The Battersea Society objects to this application. As we set out in detail below with regard to the Mendip/Chatfield Road pathway and the garden alongside it, both the current situation and the changes proposed in the application are in conflict with the policies relating to the riverside set out both in the current Local Plan and in the new draft Local Plan; and they are wholly unacceptable. We strongly support the Council’s policies to enhance both public access to the riverside and the volume and quality of public realm. This application seeks to do precisely the opposite.

The Battersea Society maintains its objection to these revised proposals which are proposed to be built so close to the roadway along both Nine Elms and Ponton Road as to leave inadequate space for drop off, servicing and essential parking.  This will be to the considerable detriment of traffic flow along both Nine Elms and Ponton Road, the latter a key route to other buildings along Nine Elms, to the US Embassy and to Waitrose.  Adding trees along the centre of this busy side road will merely exacerbate the problem.

The Battersea Society objects most strongly to the application for a building which is an unneighbourly over-development of the site, to the detriment of views from the Battersea Park, Latchmere Estate and Shaftesbury Park Estate conservation areas and which fails to provide long-term housing for a variety of household sizes.

Alterations to bowls greens to create landscaped putting greens including landscaping and installation of water feature. The Battersea Society objects to this application.

The Battersea Society objects most strongly to this application.

The Battersea Society, as with previous applications for development on this site, objects strongly to this latest application.

The Battersea Society objects most strongly to a further extension of permission for this illuminated advertisement, first granted for a temporary period of three years in 2013.

The Battersea Society wishes to maintain its strong objection to this application and do not consider the revised proposals, nor the responses given to our letter of 7 September 2020, are persuasive in allaying concerns expressed by ourselves, by neighbours, by TfL and by the Design Review Panel.

The Battersea Society maintains its strong objection to plans for this plot and is disappointed that, with some exceptions, this application has not taken the opportunity to move forward from the plans approved at 2019/2293 and about which we, and the Design Review Panel, had significant concerns.

While the Battersea Society supports the aim of restoring this strategically-important building and bringing it back into mixed retail and office use we have to object to this application which fails to take account of concerns we have expressed since the start of the consultation process.

We are grateful to Thomas’s for including the Battersea Society in their consultation discussions and are largely supportive of the proposal but would like further work to be carried out to ensure that the increased number of users of the site does not have an adverse impact on residents and businesses in the surrounding area.

While the Battersea Society considers these plans to be a significant improvement over the approved scheme (2016/5422) we have a number of concerns which lead us to object to this application as it now stands.

The Battersea Society strongly objects to the part of this application which involves the destruction of the trees and planted areas surrounding the car park in front of Asda, and replacing them with a porous resin finish.

The Battersea Society Planning Committee objects strongly to this application to locate a 20m telecommunications pole and associated equipment in this highly visible location in the centre of Battersea Park which, as the Conservation Area Appraisal emphasises, is a Grade 2* listed Registered Historic Park and Garden of outstanding landscape interest.

The Battersea Society objects to this application, which proposes to create a building considerably larger than the one to which the Council refused permission in September 2017 (2017/2041).

The Battersea Society objects most strongly to this application which is an unneighbourly overdevelopment and one which would do irreparable harm to the streetscape.

The Battersea Society strongly objects to this attempt to formalise what has been constructed outside the terms of planning approval.

While there is much to commend this proposal it is clear that it is a partial and incomplete plan.