• Materials: timber frame, wattle and daub, peg tile roofs and occasionally brick • Colour patterns: Timber often painted black and white (although there is no historical justification for this); red tile roofs, soft orange red bricks; and weather boarding often added SIX • Examples in Sutton: the Old Cottage (the Broadway, Cheam) and Whitehall (Cheam). 18th century buildings 6.4 Predominantly brick buildings. • Materials: Soft red sandy brick, coarse red or Local material colour palette yellowish bricks (which are easily confused with Introduction London stock bricks), peg / pan tiles, the soft red 6.1 The underlying principle of good urban design is how bricks are sometimes cut and rubbed to decorate new development will respond to and reflect an area’s windows or doors, wooden sash windows or lead local distinctiveness, and where none exists, creates a casement windows in less prominent locations. distinct character of its own. This may be achieved by • Colour patterns: Red or yellowish bricks, red roof considering how modern design and materials respond tiles. to the local vernacular, while incorporating the • Examples in Sutton: The Old Rectory (Festival principles of sustainable construction and materials. Walk, Carshalton), Cottages (Wrights Row, Wallington) and Sutton Lodge (Brighton Road, 6.2 This section sets out a local palette of materials and Sutton) colour schemes from the various building periods. This should be taken into account in any local context Weatherboarding appraisal. 6.5 Many timber framed weather board houses were built in the area between the 18th and early 19th century, Pre-18th century buildings with several built before this time. Examples of 6.3 These have mostly survived in the village centres of weatherboard houses can be found in the old village Carshalton and Cheam, although there are several centres of Cheam and Carshalton, and dispersed examples elsewhere. They have often been modified elsewhere in the borough. by weather board or tiles rendering. UNDERSTANDING SUTTON’S LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS: CHARACTERISATION REPORT OF STUDIES PAGE 26 • Materials: Horizontal lapped boarding over timber Cottage Garden Style (Arts and Crafts style) frame, pan / peg tile roofs, sash or casement • Materials: yellow and red stock brick, red tiled and windows, with slate roofs as probable later slate roofs, decorative chimneys and casement replacements. windows; • Colour patterns: generally painted white with red • Colour patterns: yellow, red and red / black roofs roof tiles • Examples in Sutton: St Helier estate, Sutton • Examples in Sutton: Aulton Lodge (West Street, Garden Suburb, Culvers Way, Bute Road, Alberta Carshalton) and Park Lane (Cheam). Avenue and Federick Road Mid Victorian Recent Housing (1970 to present) 6.6 Predominantly brick gothic-style buildings from the high • Materials: new London Stock, yellow and red brick, Victorian period. glass, timber, aluminium, good quality cladding, • Materials: Yellow stock brick often with red sustainable building materials, modern materials decorative details, stone windows, stale roofs and and colour render (New England style) prominent gables with decorated barge boards. • Colour patterns: opportunities for varied colour • Colour patterns: Yellow brick walls with red detail, schemes pale brown stone and grey or purple slate roofs • Examples in Sutton: the Hamptons, Apeldoorn • Examples in Sutton: North side of Westcroft Road Estate, Mill Lane, Henderson Hospital Site, Mullard (Carshalton) Factory Site, Cotswold Way and Oakdene Mews Late Victorian and Edwardian (1890 – 1914) • Materials: Soft red, occasionally yellow brick, peg tiles on the roof and sometimes hung on the wall. Wooden mock Tudor doors and windows often with leading and some stained glass. Iron finials and decoration. • Colour patterns: Red walls and roofs • Examples in Sutton: Russettings (Worcester Road, Sutton) UNDERSTANDING SUTTON’S LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS: CHARACTERISATION REPORT OF STUDIES PAGE 27 Wallington District Centre. Some parts of the Borough are particularly poorly served by public transport including large areas south of the Sutton-Wallington railway line. Much of the low density housing areas of South Cheam, Carshalton Beeches, South Wallington and Beddington South have PTAL levels of 1a/1b and SEVEN some areas have no access to public transport at all, including at the Green Belt, Little Woodcote and Cuddington/South Cheam. Movement 7.4 Industrial and commercial development is concentrated in three strategic industrial locations at Beddington, Introduction Kimpton and Imperial Way/Purley Way South. Each of 7.1 Three principal radial routes from London, the A24, the these areas is located close to key radial routes in A217 and the A237, cross through the Borough and London and on to the M25. provide access to the M25.The A232 and A2022 provide east-west routes across the Borough and provide direct access to the A23 and from there down to Gatwick Airport and the south coast. 7.2 The London Borough of Sutton is served by a number of suburban rail services with London termini at Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo as well as Thameslink which provides cross London service to Kings Cross and Luton. Tramlink connects Croydon and Wimbledon with two stops in the north east corner of the Borough. 7.3 Figure 7.1 highlights the road and rail network and the Public Transport Accessibility Levels (PTALs) in the Borough. Not surprisingly the highest PTAL levels are found in and around Sutton Town Centre followed by UNDERSTANDING SUTTON’S LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS: CHARACTERISATION REPORT OF STUDIES PAGE 28 Figure 7.1: Sutton’s Road and Rail Network and Public Transport Accessibility Levels UNDERSTANDING SUTTON’S LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS: CHARACTERISATION REPORT OF STUDIES PAGE 26 the Downs Road area and Chiltern Road area in South Sutton; and • The appraisal of 28 characteristic areas of inter-war suburban housing during 2007, including the Ruskin Road/Grandison Road area in Worcester Park; the Kingsmead Avenue, Oaks Avenue, Tudor Avenue Area; all of South Cheam; and the Pine Walk area EIGHT in Carshalton Beeches. The areas reviewed are identified on the Map in Figure 8.1 below. Townscape and Landscape Figure 8.1: Interwar Housing Areas Reviewed Character and Quality Introduction 8.1 The Townscape/Landscape Appraisal (1998) set out results of an appraisal of the open and built environments in Sutton and identified certain character areas within the Borough. However this original work has been refined on the basis of the following detailed appraisals: • Conservation Area character appraisals undertaken of Sutton Garden Suburb, Wallington Green and Carshalton Village during 2005-07; • The appraisal of a number of potential Areas of Special Local Character (ASLCs) undertaken between 2003 and 2008. The potential areas included the Belmont Area; the Mayfield Estate in South Sutton; the Hinton Estate in South Wallington, Anne Boleyn’s Walk area, Cheam; and UNDERSTANDING SUTTON’S LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS: CHARACTERISATION REPORT OF STUDIES PAGE 27 8.2 Additional townscape character appraisal work has extraction and waste disposal site; and the specifically been undertaken on Sutton Town Centre: development of Prologis Park to the east of Beddington the North Sutton (Angel’s End) Study by Atkins and CB Lane). Hillier Parker in 2003 and the Sutton Town Centre Urban Design Analysis by Urban Practitioners (2007). 8.5 The key features from each townscape character area This information has also been used to update the are outlined in this section and are shown on Figure 1998 characterisation appraisal of the Borough. 8.2. Figure 8.2 illustrates that the character of the Borough is predominantly defined by inter-war 8.3 The Commission for Architecture and the Built suburban housing interspersed with large public open Environment (CABE) advises that the approach spaces that give the Borough its suburban and “green” recommended by English Heritage towards the qualities. assessment of character of historic areas can be applied to the analysis of any area1. Accordingly, the 8.6 The key features of landscape character are illustrated character appraisal of both potential ASLCs and the on Figure 8.4. inter-war suburban areas used the same criteria established in the Unitary Development Plan (2003). 8.7 Furthermore, the Townscape/Landscape Appraisal The criteria are: quality of the overall character of an identified the quality of the townscape and landscape area; the townscape value of individual and groups of and this is illustrated on Figure 8.3 and 8.5 buildings; the architectural quality of buildings; the respectively. These figures have been updated to historic importance of the area; landscape reflect the appraisal work undertaken on potential characteristics; quality of open spaces; and the ASLCs and the inter-war suburban housing areas and contribution of incidental features such as walls, fences to take into account major enhancement schemes and hedges. implemented since the original survey work (i.e. at Kimpton Industrial Estate and the redevelopment of the 8.4 The original 1998 appraisal work has also been Roundshaw Housing Estate). updated to reflect significant changes of land use (i.e. the redevelopment of the former Worcester Park Sewage Treatment Works; the change of the predominant use of Beddington Farmlands from a sewage treatment works to an active minerals 1 Protecting Design Quality in Planning, 2003 UNDERSTANDING SUTTON’S LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS: CHARACTERISATION REPORT OF STUDIES PAGE 28 Figure