Labour-run Camden Council’s plans to build an 11 storey tower block at Liddell Road will be voted on by Camden’s Planning Committee on 3rd March 2015. Camden’s Planning Officer has recommended that the plans are approved.
Your local conservative team has been campaigning against the scheme since it was first put forward. We will be urging Camden’s Planning Committee to reject the plans:
1. Camden has failed to justify why has chosen to fund the school expansion by building the tower, rather than using the £6.7 million that the government has provided to fund the school.
2. The proposals will result in the loss of local businesses from the site. We should be protecting local businesses rather than forcing them out of the area.
3. The 11 storey tower block will set a precedent for high rise towers across West Hampstead in the future.
We hope that Labour councillors on the Planning Committee put local people ahead of politics, accept that the scheme should be funded through the Government’s £6.7m grant, and vote against this badly thought out, politically motivated, scheme.