The application to demolish residential houses at 36, 38, and 40 London Road and 2 Latimer Road and erect 167 student study rooms etc and 4 maisonettes was refused by East Area Planning Committee this evening on grounds associated with planning policies CP1, CP8. CP12 and CS18

We now wait to see if this application will be called in to the Planning Review Committee which would need the support of 12 councillors

The next scheduled meeting of the Planning Review Committee is 23/12/15 at 6.00pm at the Town Hall

The applicant has agreed to include funding for a parking barrier in Latimer Grange subject to agreement with Hastoe.