Representation by Pureflow Commissioning Ltd (Pureflow Commissioning Ltd)
- Date submitted
- 15 March 2021
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
To whom it may concern, We strongly object to the London Resort application. We are a business with over 30 employees, 8 which are office based at Unit 7, Swanscombe Business Centre and 4 of whom reside within a 10-minute drive of this office. The location is perfect for our company and our staff especially with the fantastic transport links of the A2, M25, Swanscombe train station and Ebbsfleet International which allows access to London within 30 minutes. This helps us enormously to run an efficient business and losing these advantages is likely to have a detrimental effect to our operations, workload and profit and could therefore put many jobs at risk. We have searched extensively for properties of similar size and price and there is absolutely nothing available. They simply do not exist. An example is office space available at Crossways Business Park but at a premium of 3 x our current rate (rent is currently £7500 per annum), despite being only a 5-minute drive away. We have spent a lot of time, effort and money investing in our current property and any location move would incur costs associated with moving, downtime, redecorations and furnishing of a new space. The main focus for our business is to help companies improve energy efficiency and to reduce environmental impact which we feel very strongly about, this in turn brings us to another particularly important factor which is the damage the project will do to the fantastic wildlife on the Swanscombe Peninsula. We welcome the fact that it has been granted SSSI status. We expect that many of our neighbours are in a very similar situation and ask for serious consideration of the points made above that are likely to affect many, many lives. Yours sincerely Ben Massett Director Pureflow Commissioning Ltd