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33 minutes ago, Oz07 said:

Also what makes upping the density of existing housing favourable to reducing a green belt wedge and converting a nearby field or brownfield site to housing? Surely this should be a last resort

RBK is basically being forced to do everything it can on all the land it can, and that will still not be enough in terms of its housing targets.  Its position isn't easy.

It is, for example, attempting to build on some local semi-waste ground that happens to be full of slow worms.  Don't ask me how I know...

Rgds

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28 minutes ago, Ferdinand said:

I would go for "owner" rather than "freeholder".

 

The latter has a slight "Freeman of the Land" feel about it, which is code for slightly nutty to many.

 

I'd also send your Bats stuff to the Bats Conservation Trust, and ask them to weigh in. That may inluence the Council to emphasize nature and trees more.

 

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(Love the "pippip". Expecting "old fruit" to be added in a Wooster voice.)

 

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Common pipistrelle, old fruit.  But most definitely not a fruit bat!

 

You can see the solar panels on my roof if you work up from the word "Bonner" bottom middle by 4 pairs of houses,  just above the yellow trace, at the end of the S-N terrace row.

 

Rgds

 

Damon

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It maybe worth taking a look at bat flight paths as well. I believe they use existing hedges and trees to navigate (probably buildings too). I think this has been a very sensitive issue in the past on large development schemes. 

 

I wonder what and where their source of food is.

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2 hours ago, Ferdinand said:

 

No they can't just do it.

 

There's a fairly rigorous legal process, probably in the 1947 (ish) Planning Act, plus a lot of case law since. And subject to the requirements of Judicial Review.

 

I think eg the property acquisition budget for HS2 Phase 1 is somewhere north of 3 billion. 

 

 

I am not saying they take it for free. But it is not good enough to say "we want to build more houses here so here is your 10% and f. off". 

When we were looking we had a choice between buying a significantly larger updated house with a tiny garden and a tired relatively small bungalow on a large plot. We chose land over house and never regretted this choice thanks to the degree of privacy we've gained. I  discussed our extension plans with friendly estate agents and they said there was a limit on the uplift we could achieve (well, obviously). I always maintained that I don't care whether our plans would be profitable because we want to live here for a very long time. I didn't take CPOs into account though, it has a potential to ruin any plans. A law can be unjust. 

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Thank you all: I've submitted a PDF to the planning dept by email.  Now I just need to make sure that it is accepted else I shall have to drag my sorry frame through the covid plague fields on foot to drop it through the physical letterbox (though most of the building is shut, AFAIK).

 

Rgds

 

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Regarding the valuation.

 

Surveys say (and my own experience) is that buyers don't value PV even at the original 44p rate. However  there are companies that will buy your FIT. They won't if they know about the impending compulsory purchase but they might make an offer you can use to argue the value should be higher. 

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On 28/11/2020 at 18:27, DamonHD said:

Cambridge Road Estate, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1.

 

I'm not happy about it.

 

 

Unfortunately  Google says they consulted residents earlier in the year and they voted for the regeneration. 

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10 hours ago, Oz07 said:

I presume, useless as they are, you have contacted your MP

My MP knows all about it, and his wife (a) is one of my ward councillors (b) has the property portfolio (c) was fighting my corner up until the point she was elected and took on the property portfolio...

 

Rgds

 

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7 hours ago, Temp said:

 

Unfortunately  Google says they consulted residents earlier in the year and they voted for the regeneration. 

Getting some people to vote for confiscating the assets of a minority doesn't make it batter for the minority...

 

Rgds

 

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7 hours ago, Temp said:

Regarding the valuation.

 

Surveys say (and my own experience) is that buyers don't value PV even at the original 44p rate. However  there are companies that will buy your FIT. They won't if they know about the impending compulsory purchase but they might make an offer you can use to argue the value should be higher. 

I can simply get an assement of the present value of the remaining cash flows, plus savings from self-consumption for the remainer of the expected life of the panels etc.

 

Rgds

 

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8 hours ago, DamonHD said:

Getting some people to vote for confiscating the assets of a minority doesn't make it batter for the minority...

 

Rgds

 

Damon

 

Just for info this is what I was referring to. 

 

https://www.kingston.gov.uk/news/article/1033/cambridge_road_estate_residents_back_neighbourhood_regeneration_plans

 

"On a turnout of 86%, 73% of eligible residents have backed plans to regenerate the estate"

 

 

 

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And I suspect (though don't know) that almost all the freeholders and leaseholders, who lose out badly, were in the "no" camp like us.

 

Majorities can be tyrannies too.

 

But we are where we are.  If it's going to happen I'd like the outcome to as good as possible for everyone.

 

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Thanks again all!

 

Damon

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