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CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES BUSHY PARK GARDENS CONSERVATION AREA NO.77 Consultation Draft, November 2020 Note: Every effort has been made interest. Therefore, the omission of any a more detailed and up-to-date to ensure the accuracy of this feature does not necessarily convey assessment of a particular site and its document but due to the complexity a lack of significance. The Council will context is undertaken. This may reveal of conservation areas, it would be continue to assess each development additional considerations relating to impossible to include every facet proposal on its own merits, on a site- character or appearance which may be BUSHY PARK GARDENS contributing to the area’s special specific basis. As part of this process, of relevance to a particular case. 1 CONSERVATION AREA No.77 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Introduction PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT The principal aims of conservation • Raise public interest and This document has been area appraisals are to: awareness of the special produced using the guidance set character of their area; out by Historic England in the 2019 • Describe the historic and publication titled Understanding architectural character and • Identify the positive features Place: Conservation Area appearance of the area which should be conserved, Designation, Appraisal and which will assist applicants in as well as negative features Management, Historic England making successful planning which indicate scope for future Advice Note 1 (Second Edition). applications and decision enhancements. makers in assessing planning This document will be a material applications; consideration when assessing planning applications. WHAT IS A BUILDINGS OF CONSERVATION AREA CONSERVATION AREA? TOWNSCAPE MERIT APPRAISAL The statutory definition of a Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) A conservation area appraisal aims conservation area is an ‘area of are buildings, groups of buildings or to describe the special historic and special architectural or historic structures of historic or architectural architectural character of an area. interest, the character or interest, which are locally listed A conservation area’s character appearance of which it is desirable due to their considerable local is defined by a combination of to preserve or enhance’. The power importance. The policy, as outlined elements such as architecture, uses, to designate conservation areas is in the Council’s Local Plan, sets materials and detailing as well as the given to local authorities through out a presumption against the relationship between buildings and the Planning (Listed Buildings and demolition of BTMs unless structural their settings. Conservations Areas) Act, 1990 evidence has been submitted by Many other elements contribute to (Sections 69 to 78). the applicant, and independently character and appearance such as verified at the cost of the applicant. Once designated, proposals within a the placement of buildings within conservation area become subject Locally specific guidance on their plots; views and vistas; the to local conservation policies set design and character is set out relationship between the street and out in Chapter 4 of the Council’s in the Council’s Buildings of the buildings and the presence of Local Plan and national policies Townscape Merit Supplementary trees and green space. outlined in part 12 of the National Planning Document (2015), which The conservation area appraisal Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). applicants are expected to follow is an evidence base rather than Our overarching duty which is set for any alterations and extensions a planning policy document. out in the Act is to preserve and/or to existing BTMs, or for any This means that it is the main enhance the historic or architectural replacement structures. document for recording what is of character or appearance of the principal importance in terms of conservation area. character and appearance for each conservation area. However, the relevant policies are contained within the borough’s Local Plan, specifically Chapter 4 ‘Local Character and Design’. Refer to the Council’s website for the latest Local Plan. BUSHY PARK GARDENS 2 CONSERVATION AREA No.77 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES CONSERVATION \ AREAS I I � I Conservation Areas \ D \ m \ r,. ;, • CA77 . '•,.j Borough boundary �7 i '· 28 '· 80 �� �@ CONSERVATION AREAS --•-a. \ CA77 ·-·:-, 58 - 't ....... ___ .---■ BOROUGH London Borough of BOUNDARY Richmond upon Thames SCALE 1:40,000 Scale 1 :40, 000 0KM ¼ ½ ¾ 0km 1;4 0MILES ¼ ½ Omiles Map showing Richmond Conservation Areas. Conservation Area 77, Bushy Park Gardens, highlighted. 1. Barnes Green 23. Ham House 45. Strawberry Vale 67. Parkleys Estate (Ham) 2. Kew Green 24. Twickenham Park 46. Rosecroft Gardens 68. Holmesdale Avenue 3. Richmond Green 25. Castelnau 47. Queens Road (Twickenham) 69. Sheen Common Drive 4. Richmond Riverside 26. The Grove 48. Amyand Park Road 70. Sheen Lane (Mortlake) 5. Richmond Hill 27. Teddington Lock 49. Crown Road 71. Fieldend (Twickenham) 6. Petersham 28. Broom Water 50. Sheendale Road 72. Hamilton Road 7. Ham Common 29. Belmont Road 51. Mortlake Green 73. Burlington Avenue and West 8. Twickenham Riverside 30. St Matthias 52. East Sheen Avenue Park Road 9. Twickenham Green 31. Sheen Road 53. White Hart Lane 74. Defoe and Ruskin Avenue 10. Trafalgar Road 32. Barnes Common 54. Waldegrave Park 75. Oaklands Estate 11. Hampton Court Green 33. Mortlake 55. Kew Road 76. Madrid Road 12. Hampton Village 34. Model Cottages 56. Beresford Avenue 77. Bushy Park Gardens 13. Christ Church Road 35. Queens Road (Mortlake) 57. Old Deer Park 78. Cole Park Road 14. Mill Hill 36. Kew Foot Road 58. Platt’s Eyot 79. Cowley Road 15. Kew Gardens 37. High Street (Teddington) 59. Normansfield 80. King Edwards Grove 16. Thorne Passage 38. Hight Street (Hampton Hill) 60. Hampton Court Park 81. Royal Road 17. Central Richmond 39. Blackmore’s Grove 61. Bushy Park 82. St James’s Avenue 18. Hampton Wick 40. Pope’s Avenue 62. Richmond Park 83. Wick Road 19. St Margarets 41. Joanna Southcott Chapel 63. RoyaI Botanic Gardens 84. Broad Street 20. Lawn Crescent 42. Mays Road 64. Sheen Lane (East Sheen) 85. Church Road 21. Cambridge Park 43. Strawberry Hill Road 65. Hanworth Road (Hampton) 22. Park Road (Teddington) 44. Mallard Place 66. Richmond Road BUSHY PARK GARDENS 3 CONSERVATION AREA No.77 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Statement of Significance Summary of special • The houses have similar back from the street with well architectural and historic proportions, massing and planted front gardens, adding interest of conservation area. architectural detailing but are to and enhancing the leafy varied in design, with many of character of the central green • The Bushy Park Gardens the properties retaining original space, and adjacent Bushy Conservation Area sits within timber windows, although Park Conservation Area; the setting of Bushy Park some have later timber Conservation Area (a Royal • The area boasts numerous replacements; Park and Historic England mature trees, both in the street registered park); • As important as the houses and central green space themselves, are the gaps (Other Open Land of • The area is a good example of between them and open Townscape Importance), as a fairly homogenous group of spaces around them, allowing well as in the private gardens, houses built around the turn of for views into rear gardens and all of which contribute to the the 19th century surrounding a Bushy Park beyond; distinctive character of this shared central green space in a conservation area. later Arts and Crafts style; • The houses in this conservation area are set Bushy Park Gardens streetscene BUSHY PARK GARDENS 4 CONSERVATION AREA No.77 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Location and Setting General character and plan Bushy Park Conservation Area CA61. and gardens bordering Hampton form, e.g. linear, compact, The Bushy Park Conservation Area Court Palace but divided by dense or dispersed; important consists of 44ha of royal parkland Hampton Court Road. views, landmarks, open spaces, and includes formal gardens and a All of the buildings within Bushy uniformity. deer park of Hampton Court Palace Park Gardens CA77 Conservation which was established during the Area have their focal point looking Bushy Park Gardens is a small, reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. towards the central green or to isolated development of houses The Royal Park is registered as the entrance off Hampton Road. situated around a green space, a Grade I Park and Garden, and Given their generous setting, the which leads onto Hampton Road to incorporates a number of landscape gaps between the dwellings are also the north and borders the extensive features, buildings and a fountain, important and allow views through grounds of Bushy Park to the south. most of which are also listed. The to the trees within Bushy Park. Bushy Park Gardens Conservation conservation area follows the Area CA77 sits within the setting of boundary of this historic deer park BUSHY PARK GARDENS BUSHY PARK GARDENS 5 CONSERVATION AREA No.77 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Historical Development Stages/ phases of historical The Bushy Park Gardens estate mature trees and performs the role development and historic consists of a housing development of an attractive landscaped focal associations (archaeology etc) of 18 dwellings fronting an oval- point and green amenity space. which may be influencing how the shaped access road, which is built Historic OS Maps show that the area area is experienced. around a central green. had been separated from the Bushy Historic 1896 plans show a ‘tennis Park grounds adjacent from at least lawn’ to the centre; however today the late 19th century. the green space is planted with 1890s 1910s 1930s BUSHY PARK GARDENS 6 CONSERVATION AREA No.77 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Historical Development According to plans dated from 1896, the development adjacent to the tree-lined edge of the park was owned by a J.J.
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