In her latest weekly news Sarah Olney praises the election of Gareth Roberts as the Greater London Assembly member for South West London. She writes ‘he will be a staunch advocate for our community’. Exactly how I want to know. What has he done for this area as distinct from Teddington and Twickenham? Except to saddle us with having to fight against an excessively dense and tall residential area designed to be sold off to foreign investors and left empty, and an unwanted secondary school.
The true depth of local feeling is illustrated by the support for funding for MBCG to be a party to the Planning Inquiry starting on 29th May 2024 from the 626 donors.
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Gareth Roberts? think his attitude was summed up by him spending virtually all the time on stage at the ‘Community Meeting’, texting on his phone. Has absolutely no sense of the community’s feeling about this white elephant development and gives the impression of being ‘in the back pocket’ of the developer.
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Spot on, Richard and Phil.
Let’s hope the inquiry finds as you have both diagnosed: that the development in this form is unwanted and unmerited.
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