TWICKENHAM Village Planning Guidance

Supplementary Planning Document | January 2018 2 Contents

1. Introduction Character Area 13: Heath Road north 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context Character Area 14: Town Centre fringe 3. Spatial Context Conservation Area 15: Queen’s Road 4. Vision for Twickenham Character Area 16: Heatham Estate (including Richmond upon Thames 5. Objectives College and The Stoop) 6. Character Area Assessments Character Area 17: Chertsey Road Character Area 1: Rivermead and surrounds Character Area 18: Cole Park Character Area 2: Lincoln Avenue and surrounds Conservation Area 19: Amyand Park Road Character Area 3: Fulwell Park Character Area 20: Haggard Character Area 4: Leeson Estate Conservation Area 21: Twickenham Riverside Character Area 5: Fulwell Triangle 7. Features and Materials Character Area 6: Cross Roads 8. Guidance for Development Sites Conservation Area 7: Trafalgar Road 9. Forecourt parking Conservation Area 8: Belmont Road Conservation Area 9: Twickenham Green Character Area 10: Campbell Character Area 11: North of the Green Conservation Area 12: Hamilton Road

3 1. Introduction

The purpose of this Village Planning Guidance Supplementary Planning The London Borough of Richmond upon Document (SPD) is primarily to Thames has been divided into a series of establish a vision and planning policy smaller village areas. Each village is distinctive in terms of the community, facilities and local aims for Twickenham village. It character – as are many sub areas within the will assist in defining, maintaining A316 Chertsey Road villages. and enhancing the character of Twickenham, and provide guidance in The villages of the London Borough Richmond Road this regard. The SPD forms part of Richmond upon Thames are attractive with many listed buildings and conservation the wider Village Plan. Heath Road areas, the local character of each being unique, recognisable and important to the By identifying key features of the community and to the aesthetic of the village, the SPD clarifies the most borough as a whole. important aspects and features that Hampton Road Staines Road contribute to local character to guide those seeking to make changes to their properties or to develop new properties in the area, as well as being a material consideration in determining planning applications. Twickenham Village Planning Guidance SPD area

The main part of this SPD is a series of character area assessments for the different areas of Twickenham. The character areas have been identified through the similarity of key features that are deemed to define their individual local character. The assessments establish dominant features and materials as well as an overall description of the street pattern and housing types.

4 The boundary for the SPD is based on: • Community walkabouts were held on Sunday • a review of how each area’s design 5th March and Sunday 19th March 2017. characteristics can best be grouped; • Online consultation and questionnaire from • taking account of physical and administrative 23rd February 2017 and 31st March 2017 boundaries, including conservation area (informal consultation). boundaries to avoid these being split between • Meeting and walkabout with Eel Pie Island village areas; residents. • how local communities viewed their local • Focus group sessions with members of the areas when asked through the Council’s LGBT community, RUILS and Heatham House 2010 ‘All-In-One’ survey and subsequent youth groups. consultations; and • Twickenham Leader’s Question Time. • the boundaries of the Council’s Twickenham • Feedback at the Youth Crime Conference. Area Action Plan (2013). • Online consultation and questionnaire The Twickenham Area Action Plan is an adopted from 16 June – 28 July 2017 (Statutory planning policy document which provides a Consultation). significant amount of detailed guidance relating • ‘Drop-In’ Session at Clarendon Hall, to the central Twickenham area. To ensure that Twickenham on 18 June 2017. there is no confusion during the planning process this SPD does not cover the geographical area covered by the Area Action Plan. Wider Context (Village Plans) Phoenix Court, Eel Pie Island This SPD has been produced by the Council Village Plans have been developed for each of working closely with the community. This Richmond’s 14 villages. Each Village Plan describes desire to have greater control and influence over has given an opportunity for local residents, a vision for the village area and identifies what planning and development decisions in their local businesses and stakeholders to be genuinely the Council will do and what local people can do area. The involvement of the local community in involved in defining the important features, as well to achieve the vision together. It sets out the key the production of the SPD has been essential in as the opportunities and threats, that define their issues and priorities and provides background ensuring it is a genuine reflection of residents’ local area. information on the village area. The Village Plans priorities. The community has been involved through: are maintained on the Council’s website and are updated as works are progressed. They cover a • ‘Drop-In’ sessions - four drop in events were wide range of topics, including matters not within held locally at All Hallows Church (Saturday the remit of the SPD. 4th March 2017), Emmanuel Centre (Saturday 25th February 2017), Orleans Park School This Village Planning Guidance SPD forms part (Monday 13th March 2017), and Trafalgar of the Village Plan by providing a formal planning Infant School (Saturday 18th March 2017). policy document which can be used to guide Questionnaires were available for completion. new development. It has responded to residents’ 5 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context

2.1 Planning Policy Framework and specific geographical features, areas and The Local Plan has now reached a stage where 2.2 Key Planning Policies National Planning Policy buildings which relate or link to the Thames. The it is given considerable weight in the decision SPDs cannot create new policies but expand River Thames section of Twickenham is designated making process, and is used in determining on policies set out in higher plans, notably the The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in the Thames Policy Area in the London Plan. planning applications. It is expected that the Local sets out the Government’s planning policies LBRuT Local Plan (2017). This SPD relates to a Plan will be adopted in spring 2018, at which considerable number of higher policies, notably: for England and how these are expected to point it will supersede all existing policies in the Local Planning Policy be applied. The NPPF provides the context Core Strategy and Development Management for local planning authorities and decision The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Plan. Policy LP 1 ‘Local Character and Design takers, both when drawing up plans and making current statutory planning policy framework is set Given the weight given to the Local Plan Section Quality’ decisions about planning applications. It must out in adopted Plans including the Core Strategy, 2.2 summarises its policies whilst also making Outlines the architectural and urban design be taken into account in the preparation of adopted in April 2009, and the Development reference to the relevant Core Strategy and/or expectations for development within the borough, local and neighbourhood plans, and is a material Management Plan, adopted in November 2011. Development Management policies. Up-to-date and to maintain and enhance the high quality consideration in planning decisions. There is an online proposals map and a range information on the Council’s Local Plan can be character and heritage of the borough and its of guidance provided through Supplementary viewed at: http://www.richmond. gov.uk/home/ villages when opportunities arise. It also sets Planning Documents (SPDs) and Supplementary Regional Planning Policy services/planning/planning_ policy/local_plan.htm. out that the Council will resist the removal of Planning Guidance (SPG) for the area. At a regional level, the London Plan shopfronts of architectural or historic interest (revised in 2015) is the overall strategic plan This SPD will form part of the planning policy together with guidance on illuminations, blinds, for London setting out an integrated economic, framework upon adoption and should be read in canopies and shutters, advertisements and environmental, transport and social framework conjunction with the Council’s suite of planning hoardings. for the development of London over the next policy and guidance as applicable. There is also a Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) the 20-25 years. This document has been adopted range of evidence base studies that the Council equivalent policy is CP7 and in the Development to ensure that a longer-term view of London’s has undertaken which help to guide policy making. Management Plan (2011) the equivalent policies development is taken when producing local The Council has progressed its Local Plan and are Policy DC1 and Policy DC7. plans, making planning decisions and investing in in December 2016 approved the “Publication” infrastructure. version of the new Local Plan. This is the version Policy LP 3 ‘Designated Heritage Assets’ Policy 7.29 in the London Plan refers to the of the plan which the Council submitted to the Outlines that the borough will conserve and Thames Policy Area stating that relevant Secretary of State for Examination in May 2017, enhance its designated heritage assets including boroughs, including Richmond, must designate following a 6 week period in early 2017 during Conservation Areas, Listed Buildings, Scheduled a Thames Policy Area in their Development which the public commented on the “soundness” Monuments and Registered Parks and Gardens. Plan Documents. The boroughs must define the of the plan. The Publication Local Plan takes boundaries by taking into account proximity to into account responses made during public Within the existing Development Management the Thames, contiguous areas with clear visual consultation in summer 2016. Throughout the Plan the equivalent policies are DM OS 1, DM HD links between areas and buildings and the river rest of this document this is referred to as the 1 and DM HD 2. “Local Plan”.

6 Policy LP 4 ‘Non Designated Heritage Assets’ Within the existing Core Strategy the equivalent Policy LP 18 ‘River Corridors’ Within the existing Core Strategy the equivalent The Council will seek to preserve and where policy is CP10 and in the Development Seeks to protect and enhance the borough’s policy is CP16 and in the Development possible enhance the significant and character of Management Plan the equivalent policies are DM rivers, their banks and surrounding environments Management Plan the equivalent policies are DM non-designated heritage assets. OS 2 and DM OS 3. that contribute to the special and distinctive S1 and DM S 12. Within the existing Development Management character of the borough. The Council’s Plan the equivalent policy is DM HD 3. Policy LP 13 ‘Green Belt, Metropolitan Open requirements regarding the Thames Policy Area, Policy LP 30 ‘Health and Wellbeing’ River Thames public riverside walk and riverside Land and Local Green Space’ Promotes and supports healthy and active uses, including river-dependent and river-related Seeks to protect and retain the boroughs Green lifestyles and measures to reduce health Policy LP 5 ‘Views and Vistas uses are also provided. Belt, Metropolitan Open Land and Local Green inequalities. Seeks to protect the quality of views, vistas, gaps Within the existing Core Strategy the equivalent Space. Within the existing Core Strategy the equivalent and the skyline that contribute significantly to the policy is CP11 and in the Development Within the existing Core Strategy the equivalent policies are CP13, CP17 and CP18. character and quality of the local and wider area. Management Plan the equivalent policy is DM OS policy is CP10 and in the Development 11. Within the existing Development Management Management Plan the equivalent policy is DM OS Policy LP 31 ‘Public Open Space, Play Space, Plan the equivalent policy is DM TC 7. 2. Sport and Recreation’ Policy LP 21 ‘Flood Risk and Sustainable Policy LP 7 ‘Archaeology’ Drainage’ Seeks to protect and enhance existing facilities Policy LP 14 ‘Other Open Land of Townscape and spaces. Seeks to protect, enhance and promote the Importance’ Outlines that all developments should avoid, or minimise contributing to all sources of flooding. Within the existing Development Management borough’s archaeological heritage. Seeks to protect their open use and enhance The policy goes on to say that flood defences Plan the equivalent policies are DM OS 6, DM OS Within the existing Development Management where possible. Within the existing Core must be retained. 7 and DM OS 8. Plan the equivalent policies are DM HD 4, DM OS Strategy the equivalent policy is CP10 and in the 2, DM OS 3 and DM OS 6. Development Management Plan the equivalent Within the existing Development Management Plan the equivalent policy is DM SD 6. Further information regarding the borough’s policy is DM OS 3. Archaeological Priority Areas can be found here: https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/our- Policy LP 16 ‘Trees, Woodland and Landscape’ Policy LP 28 ‘Social and Community planning-services/greater-london-archaeology- Infrastructure’ advisory-service/greater-london-archaeological- Requires the protection of existing trees and Outlines that the Council will work with service priority-areas/. woodland in the borough as well as the provision of new trees, shrubs and other vegetation providers and developers to ensure that the landscape significance that complement existing, adequate provision of community service and Policy LP 12 ‘Green Infrastructure’ or create new, high quality green areas, which facilities, especially in areas where there is an identified need or shortage. It also sets out that Seeks to protect and enhance the boroughs green deliver amenity and biodiversity benefits. the loss of social community infrastructure will be infrastructure. Within the existing Development Management resisted. Plan the equivalent policy is DM DC 4.

7 2.3 Twickenham Area Action Plan 2.4 Planning Policy Aims • Ensure that new development is appropriate infrastructure and open spaces. Guidance for The Twickenham Area Action Plan (TAAP) This SPD reinforces the planning policy aims in terms of scale and materials and includes development sites that relate to the network is was adopted in July 2013 and is a statutory which have been established for Twickenham sufficient car parking; provided by the ‘All London Green Grid River development plan document which forms part of Village which seek to achieve the following: • Ensure that grass verges, street trees and Colne and Crane Area Framework’ which can be the Local Plan. The TAAP provides a framework other vegetation are retained; viewed at https://www.london.gov.uk/file/472967/ • Ensure that community services such as download?token=8mUO3hPJ. against which development proposals and schools and health provision are expanded to • Minimise any adverse effects on residents investment decisions can be assessed. It covers meet the needs arising from new development or businesses of large crowds visiting At the more local level the River Crane central Twickenham only and is outside of the within the area; Twickenham Stadium or The Stoop Partnership (the composition of which includes boundary for the Twickenham Village Planning the Council, the Friends of the River Crane • Protect local shopping parades at Whitton (Harlequins Rugby Football Club) through Guidance SPD but provides a useful context. appropriate initiatives and agreements; and Environment [FORCE], the Environment Agency, Road, Twickenham Green and Hospital Bridge Friends of Kneller Gardens and the London • Protect and enhance sites of nature Road; Borough of Hounslow) has produced a vision conservation importance including along the • Protect and enhance conservation areas at document for the Lower Crane Valley. The rivers and at the golf courses. Twickenham Riverside, Amyand Park Road, Vision document and more information relating Queens Road, Twickenham Green, Belmont • Contribute to improvements and to the Partnership can be viewed at http://www. Road, Trafalgar Road, Hamilton Road and May enhancements to the river environment cranevalley.org.uk/projects/lower-river-crane.html Road; of the Rivers Thames, Crane and Duke of • Protect and enhance public open spaces at Northumberland, including those identified Crane Valley, Twickenham Green, Kneller for the Thames Policy Area (such as through Gardens and Craneford Way; maximising benefits in terms of views and vistas, enabling local communities and the • Retain employment uses for business, public to enjoy the riverside and supporting industrial and storage purposes but as river-dependent/river-related uses). opportunities arise seek improvements for residents and particularly to reduce traffic noise and disturbance; The Lower Crane Valley • Secure additional tree planting in areas of The Lower Crane Valley is a linked network deficiency such as Staines Road/Sixth Cross of open spaces along the River Crane. Many Road; of these spaces are of high environmental • Prevent any increase in unsightly car parking significance and valued for recreation. The River in front gardens where possible through Crane forms part of the All London Green planning powers and through publicising Grid, which has been developed to provide a design guidance; strategic interlinked network of high quality green

8 9 3. Spatial Context

This section covers transport, green spaces, shops a number of training grounds and recreation • Movement in the area is strongly influenced along the River Thames is largely complete and services which are an essential part of the areas for local use including Craneford Way by the confluence of routes on central although there are some sections where this village’s character. These are detailed below and, Recreation Ground, Kneller Gardens and Twickenham and there are no crossings over is interrupted. Radnor Gardens is a public together with its hertiage assets, are mapped on Fulwell Public Golf Course. the River Thames in the area although there riverside garden and recreation ground with the following pages. • Churches include the United Reformed is a pedestrian and cycle ferry that operates a cafe which is a much valued community Facilities in Twickenham Church, Twickenham Green Baptist Church, from the river bank at Marble Hill to Ham resource, as is the recently renovated on the opposite bank between March and Pavilion at Kneller Gardens which provides • Central Twickenham offers an important Holy Trinity Church, All Saints Church, All October. refreshments and toilet facilities. focus for shops and services for residents. Hallows Church, St. Mary’s Church and In addition, Twickenham Green and its Twickenham Methodist Church. • An informal off road cycle route exists along • The area is home to some important historic immediate surrounds is a focus for local • Cultural and community facilities include the Crane Valley and provides an attractive riverside estates and their gardens, such as shops, restaurants and community buildings. the Twickenham Museum, The Mary Wallace alternative to the A316 and A305. Road Marble Hill House, Orleans House and York There are a number of local parades, including Theatre, the World Rugby Museum, Orleans based cycle lanes are also provided along a House. on Staines Road and Richmond Road. Out- House and its Gallery and Marble Hill House, number of routes into, and through Central • Twickenham Green provides an important of-town style retail units are found at the the Crane Community Centre and a new Twickenham. historic open space surrounded by fine horse junction between Sixth Cross Road and Community and Cultural space at Brewery • Paths along the Crane Valley and the Duke chestnut trees. It is home to Twickenham Hampton Road, as well as at the Twickenham Wharf. of Northumberland River continue to Cricket Club and is used occasionally for local Road roundabout with the A316. Connectivity and accessibility be enhanced and provide an increasingly fêtes and fairs. connected network of walking routes • The area is well-served by primary and • The Twickenham village area is served by both • Fulwell Golf Club and Fulwell Public Golf providing links beyond the village area. secondary schools including: Orleans Park, Twickenham and Fulwell railway stations. Course provide important open spaces to the Richmond-upon-Thames College, Waldegrave Green Infrastructure west of the area. • Main roads include the A316 along the School, The Mall School, St Richard Reynolds northern edge of the area which provides Twickenham benefits from a number of significant • Children’s play areas are located across the Catholic College, Trafalgar Infant and Junior access to the M3 as does the A305 which also green spaces and recreation opportunities area including larger parks such as Craneford Schools, Orleans Primary School, St Mary’s links Twickenham and Richmond. The A310 including: Way Recreation Ground and Kneller Gardens, Church of England Primary School and GEMS provides a link north to Brentford and the A4 • The waterways passing through the area as well as playgrounds at the Holly Road Twickenham Primary Academy. Chase Bridge and M4. which form an important network of green Garden of Rest, Champions Wharf, Diamond Primary School lies on the boundary with the Jubilee Gardens, Marble Hill and Orleans • The area is well served by bus routes which spaces. The Crane Valley and Duke of area. Garden. run along both the main roads and some Northumberland River provide a central belt • Healthcare facilities within the area are local roads. Staines Road, Hampton Road of waterside spaces and routes. The public • The area is well served by allotments at focused on local doctor and dentist surgeries. and Richmond Road have a high number of section of the River Thames that runs from Sixth Cross Road, Briar Road, Marsh Farm, The nearest walk-in NHS health centre bus routes. The 281 route provides 24 hour Twickenham to Richmond benefits from a Cavendish House and South Close. and hospital is to the south of the area connections between Tolworth and Hounslow. series of gardens and spaces linked by the • Eel Pie Island forms a rare landscape form in in Teddington. West Middlesex Hospital The 490 route runs east-west through river path. the River Thames and is an important feature provides the main A&E services for the area. the area providing a link to Heathrow and • Opportunities to complete public access and landmark. • In addition to Twickenham’s nationally Richmond. The 267 provides access to the exist along both the Crane River and Duke important rugby venues at Twickenham West Middlesex University Hospital. of Northumberland River. The riverside walk Stadium and The Stoop, the area benefits from 10 Connectivity and accessibility in Twickenham

A316 Chertsey Road

London Road

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Sixth Cross Road KEY Hampton Road A305 SPD boundary Twickenham Action Area Plan (excluded from SPD area) Rail station Bus stop Dedicated cycle route Main road Local road Minor road London Loop walking route Plan showing the connectivity and accessibility in Twickenham

11 Facilities in Twickenham

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SPD boundary Twickenham Action Area Plan (excluded from SPD area) Local shops, facilities, restaurants, bars and cafes Take Strawberry Hill boundary out Community, leisure, culture and tourism Education Employment Healthcare Plan showing the local facilities in Twickenham

12 Green infrastructure in Twickenham

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Metropolitan Open Land Other Site of Nature Importance Historic Parks and Gardens Other Open Land of Townscape Importance Other open land (non-designated) Landmark Plan showing the green infrastructure in Twickenham The definitive boundaries in relation to the designations shown can be viewed on the Council’s Proposals map. The areas are correct at the time of publication.

13 Heritage Assets in Twickenham

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SPD boundary Twickenham Action Area Plan (excluded from SPD area) Listed building Building of Townscape Merit Conservation Area Historic Parks and Gardens Plan showing the heritage assets in Twickenham Note that Archaeological Priority Areas are recorded on the Council’s Archaeological Constraints Map. Buildings of Townscape Merit are not designated and are locally listed. Listed buildings are designated and recognised nationally. Please note that these are correct at the time of publishing this document. For the most up to date information please see the Council’s website.

14 4. Vision for Twickenham 5. Objectives

The Vision for Twickenham is that it is a connected community with good access The Twickenham Village Planning Guidance SPD has been developed to leisure facilities, green spaces and its rivers, community networks and services to meet the following objectives, which correspond to those in the both within the locality and the wider area. It will be the home of choice as a Council’s Design Quality SPD. result of its high quality residential areas well served by both a vibrant centre and more local facilities. Twickenham’s important sporting and cultural attractions will be maximised and disruption to local residents and businesses minimised.

Twickenham is a long established centre providing Twickenham main centre lies at the heart of the Identify local character – to identify local Design Review – to provide a framework for a wide range of shops and services as well as area and is the largest of the borough’s district character and heritage assets for enhancement or the Council to use in reviewing the effectiveness leisure and cultural opportunities. The intimate centres providing a good range of shops and protection. of planning and other public realm decisions. scale of the original riverside village clustered services. There are also local shopping parades Promote high standards of design - through Local Policy Context - to identify those around the Parish Church remains in Church in Whitton Road, Hospital Bridge Road and high quality illustrative material and simple statutory Local Plan policies which are essential Street and the lanes leading to it. Twickenham Green. guidance and advice to local residents and to addressing local issues. (See paragraph 2.3) Outside the centre, Twickenham Green is an The vision for central Twickenham is based on businesses. attractive open space overlooked by Georgian a high quality centre serving local residents, Development Management – to and Victorian dwellings. North of the Green the workers and visitors to meet modern set design guidelines for householders, developers character is of dense terraced cottages while requirements and have a strong local economy and the Council (in relation the south west is more mixed, with streets whilst making the most of its distinctive heritage, to public realm) to encourage high quality of villas. To the west along Staines Road the open spaces and riverside. Twickenham Stadium, development and, if possible, avoid the need to housing progresses from Victorian to interwar in which is a world famous landmark, and the home refuse development proposals. character. of Rugby Union will continue to support the local Implementation of schemes – to provide and national economy and the borough’s leisure There are important open spaces along the River advice for householders and businesses that will and tourism offer. The Stoop (Harlequins Rugby Thames and River Crane, at Kneller Gardens, help them achieve repairs and modernisation Football Club), Marble Hill House and Orleans Twickenham Green, Radnor Gardens and which respects local character, and where Park will continue to be important attractions. Twickenham and Fulwell Golf Courses. These are possible restore original details which have been complemented by the Diamond Jubilee Gardens The rest of the area is largely residential with lost during earlier modifications. and will be further enhanced by the proposed some local shops and businesses. These areas development to provide a heart for the area at will be maintained and enhanced as will the Twickenham Riverside. This is an area that many Lower Crane Valley, in order to provide a major visitors are currently unaware of and there is an open space corridor linking the village area. opportunity to increase the public’s awareness of Enhancements to the Duke of Northumberland’s this ‘jewel in the crown’ of Twickenham. River will also be sought. Industrial and commercial uses are concentrated around Colne Road and are interspersed with housing. The vision is to retain the mixed use character and where opportunities arise, the impact on residents from traffic, including lorry movements will be reduced. 15 6. Character Area Assessments

The identification of local character is one of the primary objectives of the SPD. The character area assessments sub-divide the village into a smaller set of sub areas, some of which are further sub-divided. Each area has been defined by grouping properties where a large proportion have similar characteristics, features and materials. These have Character Areas been identified and recorded.

A number of the areas included within this Character Area 1: Rivermead and surrounds Section are designated Conservation Areas. More Character Area 2: Lincoln Avenue and surrounds information regarding Conservation Areas can Character Area 3: Fulwell Park be viewed at http://www.richmond. gov.uk/home/ Character Area 4: Leeson Estate services/planning/conservation_ areas.htm Character Area 5: Fulwell Triangle Character Area 6: Cross Roads Some areas are the subject of what is known Conservation Area 7: Trafalgar Road as an Article 4 direction. These remove certain Conservation Area 8: Belmont Road Permitted Development Rights from properties. Conservation Area 9: Twickenham Green This means that if you want to extend or alter Character Area 10: Campbell your home in a way that would normally be Character Area 11: North of the Green allowed under permitted development you will Conservation Area 12: Hamilton Road need to apply for planning permission to do so. Character Area 13: Heath Road north The fact that Permitted Development Rights have Character Area 14: Town Centre fringe been removed does not automatically mean that Conservation Area 15: Queen’s Road Character Area 16: Heatham Estate (including Richmond upon planning permission will not be granted, Thames College and The Stoop) but careful consideration will be given as Character Area 17: Chertsey Road to the effect that the proposal will have on the Character Area 18: Cole Park character and appearance of the local area. Conservation Area 19: Amyand Park Road Information on Article 4 Directions can be viewed Character Area 20: Haggard at http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/services/ Conservation Area 21: Twickenham Riverside planning/conservation_areas/article_4_directions. htm Conservation Areas

Photographs from around Twickenham

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Character Area plan

17 Character area 1: Rivermead and surrounds

Character Summary had their crittal windows replaced with uPVC of Dominant Features and Materials different proportions of frame detailing. Glebe This character area is on the western edge of the Key features are red-brick bungalows, low rise Cottages were built in the late 1800s and were study area and includes the Rivermead Estate, yellow brick terraces, alternation between gabled associated with the former Glebe Farm. They Fulwell Golf Course and Twickenham Road to the roofing and hipped roofing, two-storey blocks of fronted Hanworth Road (now Twickenham Road) west. The character area has been divided into flats, well maintained green spaces, free-standing and housed workers of the farm adjacent. three sub-areas. commercial buildings, hard surfacing. In the north of the area along Butts Crescent, Rivermead Estate Fulwell Golf Course Whiteleys Way and Glebe Way the relationship The inter-war Rivermead Estate is located to between buildings and the streets changes with The majority of the character area is occupied the north of Staines Road and has a distinctive mid-century blocks of housing set well back from, by Fulwell Golf Course to the south, which triangular residential form arranged as an outer or perpendicular to, the street, with green spaces is largely hidden from the surrounding roads, and inner cul-de-sac with green open space at its enclosed by railings, large trees and shrubbery in between. Glebe Way consists of a series of 1868 Ordnance Survey centre. The estate is built in the garden city style low rise yellow brick terraced housing and flats on Burtons Road, Uxbridge Road and Staines and has a consistent character of predominantly set out in the 1960s, with protruding porches Road. Historically the area formed the southern semi-detached houses in red brick and white and tiled roofing. Casement windows are flush extent of Hounslow Heath and this heritage is render, with relatively few exceptions. A number with their exterior. There is a varied boundary still evident in the landscape today - the mature of corner positions have attractive art deco treatment and hedges are interspersed with open trees and drainage ditches reflect the 19th houses which enrich the area. front gardens and low walls. Green verges and century field boundaries. The area was used for Dominant Features and Materials occasional tree planting line the streets. farming and was the location of Blackmoor Farm and the majority of Slade Farm. The golf course is Key features are red brick, white render, The northern end of Butts Crescent and characterised by its two 18-hole layout, one public terracotta tiling, front gardens with low walls, Whiteleys Way comprise a number of low and one private. On-site is also a modern health, 1993 photograph showing the Hope & Anchor pub, now demolished and replaced by McDonald’s hedge boundaries and street trees. rise residential blocks of flats set within well spa and conference centre, located at its western Twickenham Road West maintained communal grounds. These grounds edge. Along the Sixth Cross Road boundary is a and hedging provide a buffer between the flats There is a varied character to the west of stretch of allotments enclosed by trees. • Tree removal leading to poor pavement and the A316 Chertsey Road. Rivermead and along Twickenham Road, including Dominant Features and Materials condition. Broadlands is located just south of Twickenham a mix of commercial and residential uses. To the Key features are landscaped parkland, mature • Pressure for front garden parking. west are a small number of ‘big-box’ purpose- Road and replaced a nursery in the 1970s. It is characterised by single detached red brick trees, water features and free-standing purpose- Opportunities built commercial buildings. Concrete surfaces built buildings. are dominant with ample space for car-parking. bungalows which alternate between gabled and • Improving the public realm - especially roads, McDonald’s replaced the Hope & Anchor pub hipped roofing and are laid out on a quiet curved Threats from Development footpaths and signage. no-through road. Low brick walls and landscaped which was demolished in c.1994. • Domination of traffic. • Improve highway conditions and pedestrian front gardens front the properties. Along Twickenham Road, inter-war detached and • Poorly-defined boundaries as a result of the convenience, particularly at the junction of semi-detached properties with gardens front removal of front garden walls for off-road Rivermeads Avenue and Court Close Avenue, the street. Many of the inter-war houses have parking. and along Twickenham Road.

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Rivermead Estate Homebase Character Area boundary 19 Character area 2: Lincoln Avenue and surrounds

Character Summary Crane Park awards and has ‘green flag’ status. Its pavilion has been recently renovated to provide a kiosk This area includes the extent of Crane Park that This section of Crane Park extends horizontally (which is run as a social enterprise to provide is within the Twickenham Village boundary, and across the area from Hospital Bridge Road in the opportunities for young people not in education the area of housing to the north, enclosed by south-west to the railway line in the north-east, or training) and public toilets, located adjacent Chertsey Road and the railway line to the east. encompassing Kneller Gardens. The park extends further westwards beyond the study area. It to the Gardens tennis courts, football pitch The northern end of Meadway accesses onto the follows the bend of the River Crane, a defining and playground. As such it provides a popular A316 Chertsey Road and a pedestrian underpass natural feature running through the centre of and well-loved facility within the heart of the provides a link to Whitton, including its station. the park, with woodland, scrub and reedbed at community in west Twickenham. The residential area around Lincoln Avenue, the riverside and shared use footpaths running The character of the wider Crane Park varies Selkirk Road and Meadway benefits from its alongside. with seasonal changes (for example, changes proximity to Crane Park, but is relatively isolated There are points at which the park opens up with to vegetation, wildlife and weather), offering a from other parts of Twickenham. The inter-war 1935 Ordnance Survey large expanses of green spaces, characterised by diverse experience throughout the year. The park housing area was laid out in the 1930s and is high walls and backs of houses, with alley-ways underwent a major restoration programme from characterised by short blocks of terraces with providing connections from residential areas into 2010-2012. gabled roofing steeply pitched with tile hung or the park. It is also characterised by a number of Dominant Features and Materials timber cladding at each end. Other terraces roads that intersect the park at various points, for are distinguished by their gabled bays and Key features are the winding river and associated example Hospital Bridge Road and Meadway, and tudorbethan features, with red-brick flemish reedbed, scrub and woodland. The park has a each section has its own unique feel. bond brickwork and red tile hung exterior. The varied landscape with open stretches of green houses step back from the road, with off-street Warren Farm was formerly located on the space juxtaposed with narrow and winding car-parking and hard surfaces in front, although northern tip of the park by Lincoln Avenue. stretches enclosed by trees and vegetation. some houses have gardens with small brick walls Mereway Bathing Place opened in 1895 at the Threats from Development fronting the pavement. top of Mereway Road and was a popular place • Development pressure which may harm the for families who lived nearby. It was used by Park Crescent, to the east of Meadway, has a very balance of the river and green landscape, and Children fishing at Crane Park c.1950s local schools. Consequently, hundreds of children different character to the remainder of the area. result in the overuse of Kneller Gardens. learnt to swim there but river pollution led to its It was built in the 1990s with a more informal • Enhancement of river corridor. closure in 1930. • Poorly-defined boundaries as a result of the layout of predominantly two and three storey removal of front garden walls for off-road • Extension eastwards of pedestrian route along housing in red brick around informal green spaces. Kneller Gardens lies within the larger Crane parking. Crane Valley in conjunction with development Dominant Features and Materials Valley Park, to the east of the area. It is laid out proposals at Twickenham station. as a recreation ground which gives it its own • Improvements to crossing points along Crane Key features are visible chimneys, gabled roofing, distinctive character within the context of the Opportunities Park at Meadway and Hospital Bridge Road. tudorbethan features, red tile hung, timber wider Park. It is well-used by groups ranging from • Encourage the retention and reinstatement of cladding, red brick and off-street parking. Age UK to the Twickenham Tigers youth football front gardens. • Further enhancements to the Kneller Gardens pavilion for community uses. club, as well as community events run by the • Selective tree planting including in Lincoln Friends of Kneller Gardens, has received several Avenue, Selkirk Road and Kneller Gardens.

20 Housing along Lincoln Avenue Access from Lincoln Avenue to the park 1935 Ordnance Survey

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Signposting to Crane Park Island and the Shot Tower, further west Character Area boundary and outside of the study boundary 21 Character area 3: Fulwell Park

Character Summary Dominant Features and Materials The area is well served by a small parade of shops which occupy the corner of Staines Road and This character area is located in the western half Key features are red brick frontages with Hospital Bridge Road. These are characterised of the study area and is characterised by short roughcast finish at the upper levels of some by a curved tile roof and red-brick frontage, residential terraces to the south of the River houses, casement windows, flemish bond distinctive protruding chimneys and vibrant shop- Crane. It includes the shops and housing along brickwork, gabled/terraced slate roofing steeply front signage and canopies. Account should be Staines Road and Manor Road. pitched, inside porches with decorative red brickwork above and around doors, green verges taken of the Council’s ‘shopfronts’ SPD (March The residential area north of Staines Road is with pavement on either side, incidental green 2010) when replacing any shopfronts. characterised by inter-war Garden City style spaces. Dominant Features and Materials housing laid out on the former Fulwell Estate. Fulwell Lodge, built c.1623, was formerly located There is a dominance of off-street car parking Key features are red brick, tudorbethan features, on the estate and was demolished in 1932. The interspersed with varied boundary treatments, hipped roofs, barge boards, and gabled double- Lodge was occupied by King Manoel of Portugal including brick walls and picket fencing, enclosing height bay windows. 1871 Ordnance Survey showing Fulwell Park and Lodge from 1913 to 1932. It was purchased in 1932 by small front gardens. Wates who developed the estate with housing Staines Road Threats from Development in the mid 1930s. The Portuguese connection Staines Road (A305) is a key connector route is remembered in the road names, for example • Poorly-defined boundaries as a result of the from Hanworth and west Twickenham to central Lisbon Avenue, Manoel Road and Portugal removal of front garden walls for off-road Twickenham, and has a distinctly different Gardens. parking. character from the residential roads on the • Removal of original front garden boundaries The roads share a similar feel, characterised by former Fulwell Park Estate. The prevailing and replacement with a different design and/ avenues with large leafy trees on either side. character is of semi-detached inter-war housing or material, threatening the uniform character Small rows of terraces line the avenues, with on either side of the street behind front gardens. of the houses. gabled roofing steeply pitched with tile hung or Houses along the north side of Staines Road timber cladding at each end. The area is close to are distinguished from those on the south side, Opportunities Crane Park and there is pedestrian access across with more tudorbethan features and elongated Fulwell Lodge, 1903 • Improving the public realm - especially street the River Crane to Lincoln Avenue from Mill timber and tile door canopies. Wide pavements furniture, roads and footpaths. Road. Fulwell Mill, also known as New Mill, stood are interspersed with large mature trees which beside the river in the 17th century but had gone line the busy road, with car-parking on either side. • Selective tree planting. out of use by 1880. It is now marked by Mill Road. Medium-height brick walls form the boundary • Encouraging the retention and reinstatement Incidental green spaces at the northern end of between the driveways and the pavement and do of front gardens. Mill Road and western end of Fulwell Park Avenue not give much privacy. are a positive feature.

22 Mill Road M Parade of shops at corner with Hospital Bridge Road IL 1871 Ordnance Survey showing Fulwell Park and Lodge L R O A D

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Staines Road north side West along Lisbon Avenue Character Area boundary 23 Character area 4: Leeson Estate

Character Summary Dominant Features and Materials This character area consists of a series of curving Key features are half rendered stucco and red parallel avenues connecting Staines Road (A305) brick, pastel colouring, terrace and semi-detached with Sixth Cross Road. The Leeson Estate was houses, prominent chimneys, hipped roofs and laid out in the 1930s and was influenced by the clay Roman tiles, decorative arch panels, side Garden City style, with a consistent character of passage entrances, front gardens, off-street semi-detached and terraced housing in stucco and parking, picket fencing, hedges, hedgerows, trees, red brick. The pastel frontages and decorative tudorbethan features and gabled roofs along Sixth arch panels of some of the properties add to Cross Road. the area’s charm. Many front gardens in Twining and Fielding Avenue have been retained and are Threats from Development bounded by picket fencing, hedges and some 1938 Ordnance Survey brick walls, and tree planting lines the avenues, • Removal of front garden boundaries for contributing to its Garden City feel. Conversely off-road parking, threatening the uniform the loss of front gardens to parking in Fortescue character of the streets. Avenue has eroded this feel. The roads - Twining • Removal of original front garden boundaries Avenue, Fielding Avenue, Fortescue Avenue and and replacement with a different design and/ Clarendon Crescent, are named after famous or material, threatening the uniform character local people from Twickenham. of the houses. Sixth Cross Road is a historic road connecting Great Chertsey Road and Staines Road (A305) Opportunities with Fulwell and Teddington. Housing fronts the • Improving the public realm, particularly road on the eastern side and dates from the footpaths and roads. 1930s. The properties are predominantly semi- • Encouraging the reinstatement and retention detached houses set back behind deep gardens. Approved planning application for semi-detached houses on Fielding Avenue, 1935 of front gardens. Large mature street trees help frame Sixth Cross Road, supported by a deep green verge to the south.

Sixth Cross Road at junction with Wellington Rd, c.1912 24 AD O R ES N AI ST

Twining Avenue View east along Clarendon Crescent 1938 Ordnance Survey

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Bicycle path from Twining Avenue View north of Fortescue Avenue Character Area boundary 25 Character area 5: Fulwell Triangle

Character Summary character area. Grove Road is a no-through road openings at the top of each gable and a large located off Hampton Road and is characterised clock in the centre. It is a dominant feature in the This character area is located at the southern by a small row of terraced housing, laid out on area, with original red bricked garages as well as a edge of the study area, bounded by the rail line a narrow street with cars parked on either side. red bricked wall running along its boundary with and Stanley Road to the east. The pastel colours, curved sash windows, climbing Stanley Road still in existence. The area has a varied character with a mix of plants and small front gardens with planting commercial and industrial units in the central pots add to its quaint character. In contrast a Dominant Features and Materials part, comprising large modern footprint buildings contemporary development is located at the end Key features are red brick, gabled and pedimented ranging from retail sheds to warehouse units, set of the road. spans, circular glazed openings and red brick within areas of outdoor storage, servicing and Queen Anne’s Close, located off Stanley Road, boundary walls. car parking. The Garden Centre to the west of is a modern cul-de-sac development of terraces Wellington Road is located on the site of the with light brick and casement windows and small 1895 Ordnance Survey former Blackmoor Farm and nursery, which was Threats from Development lawns in front. The doors are distinctive for their run by the local Poupart family in the early 1900s. decorative pilaster and gable surrounds. • Replacement of historic windows and doors The parade of shops on Hampton Road is with those of modern materials or designs Wellington Gardens, to the south, is a 1930s characterised by gabled bay windows, tile hung that do not follow the original glazing type semi-detached housing development, with and prominent chimneys set back from the and opening style, particularly along Grove prominent chimneys, red brickwork, gable roofs road, with planting and paved surfaces in front. Road. and tudorbethan features. The canopies and outdoor seating area add to • Poorly-defined boundaries as a result of the its character. Account should be taken of the A small number of houses front the western side removal of front garden walls for off-road Council’s ‘shopfronts’ SPD (March 2010) when of Hampton Road and vary in age, parking. replacing any shopfronts. • Removal of original front garden boundaries Further along Hampton Road is The Mall School Dominant Features and Materials and replacement with a different design and/ and Theatre which fronts directly onto the street, Key features include a mix of housing types and or material, threatening the uniform character whereas an older yellow brick building with a Fulwell Tram Depot, date unknown features. These include curved sash windows, of the houses. clock tower steps back from the street with small front gardens, decorative pilaster and high yellow brick walls, black gates and columns gable surrounds, red brickwork, gable roofs, Opportunities marking the entrance to the school. The former tudorbethan features. • Improving the public realm - especially street Nelson Inn, now a restaurant, sits on the corner furniture and footpaths. of Hampton Road and Stanley Road with a car Fulwell Bus Garage • Encouraging the retention and reinstatement park to the rear. Fulwell Bus Garage was formerly a tram depot of front gardens. built in 1902 for London United Tramways and Residential enclaves London’s very first trolleybuses operated from Small, enclosed and distinctive residential pockets here from1931. It was re-built in 1987 and has are located to the north and south of the four gabled and pedimented spans, circular glazed

Lord Nelson pub at the junction of Hampton Road and Stanley Road, 1972 26 S T A N L E Y R O A D

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Character Summary Trafalgar Infant School is situated in the middle Opportunities of the area at the heart of the local community, The Cross Roads character area comprises • Improving the public realm - street furniture with access from Third Cross Road. It was built c. a series of parallel roads connecting Staines and the footpaths. 1905. Road with Hampton Road and bounded by Waldegrave School to the west and Twickenham Waldegrave School and its playing fields were Green Conservation Area to the east. The 1818 built on the site of Twickenham Common, shown Enclosure Award led to the development of the in the 1894 Ordnance Survey as a surviving roads which were laid out by 1865, with the fragment of Hounslow Heath, and was previously exception of Gothic Road and Elmsleigh Road known as Thames Valley County Grammar School. which were built later in the early 1900s. The school comprises a range of building styles and sizes, of varying ages. The boundary with The area is mainly residential housing belonging Fifth Cross Road is formed mainly by iron railings to a wide variety of ages and styles, ranging 1894 Ordnance Survey with planting behind in places. The playing fields from Victorian terraces along Denmark Road are located to the west of the school buildings. which front directly onto the street, to post- war housing on Third Cross Road with small A pub is situated on the corner of Bedford Road front gardens bounded by low brick walls. Early and Fourth Cross Road. 20th century terraces with small gardens and prominent chimneys front the north side of Third Dominant Features and Materials Cross Road and inter-war housing is laid out on Elmsleigh Road. Key features are red and yellow brick, stucco, front gardens and straight roads running parallel The west side of Gothic Road is distinctive for to one another. its long narrow and enclosed driveways leading to terraced housing. A series of narrow streets

connect Fourth Cross and Fifth Cross Roads Threats from Development 1972 photograph looking along Chestnut Grove are characterised by their small and intimate • Over-painting of brick façades, detracting from paths, terraced housing, backs of houses and high the visual character of the area. walls and fences. Small landscaped gardens front • Replacement of historic windows and doors the properties. In contrast Fifth Cross Road is with those of modern materials or designs much wider, although it still has a wide variety that do not follow the original glazing type of housing styles from various eras. Across the and opening style. character area are examples of 21st century infill development adding to the variety of • Loss of front gardens in favour of car parking. development along these roads. • Loss of front garden boundaries and replacement with a different design and/or material.

1978 photograph looking along Second Cross Road 28 C H S E E S C T O N N U D T D R A C O RO R ES O A IN S D TA S S R O A D

E L M G S O L T E H IG T I H C H I R R R D O O Denmark Road View along Fifth Cross Road A A C F R 1894 Ordnance Survey O D D O U S R S T R H O C A R D O D S A S O R R D O AN A TL D RU

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Waldegrave School Denmark Road Character Area boundary 29 Conservation area 7: Trafalgar Road

Character Summary with the hipped roofs, emphasises the individual Opportunities villa character of these houses. The front garden The conservation area is formed by a tranquil • Additional planting outside the immediate boundaries to the road are distinguished by residential road accessed from Hampton Road, area e.g. Gothic Road, could enhance the decorative gates and iron railings on low brick with Fourth Cross Road to the south west and views and setting. walls with stone copings. Gothic Road to the north. The area was originally Link to full Conservation Area Statement: designated in 1969. It is roughly rectangular http://www.richmond.gov.uk/ca_trafalgar_road1. in shape, neatly comprising two rows of semi- Dominant Features and Materials pdf detached villa style houses on either side of the Key features are an even and straight layout, street, which were built in 1845. mature trees, hedges and shrubberies, attractive The area formed part of Hounslow Heath until large front gardens, low pitched slate roofs, 1837, but was developed into an estate called painted stucco or stock brick walls, moulded Trafalgar Square in 1845 by Mr. William Horsley. architraves, entablatures or consoles above 1868 Ordnance Survey It was one of the first of many small estates of windows, attractive iron balconies, canopies and semi-detached houses to be built in Twickenham. porches. Originally the estate had an oval pond and green open space in the middle but this was replaced Threats from Development with a road in 1882 and the front gardens were • The ease of passage is hindered by cars extended. Trafalgar Road is relatively narrow and parked on both sides of the road. straight, with views contained by the buildings in Hampton Road and Gothic Road. • The appearance of some of the properties through alterations and extensions, The area is distinctive from its immediate particularly single storey brick extensions with surroundings for its consistent scale and style of flat roofs, upsetting the balance of the facade. architecture. The adjacent Fourth Cross Road, for example, is more village like, and the late • Removal of original glazing bars, windows, Victorian brown brick cottages on Gothic Road porches, balconies and other details which are also very different in style and scale. The threaten the character of the properties. high quality housing is set within ample mature • Development that detracts from the original landscaped gardens with abundant planting of symmetry of the properties. trees and shrubs, which often obscure the houses • Removal of hedges or shrubs, introduction of from a distance. The spaces between the Trafalgar unsympathetic paving materials and enlarging Road buildings are an important component of of paved areas will threaten the appearance of the overall character of the area which, together the area. • Threat to the quiet residential road and tranquil quality.

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Distinctive brick pillars are a cohesive feature along the road Trafalgar Road Conservation Area boundary 31 Conservation area 8: Belmont Road

Character Summary Dominant Features and Materials This conservation area is located between Staines Key features are mature garden plots and Road to the south-east and Crane Park to the attractive front gardens, spacious gaps between north, and accessed from Staines Road. The area buildings, pastel colouring, consistent rendered was originally designated in 1977. boundary walls and piers to the street, stucco façades, shallow slate roofs, classic details with It is an early residential development of villas moulded window surrounds, rusticated plinths, built in the mid 19th century on open fields. The quoins and porches. group of semi-detached and terraced houses to the northwest was built slightly later towards the end of the 19th century. Originally the Threats from Development properties had direct access to the River Crane, • Loss of traditional architectural features and although this was prevented by development soon materials. 1868 Ordnance Survey after WWII which closed off this access. The • Loss of front boundary treatments and front conservation area has a distinguished character gardens for car parking. which is set apart from the mostly 20th and 21st century development surrounding it, including a • Lack of coordination and poor quality of modern cul-de-sac development to the northwest street furniture and paving. which is of a smaller scale with modest front gardens and space for parking. Opportunities The villas are two storey detached Victorian • Preserve, enhance and reinstate the houses on the east side and three storeys on the architectural quality and unity. west side, in Italianate style. They are set within • Retain and enhance front boundary large well-planted front gardens which have treatments and discourage an increase in the consistent rendered boundary walls and piers to amount of hard surfacing in front gardens. the street, helping to contribute to their uniform character. The spacious gaps between the • Coordinate colour and design of features and buildings are an important characteristic of the materials. townscape. Although unified by their common • Improve the quality of street furniture and use of materials and detailing, the villas on the paving. west side are slightly more elaborate.

Link to full Conservation Area Statement: http://www.richmond.gov.uk/conarea29_a3_rgb. pdf

32 Belmont Road Large three-storey villas on the west side 1868 Ordnance Survey

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Looking north along Belmont Road Cul-de-sac at the north western end of Belmont Road Conservation area boundary 33 Conservation area 9: Twickenham Green

Character Summary The Green - south side pavilion is located to the south which is a timber structure replacing a larger Victorian pavilion The conservation area is focused on Twickenham On the south side are Apsley Villas, an unspoilt which stood on the same site. Green at the meeting point between Staines Road group of large paired houses with stucco under and Hampton Road, with its distinctive triangular shallow slate roofs. The villas were built in the Dominant Features and Materials shape. The area was originally designated in 1840s and have large gardens behind uniform 1969 and was later extended in 1982, 1991 and boundary walls. Red brick Victorian villas Key features are the triangular grassy public land, 1992. It is an important and historic open space continue to frame the Green on the southern mature trees, brick and slate roofs, traditional and most development around it is from the side. The materials, style and scale of buildings shopfronts, terraced housing, small front gardens, 19th century, with some 18th century surviving along Hampton Road is varied, and include no.24 Victorian villas, hedges, red brick, early Edwardian elements. These buildings have varied façades, with its distinctive dutch gable and castellation cottages with long narrow garden plots. materials and roofscapes that add interest to and the ornate Victorian ‘The Albert’ public house. the area. The conservation area is a mix of Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II listed building Threats from Development 1869 Ordnance Survey residential, commercial, community and industrial built in 1840-1 and of Gothic revival design, uses and has been divided into three sub-areas to conceived by George Basevi. It is a distinctive • Loss of traditional architectural features and reflect its varied character. local landmark. materials. • Loss of front boundary treatments and front The Green - north side First Cross Road gardens for car parking. Generally larger two to three storey buildings line Small scale Victorian and early Edwardian cottage- • Lack of coordination and poor quality of the northern side of the green. A positive feature style properties, some with timber construction, street furniture and flooring. is Twickenham Baptist Church. The buildings are front First Cross Road and benefit from their • Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian closely packed together with a building line close intimate proximity to The Green. These relatively safety leading to clutter of signage and street to the pavement and many of the buildings still older cottages have distinctive historic long furniture. retain their fine original shopfronts. Account narrow garden plots. should be taken of the Council’s ‘shopfronts’ • Loss of original or quality shop fronts and unsympathetic alterations and advertisement. Tram at Twickenham Green, date unknown SPD (March 2010) when replacing any shopfront. Twickenham Green May and Albion Roads are also included in the The Green is an important area of public open conservation area and are characterised by tightly space; not only is it valued historically as one Opportunities spaced terraced houses set behind small front of the last surviving pieces of Hounslow Heath, • Preserve, enhance and reinstate the gardens or fronting directly onto the pavement. it is also significant in terms of the positive architectural quality and unity. There is an important view down May Road contribution that it makes to the local community. towards Holy Trinity Church across the Green. • Retain and enhance front boundary The Green was enclosed in 1818 and later sold treatments and discourage increase in the to Twickenham Town Council in the 1860s for amount of hard surfacing in front gardens. use as a public recreational space. The Green is • Coordinate colour and design of features and lined with a low post and rail fence and mature materials. chestnut and lime trees, which were planted in 1872. Younger trees run along its central path. A • Improve the quality of street furniture and flooring. Snow on Twickenham Green, pre 1916 34 AD View south to Holy Trinity C of E Church RO Looking across the Green towards the Cricket Club Pavilion ATH M HE A Y

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Shops along the north of the Green Conservation Area boundary 35 Character area 10: Campbell

Character Summary in red brick and render. All Saints Church is also detached housing or small blocks of terraces with a dominant feature of the road. a mix of gabled bays and hipped roofs. Trafalgar This character area is located to the north of Infant School and Crane Community Centre Staines Road and encompasses Campbell Close, On the corner of Brinsworth Close and Staines are located on the northern edge of the area. A Churchview Road, Brinsworth Close and also Road is Brinsworth House, a residential and common element of the housing is the red roof includes the spine of Meadway. nursing home for those who have served in the entertainment industry. The Grade II Listed tiles and protruding chimneys, distinguishing it The area is residential with a variety of types, building was probably built in the late 18th from surrounding residential areas. Many of the materials and ages of housing. All of the housing century or early 19th century. It is a two storey properties have attractive front gardens with addresses the streets with varying depths of house of three bays width and has a low pitched bushes, shrubs, trees and picket fencing along front gardens. Terraced houses along Campbell slate roof. It is built in brick with stucco quoins the edges, helping to create a sense of unity and Road date from the late 19th century and are and first floor window surrounds. The building contributing to Meadway’s garden character. The characterised by red and yellow brick exteriors houses along Andover Road are special for their has a central and classically detailed entrance 1912 Ordnance Survey and attractive front gardens. Midway down which is flanked either side by semi-circular gabled protruding entrances and flemish bond the road is All Saints Church, a Grade II Listed bow windows. The building has an impressive brick-work. building constructed between 1913 and 1914 to presence on Staines Road, stepped back with the designs of J. S. Alder. It is predominantly red an extensive landscaped garden in front and Dominant Features and Materials brick with Weldon stone dressing and a red tiled bordered by a low brick wall. Key features are half rendered, half flemish bond roof. Campbell Close, at the northern end of brickwork, stucco, gabled bays and terraces, Campbell Road, is an early development by the Dominant Features and Materials semi-detached housing with hipped roofing, small pioneering Span company, built c.1955. The cul- casement windows, pastel colouring, Roman red de-sac is formed of terraces with white painted Key features are red brick surrounds, small front tiled roofing, bushes and hedgerows and picket brick and red tile cladding, separated by strips of gardens and street trees, red roof tiles, prominent fencing. yellow brickwork. A small row of 1960s housing chimneys and sash windows. built just off Staines Road is in a similar style. Meadway Threats from Development Brinsworth Close was built in the 1950s and is Meadway is a distinctively straight road of 1930s photograph showing All Saints Church on Campbell Road • Replacement of historic windows and doors a small cul-de-sac of terraces behind wide grass residential housing cutting through Crane Park with those of modern materials or designs lawns. Green verges mark the road from the and Kneller Gardens, linking Staines Road and that do not follow the original glazing type pavement. The houses are characterised by their Twickenham to the residential area north of Opportunities and opening style. tiled roofs, casement windows and tile cladding. Crane Park, including Lincoln Avenue and Park • Improving the public realm - especially street The doors are stepped back from the exterior Crescent. The area includes part of Andover • Removal of front garden boundaries and furniture, roads and footpaths. and strips of multi-coloured brickwork mark the Road to the east. Meadway was constructed in replacement with a different design and / or boundary between each house. the 1930s and so its length and straightness is material. This undermines the uniformity of Perigan, White Lodge and Churchview Court unique compared with older roads laid out to the the terraces. were laid out on Churchview Road in the 1950s, east which were built earlier at a much finer grain. and form three distinctive mid rise blocks of flats The area is characterised by inter-war semi-

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Character Summary Contrasting with the uniform terraces prevailing Threats from Development in the area is a small block of 1960/70s housing This character area takes in the residential area • Replacement of historic windows and doors cradling Edwin Road and Colne Road. The three to the north of Twickenham Green, up to the with those of modern materials or designs storey block steps back from the road with large River Crane. The railway arches form its eastern that do not follow the original glazing type trees and green space screening the building edge, and Meadway and Andover Road form its and opening style, particularly along Grove from the street, enclosed by a low wooden fence. western edge. Road. James Darby House is located on the corner The area was one of the first areas to be rapidly of Mereway and Colne Road, distinctive for its • Removal of original front garden boundaries developed in the late 1880s, along Colne Road, curved brick frontage, landscaped gardens and and replacement with a different design and/ Mereway Road, Albion Road and May Road. parapet roof. A number of more contemporary or material, threatening the uniform character of the houses. It is largely characterised by late Victorian infill developments in the form of culs-de-sac are terraced housing, generally in London stock also located at Rowntree Road and Crane Mews. Opportunities 1894 Ordnance Survey brick with slate roofs and protruding chimneys, The area is also distinctive for its light industry, although some have been painted over or are which is tucked amongst the predominantly • Improving the public realm - especially street rendered. Other features include white surrounds residential area between Twickenham Green and furniture, roads and footpaths. above doors and windows, sash windows, tiled the River Crane. These industrial pockets can be • To upgrade the ‘pocket park’ on the south canopies, and hanging baskets which add charm found along Mereway Road, Colne Road and to side of Edwin Road. to the properties. Houses along May Road are the north of Edwin Road and are characterised by • Reinstating architectural details. particularly uniform in character, distinctive for single storey warehouse units and outdoor space their London stock brick with decorative red- for parking. brick surround. There are pockets of Edwardian A small Metropolitan Police memorial, unveiled terraces, including on the south side of Gould in 2000, is located on the corner of Mereway Road, of which key features include the gabled Road and Colne Road, in memory of the police roofs and projecting bays. officer PC Kulwant Singh Sidhu, who died there in 11 Briar Road, 1972 Properties in the character area tend to front the late 1990s in the pursuit of his duties. It is a directly onto the pavement or step slightly back poignant reminder of his dedication and invaluable from the street with small front gardens behind contribution in keeping Twickenham safe for all. low brick walls or fencing. Roads are narrow and intimate, and cars are parked on the street. An exception to this is along Colne Road, where Dominant Features and Materials some gardens have been lost to off-street car Key features are red brick surrounds, small front parking. There is a small amount of tree planting gardens, prominent chimneys, sash windows, slate along the streets which is supplemented by the roofs and render. shrubbery, planting and bushes that form part of landscaped front gardens.

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Character Summary The former Hamilton electricity works is an Opportunities important local landmark and the focus of This conservation area is a Victorian area to the • Preserving, enhancing and reinstating the the view along Hamilton Road. This group of north of Staines Road, encompassing Hamilton architectural quality and unity. industrial buildings have been converted to Road, Warwick Road and parts of Edwin Road. It residential use. Athelstan Place, named after the • Coordinating colour and design of features was designated a conservation area in 2006. original name for Hamilton Road. The buildings and materials, rationalising and improving the It is the history of this area that is of particular have pitched roofs, are of stock brick with red quality of street furniture and paving. interest and which marks an important chapter brick dressings, and retain their traditional timber Link to full Conservation Area Statement: in the historic development of Twickenham. sliding sash windows and metal-framed windows. http://www.richmond.gov.uk/conarea72_a3_rgb. Originally the area west of Talbot Road was There is a strong physical and historical pdf used for market gardening and the fields where relationship between the industrial buildings Hamilton and Warwick Road now stand were and the terraces. The terraces are uniform in used for playing football. Twickenham’s first 1912 Ordnance Survey character and front directly onto the street. The electricity works was built just to the west of two-storey properties are of stock brick with red Talbot Road in the 19th century. Following brick dressings. The houses have round arched the acceptance of an offer from Edmundsons porch recesses, slate roofs with brick chimneys. Electricity Corporation to begin electrification by Twickenham Town Council, the Twickenham and Teddington Electricity Supply Company was Dominant Features and Materials formed to build the existing works buildings Key features are London stock brick with red (no. 37 Hamilton Road) between 1901 and dressings, distinctive round arched porch recesses, 1 1902. They supplied electricity to the whole pitched slate roofs and brick chimneys. of Twickenham, and grew after WWI to supply a larger area including Hampton and Hampton Threats from Development Wick. The uniform terraces along Hamilton, Hamilton Road in 1973 Warwick and Edwin Roads were built together to • Loss of historic buildings, traditional accommodate employees of the electricity works architectural features and materials due to and were supplied power from it. unsympathetic alterations. This includes painting facing brickwork; the further loss of The area has a distinctive townscape of late facing brickwork would be unfortunate. Victorian and Edwardian industrial buildings and housing dating from the early 20th century. • Lack of coordination, clutter and poor quality of street furniture and paving. 1 https://hamiltonelectricityworks.wordpress.com/

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Character Summary Avenue is suitably distinctive for its trees with site’s use as a school, the open space between This character area is found on the north side of dark green glossy leaves that frame the road and Albert Road and Clifden Road was used for Heath Road and stretches up to the rail line to which serve as a reminder of Laurel Lodge which allotment gardens and is shown on the 1892 the north. It includes Talbot Road and Marsh Farm was once located here. Ordnance Survey map. Road to the west of the railway and Sherland Lansdowne Close is a simple cul-de-sac at the Many of the properties in Copthall Gardens Road to the east. The area has been divided into end of Lion Road and Simba Court adjacent is a retain their original decorative sash windows, sub-areas, summarised below. newer 21st century development. which together with other architectural detailing and low front walls provide a strong coherence to Lion Road area Dominant Features and Materials the road. Lion Road, Talbot Road, Marsh Farm Road and Key features are London stock brick with red Dominant Features and Materials Albert Road were all laid out in the late 1800s to dressings, slate and tile roofs, small front gardens, house railway employees working on the railways pastel colouring, bay and sash windows. Red brick and stucco, slate and tile roofs, mature 1895 Ordnance Survey near-by. Lion Road follows the former Staten street trees including limes and chestnuts. Lane, which crossed the railway linking Heath Clifden area Road with Marsh Farm. The prevailing character The Clifden area to the east, includes Clifden Threats from Development is primarily small late Victorian terraces laid out Road, Copthall Gardens, Sherland Road and Tudor • Loss of architectural detail. along tight streets. The properties are of London Gardens. The roads were developed after 1880, • Replacement of historic windows and doors stock brick, although some have been painted and form a series of predominantly Victorian with those of modern materials or designs over and others are rendered. Many of the and Edwardian terraces, semi-detached homes that diverge from the original opening style properties have sash windows, decorative brick and villas. To the north east of the area, larger and glazing type. surrounds and prominent chimneys, typical of the footprint and denser housing is found, developed late Victorian era. Houses along Lion Road step in the inter-war period, whilst Tudor Gardens is a • Poorly-defined boundaries as a result of the back from the street with small gardens in front. small estate of more modern primarily terraced removal of front garden walls for off-road Only a few of these have been lost to car parking. housing. parking. Lion Road in 1973 Some of the cottages along Talbot Road have The former Copthall Villas are shown on the the original wall plaques on them with names; 1865 Ordnance Survey map and were the earliest Opportunities Charlotte Cottages, Whitecliffe Cottages, Dusty buildings in the character area before they were • Improving the public realm - especially street Cottages, and the date and initials of the builder. replaced by Clifden Court, an impressive block of furniture, roads and footpaths. housing with art-deco influences. Houses along Lion Avenue, Laurel Avenue and • Reinstating front gardens, particularly along Grove Avenue were built in the early 1900s but St. Richard Reynolds Catholic College is a Clifden Road. are similar in scale to the late Victorian terraces. principal landmark in the local area. The school • Reinstating architectural detail. The roofs are generally steep pitched with gable was formerly Twickenham County Grammar ends, and a single bay window and recessed porch School for Girls, which opened in 1909 for 220 are common features. The character of Laurel pupils, and was enlarged in 1936.1 Prior to the

1 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol3/pp163-166

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Character Summary Dominant Features and Materials Dominant Features and Materials This character area is comprised of the sub-areas Key features are yellow brick, white surrounds, Stock brick and render, slate roofs, white and of Poulett Gardens, Railway Approach, Arragon pebble-dash, painted brick, sash and casement red brick surrounds, railings, low brick walls, sash Road and Mary’s Terrace, all of which are located windows. windows, painted façades. on the periphery of the town centre. Railway Approach Poulett Gardens Mary’s Terrace and Candler Mews Railway Approach is to the west of London Poulett Gardens lies to the south of Heath Road, Road and is generally characterised by housing This sub-area has a fragmented and varying and is accessed from Cross Deep. The area is accessed from Railway Approach with relatively residential character. Mary’s Terrace is the distinct for its consistent character of inter-war large back gardens backing onto Grosvenor Road. earliest development and was constructed to semi-detached housing. The properties are laid The three-storey townhouses have garages and take advantage of its proximity to the railway. out as semi-detached pairs with generous spaces It consists of low-rise late Victorian terraced off-street parking, and are characterised by open in front, many of which are used for off-street car 1865 Ordnance Survey gable roofing, yellow brickwork and casement housing, forming a dramatic contrast to the height parking, and garages alongside. Fencing, low brick windows. A footpath provides access from and block of the neighbouring Regal House and walls and hedges form an inconsistent boundary London Road to Grosvenor Road. the proposed Twickenham Station redevelopment treatment along the road. The appearance of the scheme. The houses are constructed in stock exteriors are fairly identical and generally of white Dominant Features and Materials brick laid in flemish-bond, some of which have stucco and dark reddish brick laid in flemish-bond, been painted over. The properties front directly Key features are yellow brick, casement windows, with decorative brickwork surrounding the doors onto the narrow pavement and street. Plant pots brick walls, hard surfacing, garages. and a two-storey bay with angled sides. There on window ledges and by front doors add charm are slight variations in the half-timbering and Arragon Road and Cornwall Road to the street. treatment of the gables. Arragon Road is comprised of large three-storey Cheltenham Avenue is a short cul-de-sac of semi- Dominant Features and Materials detached properties built in the inter-war period. Victorian townhouses, although there is some Key features are slate roofs, prominent chimneys, The exteriors are distinctive with red brick laid variation in scale and height. The buildings are white stucco, render, decorative brickwork. Station Approach, looking towards railway line and station yard, 1978 out in flemish-bond and a curved frontage with a generally enclosed by black railings with low brick band of pebble-dash across the middle. Access to walls. Cornwall Road is a short leafy avenue the properties are to the side, with space in front off Richmond Road, culminating at Oak Lane Threats from Development Opportunities taken up by off-street car parking. Cemetery to the north. The generously sized • Domination of traffic. • Improving the public realm - especially street terraces are uniform in character, with gable Candler Mews is a modern cul-de-sac • Poorly-defined boundaries as a result of the furniture, roads and footpaths. roofing and constructed in red brick, although development located off Amyand Park Road. It removal of front garden walls for off-road • Selective tree-planting. many have been painted over. Distinctive features consists of a number of three-storey and two- parking, particularly at Poulett Gardens. include the round top sash windows, decorative • Encouraging the retention and reinstatement storey blocks in yellow brick. white surrounds and balconies. • Loss of architectural detail. of front gardens. Small front gardens are enclosed behind low rise • Encourage the retention and reinstatement of brick walls which form a neat boundary treatment architectural details. along the road.

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Character Summary Two storey brick buildings, some with stucco • Coordinate colour and design of features and features, are laid out along Grosvenor Road. materials, rationalise and improve the quality The area is west of London Road between They are interspersed by occasional gable ends of street furniture and paving. King Street and the railway line. It is focused on and three storey buildings which help to create an Queen’s Road, with part of Grosvenor Road Link to full Conservation Area Statement: interesting and varied roofscape. and Holly Road. The conservation area was http://www.richmond.gov.uk/conarea72_a3_rgb. designated in 1988. The Albany public house is to the north of the pdf conservation area and is a three storey stucco This is an area of Victorian and late Edwardian building on an island site. The public house was houses, most of which are semi-detached. The formerly known as The Albany Hotel (1860s), Victorian buildings include pockets of small conveniently located close to Twickenham cottages which have been extensively altered, and station, and was built soon after the arrival of the some larger Victorian buildings, some of which railways.1 1894 Ordnance Survey form attractive terraces which have a strong character and share a uniform architectural quality. Many of these buildings remain in good Dominant Features and Materials condition. Key features are London stock brick and red The sweep of Queen’s Road at its northern end brick dressings, multi-coloured brickwork, bay affords continuous changing views terminated by windows, stucco features, stone lintels, well- mature street trees. A particular characteristic defined boundaries with hedges and walls of the area to the south of Queen’s Road are the enclosing front gardens terraces of two storey houses in yellow stock brick with contrasting bands or gauged arches in red brick. Also to the south are some terraces Threats from Development built in gault brick with single storey front bays • Loss of historic buildings, traditional

and shallow pitched slate roofs. Further north architectural features and materials. Queen’s Road in mid to late 20th century towards the railway building, heights generally • Lack of coordination, clutter and poor quality increase with three storey Italianate semi of street furniture and paving. detached properties on the eastern side. Also on • Loss of front gardens. this side is a Gothic terrace of three and a half storeys, containing red brick arches, stone lintels and diamond pattern tile courses. Opportunities The houses are often enclosed behind well • Preserve, enhance and reinstate the defined boundaries with brick walls and hedges in architectural quality and unity. front of small gardens. 1 http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=408&ctid=4&cid=44

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Character Summary the earliest roads built and later extended in Threats from Development the 1930s alongside the development of a series This character area is located south of Chertsey • Poorly-defined boundaries as a result of the of parallel roads, resulting in a predominantly Road, west of Whitton Road and to the north of removal of front garden walls for off-road inter-war housing type of semi detached housing. the River Crane. The Duke of Northumberland parking. The prevailing character of these properties River runs along its western edge. The area has are typical of the inter-war period and tend to • Loss of architectural detail. been divided into two sub-areas, summarised be built of red-brick or simple white render. • Replacement of historic windows and doors below. The chimneys are prominent and hipped roofs with those of modern materials or designs The Stoop and surrounds are prevalent. Typical features include oriel that diverge from the original opening style The sub-area has a varied character as home to bay windows with tile hanging above. The and glazing type. The Stoop (home of Harlequins Rugby Football properties have generous front gardens, although Club) in the north, Twickenham Central Depot in the majority of these have been lost to hard Opportunities the south, a gym and health club and Challenge surfacing for car-parking, and therefore boundary 1935 Ordnance Survey Court, a 21st century development of flats to the treatments are inconsistent. • Improving the public realm - especially street furniture, roads and footpaths, and selective east. Further east towards Whitton Road, along tree-planting. The Stoop is a local landmark set back from Heathfield North and South, are rows of Chertsey Road with ample car-parking in front. It older terraces that were laid out prior to the • Improving the junction between Langhorn is a modern all-seater stadium with a rugby pitch. roads’ extensions. These are more typical of Drive and the A316. The depot to the south consists of hard standing the terraces around Heath Road in central • Encourage the retention and reinstatement of areas, wash bays, resurfacing works, depot building Twickenham. front gardens. and weighbridge and is used as a waste handling Richmond upon Thames college was built in the • Planning permission has been granted to facility. 1930s and has imposing art-deco influences. To improve the educational facilities and open the south of the area is Craneford Way Playing space at Richmond upon Thames College on Dominant Features and Materials Fields adjacent to Craneford Way Recreation Egerton Road. The Richmond upon Thames Key features are hard concrete surfaces, open Ground. The recreation ground is a large expanse College SPD (2008) provides a development Richmond College in the 1930s storage areas, large free-standing purpose-built of public green space with a children’s play area to framework for the comprehensive structures, yellow brick façades, green verges, the north. A public footpath connects Chertsey redevelopment of the college and the broad shrubbery and road-side tree planting. Road with the centre of Twickenham and runs principles to guide development at the site. along the back of Richmond upon Thames College This can be viewed at http://www.richmond. Heatham Estate area and through the open spaces to the south. It is gov.uk/richmond_college_maps_2014_lr.pdf. well used by locals, especially on match days. The area has a predominantly low rise residential character. Heathfield North and South were Dominant Features and Materials Key features are red-tiled roofs, tudorbethan features, off-street parking, bay windows.

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Character Summary in white painted render of various designs. Their Opportunities spacious character is enhanced by the wide grass This character area is focused on Twickenham • Improving highway conditions and pedestrian verges and trees which separate the properties Stadium, located centrally and bound by the Duke convenience, particularly on approaches to from the Chertsey Road. of Northumberland River to the west, Whitton Twickenham Stadium from the south. Road to the south and Rugby Road to the east. In the central section is Marlow Crescent with • Protect and enhance the Duke of Chertsey Road (A316) is a main artery of West a distinctive character from the rest of the Northumberland River. London and links central London with the M3. area. The Crescent is centred around a green open space with ‘meadow’ type landscaping that Twickenham Stadium is a world famous landmark supports a high level of biodiversity. and is often referred to as the home of rugby union and is the home of the English rugby To the east of the area is the northern end of union team. The site was originally a market London Road and Cole Park Road which was garden growing cabbages, and was bought by cut off from Cole Park with the construction of 1933 Ordnance Survey showing the area before Chertsey Road was laid out the Rugby Football Union in 1907 for £5,500 Chertsey Road in 1933 which cut horizontally 12s 6d. The first stands were constructed in across roads and neighbourhoods. As a result, the 1908. The first international game was played in area shares a similar character to the south, with 1910 when England played Wales. Since it was sizeable plots of detached houses, hidden behind first constructed it has gone through a number large mature trees that frame the avenue. of changes and now has a capacity of 82,000 spectators. This makes it the second largest Dominant Features and Materials stadium in the United Kingdom (after Wembley Stadium) and the fourth largest in Europe. The Key features are red tiled hipped and gabled roofs, World Rugby Museum, a hotel, performing arts Tudorbethan features, red brick, white render. complex and a health and leisure club are also located on the site. Threats from Development Whitton Road in 1950 The area is characterised by the dramatic • Domination of traffic, specifically along contrast in scale, from the giant stadium to the Chertsey Road and around Twickenham modest semi detached inter-war housing along Stadium. Whitton Road and Chertsey Road. Along the • Poor pedestrian safety. north side of the A316 Chertsey Road, between • Threat to local residents from noise and Marlow Crescent and London Road, is a section traffic pollution. of housing which faces the road. These are two storey, well spaced, detached properties mainly • Loss of green verges.

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Character Summary 1930s semi-detached housing is located along Threats from Development Fulwood Gardens. Whilst of a uniform design, This character area is located to the east of • Domination of traffic, specifically along the replacement of the original windows with Whitton Road, south of Chertsey Road and to London Road. uPVC has impacted on their character, and in the west and north of the River Crane. particular the rounded front elevation details. • Loss of front gardens to paved surfaces for Cole Park Road was developed in the Edwardian The properties are fronted by lawn with dwarf parking. period with large detached homes. A mix of retaining walls. • Loss of architectural features. materials were used including red brick, white London Road has a mixed character of two • Closure of shops, specifically at London Road render, timber detailing with low brick boundary and three storey developments ranging from and Whitton Road junction. walls with planting. A number of the plots have Edwardian properties through to 1960s and later been redeveloped or infilled which adds to the blocks of flats and houses. Opportunities variety now found along the road. Cole Park Road has a distinctly spacious feel with large • Retain and enhance front boundary 1933 Ordnance Survey houses laid out along a wide avenue framed by All Hallows Twickenham is a Grade I Listed treatments and discourage increase in the large mature trees. Allotments are located to church and located prominently on Chertsey amount of hard surfacing in front gardens. the north-east, of Cole Park Road, just south of Road. The stone square tower, bells and stone • Selective tree planting. Chertsey Road. cloister was designed by Christopher Wren and • Encourage the retention and reinstatement of Grimwood Road and Latham Road are was re-located from All Hallows Lombard Street architectural details. characterised by predominantly Edwardian to Twickenham when the church on Lombard • Encourage the reinstatement of traditional terraced housing of a uniform character Street was demolished in 1939. The church shop-fronts. comprising red brick, white painted window itself was designed by Robert Atkinson based on surrounds, inset front doors, with a mix of gable Wren’s original plans for All Hallows Lombard • Restoration and reuse of vacant buildings. and hipped roof features to their front elevations. Street. The internal wooden panelling and pulpit Front gardens have remained intact formed mainly are thought to be the work of Grinling Gibbons,

by low brick walls, some with railings or planting. the 17th century sculptor and wood carver. John Whitton Road and London Road fork junction, 1960s 20th century housing is located at the end of Wesley preached from the pulpit when it was at Grimwood Road and a small group of bungalows Lombard Street. is located at Latham Crescent. Dominant Features and Materials Lime Grove is formed by brick and render generously spaced 1960s bungalows with on-site Key features are red brick and white render, parking and dwarf brick walls framing the front decorative porches, tudorbethan features, large garden. The roofs are largely unaltered. These mature trees, gabled bay windows and front features, together with a lack of on-street parking gardens. give it a distinct, low density character.

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Character Summary Amyand House and Oak Lane Cemetery. Amyand Opportunities House was built in 1760 and is a listed building, The conservation area is to the south of the • Preserve, enhance and reinstate architectural now incorporated within St. John’s Hospital. railway line and north of Richmond Road, It is to quality and unity. Another listed building is Devoncroft, constructed the north east of central Twickenham. The area in the early 18th century and located at the • Retain and enhance front boundary was first designated as a conservation area in junction of Oak Lane and Amyand Park Road. treatments and discourage increase in the 1988 and later extended in 2001. amount of hard surfacing in front gardens. Old Lane Cemetery has a high brick wall, iron Before the railways, the area was agricultural gates and gate piers which provide an enclosed • Coordinate colour and design, rationalise and land and used for market gardening. The nursery green space adjacent to Devoncroft Gardens. improvement in quality of street furniture and business was at its peak between 1760 and 1840. paving. Housing development commenced in the mid- Link to full Conservation Area Statement: late 19th century following the construction of Dominant Features and Materials http://www.richmond.gov.uk/conarea48_a3_rgb. the railway line, linking Twickenham with central 1865 Ordnance Survey Key features are front garden planting, large pdf London and further afield. trees, strong boundaries, brick façades, decorative The character of the area is dominated by late moulded windows and door surrounds, eaves Victorian and Edwardian terraces and semi- brackets, stucco banding, bay windows. detached cottages. There are also larger three storey brick houses located to the south west of Threats from Development Amyand Park Road. The conservation area was extended to provide a consistent experience • Loss of historic buildings, traditional when walking along Amyand Park Road to architectural features and materials. Arragon Road, and so includes nos. 24-26 Amyand • Loss of front boundary treatments and front Park Road. The inclusion of buildings on Oak gardens for car parking. Lane and Strafford Road improve the entrance to • Lack of coordination, clutter and poor quality the conservation area. of street furniture and paving, Amyand Park Road, date unknown The curve of Amyand Park Road follows the • Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian railway line and offers a changing view, improving safety. the setting of the buildings, many of which are of architectural merit. The Alms Houses provide a • Impact on traffic and parking created by change in scale and form. dropping off and picking up of pupils from the schools/nurseries in the area. The strong and cohesive character is particularly evident and the 18th century listed St. John’s Hospital is an important local landmark alongside

St. John’s Hospital in 1935 54 1865 Ordnance Survey Housing along Amyand Park Road View north-east along Amyand Park Road

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Character Summary Orleans Court is another block of 1960s housing located at Seymour Gardens, contrasting in scale This character area is located to the north of with a single storey Scout Hut on a triangular site, Richmond Road, south of Amyand Park and west enclosed by a tall green fence. At the eastern of Marble Hill Gardens. The area includes St. end of Seymour Gardens is a small terrace of John’s Health Centre on Oak Lane. quaint Edwardian houses with colourful planting The area is focused on Haggard Road, with and white painted front balconies. The houses rows of late Victorian terraced housing to the are enclosed behind low brick walls and pot southeast and three-storey townhouses to the plants and shrubs contribute to the area’s charm. northwest. The townhouses are built in grey The road culminates in a high brick wall which brick with strips of decorative red brickwork. separates the road from Westbourne House. They are distinctive for their decorative white surrounds. The two-storey terrace housing on 1911 Ordnance Survey the southern side are smaller in scale and have Dominant Features and Materials bay windows with decorative red brick surrounds Key features are London stock brick, slate roofs, around the doors and windows. sash windows, decorative white surrounds and decorative red brickwork. Small front gardens provide the properties with a fairly consistent boundary treatment, particularly on the northern side, with low brick walls and Threats from Development ornate railings. Ample tree planting along the • Loss of architectural features. street and prominent chimneys on either side give • Removal of original front garden boundaries the road a cohesive character. and replacement with a different design and/ The road culminates in a 1960s estate of four or material, threatening the uniform character blocks of flats set amongst neat and landscaped of the houses. gardens. The four-storey brick blocks are arranged so that they are set well apart and Opportunities at an angle from the street, forming a positive • Encourage the retention and reinstatement of relationship with Haggard Road and giving the original doors and window patterns. impression of generous green open space. Each property has its own private balcony looking • Encourage the retention and reinstatement of across the gardens. A footpath connects Haggard front garden boundaries. Road to Richmond Road.

56 1911 Ordnance Survey Terraced housing along Haggard Road Looking south-west along Haggard Road

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Haggard Road looking north-east towards the flats at the eastern end Prominent chimneys are a strong feature of the area Character Area boundary 57 Conservation area 21: Twickenham Riverside

Character Summary designated as Grade II* on the Historic England for archaeological recording purposes only as Register of Parks and Gardens. It is characterised the garden no longer exists. An 18th century This conservation area stretches from Marble Hill by a swathe of mixed trees which line the underground passage/grotto, which is also Listed Park along the riverside to Radnor Gardens and boundary of the park, and a well trimmed lawn Grade II*, runs diagonally under the junction of includes Eel Pie Island. Part of the conservation which is edged by shrub planting. The focus is the Radnor Road and Grotto Road to the garden of area lies within the Twickenham Area Action Plan white stucco Palladian villa which sits centrally. Radnor Lodge (which lies within the Strawberry area and is therefore not covered by the SPD. Hill SPD area). The curves of the river have helped shape its Heritage Lottery funding has been secured to landscape and townscape, giving unfolding views support improvements to Marble Hill House and Dominant Features and Materials of both banks framed by mature trees and foliage. the surrounding parkland. Key features are open green space, riverside Marble Hill area Dominant Features and Materials setting, playground, rose garden and bowling The area is characterised by its historic and Key features are spacious gardens, narrow streets green. architectural value as the original village core and 1868 Ordnance Survey and alleyways, ornate features, red brick, slate river frontage, evidenced by the great number roofs, mature trees. Threats from Development of listed buildings within the area. Many of these • Development pressure which may harm the 17th and 18th century grand buildings, for example balance of the river and landscape-dominated Marble Hill House and Orleans House, are set Radnor Gardens setting in many parts of the area, within extensive landscaped gardens and public Radnor Gardens to the west is a historic and open spaces. The 17th century York House secluded area of valued public open space by the • Obstruction or spoiling of views, skylines and and Gardens lies just outside the area but is a Thames. Opened in 1903 as a pleasure garden, landmarks. Registered Park & Garden and, along with Marble the park provides the setting for the Grade II* • Loss of historic buildings, traditional Hill House and Orleans House, contributes to Listed war memorial as well as the surviving architectural features and materials. an exceptionally integrated architectural and summerhouse which is Grade II Listed. • Loss of front boundary treatments and front landscape design. To the north of Radnor Gardens is Radnor gardens for car parking. Twickenham Embankment in 1936 The area has a varied character ranging from House Independent School, which lies on the • Lack of coordination, clutter and poor quality th narrow streets and alleyways with 18 century site of Alexander Pope’s house. Pope’s house of street furniture and flooring. two and three storey buildings through to 1930s was demolished and rebuilt in the 1800’s. The • Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian mansion blocks. There is a semi-rural character only remaining part of Pope’s House is the safety leading to clutter of signage and street. fronting the river between Water Lane and Grade II* Pope’s Grotto which has a rusticated Orleans House. arched entrance facing the river, and which • Loss of original or quality shop fronts and Lebanon Park is a distinctive enclave of Edwardian runs under Twickenham Road to what was part unsympathetic alterations and advertisement. houses built on the grounds and site of a large of Pope’s Estate on the opposite side and is Opportunities villa, Mount Lebanon, which burnt down in 1909. now St Catherine’s Independent School. The The form and layout of the development has areas comprising St Catherine’s and Radnor • Improve and protect the river and landscape remained the same since its construction. House schools formed Pope’s Garden, and are setting. identified as being Grade II on Historic England’s A large section of the conservation area is • Enhance access to the riverside and the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. This is quality of the public riverside environment. covered by Marble Hill Park to the east, which is Eel Pie Island, 1960 58 M O N O T R P L E E L I A E N R D A S R O R O R O D W N A O D M H C I L R E B A N O N Radnor Gardens Champions Wharf P A SI R 1868 Ordnance Survey O K N R O A D

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• Preserve, enhance and reinstate the Link to full Conservation Area Statement: architectural quality and unity. http://www.richmond.gov.uk/twickenham_ riverside_conservation_area_8-3.pdf • Retain and enhance front boundary treatments and discourage increase in the A more detailed analysis of the area is provided amount of hard surfacing in front gardens. in the Council’s ‘Twickenham Riverside and Queen’s Road Conservation Area Study’ which • Coordinate colour and design, rationalise can be viewed at http://www.richmond.gov.uk/ and improve quality of street furniture and twickenhamriversidestudy8_47.pdf. flooring. • Retain and improve the quality of shop fronts and advertisements.

Conservation Area boundary 59 Eel Pie Island

Within the Twickenham Riverside Conservation enclave. This detachment and unique environment It consists of 18 two-storey houses with the been maintained to date is vulnerable to Area sits Eel Pie Island. Eel Pie Island has its fostered a very special cultural history. From the appearance of flat roofs, arranged in three overdevelopment. There are limits to how much own unique character and is a special landmark mid-1950s, the island became a musical hotbed blocks of six houses. The houses are set in greater built footprint the island can take before and community in the Thames landscape. The with regular jazz and gig evenings at the infamous extensive landscaping and communal gardens this threshold is met. Any proposals which would island evolved from three smaller islands joining Eel Pie Island Hotel, until its demise in the late on a site overlooking the River Thames. The impact on this key part of the Island’s character together. The two wooded ends of the island 1960s. development takes full advantage of the site: the should therefore be resisted. result from this history - as the lower lying The northern side of the island is the focus houses are south facing and mostly stepped in This strong individualism identified above has landforms that joined the central island. They for the working boatyards, as well as creative pairs to maximize views of the river. It was built steered the island’s evolution. It is a place that form distinct areas to the western and eastern arts workshops and workspace for ‘start- between 1972 and 1976. Stille had Swedish is constantly changing. Today, it is home to an ends of the Island, which screen the built up’ businesses, and Twickenham Rowing Club, parents, and the design of Aquarius is heavily immensely creative and productive community. form when approaching from upstream and reflecting its location away from the main river influenced by the humanist principles of Swedish The boatyards are still very much active in downstream. tideway passing to the south of the island. These architecture of the time. Also in Scandinavian building and repairing river boats. Alongside The island has been built on for over 250 years uses are interspersed with a small number of fashion, the development was conceived as a this are a wealth of studios and workshops. and is an integral part of the riparian environment mainly single-storey residential properties. The community, rather than individual dwellings. These activities sit separate to, but comfortably along the River Thames. It forms part of a working boatyards, studios and workspace are accessed Shared spaces such as communal gardens were alongside a residential community of around 50 river economy and is home to boat yards, boat through a large boatshed and have a distinct intended to encourage the residents to mix. The homes. However, further increases in commercial builders and boat repairers, which are a critical character within the Island, and are separated plan is influenced by Le Corbusier-style social uses that do not depend on or relate to the resource for the River as many other yards and from the mixed uses on the remainder of the engineering features, such as locating the kitchens river are likely to upset this relationship, as well repairers have been lost. It also has a rowing club north side up to the pedestrian bridge. next to the front door to encourage interaction as putting pressure on the parking and delivery with passers-by. Similar to Span estates of the and a yacht club. The area to the west of the pedestrian bridge facilities on the mainland which are used by the time, the estate is owned and administered by Part of the island’s character is that it is traffic- and the south side is predominantly residential. Island. a company owned jointly by the residents. The free. Until the 1950s the island was accessed by Private homes were developed on the island from The pioneering spirit of the island should be estate therefore is a good example of communal boat. In 1957 a footbridge was constructed at the the late 19th century with plots generally having allowed to prevail on the island, but not to the living principles of the 1970s. Although certain location of the former ferry connection. From one edge to the river and the other to the access extent that it cuts against the grain and scale houses on Aquarius have been subject to this entry point, two paths into the island provide path running through the centre of the island. of development which has evolved to date. The external alterations since their construction, the access to the properties on the east and west of Most residential properties are single storey contrast between the boatyard and residential development still retains its overall coherence the island. The island’s connection to the mainland detached homes of various styles and materials. areas on the island should be maintained and the and architectural integrity. In addition the is integral to its successful operation. Whilst Some of the buildings retain a more ‘weekend scale of any replacement of existing residential development is visible from the towpath on the most goods are carried to the Island over the retreat’ character which adds to the eclectic properties should continue to maintain their south bank of the River, as a result of the height footbridge heavier goods are transported from design character that exists across the Island. low-key form in terms of height and massing of the properties and their open aspect to the the mainland to the Island by punt. Consequently The properties to the west tend to be long and (recognising that there is a need to balance this River. Therefore any future development will the retention of the mainland slipway is critical to thin reflecting relatively narrow plots and the with the provision of flood risk measures), rather need to avoid it becoming an overly dominant the residents and businesses on the Island. demand for riverside access. than seeking to reflect the scale of the boatyard feature within the wider riverside landscape. Eel Pie island is functionally strongly linked to The residential development, known as ‘Aquarius’, and studio developments. This differentiation is a The island has achieved a delicate balance Twickenham Riverside. However, in character differs in character from the remainder of the key part of the Island’s unique character. between built form and natural vegetation. terms the island has maintained a detachment island’s buildings. Designed by the architect The delicate balance between buildings and trees The density of trees forms an important part from the rest of the borough and indeed London, Robert Stille, Aquarius is a coherent and should be maintained ensuring the ecology and of its character and affords a sense of privacy and has developed as an eclectic and alternative integrated development of significant character. natural quality of the island continues to shine to residents. This organic equality which has through alongside its riverside activity. 60 Craft workshops Phoenix Wharf

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61 7. Features and Materials

The architectural features and Materials Features palette of materials used in the Twickenham includes a wide variety of historic Georgian: The term ‘Georgian’ usually covers Victorian: The Victorian period (1837-1901) saw construction and decoration of buildings that define the character of the area, buildings constructed between 1714 and 1837, an explosion of different styles and technological buildings are a large part of what but mostly from the mid-late nineteenth and during which time there were numerous stylistic innovation. House building increased at a great makes up the character of an area. twentieth century. The area utilises a palette of developments. As a general rule however rate to deal with the surge in population. The They vary depending on when and similar materials predominated in house building. houses conform to a Classically derived idea terraced house continued as the most popular and proliferate form of housing but mansion where a building was constructed. Using the correct materials (such as stock and of proportion which dictated how an elevation blocks of flats became increasingly common in Even for buildings of the same period, red brick, clay tiles, slate and timber) is important should be arranged. London through the nineteenth century for all subtle differences in construction for any repairs, alterations or extensions The most important floor, with the grandest classes of people. materials can be what distinguish to existing buildings but also should be a rooms, was the first floor (the piano nobile) buildings in one part of the country consideration for any new development if it is to which externally was expressed with the tallest Whilst Classicism retained a strong foothold from another, contributing to local respect the context and character of the area. windows. The height of the windows decreases through Queen Victoria’s reign and the simple, distinctiveness. This is also important as traditional materials from the first floor to the top of the house. In brick terraced house persisted, particularly as the allow a building to ‘breathe’ (allow air to circulate the early eighteenth century the construction of most basic form of housing, the Gothic Revival is and the materials to both absorb water when it the terrace house as we know it today became most commonly associated with this period and rains and subsequently dry out). widespread through London. Houses were was popular as a way of enlivening houses. Using modern, impervious materials can trap flatfronted (rather than jettied), constructed Brick was still the basic load-bearing material water and cause damp. Sourcing materials is very from brick, with the main decorative emphasis on for most buildings during this period though important, and it is always advisable to ask for the front door and windows (see subsection on decorative coloured detailing became more samples that you can look at on site and compare windows). popular. Renders and ornament (the latter usually with the palette of existing materials. In the Later in the eighteenth and early nineteenth made from artificial stone) also become more context of historic buildings it is useful to look at century, render and stucco painted in imitation widespread. The borough hosts a wide array of the directory of specialist professionals on www. of stone was commonly applied to the exterior quality Victorian housing of all scales, styles and buildingconservation.com. or part of the exterior of houses. With the forms, from terraced mews to large detached innovation of Coade Stone in the second half villas. of the eighteenth century decorative elements Twickenham village has extensive examples of around doors and windows became more Victorian streets and buildings. Residential streets common. formed by larger semi-detached and detached A number of examples survive in the Twickenham properties can be found at, for example, Trafalgar village area including buildings along the riverside Road and Belmont Road. A number of examples such as the White Swan public house. A number of larger semi-detached and detached Victorian of early Victorian buildings are also Georgian in residential streets can be found including Trafalgar style such as Apsley Villas on the south side of Road and Belmont Road. Twickenham Green.

62 VICTORIAN EDWARDIAN

Brick Red brick jack Terracotta chimneys with arch chimney pots Slate roof terracotta pots

Decorative Decorative barge boards ridge tiles Render to Four pane head and timber sash reveals windows Window cills Bay window Stock brick Timber sash windows Curved porch detail in Tile hanging terracotta Classical Panelled column timber door Panelled front door

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63 Edwardian and Late Victorian: The There are also a number of garden city style A number of housing developments in the form Edwardian period was a high point in traditional inter-war housing areas. The Rivermead Estate in of culs-de-sac exist in the area, often the result construction and late-Victorian architecture is the west of the area has a distinctive triangular of infill development such as Barneby Close. often indistinguishable from that of this period. layout of garden city style semi-detached housing. Workspace developments such as Crane Mews The architecture of this period confidently mixes Within this form a number of corner plots display are also evident. features from numerous styles. a different inter-war style with semi-detached art The redevelopment of sites such as the industrial The work of Norman Shaw and the Arts and deco houses. Lincoln Avenue is another example site of Air Sea Mews has introduced new forms Crafts movement had a profound effect on house- of garden city style housing of this period with of housing and typologies including contemporary design that was to dominate for decades to come a mix of semi-detached units and short terrace mews and medium rise flatted development. with features of vernacular architecture becoming blocks. much more common. Some good examples of Edwardian housing can Post war (1960s and 1970s): A radical be found across the area including in the Clifden shift away from the traditional styles of the area, on Hamilton Road, Amyand Park Road and past century occurred with modernism and a Cole Park Road. new attitude to architecture and placemaking. Lebanon Park Road is a particularly distinctive Blocks of flats were seen as the ideal solution street of Edwardian detached and semi-detached to increasing density, though the regular housing. terraced house and low rise blocks of flats and maisonettes persisted. There are relatively few examples of post-war housing in the area. A series of low rise blocks Interwar housing: Interwar housing can be found across the Borough. The vernacular semi- can be found at the southern end of Third Cross detached houses that became popular pre-WWI Road, a block of houses on Grange Avenue and a became regularised into the standardised designs set of bungalows on Broadlands and Lime Grove. of the ‘Mock-Tudor semi’ but has many forms due to the variety of construction through this period. Contemporary: There is a variety of Extensive areas of inter-war housing are found more modern development across the area, either side of Chertsey Road. Much of this is including some infill and some more substantial standard semi-detached brick and white render developments. Recent development less housing. rigorously conforms to a particular style or ethos. Higher density developments have become more common as the pressure on land is greater.

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65 Windows Window details: • Timber double-glazing is now a good option the outside of the glass and should be raised with improving technology that can achieve rather than flat. Windows are key features in all the buildings in • Original leaded lights can add character to very slim window profiles that compare with Twickenham irrespective of the construction the street and be an important aspect of the • top-hung casements are not a good substitute Victorian and Edwardian single-glazing. period. The location of the windows, their design of the buildings. If the original windows for sliding sashes. proportions, the number of glazing bars, the use have leaded lights they should be replicated if • Thin profile double glazed acoustic glass is Historic England provide guidance on sensitive of coloured glass, or the presence of old glass and repairing them is not possible. available that can be fitted into existing timber alterations to enhance environmental frames. This can be a way of upgrading the the decorative treatment around the windows, • Stained glass should be retained or performance in historic buildings: https:// sound and insulation performance of windows all give each building its special character. The incorporated in replacement windows. historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/ diversity of window types across the area add to without the need for total replacement. energy-efficiency-and-historic-buildings/ its character and reinforce the distinctiveness of • Install secondary glazing which is very Double-glazing and thermal the different styles. Therefore, if houses or flats effective in improving thermal and sound efficiency: have original windows they should be restored insulation. They can often be removed in the or, if necessary, replaced like with like. Along Improving the thermal efficiency of historic summer months when less needed. with the promotion of character, sustainable windows is a common reason for replacing uPVC is often considered as it is seen as a materials should also be prioritised, through the them with double-glazing. If you are considering cheaper option than most timber double- use of environmentally friendly materials and also replacing your timber windows with uPVC bear in glazed units. However, it is not authentic and improving the energy efficiency of buildings. mind that the embodied energy lost by disposing cannot achieve the same detailed mouldings or of your windows and replacing them with uPVC, appearance and is therefore discouraged. If you which have a limited life-expectancy, can be less Timber windows: feel that this is your only option you should bear sustainable than repairing them or installing • Historic timber windows are made from more in mind: secondary glazing. Traditional internal shutters are durable timber than modern, softwood timber. also a very effective means of improving thermal • the materials, design, proportions and the Repairing them is therefore often a more efficiency so if your property once had shutters, means of opening (sash/casement) of the durable as well as sustainable option. restoring them can be a sensible option. existing windows and try to faithfully replicate • Timber windows were always meant to be them. This will not only help with maintaining There are a number of options to consider if the painted to protect them from the elements. the character of the building but also maintain installation of double-glazing is pursued: Keeping them painted will help prevent them the amount of light going into a room (which from rotting. If maintained, they can last • Have existing windows adapted by inserting can be affected if thicker frames are used). an additional pane of glass within the existing indefinitely. • the proportions of the glazing bars should frame to improve sound and thermal replicate those on the original windows. insulation. This is only really possible with unlisted buildings with deep window profiles. • glazing bars should be integral to the structure of the window and not applied to

66 Fine moulded brickwork at former St. John’s Hospital, 58 Amyand Waterman’s Lodge Park Road

York House, Council offices

Turret with scalloped tiles and weathervane

Bay window with red brick surrounds Canted bay windows 2 Cole Park Road Bay sash windows 67 8. Development Guidance

This section provides design • Further opportunities to enhance the street • The quality of the site’s frontage on to • Relationship with the Edwin Road frontage to objectives and guidance on larger environments immediately around the stadium Chertsey Road is currently dominated by secure improvements to the street scene. sites that have been put identified for and those leading up to it should be realised. open land used for car parking. Opportunities development through consultations High quality materials should be used and to enhance the entrance to the site and Further information on site allocations within undertaken by the Council should a co-ordinated palette of street furniture consider rationalising car parking should be Richmond can be viewed at: http:// they come forward for development. agreed. explored. www.richmond.gov.uk/local_plan The following sites are considered: • More street trees and planting should be • Proposals should aim to enhance the introduced into the streetscene. permeability of the site, in particular improving connections into the river route. Twickenham Stadium • A range of potential pedestrian and cycle routes to the stadium from stations such as • The relationship between The Stoop site Local Plan Policy SA11: The Council supports the Twickenham and Whitton could be opened and Richmond upon Thames College and the continued use and improvement of the grounds up and promoted. With enhancements, these Rosecroft Gardens Conservation Area needs for sports uses. routes could alleviate pressure on approaches to be managed carefully and positively to Any development proposals would need to such as Whitton Road. ensure an appropriate co-existence both from consider the following: a functional and visual perspective. • The Duke of Northumberland’s River runs The Stoop (Harlequins Rugby along the western edge of the site and Football Club) Gregg’s Bakery Site represents an important opportunity to Local Plan Policy SA10: The Council supports the The site is currently vacant. Any development improve access to it and its setting. continued rise of the grounds for sports uses. proposals would need to consider the following: • The sensitivity of the stadium’s immediate Any development proposals would need to • The residential scale and character of the setting with a residential neighbourhood to consider the following: surrounding area to inform the siting / scale / the south and north east is an important • The importance of the Duke of massing of new development. consideration for any future development Northumberland’s River which runs along the • Opportunities to provide high quality of the site. The site must respect these western edge of the site. Improvements to landscaping and, where appropriate, open neighbourhoods both in physical and this section of the river have been undertaken space. functional terms. recently and further opportunities to enhance • Establishing a positive relationship with the • Managing the functional demands on the The Stoop’s connection to the river, the River Crane along the northern edge of the external space around the stadium raises ever quality of the setting and route should be site, enabling new linkages to and along the changing challenges. Any future development explored, as well as promoting the use of the river route. must be mindful of building in flexibility to River path as a sustainable transport route to • Impact on views across the Crane Valley. support the range of hospitality, broadcasting The Stoop. and other demands on the external areas. • Appropriate levels of parking to avoid placing pressure on the surrounding streets.

68 1. Twickenham Stadium 1 2. The Stoop (Harlequins Rugby Football Club) 3. Gregg’s Bakery

2 Flooding There are a number of things that residents in Twickenham can do to ensure that they are prepared for and aware of the potential risk of 3 flooding to properties. A detailed map showing areas at potential risk can be found at www.gov.uk/prepare-for-a-flood/ find-out-if-youre-at-risk. As flood risk maps are updated frequently to reflect the latest modelling, you are advised to check the latest maps via this link. The Council’s planning policy documents outline ways in which new development within Twickenham should account for flood risk. This includes new build construction of residential and commercial buildings, as well as significant alternations or changes of use of existing buildings that may be impacted by flooding. Local Plan Policy LP 21: Flood Risk and Sustainable Drainage outlines the Council’s policy and guidance.

69 9. Forecourt parking

The Council has an existing Conversion of front gardens for car parking can required to allow access for parking (see the should not exceed that needed for the passage of Supplementary Planning Document individually and cumulatively adversely impact on 2006 SPD for details). a car. This also reduces the loss of parking space (SPD) covering ‘Front Garden and the appearance of an area and detract from its The Council’s Local Plan (2017) Policy LP 45 in the road outside. Other Off Street Parking Standards’ overall character if undertaken without careful seeks to resist front garden parking because of Iron railings and gates consideration. The Council is keen that where (adopted September 2006). This the impact on the appearance of the street and Eighteenth and nineteenth century iron railings front garden parking does occur, it is done in the document provides detailed advice loss of vegetation and biodiversity. (and gates) are a traditional feature found at best possible way, by following the guidance given on the legal and design issues when It is generally considered that additional forecourt some of Twickenham’s houses. Typically these are in this and the 2006 SPD. creating a parking area in your front parking would not significantly reduce parking embedded into a lower boundary wall, enclosing garden and access to it from the congestion. the front garden whilst keeping visual obstruction highway. The Council’s Local Plan Planning Permission Important features in Twickenham to a minimum. (2017) Policy LP 45 also establishes In some cases alterations to front gardens fall Hedges the principle approach to Forecourt Many front gardens and frontage features in within the terms of ‘permitted development’, in Twickenham contribute significantly to the overall Hedges enclose front gardens and define public Parking, notably that it will be which case planning approval is not required and character of the area and local street scene both and private space. They provide an attractive resisted. therefore the Council has little or no control within and outside of the Conservation Areas. green feature to the streetscape therefore it is over the creation of forecourt parking. These include: important for them to be retained as frontage The Twickenham Village Planning Guidance SPD You will not normally need planning permission Boundary walls features either on their own or in combination draws upon the 2006 SPD, providing updated and outside of a Conservation Area, if a new or with walls or railings. Boundary walls are perhaps the most important specific information for Twickenham Village. It is replacement driveway of any size uses permeable and defining feature of a street scene, and their important that the 2006 SPD is read (or porous) surfacing which allows water to preservation and uniformity adds considerably to in conjunction with the guidance below. drain through, such as permeable concrete an areas character. They enclose front gardens and It is also advised to refer to the Council’s block paving or porous asphalt, or by directing define public and private space. Low walls create Supplementary Planning Document on rainwater to a lawn or border to drain naturally. this space without reducing visibility. Increasing ‘Design Quality’ and ‘Public Space Design Guide’. If the surface to be covered is more than five the height of walls can impact on the character In Twickenham, as in other areas of the borough square metres planning permission will be needed of the street. Conforming traditional brick types and across London as a whole, increases in for laying traditional, impermeable driveways. and brickwork along a street is an important population and car ownership have resulted in It is important to note that in Conservation characteristic. Many Twickenham streets retain a greater demand for car parking spaces. Where Areas, planning permission is required their original brickwork which dates back to the houses are not able to have garages, or where for demolition of boundary walls, fences and nineteenth century. A typical example is Gerard there is insufficient on and off street parking, this railings over 1m in height. Article 4(2) Directions Road, with low brick boundary walls and a central can lead to increased demand for front garden can also restrict the removal rendered or painted (often white) section. For parking of structures such as those that would be the above reasons the gap in the boundary wall

70 Guidance on front garden parking Green features The following key considerations should be made Loss of existing green space may be inevitable where residents do feel an imperative to replace however retaining and / or replacing some front gardens with car parking: planting in as generous a manner as possible helps Retention of existing features to maintain the area’s character, screen vehicles and create a more pleasant natural environment The general aim of any design for car parking in by absorbing local exhaust fumes. front gardens should be to retain as much of the existing features as is practical – such as existing walls, railings or hedging. Where an opening has to be made in an existing wall, railing or fence, it should be made good at both ends to match existing materials and details, and should be no more than a car-width wide. Enclosure

Retaining a form of enclosure of front gardens Boundary wall Hedging boundary and forecourts is an essential part of retaining local character and maintaining the street scene. Partial loss of existing structures is inevitable to allow vehicle access but as much of the structure should be retained. Inward opening gates help to complete a defensible line. Permeability The base and finished surface should be laid at a slight gradient and be of a permeable material, to allow the satisfactory drainage and absorption of rainwater. Water should not drain from the property onto the footway. A length of drain or soak-away may be required at the site boundary to prevent this or a connection to a surface water sewer can be established with the agreement of the Water Authority. Use of lose gravel should be avoided. Forecourt parking and front garden

71 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All historic maps have been taken from the National Library of Scotland website: http://maps.nls.uk/ All historic photographs are from the London Borough of Richmond Local Studies Collection: http://www.richmond.gov.uk/local_studies_collection

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