The Pinner Association
– The Voice of our Community
Please welcome back Harrow Steel.
There will be no chair hire so please bring your own chair.
If able please park in Chapel Lane car park or walk to the event.
There will be a cash bucket collection to help offset the cost of the concerts – see you there.
One week until our concerts start.
If you are able to park in Chapel Lane car park, it would be appreciated as it will leave West House car park for people not so mobile.
There will be a bucket collection to help cover the costs of the concerts.
We are looking forward to seeing you.
Thank You
The final Concert in the Park of our series features Simply Gray. They are a six piece jump jive /rock band playing the greatest music to dance to or tap your feet.
They will be playing at Pinner Memorial Park on 15 August at 2:30pm.
Bring a chair as there will be no chair hire.
Please park in Chapel Lane Car Park.
See you there.
Last night four of the committee attended the 11th Harrow Heroes awards.
I am proud to announce that we were finalists this year. This award is for all of our volunteers that help make things happen in and around Pinner – thank you and well done.
I’m also proud to announce that our Honorary Secretary Ruff Both was a finalist in the Long Service award. Unfortunately she wasn’t there to collect her certificate.
Well done Ruth for all of your hard work.
You might have noticed that our website has slowly been grinding to a halt. I did.
We are currently upgrading our website so that it runs faster and hangs less.
Although it is has been tested, you might come across something behaving a bit strangely. Do let me know. Either email [email protected] or leave a comment.
Thanks for your patience.
The Pinner Association
(Registered Charity 262349)
Statement regarding Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent
On the 25th October 2017 Harrow Council’s Planning Committee refused consent to Greene King Pub Partners to convert the first floor of their Grade II Listed pub at 31 High Street, Pinner (known as “The Queen’s Head”) from a residential flat into five hotel rooms. Later that evening a Facebook post by The Queen’s Head was published, critical of Harrow Council and The Pinner Association. The Pinner Association has published this statement in order to correct some factual misunderstandings.
The reasons for Harrow Council’s refusal of the Listed Building consent are:
“The proposed works, by reason of the removal of historic doors including those dating to 1700 and 1800, the cutting through of a stair tower dating to circa the 16th/17th Century (including a historic window and timber framing), and the insertion of multiple en-suites (which would conceal historic timber framing, undermine the historic floor plan and increase risk of damp and decay to exposed historic fabric including timber framing) and insertion of front extract vents, would cause harm to the special interest of 16th Century timber framed listed public house extended/altered in the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries. There is not clear and convincing justification for the harm (including consideration of clear less harmful alternatives) or public benefits to outweigh the harm (including consideration of optimum viable use),……….”
The Pinner Association supports the applicant’s aim to provide hotel accommodation in Pinner, but agreed with a well-respected local historian who objected to one aspect of the submitted design, cutting through the wall of the 16th / 17th century stair tower, because of the irreversible adverse impact it could have on this historic building. We also supported her suggestion for what we believe to be a feasible design modification to remove the need to cut through the ancient fabric of the building and allow the first floor to be brought into use as hotel rooms.
Harrow Council turned down the submitted plans on many more grounds than the Pinner Association’s sole objection. It is the pub’s history and heritage that make it one of the best-loved buildings in Pinner and the Council’s view is that the proposals would cause considerable harm to the special nature of the building.
The pub was previously granted permission in 2009 to build a block of 4 guest accommodation hotel units at the rear of its car park, behind the building, but this has never been built. The Pinner Association was supportive of that proposal. Although that planning permission has now lapsed, it would be open to Greene King to submit it again. Having been approved once it is likely that it would be approved a second time and if so would enable the pub to offer guest accommodation without causing irreversible damage to the historic building.
Issued by The Pinner Association
9th November 2017
Note: We estimate that Harrow Council receives around 450 planning applications a year from Pinner (i.e. Pinner and Pinner South wards). The Pinner Association is routinely notified of all of these and, like any member of the public, has the opportunity to submit objections and statements in support to Harrow Council. The Association only considers applications whose impact extends beyond the building/site of the application. We take particular interest in those falling within the designated Conservation Areas and those affecting Listed Buildings, as such features contribute significantly to Pinner’s special character. Where the Association submits an objection, it only does so following detailed discussion and approval by its Executive Committee. The Association only objects to around 13 applications a year on average, i.e. less than 3% of all those submitted in the Pinner and Pinner South wards.
The Association is keen to recruit new members onto its Executive Committee – please email us at [email protected] if you are interested.
Fats Rollini Jazz & Blues Band are playing in the Pinner Memorial Park this sunday afternoon at 2:30pm.
There will be soon chairs to hire but feel free to bring your own and a picnic.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Rawlinson Gold have kindly offered to pay for the leaflets to be printed.
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f you have ever wondered how the monies collected by Pinner Association are spent. This is just one of the things we get involved in.
How many people reading this are aware that there are 2000 food banks in the UK and that this year alone they have handed out more than one million food parcels to those in need? If you have seen the Ken Loach film “I, Daniel Blake” you may have some insight into the problems of the homeless and the hungry.
Sadly, in the London Borough of Harrow, Harrow Foodbank, seeded by the Trussell Trust, is running three centres for the distribution of food.
The Pinner Association, acutely aware of its role within the charitable sector, is about to make a donation of £1000 to Harrow Foodbank. Donations are sorely needed from community associations and the general public as there are very few if any large corporate donors in the Borough.
The Pinner Association is proud to be of help in this way and hopes that other organisations will be keen to follow its example.
Harrow Foodbank contact details:
Tel : 0208 416 7344