KKG – Document 5 KKG – Document 8

Dear Neighbour

1. The more we dig, the bigger the size of the development at Kempton Park gets.

First we thought it was plus or minus 1000 units. Then that rose to 1000 to 1500 (see KKG Document 1 circulated previously).

And now we find an internal Surrey Highways email referring to 1500 to 2000 dwellings.  (see attached KKG Document 8).

How big is this thing? And why haven’t we been told?

2. KKG Document 5 (also attached) shows the developer’s time-table for this project. The Feasibility Study should have reported by late last year. What does it recommend – proceed or abandon? Why haven’t we been told?

But note, especially, the first bullet point:

“Spelthorne Borough – scheduled 2014 update of Housing Evidence Base likely to set higher residential targets.”

Two thoughts spring immediately to mind:

a. Why is Spelthorne even considering setting higher residential targets?

Under the current local plan, they have a target – for the Borough as a whole – of 166 units per year. They have been exceeding this target consistently since the latest local plan was accepted (as they did for the duration of the previous local plan).

And;

b. Why do we have to find this out from a developer’s Power Point slide?

What is it about the Borough that they tell a developer about plans for higher residential building targets before they tell their own Council Taxpayers? And before it has even been discussed, or consulted upon, or voted on by the Council?

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Yours

Keep Kempton Green

KKG – Document 6 KKG – Document 1

Dear Neighbour

Attached (KKG Document 1) are the draft minutes of a meeting prepared by Mouchel (consultant traffic engineers to The Jockey Club) in connection with the Feasibility Study for the residential/non-residential development being mooted for Kempton Park Racecourse. Also attached is a map (KKG  Document 6) showing the site being planned for development.

It had previously been thought that the proposed housing development would be +/- 1000 dwellings. These minutes, however, show that the development could be as much as, if not more than, 50% bigger than that. That would imply an extra 3000 cars added to the local road network, which is already very often overburdened with traffic. Some representatives of Spelthorne Council have said that any development would be confined to an area near Kempton Park Station and on a narrow strip bordering the A308. The map shows that this is not the case, and that a very much bigger area of land is being considered, on designated Green Belt land.

There are other non-residential elements to the proposed plans, including a supermarket from a well-known national chain. However, a suggestion from one Spelthorne Councillor (who serves on the Planning Committee) that a hotel should also be built has apparently not been met with any enthusiasm from the hotel industry.

The minutes relate to a meeting held on 2 July 2013. The map is dated May 2013. The concept plan for Sunbury Cross Roundabout (sent to you previously) is dated September 2013.

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More to follow in due course over coming weeks.

Yours

Keep Kempton Green

KKG – Document 2 KKG – Document 3 KKG – Document 4

Dear Neighbour

Attached is a concept “Do Something” plan for Sunbury Cross Roundabout (KKG Document 2), prepared by Mouchel (consultant traffic engineers to The Jockey Club) in connection with the Feasibility Study for the residential/non-residential development being mooted for Kempton Park Racecourse.

Changes to the Roundabout would be needed to try and offset the increased traffic along the A308 generated by the cars owned by the residents of the housing estate at Kempton Park. The size of the residential part of the development could be as large as 1500 houses. That means up to 3000 extra cars added to the already overburdened local transport network, particularly the A308.

The current traffic problems along the A308, of course, are not only in the direction of Sunbury Cross. The already overburdened  A308 in the direction of Hampton Court would also be further stressed. It would be interesting to see Mouchel’s concept plan for solving that problem …

The plan is dated Sep 2013.  As the notes at bottom left say, a more detailed plan is to be drawn up on a topographical, rather than OS, basis.