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Development & Environment Directorate City Hall The Queen’s Walk More London London SE1 2AA Switchboard: 020 7983 4000 Minicom: 020 7983 4458 Web: www.london.gov.uk Nigel Bryce Our ref: PDU/2581/DBH03 Planning & Community Services, Your ref: 4327/APP/2009/2737 Hillingdon Council Date: 4 March 2010 Civic Centre High Street UXBRIDGE UB8 1UW Dear Mr Bryce, Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended); Greater London Authority Acts 1999 and 2007; Town & Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008 Re: Hayes Football Club, Church Road, Hayes (Your ref. 4327/APP/2009/2737) I refer to the copy of the above planning application, which was received from you on 26 January 2010. On 3 March 2010, the Mayor considered a report on this proposal (our reference PDU/2581/01. A copy of the report is attached in full. This letter comprises the statement that the Mayor is required to provide under Article 4(2) of the Order. The Mayor expressed strong regret over the permanent loss of a sports playing field, albeit a privately owned one, and the associated demolition of a community meeting hall, contrary to strategic objectives of London Plan policy and those of his Consultation Draft Replacement London Plan. He was, therefore, particularly concerned to ensure that the replacement facilities (i.e. the multi-use games area on Barra Hall Park and the synthetic turf pitch at The Warren site) were fully secured and delivered in accordance with the applicant’s undertaking. In the event of your Council resolving to grant permission, the Mayor would be especially keen to see a full draft of the proposed legal agreement, rather than the heads of terms, and the amounts of financial contribution to be made towards each of the replacement facilities. The Mayor agreed that, on balance, the application did not comply with the London Plan, for the reasons set out in paragraph 105 of the above-mentioned report; but that the possible remedies set out in paragraph 107 of this report might address those deficiencies. The application represents EIA development for the purposes of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999. The environmental information made available to date has been taken into consideration in formulating these comments. If your Council subsequently resolves to make an interim decision on the application, it must consult the Mayor again under Article 5 of the Order and allow him fourteen days to decide whether to allow the interim decision to proceed unchanged, or direct the Council under Article 6 to refuse the application, or issue a direction under Article 7 that he is to act as the local planning authority for the purpose of determining the application and any connected application. You should therefore send me Direct telephone: 020 7983 4268 Fax: 020 7983 4706 Email: [email protected] a copy of all representations made in respect of the application, a copy of the officers’ report to your planning committee, a draft statement of the decision your authority proposes to make, and (if it proposed to grant permission) a statement of any conditions the authority proposes to impose, a draft of any planning obligation it proposes to enter into and details of any proposed planning contribution. Please note that the Transport for London case officer for this application is Andrew Dorrian, on telephone number 020 7126 4578. Yours sincerely, Giles Dolphin Assistant Director – Planning cc Richard Barnes, London Assembly Constituency Member Jenny Jones, Chair of London Assembly Planning and Housing Committee John Pierce and Ian McNally, GOL Colin Lovell, TfL Javiera Maturana, LDA Geoff Armstrong, DPP, West One, 63-67 Bromham Road, Bedford, MK40 2FG - 2 - .