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Middle Mill, Kingston University Application 25/02541 Demolition of existing blocks and erection of a 5 -storey tower.

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                       Hogsmill Community Garden indicating the suns position 2pm 5.1.26 25/02541/FUL The proposal is for  demolition of existing student residential blocks at Middle Mill (Block A and Blocks G-L), and erection of a new 5-storey purpose-built teaching building for Kingston University with ground floor cafe and gallery space, associated access, blue-badge parking, landscaping and ancillary development. This is work in progress and subject to change. The Ecological Assessment prepared by Buro Happold (September 2025) states that biological records were obtained from the Surrey Biological Records Centre, rather than from Greenspace Information for Greater London (GiGL). This has significant implications for data coverage. Personally, I have supplied GiGL with approximately 17,000 biological records collected since 1994 from surveys undertaken across the Greater London area, whereas only a few hundred records—...