ePetition details

Objection to planning application 49461/APP/2025/3009 to build houses in St. Martins Approach car park

We the undersigned petition Hillingdon Council to Refuse permission for this planning application to go forward and to reject it.

We object to the proposal on many grounds. Key points are as follows:
• The site is within the Ruislip Village Conservation Area and, under Section 72 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, the council has a statutory duty to preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the conservation zone. This does not achieve that requirement.
• There would be visual harm to the setting of Manor Farm (Grade II* and Grade II listed buildings) and the War Memorial (heritage asset of high significance).
• Highway problems would occur due to the re-alignment of the car park by moving the entrance much closer to Eastcote Road, a busy junction at any time of the day with a roundabout and a zebra crossing close by.
• The architectural massing of these buildings is not in keeping with the surrounding area of St. Martins Approach / Moat Drive where the dwellings are, mostly, detached with eight large semi-detached houses.
• Parking provision would be much reduced in the St. Martins Approach car park, which is frequently full to capacity. This, plus the anticipated extra parking requirement of the additional houses proposed, would have an adverse effect in an already heavily congested area.

On reaching 20 signatures it may be considered in conjunction with the relevant live planning application at an upcoming Committee meeting. The Council's Democratic Services Team will be in touch with the lead petitioner to advise and take this petition forward accordingly.

This ePetition runs from 24/02/2026 to 24/03/2026.

77 people have signed this ePetition.

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