Richard Struck

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Development Control Committee

Thursday 17th July, 7.30pm, Three Rivers House. All members of the public are welcome to attend.

Local items of interest on the agenda include:

63 Nightingale Road and rear gardens of numbers 61 and 65
08/1089/FUL and 08/1077/CAC
Proposal to demolish existing building and replace with four detached houses.
The officers’ recommendation is to refuse permission.

Applegarth, Parrotts Close, The Green, Croxley Green
08/1140/FUL
Another proposal for this site - this time to demolish the exisitng house & garage and build
The officers’ recommendation is to refuse permission.

Hawkford Hall, 231 Uxbridge Road, Rickmansworth (next to public footpath into Aquadrome)
08/1173/FUL and 08/1174/LBC
Proposal to allow “occasional use” of three parking bays at rear of building for storage of mobile pump units.
The officers’ recommendation is to grant permission, subject to conditions.

181 High Street, Rickmansworth
08/1177/FUL
Proposal to extend opening hours of the kebab take-away - Mon-Thurs 9.00am-11.00pm, Fri-Sat 9.00am-11.30pm, Sunday and public holidays 9.00am-11.00pm.
The officers’ recommendation is to refuse permission

Friends of Watersmeet Film Society
Thursday 17 July at 2:00pm and 7:30pm “Atonement” starring James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia (Kiera Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination, and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire life. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan. Nominated for seven Oscars.