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PUBLIC 215 Balham High Road, London, SW17 | IPSUS CONSULTATION on proposals for the proposed redevelopment of: BEDFORD HOUSE 215 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17

Established in 2004, Ipsus is a property developer represented heavily throughout South West London. Developments successfully undertaken vary in size and scale across all market sectors, from one-bedroom apartments in Wandsworth to four- bedroom family homes in Battersea.

HARDWICKS SQUARE, WANDSWORTH, SW18 »»High quality mixed use development of 138 residential apartments plus 12000 sqft of commercial floorspace »»Located adjacent to a locally listed memorial hall and partially in the Wandsworth Town Centre Conservation Area. »»Generously proportioned apartments. »»Valuable retail and commercial space. »»Creation of a new public piazza.

BALHAM HILL, CLAPHAM, SW12 »»62 high quality apartments and duplexes »»Private gardens and communal amenity spaces. »»Valuable history preserved. »»Great architecture, high quality homes »»Award winning

CABUL ROAD, BATTERSEA, SW11 »»A new build development of 14 houses and apartments »»Innovative approach to maximise available natural light. »»‘Upside-down’ living, with bedrooms located on the ground floor and open- plan living areas upstairs.

UPPER RICHMOND ROAD, PUTNEY, SW15 »»68 residential apartments and 30,000 sqft of commercial floorspace »»Wandsworth Council granted planning permission for an imaginative scheme »»Private one, two and three bedroom apartments and duplexes all enjoy unrivalled views across the capital.

CLAPHAM ROAD, CLAPHAM, SW19 »»Planning permission grated for 79 residential apartments and 35,000 sqft of Offices, Cafés and Retail. »»A mixture of both private and affordable 1, 2 & 3 bed apartments and private townhouses. »»Both private gardens and communal landscaped amenity spaces.

Ipsus Developments Limited 8 Spice Court Plantation Wharf London SW11 3UE [email protected] +44 (0) 207 7738 9191 PUBLIC 215 Balham High Road, London, SW17 | IPSUS CONSULTATION on proposals for the proposed redevelopment of: BEDFORD HOUSE 215 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 INTRODUCTION

The site: Bedford house 215 Balham High Road - highlighted in red.

WELCOME The site context varies from the nine storey Du Cane Court on the western side of Balham High Ipsus Developments Limited have been selected Road, to the more modest three storey Victorian by Wandsworth Council as their preferred houses to the rear of the site. purchaser for this site via a competitive tender process. They have given their chosen architects, There is a petrol filling station to the south of the Harper Downie, a brief to design an exemplar site, with another one opposite. development for this site that must; The surrounding area has undergone considerable »»Provide a positive and active open public change with the several new housing frontage developments such as Lumiere Court and »»Sit comfortably within the existing street scene Cherwell House all having been carried out in the »»Create both private and affordable homes. recent past.

Our proposals for the site acknowledge the Building heights in the area range from four to aspirations set out in the London Housing Design nine storeys, while adjacent to the site are five Guide and Wandsworth Borough Council’s and six storey buildings. Supplementary Planning Guidance. The site has frontage onto Balham High Road THE SITE only, where an existing loading bay and disabled parking bay are located. Currently occupied by a vacant office building that was formerly occupied by Wandsworth Council, the site is approximately 0.11 hectares. Located between the Balham Territorial Army Centre and Rutherford House School (under construction) the site has approximately 23m of frontage onto Balham High Road.

Bedford house - view from north on Balham High Road. Bedford house - view from south on Balham High Road.

Bedford house - view from west on Balham High Road.

OUR VISION

»»Regeneration of a currently underutilised site with a contemporary architectural response to context. »»Provide the borough with much needed high quality housing, including a proportion of affordable housing.

Sketch view of Bedford House from south on Balham High Road. OUR PROPOSAL ACCOMMODATION

»»52 new homes The design of the proposed scheme has been developed to take into account the architectural All units within the proposed development will precedent of the area. In this regard, a palette of be designed to ensure compliance or achieve the sympathetic materials including brick and stone following: have been chosen. »»Lifetime homes »»Code for Sustainable Homes level 4 The scheme consists of 52 new homes, situated »»A minimum of 10% of the apartments will be over 9 levels, each with their own private wheel chair adaptable external space in the form of balconies, terraces »»All apartment sizes and room sizes will meet or private gardens. the minimum standards set out in the London Housing Design Guide and Wandsworth The proposal incorporates a mix of 1, 2 and Council’s Supplementary Planning Guidance. 3-bedroom apartments, which are provided as private, shared ownership and social rented All units will have access to high quality external accommodation. amenity space in the form of balconies, terraces or private gardens. In addition a communal In total, the number of affordable housing units courtyard to the rear of the site, developed by represent 21% of the overall development total. award-winning landscape architects Gillespies, will provide high quality outdoor and interactive The two tenures will have separate: play areas. »»Entrance lobbies »»Cores »»Bins »»Bicycle storage facility

PT Stairs 23.500 PT ENTRANCE 25.000 Ramp Down 24.500 Ramp Down 8 Riser Gas Meter Bulky waste item space Bedroom 2 Riser 6 Bedroom 2 Store PT Lift Bathroom PT Bins

5 Riser 7 Bathroom Kitchen Bathroom 0.04_PT - 2B PT Lift Riser 73 sqm AR Stairs 0.06_PT - 2B 26.500 73 sqm

HIGH ROAD Riser Riser Riser 0.03_PT - 2B Store Kitchen 2 3 4 73 sqm Kitchen En-suite Living 26.500 BALHAM En-suite Store Store Kitchen PT Bikes New Substation En-suite 0.05_PT - 1B Bathroom 52 sqm Incoming BT Master Bedroom Bedroom 2 Living AR Lift PT Stairs Master Bedroom

Living 25.000 Riser 1 Living Bathroom Balcony Master Bedroom Master Bedroom AR ENTRANCE AR Bikes Bedroom 1 Balcony AR Bins Kitchen Balcony

F Garden Balcony 0.02_SO - 2B 87 sqm Bedroom 2 Living Bin

building 23.500

of Store WC Store Line above

Store Bedroom 2

B A Y SO ENTRANCE 0.01_SO - 2B Bedroom 1 75 sqm WC

25.000

O A D I N G L Line of Existing Building Kitchen Bathroom Living Garden F Bin

Existing Brick Boundary Wall

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Revisions I Project Status Drawn Checked Gate House D D1 16.12.13 Issued as Draft 1 St John's Square Bedford House, 215 Balham High Road Draft ZC RE London EC1M 4DH Drawing Title Scale Date 1:100 @ A2 Nov 2013 0 1 2 3 4 5 Proposed Ground Floor Revision T +44 20 7490 7674 Drwg. No. Proposed Ground floor plan. [email protected] General Arrangement 661_GA_00 D1 www.harperdownie.com Copyright HDDA Ltd . Do not scale from this drawing. Issued for purposes indicated only . All dimensions to be checked on site.

Profile of Rutherford House School Profile of existing building 06

1950 2900 5050 2975 3375 2975 2975 3375 2975 2975 3375 3375 Revisions Project Status Drawn Checked Gate House 1 St John's Square Bedford House, 215 Balham High Road Sketch for Comments ZC RE London EC1M 4DH Drawing Title Scale Date 1:100 @ A2 Nov 2013 Sectional elevation showing courtyard landscaping. 0 1 2 3 4 5 Proposed A-A Section Revision T +44 20 7490 7674 Drwg. No. [email protected] 661_GS_01 - www.harperdownie.com Copyright HDDA Ltd . Do not scale from this drawing. Issued for purposes indicated only . All dimensions to be checked on site. SUSTAINABLE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

»»Low energy design principles to be utilised where possible on the development. »»The proposed new residential units will be designed to achieve Code for Sustainable Homes, level 4. »»Low U-Values for walls, floors, roofs. »»Green roof »»Micro CHP for heating and hot water »»Permeable paving in landscaped areas for Sustainable Urban Drainage.

VEHICLE STRATEGY

»»A 100% car free scheme »»Residential occupiers will not receive parking permits for surrounding roads. »»All servicing and waste collection will take place from the existing loading bay on Balham High Road.

SAFETY AND SECURITY

»»The proposed scheme will look to improve on the existing site security arrangement. »»The scheme will be designed to meet the objectives of Secure By Design. Sketch view of courtyard from south

Approach to site from north on Balham High Road. Approach to site from south on Balham High Road.

The scheme complements the scale and materials of the area, and is recognisably residential. The scheme uses an appropriate palette of materials: reconstituted stone, glass, brick and metal cladding. It is intended that the selection sits comfortably in the context of the neighbouring properties and does not compete for attention or become overly dominant.

Private Affordable Shared Entrance Entrance Ownership Entrance

Balham High Road elevation, highlighting materiality.

Selection of chosen materials and precedents.

Due consideration has been given to visual amenity of neighbouring buildings. To the rear of the site, there is a well-proportioned inner courtyard and scaled composition of blocks stepping down to the east.

View of proposal from rear of Rutherford House School Courtyard.

View of proposal from rear of Territorial Army Centre car park.

LANDSCAPE garden, stepping to allow children to balance along it as well as offering a seat for parents. The landscape vision is to create a communal garden space that compliments the design of the building and offers a peaceful retreat within lush PLANTING planting. The planting has been chosen to suit the PLAY OPPORTUNITIES situation of the garden; Birch trees have striking white bark but a light canopy and so will not The entire garden will be a playful space, create excessive shade. The plants have been encouraging small children to explore, interact chosen for their structure, seasonality and shade and discover. Aimed primarily at children under tolerance and will create a lush, green glade. 4, the garden has stepping stones weaving Taller plants will be placed around the patio through the planting and between the trees spaces and windows to provide privacy, with the encouraging children to discover plants and lower plants and hard surfacing to the centre of animals. A low winding wall runs through the the space.

Stepping stones through Timber pigs low planting

Boulders and timber sleepers provide opportunities for incidental play

Planting zone 2 Planting zone 1

Raised planter to provide better rooting Timber sheep Small spinner depth for birch trees. Small steps provide access to a stepping stone trail that Long timber bench for residents winds between the trees. and families - surveillance for play, and a place for gathering away from residential gardens

Proposed landscaping masterplan.

The communal garden aims to create 80m2 of play space for children aged 0-4 by providing some items of fixed equipment amongst a playful landscape with incidental play opportunities. The high quality, lush providing has seasonal interest, is shade tolerant and will provide privacy to the lower ground floor flats and their patio spaces. Seating is provided within a peaceful, sheltered oasis. A simple palette of high quality materials responds to the buildings materiality, while the strong lines of the architecture are mirrored within the landscape to integrate the garden with the facade of the building.

Aerial views of proposed landscaping

A simple, strong palette of materials has been chosen for the communal garden. Light stone paving compliments the white trunks of the birch trees and the flowers dotted amongst the planting year round. The children’s play items are made in timber rather than bright colours to compliment the relaxed tone of the garden, benches will be similar to match. Trees will be of a small size reflecting the intimate scale of the garden.

TRANSPORT FEATURES OF PROPOSED TRIP GENERATION OF PROPOSED SITE DEVELOPMENT For the purposes of the assessment it has been »»Pedestrian access is directly from the A24 Balham assumed that the existing site does not generate any High Road trips. Given that the development does not provide any car parking spaces there will also be no vehicular »»Close proximity to public transport services: trips generated other than minimal servicing trips. • Balham Tube Station; This approach has been agreed with both the London • Tooting Bec Tube Station; Borough of Wandsworth and Transport for London. • Balham Rail; and • Bus Stops along Balham High Road. Additional benefits include: »»High levels of cycle parking provided on the site »»No car parking spaces are provided on site although which will reduce the need to travel by car. the existing disabled parking bay located in front of the site will be utilised. Spaces will not be provided »»Provision of Car Club membership to all residents. on site for visitors instead they will need to use the pay and display bays in the local area.

»»Residents will not be permitted to apply for parking permits in the local area so there will be no additional stress on parking bays for local residents.

»»All deliveries / servicing will be undertaken from a servicing bay located along the A24 Balham High Road. The bay is located within an inset area and will therefore not cause disruption to the flow of traffic along the surrounding highway.

Transport features.

AM (08:00 - 09:00) PM (17:00 - 18:00) Mode In Out Two Way In Out Two Way Car driver 0 0 0 0 0 0 Car passenger 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bus 0 1 2 1 0 1 Underground 3 14 17 7 4 12 Train 1 3 4 2 1 3 Walk 0 1 2 1 0 1 PC 0 2 2 1 1 2 Motor Cycle 0 0 1 0 0 0 Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 All Modes 5 23 28 12 7 19

Proposed site trip generation.

213 TA Centre

PT Stairs PT ENTRANCE

PT Bins Lift Lift 0.04_PT - 2B 0.03_PT - 2B 73 sqm AR Stairs 73 sqm 0.06_PT - 2B 73 sqm Substation 0.05_PT - 1B PT Bikes 52 sqm

PT Stairs Lift

AR ENTRANCE

AR Bikes

AR Bins 0.01_SO - 2B 87 sqm

F Garden

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Bin

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M A L H A M B A Y SO ENTRANCE B

O A D I N G L 0.02_SO - 2B Line of Existing Building 75 sqm

Garden F Bin

Existing Brick Boundary Wall

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D D Rutherford House School

Swept path analysis.

Revisions Project Status Drawn Checked Gate House 1 St John's Square Bedford House, 215 Balham High Road Sketch for Comments ZC RE London EC1M 4DH Drawing Title Scale Date 1:200 @ A2 Nov 2013 0 2 4 6 8 10 Proposed Site Plan Revision T +44 20 7490 7674 Drwg. No. [email protected] 661_-S_00 - www.harperdownie.com Copyright HDDA Ltd . Do not scale from this drawing. Issued for purposes indicated only . All dimensions to be checked on site.

The scheme design seeks to provide an exemplar development including:

»» High quality landscaping.

»» Sympathetic architectural design that safeguards light and amenity to surrounding properties.

»» Much needed affordable housing including family accommodation.

Overall, the development proposals will Sketch view of Balham High Road elevation. significantly enhance the quality of the site and its contribution to the character of the local area. In addition, the scheme will contribute private and affordable housing within a high quality residential environment.

CONSULTATION Thank you for visiting the exhibition today. IPSUS are committed to consultation with local residents and the wider community; it is therefore important for us to understand your opinions and we appreciate you taking the time Sketch view of looking north on Balham High Road. to visit this exhibition and sharing your views on the proposed development. We would be grateful if you could take a few moments to fill in a questionnaire giving us your views.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? We will collate the responses to the consultation and use the information in developing our proposals. We estimate the program to be along the following:

»» Submit for planning early Spring 2014

»» Planning decision Late Spring 2014

»» Demolition on site Autumn 2014

»» Construction to start Winter 2014 Sketch view of courtyard.

Materiality study of street elevation.

Ipsus Developments Limited 8 Spice Court Plantation Wharf London SW11 3UE [email protected] +44 (0) 207 7738 9191