46 Redlands Rd

The plan to put 14 flats at the 46 Redlands Rd site was refused this evening at Planning Applications. Many thanks to everyone who wrote in and who met the Committee during the site visit. It was good to meet everyone, and I know it helped the Committee form a view.

It was very clear during the site visit, that this was a completely unsuitable development, in terms of development density and overlooking.

The application was turned down very quickly, with little debate: everyone agreed it was very cut and dried.

There was a moment of comedy when the comments from the Reading East MP were considered: they read as if he himself had brought this terrible scheme to the Committee's attention, when in fact we'd put it on the committee's agenda within a week of the paperwork being fully submitted (just before Christmas).

Even the Conservatives on the Committee admitted he was jumping on a bandwagon, much as the Reading West MP has a habit of doing. There must be something in the water in Westminster.