MORE ACTION IS STILL REQUIRED

We urge you to write supporting WCC in its recommendation.

Please submit your objections to www.westminster.gov.uk/planning before 1 March 

- go to ‘Planning Applications Search’

- enter Reference 11/11579/XRCA

- click on ‘Make a Public Comment’, enter name & address etc. 

Here is a sample objection, useful as a starting-point in compiling your own individual submissions, you can make any changes you wish - please note that they MUST be in before the meeting of the Planning Sub-Committee on 1 March.

Objection to Westminster Council re: Crossrail Application

As a local resident, I wish to object very strongly to Crossrail’s application to use Chepstow Road and others as a contingency route for its lorries, and urge the Council’s Planning Sub-Committee to accept the recommendation of its officers, using the powers granted to it by Schedule 7 of the Crossrail Act 2008, and refuse its consent. This plan would produce:

• Intolerable levels of noise and pollution;
• a severe threat to the safety of children going to and from school;
• Total failure to consider properly the alternative of the canal, which BWB has stated is a perfectly feasible route;
• Lack of proper consultation of the vast majority of local residents;
• The likely serious damage to road surfaces which cannot withstand the current loads from buses weighing 15 tons;
• Disruption to the amenity of local residents and threat to the viability of small local businesses;
• Serious risk to access and transit by all emergency services which regularly use this route;
• Strikingly inept failure to consider the almost certain impassability of Chepstow Road and others which would result from the passage of up to 35 or 70 lorries per day, each 54.5 feet in length, for two years or more: the present very serious congestion is likely to become far worse, even without Crossrail lorries, during the period of the Olympics, when much of its traffic will be diverted from the M40;
• Possible request by Crossrail seeking to ban buses and cars from Chepstow Road and others on the proposed route for any or all of the two-year period to allow unimpeded passage for its lorries: should we not be told if they are likely to make this request?