The planning application for the redevelopment on the site of the old Barn Hotel in Ruislip was scheduled for a decision by tomorrow, 31st January 2025. It has been put back by agreement between the developers, Chase New Homes, and London Borough of Hillingdon.
The LBH planning website has now been updated to show the revised date: Monday, 3rd March 2025. We had asked the planning officers handling the application for Hillingdon for an update, and while we heard nothing back, we understand from the developers that the delay is to allow for some third party consultant reviews to be concluded.
With no information from Hillingdon about the process they’re following, it’s difficult to be sure, but we expect that the application will be put before a planning committee in the Civic Centre. There are Planning Committee meetings scheduled for Thursday 13th February and Thursday 12th March, which we’ll be following with interest. The agenda of those meetings (the developments that will be up for discussion/decision) is published about a week before the meeting date.
Planning Committee meetings are open to the public, either in person, or via livestreams via YouTube. We will continue to follow the application with interest, and will post further updates when we have them.
What’s happening at the Barn?
For a refresher of the plans for the Barn Hotel site which are under consideration, you can watch this video – it formed the introduction to our informative and useful meeting with Chad Neaves, from the development company Chase New Homes back in October last year.
There are some CGI images showing the proposals, too. Ahead of our meeting in October, the Ruislip Residents’ Association distributed 2000 flyers through front doors to residents’ homes near the development site, and posted/advertised on Facebook to collect as many questions as we could from everyone that we could reach – inviting everyone to our special public meeting. We then collated about sixty questions from residents into about ten themes and put them to the developers. We appreciated the fullness of the answers – which we posted as individual video clips from the Zoom meeting, along with the written answers that they supplied.
After the questions we’d collected and submitted in advance, we had another hour of “questions from the floor” – all of which are still available online.
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