IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Fight the Tower campaign announces first victory as Mayor reconsiders Hondo Tower

Brixton Buzz reports on the GLA’s Head of Development has quashed the Mayor’s decision to allow Lambeth Council’s controversial grant of planning permission for the local Taylor Tower go ahead, on the grounds that Lambeth Council did not provide the Mayor with all the objections received.

… Mayor will look at the Taylor Tower plans ‘afresh’…

… does not meet the referral requirements of Article 5…

Brixton Buzz writes:

…. the GLA’s Head of Development has today quashed the Mayor’s decision, on the grounds that Lambeth Council did not provide the Mayor with all the objections received.

The local #FightTheTower campaign argued that thousands of objections to the Tower did not get fair consideration, and their lawyers Leigh Day wrote to the Mayor after it came to light that his office had sent misleading emails to Brixton Community Groups after the decision was already made. Now this decision will be quashed – meaning the Mayor will look at the Taylor Tower plans “afresh”.

The GLA wrote:

“Lambeth referred the application for the Mayor’s Stage 2 consideration on 2 December 2020, and the Mayor made his Stage 2 decision, following his planning meeting, on 14 December 2020.

“It has since come to light that the Mayor was not provided with all the representations received by Lambeth. This does not meet the referral requirements of Article 5 of the Town and Country Planning.

“It is our intention, therefore, to complete the Stage 2 process afresh.”

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