Phil Taylor wrote -As a result of a request by the Ealing council planningenforcement people Getbike have applied for planningpermission to regularise their current use of this site.They don't believe they need this additional planningpermission but they have complied as requested.In her original post on this topic Carol Atkinson veryspecifically complained of noise on a Sunday and shoutingfrom the instructors. As this is the nature of hercomplaint it seems very unlike that Carol Atkinson could have been mistaken about which day of the week it was.And yet in their attempt to "clarify" the positionin their renewed application for for planning permissionas linked to in Phil Taylor's post Getbikes claim asfollowsGET Bike sell and repair motorcycles and also offer motorbike training courses. These courses are run on Monday to Saturday.There is no mention of Sunday there. So that straightaway they are lying in seeking "clarification" of what the current planning permission allows them to do.Carol Atkinson's complaint isn't that the present planning permission is deficient but that Getbike are knowingly exceeding what those regulations allow. And it would appear are quite prepared to lie about having done so afterwards.It isn't helpful, although it may be convenient from their point of view for Ealing Council to issue documents in a PDF version which oesn't facilitate cut and paste quoting.Although if Get Bikes have anything to do with it the reaons maybe ren't difficult to guess.Thus their claim that instructors and pupils communicate using headsets so as "reduce noise disturbance" is so spurious as to be laughable. The reasons the instructor and pupils need to communicate using headsets is so as to be able to make themselves understood over the noise of the bikes.Again the claim that the use of the site bike trainingis no different to operations that would occur on a car parknormally is similarly ludicrous. The last time I listenedparked cars, or heavy goods vehicles for that matter don't make any noise.Other points The very fact that they installed "sound proof" fencing at one point means they realised there might be a problem. They're now stuck with a situation where its obvious that their solution to the problem clearly hasn't worked.Previous planning permissions issues are an irrelevance. If there have been no previous recorded complaints concerning noise from residential properties to adjacent to this site then this is all that matters.There are complaints now.Similarly the results from measuring noise levels from the site as a whole in people gardens at various timesis an irrelevance. What matters is the noise levelin the gardens of Carol Atkinson and her neighbours on Sunday mornings when Get Bikes instructors were shouting instructions. Nether of which they admit to having done. Get Bikes were previously in Trumper's Way. Why did they move ?They've now opened a second site in Wimbledon whichGoogle Maps satellite view shows to be in the middle of a trading estate, and indeed far removed from the nearest house.I am not a lawyer, nor a politician. Neither am I familiar with the relevant procedures. However looking at the planning application it looks so poorly argued and to be so full of holes as to be obviously the work of an amateur.Maybe Get Bikes simply can't afford proper professionalrepresentation in order to try mitigate their breaches of planning regulations.The lie about their not having flouted the existing regulations by training on Sundays, contrary to their claims, could presumably be easily demonstrated to the Committee either by evidence given in personby Carol Atkinson and her neighbours, or by sworn affidavits.michael adams
Michael Adams ● 5152d