Westbrook's planning consultants, DP9, have now called on Westminster city council to give approval to their application for planning permission at the next meeting of the Major Applications sub-committee on Tuesday, 5th March next.

In a letter to the council dated 13th February, DP9 Director Chris Beard states that the Greater London Authority has now given approval to their affordable housing offer and confirmed that it "provides the maximum reasonable affordable housing provision."

The "affordable" housing offer has been made pursuant to new Government guide-lines issued last summer in regard to Build-to-Rent schemes which is what Westbrook claim their development to be without regard to the fact that the bulk of the development is for service apartments available for short-term letting.

The offer approved by the GLA is for 57 on site units comprising 23 for social rent (7x1 bed, 8x2 bed and 8x3 bed) and 34x1 bed flats available for intermediate rent. All the flats will be owned and managed by Westbrook with only the social rent flats open for nomination of tenants by Westminster City Council.

Westbrook already claims that their open market rental offering at Dolphin Square is intermediate (around £400 a week for a 1 bed flat) and it is likely that these flats will be available for short-term letting on the same terms as Dolphin Square's existing flats. In the event that Westbrook wishes to sell the flats, they will have to pay a penalty estimated at between 10-20% of the capital value to the council, a relatively small sum in that Westbrook has no land cost element in their development.

This paltry "affordable" housing offer will not compensate for the damage to an existing historic building and the three adjoining Conservation areas of which Dolphin Square forms a part, nor the surrounding village community of Pimlico.

Already, Dolphin Square has one of the greatest densities of any building in the UK. There are 1,250 homes on a site of only 7 acres compared with 1,500 homes on the adjoining council estate of Churchill Gardens which occupies a 37 acre site. Its density would not have been allowed at any time since the Second World War and it should not be subject to further increased density which should be maintained in keeping with the surrounding area.

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