The Royal Parks Agency has applied to Richmond upon Thames Council for planning permission to develop the Roehampton Gate Cafe area.
The plans include demolition of existing buildings, revision to site entrances and layout, construction of a new cafe, public toilets and cycle hire building, associated hard and soft landscaping, and a new pedestrian access gate on the park boundary.
The plans are currently out for public consultation. A decision should be made by 23 October 2024.
For full details see https://www2.richmond.gov.uk/Plandata2/Planning_CaseNo.aspx?strCASENO=24/1985/FUL#details
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I strongly object to this proposal. The Royal Parks Authority have gone out of their way to support the Lycra clad speed trialists in Richmond Park making the park largely unusable by people like my family in the weekends.
We had always enjoyed the beauty of the park only to surrender it to cyclists speeding and staring at the tyre of the bike in front of them. They can do that on a dedicated tarmac track, not in one of Londons greatest beauty spots.Reopen Roehampton and Sheen gates to vehicles.
This facility will be taken over by these people and further entrench their selfish endeavours.
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