Thank you for taking the time to visit www.savewandsworthmol.co.uk.
This site is designed in response St Georges’ Mental Health Trust’s (Springfield Hospital) appeal to the unanimous decision by Wandsworth Council in December 2010 to refuse planning permission for a major development of the Springfield Site. Wandsworth Council has informed the 4000 residents of the area who objected to the Springfield’s proposal on 4 August 2011.
We want to make the community aware of the threats to:
- The Central London Golf Centre; and
- To part of Wandsworth Common.
We did not know about the threat to Wandsworth Common until after the date for objections to the original planning proposal closed. We need to make the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and its Planning Inspectorate aware of this and that the community around Wandsworth Common were not consulted. The link below will show you Tfl's proposal to take land from from the Common.
See page 19 of this document for more information
Click Here
(Page 21 of the PDF but marked as page 19 on the document)
This is your chance to express your concerns about the threats to the golf course and to Metropolitan Open Land including Wandsworth Common!
We all agree that the Springfield Hospital needs to have its facilities upgraded to provide a suitable environment for patients and to improve working conditions for staff.
What we don't want to happen is to have the MOL (Metropolitan Open Land) managed and ruined by developers. There is even a proposed bus route through a new privately-managed park on the MOL.
The Central London Golf Centre (www.clgc.co.uk) is enjoyed by many London residents. It is a prime example of how sports like golf can provide a healthy outlet for youth and encourage a healthier lifestyle for all residents of all ages. The Central London Golf Centre operates on MOL just off Burntwood Lane and is the only publicly accessible golf course of its kind in central London. Why should something as fantastic as that, which welcomes anybody keen to try golf be taken away?
In order for the Trust to update their facilities, the size of the development with its 839 homes need not be so large to meet the Trust’s mental health goals. It will create extra traffic and pollution and will sacrifice and fragment the fantastic spaces of the MOL. The local community would be sacrificing an institution in its own right - the golf course, but also sacrificing the fantastic open spaces of the MOL. Not only that, they would need to cut back parts of Wandsworth Common just to accommodate the increase in traffic! Yes that's right, cut away the fantastic green spaces to allow for larger roads, more traffic, more pollution and even more noise.
Please join us and support your local community by saying NO to this development. We urgently need your support to put a stop to the excessive development plans being proposed.
Last time round, the Neighbours of Springfield led a campaign which resulted in approximately 4,000 objections. You can further support Neighbours of Springfield and Residents of St Georges Grove by signing this e-petition.
We can show the positive benefits of social networking so join us to preserve our commons and save our golf course enjoyed by so many. Please share this with any likeminded friends, family and co-workers.
Let’s encourage the developers and the NHS Trust to scale back the proposed developments on the Springfield site so that it is not a profit-making enterprise at the expense of the MOL.
Please take the time to check out the Neighbours of Springfield website and all the work they have done to protect our MOL.
www.neighboursofspringfield.co.uk
Please sign the e-petition and help us get this message out to the whole Wandsworth.
Time is of the essence so please sign the e-petition now.
