Supplementary Planning Document I June 2016

RICHMOND AND RICHMOND HILL

Contents

1. Introduction 4 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context 6 3. Spatial Context 9 4. Vision for Richmond 14 5. Objectives 14 6. Character Area Assessments 15 ■■ Conservation Area 1: Kew Foot Road 16 ■■ Character Area 2: The Pagoda Triangle 18 ■■ Character Area 3: North of Lower Mortlake Road 20 ■■ Character Area 4: South of Lower Mortlake Road 22 ■■ Conservation Area 5: Sheendale Road 24 ■■ Character Area 6: Old Gas Works 26 ■■ Character Area 7: Between Upper and Lower Richmond Road 28 ■■ Character Area 8: Kings Farm Avenue and surrounds 32 ■■ Character Area 9: Queen’s Road Estate 36 ■■ Character Area 10: Queen’s Road (west side) 38 ■■ Conservation Area 11: St Matthias 40 ■■ Conservation Area 12 Richmond Hill 44 ■■ Conservation Area 13: Richmond Riverside 48 ■■ Conservation Area 14: Richmond Green 52 ■■ Conservation Area 15: Central Richmond 56 ■■ Conservation Area 16: Sheen Road 60 ■■ Character Area 17: Old Deer Park Gardens 62 ■■ Conservation Area 18: Old Deer Park 64 7. Features and Materials 68 8. Guidance for Development Sites 76 9. Shop Front Guidance 78 10. Forecourt Parking 86

Appendix 1: Relevant Policies and Guidance 88 1. Introduction

The purpose of this Village Planning Guidance Supplementary Planning The London Borough of Richmond Document (SPD) is primarily to establish upon Thames has been divided into a vision and planning policy aims for, a series of smaller village areas. and assist in defining, maintaining and Each village is distinctive in terms of enhancing the character of Richmond, and the community, facilities and local character – as are many sub areas to provide guidance in this regard. The within the villages. SPD forms part of the wider Village Plan. The villages of the London Borough By identifying key features of the village, Richmond upon Thames are the SPD clarifies the most important attractive with many listed buildings aspects and features that contribute to and conservation areas, the local local character to guide those seeking character of each being unique, to make changes to their properties or recognisable and important to the to develop new properties in the area, as community and to the aesthetic of well as being a material consideration in the borough as a whole. determining planning applications.

The core of this SPD is a series of character area assessments for the component areas of Richmond. These character areas have been identified through the similarity of key features that are deemed to define their individual local character. The assessments establish dominant features and materials as well as an overall description of the street pattern and housing types.

Richmond and Richmond Hill SPD Area Boundary

4 The boundary for the SPD is based on: ■■ Stakeholder Workshop (16 July 2015, Richmond Adult Community College) ■■ a review of how each area’s design characteristics can best be grouped; ■■ Online consultation and questionnaire ■■ taking account of physical and from 9 October – 20 November 2015 administrative boundaries, including (Statutory consultation) conservation area boundaries to avoid these being split between village areas; ■■ ‘Drop-In’ session at Duke Street Church and 7 November 2015 ■■ how local communities viewed their local Wider Context (Village Plans) areas when asked through the Council’s 2010 ‘All-In-One’ survey and subsequent Village Plans have been developed for each consultations. of Richmond’s 14 villages. Each Village Plan describes a vision for the village area and This SPD has been produced by the Council identifies what the Council will do and working closely with the community. This what local people can do to achieve the has ensured that local residents, businesses vision together. It sets out the key issues and stakeholders have been genuinely and priorities and provides background involved in defining the important features information on the village area. The Village – as well as the opportunities and threats – Plans are maintained on the Council’s that define their local area. website and are updated as works are The community has been involved through: progressed. They cover a wide range of topics, including matters not within the ■■ ‘Drop in sessions’ held at Richmond remit of the SPD. Adult Community College on the 6th June 2015 and St Matthias Church on the This Village Planning Guidance SPD forms 13th June 2015 part of the Village Plan by providing a formal planning policy document which ■■ Resident walkabouts held in the morning can be used to guide new development and afternoon on both the 7th June 2015 that has responded to residents’ desire to and 14th June 2015 have greater control and influence over ■■ Online questionnaire consultation planning and development decisions in their (running from 15th May to 29th June local area. The involvement of the local 2015) community in the production of the SPD has been essential in ensuring it is a genuine reflection of residents’ priorities.

5 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context

2.1 Planning Policy Framework their Development Plan Documents. The Some larger sites in Richmond have boroughs must define the boundaries been identified through consultations National Planning Policy by taking into account proximity to the undertaken by the Council. Where The National Planning Policy Framework Thames, contiguous areas with clear appropriate sites in Richmond have been (NPPF) sets out the Government’s visual links between areas and buildings assessed in Chapter 8 of this document planning policies for England and how and the river and specific geographical to establish design objectives should they these are expected to be applied. The features, areas and buildings which relate come forward for development. NPPF is a key part of the Government’s or link to the Thames. The River Thames Up-to-date information on the Council’s reforms to make the planning system section through Richmond is designated Local Plan can be viewed at http:// less complex and more accessible. The in the Thames Policy Area in the London www.richmond. gov.uk/home/services/ NPPF provides the context for local Plan. planning/planning_ policy/local_plan.htm. planning authorities and decision takers, Local Planning Policy both when drawing up plans and making 2.2 Key Planning Policies decisions about planning applications. The London Borough of Richmond upon It must be taken into account in the Thames current statutory planning policy SPDs cannot create new policies but preparation of local and neighbourhood framework is set out in adopted Plans expand on policies set out in higher plans, and is a material consideration in including the Core Strategy, adopted plans, notably the Core Strategy (CS) planning decisions. in April 2009, and the Development and the Development Management Management Plan, adopted in November Plan (DMP). This SPD relates to a Regional Planning Policy 2011. There is an online proposals considerable number of higher policies, notably: At a regional level, the London Plan FALP map and a range of guidance provided (adopted in 2015) is the overall strategic through Supplementary Planning DMP Policy DM DC 1 Design Quality plan for London setting out an integrated Documents (SPDs) and Supplementary economic, environmental, transport and Planning Guidance (SPG) for the area. New development must be of a high social framework for the development of This SPD forms part of the planning architectural and urban design quality London over the next 20-25 years. This policy framework and should be read based on sustainable design principles. document has been adopted to ensure in conjunction with the Council’s Development must be inclusive, respect that a longer-term view of London’s suite of planning policy and guidance local character including the nature of development is taken when producing as applicable. There is also a range of a particular road, and connect with, and local plans, making planning decisions and evidence base studies that the Council contribute positively, to its surroundings investing in infrastructure. has undertaken which help to guide based on a thorough understanding of policy making. the site and its context. Policy 7.29 in the London Plan refers to the Thames Policy Area stating that The Council is currently moving forward In assessing the design quality of a relevant boroughs, including Richmond, on allocating larger development sites as proposal the Council will have regard to must designate a Thames Policy Area in part of its Local Plan-making processes. the following:

6 ■■ compatibility with local character and orientation, and sustainable DMP Policy DM HD 1 Conservation Areas – environment both in terms of the loss of including relationship to existing construction. designation, protection and enhancement individual front gardens and in damaging townscape the unity and character of groups of CS Policy CP8: Town and Local Centres Buildings or parts of buildings, street houses and the streetscape in general. ■■ frontages, scale, height, massing, furniture, trees and other features which Retail and town centre uses will be proportions and form make a positive contribution to the Policy DM OS 11 Thames Policy Area ■■ sustainable development and adaptability, supported providing that it is appropriate character, appearance or significance of the subject to aesthetic considerations to the role in the hierarchy of the centres, area should be retained. The special character of the Thames Policy and respects the character, environment and Area (TPA), as identified on the Proposals ■■ layout and access historical interest of the area. DMP Policy DM HD 2 Conservation of Listed Map, will be protected and enhanced ■■ space between buildings and relationship Buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments by ensuring development establishes a CS Policy CP11 River Thames Corridor to the public realm relationship with the river and takes full Preservation of Listed Buildings of special ■■ detailing and materials advantage of its location. The natural and built environment and architectural or historic interest and the unique historic landscape of the River Whilst all adopted policies are applicable, Ancient Monuments and seek to ensure Policy DM DC 7 Shop fronts and shop signs those of particular relevance are: Thames corridor within the Borough will be that they are kept in a good state of repair. protected and enhanced. The Council will resist the removal of shop CS Policy CP7: Maintaining and Improving the DMP Policy DM HD 3 Buildings of Townscape fronts of architectural or historic interest. Local Environment CS Policy CP13 Opportunities for All Merit The Council will expect proposals for The Council will work with all relevant new shop fronts or alterations to existing All new development should recognise Preservation and enhancement of Buildings shop fronts to demonstrate a high quality distinctive local character and contribute to agencies to reduce disadvantage, particularly of Townscape Merit. The Council will use in the most deprived areas of the Borough of design, which complements the original creating places of a high architectural and its powers where possible to protect their design, proportions, materials and detailing urban design quality that are well used and and for disadvantaged individuals, and significance, character and setting. ensure that a range of opportunities of the shop front, surrounding streetscene valued. Proposals will have to illustrate that and the building of which it forms part. they: are provided that can be accessed by all DMP Policy DM TP 9 Forecourt Parking residents. The parking of vehicles in existing front A wider list of relevant policies can be (i) are based on an analysis and found in Appendix 1. It should be noted that understanding of the Borough’s DMP Policy DM OS 4 Historic Parks, Gardens gardens will be discouraged, especially and Landscapes where: all adopted policies and guidance should development patterns, features and be assessed for their relevance in respect views, public transport accessibility Parks and gardens as well as landscapes ■■ this would result in the removal of of individual planning applications, not just and maintaining appropriate levels of of special historic interest included in the architectural features such as walls, gates those referred to above. amenity; Register compiled by English Heritage and and paving, or of existing trees and other (ii) connect positively with their other historic parks, gardens and landscapes vegetation; surroundings to create safe and inclusive will be protected and enhanced. ■■ where such parking would detract places through the use of good design from the streetscape or setting of the principles including layout, form, property; or scale, materials, natural surveillance ■■ it has an impact on the surrounding

7 2.3 Planning Policy Aims ■■ Protect and enhance existing open traditional materials and includes areas, encouraging appropriate local sufficient car parking. This SPD reinforces the existing planning events and sports facilities and secure policy aims which have been established for ■ Ensure that street trees are retained and improvements to the Old Deer Park. ■ Richmond Village which seek to achieve the that forecourt parking does not destroy following: ■■ Enhance and improve the public realm historic fences, gates and railings. at Richmond Riverside and Richmond ■ Improve the range of shops, services and ■ Implement environmental improvement ■ Promenade. ■ leisure activities in central Richmond schemes such as at the Old Deer Park and shops in local centres at Friars Stile ■■ Protect and preserve the views from Car Park, and Richmond Gate. Road, Sheen Road, Lower Richmond Richmond Hill and Richmond Park, ■ Ensure that new shop fronts, Road, Kew Road and Lower Mortlake maintaining the skyline and ridgeline, ■ advertisements and street furniture Road, particularly independent shops to and ensuring St Matthias remains the visually contribute to the street scene enhance character and choice. dominant feature. and reinforce the historic character. ■■ Create a high quality public realm to ■■ Protect and preserve views to the ■ Ensure the redevelopment of the Friars make central Richmond and the local Pagoda in the Kew Gardens World ■ Lane car park site and land to the rear centres more attractive and to support Heritage site and that the Kew Gardens of King Street enhance the Conservation the commercial function. buffer zone is protected and enhanced. Area. ■■ Ensure that any expansion and ■■ Protect and preserve trees throughout ■ In the longer term seek the management of entertainment and Richmond with special attention to ■ redevelopment of Richmond Station to leisure facilities is sensitive to the those in open spaces and along the River provide improved interchange facilities amenity of people who live in the centre Thames. and provide for new uses above the and the wider functioning of the area. ■■ Ensure local character, historic buildings, tracks. ■■ Improve cultural and community architectural features and archeology uses in the centre including bringing are retained and enhanced and that the reference and lending libraries there is not inappropriate replacement together and enhancing The Museum of of historic features such as windows and Richmond. doors. ■■ Ensure there is sufficient short term car ■■ Ensure new development is appropriate parking to enable Richmond to remain in terms of height, scale and massing economically buoyant. and use of architectural features and

8 3. Spatial Context

This section covers transport, green spaces, Facilities in Richmond Connectivity and accessibility Green Infrastructure shops and services which are an essential ■ Shopping and retail options in central ■ Two mainline railway services at Richmond benefits from a number of part of Richmond and Richmond Hill’s ■ ■ Richmond and along Sheen Road, Friars Richmond Station (which also includes significant green spaces and recreation character. These are detailed below and, Stile Road, Lower Mortlake Road and Underground and Overground services) opportunities including: together with its historic assets, are mapped Kew Road. and North Sheen Station. on the following pages. ■■ Old Deer Park, Terrace Gardens and ■■ The area supports a variety of sports ■■ Major road infrastructure runs through Richmond Green, which hosts the annual facilities including 3 rugby clubs, an the area, the A316 running down Richmond May Fair, are key spaces. indoor and outdoor swimming pool, towards Twickenham Bridge and the ■ Richmond Park, East Sheen Common, Richmond Cricket Club, Richmond Lawn ■ A307 running down from Kew Gardens. Pesthouse Common and Petersham Tennis Club, an athletics ground and Common are located adjacent to the Royal Mid Surrey Golf Club. ■■ Bus stops along the A305, A307 and A316 provide high levels of access to Village Plan area. ■■ A wide variety of leisure options are a range of locations both within and ■ Located to the east of North Sheen available including the Richmond and ■ outside of the borough. station is a significant allotment garden Orange Tree Theatres, 3 cinemas and the behind Holy Trinity Church of England Richmond Riverside walk. ■■ A number of walking and cycling routes. Primary School. ■■ The area includes 4 primary schools, 1 ■ Asgill House and Trumpeters House are secondary school, several independent ■ set in an area of Metropolitan Open schools, 2 colleges and American Land running along the edge of the River International University. Thames. ■■ Richmond synagogue and 9 churches are ■ A number of attractive green spaces can located in the area including St Matthias’, ■ be found along the banks of the Thames. Holy Trinity, St Mary Magdalene and St Thomas Aquinas. ■■ Allotments off Queen’s Road and Old Palace Lane. ■■ 5 GP’s and 6 dental surgeries (NHS). ■■ East Sheen and Richmond cemeteries. ■■ The Museum of Richmond, lending library and reference library.

9 Connectivity and Accessibility in Richmond

10 Facilities in Richmond

Richmond Theatre

United Reformed Church Pools on the Park

11 Green Infrastructure in Richmond

12 Historic Assets in Richmond

Legend SPDVillag Boundarye Boundary

Conservation Area

Building Of Townscape Merit Listed Buildings © Crown copyright and database rights 2014 Ordnance Survey 100019441

Note that Archaeological Priority Areas are recorded in the Development Management Plan. Buildings Of Townscape Merit are not designated and are locally listed. Listed Buildings are designated and recognised nationally. Please note that these are correct at the time of adoption of the SPD. For the most up to date information please see the Council’s website. 13 4. Vision for Richmond 5. Objectives

The vision for Richmond and Richmond Hill is to retain The Richmond and Richmond Hill Village Planning and enhance its unique character and create a cultural Guidance SPD has been developed to meet the following centre in and around the Old Town Hall and Riverside. objectives, which correspond to those in the Council’s Design Quality SPD. Richmond’s character derives from facilities such as the theatres, Pools on Identify local character – to identify Design Review – to provide a framework its location on the River Thames, its the Park, the Museum of Richmond and local character and historic assets for for the Council to use in reviewing the historic built environment and landscape. numerous public houses and restaurants. enhancement or protection. effectiveness of planning and public realm Historically it was a residence of the There are also local shopping centres at decisions. English monarchy, and a popular riverside Sheen Road, Friars Stile Road, Kew Road Promote high standards of design - resort and place of entertainment. It was and Lower Mortlake Road. through high quality illustrative material and Local Policy Context - to identify those only in 1847 when the railway arrived simple guidance and advice to local residents statutory policies (Core Strategy and that Richmond became within commuting The aim is that Richmond will continue to and businesses. Development Management Plan) which are distance of central London and substantial be a thriving major centre with convenience essential to addressing local issues. Development Management – to housing development took place. and specialist shops, employment, leisure and tourism, cultural and social facilities. set design guidelines for householders, The Richmond village area includes the main The local centres will provide for the day developers and the Council (in relation commercial centre and historic Green, the to day needs of residents with an increase to public realm) to encourage high quality open spaces along the riverside including in specialist shops to attract visitors. The development and, if possible, avoid the need the Quinlan Terry designed Riverside growth of the evening economy will be to refuse development proposals. development, Richmond Promenade and the carefully managed to ensure the amenity of Old Deer Park and the residential areas on residents is maintained and the possibility of Implementation of schemes – to Richmond Hill, the area to the east along gaining Purple Flag status will be explored. provide advice for householders and the Lower Richmond Road and Upper The character outside the centre although businesses that will help them achieve Richmond Road. largely residential has a number of offices repairs and modernisation which respects and other facilities, which will be retained. local character and where possible restore Central Richmond is the major shopping original details which have been lost during centre in the borough comprising a range of The many historic buildings in the area and earlier modifications. good multiple and smaller specialised shops attractive streets, open areas and riverside within a high quality environment. It also has will continue to be protected, enhanced and a wide range of leisure and entertainment enjoyed by local people and visitors.

14 6. Character Area Assessments

The identification of local character is one of Conservation Area 1: Kew Foot the primary objectives of the SPD. Road Character Area 2: The Pagoda Triangle Character Area 3: North of Lower The character area assessments sub-divide the Mortlake Road village into a smaller set of sub areas, some of Character Area 4: South of Lower which are further sub-divided. Mortlake Road Conservation Area 5: Sheendale Each area has been defined by grouping Road properties where a large proportion have Character Area 6: Old Gas Works Character Area 7: Between Lower and similar characteristics, features and materials. Upper Richmond Road These have been identified and recorded. Character Area 8: Kings Farm Avenue and 3 surrounds 18 17 A number of the areas included within this Character Area 9: Queen’s Road Estate 6 Character Area 10: Queen’s Road (west 2 Section are adopted Conservation Areas. 1 7 More information regarding Conservation side) Conservation Area 11: St Matthias 5 Areas can be viewed at http://www.richmond. Conservation Area 12 Richmond Hill 4 gov.uk/home/services/planning/conservation_ Conservation Area 13: Richmond 8 areas.htm Riverside 15 Conservation Area 14: Richmond Green 16 Some areas are the subject of what is known Conservation Area 15: Central Richmond as an Article 4 direction. These remove Conservation Area 16: Sheen Road 14 Character Area 17: Old Deer Park certain Permitted Development Rights from Gardens properties. This means that if you want to Conservation Area 18: Old Deer Park 13 10 extend or alter your home in a way that would normally be allowed under permitted 11 development you will need to apply for planning permission to do so. The fact that Permitted Development Rights have been 9 removed does not automatically mean that planning permission will not be granted, but careful consideration will be given as 12 to the effect that the proposal will have on the character and appearance of the local area. Information on Article 4 Directions can be viewed at http://www.richmond.gov.uk/ home/services/planning/conservation_areas/ article_4_directions.htm

Character Area Plan © Crown copyright and database rights 2014 Ordnance Survey 100019441

15 Conservation Area 1: Kew Foot Road

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary packed group of small scale two-storey terraced of grand Georgian terraces, large detached and houses along Lower Mortlake Road and Blue semi-detached townhouses and small Victorian Kew Foot Road Conservation Area (36) lies just to Anchor Alley. artisans’ cottages, the eighteenth century Richmond the north of Richmond centre, contained by Old Royal Hospital, Art Deco frontage of Caffe Deer Park to the west, Twickenham Road to the Evelyn Terrace is a continuation of Kew Foot Road Matthiae. south and Kew Road to the east. It adjoins Central facing Old Deer Park, lined by terraces of mixed Richmond (17), Old Deer Park (57) and Kew Road stock brick, flat-fronted two-storey houses. Jocelyn Threats from development (55) Conservation Areas. Road consists of larger semi-detached Victorian ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and bay-windowed mixed stock brick semi-detached The area is densely populated with a mix of houses materials. houses with gauged red headers. The various including those that have been sub-divided and houses in the road are a mix of two-, three- and ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front Richmond Royal Hospital rows of small terraced houses between the grander four-storey buildings. gardens. buildings. Kew Foot Road is a historic route ■■ Poor condition of pavements and road surfaces between Richmond and the old ferry crossing at Rosedale Road consists of two-storey dwellings, could deteriorate further. Kew, running alongside the Medieval Old Deer which open directly on to the street. They are Park of Sheen Palace which is marked by a historic ■■ Domination of traffic along Kew Road and flat fronted, of mixed stock brick with timber sash Lower Mortlake Road. wall along its boundary. The road also contains windows with some maintaining architectural ■■ Loss of original and / or high quality shop fronts the Grade II Listed Richmond Royal Hospital, features and others suffering as a result in changes along Kew Road. the core of which is mid-eighteenth century. of form and tenure. Shaftesbury Road includes Before becoming a hospital it was home to James attractive early Victorian two-storey mixed stock ■■ Office to residential conversions. Thomson, who wrote the words to ‘Rule Britannia.’ brick buildings, linked as a terrace in pairs by single storey side porches. Opportunities There is an interesting mix in the style and scale of houses in this area. The east side of the road ■■ To improve the relationship between Kew Foot Michel’s Row includes a row of terraced cottages Road and Old Deer Park. is lined by varied groups of brick built terraced designated as Buildings of Townscape Merit. They houses and cottages of mostly two- and some ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shop fronts are an important landmark, partially visible from the Evelyn Terrace three-storeys with small front gardens and a mix of main road, from which they are offset at an angle, and signage. boundary treatments. Generally simpler smaller and with shrubbery and lawns to the front enhancing more tightly packed two-storey terraced cottages their setting. ■■ The original block of the Richmond Royal characterise the south, with larger more decorated Hospital is Grade II listed and has a strong and increasingly semi-detached or detached houses Lower Mortlake Road includes some interesting visual relationship with both the adjacent towards the north. Tudorbethan style houses. No’s. 5 and 7 and Old Deer Park Conservation Area and its cottages No’s. 9,11 and 13 are designated as immediate environs within the Kew Foot Road Kew Road is the centre of activity within the Buildings of Townscape Merit. Conservation Area. Opportunities to improve Conservation Area. Here this busy road is enclosed the setting of the Listed Building should be by predominantly brick built three-storey terraced Dominant materials and features encouraged. buildings lining the back edge of the footway. Street Characteristic materials and features include: trees and wide pavements and the lively mix of Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Historic roads, routes and alleyways complimented shops and cafes create a somewhat continental richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ by a well-defined urban grain, Victorian housing of atmosphere. Of note is the Art Deco frontage of conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. various sizes and styles on Kew Foot Road, mixture Caffe Matthiae. To the south there is a more tightly htm Michel’s Row

16 Conservation Area 1: Kew Foot Road © Crown copyright and database rights 2014 Ordnance Survey 100019441

17 Character Area 2: The Pagoda Triangle

Character Summary Dominant materials and features This character area is formed by a triangle of Characteristic materials and features include: Red streets: Beaumont Avenue, Selwyn Avenue and brick with stucco dressings and applied timbering, Pagoda Avenue. The latter connects Lower open timberwork balconies and porches, dwarf Mortlake Road to Kew Road. The area has a front garden walls, timber sashes and doors, clay consistent character derived from its decorative tiles, slates, chimneys, bay windows, planted front terrace houses which are two-storeys with subtle gardens. variations in architectural style across the area. Threats from development The area was formerly the site of a small country ■■ Off-road parking in front gardens which results house called Pagoda House, which was demolished in poorly defined boundaries and detracts from to allow for the residential development of the area the leafy character. in the 1890s. ■■ Overpainting of brick facades. This detracts from The terraces are predominantly of red brick with the visual character of the area and can also stucco dressings. The houses also generally have trap moisture within the wall. projecting rectangular bays topped by gables, sometimes incorporating applied timbering. Most Opportunities have decorative terracotta panels under the first- ■■ Upgrading the public realm – more appropriate floor windows, nearly all of which have been paving and street furniture would enhance overpainted in white; whilst this is not original, this the character of the historic streets. Parts of creates a consistent appearance. Pagoda Avenue (north end) have been improved The houses at the north end of Pagoda Avenue with new paving, an approach which could be are larger and they relate in scale to those on Kew adopted elsewhere. Road. All three streets benefit from irregularly spaced street trees, with a high proportion of silver birch. Pagoda Avenue The houses have front gardens with dwarf walls and gate piers. Some front gardens have been converted to parking spaces, which detracts from the leafy character of the area.

Selwyn Avenue Beaumont Terrace

18 Character Area 2: The Pagoda Triangle © Crown copyright and database rights 2014 Ordnance Survey 100019441

19 Character Area 3: North of Lower Mortlake Road

Character Summary The commercial buildings on Lower Mortlake Finucane Court Road maintain the modest heights of the area. This area is bounded by Lower Mortlake Road This sub-area comprises the housing estate They include a large c. 1930s factory building now to the south and by the Kew Road (55) and Kew Finucane Court, named after Second World War converted to offices which retains its steel Crittall- Gardens Conservation Areas (63) to the north. flying ace ‘Paddy’ Finucane (1920-42), who grew up type windows. nearby in Castlegate. The four blocks of flats have The character of the area is varied. Castlegate and In the centre of the area is Windham Nursery a lush parkland setting with minimal car-parking St Paul’s Road comprise a formal yet picturesque School, occupying mid-twentieth century Neo- and incorporating mature trees that survive from composition of early twentieth century terrace Georgian buildings with modern additions. It is the site’s use as a recreation ground (see 1896 housing, with street trees of silver birch. The set in playing fields that provide an open aspect Ordnance Survey). Each block is built in stock steeply pitched clay tiled roofs are interrupted by to much of Windham Road, which is otherwise brick, with symmetrical façades facing south that gables at intervals. Houses are eclectically treated characterised by mid-twentieth century semi- incorporate small curved balconies; the access with materials and features inspired by the Tudor detached houses. These are in brown brick with galleries are on the plainer north side. A low dwarf Revival (applied timbering) and Arts and Crafts vernacular forms including gables and prominent wall encloses the site, allowing appreciation of the movements (overhanging eaves with wrought iron Castlegate chimneys on clay tiled roofs. The same materials greenery from beyond the estate. brackets, roughcast render walls incorporating are carried through into Braddon Road, with more decorative brickwork). simply detailed terrace houses. Dominant materials and features Gently curving Stanmore Gardens has a varied Characteristic materials and features include: Stock In the north of the area is Topiary Square, a close character derived from its interwar and later brick, timber cladding, steel railings. of twentieth century housing arranged in three detached and semi-detached houses, some plainly terraces and incorporating car-parking around an finished in red brick and others with bay windows Threats from development island of trees. The houses have rendered ground and hung tiles. Despite the spacious width of ■■ Alterations to front gardens for parking which floors with red brick above and include pedimented the street, some features detract, particularly the results in poorly defined boundaries and doorcases and railings to first-floor windows. tarmac pavements and the conversion of some detracts from the leafy character. front gardens to provide car parking. Other front Gainsborough Road (west side) has stuccoed ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors gardens retain their leafy character. terraces with arched doorways in a plain, well- with those of modern materials (uPVC) or proportioned style reminiscent of the Hampstead designs that do not follow the original glazing Raleigh Road retains modest but attractive Victorian Garden Suburb. However, many of the windows pattern and opening style. terrace houses. These are predominately rendered Raleigh Road have been replaced, detracting from the coherence with some stock brick and several red brick ■■ Insensitive redevelopment of commercial of the terraces. properties with stucco dressings. However some buildings. of the brick houses have been overpainted. The Dominant materials and features character is derived from the repetition of canted Opportunities bay windows and arched doorways. There has been Characteristic materials and features include: ■■ Upgrading the public realm - more appropriate some replacement of sash windows with thicker Predominately two-story residential properties, paving and street furniture would enhance the uPVC windows. Front gardens have dwarf walls stock brick and red brick, render, roughcast render character of the historic streets. Stanmore with piers. Raleigh Road United Church, which is walls with inset decorative brick, timber sash Gardens, in particular, has large expanses of located on the junction with Stanmore Gardens is windows, canted bay windows, arched doorways, tarmac paving which could be replaced by a a substantial red brick 1950s building, replacing the chimneys, roof slates, clay tiles, low/dwarf walls and higher quality material. earlier Church on the site which suffered bomb street trees. damage in WWII.

Stanmore Gardens

20 Character Area 3: North of Lower Mortlake Road © Crown copyright and database rights 2014 Ordnance Survey 100019441

21 Character Area 4: South of Lower Mortlake Road

Character Summary roofs and prominent clay chimneys. However, the Threats from development original windows have been replaced with thick This character area is bounded on the north by the ■■ Overpainting of brick facades. This detracts from uPVC windows. The front boundaries are defined by busy A316 (Lower Mortlake Road) and on the south the visual character of the area and can also tall hedges. by the Overground, District Line and Richmond to trap moisture within the wall. Waterloo railway line and is to an extent isolated as Fronting Lower Mortlake Road is a series of office ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors a result. It is an area of mixed character, including buildings and a hotel. These buildings, some dating with those of modern materials (uPVC) or modest Victorian and Edwardian terraces, alongside from c. 2000, are larger in scale than the housing of designs that do not follow the original glazing larger-scale twentieth century housing and industrial the area, yet they employ some traditional materials pattern and opening style. and commercial buildings. including brick and timber cladding. At the corner with Victoria Villas is an attractive 1930s pub, The Opportunities Salisbury and Duncan Roads have a similar and Crown, built in the Neo-Georgian style and made consistent character derived from their terraces, ■■ Upgrading the public realm – more appropriate picturesque by a steeply pitched tiled roof. It is built c. 1900, with canted bays creating a visual paving and street furniture would enhance the typical of the work of the Truman Brewery architect rhythm. They are in red brick with stucco character of the historic streets. The street West Sheen Vale A. E. Sewell. mouldings, including simple yet elegant arched trees on St George’s Road impact on the width hoods over the doorways. However, on Duncan of the footway, which could be redesigned. To the east of Sheendale Road (see Sheendale Road Trees could be introduced near the boundaries Road many of the brick façades have been Conservation Area), the nineteenth century housing overpainted. with the railway for visual and acoustic has been replaced by commercial buildings, with screening. the exception of Trinity Cottages, Trinity Road and Cedar Terrace is a one-sided street of former St George’s Road. These terraces of two-storey workers’ cottages, now facing the garden fences former workers’ cottages are in stock brick, though opposite. The late-nineteenth century terrace is in some have been overpainted. They have paired stock brick with red brick dressings to the paired doorways and sash windows. On St George’s Road, arched doorways, which lend a distinctive rhythm. there is some variety in the design of front garden The modest simplicity of the houses is echoed by walls, including some with timber fences, which may the low parapet walls to the front gardens (four have been the original treatment. These modest courses of brickwork), which may originally have terraces are ringed by a variety of office buildings, supported timber fences, though many have been flats and industrial sheds along Bardolph Road and raised up and had piers added. Duncan Road Victoria Villas.The post-War estate comprising The south part of Cedar Terrace and Tersha Street Longs Court and The Towers (eleven-storeys) consist of twentieth century houses and flats, includes brick in the cladding materials but their irregularly planned around courtyards incorporating planning disrupts the otherwise legible street grid. car parking. Materials and features are based on traditional housing, including the use of stock brick Dominant materials and features with red brick dressings, sash windows and hoods Characteristic materials and features include: Stock over doors. brick with red brick dressings, or entirely red brick, low front garden walls, timber sashes and doors, West Sheen Vale is a cul-de-sac of mid twentieth clay tiles, slates, chimneys, bay windows, planted century housing. It is a formal composition of front gardens and stucco decoration. detached two-storey apartment buildings in brown brick with vernacular features such as hipped tiled

Trinity Road

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23 Conservation Area 5: Sheendale Road

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary Opportunities Sheendale Road Conservation Area (50) lies east of ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement Richmond Centre, between Lower Mortlake Road of architectural quality and unity. to the north and the railway line to the south. ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments and discourage increase in the amount of hard The Conservation Area is a small and distinctive surfacing in front gardens. development of attractive and largely unspoilt semi- detached miniature villas. This group of houses line ■■ Coordination of colour and design and Sheendale Road and include a contemporary group improvement in quality of street furniture and of similar villas on Crown Terrace, since isolated pavements. from the main group by later twentieth century Conservation Area Statement: http://www. developments. There is a clear view south along richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ the road created by a regular building line set back conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. behind well planted front gardens and low front htm boundary walls.

Dominant materials and features ■■ Mid-nineteenth century semi-detached cottages linked by single storey porches. ■■ Tightly packed paired villas with consistent scale and character, two storey dwellings with simple yellow stock brick with white key stones and white framed windows or rendered facades. Sheendale Road Threats from development ■■ Infilling of gaps between buildings and building above single storey porches. ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and materials. ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front gardens. ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of pavements.

Crown Terrace Sheendale Road

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25 Character Area 6: Old Gas Works

Character Summary Threats from development

This character area occupies the angle of two busy ■■ Lack of definition and coherence in street through routes: Lower Richmond Road and Manor frontages due to loss of terraces and Road. There is no coherent frontage to either road proliferation of small industrial yards and car and the whole area has an irregular, adhoc character parks. due to its industrial past. Opportunities The north western part of the area was once ■■ Should redevelopment proposals come forward covered by a gas works. Today the works area is for appropriate uses there is an opportunity confined to the land nearest the roundabout and to re-plan and upgrade the public realm. There is visually low key, except for the tall mesh fencing are also opportunities to achieve improvements along the main roads. Much of the area is occupied to the visual appearance of the area, including by a large supermarket of modest height and its when viewed from the A316 Lower Richmond associated petrol station and large car park. The Road. Proposals should demonstrate how they large shops on the west side of Manor Road are support this opportunity and also how they similarly laid out but have pitched clay tile roofs. positively respond to the relationship with Some trees are present in and around the car parks adjoining areas, which are primarily residential in but the character is defined by large expanses of character. hard surfacing. ■■ More appropriate paving, street furniture and street trees would enhance the character. Many The central part of the area has a network of of the pavements are presently in tarmac which short roads: Orchard, Garden and Market. One could be replaced with a higher quality material. two-storey Victorian house (former public house) survives on the corner of Orchard and Lower Richmond Roads, but the overall character is varied due to a mix of light industrial sheds, offices and modern apartment blocks. Cladding is in steel, timber and render. There are some planted beds Orchard Road but few street trees. Also on Garden Road, there is a fire station and its exercise yard.

East of Market Road are further light industrial sheds in brick with metal sheeting and small areas of car parking. On Lower Richmond Road is a small mid twentieth century shopping parade in red brick, with the fire station nearby.

Dominant materials and features

Characteristic materials and features include: Red brick, stock brick, metal cladding, metal windows, planted beds.

Lower Richmond Road Lower Richmond Road

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27 Character Area 7: Between Lower and Upper Richmond Road

Character Summary been preserved in some of the uPVC replacements. The planted front gardens are defined by dwarf This character area is bounded by Lower Richmond walls, some on Somerton Avenue retaining their Road on the north and Upper Richmond Road on original herringbone brickwork. Bicester Road has the south. It straddles the railway line which has very few street trees. resulted in a layout of long streets running parallel to the railway. It also means that parts of the area Dominant materials and features are quiet with little through traffic. Characteristic materials and features include: Stock c.1900 and Interwar Terraces brick with decorative red brick dressings, red brick with pebbledashed upper floors, bay windows, The west part of Manor Grove is a long, straight gables, timber casement windows, planted front street of uniform two-storey terrace housing, built gardens with dwarf walls, street trees, slate roofs, c. 1900. The houses are in stock brick with red clay tiled roofs brick dressings used decoratively to create flush string courses and panels. The repetition of these Clifford Avenue and Lower Richmond limited motifs, along with many street trees and planted front gardens, creates a consistent visual Road character. This is threatened in places by enlarged This sub-area, in the angle of two busy through or altered porches and by the replacement of sash roads – Clifford Avenue and Lower Richmond Road windows. As the street curves northward, there – has a mixed character. There is a two-storey are terraces of a different character. These are in interwar shopping parade with oriel windows (now red brick with pebbledashed upper floors and have with uPVC windows) but otherwise the buildings projecting gabled bays at intervals. are larger offices of a more modern aesthetic. They incorporate rear courtyards for vehicle access and Lambert Avenue has a picturesque, gently curving are clad in brick or metal with large areas of glazing. layout and was built in 1921 by Barnes Urban There are street trees and the pavement on Lower District Council. The short terraces have hipped Richmond Road is bisected by a cycle lane. roofs and are mainly in red brick with pebbledashed upper floors. This visual coherence is threatened Dominant materials and features Bicester Road by a wide variety of replacement windows and Characteristic materials and features include: Brick some enlargement of porches. There is a central or metal cladding, large areas of glazing, street trees. roundabout with trees set in tarmac and a separate semi-circular parking area close to some of the East End of Lambert Avenue houses. This sub-area at the east end of Lambert Avenue Bicester Road, Somerton Avenue and Lower comprises a mid-twentieth century housing estate, Richmond Road have interwar terraces with planned around three large buildings and including canted bays. The materials are pebbledash (usually large areas of car parking and smaller areas of overpainted) with some having red brick on the greenery with hedges. The buildings are three- ground floor. The timber casement windows have storeys high with pitched roofs, in red brick with multi-paned opening upper lights, a pattern that has some white-painted weatherboarding. Projecting

Lambert Avenue Manor Grove

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29 Character Area 7: Between Lower and Upper Richmond Road

from the façades are groups of enclosed drying Dominant materials and features areas, made visually striking by white-painted timber Characteristic materials and features include: Red slats set between brick piers. The pavements are of brick, pebbledash, render, polygonal bays, gables, poor quality. hung tiles, timber casement windows with arched transoms, timber porches, clay tiled roofs. Dominant materials and features Characteristic materials and features include: Red Threats from development brick and white-painted weatherboarding or slats, ■■ The character of the area suffers from a trees and hedges. proliferation of replacement uPVC or metal windows and from altered/enlarged porches, Interwar Semi-Detached Housing which detract from the unity of the streetscape. This sub-area has a consistent character arising In this sub-area many of the attractive timber from its regular grid of streets. The buildings openwork porches have been lost. are almost entirely interwar semi-detached houses, sharing an overall similarity yet with some Opportunities differentiation between the streets. ■■ Upgrading the public realm – higher quality Houses on Denehurst Gardens, Clydesdale Gardens paving and street furniture would enhance the and the west half of Tangier Road have canted or character of the streets. There are opportunities polygonal bays sporting hung tiles and gables. They for further street trees on Bicester Road are in painted pebbledash or render, with some and for further greenery on Lambert Avenue, red brick on the ground floors. Where the original particularly at its roundabout. casement windows survive, these have a distinctive shape with arched transoms. The houses also have Queen Anne-style timber openwork porches, many of which have been lost to alterations.

Houses on Burdenshott Avenue are a little plainer and in red brick with square bays decorated Denehurst Gardens with quoins; there are similar houses on Lower Richmond Road West, some of which retain their casement windows with leaded lights. Houses on Tangier Road (central part) are rendered with square bays and hung tiles; the similar houses on Rothesay Avenue also have gables. To the east there are short terraces of houses with pairs of broad gables, either in render or red brick

Tangier Road Rothesay Avenue

30 31 Character Area 8: Kings Farm Avenue and Surrounds

Character Summary King’s Farm Avenue and Carrington Road

This character area occupies the angle of two busy King’s Farm Avenue and Carrington Road comprise through routes: Manor Road and Sheen Road. It is a planned housing estate of short terraces, stepping predominantly residential but includes the Manor in and out either side of King’s Farm Avenue. The Road Allotments and Holy Trinity School. The formal, symmetrical layout is barely noticeable on housing is mixed, including terraces and blocks of the ground because of variations in the architectural apartments. forms (presumably the result of a long construction period, c. 1920s to c. 1950s). There is a consistent Victorian and Edwardian Housing scale of two-storeys, broken only by a three-storey Manor Road is a busy traffic route but retains its block at the end of the Avenue. The houses are late Victorian and Edwardian housing. The east side either in render, brown brick or stock brick, the of the road has a consistent rhythm of repeating earlier ones with canted bays and hung tiles. They semi-detached houses built in the late nineteenth have a variety of replacement windows. Front century. These are in stock brick with red brick gardens are defined by hedges with small timber dressings, canted bays and paired arched doorways. gates, though some have been rebuilt with brick The west side is more varied but consists mainly of walls. At the junctions there are wide grass verges, Edwardian terraces with canted bays. They are in also with hedges. At the end of Carrington Avenue red brick or roughcast render with decorative gables is Holy Trinity School, a series of low buildings with incorporating applied half-timbering and bargeboards. pitched roofs set in green playing fields that are Those toward the north also have oriel windows and largely hidden from public view. timber porches. The front gardens of Manor Road have low brick walls and are planted, except where Adjacent to the railway and accessed through gates they have been altered to create car parking. There off Manor Road are the Manor Road Allotments, are no street trees (and little room for them due to established c. 1840s and reduced in size through narrow pavements). There is a similar mix of housing later development. They now comprise about 7.5 on Grena Road, which has a quieter character and acres and represent an important reminder of the some well preserved features such as tiled pathways area’s rural past. Typical of many allotment areas, it in front gardens. is largely hidden from view and has the distinctive Sheen Court Road from Upper Richmond Road West patchwork grid of greenery, with small sheds and Sheen Road is a busy traffic route but is wide and trees along the boundary lines. noticeably green due to the mature trees surviving in the front gardens of large houses. These are East of the allotments is Sheen Court, comprised generally detached or semi-detached late Victorian of six large four-storey apartment blocks straddling houses, often in stock brick with red brick dressings a driveway. The buildings are in red brick, simply and with prominent chimneys or gables. Some have detailed but well built and retaining some of the been replaced by twentieth century housing blocks, original steel casement windows. The complex is which use similar materials in a modern idiom and entered from Upper Richmond Road West through are likewise set back behind lush front gardens, a handsome and well preserved boundary wall with bounded by low brick walls with taller piers. Art Deco archways which retain fine iron gates and lamps.

Carrington Road Sheen Road

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33 Character Area 8: Kings Farm Avenue and Surrounds

Dominant materials and features uPVC windows which detract from the refined simplicity of the elevations. Gardens on the west Characteristic materials and features include: Stock side incorporate features from Stawell House, brick with red brick dressings, red brick, roughcast previously on the site. These include a lake, mature render, gabled bays, hung tiles, timber sash windows, trees (including the ‘Tulip Tree’ of record-breaking timber or steel casement windows, oriels, timber circumference) and a stone alcove (1762) from porches, low brick walls or hedges to planted front Old London Bridge which is not listed (though gardens, tiled pathways other examples in Guy’s Hospital and Victoria Townshend Terrace Park are listed as Grade II). The fringes of the site incorporate two original 1930s single-storey In this sub-area, at the east end of Townshend garages. The western boundary wall is in stock brick Terrace, the original houses have been replaced by and may relate to Stawell House. mid twentieth century housing blocks, which do not follow a regular street line. They are in a stepped Dominant materials and features configuration and set amongst lawns, hedges and Red brick, white-painted concrete balconies, steep mature trees. The buildings are of two- or three- clay-tiled roofs, casement windows (originally steel storeys, with flat roofs, and are simply finished in casements with thinner glazing bars), red-brick or brown or grey brick. The original metal casement stock-brick boundary walls, mature trees windows have mostly been replaced by uPVC casements. Threats from development

Dominant materials and features ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors with those of modern materials (uPVC) or Characteristic materials and features include: Brown designs that do not follow the original glazing or grey brick, flat roofs, lawns, hedges and mature pattern and opening style. trees, casement windows. ■■ The replacement of front garden boundary walls Courtlands Estate with other designs or materials reduces the ordered uniformity of the streets. This sub-area comprises the Courtlands Estate, Courtlands Estate built 1937-38. Occupying an 11-acre site, it is among Opportunities the larger twentieth-century housing estates in the Borough. It is set back from Queen’s Road ■■ Upgrading the public realm – higher quality behind lawns and a well-preserved red-brick dwarf paving and street furniture would enhance the wall with stone coping, incorporating lamps at character of the streets. the entrances. The large, detached, four-storey buildings are grouped around an oval driveway. They are in red brick with steep clay-tiled roofs. The blocks most readily visible from Queen’s Road are monumentally treated with white-painted concrete balconies flanking projecting partially-glazed stair towers. Many of the original Crittall-style steel windows have been replaced with thicker framed

Townshend Terrace Manor Road

34 35 Character Area 9: Queen’s Road Estate

Character Summary U-shaped hostel in brown brick with a modern individual character. It displays an irregular roofline This area is bordered by the busy Queen’s Road and irregularly placed windows including projecting to the west and Richmond Park to the east and is oriels of differing heights (it is comparable to part therefore an area of contrasts. Much of the area of the Queen’s Road Estate, south of Cambrian is taken up by the low-rise Queen’s Road Estate, Road, which is contained within the Richmond Hill which retains many mature trees, around which the Conservation Area and which is grade II listed). The housing has been arranged. apex of the site is a triangle of green space with The area south of Greville Road comprises the later mature trees that, in terms of its character relates phases of the Queen’s Road Estate (1980s-1990s). strongly to Pesthouse Common. It has an informal character, with loosely planned terraces and clusters of housing, irregularly grouped Dominant materials and features around spacious culs-de-sac. The buildings are Characteristic materials and features include: Brown set back behind planted beds, interspersed with brick with dressings of red or dark brown brick, small car parks. There is a common language of brick staircases, glazed porches, arched or square- light-brown brick, with dressings of red or dark headed doorways, pitched slate roofs, small car brown brick and simple vernacular forms including parks, brick pathways, metal windows (replacing pitched roofs of slate. On Park Hill there are original timber windows), planted beds, mature brick staircases and glazed porches. Between trees. Park Hill and Greville Road there are brick pathways (this part of the estate was designed by Threats from development acclaimed architects Darbourne and Darke but is ■■ In parts of the Queen’s Road Estate, the open not in a Conservation Area, whereas their work character of the layout has been altered by south of Cambrian Road is). The original timber garden walls and fencing being extended windows have been replaced by metal windows, upwards, e.g. in Pyrland Road. many of them painted brown to complement the architecture. In places, the open character of the layout has been altered by the addition of high fencing. Greville Road North of Greville Road the character changes due to larger buildings, still kept to a modest height of one- to three-storeys. These include a care home fronting Greville Road, in red brick and stucco, and, further north, St Elizabeth’s Roman Catholic School. This is also in red brick and has distinctive hexagonal classrooms with shallow pitched roofs. Toward the north of the area, the housing around Broadhurst Close is again modern but has elements responding to a more traditional character, consisting of short terraces in brown brick, with arched doorways and pitched roofs. There is a Park Hill Pyrland Road

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37 Character Area 10: Queen’s Road (west side)

Character Summary Dominant Materials and Features Queen’s Court This is a gently hilly area on the west side of Characteristic materials and features include: Red This sub-area, adjacent to the busy Queen’s Road, Queen’s Road comprised of relatively wide and leafy brick, render, hung tiles, gables, applied timbering, includes larger twentieth century buildings. Queen’s streets, typically with large Edwardian or interwar dentilled bargeboards, timber sashes with multi- Court is an unusually large 1930s apartment block, semi-detached houses but also including some later paned upper lights, metal casement windows built on a horseshoe plan facing Queen’s Road, with twentieth century housing areas. incorporating leaded lights, clay tiled roofs, planted generous lawns screened by trees. It is in red brick, front gardens with brick walls with piers, street with modern styling including curved corners and Denbigh Gardens and Interwar Period trees. concrete trim (now painted white) to windows and Houses balconies. The original metal casement windows Peldon Court survive in the stair towers but have otherwise Denbigh Gardens was laid out c. 1900 with large been replaced with windows of thicker frames semi-detached houses occupying the west side, This sub-area, near the busy Sheen Road, is and detailing which detract from their character. continuing round on the north side of Spring Grove characterised by larger twentieth century buildings. The well preserved boundary wall curves in at the Road and with similar examples on Marchmont Peldon Court is a late 1950s housing estate set in entrances, incorporating circular piers with lamps. Marchmont Road Road and Queen’s Road. There is variation in these a winding cul-de-sac with lawns, some mature trees Adjacent to Queen’s Rise is a late twentieth century based on a limited palette of materials and motifs. and a car park at the rear. The buildings include gated enclosure of four-storey apartments. These These include high quality red brickwork, with areas two slab blocks of nine-storeys, which is unusually are in brown brick with render, incorporate hipped of roughcast render (still authentically painted in a high for the area. They have symmetrical elevations roofs and simplified classical features including stone-based colour in most examples), broad gables in stock brick, with pink brick and red panels arched windows. Queen’s Rise is a quiet cul-de- with applied timbering and dentilled bargeboards. emphasising the stair towers. The metal casement sac with several detached houses of the Interwar Where the original windows survive these are high windows have been replaced by uPVC windows period, in render with hung tiles and clay tile roofs. quality timber sashes with multi-paned upper lights, with thicker frames and detailing which detract from or timber casements for smaller attic windows. The their character. Dominant materials and features other houses are typically interwar period detached or semi-detached houses, found also on Marchmont To the east is Marshgate Primary School, a series Characteristic materials and features include: Red Road, Queen’s Road and in the nearby cul-de-sacs of low red-brick buildings with very little street brick, brown brick, render, white-painted concrete of Queen’s Crescent and Chester Avenue. They presence. Entered off Queen’s Road is Floyer Close, trim to windows, curved corners, metal casement are typically in red or brown brick with areas of a cul-de-sac of late twentieth century terraces. windows, hung tiles and clay tile roofs. render and hung tiles and with fine metal casement These are in red brick or stock brick with render Queen’s Crescent windows incorporating leaded lights, though some and some traditionally inspired features including Threats from development pitched roofs and keystones over windows. It is have been replaced with windows of thicker frames ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors a gated precinct incorporating car parking and is and detailing which detract from the character. with those of modern materials (uPVC) or screened from Queen’s Road by a tall red brick wall. Chester Avenue has a striking 1930s apartment designs (thicker sections) that detract from the block with Art Deco windows, most of which have character of the buildings and wider area. been replaced. Front gardens are generally planted Dominant materials and features ■■ Roof dormers and rooflights on front roof and defined by brick walls with piers, though some Characteristic materials and features include: Stock slopes which interrupt the regularity of the have been removed for car parking. There are brick, pink brick, red brick, render, metal balconies. terraces. street trees, including recently planted silver birch. ■■ The replacement of front garden boundary walls with other designs or materials, e.g. for car parking, which reduces the ordered uniformity and green character of the streets.

Queen’s Road

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39 Conservation Area 11: St Matthias

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary Victorian features, although Church Road displays some variety with a number of 20th Century St Matthias Conservation Area lies on the plateau developments. These main routes support a and northern scarp of Richmond Hill. It lies to the number of secondary streets such as The Vineyard south of Sheen Road, and bounded to the east by and Dynevor Road which include a number of high Queen’s Road. It adjoins Richmond Hill (5) to the quality examples of buildings from that era. west and Sheen Road (31) Conservation Areas to the north. Dominant materials and features The area was largely fields with a few large Characteristic materials and features include: eighteenth century dwellings until the mid- Church of St. Matthias, variety of mid and late nineteenth century. The arrival of the London Victorian buildings, cantered bay windows, open and South Western Railway led to substantial basements, dwellings set back, retained front development in the form of new streets and high gardens and a variety of boundary treatments. class villas. This included a mix of mid and late Victorian building styles, helping to maintain the Park Road, Marlborough Road high quality townscape. The building styles are Running down the back slope of the hill towards noticeably different, ranging, for example, from Richmond Park, Park Road, Marlborough Road the three-storey grandeur of the villas to the and Queen’s Road support a variety of scales of interesting brick detailing and symmetry of terrace development, with Queen’s Road and the lower cottages. Dwellings are mostly set back from the end of Marlborough Road bounded by red brick road and many have retained their front gardens Victorian detached dwellings, alongside two- which form an important feature throughout the storey domestic scale dwellings at the north end Conservation Area. of Park Road. Park Road itself is a well-defined Church Road open streetscape, with setback frontages lined Church Road, Mount Ararat and Kings with mature trees and semi-detached three- Road storey properties. Spaces between semi-detached Church Road, Mount Ararat Road and Kings Road properties along Marlborough Road and Park Road were developed between the 1860s and 1880s; form an important part of the street pattern and these major roads run between the heart of rhythm. Richmond up towards the Church of St Matthias, which is a key landmark in the area and which was Dominant materials and features designed by renowned architect George Gilbert Characteristic materials and features include: Scott. The road is comprised mainly of large semi- Edwardian and Victorian buildings, white detached or detached three storey dwellings. cornerstone detailing, gable ended three-storey The majority of properties are in excellent townhouses, open basements, dwellings set back, condition, maintaining much of their original painted and exposed boundary walls and high Friars Stile Road Kings Road

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41 quality townscape. painted brick, detailing above entrances, short front potential obstruction and spoiling of views to gardens painted railing, sash windows, retained key landmarks and impacts on the skylines. The Alberts (comprising Albert Road, chimney stacks, traditional street lighting. ■■ Loss of rear garden space. Houblon Road, Albany Terrace, Audley ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features. Road, Princes Road and side roads) Friar Stile Road ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front The Alberts was developed in the 1870’s and is Friar Stile Road has a mix of residential and gardens. commercial uses. The road has retained its village characterised by high density two-storey terraced ■■ Reduced quality of public realm, including design atmosphere and intimacy, which is in contrast to housing with slate roofs, located on narrow and materials. streets. The Alberts include terraces with a variety the grand vistas from Richmond Hill to the south ■■ Domination of traffic. of window detailing along with many different west. The small shopping parade is centred between approaches to boundary treatments. Introduction Rosemont Road and Marlborough Road junctions ■■ Loss of original and / or high quality shop fronts. of green walls (Hyde Road) adds to the area’s and the area contains several interesting shopfronts. ■■ Infill development leading to altered or lost unique detailing and intimate feel. This has The rear gardens of Cardigan and Montague original street patterns. developed into a strong sense of community which Road make a contribution to the street scene and provide greenery. ■■ The impact of satellite dishes in prominent has led to resident based initiatives such as finding locations and use of uPVC windows on the the funding for, and working in partnership with character of the area. the Council, to reintroduce historic street lights Rosemont Road has similar three-storey Victorian semi-detached houses to the likes of Mount Arrat into the area. The Alberts generally has a number Opportunities of exemplary examples of period development and Road with distinctive spacing between. Alongside these are two-storey houses with painted corner includes a late Victorian school building, on Princes ■■ Preservation and enhancement of the stones and black painted bay windows. Road, which is still in use for education purposes. architectural style. Houblon Road for example has seen very little Set behind Friar Stile Road, the area also ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments change. However, the incremental introduction of incorporates the Vineyard School. This was original and discourage increases in the amount of hard inappropriate features including satellite dishes, established in the Vineyard Chapel but relocated in surfacing in front gardens. rear roof dormer windows (which can be viewed 1977 to its current site. ■■ Coordination of colour and design and from the street), uPVC windows and unsympathetic improvement in quality of street furniture and replacement doors, has the potential to impact Dominant materials and features pavements. adversely on the character of the area. Characteristic materials and features include: ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and cycling Albany Passage is one of the oldest pedestrian ornate Edwardian and Victorian townhouses, and pedestrian convenience, and rationalisation paths in Richmond, which is important for local dutch gables, gable ended parade of shops, turrets, of existing signage and street furniture. residents and an interesting feature. It would rendered balustrades, set back properties with ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shop fronts greatly benefit from a new Breedon gravel surface. retained front gardens, dwarf walls with iron railings and signage. and hedging. Dominant materials and features Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Threats from development richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ Characteristic materials and features include: Tight conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. ■■ Development pressure which results in two-storey terraces, exposed yellow stock and htm

42 43 Conservation Area 12: Richmond Hill (Richmond side)

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary to protect the unique and distinctive views that it provides to the west and south. The Twickenham Richmond Hill Conservation Area spans the river Bank is an open landscape of large gardens, trees to include the open landscape on both banks of and spaces, reinforcing the rural character of the Thames south of Richmond centre, and rises the wider area and offering a transition between up to include the townscape along Richmond Hill, Richmond and Marble Hill Park. overlooking the river as far as Richmond Gate, which leads into Richmond Park. The Conservation Richmond Hill is characterised by the exceptional Area is almost entirely surrounded by other quality of its eighteenth century architecture, and Conservation Areas towards Richmond, Petersham its distinctive groups of fine later Regency and and Twickenham. Victorian housing, historically overlooking the river landscape from the hillside above with traditional The Conservation Area is a distinctive and well narrow colourful shop fronts that characterise defined area containing a variety of building types Hill Rise. Along Petersham Road fine groups and mix of uses such as residential, commercial, and individual houses from the eighteenth and educational, institutional and public open space. nineteenth century address the Thames, affording The Conservation Area can be divided into a views to the river from the road. Peterham Road number of distinct character areas, although also hosts a local landmark in the very distinct the whole Conservation Area is unified by its Royal British Legion Poppy Factory building, set relationship to Richmond Hill and its views and back behind the existing Richmond Brewery facade connections. that has been retained. The riverside and accompanying landscape provide The townscape is unified by the general use of a distinct rural setting to the eighteenth and face brickwork in a limited palette of colours. The nineteenth century townscape of Richmond Hill. repetition of similar architectural features, windows Richmond Hill O’Higgins Square, adjacent to Richmond Bridge, is and materials, and their scale and proportions, named after Chilean General Bernado O’Higgins further draws the character of these buildings and a bronze bust of him is located there. He together. was one of the foremost leaders in the Chilean struggle for independence and head of Chile’s first The Vineyard is the most intensely developed part permanent national government, who lived and of the Conservation Area, being close to the centre studied in Richmond in his late teens. of Richmond. The area formed the next phase of development on from the mediaeval core of The natural curve of the river offers exceptional Richmond. The eighteenth and nineteenth century views to and from Richmond Hill and central townscape still follows the ancient field pattern Richmond. The Richmond, Petersham and Ham of this area. The building scale is generally two Open Spaces Act (1902) prevents development to three storeys in a mix of styles, retaining many of the land on and below Richmond Hill in order

Richmond Hill Richmond Hill

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45 traditional materials and windows. Threats from development Conservation Area Statement: http://www. richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ ■■ Development pressure which may harm the Phase I of the Queens Road Estate, a unique conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. balance of the river and landscape-dominated collection of Grade II listed buildings, was developed htm between 1971 and 1983 and encompasses Hobart setting, and the obstruction or spoiling of views. and Reynolds Place. The area is defined by inventive ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and and dynamic housing design that uses a repeated materials due to unsympathetic alterations. palette of forms and units. The phase is consciously ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian safety laid out, with a tight network of varied and well leading to clutter of signage and street furniture thought out blocks, carefully placed covered ■■ Loss of original or quality shop fronts. walkways and intimate spaces all set in a well- ■■ Loss of green spaces and vistas. integrated landscape setting. Much of the housing in the area remains unaltered and preserved in ■■ Telecommunications equipment and roof plant keeping with its listing. However, elements of the on prominent rooftops. landscaping have been poorly maintained and are ■■ Increase in parking paraphilia. showing signs of deterioration. The enterance into Cambrian Road is framed on its north side by the Opportunities Cambrian Community Centre, Caplan and Dickson ■■ Improvement and protection of river and House complex, the later of which houses a range landscape setting. of artists studios/workshops. ■■ Preservation and enhancement of the Queen’s Road also hosts the American International architectural style University, which is set in attractive well maintained ■■ Retain and enhance front boundaries grounds, the original college was founded on these ■■ Coordination of colour and materials. grounds in 1843. ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and pedestrian convenience, and rationalisation of Dominant materials and features existing signage and street furniture. Characteristic materials and features include: ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shopfronts Eighteenth century buildings Downe House, and signage. Ancaster House, Wick House and The Wick on the Hill, protected view from the Terrace on Richmond This character summary only accounts for the Hill, modern Queen’s Road estate, decorative Conservation Area located in Richmond. For the iron railings for front boundaries or tall boundary character summary of the Twickenham Bank see walls closer to the top of the hill, eighteenth and Conservation Area 9 in the East Twickenham Village nineteenth century dwellings along Petersham Road, Planning Guidance Booklet. views to key surrounding landmarks.

46 47 Conservation Area 13: Richmond Riverside (Richmond side)

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary The Riverside Richmond Riverside Conservation Area extends The Riverside is a defining element of the area, with between Richmond Bridge and Richmond Lock, the River Thames running between Twickenham and across the river onto the Middlesex bank. It and Richmond including the prominent features is surrounded by a number of other Conservation of Corporation Island, Richmond Bridge, Lock and Areas including: Richmond Green (3), Old Deer Park Sluices and Twickenham Bridge which are both (57), Central Richmond (17) and Richmond Hill (5). Grade II* listed structures. The townscape is of international renown with important listed and The development of this Conservation Area was non-listed buildings. The most prominent part dictated by its close proximity to the river. The area of the riverside, close to Richmond Bridge, is a includes buildings of a classical pedigree, Asgill House redevelopment designed by Quinlan Terry and and Trumpeters’ House (both Grade I Listed) being constructed in 1988. This integrated the existing of particular note, exploiting their riverside location. listed buildings of Palm Court and Heron House The Conservation Area is also home to a number of emulating the original grand Georgian and Victorian eighteenth and nineteenth century houses of merit architectural styles. including St Helena Terrace, a group of three-storey houses with boat houses beneath their approach As part of this development public open space terrace. Richmond Bridge (1777), which connects was created, formed by a well maintained stepped the two banks of the Conservation Area is Grade riverside terrace, located along the river frontage; I listed and was originally constructed in the late it emphasises the river as an open space and has eighteenth century but remodelled in the early created a well used and attractive public space, twentieth century to cope with increasing car traffic. which has been enhanced by the improvements to the wide paved area in front of it. The scale The Conservation Area has considerable and grandeur of buildings, both residential and Richmond Riverfront archaeological interest, containing most of the commercial, along the frontage gradually decreases, remains of the Tudor Palace of Sheen between becoming more domestic in scale, as you move away Old Palace Lane and Friars Lane. There is also infill from Richmond Bridge. residential development from the twentieth century including Queensbury house. The interior Beyond the built frontage along the river bank, Cholmondeley Walk houses a number of properties with evident classical, Edwardian and Arts and Crafts architectural details.

Whittaker Avenue offers views that open up to the River, the Bridge and the mansion blocks. The origin

Water Lane Richmond Riverfront

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49 Conservation Area 13: Richmond Riverside (Richmond side)

of the name is Sir John Whittaker Ellis, the first Dominant materials and features This character summary only accounts for the mayor of the Borough of Richmond. Conservation Area located in Richmond. For the Characteristic materials and features include: character summary of the Twickenham Bank see Stucco and red brick frontages, narrow lanes and This street is lined on both sides by large, the Conservation Area 10 in the East Twickenham alleyways, back-to-back dwellings, mansard roofs, impressive buildings of mixed renaissance Village Planning Guidance Booklet. architectural styles and classical facades. The Avenue six over six sash windows, dormer windows and includes The Old Town Hall (home to The Museum prominent white corner stones. of Richmond), which was constructed in 1893 and provides a strong sense of enclosure and contrast Threats from development between the street and the internal courtyards of ■■ Development pressure which may harm the Heron Square and Whittaker Place. The Hall was balance of the river and landscape dominated built on land donated by Sir John Whittaker Ellis. setting, as well as obstruction of views, skylines and landmarks. Water Lane has an industrial character due to the ■ Loss of traditional architectural features and narrowness of the streets and tall buildings lining ■ materials due to unsympathetic alterations. it. The curve of the street ensures a continually changing visual experience. Of note are the ■■ Pressure from commercial development for warehouses at the bottom of the street, with no.18 signage and visual clutter in key locations. providing definition to the end of the street and acts as a local landmark. Opportunities ■■ Improvement and protection of river and Friars Lane has the most diverse townscape landscape setting. character of those linking the centre to the river. There is a wide mix of building styles and scales. ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement Buildings of note include Queensberry House and of architectural quality and unity. The Retreat, where high walls and mature trees give ■■ Continuation of the careful coordination of a sense of enclosure. colour, design and improvement in quality of street furniture and pavements. Old Palace Lane is more rural in character and has a strong sense of enclosure due to its meandering Conservation Area Statement: http://www. and narrow nature. Old Palace Yard is a quiet richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ and secluded open space of high townscape and conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. architectural quality. htm

50 51 Conservation Area 14: Richmond Green

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary commercial as well as a residential character. Richmond Green Conservation Area is situated A key element of the character of the south west adjacent to Central Richmond and to the south frontage is the differing visual experiences along of the A316 and Old Deer Park. It is enclosed the road due to the divergent building lines, garden by a number of surrounding Conservation Areas sizes and tree cover. The most dominant element including: Richmond Riverside (4) to the west, Old in the frontage is the Maids of Honour Row which Deer Park (57) to the north and Central Richmond is an eighteenth century terrace forming the (17) to the south and the east. This Conservation centre piece for this part of The Green. This area Area was designated in 1969 and was extended in also contains the last remaining buildings from 2005. Richmond Palace including The Gatehouse and The Wardrobe which are of significant historical and There are three distinct elements that form archaeological importance. Richmond Green; the main part of The Green, the smaller and secluded Little Green to the north east, The south west side is dominated by Pembroke and the small urban square in front of Old Palace Villas comprising five pairs of semi-detached villas Terrace to the south west. in Italianate style. Many front boundary walls have been lost or altered unsympathetically to Throughout the Conservation Area there is accommodate car parking spaces which is an issue a variety of housing typologies ranging from for the entire Conservation Area. historic Tudor buildings, late seventeenth and early eighteenth century terraces, mid-nineteenth The north east side of The Green contains the least century villas and some post-war development. The amount of historic character and contains the most buildings are predominantly formed of two- and recent buildings generally forming modern three- three-storeys. storey town houses and uncharacteristic high front Richmond Green garden walls. Dominant materials and features Characteristic materials and features include: Little Green Brown and red brick townhouses, front basement The Little Green is less formal than The Green and areas, railings and entrance steps, tiled roofs, has a more intimate character. The south east side dormer windows, parapets or eaves cornices, bay of Little Green comprises public buildings rather windows, narrow alleyways, gables. than shops and offices. The buildings are more monumental in appearance and have an individual Richmond Green character unlike the buildings on The Green. The Green contains two public houses on the south east side. A number of the houses in this area are now used as offices which gives a

Richmond Green Old Palace Terrace

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53 Conservation Area 14: Richmond Green

The United Reformed Church is one of the most Opportunities prominent buildings on the Little Green comprising ■■ Improvement and protection of landscape an imposing Gothic building with two large lancet views, skylines and landmarks. windows and thick buttresses ending in pinnacles. ■■ Improvement of highway conditions and Other key buildings of note: pedestrian convenience, and rationalisation of existing signage and street furniture. ■■ Duke Street office building with distinctive decorative stucco and portico; ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shop fronts and signage. ■■ Onslow Hall; ■■ Areas identified for environmental ■ Richmond Theatre; ■ improvement include the view along Quadrant ■■ The Library; and Road to the rear of the shops and to the ■■ Three distinctive listed town houses on the historic drinking fountain and its setting. north-east side of Little Green. Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Old Palace Square richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. The small square in front of Old Palace Terrace htm has the character of a small intimate urban square. However, the character has deteriorated through the increased use of the road by traffic and parked cars.

The south east and south west sides of the square are characterised by terraces of listed town houses creating a high quality townscape and forming a strong urban edge.

Threats from development Little Green ■■ Development pressure which may harm the balance of the landscape, views, skylines and landmarks. ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian safety leading to clutter of signage and street furniture. ■■ Loss of original or quality shop fronts and unsympathetic alterations and signage.

Richmond Theatre Little Green

54 55 Conservation Area 15: Central Richmond

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary aspect of the river. The junction is defined by the prominent high quality buildings at 1 Hill Rise, Central Richmond Conservation Area (17) is Bridge House and the listed Art Deco Odeon situated to the south east of Richmond Green. It cinema. George Street is enclosed at both ends is surrounded by a number of other Conservation of the road by distinctive buildings. The Dome Areas, Sheen Road (31), Richmond Green (3), Kew Building is undoubtedly the most distinctive building Foot Road (36), St Matthias (30) and Richmond Hill on this road and in the centre. It is classical in style (5). The Central Richmond Conservation Area was with a large fish scaled dome and cupola and no. 39 designated in 1969 and was further extended in George Street is noted for its ornate Dutch gable. 1977, 1988, 2000, 2003 and 2005. Within the Quadrant there are two spaces, the This is a predominantly commercial shopping station forecourt and the Square which have area and the townscape is noteworthy for its become the centres of activity on the street. variety, which is of a consistently high quality, with The Quadrant (nos. 1-18) is a good example of many exuberant individual buildings. There are confident Victorian commercial architecture and also residential areas of mainly terraced housing forms a purpose built parade which strongly defines alongside several late Victorian buildings which the curve of the street. There are three public make valuable contributions to the character of the houses of note in Kew Road; Duke of York, Orange centre. The area also contains a number of historic Tree and Bull and Bush. alleyways.

There are three distinct character areas within Dominant materials and features the Conservation Area: the main shopping core Characteristic materials and features include: consisting of Hill Street, George Street, The Gables, distinctive mixture of brick, stone and Quadrant and Kew Road; Parkshot which gives render, nineteenth century stock brick buildings, Richmond Railway Station access to Richmond Green; and the edge of centre red bricks, white stucco bands, gable ties, original streets comprising Sheen Road, Paradise Road and shop fronts. Red Lion Street.

George Street, The Quadrant and Kew Road

There are several areas noted for their contribution to the Conservation Area; Richmond Bridge and its setting, George Street, The Quadrant and Kew Road. The junction of Hill Street, Bridge Street and Hill Rise marks a strong gateway into the centre, contrasting strongly with the open

The Quadrant Old town hall

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57 Conservation Area 15: Central Richmond

Parkshot Dominant materials and features ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shopfronts and advertisement. Parkshot was originally the lane which ran between Characteristic materials and features include: Mature trees, stepped eaves line, chimneys, stepped ■■ The restoration of painted or rendered facades the Green and alongside the edge of the gardens to brick should be encouraged. of the Palace. Parkshot contains important groups parapets, original shop fronts, pale yellow brick, ■ Cleaning of the Richmond Station Art Deco of early eighteenth century brick terraced houses stucco bays ■ facade. providing a record of the scale and quality of Threats from development detail previously seen throughout the area. Key Conservation Area Statement: http://www. buildings of note include: the contemporary design ■■ Development pressure which may harm the richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ of the Magistrates Court; eighteenth century listed balance of views, skylines and landmarks conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. townhouses; and the statuesque main building to particularly from inappropriately tall building htm Richmond Adult Community College. heights. ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and Dominant materials and features materials due to unsympathetic alterations, St Mary Magdalene Church Characteristic materials and features include: Red particularly considering modern development bricks, high iron railings, mature lime trees. along The Quadrant. ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of street Red Lion Street, Paradise Road and furniture and pavements. Sheen Road ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian There are three prominent roads within this area; safety leading to clutter of signage and street Red Lion Street, Paradise Road and Sheen Road. furniture. The entrance to Red Lion Street is framed by the ■■ Loss of original or quality shopfronts and impressive curved corner buildings at 1 George unsympathetic alterations and signage. Street and 2-6 (even) Hill Street. The red brick ■■ Unattractive appearance of solid steel shutters old Police Station and the terrace of shops at nos. used for retail units. 10-32 Red Lion Street present a positive and lively aspect to the street. Of the four residential blocks Opportunities on Sheen Road, the two Art Deco blocks on the Parkshot Medical Practice ■■ Improvement and protection of its setting. north side forming Lichfield Court are the most distinctive. The eastern end of Paradise Road has ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement the most coherent building form in comparison of architectural quality and unity. to other streets in this area. St Mary Magdalene ■■ Coordination of colour and design leading to Church, which was built in the early sixteenth improvement in street furniture and paving. century, together with its grounds, are an important ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and feature along Paradise Road, pedestrian convenience and rationalisation of existing signage and street furniture – build on success of projects such as Lower George Street. ■■ Environmental improvements to alleyways.

Richmond Magistrates Court

58 59 Conservation Area 16: Sheen Road

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character summary There are a number of distinctive semi-detached ■■ Improve shopping frontages by encouraging terraces on Sheen Terrace, Dunstable Road, consistency and a return to original signage The Conservation Area includes Sheen Road and Townshend Terrace, Townshend Road, St Mary’s designs. the area to the north bounded by the railway line. Grove and Sydney Road. Alton Road, Sheen Park, It adjoins Richmond Hill (5), Central Richmond (17) Dunstable Road and Church Road all provide Conservation Area Statement: http://www. and St Matthias (30) Conservation Areas to the attractive tree lined views up from Sheen Road richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ south and west. towards the railway line. conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. htm The area has two distinct elements, the Dominant materials and features development along Sheen Road which includes a Sheen Road large number of buildings from the eighteenth and Characteristic materials and features include: early to mid-nineteenth centuries and the later eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings, semi- residential terraces and semi-detached houses detached and terraced properties, listed buildings running up to the railway line to the north. and courtyards, strong views supported by mature greenery. Sheen Road forms part of the linear development which links Richmond and East Sheen. This is Threats from development a mixed area with small shops and businesses ■■ Loss of architectural features and materials. interspersed with residential use. It holds a ■■ Changes to traditional layouts and frontage. concentration of listed buildings in the area and these mostly date from the eighteenth century. ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian Hickeys Almshouses and Houblons Almshouses are environment. key listed buildings which were built in the mid- ■■ Loss of original or quality shop fronts along nineteenth century. They both have courtyards that Sheen Road. form a quiet enclave for residents away from the Townshend Terrace busy main road. Opportunities ■■ Preservation and enhancement of the Houses are mostly set in gardens with mature architectural style. trees and a strong frontage is maintained by the ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments buildings or boundary walls defining the back of and discourage increase in the amount of hard pavement. The traditional shop fronts that remain surfacing in front gardens. are important features. ■■ Coordination of colour and design. The area to the north of Sheen Road is ■■ Mitigation of impact of traffic and improvement characterised by rows of large terraced and semi- of highways conditions and pedestrian detached late Victorian houses sometimes with convenience, and rationalisation of existing attractively detailed brickwork and slate roofs. signage and street furniture.

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61 Character Area 17: Old Deer Park Gardens

Character Summary short terraces giving a uniform appearance. They are clad in high quality red brickwork, raised over This character area is adjacent to the Old Deer white-painted basements incorporating the front Park and adjoins the Kew Foot Road Conservation doors and garages. They include traditionally Area. It comprises Old Deer Park Gardens, with inspired features such as curved railings, sash its regular terraces, together with Tower Rise and windows (mostly replaced) and modillion eaves Lenton Rise which have shorter housing blocks cornicing. Part of the character comes from the arranged informally. distinctive treatment of surfaces, which includes flint The entrance to Old Deer Park Gardens is flanked in the driveways and red brick for the entry ways. by two interwar semi-detached pairs of houses There are low red-brick walls and, in the centre of fronting Kew Road. They are in red brick with the estate, a single mature tree incorporated into a hung tiles, canted bays, oriel windows and entrance small roundabout. canopies on carved brackets. Dominant materials and features Old Deer Park Gardens has semi-detached housing, Characteristic materials and features include: Red closely spaced so as to resemble terraces. It is brick and render, white-painted applied timbering, predominantly matching housing of the Edwardian canted bays, deeply projecting gables incorporating period. These generally have red brick to ground hung tiles or applied timbering, oriel windows, floors and roughcast render above, decorated by openwork timber porches, terracotta diamonds, white-painted applied timbering. Other features timber casement or sash windows, front gardens include canted bays, deeply projecting gables with low red brick walls and stone copings, flint and incorporating hung tiles or applied timbering, oriel red-brick paving to driveways. windows and elaborate openwork timber porches in the Queen Anne Revival style. Front gardens Threats from development are defined by dwarf walls with stone copings, though some have been altered, raised or had piers ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors added, detracting from the character. The timber with those of thicker section (e.g. in uPVC) or casement windows have been replaced in uPVC and differing patterns that do not follow the original design and opening style. other materials, though often following the original Old Deer Park Gardens glazing pattern. A few pairs at the west end of ■■ Alterations to boundary walls of front gardens, the street are different being 1920s in appearance, reducing the coherence of the impressively again with roughcast render over red brick but uniform character. with decoration confined to terracotta diamonds ■■ Alterations to building roof line, including set into the square bay windows. Old Deer Park dormers and the distinctive gables that define Gardens is gently curved, with picturesque views the road. eastward toward the former church on Kew Road. There are no street trees but the front gardens are Opportunities: generally planted. ■■ Improve the pavement and road condition. Tower Rise and Lenton Rise form a modern enclave of two short cul-de-sacs, built on the site of the old Royal Laundry. They comprise informally arranged

Old Deer Park Gardens Old Deer Park Gardens

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63 Conservation Area 18: Old Deer Park

This section provides a summary of the main characteristics of the Conservation Area. More detailed information can be viewed using the link provided below.

Character Summary: and cricket pitches, grandstands, swimming pools contained within a 1960s leisure complex, tennis The Conservation Area is situated along the River courts and a car park area. Thames which borders the east and west and is bounded to the south by Richmond and to The Kew Observatory, which is located within the north by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. It the Park, is a Grade I listed building by Sir William adjoins a number of Conservation Areas: Royal Chambers. There are three obelisks, or meridian Botanic Gardens Kew (63), Richmond Riverside (4), markers, listed Grade II. Richmond Green (3), Central Richmond (17), Kew Foot Road (36) and Kew Road (55). The area currently used as car and lorry parking was formally part of the parkland and some mature The area was formally part of the Royal Gardens trees remain in this location. The car park does and Park of the Tudor Palace of Sheen. The area not accord with the character of the wider park. is of archaeological importance and contains the The car park is surrounded by a number of small fifteenth century Shene Charterhouse which is buildings which are used by voluntary associations. a scheduled ancient monument. The park was A key issue arising at this location is the boundary separated from the Royal Botanic Gardens in the maintenance and inadequate means of rubbish eighteenth century. disposal.

Old Deer Park was designated a Conservation The swimming pool was built in 1967, is set within Area in 1990 and extended in 2005 to include a landscaped area with many fine trees located a small strip of land that borders the Thames to around the boundary and is Grade II listed. the south west and an area north of the railway line. The Park has Metropolitan Open Land status The athletic ground is used by a number of sports except for two sections used by the Royal Mail and clubs with the primary use being for rugby. There is Old Deer Park recreation area the community / voluntary sector and the Pools on a concrete grandstand which restricts views to the the Park swimming pool complex. The riverside wider Old Deer Park. boundary and hedgerow between the recreation ground and the golf course is defined as an ‘other Longer views across the Old Deer Park have been Site of Nature Importance’. obscured by tree planting within the golf course. A number of sports clubs use the sports grounds, The park is Grade I listed on the register of clubhouse and storage facilities. The hedgerow, ha- Historic Parks and Gardens. The area is well ha and railings along Kew Road are included in the defined and an extensive area of open space. sports ground lease.

The Park’s main function is for recreational The golf course is located to the north of the park purposes, and includes a golf course, rugby, football and covers a substantial area, fronting onto the

Pools on the Park Old Deer Park play area

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River Thames. The golf course is separated from the wider recreation area by a strong belt of trees. Shene Charterhouse, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is located within the grounds of the golf course.

Dominant materials and features Characteristic materials and features include: relationship with the Thames, heritage designations, landscape setting, sporting/recreational facilities.

Threats from development ■■ Development pressure which may harm the balance of the river and landscape setting including from sports and recreational uses.

Opportunities ■■ Improvement and protection of river and landscape setting and important views including between The Kings Observatory and the Meridian Obelisks. ■■ Preservation and enhancement of architectural quality. ■■ Improvement of recreational facilities. ■■ Improvement of community facilities.

Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Richmond Athletic Ground richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. htm

Old Deer Park Pools on the Park

66 67 7. Features and Materials

The architectural features and palette Materials Features Richmond Green is bordered by a number of materials used in the construction of impressive Georgian town houses. Richmond and Richmond Hill are made up Georgian: The term ‘Georgian’ usually and decoration of buildings are a large These include simple and elegant designs, of a wide variety of historic buildings that covers buildings constructed between part of what makes up the character predominantly red brick, some with white define the character of the area. Through 1714 and 1837, during which time there of an area. They vary depending render and traditional six-over-six sash the eighteenth, nineteenth, into the early were numerous stylistic developments. As a on when and where a building was windows complete with front basement twentieth century, a palette of similar general rule however houses conform to a constructed. Even for buildings of the areas, railings and entrance steps directly materials predominated in house building. Classically-derived idea of proportion which same period, subtle differences in abutting the pavement. Using the correct materials (such as stock dictated how an elevation should be arranged. construction materials can be what and red brick, clay tiles, slate and timber) The most important floor, with the grandest Another stand out building from this period distinguish buildings in one part of the is important for any repairs, alterations rooms, was the first floor (the piano nobile) can be found on Kew Foot Road being a country from another, contributing to or extensions to existing buildings but which externally was expressed with the standalone substantial three storey Georgian local distinctiveness. also should be a consideration for any tallest windows. The height of the windows building looking out onto Old Deer Park. The new development if it is to respect the decreases from the first floor to the top of building is dominated by white render with a context and character of the area. This the house. In the early eighteenth century large columned porch. is also important as traditional materials the construction of the terrace house as we Victorian: The Victorian period (1837- allow a building to ‘breathe’ (allow air to know it today became widespread through 1901) saw an explosion of different styles circulate and the materials to both absorb London. Houses were flat-fronted (rather and technological innovation. House water when it rains and subsequently dry than jettied), constructed from brick, with the building increased at a great rate to deal out). Using modern, impervious materials main decorative emphasis on the front door with the surge in population. The terraced can trap water and cause damp. Sourcing and windows (see subsection on windows). house continued as the most popular and materials is very important, and it is always Later in the eighteenth and early nineteenth proliferate form of housing but mansion advisable to ask for samples that you can century, render and stucco painted in blocks of flats became increasingly common look at on site and compare with the palette imitation of stone was commonly applied in London through the nineteenth century of existing materials. In the context of to the exterior or part of the exterior of for all classes of people. Whilst Classicism historic buildings it is useful to look at the houses. With the innovation of Coade Stone retained a strong foothold through Queen directory of specialist professionals on www. in the second half of the eighteenth century Victoria’s reign and the simple, brick terraced buildingconservation.com decorative elements around doors and house persisted, particularly as the most basic windows became more common. form of housing, the Gothic Revival is most Georgian buildings play a key role in the commonly associated with this period and character of Richmond, particularly the was popular as a way of enlivening houses. riverfront which is characterised by Georgian Brick was still the basic load-bearing material and Victorian architectural styles. for most buildings during this period though decorative coloured detailing became more popular. Renders and ornament (the latter

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London stock brick (soot Timber sash windows with Clay chimney pots Pediment blackened) Clay chimney pot Pitched gable narrow side lights

Timber sash windows Stock Brick

String course Brick quoins

Fanlight Canted bay window

Stone steps with Brick arched porch modified tread ends

Victorian Extension

Wrought iron railings with Panelled door Decorative railing Coping stone Keystone finials at intervals

69 7. Features and Materials (continued)

usually made from artificial stone) also architecture is often indistinguishable from The vernacular semi-detached houses A number of estates can be found around the become more widespread. that of this period. The architecture of this that became popular pre-WWI became area including Victoria Villas, which uses brick period confidently mixes features from regularised into the standardised designs in the cladding materials; however the layout Richmond hosts a wide array of quality numerous styles. The work of Norman Shaw of the ‘Mock-Tudor semi’. The western end disrupts the otherwise legible street grid. The Victorian housing of all scales, styles and the Arts and Crafts movement had a of Queen’s Road includes a range of good same can be said for other estates such as and forms, from terraced mews to large profound effect on house-design that was to examples including some on its side roads those on St Mary’s Grove. detached villas. This is typified along Mount dominate for decades to come with features such as Marchmont Road and along Denbigh Ararat Road, Church Road and Friar Stiles Contemporary: There is a variety of of vernacular architecture becoming much Gardens. These are defined by strong timber Road which host an array of mid and late more modern development across the more common. laden gables, with detailing on bargeboards Victorian buildings, including notable three area, including some infill and some more and bay windows. storey red brick townhouses. The building Edwardian Housing can be found across substantial estates. Recent development less styles are noticeably different ranging from much of the area. Old Deer Park Gardens Stanmore Gardens, located north of Lower rigorously conforms to a particular style or large detached villas to the interesting brick has a number of semi-detached houses from Mortlake Road has a varied character derived ethos. Higher density developments are more detailing and symmetry of terrace cottages. the Edwardian period which include red brick from its interwar and later detached and common as the pressure on land is greater. to ground floors and roughcast render above semi-detached houses, some plainly finished The Quadrant in the town centre hosts a The Queen’s Road Estate (1980s and 1990s) as well as decorated by white-painted applied in red brick and others with bay windows variety of examples of confident Victorian is a low rise estate with mature trees that timbering. and hung tiles. commercial architecture amongst styles from help to maintain a natural setting. Greville other periods. The Quadrant helps to form a Sheen Road and Manor Road are both busy Courtlands along Sheen Road is a good Road provides the best examples, with light- purpose built parade which strongly defines traffic routes. Manor Road retains its late example of interwar flatted development, brown brick and dressings of red or dark the curve of the street. Victorian and Edwardian housing, with the defined in particular by curved painted white brown brick as well as simple vernacular east side consisting of mainly Edwardian protruding balconies. forms that include pitched roofs of slate. Sheen Road includes a variety of detached terraces with canted bays. Sheen Road is or semi-detached late Victorian houses, often Post war (60s and 70s): A radical shift Along The Quadrant there are a number of comprised of generally detached or semi- in stock brick with red brick dressings and away from the traditional styles of the past infill developments from the 1980s onward detached late Victorian houses, often in with prominent chimneys or gables. These are century occurred with Modernism and a new which detract from the overall quality of stock brick with red brick dressings and with set in a noticeably green setting with mature attitude to architecture and place-making. Richmond town centre. A very modern prominent chimneys or gables. trees surviving in the front gardens. Raleigh Blocks of flats were seen as the ideal solution development can be found in the old gas Road and Bardoph Road include other good Other notable housing includes the area to increasing density though the regular works area along Orchard Road, with a examples of attractive Victorian terrace beyond the built frontage of the river bank, terraced house and low rise blocks of flats simple stock brick, larger angular windows houses with either red brick or render, with including Cholmondeley Walk, which hosts and maisonettes persisted. Portland Terrace is and flat roof. stucco dressings. classical, Edwardian and Arts and Crafts one of the few examples of post war housing architectural elements. in the heart of Richmond; the terrace looks Edwardian and Late Victorian: The out across Richmond Green, comprising Edwardian period was a high point in Interwar housing: Interwar housing simple two-storey terraces with shallow tiled traditional construction and late-Victorian can be found across the Richmond area. roofs and well defined boundary walls.

70 EDWARDIAN INTERWAR

Panelled brick chimney Gable with applied Clay tiled roof Eaves cornice with dentils Clay tiled roof stack timbering

Render

Red brick

Render

Timber sash windows with smaller upper light

Archway Timber casement windows Timber eave brackets Bay window with timber Brick dwarf wall casements

71 7. Features and Materials (continued)

Windows Window details: ■■ Timber double-glazing is now a good ■■ top-hung casements are not a good option with improving technology that substitute for sliding sashes. Windows are key features in all the buildings ■■ Original leaded lights can add character to can achieve very slim window profiles that in Richmond irrespective of the construction the street and be an important aspect of compare with Victorian and Edwardian period. The location of the windows, their the design of the buildings. If the original single-glazing. proportions, the number of glazing bars, the windows have leaded lights they should be use of coloured glass, or the presence of old replicated if repairing them is not possible. ■■ Thin profile double glazed acoustic glass is available that can be fitted into glass and the decorative treatment around ■■ Stained glass should be retained or existing timber frames. This can be a way the windows, all give each building its special incorporated in replacement windows. character. The diversity of window types of upgrading the sound and insulation across the area add to its character and Double-glazing and thermal efficiency: performance of windows without the need for total replacement. reinforce the distinctiveness of the different Improving the thermal efficiency of historic styles. Therefore if houses or flats have windows is a common reason for replacing ■■ Install secondary glazing which is very original windows they should be restored them with double-glazing. If you are effective in improving thermal and sound or, if necessary, replaced like with like. Along considering replacing your timber windows insulation. They can often be removed in with the promotion of character, sustainable with uPVC bear in mind that the embodied the summer months when less needed. materials should also be prioritised, through energy lost by disposing of your windows uPVC is often considered as it is seen as a the use of environmentally friendly materials and replacing them with uPVC, which have a cheaper option than most timber double- and also improving the energy efficiency of limited life-expectancy, can be less sustainable glazed units. However, it is not authentic and buildings. than repairing them or installing secondary cannot achieve the same detailed mouldings Timber windows: glazing. Traditional internal shutters are also or appearance and is therefore discouraged. a very effective means of improving thermal If you feel that this is your only option you ■■ Historic timber windows are made efficiency so if your property once had should bear in mind: from more durable timber than modern, shutters, restoring them can be a sensible softwood timber. Repairing them is option. ■■ the materials, design, proportions and therefore often a more durable as well as the means of opening (sash/casement) of sustainable option. There are a number of options to consider if the existing windows and try to faithfully the installation of double-glazing is pursued: ■■ Timber windows were always meant to replicate them; be painted to protect them from the ■■ Have existing windows adapted by ■■ the proportions of the glazing bars should elements. Keeping them painted will help inserting an additional pane of glass within replicate those on the original windows; prevent them from rotting. If maintained, the existing frame to improve sound ■■ glazing bars should be integral to the they can last indefinitely. and thermal insulation. This is only really structure of the window and not applied possible with unlisted buildings with deep to the outside of the glass and should be window profiles. raised rather than flat;

72 Timber sashes in a Victorian turret Timber panelled doors in a Victorian house

Timber sash with side lights in a Victorian house Panelled door with fanlight in a modern house

Timber casement with mullion and Queen Anne style transom Two-panelled timber door with curved fanlight, classical Timber casement windows with leaded lights in a twentieth Georgian doorway with simple white painted columns and in a Victorian house pilasters and century house lintel framing the enterance 73 7. Features and Materials (continued)

Georgian Victorian Late Victorian / Edwardian

74 Interwar Post War Contemporary

75 8. Guidance for Development Sites

This section provides design objectives Richmond Station and above track, Friars Lane Car Park, Richmond The adopted planning brief for Friars Lane and guidance on larger sites that have Richmond Car Park can be viewed at http://www. been put identified for development richmond.gov.uk/friar_s_lane_planning_brief. Potential allocation: Redevelopment of station Potential allocation: Residential – through consultations undertaken pdf and concourse to further improve transport Redevelopment for residential use will by the Council should a planning interchange uses to include retail, business, enhance the conservation area and improve application be submitted. The following community, leisure, entertainment and the amenities of residents. sites are considered: residential, including affordable units. The site is currently a poorly maintained The site lies in the heart of Richmond and open ground floor car park within Richmond as such needs to consider the following Riverside Conservation Area. The car park is alongside the Richmond Station Planning surrounded by a variety of well-maintained Brief: historic buildings, including Georgian terraces, late Victorian townhouses and Queensbury ■■ Provide a new transport interchange for House, a stunning 1930s Mansion block. trains and other forms of transport, as well as improving facilities for pedestrians Any development proposal here would need as well as cyclists, buses, rail and some to: vehicular access. ■■ Respect the scale and variety of character ■■ Recognition that the 1930s station within the surrounding area, considering entrance is a Building of Townscape Merit local and adjacent building heights, and its important as a key gateway into including two storey terraces and a four Richmond. storey block of flats, to ensure new ■■ Balance the mixture of uses including developments blend in appropriately. retail, leisure and business uses whilst ■■ Enhance the conservation area as a whole, appropriately respecting the character and including Georgian and Victorian buildings, scale of the surrounding area. through high quality design and materials. ■■ Consider the policy context for the ■■ Take account of the potential transport site, which includes Central Richmond accessibility and impact of proposed uses Conservation Area. on the site on adjoining properties. The adopted planning brief for Richmond ■■ Respect the surrounding residential Station can be viewed at http://www. community, accounting for the potential richmond.gov.uk/richmond_station_planning_ environmental impact, including potential brief.pdf sound, light and air pollution.

76 1: Richmond Station and above track, Richmond 2: Friars Lane Car Park, Richmond

77 9. Shop Front Guidance

The Council has an adopted general guide to and therefore should be retained. Often the Shopfront SPD) are usually present and shopfront design (Shopfront Supplementary however, the replacement shopfronts lack should be conformed to. Planning Document (SPD), March 2010). aesthetic value and are installed without Shutters This guidance does not replace that SPD due consideration of the impact their but provides area-specific information on appearance will have on the whole parade Security shutters are not a traditional the design and character of the shopfronts and street. For example, neon lights can be feature of shopfronts and do not, as a rule, in Richmond and Richmond Hill to inform inappropriate and vinyl signs in windows can enhance their character. Roller shutters, owners and developers regarding alterations impact on the street scene and discourage when lowered, can create an unattractive and replacements. The Borough’s shopfront shoppers by reducing visibility into premises. and hostile environment. If considered SPD sets out the policy context for when necessary, metal lattice-type shutters on When proposing alterations to a shopfront planning permission and listed building the inside of the shop window provide the or its replacement, consideration should be consent is needed for new shopfronts and necessary security whilst not dramatically given to: gives borough-wide guidance. Planning changing the appearance of the shop front. permission is invariably needed for ■■ The appearance of the host building as The other alternative is traditional timber replacement shopfronts and Advertisement a whole and the designs of the adjacent shutters that are fitted over the shop Consent may be needed for new signage. shopfronts where these reflect the original window on the outside. This Village Planning Guidance SPD should shopfront character for the area. be read in conjunction with the 2010 SPD. ■■ Uniformity: where a parade historically had Richmond and Richmond Hill have many identical shopfronts, reinstating the same historic shopping parades and some appropriate design and materials where surviving examples of historic shopfronts. the replacements are poor quality can help These should be preserved and, where create a more attractive street. architectural details are missing, they ■■ If there are identical surviving historic should ideally be replaced. As a general rule, shopfronts in a parade these may well be shopfronts and alterations proposed to them the original historic design. Therefore should respect the character, overall design replicating them in place of low-quality and materials of the host building. modern shopfronts should be explored.

Parades were often built with the same Within a parade or building there are often shopfronts along their length. Over time two or more good different examples of many get replaced and the uniformity of shopfronts which should be retained and the parades is undermined. In some cases, sometimes the subtle differences in detail replacement shopfronts add or retain a will enhance the character of the area. value as part of a street scene, through their However, the basic structure and features design quality, craftsmanship or historic value of traditional shopfronts (as identified in

78 Typical key features to shop fronts

Decorative ventilation grills Slim timber glazing bars Recessed entrance Cornice Timber faience Canopy Upper lights Facias

Timber stallriser Timber panelled door Tiled threshold Pilaster Slim timber glazing bars Polished granite stallriser

79 9. Shop Front Guidance (continued)

Central Richmond Avoiding: and compliment surrounding shops and buildings. Proposals for shopfronts should Unlike other smaller parades of shops in the ■■ removal of high quality shopfronts of respect the design of the building into which Village Plan area, the volume of retail units architectural or historic interest, they are fitted, its architectural character, in the centre along with the wide variety ■■ fixing external roller shutters and shutter age, scale, form and materials. An example of styles and periods of construction, have boxes, where this has not been embodied can led to an inconsistency of frontages that ■■ use of aluminium and plastic materials, be seen at 12 George Street/A305. A are detrimental to the overall character and substantial plot with a grey granite frontage of the area. This poses a distinct challenge and additional branded facias along with a when managing the quality and retention ■■ internally illuminated box signage, large building entrance and window display that of historic shop fronts. No singular distinct fascias or projecting signs. do not compliment the architectural design style or period is apparent throughout the Local Character of the late Georgian building it occupies; Hill Street centre and idealisation of a single type is nor does its fascia design reflect and respect not appropriate. Accordingly the Council’s In order to maintain the quality of the scale of neighbouring properties. A fine Shopfronts SPD (2010) is particularly shopfronts in the centre, owners should example of respecting the character of relevant when considering shopfront be looking to retain any surviving features the local area whilst standing out on the alterations in central Richmond. The which give the building visual interest and street can be found at 12 The Quadrant. key principles of the Shopfront SPD are individual distinctiveness and can often help The building maintains all of its original articulated here in the context of central attract custom. A good example of a fully shopfront in great detail including attractive Richmond. retained shopfront can be found at 55-56 George Street/A305, a jewellery shop set consoles, distinctive shallow stall risers and General Guidance in an Edwardian Tudorbethan style building, subtle signage amongst other features. The following principles intend to outline which has maintained its period features. Signage and Canopies the approach that needs to be considered This includes sensitive and in- keeping fascia Well-designed signage contributes to the The Square when maintaining, altering or fitting new design with no associated lighting, original character of retail premises, and brings shop fronts. The guidance does not intend timber mullions, transoms, high quality visual interest to shopping streets. But to inhibit design or variety but ensure that stone stallrisers, fan and transom lights poorly sited, over-sized or inappropriately all existing features and character are given and a traditional canopy with original style designed and illuminated fascia signs can due consideration. The key considerations awnings. have a significant detrimental impact on are promoting: The new and existing shopfronts should the appearance of an area. In central ■■ The retention and reuse of existing high not be considered in isolation and it is Richmond there is a lack of consistency in quality shopfronts and replacing poor important to consider how shopfronts the size, height and style of fascia boards quality with good new design, relate to the character of the street (for example along George Street) which as a whole. The effect of proportions, ■■ use of traditional materials, detracts from the overall appearance of materials and detailing should relate to the retail offer. Positive examples along ■■ external illumination.

80 the parade tend to use traditional materials a shopfront. If it is deemed that a specific such as timber with matt paint finishing and shopfront is in a Conservation Area and steer away from plastics or aluminium based makes a positive contribution to the area this signage, as well as avoiding excessively bold will be a material consideration. and oversized typeface. Where a change of use is being sought along Retractable canopies and blinds can add a parade of retail units, clear consideration liveliness to the street. The retention of blind needs to be shown for the implications of the boxes in historic contexts is appropriate. proposed use, whether residential or other Where blinds are to be newly fitted they non-retail use, as any change of this type will should form an integral part of the shopfront have design implications for the entire street. design, with blind boxes being designed as Where such change of use is considered part of the fascias. 56-58 George Street again acceptable, attention should be given as to provides an excellent example of a traditional whether a shop-like appearance is retained, canopy with original style awnings. Both 12 or whether an appropriate and sympathetic and 13 The Quadrant are examples of more alternative design solution is possible. modern approaches to remain in-keeping and Local Listings do not disturb the overall appearance of the fascia or overall look of the shop frontage. The whole of central Richmond is contained within the Central Richmond Conservation Security and accessibility features Area. A number of buildings are listed or Shopfront security should not be allowed identified as Buildings of Townscape Merit. to compromise the visual appearance of buildings or the character of the wider streetscene. Wherever possible, there should be level access between the pavement and the shop. If a change in level is unavoidable, a non-slip ramp is preferred to steps, which can sometimes be set into a recessed entrance doorway. Planning Permission Central Richmond’s Conservation Area status is such that engagement with the Council is strongly advised and planning permission is required before you make changes to

81 9. Shop Front Guidance (continued)

Sheen Road in order to preserve the pilasters. As Positive features: Recessed entrances; discussed in the Shopfront SPD, the console timber doors; panelled stallrisers; arched The central section of Sheen Road brackets indicate how large the fascias of windows with thin glazing bars; inclined incorporates several shopping parades, the shopfronts should be: generally smaller timber fascia; iron railing. found between Church Road in the west than the height of the console brackets and and Sheen Park in the east. They fall into Nos. 90 and 92 have unremarkable the fascias should not project forward of two main categories: plain mid nineteenth- shopfronts but do retain the same upper them. Please refer to the Shopfront SPD century terraces in stock brick, and, near railing found at No. 88, which makes a for information about the characteristics of Sheen Park, a decorative Edwardian parade positive contribution. historic shopfronts that are referred to in in red brick (Nos. 106-132). They are nearly the following descriptions. all still in use as shops or small restaurants, often with the two upper storeys in Key examples No. 122 residential use as originally designed. There are few historic shopfronts left on Periodic refurbishment over the past these parades. Some of the more likely 100 years or so of the ground floor examples are described in this section: shops means there are very few historic No. 122 is perhaps the best preserved shopfronts left and the quality and of the historic shopfronts as it retains its uniformity has been eroded. Most of fascia board with scroll detail at either the parades incorporated access to the end (though not the original doors). Its flats above through a door within each appearance is however impacted by the shopfront. In the Edwardian parade (Nos. covering up of the glazing from inside the 106-132), both doors appear to have been property. Nos. 114, 116 and 120a also recessed with mosaic thresholds. The appear to be close to the original design earlier stock brick terraces to the west No. 88 (Nos. 120a and No. 114 both retain an may never have been uniform in design, but original door to the upper floors). would typically have displayed a range of individually designed timber shopfronts. Positive features: Recessed entrances; stallrisers; thin glazing bars; original fascia The red-brick Edwardian parade retains with scroll decoration pilasters supporting console brackets between each shop; they are made visually Other notable examples striking by the use of dark green faience Other good, traditional shopfronts that (glazed terracotta). These pilasters have are worthy of retention or careful upgrade been compromised in places by the addition include No. 88. of signage or alarms; consideration should be given to locating these elsewhere Sheen Road

82 Red Lion Street No. 54 is characteristic of many traditional adjacent walls. These high quality tiles are shopfronts in being entirely glazed except for likely to date from relatively early on in the The street includes a fairly traditional and the stallriser. history of the parade. The recessed entrance well maintained parade of shops in the heart is also seen on the adjacent shopfront. of Richmond. A highlight would be 20 Red Positive features: arched windows with thin Lion Street, which includes positive features glazing bars; glazed door with side lights; Positive features: Recessed entrance; tiled such as: Panelled stallriser; curved windows panelled stallriser; recessed entrance; well threshold; glazed tiles to walls; timber fascia with thin glazing bars; roundel feature in proportioned fascia. with dentil cornice; moulded timber glazing upper window; recessed doorways; black and bars No. 40 is a symmetrical design, perhaps of white chequered tiled threshold; iron railing the late nineteenth century and retaining No. 52 is likely to have been altered because Friars Stile Road distinctive windows with curved corner the upper and lower window mullions do not details. align, yet it represents a high quality design There are a few shopping parades and Friars Stile Shopping Parade of c. 1900, incorporating a decorative tiled some individual shops on Friars Stile Road, Positive Features: Recessed entrance; stallriser and twin recessed entrance. between Marlborough Road in the east and windows with thin glazing bars and curved Richmond Hill in the west. They are generally corner details; panelled stallriser; pilaster; Positive features: tiled stallriser; stone steps; late nineteenth-century rows in stock brick well proportioned fascia. recessed entrances; moulded timber glazing with decorative details in stucco to the upper bars; leaded upper lights. No. 36 appears to have been built separately floors. The shops are nearly all still in use and from the adjacent parade. It is a traditional some of the upper floors are in residential ‘corner shop’, occupying a corner site with use, which is likely to have been the original the entrance on the angle and glazing on both use. sides. The parades on Friars Stile Road lack Positive features: Panelled stallriser; panelled uniformity in the shop design and it is not No. 52 pilasters; windows with thin glazing bars and clear to what extent they had matching curved corner details (return elevation only); shopfronts. Periodic upgrade of most of well proportioned timber fascia the shopfronts has left only a few examples retaining recognisably historic or high quality Other notable examples elements. This section identifies other examples that Key examples have clearly been altered yet retain historic elements that make a positive contribution. This section identifies shopfronts that make a positive contribution and appear No. 2a at the western end of the road, stands to be relatively intact, i.e. they retain a high out due to its glazed tiles, which are present proportion of their ‘original’ design elements: on the stallriser and on the lower parts of No. 54

83 9. Shop Front Guidance (continued)

Kew and Lower Mortlake Roads composition at the entrance to Pagoda Positive features: panelled stallriser; Avenue. recessed entrance; panelled doors; moulded There are several parades and individual timber glazing bars; clerestorey glazing with shops toward the western end of Kew Key examples smaller lights. Road. They generally date from the mid This section identifies one exceptional to late nineteenth century and are faced shopfront that makes a positive contribution in stock or red brick, often with stucco and is relatively intact, i.e. it retains a high dressings. Nearly all are of three storeys, proportion of its ‘original’ design elements: with accommodation on the upper floors. The ground floors are nearly all still in Nos. 76-84 Kew Road are listed Grade II use as shops. Most of the shopfronts are for their well-preserved and high quality Art flush with the building line and retain their Deco shopfronts, installed in the 1930s for No. 109 Kew Road pilasters supporting console brackets Matthiae’s Café and Bakery (their Vitrolite between the shops. The shopfronts fascia board has been re-installed at parapet themselves are much altered and there level). is only one example of a well preserved Positive features: Recessed entrances; historic shopfront. polished granite stall risers; chrome edging There are two matching parades on Lower to glazing bars; upper windows of sunburst Mortlake Road, found on either side of design with coloured and frosted glass and Pagoda Avenue. These late nineteenth- painted lettering; double doors with fluted century buildings are in stock brick with red wooden surround; canopy with fluted brick dressings. The shops project forward chrome trim from the terraces and the two corner Other notable examples shops each have an angle entrance, creating Nos. 76-84 Kew Road a symmetrical composition. The shops are This section identifies one other example all still in use and the upper floors appear that displays historic elements and therefore to be in residential use, which is likely to may be worthy of preservation and/or have been the original use. The flats are careful upgrade. generally accessed through a side door. The No. 109 Kew Road appears to have been parades retain their pilasters supporting rebuilt, but in a traditional style, and may console brackets between each shop but have been based to some extent on the are otherwise poorly preserved. previous shopfront (although the fascia is Lower Mortlake Road: the matching parades not to traditional proportions). were designed to form a symmetrical

84 85 10. Forecourt Parking

The Council has an existing Supplementary The Council is keen that where front garden vegetation and biodiversity. When forecourt maintained boundary walls in the area, with Planning Document (SPD) covering ‘Front parking does occur, it is done in the best parking is proposed, this SPD seeks to ensure very few lost to provide car parking spaces. Garden and Other Off Street Parking possible way, by following guidance given in it is provided in a sympathetic way. It is Like Kings Road they include a variety of Standards’ (adopted September 2006). This this and the 2006 SPD. generally considered that additional forecourt approaches. document provides detailed advice on the parking does not significantly reduce parking A noteworthy example of unique boundary legal and design issues when creating a Planning Permission congestion as it results in a loss of on-street wall design being retained can be found parking area in your front garden and access parking. In some cases alterations to front gardens fall along Clydesdale Gardens; No 5 and No to it from the highway. Council Policy DM within the terms of ‘permitted development’, 11 includes a spray of randomly arranged TP 9 also establishes the principle approach Important features in Richmond and in which case planning approval is not brickwork that provides an interesting break to Forecourt Parking, notably that it will be Richmond Hill required and therefore the Council has little from the traditional interwar design. discouraged. or no control over the creation of forecourt Many front gardens and frontage features parking. You will not normally need planning in Richmond contribute significantly to Fencing The Richmond and Richmond Hill Village permission, outside of a Conservation Area the overall character of the area and local Planning Guidance SPD draws upon the Picket fencing, both stained wood and painted if a new or replacement driveway of any street scene both within and outside of the 2006 SPD, providing updated and specific white, can be found occasionally, often size uses permeable (or porous) surfacing Conservation Areas. These include brick gate information for Richmond and Richmond replacing lost brick boundary walls. This is which allows water to drain through, such as piers, dwarf walls incorporating railings or Hill. It is important that the 2006 SPD is not common in Richmond and generally not permeable concrete block paving or porous hedges, planted front gardens and a very high read in conjunction with the guidance below. in keeping with the area’s character with the asphalt, or by directing rainfall to a lawn or number of street trees. It is also advised to refer to the Council’s exception of some of the terraced roads such border to drain naturally. Supplementary Planning Document on Boundary walls as Princes Road, Jocelyn Road and Albert ‘Design Quality’ and ‘Public Space Design If the surface to be covered is more than five Road. In addition a number of good examples Boundary walls are perhaps the most Guide’. square metres planning permission will be can be found on St George’s Road where important and defining feature of a street needed for laying traditional, impermeable there is some variety in the design of front scene, and their preservation and uniformity In Richmond and Richmond Hill, as in other driveways. It is important to note that in garden walls with some including timber adds considerably to an area’s character. areas of the Borough and across London Conservation Areas, planning permission is fences, both standing alongside and atop a They enclose front gardens and define public as a whole, increases in population and car required for demolition of boundary walls, dwarf boundary wall. and private space. Low walls create this ownership have resulted in greater demand fences and railings over 1m in height. Article space without reducing visibility. Conforming for car parking spaces. Where houses are 4(2) Directions can also restrict the removal traditional brick types and brickwork along a not able to have garages, or where there is of structures such as those that would be Iron railings and gates street is an important characteristic. insufficient on and off street parking, this can required to allow access for parking (see the lead to increased demand for front garden Eighteenth and nineteenth century iron 2006 SPD for details). Kings Road includes an array of housing from railings (and gates) are a traditional feature parking. Conversion of front gardens for different periods with a variety of different The Council’s Development Management found at some of Richmond’s houses. Typically car parking can individually and cumulatively types of boundary wall ranging from brick Plan (Policy DM TP 9) generally discourages these are embedded into a lower boundary adversely impact on the appearance of an built, to hedges and railings. Marchmont Road front garden parking because of the impact wall, enclosing the front garden whilst keeping area and detract from its overall character supports one of the most consistent runs of if undertaken without careful consideration. on the appearance of the street and loss of visual obstruction to a minimum. Examples

86 can be found across the whole area, including at both ends to match existing materials and replacing some planting in as generous a much of Richmond Hill with good examples details, and should be no more than a car- manner as possible helps to maintain the on Kings Road, Queen’s Road and Cambrian width wide. area’s character, screen vehicles and create Road where there are instances of dwarf a more pleasant natural environment by walls incorporating railings. Enclosure absorbing local exhaust fumes. Hedges Retaining a form of enclosure of front gardens and forecourts is an essential part Hedges enclose front gardens and define of retaining local character and maintaining public and private space. They provide an the street scene. Partial loss of existing attractive green feature to the streetscape. structures is inevitable to allow vehicle Therefore it is important for them to be access but some structure should be retained as frontage features, either on their retained. Inward opening gates help to own or in combination with walls or railings. complete a defensible line. For the above There are instances of hedges in Richmond reasons the gap in the boundary should not often where a hedge has been added above exceed that needed for the passage of a car. a dwarf wall to provide further screening. This also reduces the loss of parking space in There are a few examples including a number the road outside. Hedging, Houlbon Road of established hedges along Marchmont Road and a fine example on the Courtland Permeability Estate (including a long dwarf wall with well- The base and finished surface should be laid maintained hedges), which help to create a at a slight gradient and be of a permeable well-defined boundary along Sheen Road. material, to allow the satisfactory drainage Guidance on front garden parking and absorption of rainwater. Water should not drain from the property onto the The following key considerations should be footway. A length of drain or soak-away may made where residents do feel an imperative be required at the site boundary to prevent to replace front gardens with car parking: this or a connection to a surface water Retention of existing features sewer can be established with the agreement of the Water Authority. Loose gravel should The general aim of any design for car parking be avoided. in front gardens should be to retain as much of the existing features as is practical – such Green features as existing walls, railings or hedging. Where Loss of existing green space may be an opening has to be made in an existing inevitable however retaining and / or wall, railing or fence, it should be made good Iron railings, Queen’s Road Boundary wall, Clydesdale Gardens

87 Appendix 1: Relevant Policies and Guidance It should be noted that all adopted policies and guidance should be assessed for their relevance in respect of individual planning applications, not just those listed below.

LBRuT LDF Core Strategy (April layout, form, scale, materials, natural compatible with local context, while Other relevant policies: 2009) surveillance and orientation, and respecting the quality, character and CP10: Open Land and Parks sustainable construction. amenity of established neighbourhoods Main policies that the SPD will support: and environmental and ecological The open environment will be protected and CP8: Town and Local Centres CP7: Maintaining and Improving the Local policies. The London Plan consolidated enhanced. In particular: Environment 8.A The Borough’s town and local centres with Alterations since 2004 Density 10.A The Borough’s green belt, metropolitan have an important role, providing shops, Matrix and other policies will be taken 7.A Existing buildings and areas in the open land and other open land of services, employment opportunities, into account to assess the density of Borough of recognised high quality townscape importance, World Heritage housing and being a focus for proposals. and historic interest will be protected Site (Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew), community life. from inappropriate development and CP20 Visitors and Tourism land on the Register of Parks and enhanced sensitively, and opportunities Retail and town centre uses will Gardens of Special Historic Interest, The Council will support the sustainable will be taken to improve areas be supported providing that it is green chains and green corridors growth of the tourist industry, for the of poorer environmental quality, appropriate to the role in the hierarchy will be safeguarded and improved for benefit of the local area by: including within the areas of relative of the centres, and respects the biodiversity, sport and recreation and disadvantage of Castlenau, Ham, character, environment and historical 20.A Encouraging the enhancement of heritage, and for visual reasons. Hampton Nurserylands, Heathfield and interest of the area. It should be of an existing tourist attractions, such as Kew 10.B A number of additional areas of open Mortlake. appropriate scale for the size of the Gardens, Hampton Court Palace, Ham land of townscape importance will centre and not adversely impact on House and the River, including sport 7.B All new development should recognise be identified, which will be brought the vitality and viability of any existing stadia particularly those of RFU and distinctive local character and forward through the Development centre. Out of town retail development Harlequins; contribute to creating places of a high Allocations DPD. is not usually considered appropriate in architectural and urban design quality 20.B Promoting sustainable transport for this Borough in line with The London CP17 Health and Well-being that are well used and valued. Proposals tourists to and within the borough, Plan consolidated with Alterations will have to illustrate that they: including the passenger services along since 2004. 17.A Health and well-being in the Borough the Thames; is important and all new development (i) are based on an analysis and The Council will improve the local should encourage and promote understanding of the Borough’s 20.C Directing new hotels to the Borough’s environment to provide centres which healthier communities and places. development patterns, features and town centres or other areas highly are comfortable, attractive and safe for views, public transport accessibility accessible by public transport; all users. The historic environment and 17.B The provision of new or improved and maintaining appropriate levels of facilities for health and social care river frontage will be protected. 20.D Requiring accommodation and amenity; and other facilities will be supported. facilities to be accessible to all; (ii) connect positively with their CP14 Housing Standards & Types Such facilities should be in sustainable 20.E Enhancing the environment in locations and accessible to all and surroundings to create safe and 14.D The density of residential proposals areas leading to and around tourist priority will be given to those in inclusive places through the use should take into account the need to destinations. areas of relative deprivation which of good design principles including achieve the maximum intensity of use

88 are identified in Core Policy 13, an LBRuT LDF Development Policy DM TC 2 Local and Neighbourhood heritage and character of the centre. immediate need for primary health Management Plan (November 2011) Centres and Areas of Mixed Use Policy DM OS 3 Other Open Land of care facilities (especially doctor’s Main policies that the SPDs will support: The Council will protect and improve the Townscape Importance surgeries) has been identified in Kew, provision of day-to-day goods and services Richmond, Whitton and Ham. Sites Policy DM TC 1 Larger Town Centres Other open areas that are of townscape in the local and neighbourhood centres for larger facilities may be identified importance will be protected and enhanced To maintain and improve the town centres, of the borough (See Policy DM TC 3 in the Site Allocations DPD. in open use. the Council will require appropriate ‘Retail Frontages’). These centres are often 17.C A pattern of land use and facilities development to take place within the designated as Areas of Mixed Use and are It will be recognised that there may be will be promoted to encourage identified Town Centre Boundaries of thus seen as appropriate for a mix of uses exceptional cases where appropriate walking, cycling, and leisure and the five maintown centres. These are that meet primarily local needs. development is acceptable. The following recreation and play facilities to Richmond, the major centre, and the four criteria must be taken into account when Proposals for development will be provide for a healthy lifestyle for all, district centres – Twickenham, East Sheen, assessing appropriate development: acceptable in the smaller centres if they: including provisions for open and play Teddington and Whitton. 1. It must be linked to the functional use space within new development as (c) Respect and enhance the heritage, Proposals that contribute towards a of the Other Open Land of Townscape appropriate. character and local distinctiveness of suitable mix of uses will be approved, Importance; or the centre, whilst making the most 17.D Existing health, social care, leisure and provided that they are appropriate to the efficient use of land. 2. It can only be a replacement or minor recreation provision will be retained function, character and scale of the centre. extension of existing built facilities; (d) Include overall improvements and where these continue to meet or Acceptable town centre uses could include 3. In addition to 1. or 2., it does not harm can be adapted to meet residents’ retail (if within or well related to designated enhancements of the small centres; or modernise outmoded premises. the character and openness of the open needs. Land will be safeguarded for frontages), business, leisure, tourism, land. such uses where available, and the community uses, health and residential Development should improve and maintain potential of re-using or redeveloping development compatible with other commercial provision in the smaller centres, Improvement and enhancement of the existing sites will be maximised. development in the town centre. without significantly expanding it. openness and character of other open land and measures to open up views into and Proposals will be acceptable within the Policy DM TC 3 Retail Frontages out of designated other open land will be Town Centre Boundaries if they: B Secondary Retail Frontages encouraged where appropriate. (f) Maintain or enhance the amount of When considering developments on sites active frontage, subject to Policy DM TC Non-retail proposals will be acceptable in the secondary shopping frontages only if: outside designated other open land, any 3 ‘Retail Frontages’. possible visual impacts on the character and (h) Respect and enhance the heritage, (b) The proposed use retains a “shop-like” openness of the designated other open land character and local distinctiveness of appearance with an active frontage and will be taken into account. the centre. will not have a detrimental visual impact on the shop-front and respect the The explanatory text is relevant to the SPD as set out below:

89 4.1.6 Other Open Land of Townscape ■■ Contribution to the local character and/ The Council will prepare a Conservation use cannot be sustained; Importance (OOLTI) can include or street scene, by virtue of its size, Area Appraisal and Management Plan for 3. alterations and extensions including public and private sports grounds, position and quality. each Conservation area, these will be used partial demolitions should be based on an school playing fields, cemeteries, ■■ Value to local people for its presence and as a basis when determining proposals accurate understanding of the significance allotments, private gardens, areas of openness. within or where it would affect the setting of the asset including the structure, vegetation such as street verges and ■■ Immediate or longer views into and out of, Conservation Areas together with other and respect the architectural character, mature trees. The designated areas of the site, including from surrounding policy guidance. historic fabric and detailing of the original are shown on the Proposals Map but properties. Buildings or parts of buildings, street building. With alterations, the Council there will also be other areas which ■ Value for biodiversity and nature furniture, trees and other features which will normally insist on the retention of could be considered as being of local ■ conservation. make a positive contribution to the the original structure, features, material value to the area and townscape and plan form or features that contribute ■ Note that the criteria are qualitative and character, appearance or significance of the which merit protection. ■ to the significance of the asset. With not all need to be met. area should be retained. New development 4.1.7 In some parts of the borough, open (or redevelopment) or other proposals repairs, the Council will expect retention areas, including larger blocks of back Policy DM OS 4 Historic Parks, Gardens and should conserve and enhance the character and repair, rather than replacement of gardens, which are not extensive Landscapes and appearance of the area. the structure, features, and materials enough to be defined as green belt of the building which contribute to its Parks and gardens as well as landscapes Policy DM HD 2 Conservation of Listed or metropolitan open land, act as architectural and historic interest; and will of special historic interest included in the Buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments pockets of greenery of local rather require the use of appropriate traditional Register compiled by English Heritage and materials and techniques; than London-wide significance. Many other historic parks, gardens and landscapes The Council will require the preservation of of these are of townscape importance, referred to in para 4.1.11 below, will be Listed Buildings of special architectural or 4. using its legal powers to take steps to contributing to the local character and protected and enhanced. Proposals which historic interest and Ancient Monuments and secure the repair of Listed Buildings, are valued by residents as open spaces have an adverse effect on the settings, views, seek to ensure that they are kept in a good where appropriate; in the built up area. Policy DM HO 2 and vistas to and from historic parks and state of repair by the following means: 5. protecting the setting of Ancient ‘Infill Development’ and Policy DM gardens, will not be permitted. Monuments and Listed Buildings where HO 3 ‘Backland Development’ also 1. consent would only be granted for the proposals could have an impact; demolition of Grade II Listed Buildings in recognise the importance of gardens, Policy DM HD 1 Conservation Areas – 6. taking a practical approach towards the which will be considered as greenfield designation, protection and enhancement exceptional circumstances and for Grade II* and Grade I Listed Buildings in wholly alteration of Listed Buildings to comply sites. Green oases are particularly The Council will continue to protect with the Disability Discrimination Act important and will be protected in exceptional circumstances following a areas of special significance by designating thorough assessment of their significance; 2005 and subsequent amendments, areas of high density development and Conservation Areas and extensions to provided that the building’s special 2. retention of the original use for which town centres. existing Conservation Areas using the interest is not harmed, using English the listed building was built is preferred. criteria as set out in PPS 5 and as advised by Heritage advice as a basis. 4.1.8 OOLTI should be predominantly open Other uses will only be considered where English Heritage. or natural in character. The following the change of use can be justified, and criteria are taken into account in where it can be proven that the original defining OOLTI:

90 Policy DM HD 3 Buildings of Townscape Policy DM HD 7 Views and Vistas In considering applications for infill not have a significantly adverse impact upon Merit development the following factors will be the following: The Council will seek to protect the quality taken into account: The Council will seek to ensure of views indicated on the Proposals Map. 1. Garden land – rear garden land which and encourage the preservation and It will also seek opportunities to create 1. Plot width - plots must be of sufficient contributes either individually or as part enhancement of Buildings of Townscape attractive new views and vistas and, where width to allow a dwelling(s) to be sited of a larger swathe of green space to Merit and will use its powers where appropriate, improve any that have been with adequate separation between amenity of residents or provides wildlife possible to protect their significance, obscured. dwellings; habitats must be retained; character and setting, by the following Policy DM HO 1 Existing Housing (including 2. Spacing between dwelling - new 2. Impact on neighbours – privacy of means: conversions, reversions, and non self- dwellings must have similar spacing existing homes and gardens must be 1. consent will not normally be granted for contained accommodation) between buildings to any established maintained and unacceptable light the demolition of Buildings of Townscape spacing in the street; spillage avoided; Existing housing should be retained. Merit; 3. Height - dwelling height should reflect 3. Vehicular access or car parking – these Redevelopment of existing housing should the height of existing buildings; must not have an adverse impact on 2. alterations and extensions should be normally only take place where: 4. Materials - where materials on existing neighbours in terms of visual impact, based on an accurate understanding of 1. it has first been demonstrated that dwellings are similar, new dwellings noise or light. Access roads between the significance of the asset including the the existing housing is incapable of should reflect those materials; dwellings and unnecessarily long access structure, and respect the architectural improvement or conversion to a roads will not normally be acceptable; character, and detailing of the original 5. Architectural details - new dwellings satisfactory standard to provide an 4. Mass and scale of development on building. The structure, features, should incorporate or reflect traditional equivalent scheme; and if this is the case: backland sites must be more intimate in and materials of the building which architectural features; scale and lower than frontage properties; contribute to its architectural and 2. the proposal improves the long-term 6. Trees, shrubs and wildlife habitats- historic interest should be retained or sustainability of buildings on the site; and features important to character, 5. Trees, shrubs and wildlife habitats– restored with appropriate traditional 3. the proposal does not have an adverse appearance or wildlife must be retained features important to character, materials and techniques; impact on local character; and or re-provided; appearance or wildlife must be retained or re-provided. 3. any proposals should protect and 4. the proposal provides a reasonable 7. Impact on neighbours - including loss of enhance the setting of Buildings of standard of accommodation, including privacy to homes or gardens. Policy DM TP 8 Off Street Parking - accessible design, as set out in Policy DM Townscape Merit; Policy DM HO 3 Backland Development Retention and New Provision HO 4 ‘Housing Mix and Standards’ and 4. taking a practical approach towards the Developments, redevelopments, alteration of Buildings of Townscape other policies. There will be a presumption against loss of back gardens due to the need to conversions and extensions will have to Merit to comply with the Disability Policy DM HO 2 Infill Development demonstrate that the new scheme provides Discrimination Act 2005 and subsequent maintain local character, amenity space and All infill development must reflect the biodiversity. In exceptional cases where it is an appropriate level of off street parking amendments, provided that the building’s to avoid an unacceptable impact on on- special interest is not harmed, using character of the surrounding area and considered that a limited scale of backland protect the amenity of neighbours. development may be acceptable it should street parking conditions and local traffic English Heritage advice as a basis. conditions.

91 A set of maximum car parking standards and The Council will seek to restrict permitted Policy DM DC 7 Shop fronts and shop signs groups of shops to add character to the minimum cycle parking standards are set development rights for forecourt parking street scene by the use of harmonious high The Council will resist the removal of shop out in Appendix Four - Parking Standards through Article 4 directions, where quality design, colours and materials for their fronts of architectural or historic interest. ‘Appendix Four - Parking Standards ‘for important townscape or surface water shop fronts. all types of development, these take into flooding issues exist. The Council will have The Council will expect proposals for Other relevant policies account bus, rail and tube accessibility as regard to the impact of forecourt parking in new shop fronts or alterations to existing well as local highway and traffic conditions considering proposals to extend or convert shop fronts to demonstrate a high quality Policy DM OS 2 Metropolitan Open Land including demand for on-street parking. existing residential property. of design, which complements the original The borough’s Metropolitan Open Land will These standards will be expected to be met, design, proportions, materials and detailing of Policy DM DC 1 Design Quality be protected and retained in predominately unless it can be shown that in proposing the shop front, surrounding streetscene and open use. Appropriate uses include public levels of parking applicants can demonstrate New development must be of a high the building of which it forms part. and private open spaces and playing fields, that there would be no adverse impact on architectural and urban design quality based Blinds, canopies or shutters where open recreation and sport, biodiversity the area in terms of street scene or on on sustainable design principles. street parking. acceptable in principle must be appropriate including rivers and bodies of water and Development must be inclusive, respect local to the character of the shop-front and its open community uses including allotments Policy DM TP 9 Forecourt Parking character including the nature of a particular setting; external security grilles will not and cemeteries. road, and connect with, and contribute normally be permitted; in sensitive areas, The parking of vehicles in existing front It will be recognised that there may be positively, to its surroundings based on a rigid and gloss finish blinds will generally be gardens will be discouraged, especially where exceptional cases where appropriate thorough understanding of the site and its unacceptable; development such as small scale structures is ■■ this would result in the removal of context. Signage and illumination to shop fronts must acceptable, but only if it: architectural features such as walls, gates In assessing the design quality of a proposal demonstrate a high quality of design, which and paving, or of existing trees and other 1. Does not harm the character and the Council will have regard to the following: complements the character and materials of vegetation; or, openness of the metropolitan open land; the shop front and surrounding streetscene, ■ compatibility with local character and ■■ where such parking would detract ■ and does not compromise public safety. including relationship to existing from the streetscape or setting of the Large illuminated fascias will not normally 2. Is linked to the functional use of the townscape and property; or, be permitted, even if these are in the “house Metropolitan Open Land or supports ■■ where the use of the access would create ■■ frontages, scale, height, massing, style” of a particular store. outdoor open space uses; or a road or pedestrian safety problem; or proportions and form 3. Is for essential utility infrastructure New shop fronts must be designed to ■■ where the width of the proposed ■■ sustainable development and adaptability, and facilities, for which it needs to allow equal access for all users, and can entrance will be greater than the width of subject to aesthetic considerations be demonstrated that no alternative incorporate flood protection measures a normal driveway. ■■ layout and access locations are available and that they where appropriate. Proposals should take do not have any adverse impacts on For any proposal the area of impermeable ■■ space between buildings and relationship account of the Councils SPD on Shop fronts to the public realm the character and openness of the paving should be minimised and soft and Shop Signs. metropolitan open land. landscaping maximised. ■■ detailing and materials The Council will welcome proposals from Improvement and enhancement of the

92 openness and character of the Metropolitan enable the public to enjoy the riverside, infrastructure, including the Rights of development_standards_2010_final_ Open Land and measures to reduce especially at ground level in buildings Way network. version_30_11_10.pdf visual impacts will be encouraged where fronting the river; 2. New development does not ■■ Shopfronts SPD March 2010 www. appropriate. 5. protecting and promoting the history adversely impact on the pedestrian richmond.gov.uk/cg_shopfronts_ca1_ When considering developments on sites and heritage of the river, including environment and provides appropriate lr.pdf outside Metropolitan Open Land, any landscape features, historic buildings, pedestrian access (see Policy DM TP 3 ■■ Small and Medium Housing Sites SPD possible visual impacts on the character and important structures and archaeological ‘EnhancingTransport Links’). Feb 2006 www.richmond.gov.uk/spd_ openness of the Metropolitan Open Land resources associated with the river and small_and_medium_housing_sites.pdf 3. New development and schemes improve will be taken into account. ensuring new development incorporates ■■ Design Guidelines Leaflets 3 and the safety and security of the pedestrian existing features; 4: House Extensions and External Policy DM OS 11 Thames Policy Area environment where appropriate. 6. protecting and improving existing access Alterations. Adopted Sept 2002. The special character of the Thames Policy points to the River Thames, its foreshore Policy DM TP 7 Cycling Reformatted with minor updates July Area (TPA), as identified on the Proposals and Thames Path, including paths, cycle 2005. Based on UDP policies www. To maintain and improve conditions for Map, will be protected and enhanced by: routes, facilities for launching boats, richmond.gov.uk/a4_houseext_design_ slipways, stairs etc. and encouraging cyclists, the Council will ensure that new web_adpt-2.pdf 1. ensuring development protects the development or schemes do not adversely opening up existing access points to the ■■ Design Guidelines leaflet 11: Shopfront individuality and character, including the public, both for pedestrians and boats; impact on the cycling network or cyclists views and vistas, of the river and the and provide appropriate cycle access and Security. First published 1997 and 7. requiring public access as part of new Reformatted with minor updates July identified individual reaches; developments alongside and to the River sufficient, secure cycle parking facilities, see Policy DM TP 3 ‘Enhancing Transport Links’ 2005. Based on UDP policies www. 2. discouraging land infill and development Thames, including for pedestrians, boats richmond.gov.uk/shopsfront_security.pdf which encroaches into the river and and cyclists, where appropriate; and Policy DM TP 8 ‘Off Street Parking - Retention and New Provision’. Also of relevance is the Council’s ‘Public its foreshore other than in exceptional 8. increasing access to and awareness Space Design Guide’ (Jan 2006). The overall circumstances, which may include where of the river including from the town Relevant SPDs/SPGs aim is to provide guidance to help deliver necessary for the construction of river centres. dependent structures such as bridges, ■■ Design Quality SPD Adopted Feb 2006 the goal of improved streetscene and public tunnels, jetties, piers, slipways etc.; Policy DM TP 6 Walking and the Pedestrian www.richmond.gov.uk/spd_design_ spaces. www.richmond.gov.uk/public_ 3. ensuring development establishes a Environment quality_doc_lowres-2.pdf space_design_guide relationship with the river and takes full To protect, maintain and improve the ■■ Front Gardens and other Off-street Thames Landscape Strategy (2012 advantage of its location, addressing the pedestrian environment, the Council will Parking Standards SPD Sept 2006 www. refresh). This can be viewed at www. river as a frontage, opening up views and ensure that:- richmond.gov.uk/spg_supplementary_ thameslandscape-strategy.org.uk access to it and taking account of the planning_guidance_draft_approved.pdf changed perspective with tides; 1. New development and schemes protect, ■■ Residential Development 4. encouraging development which includes maintain and, where appropriate, Standards March 2010 www. a mixture of uses, including uses which improve the existing pedestrian richmond.gov.uk/spd_residential_