Brentford’s Very Own Lubyanka

At the Hounslow Council Sustainable Development Committee held on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 the planning application by St George for the land at Kew Bridge was inexplicably approved.

Given that on the last occasion this application was before the SDC the consensus was to reject the application and only at the last minute was the decision deferred, and that no significant changes were made to the application which still fails to satisfy Hounslow’s own planning guidelines, how is it possible for approval to be given?

St George seem to have known the decision was going their way – they started works reinforcing the boundary fence several weeks ago.

Anyone care to spill the beans on what has been going on behind the scenes?