Redbridge enforcement officers have stopped construction work on Evergreen Field until planning conditions have been met.
As we reported earlier this month the site was cleared of undergrowth and some trees were removed before the blue hoardings were installed. It is believed a complaint from a member of the public led to the council’s enforcement action.
After years of controversy, a plan was approved last year to build 24 flats on the site.
A council spokesperson told Wansteadium: “Our Planning Enforcement Team has visited the site and spoken with the developers. We requested that all works cease until the planning conditions have been approved. We remain in dialogue with the developer to ensure this remains the case.”
The original planning permission had 41 conditions attached, including one relating to an “arboricultural method statement” which would detail the protection of trees that are to be retained. It is believed that the complaint related to trees on the site, some of which are Holm Oak, an evergreen strain which is said to have given the site its name.
The developer has applied to remove of the conditions relating to how the construction work takes place, including parking, dust and air quality, safe pedestrian access and minimising the effect on the local environment. Their suggested plan covers similar ground and has an assurance that “the contractor will liaise closely with the neighbours, local residents and the Local Authority throughout the works in order to ensure that the works cause no disruption and that the appropriate consultations take place”.
What does the sentence below mean? They applied to have one of the conditions *what* ? To have it amended? To have it removed?
“The developer has applied to have one of the conditions relating to how the construction work takes place, including parking, dust and air quality, safe pedestrian access and minimising the effect on the local environment.”
I see you’ve changed it, to “has applied to remove of”.
Is that to remove all of? To remove three of?
I thought that sentence odd as well.
I’m not sure if this current plan included the Nursery which I mentioned in a previous E Mail would cause extreme traffic problems as the only access would be from the high street and also the exit of parents dropping of young children at an already busy time of school runs and people going to work.Also I know one of the trees on the site was a rare mulberry tree , not sure if that was one of the many cleared away.I would be grateful for answers as an resident in Wanstead since 1972 I have heard of so many ideas for this land many preferably to yet more flats with no thought about the pressures on services such as Doctors surgery’s etc. I await your comments.
When a developer promises to liaise closely with the community…. just forget it. Either put enforceable requirements on them or don’t bother.