Local people attended Richmond's Cabinet meeting on Tuesday 14 September with continuing objections to the council's refusal in its Unitary Development Plan (UDP) to include public toilets on Twickenham's riverside .

Three members of the Twickenham Riverside Terrace Garden group, which has a planning permission to conserve the current buildings, include public toilets, and create open spaces on the site, continued to object to the omission of public toilets, to the demolition of the old baths building and to the council's removal of "immutable" and "predominant" from the inspector's recommendations for public open space.

John Bell for the Friends of Twickenham Green made similar observations regarding the provision of toilets and open space, and there are 50 letters of objection on file with the council.

However, the Cabinet stuck to its guns and approved its proposed changes to the inspector's recommendations on the UDP, which followed a three-phase planning inquiry into modifications the council wanted to make to its planning blueprint across the borough.

Meanwhile, the council has submitted its application for a short-term scheme for the prime and controversial site, alongside the Thames in Twickenham's town centre. None of the proposals made since the baths closed in the 1980s has succeeded, nor found favour with local people.

But the council's decision to amend the inspector's findings has yet to go to the Secretary of State, who will be the final arbiter.

See the agenda and reports (Item 9) on the consultation on the UDP
See the application for Twickenham Riverside

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

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