Morden
Tavern
They
wish to build:
- Sixteen flats
- Ten three bedroom houses and one four bedroom house.
- Two shop units.
- Five flats in the top of the Pub
This will have implications for all those who live near to the Morden Tavern site.
http://planning.merton.gov.uk/MVM/Online/PL/ApplicationSearch.aspx
You have until 22nd June raise concerns
with the planning office
WE NEED
YOUR LETTERS
Please write to the planning office – the more letters
they receive the less likely it will be approved
Councils now have more power to reject this
development.
Anyone from anywhere in the world can write in to
complain.
Send letters to Jonathan
Lewis, with copies to Tony Ryan, Planning Dept. Civic Centre, Morden, SM4 5DX.
See over for reasons to say
NO!
Here are some reasons to say no. You
may have some of your own. Please use all of them in your letter
- The
development is directly opposite a primary school entrance. The
development will lead to an increase in traffic and on road parking. This
cannot be in the interest of safety for parents and children coming to and
from school.
- Willows
residents and the proposed development at Morden Tavern will be excluded
from using the CPZ. This means any surplus cars from these new
developments will have to be parked in areas of the estate not currently
covered by a CPZ. Lack of off road parking provision will lead to
increases in pressure on existing parking areas especially in evenings and
weekends. At present weekend and evening parking ‘overflows’ bays on to
single yellow line areas of the roads. The changes shortly to be made of
the CPZ with all single yellows to become double will exasperate the
current problems with parking leading to ‘street conflict’. Many more
residents will pave over their front gardens to makes private parking
provision, reducing bay area’s even more and fundamentally changing the
look and feel of the street and neighbourhood.
- Style and
design of proposed houses do not match existing housing for the street.
They will tower over the rest of the street looking completely out of
place with roof heights one whole storey above the existing street.
- Height of
houses will cause ‘shadow’ during late afternoons and evenings on to gardens
of houses.
- High
raised flats proposed for Central Road will be mean flat residents can
look directly down and into existing housing causing a sever loss of
privacy currently enjoyed by these homes.
- Flats on
central road will be one and half storeys above the existing housing on
that side of Central road.
- Currently
soft landscape of pub garden (trees) absorb noise from the pub. The ‘hard’
surfaces of the proposed housing and flats, removal of trees will cause
sound to rebound (echo) significantly around the existing housing causing
noise and disturbance from the pub to become a nuisance.
- The
occupation density of the plans is significantly greater than that of the
current surrounding streets. The plans are more fitting a central urban
development than a residential neighbourhood.
- It is hard
to see how the pub could continue to operate given the close proximity of
the proposed housing. The pub is an important part of the local community
and enjoys much support. It would be sad to see such a facility disappear
as it would destroy the community cohesion of the area. There is also a
danger after this that the ‘retail space’ remains empty and the car park
etc becomes dilapidated.
- The
application to have the pub use changed from A1 to A4 should be denied to
prevent future changes of use to this property away from a licensed
premises. This if granted opens up the danger of large commercial
supermarkets moving in and opening up ‘express style’ stores. This could
force local shops to close, leaving them empty and derelict, costing the
community jobs. It also goes against the original covenant for the estate
which guarantees a pub premises. This is the only pub left so any change
to allow other uses apart from A4 would be a breach of the original
covenant.
- If the development
goes ahead as proposed it will have a significant negative impact on
property values in the area and a lowering of the overall quality of life
enjoyed currently by residents.
- There are
bats roosting in the outbuildings on the site as well as in the main
building. A full Bat survey is required and plans need to protect all
existing bat roosts. The proposed plans would destroy the bat roosts
completely.
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The development
proposal seems designed to maximise the prophets of the developers at the
expense of the local community. Although refurbishment and enhancement of the
pub area is desirable it should not come at the expense of a hitherto quiet and
relaxed suburban neighbourhood.
Development of the pub garden area would not be of benefit to anyone in
the community except the developer and force the eventually closure of the pub.
