A quick drive around the Sunbury/Hampton areas at lunch time and the count is 64 CCTV cameras, plus another half-dozen at Hampton Court Bridge. The company whose cameras these are were phoned, but refused to say who they were working for. Who are these Nosy Parkers? The Nosy Kempton Parkers?
Yet another one from the Peeping Toms at The Jockey Club on the Lower Sunbury Road near the Cricket Club.
Not content with traffic-counter cables all over the place and air quality diffusion tubes equally omni-present, today this CCTV camera was erected near the entrance to Kempton Park on Staines Road East. It is filming traffic in both directions. All courtesy of The Jockey Club’s BB Productions Unit … aka Mouchel.
TRAFFIC MONITORING CABLES
Those Jockey Club car-counter cables are back – 23 pairs of them in and around Sunbury.
They tried doing this once before, earlier in the summer, but had to give up because it took them some time to notice that almost every street they were counting cars on had road-works and temporary traffic lights on it .
They might even get it right this time.
And while they’re counting cars, they’re still sniffing the air.
AIR QUALITY DIFFUSION TUBES
Dear Neighbour
Two days later, and the donations so generously given so far have reduced the target from £1200 to £750.
Many thanks, and keep them coming.
LOSRA (the Lower Sunbury Residents Association) have kindly offered to receive and account for donations to this campaign. LOSRA have been around for more than 40 years, and have impeccable credentials with regard to accountability and reliability.
Electronic methods for donations will be set up shortly. In the mean time, if you would like to donate by cheque, please make your cheque out to LOSRA and send it to:
20 Green Street, Sunbury, TW16 6RN
As you would expect, the identity of all donors will be kept confidential.
Yours gratefully
Keep Kempton Green
What started off as a campaign against 1500 dwellings at Kempton Park has now become something much bigger – a campaign against 8000 dwellings in the Borough of Spelthorne which could come about as a result of the review of our Local Plan.
If this revision of our Local Plan goes through unchecked, it will affect all parts of this Borough – permanently and for the worse.
Unfortunately, it has come to the point when we will have to engage solicitors in order to continue this fight .
So far all the considerable work involved has been contributed by individuals in their spare time. But there are some things, with the best will in the world, that they can’t do.
It really says something about the state of local democracy when residents – not for the first time – are forced into this kind of dispute with their own Council. We wish it wasn’t so. But, more’s the pity, it is.
LOSRA (the Lower Sunbury Residents Association) have kindly offered to receive and account for donations to this campaign. LOSRA have been around for more than 40 years, and have impeccable credentials with regard to accountability and reliability.
If you would like to donate to the cause using PayPal, please click here . This will take you straight through to the LOSRA website’s home page. Scroll down and click on the button on the right: “Donate to the Keep Kempton Green Fund“.
If you would like to donate by cheque, please make your cheque payable to LOSRA and send it to:
20 Green Street, Sunbury, TW16 6RN
Alternatively, donations can be deposited directly into the LOSRA bank account set up for this purpose:
Barclays Bank
Account name: LOSRA
Sort Code: 20-46-73
Account number: 8341 3934
As you would expect, the identity of all donors will be kept confidential.
Kind regards, and thank you very much in advance for your generosity.
Keep Kempton Green
To put it in context, here is what Spelthorne Council are proposing to do:
Current housing target = 166 dwellings p.a. = 3320 dwellings over 20 years
Proposed minimum housing target = 400 dwellings p.a. = 8000 dwellings over 20 years
Difference = an extra 234 dwellings p.a. = an extra 4680 dwellings over 20 years
Number of households (dwellings) in Spelthorne (2001 & 2011 Censuses)
38400 (2001)
39500 (2011) an extra 1100 dwellings (+2.9%) in 10 years
Growth over 20 years @ 166 dwellings p.a.
+8.4% over 20 years
Growth over 20 years @234 dwellings p.a. extra
+11.8% extra over 20 years
Where are they going to put all these people?
Where are they going to put the extra health centres?
Where are they going to put the extra schools?
How far into the local roads will the extra traffic tail back?
As we thought, but sooner than we thought, Spelthorne will start to “review” our Local Plan at a meeting of the Local Plan Working Party on 3 September.
The Local Plan Working Party comprises a cross-party group of nine councillors, plus the Head of Planning, John Brooks. The meetings of the Local Plan Working Party are not open to the public.
This is totally unacceptable. This is a matter far too important to be left to the senior politicians and officials who have – to put it mildly – been less than transparent about this whole issue of the development of Green Belt land at Kempton Park.
There needs to be full and direct residents’ representation on this Working Party, or a pre-determined result will be steamrollered over us.
A month ago it was traffic monitors. Now Mouchel are testing the air. These two gentlefolk were spotted by an eagle-eyed resident last evening placing an air-quality monitoring device on a lamp post at the junction of Staines Road East and Kenton Avenue.
They didn’t really have to bother – anyone who travels or lives along that road could tell them for free that the air quality is bad, very bad. But I suppose they have to know how exactly how bad it is, so they can calculate how much worse it will be with an extra 3000 cars added to the traffic round here. Especially since Spelthorne Council decommissioned their much more sophisticated air quality monitor at Sunbury Cross recently.
Mouchel are fully entitled to do this, of course. So why were they so coy about it? The man in the brown T-shirt removed his hi-vis jacket (with the word Mouchel across the back) when he saw he had been noticed. And Mouchel are a big company – surely they could run to giving their monitor-placers a step-ladder?
There are almost certainly more of these about. Have you seen any?
Please send photographs to keepkemptongreen@hotmail.co.uk together with the location where you found them. It’s important that we know.
Keep Kempton Green 