HAMPTON

Draft Supplementary Planning Document I September 2016

Contents

1. Introduction 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context 3. Spatial Context 4. Vision for Hampton 5. Objectives 6. Character Area Assessments Character Area 1: Longford River Estates Character Area 2: Queenswood Avenue Estate and west of Hanworth Road Character Area 3: Gloucester Road and the Ormonds Character Area 4: Hampton Village Conservation Area Character Area 5: Hampton Court Green Conservation Area Character Area 6: Hampton Court Park Conservation Area CharacterArea 7: Platt’s Eyot Conservation Area Character Area 8: Hampton Waterworks Character Area 9: Oldfield Road Character Area 10: Priory Road West Character Area 11: Priory Road East and Surroundings Character Area 12: Oak Avenue Estates Character Area 13: Hanworth Road Conservation Area 7. Features and Materials 8. Guidance for Development Sites 9. Shop Front Guidance 10. Forecourt Parking 11. Flood Risk

Appendix 1: Relevant Policies and Guidance 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 the a series of smaller village areas. area, in light of existing and emerging Each village is distinctive in terms of Local Plan policy. The SPD intends the community, facilities and local character – as are many sub areas to define, maintain and enhance the within the villages. character of Hampton, and to provide guidance in this regard. The SPD forms The villages of the London Borough part of the wider Village Plan. Richmond upon Thames are attractive with many listed buildings By identifying key features of the village, and Conservation Areas, the local the SPD clarifies the most important character of each being unique, aspects and features that contribute to recognisable and important to the local character to guide those seeking community and to the aesthetic of to make changes to their properties or the borough as a whole. to develop new properties in the area, as well as being a material consideration in determining planning applications.

The core of this SPD is a series of character area assessments for the component areas of Hampton. 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 Hampton SPD Area Boundary description of the street pattern and housing types.

4 The boundary for the SPD is based on: Wider Context (Village Plans) ■■ a review of how each area’s design Village Plans have been developed for each characteristics can best be grouped; of Richmond’s 14 villages. Each Village Plan ■■ taking account of physical and describes a vision for the village area and administrative boundaries, including identifies what the Council will do and Conservation Area boundaries to avoid what local people can do to achieve the these being split between village areas; vision together. It sets out the key issues and and priorities and provides background ■■ how local communities viewed their local information on the village area. The Village areas when asked through the Council’s Plans are maintained on the Council’s 2010 ‘All-In-One’ survey and subsequent website and are updated as projects are consultations. progressed. They cover a wide range of topics, including matters not within the This SPD has been produced by the Council remit of the SPD. working closely with the community. This has ensured that local residents, businesses This Village Planning Guidance SPD forms Hampton residents walkabout - 7th February 2016 and stakeholders have been genuinely part of the Village Plan by providing a involved in defining the important features formal planning policy document which – as well as the opportunities and threats – can be used to guide new development that define their local area. that has responded to residents’ desire to The community has been involved through: have greater control and influence over planning and development decisions in their ■■ ‘Drop in sessions’ held at Tangley Park local area. The involvement of the local Children’s Centre on the 6th February community in the production of the SPD 2016 and at Hampton Infants School on has been essential in ensuring it is a genuine the 27th February reflection of residents’ priorities. ■■ Resident walkabouts held on the 7th and 28th February 2016 ■■ Online questionnaire consultation (from 5th February to 21st March 2016)

Hampton residents walkabout - 7th February 2016

5 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context

2.1 Planning Policy Framework must designate a Thames Policy Area in Local Plan took place from 8 July 2016 their Development Plan Documents. The until 19 August 2016. In line with national National Planning Policy boroughs must define the boundaries policy and guidance, the emerging Local The National Planning Policy Framework by taking into account proximity to the Plan will be given weight in the decision (NPPF) sets out the Government’s Thames, contiguous areas with clear making process according to its stage of planning policies for England and how visual links between areas and buildings preparation (i.e. the more advanced the these are expected to be applied. The and the river and specific geographical preparation, the greater the weight that NPPF is a key part of the Government’s features, areas and buildings which relate may be given). reforms to make the planning system or link to the Thames. The River Thames It is anticipated that the Local Plan will less complex and more accessible. The section of Hampton is designated in the reach the ‘Publication’ stage in late 2016, NPPF provides the context for local Thames Policy Area in the London Plan. at which point it is anticipated that the planning authorities and decision takers, Local Planning Policy policies and site allocations within the both when drawing up plans and making Local Plan will be adopted for use in decisions about planning applications. The London Borough of Richmond upon determining planning applications and It must be taken into account in the Thames current statutory planning policy development management purposes. preparation of local and neighbourhood framework is set out in adopted Plans plans, and is a material consideration in including the Core Strategy, adopted Once the Local Plan is adopted, which is planning decisions. in April 2009, and the Development anticipated to take place in spring 2018, Management Plan, adopted in November it will supersede all the existing policies Regional Planning Policy 2011. There is an online proposals in the Core Strategy and Development At a regional level, the London Plan is map and a range of guidance provided Management Plan. the overall strategic plan for London through Supplementary Planning Alongside adopted planning policies, setting out an integrated economic, Documents (SPDs) and Supplementary suitable references have been made environmental, transport and social Planning Guidance (SPG) for the area. to the equivalent policies in the Pre- framework for the development of This SPD forms part of the planning publication Local Plan. London over the next 20-25 years. This policy framework and should be read document has been adopted to ensure in conjunction with the Council’s Up-to-date information on the Council’s that a longer-term view of London’s suite of planning policy and guidance Local Plan can be viewed at http:// development is taken when producing as applicable. There is also a range of www.richmond. gov.uk/home/services/ local plans, making planning decisions and evidence base studies that the Council planning/planning_ policy/local_plan.htm. investing in infrastructure. has undertaken which help to guide policy making. Policy 7.29 in the London Plan refers to the Thames Policy Area stating that The Council is now progressing relevant boroughs, including Richmond, the Local Plan Review. The public consultation on the first draft of the

6 2.2 Key Planning Policies Within the Pre-publication Local Plan, the Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the character, appearance or significance of the equivalent policy is Policy LP 1. equivalent policy is Policy LP 25. area should be retained. SPDs cannot create new policies but expand on policies set out in higher plans, Whilst all adopted policies are applicable, CS Policy CP11 River Thames Corridor Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the notably the adopted Core Strategy (CS), those of particular relevance are: equivalent policy is Policy LP 3. The natural and built environment and Development Management Plan (DMP) and CS Policy CP7: Maintaining and Improving the the unique historic landscape of the River DMP Policy DM HD 2 Conservation of Listed Local Plan (LP), currently at pre-publication Local Environment Thames corridor within the Borough will be Buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments stage. protected and enhanced. All new development should recognise Preservation of Listed Buildings of special This SPD relates to a considerable number distinctive local character and contribute to Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the architectural or historic interest and of higher policies, notably: creating places of a high architectural and equivalent policy is Policy LP 18. Ancient Monuments and seek to ensure DMP Policy DM DC 1 Design Quality urban design quality that are well used and that they are kept in a good state of repair. valued. Proposals will have to illustrate that CS Policy CP13 Opportunities for All New development must be of a high Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the they: The Council will work with all relevant architectural and urban design quality equivalent policy is Policy LP 3. agencies to reduce disadvantage, particularly based on sustainable design principles. (i) are based on an analysis and in the most deprived areas of the Borough DMP Policy DM HD 3 Buildings of Townscape Development must be inclusive, respect understanding of the Borough’s and for disadvantaged individuals, and Merit local character including the nature of development patterns, features and ensure that a range of opportunities a particular road, and connect with, and views, public transport accessibility Preservation and enhancement of Buildings are provided that can be accessed by all contribute positively, to its surroundings and maintaining appropriate levels of of Townscape Merit. The Council will use residents. based on a thorough understanding of the amenity; its powers where possible to protect their site and its context. (ii) connect positively with their DMP Policy DM OS 1 Historic Parks, Gardens significance, character and setting. and Landscapes In assessing the design quality of a proposal surroundings to create safe and inclusive Within the Pre-publicationdraft of the Local the Council will have regard to the places through the use of good design Parks and gardens as well as landscapes Plan, the equivalent policy is Policy LP 4. following: principles including layout, form, of special historic interest included in the DMP Policy DM TP 9 Forecourt Parking scale, materials, natural surveillance Register compiled by English Heritage and ■■ compatibility with local character and orientation, and sustainable other historic parks, gardens and landscapes The parking of vehicles in existing front including relationship to existing construction. will be protected and enhanced. gardens will be discouraged, especially townscape Within the Pre-publicationdraft of the Local where: ■ frontages, scale, height, massing, Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the ■ Plan the equivalent policy is Policy LP 1. proportions and form equivalent policy is Policy LP 3. ■■ this would result in the removal of architectural features such as walls, gates ■■ sustainable development and adaptability, CS Policy CP8: Town and Local Centres DMP Policy DM HD 1 Conservation Areas – and paving, or of existing trees and other subject to aesthetic considerations designation, protection and enhancement Retail and town centre uses will be vegetation; ■■ layout and access supported providing that it is appropriate Buildings or parts of buildings, street ■■ where such parking would detract ■■ space between buildings and relationship to the role in the hierarchy of the centres, furniture, trees and other features which from the streetscape or setting of the to the public realm and respects the character, environment and make a positive contribution to the property; or ■■ detailing and materials historical interest of the area. 7 ■■ it has an impact on the surrounding It should be noted that all adopted policies 2.3 Planning Policy Aims of Metropolitan Open Land and Green environment both in terms of the loss of and guidance should be assessed for their Belt will be protected. This SPD reinforces the existing planning individual front gardens and in damaging relevance in respect of individual planning policy aims for Hampton, and draws on the ■■ The unique historical and cultural assets the unity and character of groups of applications, not just those referred to Pre Publication Local Plan. Planning policy that are connected by the River Thames, houses and the streetscape in general. above. seeks to achieve the following: such as Hampton Court Palace, will be Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the enhanced. ■ The distinctive local character of the equivalent policy is Policy LP 45. ■ area will be maintained and enhanced, ■■ Land will be protected for employment Policy DM OS 11 Thames Policy Area including Hampton’s listed buildings and use including Key Office Areas at Thames Conservation Areas. New development, Street, Kingsway Business Park, Castle The special character of the Thames Policy including associated open space and Business Village and Mount Mews. Area (TPA), as identified on the Proposals planting, will be of high quality design Kempton Gate Business Park, Kingsway Map, will be protected and enhanced which respects and enhances the Business Park and 74 Oldfield Road are by ensuring development establishes a distinctive local character. designated as locally important areas for relationship with the river and takes full industry and employment, and the loss advantage of its location. ■■ Local shopping areas at Hampton of river-related and river –dependent Village and Hampton Square will Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the employment, including at Platt’s Eyot, will continue to perform well and thrive, be resisted. equivalent policy is Policy LP 18. providing shopping and other services ■■ The impact of new development on Policy DM DC 7 Shop fronts and shop signs to meet local needs. Shopfronts, signs and advertisements will maintain local the transport network will be carefully The Council will resist the removal of shop character. considered, and appropriate provision fronts of architectural or historic interest. for parking, walking and cycling will be The Council will expect proposals for ■■ Facilities to meet community and social made. The impact of through traffic and new shop fronts or alterations to existing infrastructure needs will be sought, to congestion will be managed and reduced shop fronts to demonstrate a high quality help reduce inequality and support the where possible, and improvements of design, which complements the original local economy. to public transport will be sought in design, proportions, materials and detailing ■■ The loss of housing generally, and that partnership with organisations including of the shop front, surrounding streetscene which meets specific community needs, Transport for London. and the building of which it forms part. will be resisted, and new housing to ■■ Front garden parking will be resisted Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the meet local needs will be provided on unless there would be no harmful impact equivalent policy is Policy LP 1. appropriate sites. on the character of the area including ■■ Hampton’s parks and open spaces and the streetscape or setting of the A wider list of relevant policies can be the unique river environment will be property, as well as other considerations. found in Appendix 1. protected, and enhanced where possible, for wildlife and recreation, and the areas

8 3. Spatial Context

This section covers transport, green spaces, Facilities in Hampton Connectivity and accessibility Green Infrastructure shops and services which are an essential ■ The main retail frontages are close to ■ Hampton Station is located on Station ■ The Hampton area extends into Bushy part of the village’s character. These are ■ ■ ■ Hampton Station and along Ashley Road, Road and Ashley Road and close to Park and Hampton Court Park. detailed below and, together with its Oakfield Road and Station Road. Hampton Village Green. This Station historic assets, are mapped on the following ■ Hampton Village Green is a key supports National Rail services running ■ pages. ■ The area supports a number of community space in the heart of ■ into Richmond and into central London. supermarkets including two Sainsbury’s Hampton Village’s historic core. and a Waitrose. ■■ Bus routes through Hampton include ■ Hampton Common, Carlisle Park & the 111, 216 and R68. The R70 passes ■ ■ There are a number of state and private Hatherop Park are all significant local ■ through the north of the village. schools, including Hampton Junior green spaces. and Infants Schools, Carlisle School, ■■ Designated cycle routes can be found ■ An accessible walking route runs from Buckingham Primary School, Hampton along Old Farm Road to the north of ■ Hampton Common to Oak Avenue School and the Lady Eleanor Holles the area and within Bushy and Hampton Nature Reserve and Thames Water land School. Court Parks. towards Hatherop Park linking up these ■■ There are a range of medical facilities important green spaces. including Broad Lane Surgery and ■ Extensive green space along the River Hampton Medical Centre. ■ Thames and part of Portlane Brook to ■■ Hampton supports many businesses the west. including independent shops in Hampton ■ There are also a number of smaller Village, and across a number of business ■ green areas located within the built up parks including Kingsway Business Park area. and Castle Business Village.

9 Connectivity and Accessibility in Hampton

KEY

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Shooting Star Chase Children’s Hospice Hampton Academy & Hampton Sports Hampton School Centre

The Lady Eleanor Buckingham Holles School Primary School

Clarendon School The YMCA White House Carlisle Infant Jack and Jill School All Saints School Church

Hampton Medical Athelstan House Centre Denmead Prep School Percy Road School

Denmead Pre-Prep School Hampton Infant School and Nursery Hampton Methodist Catholic Church of St Church Theodore of Canterbury

Linden Hall Twickenham Prep School Hampton Junior School

St Mary’s Hampton CofE School Hampton Baptist Church Hampton Court House School Hampton Library St Mary’s Parish Church

Hampton Court Palace Hampton School

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11 Green Infrastructure in Hampton

Longford River

Hampton School Playing Common Fields

Major General William Roy Memorial

Oak Avenue Nursery Green Local Nature Reserve

Hatherop Park

Linear Walk

Carlisle Park

Hampton Village Hatherop Park Green Beveree Wildlife Site

Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare Hampton St Albans Court Park Riverside Thames Water Hampton Water Treatment Works

St Marys Church

Hampton Court Palace

Nursery Green

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SPDVillag Boundarye_Boundary Listed Buildings Buildings of Townscape Merit Borough Boundary Conservation Areas

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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 13 correct at the time of adoption of the SPD. For the most up to date information please see the Council’s website. 4. Vision for Hampton 5. Objectives

The Vision is to bring together the different areas of The Hampton Village Planning Guidance SPD has Hampton as a vibrant, caring community with facilities to been developed to meet the following objectives, which meet local needs. The characteristic local urban scale, correspond to those in the Council’s Design Quality SPD. and rural feel within its parks, green spaces and riverside, will be retained and there will be a more diverse range Identify local character – to identify Design Review – to provide a framework of shopping and high quality local schools to reinforce local character and historic assets for for the Council to use in reviewing the enhancement or protection. effectiveness of planning and public realm Hampton as a vibrant community within the Borough. decisions. Promote high standards of design – through high quality illustrative material and Local Policy Context – to identify Hampton - a Pen Portrait simple guidance and advice to local residents those statutory policies (Core Strategy and businesses. and Development Management Plan and The qualities of Hampton are unique within It is an attractive residential area with emerging Local Plan) which are essential the London Borough of Richmond, as it still substantial family homes as well as homes Development Management – to to addressing local issues and those in the retains a countryside atmosphere because for those who have retired. Its streets are set design guidelines for householders, emerging Local Plan. it is surrounded by substantial stretches of distinctive with wide grass verges and tree developers and the Council (in relation green belt, and two rivers, the Thames and lined avenues. to public realm) to encourage high quality the Longford. development and, if possible, avoid the need The area has a long Royal history with to refuse development proposals. The area known as Hampton is made up Hampton Court Palace and Bushy Park of a number of diverse areas; the chief of situated in the village area. From 1895 to Implementation of schemes – to these being the last major estate to be built, 1937 the area also had its own local Council provide advice for householders and called the Nurserylands, and historic Old (Hampton Urban District Council). businesses that will help them achieve Hampton, part of which is referred to as repairs and modernisation which respects Local green spaces, rivers, street trees Hampton village. local character and where possible restore and gardens and are highly valued by the original details which have been lost during The area has high quality amenities including community as contributing to the character earlier modifications. local retail units in Hampton village and a of the area. large community centre with a few shops and a public house within Hampton Square. It has a range of schools serving all ages

14 6. Character Area Assessments

The identification of local character is one of Character Area 1: Longford River Estates the primary objectives of the SPD. Character Area 2: Queenswood Avenue Estate and west of Hanworth Road 1 The character area assessments sub-divide the 13 village into a smaller set of sub areas, some of Character Area 3: Gloucester Road and the Ormonds which are further sub-divided. 2 Character Area 4: Hampton Village 12 Each area has been defined by grouping Conservation Area properties where a large proportion have Character Area 5: Hampton Court Green similar characteristics, features and materials. Conservation Area These have been identified and recorded. 10 11 3 Character Area 6: Hampton Court Park A number of the areas included within this Conservation Area section are adopted Conservation Areas. CharacterArea 7: Platt’s Eyot Conservation 9 More information regarding Conservation Area 4 Areas can be viewed at http://www.richmond. Character Area 8: Hampton Waterworks 8 gov.uk/home/services/planning/conservation_ Character Area 9: Oldfield Road 7 areas.htm Character Area 10: Priory Road West 5 Some areas are the subject of what is known Character Area 11: Priory Road East and as an Article 4 direction. These remove Surroundings 6 certain Permitted Development Rights from Character Area 12: Oak Avenue Estates properties. This means that if you want to Character Area 13: Hanworth Road extend or alter your home in a way that Conservation Area would normally be allowed under permitted development you will need to apply for planning permission to do so. The fact that Permitted Development Rights have been removed does not automatically mean that planning permission will not be granted, Character Area Plan but careful consideration will be given as 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

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15 Character Area 1: Longford River Estates

Character Summary This character area occupies the northern part of Further north along Uxbridge Road is a large Hampton. The housing estate marks the northern Sainsbury’s superstore and petrol station, leading boundary with Uxbridge Road (A312) to the to an increase of vehicular traffic in this area. At east, Hanworth Road to the west and Dean Road this point Uxbridge Road increases to two lanes of making up the boundary to the south. traffic in each direction. Rectory Grove Estates Dominant Materials and Features This housing estate located in the north part of Characteristic materials and features include: buff this character area is low rise; houses are two coloured brick, red brick, extensive fenestration, storeys. The majority of dwellings are built of a buff clay tiles, concrete paving stones, brick dwarf coloured brick or red brick, with weather boarding garden walls, concrete bollards, wooden garden or hung tiles at first floor level; roofs are pitched fencing, painted metal palisade fencing, black painted and covered with clay tiles. Plots have modest front fencing and metal work, metal single garage doors, gardens, many of which have been paved over to mature trees and hedges. provide car parking. There are some expanses of concrete paving stones on some corners of the Threats from Development meandering estate roads. Larger estate houses are ■■ Poor quality garaging and car parking areas. of similar style but with hipped roofs. The three storey red brick and copper clad block of flats ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and at the end of Rectory Grove is something of an replacement with different design/material anomaly in this area. This area also contains the (often to provide vehicular parking). This only traveller site in the Borough. undermines the residential character of the area. The bridge over Longford River offers picturesque ■■ The palisade fencing and high metal fencing views to pedestrians crossing the footbridge. promote segregation and gated communities. ■■ Buildings along Dean Road are less well- 1950s-60s Housing Estate Dean Road presented compared to those on Hanworth The housing estate on the east side of the river Road. dates from the 1950s–60s and includes Winifred Road, Longford Close and Ringwood Way. The Opportunities houses are semi-detached, red brick with discreet ■■ Improve area immediately around the bay windows and have hipped roofs covered in clay pedestrian bridge of Longford River; this is an tiles. They have a broad band of render between attractive stretch of river. ground floor and first floor windows which is painted white. Many of the properties retain their ■■ Replace extensive areas of paving with grass or dwarf garden walls, lending to the consistency of planting including tree planting. this area, however lots of the front gardens are ■■ Provide consistent green screen along the now paved to provide car parking. Many of the character area perimeter. window frames have been replaced with uPVC frames.

Rectory Grove Longford River

16 Character Area 1: Longford River Estates

17 Character Area 2: Queenswood Avenue Estate and west of Hanworth Road

Character Summary red brick two storey detached and semi-detached The extensive playing fields and grounds to these houses, of different dates, along Buckingham Road three schools provide a peaceful backdrop to the This character area incorporates Hampton Schools are afforded pleasant green views over Hampton houses in neighbouring areas. and Lady Eleanor Holles School to the north Common. While the area lacks a consistent style, east and is bordered by Buckingham, Acacia and the character of the area throughout is quiet and Dominant Materials and Features Nightingale Road to the south with Hanworth Road residential and there are no major traffic routes running through the heart of the area. Characteristic materials and features include: red through the area. brick walls, white painted render, self-coloured Queenswood Estate Hampton Schools pebble-dash, painted brick work, clay roof tiles, The Queenswood Estate comprises four three stock brick garden walls, timber garage doors, metal Hampton Academy has its main entrance on storey blocks of flats on a green with an open garage doors, concrete paving stones and tarmac Hanworth Road; this comprises red brick and setting that is well-maintained; they are a distinct paving. ashlar stone gate posts with green palisade fencing. feature of the area. The red brick blocks have The campus is made up of a mix of twentieth and Threats from Development pitched roofs covered with clay tiles and tall Queenswood Avenue twenty-first century buildings, relatively low-lying, chimney stacks, while each flat has a balcony ■■ Area facing Hampton Academy campus on Dean and of a variety of materials including, red brick, with white-painted metal railings. The estate is Road lacks distinctive character or ownership. white painted render with vertical wooden slats, and surrounded by a number of culs-de-sac with ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors yellow brick with red brick detailing. When viewed 1970s–90s housing, including detached, semi- with those of modern materials (uPVC) or from Hanworth Road these buildings are slightly detached, short terraces and bungalows. The style designs that do not follow the original glazing obscured by attractive mature hedges, although a and material of front garden walls are inconsistent pattern and opening style. large car park is visible through the palisade fencing. throughout this character area and where high The modern school buildings interact much more ■■ Mix of paving materials, often providing an boundary walls are used, this can produce a slightly directly with Dean Road but there is not enough uneven surface. hostile feeling. screening and this has a service-entrance feel. ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and Interwar Housing replacement with different design/material The neighbouring Hampton School campus (often to provide vehicular parking). This Housing throughout this area was developed at is also made up of a collection of twentieth undermines the quiet residential character of different stages. There are a number of interwar century buildings of a varying palette, although the area and regularity of the terraces, and houses on Acacia Road and Nightingale Road which predominantly red brick. Its main entrance is results in a loss of decorative detail. Hampton School appear quite substantial when compared to the similarly demarcated with red brick and ashlar stone ■■ Poorly maintained front garden walls. 1960s housing in the northern part of this character gate posts, and its car park along the Hanworth area. Until the 1960s there were still a number Road edge features a tall green metal fence. Towards ■■ Lack of street greening. of nurseries remaining in the area, but from the the centre of this campus are higher buildings which Opportunities: 1960s to 1990s the density of housing increased. are more visible as viewed from the public realm on For example, Hawthorn Close was developed in Hanworth Road. ■■ Increase number of green spaces throughout the late 1960s. This quiet cul-de-sac is lined with the area, e.g. excessive paving on Birchwood brick bungalows with pitched roofs; they have two The third school in this character area, The Lady Grove could be turfed and planted on. Increase large windows to the front with uPVC frames Eleanor Holles School, has an obvious main building; street greening, trees etc (although they only have small casement openings). this very long, two storey red brick building dates Each property has a detached single brick garage. from the 1930s. It also retains its original metal A large proportion of the front gardens have been signage above the gateway on Hanworth Road paved over to provide additional car parking. The which is an attractive contribution to the character area. Nightingale Road

18 Character Area 2: Queenswood Avenue Estate and west of Hanworth Road

19 Character Area 3: Gloucester Road and the Ormonds

Character Summary Ormond Avenue has a higher proportion of large, Opportunities detached houses, some of which are detailed This character area comprises two long, curving ■■ Maintain and improve front gardens. with applied timbering and bow fronts as well as streets that follow the railway, Gloucester Road retaining its mature street trees. ■■ This character area retains the characteristic and Ormond Drive, and a series of shorter streets interwar feature of pavements incorporating connected to them. The housing is mainly interwar, Manor Gardens is placed around a green with green verges and there are opportunities with much variation in design but many common mature trees and has an eclectic character due to to replace this where it has been lost (e.g. features for example, the roofs are almost entirely much variation in the housing. Gloucester Road, Ormond Drive and Ormond formed of clay tiles. An important feature is Carlisle Crescent). Park, which is poorly connected to the surrounding On Scott’s Drive mid twentieth century detached streets despite its considerable size; there are housing is evident, in red brick with hung tiles. There several entrances, including from Wensleydale Road is a coherent character arising from the matching and Carlisle Road. houses and the front gardens, which have brick- paved driveways alternating with areas of lawn. Gloucester Road Gloucester Road The housing is a mix of detached and semi- Dominant Materials and Features detached properties, with small clusters of matching Characteristic features and materials include: red designs but much variation overall, lending a note brick, render, stock brick, hipped roofs covered of informality. The road also supports a number of with clay tiles, slate roof covering, applied timbering, traditional bungalows, which add to the variety and bow fronts, chimneys, timber casements, uPVC quality of buildings on the road. The most common casements, dwarf red brick front gardens walls, materials are red brick and pebble-dash, the latter mature garden planting and street trees. sometimes painted. The housing is slightly more distinctive (and earlier in date) toward the north Threats from Development end of Gloucester Road, displaying features such as openwork timber porches and render atop ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors windows. There is a higher concentration of gabled with those of modern materials (uPVC) or fronts on Gloucester Road and also Ormond designs that do not follow the original glazing pattern and opening style. Avenue than on the other streets. The north end Gloucester Road of Gloucester Road retains mature street trees ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and and the other streets are planted with younger replacement with different design/material specimens. (often to provide vehicular parking). This undermines the residential character of the area The Ormonds and regularity of the terraces, and results in a loss of decorative detail. Cardinal’s Walk retains the feature of a pavement ■■ Roof lights on front roof slopes which interrupt edged with a grass verge incorporating trees at the regularity of the terraces. intervals which adds to its character. This feature once also existed on Gloucester Road, Ormond Drive and Ormond Crescent, as indicated by the tarmac verge to the pavements there.

Ormond Crescent

20 Character Area 3: Gloucester Road and the Ormonds

21 Character Area 4: Hampton Village Conservation Area

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 between Plevna Road and Belgrade Road. It also contains a number of shops whose frontages are Hampton Village Conservation Area is situated on worthy of retention. the junction of the road from Sunbury to Kingston with the road leading north to Twickenham following The filter beds between Station Road and Sunbury the west boundary of Bushy Park. The River Thames Road are currently screened from view by forms a barrier to the south and Bushy Park has unattractive concrete fencing, yet at the same time similarly restricted growth to the east. The Hampton create an impression of open space. A large group Village Conservation Area was designated in 1969 of nineteenth century unaltered properties between and was further extended in 1982 and 1991. It Rosehill and Beard’s Hill is an early example of local adjoins Hampton Court Green and Bushy Park authority housing. Oldfield Road contains several Conservation Areas to the east. late nineteenth century houses with stucco features. Single storey War Memorial cottages stand in a key The Conservation Area contains four distinct position on the bend of this road. sub-areas: the old Village Core, Station Road, the riverside and the Waterworks. The Riverside The Village Core Hampton stands on the north bank of a bend in the River and has always been closely associated The Village Core is centred on Church Street, High with the River since its days as a trading post. Street and Thames Street, and this area contains a Development had previously flourished in small major part of the early development of Hampton. industrial and commercial premises accessed from Although maintaining its village character, Hampton Thames Street off alleyways leading to the River and lacks a strong and accessible focus due to the above the river frontage; representing a tight knit nature of the A308 road. Thames Street acts as a pattern of development. further division between the River and the village. Station Road High Street and Church Street contain many listed Downstream, the open ground of both public buildings, some behind high boundary walls; others and private gardens along the River provides an in the centre of Hampton stand to the back of the important setting for Garrick’s Villa, Garrick’s pavement. The junction of these two roads now acts Temple and the central feature of the square, St as the village centre. Mary’s Church Tower. Riverside gardens exist from Benn’s Alley and Garrick’s Lawn which extends Station Road public access to the riverside. Terrace Gardens Station Road is composed of eighteenth and forms a linear park bordering the River Thames. nineteenth century mixed residential and Boat building and storage continue on the river at commercial properties and lies adjacent to the Constable’s Boatyard. railway station. It contains shopping, commercial and community services in a clearly defined local centre

Gander Green Crescent Station Close

22 Character Area 4: Hampton Village Conservation Area

23 Upper Sunbury Road and Waterworks ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of street furniture and paving. Hampton Waterworks stand at the entrance to Hampton Village both by the River and from ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian Sunbury Road. It features several mid-Victorian safety leading to clutter of signage and street gault brick pumping houses situated behind iron furniture. railings and perimeter planting, acting as local ■■ Loss of original or quality shopfronts and landmarks and contributing to the character of insensitive alterations and advertisement. Hampton. A number of these are listed buildings which were originally engine pump houses. Opportunities

Opposite the original Waterworks building stands ■■ Improvement and protection of river and Hampton Library, a distinctive Victorian three landscape setting. storey building which has retained many original features including white painted string courses ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement and six of six sash windows. The building is set of architectural quality and unity. in an attractive landscaped setting framed by the ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments topography of the area. and discourage increase in the amount of hard surfacing in front gardens. Dominant materials and features ■■ Coordination of colour and design and Characteristic materials and features include: mixed improvement in quality of street furniture and residential and commercial properties, consisting paving. of terraces, large detached and semi-detached ■ Improvement of highways conditions, pedestrian townhouses, listed buildings lying adjacent to the ■ convenience and rationalisation of existing River, historic architecture reflecting the form signage and street furniture. of Hampton Court Palace, St Mary’s Church and Hampton Waterworks. ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shopfronts and advertisements. Threats from Development Conservation Area Statement: http://www. ■ Development pressure which may harm the ■ richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ balance of the River and landscape-dominated conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. setting, and the obstruction or spoiling of views, htm skylines and landmarks. ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. materials due to unsympathetic alterations. gov.uk/hamptonvillagestudy.pdf ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front gardens for car parking.

24 25 Character Area 5: Hampton Court Green Conservation Area

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 Hampton Court Bridge and Hampton Court Road. ■■ Coordination of colour and design and These buildings provided accommodation for court improvement in quality of street furniture and Hampton Court Green Conservation Area is a officials from the late seventeenth century. The paving. linear area situated along approach and perimeter adjacent Hampton Court Bridge (Grade II listed) roads to Hampton Court Palace. It is contained by ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and provides panoramic views towards the palace. Hampton Village, Hampton Wick, Hampton Court pedestrian convenience, and rationalisation of Park and Bushy Park Conservation Areas. existing signage and street furniture. Dominant Materials and features Hampton Court Green, located in front of Characteristic features and materials include: long Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Hampton Court Palace is often used for festivals garden frontages, mixture of brick boundary walls, richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ Hampton Court Road and funfairs, overflow car parking for Palace visitors railings and gates. conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. and during events such as Hampton Court flower htm show. Threats from Development Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. Hampton Court House, an eighteenth century ■■ Development pressure which may harm the gov.uk/hampton_crt_green.jpg building, lies north of the green and includes a balance of the River and landscape-dominated historic garden which is now included by Historic setting, and the obstruction or spoiling of views, England in the register of Historic Parks and skylines and landmarks. Gardens of Special Interest. ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and materials due to unsympathetic alterations. The area has a historic landscape and is recognised for its built environment of architectural and ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front historic importance, including the Old Court gardens for car parking. House, the Royal Mews, and the adjoining barn. The ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of street Conservation Area is bisected by the A308 which is furniture and paving. Hampton Court Road an increasingly busy road that serves to isolate the ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian Palace from its immediate surroundings. safety leading to clutter of signage and street The ribbon development of Hampton Court Road furniture. is mainly residential but sporadic development ■■ Loss of greenery and mature trees gives way to more intensely developed commercial frontages in the vicinity of the Palace, increasing Opportunities the feeling of activity. The scale, however, remains ■■ Improvement and protection of river and strictly domestic. landscape setting. A large number of buildings along Hampton Court ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement Road are listed. The most important group of of architectural quality and unity. buildings lies at the junction of the approach to ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments.

Hampton Court Green

26 Character Area 5: Hampton Court Green Conservation Area

27 Character Area 6: Hampton Court Park Conservation Area

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 Vistas framed by these avenues extend beyond the Threats from Development confines of the park and contribute also to the Hampton Court Park Conservation Area is situated ■■ Development pressure which may harm the setting of the palace. on the north bank of the River Thames, to the balance of the river and landscape-dominated south of Bushy Park and the east of Hampton The Barge Walk towpath from Kingston Bridge to setting, and the obstruction or spoiling of views, Court Palace. Hampton Court Bridge outside the walls of the skylines and landmarks. park offers an uninterrupted riverside walk of great ■■ Loss of mature trees. Hampton Court Palace is a scheduled Ancient quality. Three unaltered walled paddocks survive Monument and a listed Grade I building. The Palace adjacent to Hampton Court Road as a relic of the Opportunities and the line of the Longford River are noted as The Ice House, Hampton Court Park recreational pursuit of the monarch. being of archaeological potential. The main focus ■■ Improvement and protection of river and landscape setting. of the Palace Gardens lies east of the Palace The three main buildings of historic interest in the beyond the Broad Walk to the Fountain Garden Park are Stud House and The Pavillion (private Conservation Area Statement: http://www. surrounded by a semi-circle of lime trees. residences) and the Ice House near Hampton richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ Wick Gate which is also not open to the public. Hampton Court Park (often referred to as Home conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. The historic boundary walls and railings to the Park) is a public open space covering 705 acres. The htm park are also of historic significance and provide park is of national and international importance containment and enclosure to the open space, as a historic area of parkland and its setting to and heightens its significance and the pleasure Hampton Court Palace. of glimpsed views. From outside the park these Hampton Court Park is a well-defined and walls also provide a continuous and defining local extensive area of open space with a distinct physical reference. identity, contained by the River and Hampton A golf course occupies a large area in the south of Court Road. In September 2014 part of the park Hampton Court Park the Park, but is not physically enclosed and merges was designated a biological Site of Special Scientific with the Park. The Park also has a herd of around Interest (SSSI) due to its internationally significant 300 fallow deer which are important in maintaining populations of rare insects, the exceptionally large the Park’s grasslands, including one of its key numbers of ancient and veteran trees growing on ecological features, acid grassland. Each summer, the site, and the presence of extensive areas of around 24 acres of the Park are occupied by the special grassland habitat. Hampton Court Flower Show. The informal landscape of the park is overlain with the discipline of three radiating avenues with the Dominant Materials and Features central avenue bordering the Long Water Avenue Characteristic materials and features include: which were restored in a conservation project historic boundary walls and railings (listed Grade circa 1987. All three avenues are linked by a fourth II), Tudor brickwork (red brick). completing a vast equilateral triangle of trees.

The Stud House, Hampton Court Park

28 Character Area 6: Hampton Court Park Conservation Area

29 Character Area 7: Platt’s Eyot Conservation Area

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 area to the extreme west is heavily wooded Conservation Area Statement: http://www. and offers steep banks providing a refuge for richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ Platt’s Eyot Conservation Area is an island in the wildlife. As part of the River Thames and Islands conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. River Thames situated to the south of Hampton Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature htm Waterworks and Hampton Village and only Conservation the site is recognised as forming a accessible by bridge from the northern Hampton vital corridor of habitat spanning the Capital. The Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. bank. The Eyot contributes to the special character area to the west of the Conservation Area is also gov.uk/plattseyotstudy58.pdf of the area, derived from its river related industrial included within the Green Belt. activities.

The site is of industrial use and mainly consists of Threats from Development Platts Eyot storage, office space and moorings. The site offers ■■ Development pressure, particularly for an unusual nature and character with two very excessive residential development, which may different distinctive areas with a steep wooded harm the informal character of the island and boundary rising up to a plateau in the west, and the balance of the river landscape-dominated sloping down to the river slipways and boatyard in setting. the east. ■■ Decline in the mixed use and vitality of the The east of the area houses a key group of island’s character. industrial buildings including the three remaining ■■ Poor condition of historic buildings and the listed boathouses, the Edwardian brick built Tagg’s loss of traditional architectural features, House offices and ancillary structures such as the materials and industrial heritage features due to former alternator house and working cranes, which unsympathetic alterations. all contribute to the very individual character of this island. The distinctive wooden former canteen Opportunities View from Platt’s Eyot across the River Thames building at the eastern prow of the island and ■■ Improvement and protection of river and suspension bridge are both landmark structures on landscape setting. the river. The presence and activity of river craft to the east of the island makes it a lot less peaceful ■■ Retain the mixed use and vitality of the island’s than the more natural west. economy. ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement The western area of the island offers a sharp of historic buildings and features, architectural contrast between the modern and functional quality and unity. industrial character of the low rise units located in central plateau of the island and the more private ■■ Areas identified for environmental and overgrown area to the extreme west. improvement include: Environs of Tagg’s House and Boatyard, Hampton Bank Car Park.

Platts Eyot

30 Character Area 7: Platt’s Eyot Conservation Area

31 Character Area 8: Hampton Waterworks

Character Summary Threats from Development This character area borders the River Thames ■■ Despite the green, open aspect of much of the and is situated to the south west of the Hampton area there is a proliferation of fencing which Conservation Area. It extends west up to not only restricts movement but is often the boundary with Surrey. This area is largely visually obtrusive as well. undeveloped and includes the extensive site of the ■■ Development which harms and diminishes the Hampton Waterworks. industrial character of the buildings. The Hampton Waterworks presents an impressive Opportunities sequence of historic pump houses, arranged in regular intervals along Upper Sunbury Road. The ■■ There is an opportunity to enhance the Waterworks is still in use and the large reservoirs character of the area by removing or and filter beds that stretch down to the River redesigning fencing to improve accessibility Thames are fenced off yet visible from the main and visual appearance. (NB. the historic railings roads, presenting an open aspect that contrasts near to the listed pump houses already make a with the built-up areas to the north. There is also positive contribution to the character.) a row of detached houses set in their own gardens ■■ The historic Hampton Waterworks is a to the west of the reservoirs which front onto remarkable site but only the pump houses are the River Thames; these have pitched roofs and protected by designation (Grade II) and there is traditional detailing. therefore an opportunity to consider whether The Waterworks site is bounded by the busy some of the open areas, reservoirs and filter Upper Sunbury Road (A308) where fast moving beds for instance also warrant some kind of traffic dominates the environment. Further north, designation for their historic interest and open there is very little through traffic and the character aspect. is more rural and quieter. The north west corner of the character area includes the green space of Hydes Field (it extends over the Surrey border where there is a reservoir). It is characterised by Hampton Waterworks thick woodland, but with clearings for recreational facilities including a football pitch and rifle club. However, the woods are not accessible from Oldfield Road due to a continuous line of fencing. Dominant Materials and Features Characteristic features and materials include: reservoirs, mature trees, metal fences, stock brick, red brick, render and clay tiled or slate roofs.

Thames Water Hampton Waterworks Upper Sunbury Road

32 Character Area 8: Hampton Waterworks

33 Character Area 9: Oldfield Road

Character Summary Dominant Materials and Features This character area is north of Upper Sunbury Characteristic features and materials include: red Road (A308), east of Oldfield Road, west of Percy brick, stock brick, pebble-dash, render, hung tiles, Road and south of the railway line. The railway hipped roofs with clay tiles, chimneys, timber and the busy A308 act as barriers to movement casements, uPVC casements, public lawns with and consequently the rest of the area is relatively flower beds, street trees and metal fences. quiet with little through traffic. The character of the urban form is very mixed due to a combination of Threats from Development housing and business uses. ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors with those of modern materials (uPVC) or Estate Core designs that do not follow the original glazing The core of the area is a quiet residential estate pattern and opening style. dating from the mid-twentieth century, clustered ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and around Lacey Drive, Mason Close and Hammond replacement with different design/material Close. The short terraces are generally one or two (often to provide vehicular parking). This storeys in height and characterised by traditional undermines the residential character of the materials, particularly red brick and hung tiles, with area and regularity of the terraces, and results pitched tiled roofs. They are set in generous public in a loss of decorative detail. lawns that are well kept and incorporate flower ■■ Parts of the area, such as the west end of beds and trees. Oldfield Road, retain a semi-rural character that Percy Road in places is compromised by large buildings that have not been designed to complement this Outside the estate core the character changes. character. There are rows of interwar semi-detached houses on Percy Roads with features like bow-fronts, Opportunities timbered gable and oriel windows, finished in red ■■ Maintain and improve front gardens and brick, pebble-dash or render and clay tile roofs. boundary treatments. Oldfield Road Oldfield Road ■■ Toward the east end of Oldfield Road there is an opportunity to enhance the semi-rural As with Percy Road, the eastern end of Oldfield character by removing or redesigning fencing to Road contains a number of distinct interwar improve accessibility and visual appearance. semi-detached houses. Further west is St Mary’s Hampton Primary School, set in playing fields with mature trees. To the north there are business parks on Oldfield Road characterised by large sheds set in areas of car parking. This is a quieter area with very little through traffic, but with much boundary fencing which detracts from the abundant greenery. There are also large buildings at the east end of Oldfield Road including a supermarket in stock brick with pitched roofs set in a car park. Oldfield Road Percy Road

34 Character Area 9: Oldfield Road

35 Character Area 10: Priory Road West

Character Summary Dominant Materials and Features This character area is south of Broad Lane and north Characteristic features and materials include: red of the railway line, with green space and allotments to brick, pebble-dashing, render, stock brick, hipped roofs the west and Percy Road to the east. This character covered with clay tiles, slate roof covering, chimneys, area has quite a consistent character that comes from timber casements, chimneys, uPVC casements, the high concentration of interwar houses, mostly dwarf front gardens walls in red brick, pebble-dash semi-detached and with pitched roofs and other or timber picket fences, mature garden planting, traditional details, arranged around cul-de-sac and pavements with planted verges and street trees. short, straight streets. Threats from Development Many of the houses have facades of pebble-dash but ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors with these are nearly all now over painted, generally in those of modern materials (uPVC) or designs off-white colours (Hill Field Road, Bloxham Crescent, that do not follow the original glazing pattern and Wembley Road, Priory Road and Broom Road). Front opening style. garden boundary treatments were originally timber picket fences, again lending some uniformity, though ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and some have been replaced in brick. Houses invariably replacement with different design/material (often have pitched roofs with slates or tiles and clay to provide vehicular parking). This undermines the chimneypots. residential character of the area and regularity of the streets, and results in a loss of decorative Despite the consistency of character there is some detail. variation from street to street, with some houses ■■ Rooflights on front roof slopes which interrupt in red brick with render to the upper floor (Cleve’s the regularity of the terraces. Way and Westbrooke Avenue) or red brick with hung tiles (Priory Gardens). Those on Lawrence Road have Opportunities bow-fronted gables and distinctive undulating pebble- ■■ Maintain and improve front gardens. dash dwarf walls to the front gardens, only some of which now remain. Likewise, Cambridge Road, which ■■ On streets laid out with a consistent front garden has pebble-dashed houses, is made distinctive by boundary treatment (e.g. picket fences, dwarf Holly Bush Lane the surviving front garden brick dwarf walls with a walls with a stepped or undulating profile, or stepped profile. other) there are opportunities to reinstate the original treatment where it has been altered. Owing to its length, Hatherop Road has a variety of ■■ This character area retains the characteristic these house types. Its most characteristic feature is interwar feature of pavements incorporating the grass verge incorporated into the pavement with green verges and there are opportunities to trees at intervals, a feature also found on Bloxham replace this where it has been lost (e.g. Priory Crescent, Falcon Road and Holly Bush Lane, but in Road and Cambridge Road) and improve other other places it has been removed and replaced with a poor quality pavements (e.g. Westbrook Avenue). tarmac strip (e.g. Priory Road and Cambridge Road).

Hatherop Road Holly Bush Lane

36 Character Area 10: Priory Road West

37 Character Area 11: Priory Road East and Surroundings

Character Summary The south end of Nightingale Road features late- (often to provide vehicular parking). This nineteenth century semi-detached houses. These undermines the quiet residential character of This character area is in the centre of Hampton. are built from stock brick, and are two bays wide the area and regularity of the terraces, and It is bounded by Old Farm Road and part of with a bay window at ground floor, they have sash results in a loss of decorative detail. Acacia Road to the north, Wensleydale Road and windows, hipped roofs and long thin chimney stacks. Nightingale Road to the east and Percy Road and They have attractive front gardens and uniform Opportunities Oak Avenue to the west, stretching down to Upper garden walls. Sunbury Road (A308). This area includes Hampton ■■ Preserve the character and appearance of: Railway Station, around which there is a tighter Wensleydale Road supports an array of attractive ■■ Late nineteenth century houses at the urban grain. Percy Road is the main north to south buildings from the Victorian, Edwardian and interwar southern end of Nightingale Road route through the area where Hampton Junior periods, all set in large plots. The streets character ■■ The four large houses on Priory Road, School, built in the Queen Anne Revival style, is the is enhanced by distinctive plane trees running the between Percy Road and Chestnut Avenue. focal point along this road. length of the road. ■■ Maintain and enhance small parades of shops. In general the area is characterised by regularly Around the railway station is a small commercial ■■ Improve paving and pedestrian safety and arranged residential streets in generous plots and a hub (including a couple of interwar shopping circulation around the parades of shops on Priory Road number of local shopping parades. The predominant parades). Pedestrian and vehicular traffic is Station Approach, the end of Mitton Road and periods of housing are stretches of interwar along concentrated in this area. Some of the properties the end of Wensleydale Road. the streets bordering this character area (e.g. in the area around Station Approach are not well ■■ The development of Crossrail 2 will provide Wensleydale Road was laid out by 1915 but the maintained and distract from the welcoming, additional opportunities to appropriately housing is interwar) and within the area, including residential character and appearance of the rest of enhance features in and around Hampton late-Victorian/Edwardian architectural styles. this area. Station. The start of Priory Road is marked by a group of Dominant Materials and Features four large houses built in the Queen Anne Revival style, dating from the Edwardian period. These Characteristic materials and features include: red houses are formed of stock brick with red brick brick walls, self-coloured render, clay roof tiles, dressing on the corners and around the window stock brick garden walls, concrete paving stones, openings, porches and half hipped roofs with tarmac paving, plane trees, mature deciduous trees and hedges. gablets and gables are evident, both covered in clay Nightingale Road roof tiles. The hips and ridges have clay two-hole Threats from Development decorative ridge tiles and finials; these elements are duplicated on other houses along the road. ■■ Replacement of historic windows and doors These houses have attractive, well-tended front with those of modern materials (uPVC) or gardens. At the opposite end of Priory Road are designs that do not follow the original glazing Edwardian terraced cottages, which continue along pattern and opening style. e.g. modern windows neighbouring streets. These two storey houses are with thick glazing bars on the late-nineteenth built from stock brick with red brick dressings and century houses on Nightingale Road. slate-covered pitched roofs. Each has a small porch, ■■ Mix of paving surface materials detract from and canted bay window with slate roof. Opposite well-maintained and presented houses. sits a small, attractive parade of shops which further ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and adds to the character of this area. replacement with different design/material

Wensleydale Road

38 Character Area 11: Priory Road East and Surroundings

39 Character Area 12: Oak Avenue Estates

Character Summary information signs produced by the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. This character area occupies the north west part of Hampton. Buckingham Road runs along the eastern Dominant Materials and Features boundary of the area, The Avenue is to the south, and the area’s western boundary is marked by open Characteristic materials and features include: stock green space including Twickenham Rugby Football brick, red brick, clay roof tiles, concrete paving Club. The area is characterised by relatively dense stones, concrete paving, cycle lanes, green spaces housing but also has a good distribution of green including large common and smaller curb-side plots. space and trees throughout. Threats from Development Oak Avenue is the main route through the area, ■■ Cluttering of street furniture in the housing running in a north to south direction, branching estate. from which are small quiet residential access roads ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and and culs-de-sac lined with grass verges, trees and replacement with different design/material hedges. These are in turn connected by a network (often to provide vehicular parking). This of passages and cycle routes. Generally the houses undermines the quiet residential character of are detached and formed of two storeys, built in the area and regularity of the terraces, and stock brick (often with the use of stained weather results in a loss of decorative detail. boarding on the upper storey) and have pitched roofs covered with clay tiles, windows are uPVC Opportunities casements; often with a smaller window with ■■ Continue the use and maintenance of the frosted glazing for the bathroom. The designs of Hampton Common asset. houses are consistent along a cul-de-sac but there is slight variation in style throughout the estate. The ■■ Street signs could be upgraded. whole area retains the same quiet, family-orientated character. The houses along Oak Avenue are generally larger and of more individual styles.

Hampton Square, located off The Avenue supports Fearnleigh Cresent an array of community facilities including, Hampton Youth Project and Tangley Park Children’s Centre. These are in the same part as Sainsbury’s supermarket, lending a busier atmosphere to this otherwise quiet character area. The large Hampton Common was developed from former nursery land and lends a rural character to the area and the whole area is often referred to as Nurserylands. There are a number of smaller public green spaces scattered throughout this area; several are accompanied by attractive black name and

Briar Close Victors Drive

40 Character Area 12: Oak Avenue Estates

41 Character Area 13: Hanworth Road Conservation Area

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 included for their group value the combined effect of their modest height and mature gardens (spanning This Conservation Area is a residential area situated across the two roads) complementing the open along a main thoroughfare running north west / spaces in Buckingham Road. south east and linking this Borough with Hounslow to the west and acting as a gateway to the Borough Properties in Regency Close cul-de-sac and of the from this direction. west side of Hanworth Road in the north of the Conservation Area are terraced with the majority To the west of Hanworth Road this area is painted white on the exterior. dominated by large detached properties dating from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth Dominant Materials and Features century, with extensive mature gardens and trees to front and rear. Gaps between the villas allow ■■ Larger detached properties on the west side of for important views of the backdrop of trees from Hanworth Road - Red brick (some properties Hanworth Road. have their brickwork painted), gables, fretted bargeboards, chimneys, two storey or single The majority of older buildings are designated as storey bays, stone quoins, mullions, panels, Buildings of Townscape Merit. Although there has brackets and lintels, and recessed or projecting been much subsequent development in Hanworth porches. Road, this group to the west retains a distinctive ■■ Smaller terraced houses to the north west end character which arises both from its architecture of Hanworth Road - Stock brick with red brick and the mature gardens. The larger villas are all of window and door arches with slate roof and end different designs but have a number of similarities in gabled and brick stacks, hipped gables roofs and materials and detailing with some retaining original stacks. door and windows. Properties to the west of Regency Close Hanworth Road have notably larger front gardens. Threats from Development Smaller terraced houses are located on both sides ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and of the north west end of Hanworth Road. These materials due to unsympathetic alterations. are of a simple, well-proportioned design with most retaining original joinery. Those on the west side of Opportunities Hanworth road are late Victorian with those on the ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement of east side dated earlier and paired off in three and architectural quality and unity. two units. Conservation Area Statement: http://www.richmond. At the apex of the triangle formed by Hanworth gov.uk/home/services/planning/conservation_areas/ Road and Buckingham Road there are three conservation_area_statements.htm bungalows fronting onto Buckingham Road. These are

Hanworth Road Hanworth Road

42 Character Area 13: Hanworth Road Conservation Area

43 7. Features and Materials

The architectural features and palette of Materials Features Victorian: The Victorian period (1837- materials used in the construction and 1901) saw an explosion of different styles Hampton includes a wide variety of historic Georgian: The term ‘Georgian’ usually decoration of buildings are a large part and technological innovation. House building buildings that define the character of the covers buildings constructed between 1714 of what makes up the character of an increased at a great rate to deal with the surge area, but mostly from the late nineteenth and and 1837, during which time there were area. They vary depending on when and in population. The terraced house continued twentieth century. The area utilises a palette numerous stylistic developments. As a general where a building was constructed. Even as the most popular and proliferate form of of similar materials predominated in house rule however houses conform to a Classically- for buildings of the same period, subtle housing but mansion blocks of flats became building. derived idea of proportion which dictated how differences in construction materials can increasingly common in London through the an elevation should be arranged. be what distinguish buildings in one part Using the correct materials (such as stock nineteenth century for all classes of people. of the country from another, contributing and red brick, clay tiles, slate and timber) The most important floor, with the grandest Whilst Classicism retained a strong foothold to local distinctiveness. is important for any repairs, alterations or rooms, was the first floor (the piano nobile) through Queen Victoria’s reign and the simple, extensions to existing buildings but also should which externally was expressed with the tallest brick terraced house persisted, particularly as be a consideration for any new development windows. The height of the windows decreases the most basic form of housing, the Gothic if it is to respect the context and character of from the first floor to the top of the house. In Revival is most commonly associated with this the area. This is also important as traditional the early eighteenth century the construction of period and was popular as a way of enlivening materials allow a building to ‘breathe’ (allow air the terrace house as we know it today became houses. to circulate and the materials to both absorb widespread through London. Houses were flat- Brick was still the basic load-bearing material water when it rains and subsequently dry out). fronted (rather than jettied), constructed from for most buildings during this period though brick, with the main decorative emphasis on Using modern, impervious materials can trap decorative coloured detailing became more the front door and windows (see subsection on water and cause damp. Sourcing materials is popular. Renders and ornament (the latter windows). very important, and it is always advisable to ask usually made from artificial stone) also become for samples that you can look at on site and Later in the eighteenth and early nineteenth more widespread. The Borough hosts a wide compare with the palette of existing materials. century, render and stucco painted in imitation array of quality Victorian housing of all scales, In the context of historic buildings it is useful to of stone was commonly applied to the exterior styles and forms, from terraced mews to large look at the directory of specialist professionals or part of the exterior of houses. With the detached villas. on www.buildingconservation.com innovation of Coade Stone in the second half A number of roads supporting tight Victorian of the eighteenth century decorative elements terraces can be found around Station Road, around doors and windows became more including Station Road itself, Avenue Road and common. Plevna Road. Larger terraced and semi-detached Examples in this part of London are limited, properties can be found on Belgrade Road and with Garrick Villa’s in Hampton Village Oldfield Road to the south of Hampton Station. Conservation Area being one of the primary Buildings from this period are also present on examples. roads to the north of the Station with buildings on Nightingale Road, Percy and Malvern Road.

44 VICTORIAN EDWARDIAN

Classical mouldings Timber console Stock brick Slate roof Clay chimneypots Slate roofs in Stucco brackets Ridge tiles

Timber sash windows

Fine brickwork

Sheltered entry

Stained glass

Panelled and glazed door Cast iron canopy with copper Brick low boundary wall Modern extension with Bay window Coping stone roof and timber valance with coping detail similar detailing

45 7. Features and Materials (continued)

Edwardian and Late Victorian: The Interwar housing: Interwar housing can Contemporary: There is a variety of Edwardian period was a high point in be found across the Borough. The vernacular more modern development across the traditional construction and late-Victorian semi-detached houses that became popular area, including some infill and some more architecture is often indistinguishable from pre-WWI became regularised into the substantial estates. Recent development less that of this period. The architecture of this standardised designs of the ‘Mock-Tudor rigorously conforms to a particular style or period confidently mixes features from semi’ but has many forms due to the variety ethos. Higher density developments are more numerous styles. of construction through this period. common as the pressure on land is greater. The work of Norman Shaw and the Arts Much of Hampton, particularly the south, is The northern part of Hampton has more and Crafts movement had a profound effect defined by housing from this period, including contemporary development from the 1980s on house-design that was to dominate for many fine examples along Gloucester Road onward, with a number of estates emerging decades to come with features of vernacular and Wensleydale Road. Housing built later in across the suburban area during the late architecture becoming much more common. this period can be found towards the west twentieth century, this includes Fearnleigh and northern areas of Hampton, particularly Crescent, which has been built out over a These properties are not commonly found along Hatherop Road, Broad Lane, Holly Bush number of decades resulting in an eclectic across all of Hampton but there are a range Road and Priory Road. mix of styles, and Partridge and Gresham of high quality examples, the western side Road to the south of The Avenue. Chestnut Road hosts a number of attractive Post war (1960s and 1970s): A radical red brick Late Victorian/Edwardian properties shift away from the traditional styles of the Hampton Village Green and the associated set in large plots, all with symmetrical past century occurred with modernism and redevelopment of the area to the south, detailing. a new attitude to architecture and place- forming around Gander Green Crescent making. Blocks of flats were seen as the ideal and Harvey Drive, are two to three storey Other examples can be found on Gloucester solution to increasing density, though the semi-detached properties of contemporary Road, Wensleydale Road, Ormond Road and regular terraced house and low rise blocks of build which intend to replicate the Victorian Ormond Avenue. flats and maisonettes persisted. and Edwardian features with define the area, The riverside area of Hampton also supports particularly around the Green and Station Wordsworth Road and Rectory Grove many fine examples of industrial architecture Road. support significant estates constructed during from around this period, including a mix of this period with a mix of styles but primarily buildings that make up Hampton Waterworks of two storeys, hanging tiles and white and the industrial units and bridge across to painted wood panelling, some with significant Platt’s Eyot. pitches which cover the first floor of the property.

46 INTERWAR POSTWAR

Shallow pitched roof with Clay tiled roof Oriel Gable (rendered) Weatherboarding Pale brick pantiles

Steel casement windows with leaded lights

Sheltered entry

Bay window

Strap hinges to garage Panelled and glazed Profiled block piers and Carefully varied surface Red brick Timber hood to doorway Purpose designed off- doors door boundary wall materials: bonded gravel street parking and engineering brick

47 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 Hampton 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 the use of environmentally friendly materials uPVC is often considered as it is seen as a 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 buildings. glazed units. However, it is not authentic and 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 ■■ Historic timber windows are made If you feel that this is your only option you 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.

48 Canted bay windows with original stained glass work on an interwar house

Timber casement doors with simple porch overhang

Critall windows with timber casements and bricked window Victorian properties with curved recessed entrances and Edwardian property with curved recessed entrance in render ledge white painted keystone and brick, ornate date stone.

Timber sash window, partially Critalled, with timber Balastrade Timbercase door with distinct glazing and curved fanlight atop. Timber casement window in a Late Victorian house Timber Canted bay sashed window. with a circular porthole atop The entrance is framed by an ornate gable fronted porch. window above 49 7. Features and Materials (continued)

Victorian Late Victorian / Edwardian Interwar

50 Post War Contemporary

51 8. Development Guidance

1. Hampton Square (Pre Publication residential areas, and increase its role and ■■ Retain elements of archaeological and ■■ Contemporary design elements may be Local Plan ref. SA1) presence in the area. architectural value with regards to the appropriate where they complement industrial history of the site. the existing Victorian setting. Notable Proposal: Partial redevelopment and ■■ Recent investments in public realm buildings to consider include the Police improvement for community, retail and local should be respected and provide a ■■ Carefully consider access arrangements Station itself and the white rendered services, employment and residential uses, starting point for enhancing the overall and implications on existing industries former Cinema located at 77 Station including affordable units and car parking. quality of the area. where residential development is proposed. Road. Any development proposals would need to 2. Platts Eyot, Lower Sunbury Road 4. Hampton Delivery Office, Rosehill consider the following: (Pre Publication Local Plan ref. SA2) 3. Hampton Traffic Unit, 60-68 Station Road – Decision on a planning application (Pre Publication Local Plan ref. SA4) ■ Take account of the scale and massing Proposal: Regeneration of the island by ■ for this site is outstanding (Pre Publication Proposal: If the site is declared surplus to of the surrounding residential setting, maintaining, and where possible enhancing, Local Plan ref. SA3) requirements, appropriate land uses include particularly Stanborough and Denning existing river-dependent and river-related employment generating or social and Close to the north west of the square. uses. New business and industrial uses (B1, Proposal: Appropriate land uses include community infrastructure uses. This would need to include suitable B2 and B8) that respect and contribute to business (B1), employment generating and consideration of any noise or other the island’s special and unique character are other commercial or social and community Any development proposals would need to environmental disturbance to the encouraged. infrastructure uses. The Building of consider the following: Townscape Merit should be retained and a surrounding residential area. Residential development to enable the pedestrian link should be provided through ■■ Proposals should be of appropriate scale ■ Respect and complement the existing restoration of the Listed Buildings, especially ■ the site. and massing, accounting for the two post war architectural style whilst those on the Heritage at Risk Register, may and two and a half storey residential introducing more contemporary style be appropriate. Any development proposals would need to terraces and semi-detached properties to the area, reflecting the progressive consider the following: Any development proposals would need to surrounding the site. The existing building development of Hampton over the past consider the following: ■ The conversion of the existing building has a large but low rise footprint and any century. ■ duly respects its architectural character, development proposals would not be ■ Suitably consider Eyot’s riverside location, ■■ Consider the low rise and low density ■ particular in relation to its late Victorian expected to significantly change its status ensuring that any development proposals setting, including Hampton Square itself features and retaining visual cues to its in the area. do not disturb the general setting, key and the neighbouring green spaces of previous use as a Police Station. ■■ As with other new development in landmarks or views. It is likely that Nursery Green. the area, proposals for the site should excessive and unsympathic residential ■■ Respect the scale and massing of the ■■ Improve on and respect the existing respond to the design and materials used development would detract from the existing building, the main retail frontage businesses and community facilities in the Victorian terraces, particularly island’s setting. and the surrounding residential setting, of already active within Hampton Square, which the majority of buildings are two along Rose Hill. ■■ Respect the existing building densities offering improved facilities for new and to three storeys. ■■ New buildings should, as much as where possible, to maintain the balance existing organisations. possible, positively engagement with between the natural setting and the light ■■ Ensure that new development respects ■■ Proposals should aim to enhance the both Hill House Drive and Rose Hill that industrial activities, retaining the informal and complements the street scene. permeability of the square, improving bound the site. pedestrian routes to surrounding character of the Eyot.

52 ■■ Take account of daylight and sunlight impact on neighbouring properties, with particular attention paid to the recent neighbouring residential development along the northern boundary of the site. ■■ Views from Hampton Village Green should not be impacted by any development proposal for the site. 1 Further information on site allocations within Richmond can be viewed at: http:// www.richmond.gov.uk/local_plan

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53 9. Shop Front Guidance

The Council has an adopted general guide to however, the replacement shopfronts lack Shutters shopfront design (Shopfronts Supplementary aesthetic value and are installed without External metal security shutters are not Planning Document (SPD), March 2010). consideration for how they will affect the a traditional feature of shopfronts and The guidance provided here does not appearance of the whole parade and street. generally detract from their character. replace that SPD but provides area-specific When considering alterations to a shopfront Roller shutters, when lowered, can create information on shopfronts in Hampton, or its replacement, consideration should be an unattractive environment. If considered highlighting positive features in particular given to: necessary, metal lattice-type shutters on shopfronts. This is a means of identifying the inside of the shop window can provide shopfronts worth preserving and provides a ■ the appearance of the host building as ■ security without spoiling the external context for enhancing other shopfronts. a whole and the designs of the adjacent appearance of the shop front. The other shopfronts; The Shopfronts SPD sets out the policy traditional alternatives are external canvas context for when planning permission and ■■ uniformity: where a parade historically awnings or timber shutters. listed building consent is needed for new had identical shopfronts, reinstating the shopfronts and gives Borough wide guidance. same appropriate design and materials, Planning permission is invariably needed for where the replacements are poor quality, replacement shopfronts, and advertisement can help create a more attractive street; consent may be needed for new signage. This and Village Planning Guidance SPD should be ■■ if there are a couple of identical surviving read in conjunction with the 2010 SPD. historic shopfronts in a parade these may well be the original historic design, Hampton has many individual historic replicating them in place of low-quality shopfronts as well as unified shopping modern shopfronts should be explored. parades. These should be preserved and, where architectural details are missing, they Within a building or parade there are often should ideally be replaced. As a general rule, two or more good different examples of shopfronts and alterations proposed to them shopfronts which should be retained and should respect the character, overall design sometimes the subtle differences in detail and materials of the host building. will enhance the character of the area. However, the basic structure and features Shopping parades were often built with the of traditional shopfronts (as identified in same shopfronts along their length. Over the Shopfront SPD) are usually present and time many get replaced and the uniformity should be adhered to and enhanced where of the parades is undermined. Sometimes possible. the replacement shopfronts have value for the quality of their design, craftsmanship or historic value and should be retained. Often

54 Typical key features to shop fronts

Blazed brick piers with Retractable canvas awning console brackets with timber end-board

Slender glazing bars designed Slender glazing bars designed as Recessed entrance with tiled Panelled and glazed doors Recessed doorway as colonettes (i.e. with bases colonettes (i.e. with bases and capitals) chequerboard pavement and capitals)

55 9. Shop Front Guidance (continued)

Ashley Road and Station Approach, brickwork stallriser), but none are intact. brick piers with entablature, brick stallriser, Hampton well-proportioned fascia board, panelled Nos. 70-82 (even) Milton Road is a late doors, reeded pilasters and inclined timber There are a number of shops along Ashley Victorian parade that retains its bracketed fascia board. Road and Station Road in the vicinity piers between the shops, yet the shopfronts of Hampton Station. Most are 1920s are now all modern and their oversized No. 37 Ashley Road or earlier, with one or more residential fascia boards detract. As discussed in the A well maintained frontage in the context storeys above. This traditional arrangement Shopfronts SPD, the console brackets of the street, its design features include: typically requires a shopfront with two indicate how large the fascias of the recessed entrances, slender glazing bars doorways, one for the shop and one for the shopfronts should be: generally smaller than designed as colonettes (i.e. with bases and accommodation. In historic shopfronts these the height of the console brackets, and the capitals), panelled and glazed doors. doorways are often recessed to provide fascias should not project in front of them. an inviting, sheltered entrance, sometimes No. 6 Station Approach Key examples Ashley Road and Milton Road with a tiled or mosaic pavement, features Poorly maintained but with many of its that add considerably to the richness of the As mentioned above, there are few historic assets intact, features such as: townscape. shopfronts of architectural merit across recessed double entrance with tiled Hampton. Of these, a number incorporate There is a sequence of consistent shopping pavement, tiled stallriser, moulded glazing original elements and configuration that parades along Ashley Road and Milton Road, bars, leaded upper lights, inclined fascia would have been uniform along each parade. continuing east along Station Approach and board, panelled and glazed doors. Some of the more likely candidates are into Wensleydale Road. The 1920s parades described in this section: at Nos. 27-37 (odd) Ashley Road and Nos. 1-9 Station Approach are simply finished No. 135 Station Road in brick and render with pitched roofs, but they create a distinctive townscape owing Although over painted and requiring maintenance, there are a number of positive to the way that they follow the curve of 29 Ashley Road the road. There are three plausibly original features associated with the frontage, shopfronts, Nos. 29 and 37 Ashley Road including: Recessed entrance, tiled stallriser, and No. 6 Station Approach. Each of these timber glazing bars, division of upper lights is different, suggesting that there was never into smaller panes and a retractable canvas one overriding design. awning with timber end-board. The 1920s parade at Nos. 3-13 (odd) Nos. 29 Ashley Road Wensleydale Road is similar in design but A relatively prominent frontage in the embellished with two gables. Some vestiges context of the street, the frontage is well of the original shopfronts remain at No. 3 maintained but is limited in its engagement (recessed entrance) and 5 (herringbone of the street. Its positive features include:

135 Station Road

56 Station Road and High Street, traditional features including a recessed features pilasters with capitals, tiled Hampton entrance and tiled stallriser. stallriser, thin timber glazing bars with ventilation grilles and well-proportioned There is a group of shops halfway along Hampton High Street is characterised not fascia board. Station Road, composed mainly of short by shopping parades but by a few individual two storey parades of various dates. shopfronts, including some on listed No. 101 Station Road, Hampton These are interspersed with residential buildings such as No. 22 with rare surviving With its distinctive painted frontage, the and other buildings, lending an informal, curved doors in the Regency style. Two florist frontage has piers with console village-like atmosphere. This is enhanced by matching shopfronts at 9-11 High Street brackets, dentil cornice, panelled stallriser, the relatively high proportion of surviving which have been altered yet still preserve well-proportioned fascia board and a traditional shopfronts, which add much to some of the Edwardian design features, retractable canvas awning. the character. including the distinctive glazing pattern and decorative tiling to the stallriser. There is an impressive three storey 70 Station Road parade at Nos. 70-74 (even) Station Road. Key examples This Edwardian building has distinctive No. 67 Station Road, Hampton open gables and applied timbering to the upper storeys. The shopfronts are divided An attractive, well maintained shop frontage by glazed brick piers with unusually fine with a recessed entrance, tiled stallriser, stone console brackets. No. 70 appears small upper lights with frosted glass and to represent the original form of the ventilation strips, inclined fascia board and shopfronts. retractable canvas awning. Nearby are a pair of matching buildings at No. 70 Station Road, Hampton Nos. 76 and 80 Station Road, both with well-preserved, yet different shopfronts. Currently in use as a home furnishings shop, the frontage’s stand out features include A longer parade at Nos. 93-101 (odd) 101 Station Road Station Road is nineteenth-century in date, Glazed brick piers with console brackets, with some traditional features remaining, recessed entrance with tiled chequerboard especially at No. 101. pavement, slender glazing bars designed as colonettes (i.e. with bases and capitals) and Closer to Hampton Station, there is a short a retractable canvas awning with timber parade of four shops at Nos. 129-135 (odd) end-board. Station Road. These are part of a brick Edwardian building that is symmetrically No. 91 Station Road, Hampton composed. None of the original shopfronts Located on the corner of Station Road are intact, although No. 135 retains some and Avenue Road, the building’s frontage

67 Station Road 57 10. Forecourt Parking

The Council has an existing Supplementary can individually and cumulatively adversely Article 4(2) Directions can also restrict traditional brick types and brickwork along a Planning Document (SPD) covering ‘Front impact on the appearance of an area the removal of structures such as those street is an important characteristic. Garden and Other Off Street Parking and detract from its overall character if that would be required to allow access for Boundary walls to Victorian housing often Standards’ (adopted September 2006). This undertaken without careful consideration. parking (see the 2006 SPD for details). consist of low brick walls punctuated by document provides detailed advice on the The Council is keen that where front garden The Council’s Development Management taller piers in the same brick, topped by legal and design issues when creating a parking does occur, it is done in the best Plan (Policy DM TP 9) generally discourages coping stones. The larger houses would parking area in your front garden and access possible way, by following guidance given in front garden parking because of the impact often have bespoke, more ornate versions, as to it from the highway. Council Policy DM this and the 2006 SPD. on the appearance of the street and loss of seen in the surviving example on Chestnut TP 9 (Pre-Publication Local Plan equivalent vegetation and biodiversity. When forecourt Avenue, Hampton. policy is LP45) also establishes the principle Planning Permission parking is proposed, this SPD seeks to approach to Forecourt Parking, notably that The interwar period, especially, produced In some cases alterations to front gardens ensure it is provided in a sympathetic way. it will be discouraged. Highway Authority a streetscape with a distinctive character. fall within the terms of ‘permitted permission for construction of a crossover It is generally considered that additional The boundary walls to the many detached development’, in which case planning is required in all cases, and the SPD standard forecourt parking does not significantly and semi-detached houses from this period approval is not required and therefore will be applied to all highway crossover reduce parking congestion as it results in the often had a stepped or undulating profile, the Council has little or no control over applications. loss of on-street parking. sometimes rendered but more often in brick. the creation of forecourt parking. You will Although this is rare in Hampton, examples The Hampton Village Planning Guidance SPD not normally need planning permission, Important features in Hampton can be seen on Percy Road. draws upon the 2006 SPD, providing updated outside of a Conservation Area if a new Many front gardens and frontage features and specific information for Hampton. It or replacement driveway of any size uses A large number of boundary walls have in Hampton contribute significantly to is important that the 2006 SPD is read in permeable (or porous) surfacing which either been replaced with a different design the overall character of the area and local conjunction with the guidance below. It allows water to drain through, such as or with no wall at all. There is an opportunity street scene both within and outside of the is also advised to refer to the Council’s permeable concrete block paving or porous to reinforce local distinctiveness by installing Conservation Areas. These include brick gate Supplementary Planning Document on asphalt, or by directing rainfall to a lawn or boundary walls that are based on intact piers, dwarf walls incorporating railings or ‘Design Quality’ and ‘Public Space Design border to drain naturally. examples nearby. Significant numbers of hedges, planted front gardens and a very high Guide’. boundary walls have been lost in The Alders If the surface to be covered is more than five number of street trees. and other areas to the north due to the In Hampton as in other areas of Richmond square metres planning permission will be demand for parking. and across London as a whole, increases needed for laying traditional, impermeable Boundary Walls in population and car ownership have driveways. It is important to note that in Boundary walls are perhaps the most Dwarf walls with either panelled fencing or resulted in greater demand for car parking Conservation Areas, planning permission is important and defining feature of a street iron railings atop are a relatively common spaces. Where houses are not able to have required for demolition of boundary walls, scene, and their preservation and uniformity boundary treatment. Dwarf walls without garages, or where there is insufficient on fences and railings over 1m in height. adds considerably to an area’s character. additional features are typically associated and off street parking, this can lead to with Victorian terraces to the south of the increased demand for front garden parking. They enclose front gardens and define public railway line such as Avenue Road and Plevna Conversion of front gardens for car parking and private space. Low walls create this Road. space without reducing visibility. Conforming

58 Fencing their own or in combination with walls or Permeability railings. Picket fencing can be found intermittently The base and finished surface should be laid across the Hampton character area, Hedges are frequently used boundary at a slight gradient and be of a permeable with some traditional fencing boundaries treatments across Hampton, the majority material, to allow the satisfactory drainage retained, with a few fine examples of this associated with Victorian and Edwardian and absorption of rainwater. Water should along Wensleydale Road. properties with larger plots to the south of not drain from the property onto the the Village Plan area. Notable roads include footway. A length of drain or soak-away It is common that modest examples of Ormond Avenue, Nightingale Road and may be required at the site boundary to Victorian housing found in the Borough i.e. parts of Broad Lane. prevent this or a connection to a surface the simple brick two storey cottages and water sewer can be established with the terraces, are often given a timber picket Retention of existing features agreement of the Water Authority. Loose fence. These are just as distinctive and can The general aim of any design for car gravel should be avoided. add positively to local character, though Chestnut Avenue, Boundary wall and hedge parking in front gardens should be to require regular maintenance. Fine examples Green features retain as much of the existing features as is in Hampton include the over painted practical – such as existing walls, railings or Loss of existing green space may be Victorian Cottages located to the south of hedging. Where an opening has to be made inevitable, however retaining and / or Station Road. in an existing wall, railing or fence, it should replacing some planting in a generous Iron railings and gates be made good at both ends to match manner may help to maintain the area’s existing materials and details, and should be character, screen vehicles and create a more Iron railings (and gates) feature on houses no more than a car width wide. pleasant natural environment by absorbing across Hampton but for the most part local exhaust fumes. with no consistency. More traditional Enclosure railings typically are embedded into a Retaining a form of enclosure to front lower boundary wall, enclosing the front gardens and forecourts is an essential part garden whilst keeping visual obstruction to of retaining local character and maintaining Wensleydale Road, Iron railings above dwarf boundary wall a minimum. Some fine examples of black the street scene. Partial loss of existing painted iron railing embedded into dwarf structures is inevitable to allow vehicle walls can be found along Nightingale Road. access but some structure should be Hedges retained. Inward opening gates help to complete a defensible line. For the above Hedges enclose front gardens and define reasons the gap in the boundary should not public and private space. They provide an exceed that needed for the passage of a car. attractive green feature to the streetscape. This also reduces the loss of parking space Therefore it is important for them to be in the road outside. retained as frontage features, either on

Station Road, White picket fencing 59 11. Flood Risk

Reducing flood risk to you and your gov.uk/prepare-for-a-flood/improve-your- The equivalent Pre Publication Local Plan The equivalent Pre Publication Local Plan property propertys-flood-protection. policy is LP 22. policy is LP 21. There are a number of things that residents Relevant Planning Policies Policy DM SD 6: Flood Risk Policy DM SD 7: Sustainable Drainage in Hampton can do to ensure that they are Development will be guided to areas of All development proposals are required to prepared for and aware of the potential risk The Council’s planning policy documents lower risk by applying the Sequential Test as follow the drainage hierarchy (see below) of flooding to properties. outline ways in which new development within Hampton should account for flood set out in paragraph 3.1.35. Unacceptable when disposing of surface water and must Find out if you are at risk risk. This includes new build construction of developments and land uses will be utilise Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) restricted in line with PPS25 and as outlined wherever practical. Any discharge should be The map outlines the broad areas in which residential and commercial buildings, as well below. Developments and Flood Risk reduced to greenfield run-off rates wherever there is a potential flood risk in Hampton. as significant alternations or changes of use Assessments must consider all sources of feasible. A more detailed map can be found at www. of existing buildings that may be impacted by flooding and the likely impacts of climate gov.uk/prepare-for-a-flood/find-out-if-youre- flooding. When discharging surface water to a change. at-risk. As flood risk maps are updated The policies cover all flood risk public sewer, developers will be required frequently to reflect the latest modelling, you considerations, responding to the Borough’s Where a Flood Risk Assessment is required to provide evidence that capacity exists in are advised to check the latest maps via this setting, which is very susceptible to flooding. and in addition to the Environment the public sewerage network to serve their link. Relevant local policies from the Council’s Agency’s normal floodplain compensation development. requirement, attenuation areas to alleviate Actions to reduce flood risk Development Management Plan (Adopted The equivalent Pre Publication Local Plan fluvial and/or surface water flooding must be Nov 2011) include the following: policy is LP 21. There are a number of ways to reduce and considered where there is an opportunity. mitigate the impacts of flooding on your Policy DM SD 3: Retrofitting The onus is on the applicant/developer Policy DM SD 8: Flood Defence property: High standards of energy and water for proposals on sites of 10 dwellings or 1000sqm of non-residential development or The effectiveness, stability and integrity ■■ Sign up for flood warningwww.gov.uk/ efficiency in existing developments will of the flood defences, river banks and sign-up-for-flood-warnings. be supported wherever possible through more to provide evidence and justification if attenuation areas cannot be used. other formal and informal flood defence ■■ Contact Floodline 0345 988 1188 (24- retrofitting. Proposals for conversions and infrastructure within the borough will be hour service) in case of an emergency or extensions will be encouraged to comply In areas at risk of flooding, all proposals retained and provision for maintenance for further guidance. with the Sustainable Construction Checklist on sites of 10 dwellings or 1000sqm of and upgrading will be ensured. Setting back ■■ Make a personal flood plan, Government SPD as far as possible and opportunities for non-residential development or more are developments from river banks and existing guidance can be found at: www.gov.uk/ micro-generation of renewable energy will required to submit a Flood Warning and flood defence infrastructure, where there government/publications/personal-flood- be supported. Evacuation Plan. are opportunities, will be encouraged. The plan. removal of formal or informal flood defences Development in an area susceptible to Further detail on the policy can be founded is only acceptable if this is part of an agreed ■■ Improve your home’s flood protection, flooding should include flood resistant and/ within the Development Management Plan flood risk management strategy by the the Government have outlined a number or resilient measures to mitigate potential on the Council’s website: www.richmond. Environment Agency. of measures that you can take at: www. flood risks. gov.uk/development_management_plan

60 The Environment Agency must be consulted for any development that could affect a flood defence infrastructure. The equivalent Pre Publication Local Plan policy is LP 21. Flood Risk map for Hampton The map shows the parts of the area identified as being at risk of a 1% chance of flooding in any given year from the River Thames. This is sometimes described as a 1 in 100 year (1:100) flood. However, this doesn’t mean that if a location floods one year, it will definitely not flood for the next 99 years. Nor, if it has not flooded for 99 years, will it necessarily flood this year. The information is extracted from computer modelling and records of previous flooding by the Environment Agency and reflects information supplied in February 2016.

61 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 CP14 Housing Standards & Types accessible by public transport; 2009) surveillance and orientation, and 14.D The density of residential proposals 20.D Requiring accommodation and sustainable construction. Main policies that the SPD will support: should take into account the need to facilities to be accessible to all; Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the achieve the maximum intensity of use CP7: Maintaining and Improving the Local 20.E Enhancing the environment in equivalent policy is Policy LP 1. compatible with local context, while Environment areas leading to and around tourist respecting the quality, character and CP8: Town and Local Centres destinations. 7.A Existing buildings and areas in the amenity of established neighbourhoods Borough of recognised high quality 8.A The Borough’s town and local centres and environmental and ecological Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the and historic interest will be protected have an important role, providing shops, policies. The London Plan consolidated equivalent policy is Policy LP 43. from inappropriate development and services, employment opportunities, with Alterations since 2004 Density Other relevant policies: enhanced sensitively, and opportunities housing and being a focus for Matrix and other policies will be taken will be taken to improve areas community life. into account to assess the density of CP10: Open Land and Parks of poorer environmental quality, proposals. Retail and town centre uses will including within the areas of relative The open environment will be protected and be supported providing that it is Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the disadvantage of Castlenau, Ham, enhanced. In particular: appropriate to the role in the hierarchy equivalent policy is Policy LP 34. Hampton Nurserylands, Heathfield and of the centres, and respects the 10.A The Borough’s green belt, metropolitan Mortlake. CP20 Visitors and Tourism character, environment and historical open land and other open land of 7.B All new development should recognise interest of the area. It should be of an The Council will support the sustainable townscape importance, World Heritage distinctive local character and appropriate scale for the size of the growth of the tourist industry, for the Site (Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew), contribute to creating places of a high centre and not adversely impact on benefit of the local area by: land on the Register of Parks and architectural and urban design quality the vitality and viability of any existing Gardens of Special Historic Interest, 20.A Encouraging the enhancement of that are well used and valued. Proposals centre. Out of town retail development green chains and green corridors existing tourist attractions, such as Kew will have to illustrate that they: is not usually considered appropriate in will be safeguarded and improved for Gardens, Hampton Court Palace, Ham this Borough in line with The London biodiversity, sport and recreation and (i) are based on an analysis and House and the River, including sport Plan consolidated with Alterations heritage, and for visual reasons. understanding of the Borough’s stadia particularly those of RFU and since 2004. development patterns, features and Harlequins; 10.B A number of additional areas of open views, public transport accessibility The Council will improve the local land of townscape importance will 20.B Promoting sustainable transport for and maintaining appropriate levels of environment to provide centres which be identified, which will be brought tourists to and within the borough, amenity; are comfortable, attractive and safe for forward through the Development including the passenger services along all users. The historic environment and Allocations DPD. (ii) connect positively with their the Thames; surroundings to create safe and river frontage will be protected. Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the 20.C Directing new hotels to the Borough’s inclusive places through the use Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the equivalent policies are LP12, LP13 and LP 14. town centres or other areas highly of good design principles including equivalent policy is Policy LP 25.

62 CP17 Health and Well-being existing sites will be maximised. Policy DM TC 3 Retail Frontages and measures to open up views into and out of designated other open land will be 17.A Health and well-being in the Borough B Secondary Retail Frontages Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the encouraged where appropriate. is important and all new development equivalent policy is Policy LP 30. Non-retail proposals will be acceptable in should encourage and promote When considering developments on sites the secondary shopping frontages only if: healthier communities and places. LBRuT LDF Development outside designated other open land, any Management Plan (November 2011) (b) The proposed use retains a “shop-like” possible visual impacts on the character and 17.B The provision of new or improved appearance with an active frontage and openness of the designated other open land facilities for health and social care Main policies that the SPDs will support: will not have a detrimental visual impact will be taken into account. and other facilities will be supported. Policy DM TC 2 Local and Neighbourhood on the shop-front and respect the Such facilities should be in sustainable The explanatory text is relevant to the SPD Centres and Areas of Mixed Use heritage and character of the centre. locations and accessible to all and as set out below: priority will be given to those in The Council will protect and improve the Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the 4.1.6 Other Open Land of Townscape areas of relative deprivation which provision of day-to-day goods and services equivalent policy is Policy LP 26. Importance (OOLTI) can include are identified in Core Policy 13, an in the local and neighbourhood centres public and private sports grounds, immediate need for primary health of the borough (See Policy DM TC 3 Policy DM OS 3 Other Open Land of school playing fields, cemeteries, care facilities (especially doctor’s ‘Retail Frontages’). These centres are often Townscape Importance allotments, private gardens, areas of surgeries) has been identified in Kew, designated as Areas of Mixed Use and are Other open areas that are of townscape vegetation such as street verges and Richmond, Whitton and Ham. Sites thus seen as appropriate for a mix of uses importance will be protected and enhanced mature trees. The designated areas for larger facilities may be identified that meet primarily local needs. in open use. are shown on the Proposals Map but in the Site Allocations DPD. Proposals for development will be It will be recognised that there may be there will also be other areas which 17.C A pattern of land use and facilities acceptable in the smaller centres if they: exceptional cases where appropriate could be considered as being of local will be promoted to encourage value to the area and townscape (c) Respect and enhance the heritage, development is acceptable. The following walking, cycling, and leisure and which merit protection. character and local distinctiveness of criteria must be taken into account when recreation and play facilities to the centre, whilst making the most assessing appropriate development: 4.1.7 In some parts of the borough, open provide for a healthy lifestyle for all, efficient use of land. areas, including larger blocks of back including provisions for open and play 1. It must be linked to the functional use gardens, which are not extensive space within new development as (d) Include overall improvements and of the Other Open Land of Townscape enough to be defined as green belt appropriate. enhancements of the small centres; or Importance; or modernise outmoded premises. 2. It can only be a replacement or minor or metropolitan open land, act as 17.D Existing health, social care, leisure and extension of existing built facilities; pockets of greenery of local rather recreation provision will be retained Development should improve and maintain than London-wide significance. 3. In addition to 1. or 2., it does not harm where these continue to meet or commercial provision in the smaller centres, Many of these are of townscape the character and openness of the open can be adapted to meet residents’ without significantly expanding it. importance, contributing to the local land. needs. Land will be safeguarded for Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the character and are valued by residents such uses where available, and the equivalent policy is Policy LP25. Improvement and enhancement of the as open spaces in the built up area. potential of re-using or redeveloping openness and character of other open land Policy DM HO 2 ‘Infill Development’

63 and Policy DM HO 3 ‘Backland referred to in para 4.1.11 below, will be Policy DM HD 2 Conservation of Listed require the use of appropriate traditional Development’ also recognise the protected and enhanced. Proposals which Buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments materials and techniques; importance of gardens, which will be have an adverse effect on the settings, views, The Council will require the preservation of 4. using its legal powers to take steps to considered as greenfield sites. Green and vistas to and from historic parks and Listed Buildings of special architectural or secure the repair of Listed Buildings, oases are particularly important gardens, will not be permitted. historic interest and Ancient Monuments and where appropriate; and will be protected in areas of Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the seek to ensure that they are kept in a good 5. protecting the setting of Ancient high density development and town equivalent policy is Policy LP 3. state of repair by the following means: Monuments and Listed Buildings where centres. proposals could have an impact; Policy DM HD 1 Conservation Areas – 1. consent would only be granted for the 4.1.8 OOLTI should be predominantly open 6. taking a practical approach towards the designation, protection and enhancement demolition of Grade II Listed Buildings in or natural in character. The following alteration of Listed Buildings to comply exceptional circumstances and for Grade criteria are taken into account in The Council will continue to protect with the Disability Discrimination Act II* and Grade I Listed Buildings in wholly defining OOLTI: areas of special significance by designating 2005 and subsequent amendments, exceptional circumstances following a Conservation Areas and extensions to provided that the building’s special ■■ Contribution to the local character and/ thorough assessment of their significance; existing Conservation Areas using the interest is not harmed, using English or street scene, by virtue of its size, criteria as set out in PPS 5 and as advised by 2. retention of the original use for which Heritage advice as a basis. position and quality. English Heritage. the listed building was built is preferred. ■■ Value to local people for its presence and Other uses will only be considered where Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the openness. The Council will prepare a Conservation the change of use can be justified, and equivalent policy is Policy LP 3. Area Appraisal and Management Plan for ■■ Immediate or longer views into and out where it can be proven that the original Policy DM HD 3 Buildings of Townscape each Conservation area, these will be used of the site, including from surrounding use cannot be sustained; Merit properties. as a basis when determining proposals 3. alterations and extensions including within or where it would affect the setting The Council will seek to ensure ■■ Value for biodiversity and nature partial demolitions should be based on an of, Conservation Areas together with other and encourage the preservation and conservation. accurate understanding of the significance policy guidance. of the asset including the structure, enhancement of Buildings of Townscape ■■ Note that the criteria are qualitative and Merit and will use its powers where possible Buildings or parts of buildings, street and respect the architectural character, not all need to be met. to protect their significance, character and furniture, trees and other features which historic fabric and detailing of the original setting, by the following means: Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the make a positive contribution to the building. With alterations, the Council equivalent policy is Policy LP 14. character, appearance or significance of the will normally insist on the retention of 1. consent will not normally be granted for area should be retained. New development the original structure, features, material the demolition of Buildings of Townscape Policy DM OS 4 Historic Parks, Gardens and (or redevelopment) or other proposals and plan form or features that contribute Merit; Landscapes should conserve and enhance the character to the significance of the asset. With 2. alterations and extensions should be Parks and gardens as well as landscapes and appearance of the area. repairs, the Council will expect retention based on an accurate understanding of of special historic interest included in the and repair, rather than replacement of Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the the significance of the asset including the Register compiled by English Heritage and the structure, features, and materials equivalent policy is Policy LP 3. structure, and respect the architectural other historic parks, gardens and landscapes of the building which contribute to its architectural and historic interest; and will character, and detailing of the original

64 building. The structure, features, Policy DM HO 1 Existing Housing (including with adequate separation between contributes either individually or as part and materials of the building which conversions, reversions, and non self- dwellings; of a larger swathe of green space to contribute to its architectural and contained accommodation) 2. Spacing between dwelling - new amenity of residents or provides wildlife historic interest should be retained or habitats must be retained; Existing housing should be retained. dwellings must have similar spacing restored with appropriate traditional Redevelopment of existing housing should between buildings to any established 2. Impact on neighbours – privacy of materials and techniques; normally only take place where: spacing in the street; existing homes and gardens must be 3. any proposals should protect and 3. Height - dwelling height should reflect maintained and unacceptable light enhance the setting of Buildings of 1. it has first been demonstrated that the height of existing buildings; spillage avoided; the existing housing is incapable of Townscape Merit; 4. Materials - where materials on existing 3. Vehicular access or car parking – these improvement or conversion to a 4. taking a practical approach towards the dwellings are similar, new dwellings must not have an adverse impact on satisfactory standard to provide an alteration of Buildings of Townscape should reflect those materials; neighbours in terms of visual impact, equivalent scheme; and if this is the case: Merit to comply with the Disability 5. Architectural details - new dwellings noise or light. Access roads between 2. the proposal improves the long-term Discrimination Act 2005 and subsequent should incorporate or reflect traditional dwellings and unnecessarily long access sustainability of buildings on the site; and amendments, provided that the building’s architectural features; roads will not normally be acceptable; special interest is not harmed, using 3. the proposal does not have an adverse 6. Trees, shrubs and wildlife habitats- 4. Mass and scale of development on English Heritage advice as a basis. impact on local character; and features important to character, backland sites must be more intimate in Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the 4. the proposal provides a reasonable appearance or wildlife must be retained scale and lower than frontage properties; equivalent policy is Policy LP 4. standard of accommodation, including or re-provided; 5. Trees, shrubs and wildlife habitats– accessible design, as set out in Policy DM 7. Impact on neighbours - including loss of features important to character, Policy DM HD 7 Views and Vistas HO 4 ‘Housing Mix and Standards’ and privacy to homes or gardens. appearance or wildlife must be retained The Council will seek to protect the quality other policies. or re-provided. Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the of views indicated on the Proposals Map. Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the equivalent policy is Policy LP 39. Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the It will also seek opportunities to create equivalent policy is Policy LP 38. equivalent policy is Policy LP 39. attractive new views and vistas and, where Policy DM HO 3 Backland Development appropriate, improve any that have been Policy DM HO 2 Infill Development Policy DM TP 8 Off Street Parking - There will be a presumption against obscured. All infill development must reflect the Retention and New Provision loss of back gardens due to the need to character of the surrounding area and Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the maintain local character, amenity space and Developments, redevelopments, protect the amenity of neighbours. equivalent policy is Policy LP 5. biodiversity. In exceptional cases where it is conversions and extensions will have to In considering applications for infill considered that a limited scale of backland demonstrate that the new scheme provides development the following factors will be development may be acceptable it should an appropriate level of off street parking taken into account: not have a significantly adverse impact upon to avoid an unacceptable impact on on- 1. Plot width - plots must be of sufficient the following: street parking conditions and local traffic width to allow a dwelling(s) to be sited conditions. 1. Garden land – rear garden land which

65 A set of maximum car parking standards and For any proposal the area of impermeable subject to aesthetic considerations New shop fronts must be designed to minimum cycle parking standards are set paving should be minimised and soft ■■ layout and access allow equal access for all users, and can out in Appendix Four - Parking Standards landscaping maximised. ■■ space between buildings and relationship incorporate flood protection measures ‘Appendix Four - Parking Standards ‘for where appropriate. Proposals should take The Council will seek to restrict permitted to the public realm all types of development, these take into account of the Councils SPD on Shop fronts development rights for forecourt parking ■ detailing and materials account bus, rail and tube accessibility as ■ and Shop Signs. through Article 4 directions, where well as local highway and traffic conditions Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the important townscape or surface water The Council will welcome proposals from including demand for on-street parking. equivalent policy is Policy LP 1. flooding issues exist. The Council will have groups of shops to add character to the These standards will be expected to be met, regard to the impact of forecourt parking in street scene by the use of harmonious high unless it can be shown that in proposing Policy DM DC 7 Shop fronts and shop signs considering proposals to extend or convert quality design, colours and materials for their levels of parking applicants can demonstrate existing residential property. The Council will resist the removal of shop shop fronts. that there would be no adverse impact on fronts of architectural or historic interest. the area in terms of street scene or on Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the street parking. equivalent policy is Policy LP 45. The Council will expect proposals for equivalent policy is Policy LP 1. new shop fronts or alterations to existing Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the Policy DM DC 1 Design Quality shop fronts to demonstrate a high quality The emerging Local Plan contains the equivalent policy is Policy LP 45. of design, which complements the original following Policy, LP16, on Trees and New development must be of a high design, proportions, materials and detailing of Landscape: Policy DM TP 9 Forecourt Parking architectural and urban design quality based the shop front, surrounding streetscene and on sustainable design principles. Policy LP 16 Trees and Landscape The parking of vehicles in existing front the building of which it forms part. gardens will be discouraged, especially where Development must be inclusive, respect local The Council will require the protection of Blinds, canopies or shutters where character including the nature of a particular existing trees and the provision of new trees, ■■ this would result in the removal of acceptable in principle must be appropriate road, and connect with, and contribute shrubs and other vegetation of landscape architectural features such as walls, gates to the character of the shop-front and its positively, to its surroundings based on a significance that compliment existing, or and paving, or of existing trees and other setting; external security grilles will not thorough understanding of the site and its create new, high quality green areas, which vegetation; or, normally be permitted; in sensitive areas, context. deliver amenity and biodiversity benefits. ■■ where such parking would detract rigid and gloss finish blinds will generally be from the streetscape or setting of the In assessing the design quality of a proposal unacceptable; To ensure development protects, respects, the Council will have regard to the following: contributes to and enhances trees and property; or, Signage and illumination to shop fronts must landscapes, the Council, when assessing ■■ where the use of the access would create ■ compatibility with local character demonstrate a high quality of design, which ■ development proposals, will: a road or pedestrian safety problem; or including relationship to existing complements the character and materials of ■■ where the width of the proposed townscape and the shop front and surrounding streetscene, Trees entrance will be greater than the width of and does not compromise public safety. ■■ frontages, scale, height, massing, 1. resist the loss of trees unless the tree a normal driveway. Large illuminated fascias will not normally proportions and form is dead, dying or dangerous; or the tree be permitted, even if these are in the “house ■■ sustainable development and adaptability, is causing significant damage to adjacent style” of a particular store.

66 structures; or the tree has little or no the townscape and amenity and which are Metropolitan Open Land or supports its foreshore other than in exceptional amenity value; or felling is for reasons of threatened by development. outdoor open space uses; or circumstances, which may include where good arboricultural practice; necessary for the construction of river Landscape 3. Is for essential utility infrastructure dependent structures such as bridges, 2. resist development which results in the and facilities, for which it needs to 1. require the retention of important tunnels, jetties, piers, slipways etc.; damage or loss of trees that are considered be demonstrated that no alternative existing landscape features where to be of townscape or amenity value; the locations are available and that they 3. ensuring development establishes a practicable; Council will require that site design or do not have any adverse impacts on relationship with the river and takes full layout ensures a harmonious relationship 2. require landscape design and materials to the character and openness of the advantage of its location, addressing the between trees and their surroundings and be of high quality and compatible with the metropolitan open land. river as a frontage, opening up views and access to it and taking account of the will resist development which will be likely surrounding landscape and character; and Improvement and enhancement of the changed perspective with tides; to result in pressure to significantly prune openness and character of the Metropolitan or remove trees; 3. encourage planting, including new trees, 4. encouraging development which includes shrubs and other significant vegetation Open Land and measures to reduce visual impacts will be encouraged where a mixture of uses, including uses which 3. require, where practicable, an appropriate where appropriate. enable the public to enjoy the riverside, replacement for any tree that is felled; a appropriate. Other relevant policies especially at ground level in buildings financial contribution to the provision for When considering developments on sites fronting the river; an off-site tree in line with the monetary Policy DM OS 2 Metropolitan Open Land outside Metropolitan Open Land, any 5. protecting and promoting the history value of the existing tree to be felled will be possible visual impacts on the character and The borough’s Metropolitan Open Land will and heritage of the river, including required in line with the ‘Capital Asset Value openness of the Metropolitan Open Land be protected and retained in predominately landscape features, historic buildings, for Amenity Trees’ (CAVAT); will be taken into account. open use. Appropriate uses include public important structures and archaeological 4. require new trees to be of a suitable and private open spaces and playing fields, Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the resources associated with the river and species for the location in terms of height open recreation and sport, biodiversity equivalent policy is Policy LP 13. ensuring new development incorporates and root spread; the use of native species is including rivers and bodies of water and existing features; encouraged where appropriate; open community uses including allotments Policy DM OS 11 Thames Policy Area 6. protecting and improving existing access 5. require that trees are adequately and cemeteries. The special character of the Thames Policy points to the River Thames, its foreshore and Thames Path, including paths, cycle protected throughout the course of It will be recognised that there may be Area (TPA), as identified on the Proposals routes, facilities for launching boats, development, in accordance with British exceptional cases where appropriate Map, will be protected and enhanced by: slipways, stairs etc. and encouraging Standard 5837 (Trees in relation to development such as small scale structures 1. ensuring development protects the opening up existing access points to the design, demolition and construction – is acceptable, but only if it: individuality and character, including the public, both for pedestrians and boats; Recommendations). views and vistas, of the river and the 1. Does not harm the character and 7. requiring public access as part of new identified individual reaches; The Council may serve Tree Preservation openness of the metropolitan open land; developments alongside and to the River Orders or attach planning conditions to and 2. discouraging land infill and development Thames, including for pedestrians, boats protect trees considered to be of value to 2. Is linked to the functional use of the which encroaches into the river and and cyclists, where appropriate;

67 8. increasing access to and awareness of the and Policy DM TP 8 ‘Off Street Parking - Reformatted with minor updates July river including from the town centres. Retention and New Provision’. 2005. Based on UDP policies www. richmond.gov.uk/shopsfront_security.pdf Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the equivalent policy is Policy LP 18. equivalent policy is Policy LP 44. Also of relevance is the Council’s ‘Public Space Design Guide’ (Jan 2006). The overall Policy DM TP 6 Walking and the Pedestrian aim is to provide guidance to help deliver Environment Relevant SPDs/SPGs the goal of improved streetscene and public To protect, maintain and improve the spaces. www.richmond.gov.uk/public_space_ ■ Design Quality SPD Adopted Feb 2006 pedestrian environment, the Council will ■ design_guide www.richmond.gov.uk/spd_design_ ensure that:- quality_doc_lowres-2.pdf Thames Landscape Strategy (2012 1. New development and schemes protect, ■■ Front Gardens and other Off-street refresh). This can be viewed at www. maintain and, where appropriate, improve Parking Standards SPD Sept 2006 www. thameslandscape-strategy.org.uk the existing pedestrian infrastructure, richmond.gov.uk/spg_supplementary_ The Council’s policy on tree management is including the Rights of Way network. planning_guidance_draft_approved.pdf set out at: www.richmond.gov.uk/tree_policy. 2. New development does not ■■ Residential Development Standards pdf adversely impact on the pedestrian March 2010 www.richmond.gov. environment and provides appropriate uk/spd_residential_development_ pedestrian access (see Policy DM TP 3 standards_2010_final_version_30_11_10. ‘EnhancingTransport Links’). pdf ■■ Shopfronts SPD March 2010 www. 3. New development and schemes improve richmond.gov.uk/cg_shopfronts_ca1_ the safety and security of the pedestrian lr.pdf environment where appropriate. ■■ Small and Medium Housing Sites SPD Feb Within the Pre-publication Local Plan the 2006 www.richmond.gov.uk/spd_small_ equivalent policy is Policy LP 44. and_medium_housing_sites.pdf Policy DM TP 7 Cycling ■■ Design Guidelines Leaflets 3 and 4: House Extensions and External Alterations. To maintain and improve conditions for Adopted Sept 2002. Reformatted with cyclists, the Council will ensure that new minor updates July 2005. Based on UDP development or schemes do not adversely policies www.richmond.gov.uk/a4_ impact on the cycling network or cyclists houseext_design_web_adpt-2.pdf and provide appropriate cycle access and ■■ Design Guidelines leaflet 11: Shopfront sufficient, secure cycle parking facilities, see Security. First published 1997 and Policy DM TP 3 ‘Enhancing Transport Links’

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