Residents of the station blocks · Twickenham
The RFU wants to go from 3 non‑sporting events a year to 15, and from 55,000 people to 75,000 — dispersing past our windows after 10:30pm, up to four nights running.
This page helps you write your own objection in about five minutes. Nothing you type leaves your phone.
How this letter is put together. The policy and legal arguments on this page were drafted using AI (Claude), working from the actual planning documents — the Environmental Statement, the applicant's noise and transport assessments, Richmond's own EIA screening opinion, and the adopted Local Plan. Every quotation and reference comes from those documents and can be checked against them.
What is yours. Everything you type. Those parts are not generated, and they are the parts that carry the most weight with a case officer.
Please read the whole thing before you send it. It goes to the Council in your name and you are responsible for what it says. If a paragraph does not match your experience, delete it. A short letter you recognise is worth more than a long one you do not.
Anonymous comments carry little weight. Your address is what makes you a directly affected neighbour rather than a general commenter.
This becomes the second sentence of your letter, before any policy argument. It is the first thing the case officer reads about you.
Tick only what is genuinely true for you. Each one adds a paragraph citing the relevant policy — and a box where you can add one line of your own, which gets written into that paragraph.
This is the most valuable part of the whole letter, and the only part nobody else can write. Officers and planning inspectors weigh first-hand, dated evidence far above general argument.
Useful things to include:
Your letter is assembled in your browser. Read it through, change anything that doesn't sound like you, then send it.
Yes. Planning consultation is open to anyone affected — owning your home is irrelevant. Tenants living directly above the station are among the most affected people there are. Say how long you've lived there and object exactly as an owner would.
No. Send an objection only for your own household, in your own name. Submitting a representation in someone else's name would be improper, and if it were discovered it would discredit every genuine objection from this building. If a neighbour is away, send them the link.
Counts: noise and disturbance, traffic, parking, highway and pedestrian safety, loss of amenity and living conditions, air quality, crowding and public safety, cumulative impact, conflict with planning policy.
Doesn't count: the effect on your property value, dislike of the applicant, competition with other venues, or the fact that you personally don't want concerts. Keep to the first list and your letter has to be taken into account.
All of it is from the application file for PA26/2057 and from adopted policy. The main sources are Richmond's own EIA Screening Opinion of 30 July 2025, which found likely "significant noise effects on residents above and adjoining Twickenham Station"; the applicant's Environmental Statement, whose Table 4.1 reports five significant adverse effects when measured against a normal day; the RFU/South Western Railway memorandum, which states it is not a binding obligation to any service level; and the applicant's Noise Impact Assessment, which measured increases of 11–13 dB at flats overlooking the platforms.
Everything is checkable — every document is on the Richmond planning portal.
Yes, three things. Email your ward councillors and MP and ask them to call the application in to Planning Committee — that gives residents a public hearing. Object separately to the licensing application, which is a different process with different tests and its own deadline. And start a dated log of disturbance now: date, time, what happened, how long. Evidence gathered before a decision is worth far more than recollection afterwards.