Westminster City Council is currently holding two consultations that will affect Pimlico. All are invited to take part.
Public realm strategy
This is a formal consultation, open until the 18 November 2024, on a new Public Realm Guidance “Supplementary Planning Document” (SPD). The Forum will be responding in line with the Pimlico Neighbourhood Plan, but you can find all the information and documents here.
Representations can be made using the website, by email to planningpolicy@westminster.gov.uk or in writing to: City Planning Policy, Innovation and Change, Westminster City Council, 17th Floor, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP. If being sent by email or in writing, representations should be clearly labelled ‘Public Realm SPD – response to consultation’.
Waste disposal
Westminster City Council is also seeking input to its waste policy until the 17 November 2024 for businesses and 28 November 2024 for residents. You can find all the informations and documents here. We know that waste, recycling and clean streets affect every one of us across the city daily and Westminster encourages as many of you as possible to respond. By completing this survey, you’ll have the chance to enter a prize draw to win one of three £50 Love2Shop vouchers!
All PNF members (plus guests from neighbouring Forums or residents’ associations) were invited on the 23rd July 2024 at St Saviours Hall for the AGM
The meeting was lively and well attended.
Here are the draft minutes of the meeting and the papers which were previously made available to Forum members:
- Agenda
- Minutes of the 24th October 2023 AGM
- 2024 Annual Report
- Accounts for the year ended 30th April 2024
- Forum’s Constitution
The Forum is holding its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 23 July 2024 at 7.30pm at St Saviours Church Hall in St George’s Square
We will be sending the full agenda and papers for the meeting later. In order for us to make suitable arrangements, could those expecting to attend please let us know by email? Thank you!
Only members of the Forum can vote at the AGM. Those subscribers who live, work or represent a business in the Pimlico Area are welcome to become members.
Click to enlarge Image from the City Plan Partial Review (Consultation)
Westminster City Council is undertaking a partial review of the City Plan and this has reached the consultation stage
The review is looking at 3 specific topics: Affordable Housing, Retrofit First and “Site Allocations” which has policies for sites proposed for future development which have been suggested by the relevant land owners.
Crucially for Pimlico (and Churchill Gardens) there is a proposed site allocation for “Grosvenor Sidings”: two plots of railway land between Ebury Bridge and the Thames on either side of the tracks which run over the river. The two plots lie entirely in the Pimlico Neighbourhood Area.
The Council’s consultation is here: https://www.westminster.gov.uk/planning-building-control-and-environmental-regulations/planning-policy/city-plan-partial-review. Warning: there are many very large documents. The most relevant documents for Grosvenor Sidings are:
- Regulation 19 City Plan (Chapter 11, page 71-76);
- Grosvenor Sidings Design Review Panel Report;
- Site Allocations Heritage Impacts Assessments report and
- Integrated Impacts Assessment document (including Appendix VIII and Appendix IX)
The consultation period concludes on 25 April 2024 and the Council’s “Regulation 19 consultation portal“ can be accessed on: https://cityplanpartialreview.commonplace.is/
The Steering Group is working on a consultation response from Pimlico Neighbourhood Forum to ensure that if a development proposal comes forward, it should respect policies in the Pimlico Neighbourhood Plan — especially those policies regarding height of new buildings, and the effect on the protected views out of Pimlico and Peabody Avenue Conservation Areas. Development also needs to integrate well with existing adjacent uses in Pimlico and to provide public realm, as the Plan specifies for major developments.
A “Pimlico Strategic Group” has been set up by Westminster City Council. This is about the services that the Council and its partners deliver and how they can join up and do things better.
Pimlico Neighbourhood Forum has been invited to join the Group with several other local organisations. It isn’t entirely clear what the focus of the group will be, but the initial process is as follows
The Council has set up a website and is holding some meetings to find out about what matters to people in Pimlico (Pimlico South and Pimlico North wards):
- Queen Mother Sports Centre on 7th March, 6–8pm. You can register for this HERE.
- Bessborough Centre on the 12th March, 12:30am to 1:30pm. Register HERE.
As you can see, the deadline for this part of the exercise is very short – up to 15th March.
Please give any feedback directly on their website https://pimlicocommunityconversations.commonplace.is/ There is a map that you can click on to make comments about an area or spot and a short questionnaire.
The Forum will put forward views and information based on the work done for the Pimlico Neighbourhood Plan, but we also encourage members to respond to the Council’s initiative.
