The Second Proposal August 2023

The developers presented their revised proposals, on the basis that they had listened to the public. Waitrose was to be retained, half the retail units and public conveniences demolished, provision of car parking areas of 138 spaces, existing Waitrose car park redeveloped into 104 flats with 53 car spaces serving the new properties.

Bearing in mind the vast difference between the first and second proposals it seemed clear to most that the developers were hoping that there would be a lot of support on the basis that the second scheme was such an “improvement” on the first. Hersham residents, neighbours to the development, local businesses and retail units, local school parents and all local interested parties knew differently and considered the following, backed up by full and ongoing surveys and professional advice:

Contravention of Elmbridge planning guidelines concerning height, scale and mass of the residential units and the overwhelming effect on all neighbouring properties, parking provision for residential and retail space and Affordable Housing.

The massive and ongoing negative effect of the vastly reduced parking for the use of every aspect of Hersham life, including Burhill School, the Doctors Surgery, Hersham retail and other businesses, St Peters Church, Riverside Gardens, Nursery School, Hersham Community Centre, Village Green, etc

Resultant huge pressure on surrounding streets which cannot possibly cope with any further parking.