CarolineShah
The undemocratic sale of our Royal Borough by Kingston council
In 2015, the Greater London Authority completed a housing planning document in which it stipulated that Boroughs who presented large sites to them as available for development would have to build many, many more houses than were needed to meet local need
Kingston council jumped straight on the bandwagon
Kingston council has never looked back, despite a change in political "leadership" in 2018
In fact, the new administration has shut down any democratic challenge of their plans
You can read how Kingston Council supported the GLA's plans way back in 2015 here
The only possible challenge now is through the Courts
It is not too late to challenge both the London Plan and, later, Kingston's Local Plan, the consultation for which was highly flawed
The auditors, Grant Thornton, might also eventually call the council out for not providing us with "value for money", but they seem strangely reluctant to do so, despite all the shenanigans playing out before our eyes
Residents' opinions on the full scale and type of growth being imposed upon the Borough have never been sought, and proper sustainability assessments have not been completed
We have been sold down the river
Nothing has changed