Thread by @AndrewJPelling

@Waddon Councillors have commented on the limited consultation on the partial review of the #Croydon Plan that sets the planning policies that guide decisions on local planning applications. I summarise these comments in the following tweets. 1/15

@waddon councillors welcome the creation of much needed new homes but have significant concerns about the Croydon Plan review and the way that it has been put together 2/15

@waddon councillors question the legal basis for including so many policies in the Plan that were not in the more open previous public consultations as it applies to #Waddon and especially Purley Way 3/15

@waddon councillors can not understand how officials are ignoring senior Labour councillors who decided in public to limit new home numbers on Purley Way to 1,500 in advance of detailed transport modelling. Instead the Plan provides for 4,000 housing units. 4/15

The current strains on transport infrastructure are already intolerable & allowing 4,000 additional homes to be built in Purley Way Transformation Area before any new or additional highway or sustainable transport capacity has to be provided would make a bad situation worse 5/15

@waddon councillors also point out that some of the proposal sites identified for housing in the Purley Way area over the short and medium term
(Appendix 7 of the Plan) are flagged as having low public transport accessibility. 6/15

[MY COMMENTARY ONLY: the weakened Labour administration has lost control of the political input on planning at #Croydon council. The most senior planning officer has made it clear that she supports tall towers on Purley Way as far as the Colonnades and that 7/15

[MY COMMENTARY ONLY: and that there is nothing that can be done to stop her. The 2022 May election needs to put in place a Mayor committed to removing this officer.] 8/15

@waddon councillors are unhappy with the housing number target at 550 and 550 A Purley Way which will pave the way for a tall building there out of proportion to the two-storey #Waddon estate 9/15

@waddon councillors are concerned as to the motivations behind the non-publication of responses to the consultation on the Purley Way Masterplan. 10/15

@waddon councillors note that @TfL already recognised the need for investment at Fiveways before the Plans for 4,000 and then over 7,000 homes were established & that the pausing in such a widely community supported scheme will be long lasting. 11/15

@waddon councillors note that traffic pressures on Purley Way are growing with plans to burn more waste at the incinerator with transport of such waste directed by Sutton council via #Croydon's Purley Way and other intensification pressures 12/15

@waddon councillors oppose a compulsory Controlled Parking Zone for Purley Way and its side streets believing that this should be a matter for public consultation in each street 13/15

@waddon councillors oppose the proposal for Purley Way residents to be forced into the use of a monopolistic energy recovery facility 14/15

It's been reported in local media that residents @ New Mill Quarter (in the London Borough of Sutton whose heating systems are supposed to be powered by the Beddington DEN) have experienced numerous heating & hot water outages & above-average energy prices & can't switch 15/15