I’m with Ivonne on this.Craig, as a central Putney resident I have no objection to restaurants (positively like them) and pubs/ bars here (quite keen on those too) but this is a very different beast for two main reasons, namely scale (being for 700 people rather than the 150-200 in an average bar) and elevation. The noise of pubs and bars generally doesn’t travel too far as it is absorbed at street level by near by buildings. This is a large venue that is elevated with the potential for noise to spill over a large area, much of which is residential and have a larger than usual impact on people’s quiet enjoyment of their homes.You may say ah but investment in PHS is a good for which we can suffer (whilst not suffering yourself one assumes ;-) ) but if interested take a look at the objection comment from arco on the council website - from a long term developer/ investor that has build the metro bank building (no complaints I was aware of) - they’ve built 16 new flats, and have raised objections due to the proximity of the future residents to noise projected into the evening/ night at least 5 days a week, devaluing their investment. Are they likely to follow up with another investment here? Not likely if this goes ahead I would think! Spare a thought for the poor residents of jones mews whose home and roof terrace would be overshadowed by this, and cause them to lose the quiet side of their apartments away from the high street.No objections to reasonable developments, but this one is, in the eyes of most local affected residents, unreasonable given the scale and elevation.Please don’t fall for the any development must be good mantra. The metro bank development looks great to me - a modern building that is 4 stories in keeping with its site, providing 16 new apartments and a modern retail premises the palmhouse would be an opportunistic way for the exchange owners and incipio to make good money at the expense of local neighbours. The way they have approached this (claiming rhs approval, claiming the parking lot is unused (our local councillor has submitted some photos I took showing it to be full a recent Saturday), not making a noise test on local residential streets, ignoring residents concerns from last time whilst claiming to have listened and reflected them, claiming a restaurant / food led venue when they clearly run drinking led venues that require additional licensing), shows imho that they would be the last to be trusted here.I would be all for a food court in the exchange and would probably be a customer as I often work at home, but this would cause many issues and for whT benefit?? By all means turn another couple of shops into restaurants/ bars but not this!
Mike Warman ● 2803d