I will meet with her next week. Although she already refrained my enthusiasm (and apparently also yours) as she commented:

“As for joining the cjtcpb, it is a business partnership, but there is representation from the Battersea Society (Tony Tuck) who is the local amenity society as you know, and also local councillors to represent residents, and they will always be happy to pass on your views.[...] It would be an enormous disservice to the only forum for businesses in cj to turn that too into a residents forum. The fact that the Board differs on certain issues is a good thing, and healthy. It would have been more disturbing if they agreed all the time.”

As we will certainly discuss, we will have difficulties to pass our views on subject we don’t even know (i.e. presentation of your hotel project for example) and second, I have doubts one the way our views could be presented – by councillors who don’t even want to meet with us? (even with the best intention).

A good way to serve the business is actually to engage in better discussion, and the CJTCP could be a good place to do it, as you often pointed out.

Their meetings are advertised and public, although the public may only speak by invitation. It’s worth noting that their membership is wide and includes The Batersea Society, as well as local councillors, businesses etc.

We presented the revised hotel scheme to them in June, before the planning committee approved it.