Hillingdon Council Planning Committee will decide what happens to the former Yiewsley swimming pool site and the Yiewsley Library site.

These Yiewsley sites are supposed to be protected by recreational covenants.

You can see the most recent 2023 plans here: Planning application

Send in an objection now to the council via the planning web site or by email or by post to:

Planning Department, Hillingdon Council, Civic Centre, High Street, Uxbridge, UB8 1UW

There is also a petition on Change.Org encouraging objection to the latest proposals.

You can sign it here.

What are the main differences between the new 2023 Application and the 2021 Application?

We asked the Planning Officer responsible what the differences were between the withdrawn 2021 Application and the Planning Application in 2023 which is currently under assessment.

He told us these were some of the differences:

"Unit Mix:

The previous application proposed 50 units on both sites resulting a total of 100 new residential units. This application seeks planning consent for 50 units on the Falling Lane site and 45 on the Otterfield Road site resulting in a reduction of 5 units across the development as a whole. This is mainly due to the buildings reduced massing on Otterfield Road.  It is noted that the existing submission also proposes a minor increase in floor area for the library and the development now also incorporates a new community space at ground floor level.

Some other variations to the scheme listed below:

Falling Lane

Falling Lane elevation :

• Buff-brown brick is now proposed to replace the previous cream brick.
• Realignment of the windows located on the corner element of façade
• Brick detailing extended to the ground floor level
• Amended balcony arrangement to the corner element
• Removal of the blue brick
• Removal of the rooftop pergola from the roof terrace

High Street elevation:

• Buff-brown brick is now proposed to replace the previous cream brick.
• Realignment of the windows towards the corner element
• Recess brick has been added to mirror the falling lane elevation
• New access proposed in the south west corner of the high street leading to the recreation ground

Otterfield Road

• Massing reduced to 5 stories
• A darker buff-brown brick is now proposed to replace the previous cream brick.
• Additional communal entrance into the library proposed
• Increase in floor area of the Library to 391m2 to facilitate the inclusion of a community use space connected to the library"

Objections to the withdrawn 2021 Planning Application included:

• Overdevelopment,
• lack of GP facilities, dentist surgeries, leisure facilities and school places and other infrastructure/services,
• disruption to library services in Yiewsley,
• increased traffic and parking problems,
• poor air quality,
• excessive height proposed/taller than surroundings,
• out of character with area,
• loss of privacy/overlooking,
• loss of library,
• increased crime,
• insufficient parking for proposed development,
• loss of health centre,
• increased anti social behaviour,
• do not need more flats,
• lack of safe green space for children,
• lack of visitor parking,
• ward is overpopulated,
• should provide social housing,
• provide enhanced pedestrian and cycling,
• need improvements to high street and retail offer,
• litter and refuse, noise, construction vehicles,
• application documents refer to 2019 evidence,
• how can the council achieve net zero carbon by building more homes,
• overshadowing of park,
• loss of green space,
• loss of primary school overflow car park,
• more trees needed,
• loss of public land,
• loss of light,
• highway safety concerns,
• proximity to main junction,
• impact on wildlife/biodiversity and ecology,
• loss of trees,
• replacement library needs to be larger,
• danger of construction vehicles and local school causing conflict,
• impact on locally listed building and its structure,
• impact on skyline,
• flooding and drainage problems locally,
• insufficient staff and visitor parking for the Library