⏳ 8 DAYS LEFT: write to the council to object tonight!

Dear Neighbours,

3,775 of us have signed our community petition!  🎉

This is amazing, and it shows just how much we all care about our streets. But right now, we are facing our biggest deadline.

🚨The Richmond Council planning page closes on Thursday 27th August. 

If you have signed our petition but haven't left a comment to object directly on the council's page yet, the stadium's team can try to look at our numbers and tell the council it doesn't count. 

✍️ Signing the petition was a brilliant first step, but writing a comment directly to the council is how we actually stop this expansion.

🏟️ The stadium wants the council to think that jumping from 3 to 15 massive summer concerts won't change our lives. 

We all know the truth.

We need you to write to council's planning department tonight to show them exactly how this will hurt our community.

To make it as easy as possible for you right now, here are the Top 10 reasons you can object. You don't need to be a planning expert - just pick a few points that matter to your home and add  your own words to share what it’s like for you to live with this disruption already and why 15 concerts will make it worse:
 
😴 1. Loss of sleep: 15 massive music festivals mean loud sound-checks, heavy bass thumping, and shouting crowds finishing late, making it incredibly difficult for our local school children, working parents, and early commuters to get a proper night's rest.

 🚑 2. Ambulances and emergency services blocked: Total gridlock on our roads means that emergency vehicles and ambulances will struggle to get through the traffic blocks to reach local families or get to West Middlesex Hospital when every second counts.

⛔️ 3. Total gridlock on our roads: Multiplying these events means our roads will be completely blocked on a regular basis, making it a nightmare just to drive home from work or get around the area. 

🚊 4. Overcrowded and delayed trains: Dumping 75,000 music fans onto our small single-line railway network completely overwhelms the service, causing severe transport delays and dangerous, packed platforms for ordinary passengers.

🤮5. Late-night anti-social behaviour: Having thousands of drinking fans pouring onto our streets past 10:30 PM leads to loud shouting, littering, and people using our front gates and walls as public toilets.

❌6. Locked out of our own streets: Frequent event days mean constant road closures that trap us in our own roads, making it a struggle just to go to the local shops, see family, or get online deliveries.

⚠️ 7. Dangerous pavements: Our local pavements are far too narrow for 75,000 people. Crowds spill right off the kerb into live traffic, creating a massive safety risk for people walking. 

😡 8. Damage to our gardens and fences: The sheer volume of people walking past our homes causes direct damage, with people smashing front fences, tramping through hedges, and dropping rubbish in our gardens.

🛍️ 9. Ruining our local high street: The traffic lockdowns and massive crowds actively scare away regular local customers, hurting our independent shops, vets, and local businesses when they need us most.

🛑 10. Our area is completely full: Our neighbourhood, our roads, and our transport links have hit their absolute physical limit. We simply cannot take a 400% increase in stadium events.

Please don’t wait until tomorrow. Get off the sofa and let’s do this together right now.

Your voice is incredibly important. The council has to listen to us, but only if we show up on their portal too.

Click the link below,  search for application PA26/2057 click the button to object, and type in the issues that bother your household:

👉 [LINK TO COUNCIL PLANNING PORTAL

Let's push past 4,000 signatures and make sure the council cannot ignore our community.

Please forward this email to five of your neighbours right now or share in your resident’s WhatsApp groups. .

Thank you for standing up for our neighbourhood.

Best wishes,
Amanda Bail
Frontline Resident & Campaign Coordinator