Paul Johnston

I am really glad that the stance taken by Southborough Residents against the plan by Sunrise Senior Living to build a 70 bed 3 storey care home on the site of 4 houses and gardens has been vindicated by the Planning Inspectorate. Congratulations to all involved - the thing would have been a massively intrusive buidling, completely dwarfing its near neighbours. Personally I believe it would have been a disaster from the ecological viewpoint; the four houses have substantial and well established gardens with good stands of perfectly healthy trees, many of which would have been felled.

Thanks are due to the Residents committee, to Kingston Planning officers and to the Development Control Committee for backing the ward councillors' and Neighbourhood Committee's view.

There's a link to the decision itself on http://www.surbhillcllr.wordpress.com.