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Planning Application Update
January 2024
The planning application that the City of London Corporation has submitted for City of London Police’s Eastern Base at Middlesex Street Estate is due to be heard by the planning committee on Tuesday 13th February 2024. Hard copies of the plans are also available to view at Artizan Street Library.
Summary of Feedback from Door Knock visits
Thank you to those of you who gave us your views when we visited homes at Middlesex Street Estate on 7th September, or filled out forms online or by post. We have prepared a summary of the feedback received - please see below.
Community Meeting
Tuesday 12 September
Thank you to all those who attended the Community Meeting on Tuesday 12 September. Please use the video link to watch the recording and click on the links below to view the presentation slides and meeting notes.
Planning Update
September 2023
The application has now been validated and is available to view on the City of London planning portal using reference number 23/00882/FULL.
Please visit the website to submit your feedback, or you can email directly on plans@cityoflondon.gov.uk. If you would prefer to submit feedback in writing, the address is:
Environment Department, City of London, PO Box 270, Guildhall, London, EC2P 2EJ
Community Meeting
Tuesday 12 September
We would also like to invite you to attend an open community meeting at 6pm on Tuesday 12 September at Artizan Street Library to meet with members of the project team, City of London officers and City of London Police representatives. The meeting will be chaired by Cllr Helen Fentimen and will be an opportunity for you to ask questions of the team and view the final plans and visuals that have been submitted.
Access to the library will be via the Gravel Lane stairwell.
If you have any queries regarding the above, please contact us.
The presentation will be shared to the website following the meeting.
Planning Update - Letter to Residents and Commercial Tenants
4 August 2023
We are writing to inform you that the City of London Corporation, in its capacity as police authority, will shortly submit a planning application for the City of London Police’s Eastern Base at Middlesex Street Estate. The application is due to be submitted on 8 August 2023, and will be validated shortly after.
You will be able to view the application here
We will write to you again soon to let you know the application number and how you can register your comments. It is expected that the plans will go to the committee in early November, but we will keep you informed.
We would like to thank the resident representative of the CSG group for their voluntary time and commitment to this project, and we hope that many of the benefits secured as part of this scheme will be enjoyed by residents for years to come. We hope that many of you have been involved in the consultation process and visited the public consultation meeting to view the final plans.
If you have any queries regarding this letter, please contact our communications consultants Comm Comm UK Ltd by telephone on 0800 772 0475 or by email at info@mse-project.co.uk.
Public Consultation Event
Thank you to those of you who were able to attend our Public Exhibition on Wednesday 24 May and give us your feedback on our proposals.
The podium survey closed on Friday 28 April.
The podium survey closed on Friday 28 April.
Podium landscaping
Residents drop in session
Tuesday 18 April, 3-5pm
Thank you to everyone who gave us their feedback on the preferred podium option, this has helped inform the final design.
The podium landscaping questionnaire is now closed.
The podium landscaping questionnaire is now closed.
Residents Workshop
Tuesday 14 March
Thank you for attending the workshop to share our thoughts and ideas on how the podium could be improved. Your feedback helped inform the next stage of podium design.
Community Meeting
Monday 20 February
Thank you to all those who attended the Community Meeting on Monday 20 February. Please use the video link to watch the recording and click on the links below to view the presentation slides and meeting notes.
Letter to Residents & Commercial Tenants
8 February 2023
Summary of Feedback from Residents’ survey
Thank you to everyone who gave us their responses to our survey during our door to door visits to Middlesex Street Estate on 15 December 2022 and to those who completed and sent back the survey afterwards.
Please find below a summary of the feedback received.
Door to door visits to Residents on Thursday 15 December
Residents’ survey - Open 15 December 2022 to 12 January 2023
Site Walkabout for Residents and Commercial Tenants on Thursday 24 November
Survey taking place at the Middlesex Street Estate on Thursday 8 September
Residents Response document
The purpose of the Section 105 Consultation was for the City of London Corporation’s Department of Community and Children’s Services to consider whether parts of the basement car park, ground floor service yard and Gravel Lane shop unit areas proposed for alternative use at the Middlesex Street Estate are still required for housing purposes.
The Section 105 Consultation ran from 4 to 31 July 2022. There was a public event at the Artizan Street Library on 12 July, which was attended by 23 residents and commercial tenants.
The consultation generated 53 separate pieces of feedback; a mix of questionnaires submitted online, on paper at the public event, by post, via email and direct phone calls.
The document issued to all residents and commercial tenants of the Middlesex Street Estate on 12 August 2022 seeks to answer, wherever possible, questions that have been asked as part of the consultation. The sole purpose of the Section 105 Consultation was to determine whether the proposed space is surplus to housing use.
