Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING
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Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING 3 May 2016 1 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Alterations and Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, Barnsbury AFL E [email protected] W www.architectureforlondon.com A 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RF T 020 3637 4236 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING Contents 0 Introduction 1 Site Context 1.1 Location 1.2 Current Use and Legal History 1.3 Natural Context 1.4 Built Context 1.5 Boundaries 1.6 Access 2 Proposals in Context 2.1 Overall strategy 2.2 Proposed Use 2.3 Response to Natural Contexts 2.4 Response to Built Contexts 2.5 Boundary Treatments 3 Conclusions 2 AFL E [email protected] W www.architectureforlondon.com A 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RF T 020 3637 4236 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING Fig. 1: Existing Liverpool Road elevation 0. Introduction This Design, Access and Heritage Statement is submitted in support of a planning application for alteration and extension to No. 164A Liverpool Road, London. No. 164 Liverpool Road is a two-storey Victorian building, originally thought to contain a coach station, and later a taxi depot. It has been variously altered and extended in modern times (refer to paragraph 1.2). In drawing up this proposal we have analysed and responded to relevant national and local planning policy in addition to the site’s unique built and historical context. We feel the resulting design is appropriate for its location and sympathetic to its surroundings. 1 AFL E [email protected] W www.architectureforlondon.com A 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RF T 020 3637 4236 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING Fig 2. Context. Clockwise from top left: Liverpool Road street frontage opposite; aerial view 1. Site Context with site outlined in red dashed line; view of 164 looking north along Liverpool Road. 1.1 Location 164A Liverpool Road is located on the 1.3 Natural Context first floor of no. 164 Liverpool Road. This The wider local area is home to many building is located in north London, in the mature trees, garden squares and borough of Islington. The B515 Liverpool private gardens. The site is around half Road is a local high street containing a mile from the commercial centre of shops and commercial premises, as The Angel and approximately one mile well as varying densities of residential from Kings Cross and St Pancras stations. buildings. It is a significant north-south It is urban in its nature. No trees exist on route connecting central London with the site as the property consists entirely Barnsbury and Highbury. of the the first floor and roof of no. 164, while the garden of the building was 1.2 Current Use and Legal History built over during the aforementioned The building is currently split into three conversion works. residential properties over ground and first floors, while the majority of the ground 1.4 Built Context floor is occupied by a car garage. In the Liverpool Road, formerly Back Road, 1990s the current owners of the garage is one of the oldest in London, dating - then of the whole building - carried out from at least medieval times. It was not extensive structural work to extend and until the 1700s however that it began to convert the building to its current form. be heavily developed from its southern The title of the property was then split end, spreading northwards over the 2 and each flat sold individually. years. No. 164 was originally developed AFL E [email protected] W www.architectureforlondon.com A 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RF T 020 3637 4236 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING Fig 3. Context. Clockwise from as part of Felix Terrace, a row of houses including no. 162, exists a well-preserved top left: view of the backs of 164, 162 and 160 Liverpool Road from built in 1817. row of shops with flats over them, roof terrace; the backs of 164 and and rising to three storeys - one storey 166-198 Liverpool Road from roof terrace; 166, 164 and 162 Liverpool To comply with NPPF paragraph 128 the higher than no. 164. Several modern Road as they were in 1964; proposal must take account of relevant developments form the context to Liverpool Road looking south down Heritage Assets, their significance and 164 Liverpool Road. The most recent Felix Terrace the contribution of their setting. As is the adjacent building to the north the site lies within Islington’s Barnsbury of the site at 166-198 Liverpool Road. Conservation Area, the design must This building was completed in 2013 take account of the significance of and is 2 storeys higher than no. 164, this asset and the effect it will have and 1 storey higher than the adjacent on it. The Conservation Area Appraisal nineteenth century buildings. It uses a summarizes the nature of the area thus: modern bright yellow brick, juxtaposed against grey zinc cladding, structural “The Barnsbury Conservation Area is the largest in glass balconies and black aluminium Islington and was declared to be of outstanding framed doors and windows. It has a importance. It contains many of the best examples of formal late-Georgian/early-Victorian flat roof covered with light grey PVC residential developments in London. These membrane and the walls are capped include some of the finest sequences of squares with poorly installed aluminium copings. and terraces in London, such as Lonsdale Square, Further down the road, visible from no. Gibson Square and Thornhill Square. Many of the squares contain superb, mature trees and 164 and immediately facing the backs well established planting which enhance the of Milner Square this development magnificent buildings surrounding them. Overall, includes various contemporary the area has a rare quality of consistency and architectural features, including towers completeness which requires careful and sensitive policies to protect and enhance it.” and dramatically curving zinc roofs. Immediately opposite our site exist 3 Immediately to the south of no. 164, similar two-storey nineteenth century AFL E [email protected] W www.architectureforlondon.com A 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RF T 020 3637 4236 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING Fig 4. Context. Clockwise from buildings which have been given 1.6 Access top left: Liverpool Road with the 166-198 development on the later mansard roof extensions. Next to Access to no. 164 is direct from Liverpool left; Milner Square; the backs of these is the modern four-storey 231- Road, and Flat A is reached via an Milner square from the roof of 164 Liverpool Road; the back of 235 Liverpool Road and its immediate internal staircase to the side of the no.s 166-198 Liverpool Road. neighbour, a three-storey modern brick building. There is no rear or side access building. To the rear of no. 164 are the to the property. backs of houses (now flats) on Milner The B515 Liverpool Road leads Square, a high quality Victorian garden to Upper Street to the south, and square dating from 1839 and rising to Highbury in the north. It is not on a bus 4/5 storeys. route. The nearest underground/rail station is Highbury and Islington, about 1.5 Boundaries 800 metres to the north, while Angel The property’s boundary to the north underground station is about 900 metres is formed by the new flank wall to no.s to the south. The property’s PTAL rating 166-198 Liverpool Road, to the south is 2. by the flank wall to the first floor and mansard roof extension to no. 162 liverpool road, to the east by the back gardens of Milner Square, and to the west by Liverpool Road itself. No. 164A shares a party wall with flat C to the north and west, and a party floor with the garage on the ground floor. There is a shared light well in the centre of the building extending from first floor level to the roof. 4 AFL E [email protected] W www.architectureforlondon.com A 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RF T 020 3637 4236 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING 162 164 Liverpool Rd. 166-198 166-198 164 Liverpool Rd. 162 Fig 5. Elevations of Existing. Top: Back Elevation Existing. Bottom: Front Elevation Existing. Scale: 1:200 at A4 5 AFL E [email protected] W www.architectureforlondon.com A 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RF T 020 3637 4236 Design, Access and Heritage Statement Extension to 164A Liverpool Road, London Status: PLANNING 1 2 1 3 4 5 Fig 6. Examples of contemporary extensions in conservation areas and roof extensions to 2. Proposals in Context period buildings: 1. Moorfields Conservation Area, Islington/FCH Architects; 2. East Canonbury Conservation Area, Islington/ Refer to figures 7, 11 and 12 for drawings marking a change in material. By taking Alison Brookes Architects; 3. showing proposed design. these strategic decisions we aim to Pentonville Road roof extension, Camden/Islington/HUT Architects; preserve the character of the original 4. Barnsbury Conservation Area, 2.1 Overall Strategy building, and by building the roof Islington/Tasou Associates; Barnsbury Conservation Area, As we have seen in the previous section, extension, prevent a less sympathetic Islington/Architecture for London. 164 Liverpool Road is sandwiched future development. between two much taller buildings: The second element to the recent (2013) 166-198 Liverpool our strategy has been to chose Road which is two storeys higher, and an architectural form akin to a 162 Liverpool Road which is one storey mansard roof.