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Merton Council PLANNING APPLICATIONS COMMITTEE 19 July 2012 Item: 09 UPRN APPLICATION NO. DATE VALID 12/P0705 27 April 2012 Address Ravensbury Park Open Space, Morden Gardens, Mitcham, CR4 4DH. Ward Ravensbury Proposal: Application for partial discharge of conditions 3 (surface and boundary treatment) and 6 (tree planting and landscaping) attached to the planning permission under reference 06/p0320 dated 20 August 2007 for the demolition of the chalet building on this site and the erection of a new two storey medical centre, two storey children’s nursery and single storey cafe (with small office and public toilets) landscaping and car park with access on Ravensbury Lane. [NB: This application is for partial discharge of these conditions as the submitted details only relate to the medical centre building and the front section of this site and exclude the rear section of the site and nursery building]. Drawing No’s 25948-C.03B; 25948-C.01F; 20610_SK127A; 20610_SK115A; Cellweb Information; RP/01/104; RP- 02-02 [Landscaping schedule]; 20610_AL(--) 307D; 20610_SK117B; 20610_SK125B; and 20610_SK128 Contact Officer: Tony Ryan (8545 3114) _____________________________________________________________________ RECOMMENDATION GRANT PARTIAL DISCHARGE of conditions 3 (surface treatment) and 6 (tree planting and landscaping) attached to the planning permission under reference 06/P0320. CHECKLIST INFORMATION Heads of Agreement: N/A Is a screening opinion required: N/A Is an Environmental Statement required: N/A Has an Environmental Impact Assessment been submitted: N/A Press notice – No Site notice – No Design Review Panel consulted – No Number of neighbours consulted – N/A External consultations: N/A Jobs created: N/A Controlled Parking Zone: No 207 PTAL Rating: 2 (poor) __________________________________________________________________ 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 This application has been called in for determination by the Planning Application Committee by Councillor Philip Jones 2. SITE AND SURROUNDINGS 2.1 Ravensbury Park Open Space is located between residential properties in Wandle Road to the south; Morden Road to the north and residential properties in Hengelo Gardens and Morden Gardens to the east and west respectively. The River Wandle runs along the southern boundary of Ravensbury Park with a tributary flowing around the north, east and west boundaries of the open space. 2.2 A part three, part four storey building called Dover House [occupied by Access Self Storage] is located on Morden Road separated from the application site by the private road, Ravensbury Lane. The gated Ravensbury Lane runs from Morden Road providing access to the rear of Dover House, the Council’s maintenance vehicles also use Ravensbury Lane to access Ravensbury Park. An existing gravel car park is located in outside the application site to the northwest corner of Ravensbury Park with vehicular access onto Morden Road. 2.3 The original application site covering an area of 4138 square metres is located within the Wandle Valley Conservation Area, and stretches across the northern end of the Ravensbury Park, between Ravensbury Lane and the northern tributary of the River Wandle. A 2.5 metre high locally listed wall previously marked the boundary between the site and Ravensbury Lane, running 107 metres along the north and west boundaries of the application site. The application site was previously occupied by a derelict two-storey chalet building with a footprint of 74 square metres. 2.4 There are various existing mature trees within the application site including a Californian Bay Laurel (Umbellularia Californica), a Chinese Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus fortunei), a Scots Pine (Beauvronensis) and a Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica purpurea). 3. CURRENT PROPOSAL 3.1 The current application seeks the discharge of conditions 3 (surface treatment) and 6 (tree planting and landscaping) attached to the planning permission under reference 06/p0320 granted on the 20 August 2007 insofar as they relate to the front part of this site. A company called GPIC Ltd is undertaking the development of the medical centre. When the building is complete it would be leased to the NHS for use as a doctor’s practice. 3.2 The development that was received planning permission consisted of two new buildings, a new part one, part two storey medical centre at the front of the site incorporating a single storey cafe (with small office and public toilets) and a two storey building at the rear of the site that would provide a children’s nursery. 208 3.3 At the current time the developer has advised that it has not been possible to proceed with the construction of the nursery building due to problems with finance and finding an operator for the building. As a result of this situation, the current application and the conditions that are assessed as part of this report only consider details relating to the front part of this site where the medical centre is located. 3.4 If the developer intends to proceed with the nursery building in the future additional details will be required at this time to discharge conditions 3 (surface and boundary treatment) and 6 (tree planting and landscaping) relating to the rear part of the site where the nursery building is located. 4. PLANNING HISTORY 4.1 Planning permission was granted by the Planning Application Committee in July 2004 for the removal of existing footbridges over the River Wandle and the erection of two replacement footbridges (one to the southwest of 60 to 65 Rawnsley Avenue/to the north of 56 to 60 Wandle Road, the other to the south of 1 Rutter Gardens) with ramped access (04/P0368). 4.2 Planning permission was refused by the Planning Application Committee in April 2005 for the demolition of the existing building and the erection of a new two storey medical centre, single storey children’s nursery, and two storey cafe (with small office, public toilets and a 2 bed flat) together with associated landscaping (04/P2101). 4.3 In 2006 the Planning Applications Committee approved two related planning applications for Conservation Area Consent [06/P0377] and Planning Permission [06/P0320]. The application for conservation area consent [06/P0377] approved the demolition of the derelict café building and the removal of an 8.6 metre long section of the locally listed boundary wall, this was to allow vehicular access from Ravensbury Lane to a new medical centre staff car parking area. The application for planning permission involved the construction of a part single, part double storey building at the western end of the application site. The single storey element with a footprint of 185 square metres providing a café, toilets, park manager’s office and entrance lobby. The two-storey section of the building providing a medical centre, pharmacy and a one bedroom residential flat at first floor level. 4.4 After it was found to be structurally unstable conservation area consent was approved for the complete demolition of the locally listed brick wall in December 2007 [Ref 07/p2994]. A condition attached to this permission required the retention of the bricks to allow for their use in connection with replacement boundary treatment. 4.5 The planning permission [under reference 06/P0320] was subject to a number of these conditions that required the submission of further details for approval. The current report considers conditions relating to the landscaping and surfacing of the open areas of the site and boundary treatments [condition 3], and tree planting and landscaping [condition 6]. 209 4.6 The conditions relating to the Arboricultural Method Statement [condition 8]; MOL Protection [condition 11]; and a Demolition Method Statement [condition 13] covering the whole site were discharged by a letter dated 14 March 2008 after the assessment of submitted information. A letter dated 16 April 2010 discharged the condition on Archaeological Investigation [condition 9] and Site Contamination [condition 10] for the whole site. The conditions relating to materials [condition 2]; refuse [condition 4]; cycle and mobility parking [condition 5] the control of construction impacts [condition 14] and ventilation systems [condition 20] relating to the medical centre [but excluding the nursery building and the rear of the site] were discharged in July 2012. 5. CONSULTATION LB Merton Transport Planning 5.1 No objections to the submitted details on surface treatment, boundary and tree planting and landscaping. LB Merton Conservation Officer 5.2 It is a great loss to the heritage of the borough that it was necessary for the previous developer to demolish the historic locally listed boundary wall and that the original bricks were then lost. 5.3 Without the bricks it is impossible to reproduce the missing historic boundary wall and therefore in order to move forward other options for this boundary need to be considered. It is also accepted that a replacement wall at the original height [2.5 metres] would not benefit the new medical centre use or the development of this site. It is considered that railings or a combination of a brick wall and railings would be acceptable in this location. Merton Tree Warden Group In summary the following comments have been made The boundary fence to the south of the Californian Laurel tree should be relocated to the north of the tree to allow better views of the tree and to avoid any potential damage caused by digging the post holes. The railing that encloses the café terrace is too high and it will block views of the building. The boundary treatment to the bin enclosure looks like an unresolved afterthought and should better relate to the gate construction. The plans should show original and finished ground levels; A full list of paving materials is not shown. Some species are also potentially too large Mitcham Cricket Green Community and Heritage 5.4 The replacement of the locally listed wall with two metre high railings is considered unacceptable.
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