Supplementary Planning Document I June 2017
Contents
1. Introduction 8. Features and Materials 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context 9. Guidance for Development Sites 3. Spatial Context 10. Shop Front Guidance 4. Vision for Hampton Wick 11. Forecourt Parking 5. Vision for Teddington 12. Flood Risk 6. Objectives 7. Character Area Assessments Appendix 1: Relevant Policies and Guidance Character Area 1: Stanley Road north Character Area 2: Cambridge Road and surrounds Character Area 3: The Grove Conservation Area Character Area 4: Teddington Lock Conservation Area Character Area 5: High Street (Teddington) Conservation Area Character Area 6: Udney Park Road and surrounds Character Area 7: Blackmore’s Grove Conservation Area Character Area 8: Broom Road and Kingston Road Character Area 9: Broom Water Conservation Area Character Area 10: Teddington School, Fairways and Glamorgan Road Character Area 11: Hampton Wick Conservation Area Character Area 12: Normansfield Conservation Area Character Area 13: Sandy Lane and surrounds Character Area 14: Park Road (Teddington) Conservation Area Character Area 15: Broad Street and Queen’s Road Character Area 16: Hampton Road Character Area 17: Mays Road Conservation Area 1. Introduction
The purpose of this Village Planning Guidance Supplementary Planning The London Borough of Richmond Document (SPD) is primarily to upon Thames has been divided into establish a vision and planning policy a series of smaller village areas. aims for the area, in light of existing and Each village is distinctive in terms of emerging Local Plan policy. The SPD the community, facilities and local character – as are many sub areas intends to define, maintain and enhance Teddington within the villages. the character of Hampton Wick and Teddington and to provide guidance in this The villages of the London Borough regard. The SPD forms part of the Village Richmond upon Thames are Plans for Hampton Wick and Teddington. attractive with many listed buildings and Conservation Areas, the local By identifying key features of the villages, character of each being unique, the SPD clarifies the most important recognisable and important to the aspects and features that contribute to community and to the aesthetic of local character to guide those seeking the borough as a whole. to make changes to their properties or to develop new properties in the area, as well as being a material consideration in determining planning applications. Hampton The core of this SPD is a series of character Wick area assessments for the component areas of Hampton Wick and Teddington. These character areas have been identified through the similarity of key features that are deemed to define their individual local character. The assessments Hampton Wick and Teddington SPD Area Boundary establish dominant features and materials as well as an overall 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 and stakeholders have been genuinely part of the Village Plan by providing a formal involved in defining the important features planning policy document for Hampton – as well as the opportunities and threats – Wick and Teddington which can be used to that define their local area. guide new development thus responding to The community has been involved through: residents’ desire to have greater control and influence over planning and development ■■ ‘Drop in sessions’ held at Elleray Hall decisions in their local area. The involvement on the 21st May 2016 and at St John’s of the local community in the production of Hampton Wick Warehouse on the 11th the SPD has been essential in ensuring it is a June genuine reflection of residents’ priorities. ■■ Resident walkabouts held on the 22nd May and 19th June ■■ Online questionnaire consultation (from 20th May to 27th June 2016)
5 2. Planning Policy and Wider Context
2.1 Planning Policy Framework must designate a Thames Policy Area in It is expected that the Local Plan will be their Development Plan Documents. The adopted in spring 2018, at which point National Planning Policy boroughs must define the boundaries it will supersede all existing policies in The National Planning Policy Framework by taking into account proximity to the the Core Strategy and Development (NPPF) sets out the Government’s Thames, contiguous areas with clear Management Plan. planning policies for England and how visual links between areas and buildings Alongside existing adopted planning these are expected to be applied. The and the river and specific geographical policies, suitable references have been NPPF is a key part of the Government’s features, areas and buildings which relate made to the equivalent policies in the reforms to make the planning system or link to the Thames. The River Thames Local Plan. less complex and more accessible. The section of Hampton Wick and Teddington NPPF provides the context for local is designated in the Thames Policy Area Up-to-date information on the Council’s planning authorities and decision takers, in the London Plan. Local Plan can be viewed at: www. both when drawing up plans and making richmond.gov.uk/services/planning/ Local Planning Policy decisions about planning applications. planning_policy/local_plan It must be taken into account in the The Council has progressed its Local preparation of local and neighbourhood Plan and in December 2016 approved plans, and is a material consideration in the “Publication” version of the new 2.2 Key Planning Policies planning decisions. Local Plan. This is the version of the plan which the Council intends to submit to SPDs cannot create new policies but Regional Planning Policy the Secretary of State for Examination expand on policies set out in higher At a regional level, the London Plan is in 2017, following a 6 week consultation plans, notably the LBRuT Local Plan the overall strategic plan for London period which took place in early 2017 (2017). setting out an integrated economic, during which the public were able to This SPD relates to a considerable environmental, transport and social comment on the “soundness” of the number of higher policies, notably: framework for the development of plan. The Publication Local Plan takes London over the next 20-25 years. This into account responses made during Policy LP 1: Local Character and Design document has been adopted to ensure public consultation in summer 2016. Quality that a longer-term view of London’s Throughout the rest of this document The Council will require all development development is taken when producing this is referred to as the “Local Plan”. to be of high architectural and urban local plans, making planning decisions and The Local Plan has now reached a stage design quality. The high quality character investing in infrastructure. where it is given considerable weight in and heritage of the borough and its Policy 7.29 in the London Plan refers the decision making process, and is used villages will need to be maintained and to the Thames Policy Area stating that in determining planning applications. enhanced where opportunities arise. relevant boroughs, including Richmond, Development proposals will have to demonstrate a thorough understanding
6 of the site and how it relates to its existing Policy LP 25: Development in Centres Thames Policy Area Policy LP 3: Designated Heritage Assets context, including character and appearance, Development in the borough’s centres, Developments alongside and adjacent The Council will require development and take opportunities to improve the as defined in the centre hierarchy, will be to the River Thames should ensure that to conserve and, where possible, quality and character of buildings, spaces acceptable if it: they establish a relationship with the river, take opportunities to make a positive and the local area. maximise the benefits of its setting in terms contribution to, the historic environment 1. is in keeping with the centre’s role and Shop fronts of views and vistas, and incorporate uses of the borough. The significance (including function within the hierarchy and is of a that enable local communities and the the settings) of the borough’s designated The Council will resist the removal of scale appropriate to the size of the centre public to enjoy the riverside, especially at heritage assets, encompassing Conservation shopfronts of architectural or historic (also see the Spatial Strategy of this Plan). ground level in buildings fronting the river. Areas, interest. Shopfronts, including signage 2. is in an appropriate location. and illumination, should complement the River Thames public riverside walk Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments as proportions, character, materials and 3. does not adversely impact on the well as the Registered Historic Parks and DAll development proposals adjoining detailing, surrounding streetscene and vitality and viability of the centre in Gardens the River Thames are required to the building of which it forms part. Blinds, which the development is proposed, provide a public riverside walk, including Within the existing Development canopies or shutters, where acceptable or another centre. When assessing for pedestrians and cyclists, which will Management Plan (2011) the equivalent in principle, must be appropriate to the proposals for development outside of contribute to the overarching aim of policy is Policies are Policy DM OS 1, Policy character of the shopfront and its context existing centres, applicants will have to providing a continuous publicly accessible DM HD 1, Policy DM HD 2. within which it is located. External security comply with the requirements of national riverside walk. grilles and large illuminated fascias will only policy and guidance in relation to impact Policy LP 4: Non-Designated Heritage Assets be allowed in exceptional circumstances. In assessments. For retail developments, Riverside uses, including river-dependent and The Council will seek to preserve, and sensitive areas, rigid and gloss finish blinds including extensions of over 500sqm gross, river-related uses where possible enhance, the significance, will generally be unacceptable. the Council will require a Retail Impact The Council will resist the loss of existing character and setting of non-designated Assessment. Advertisements and hoardings river-dependent and river-related uses heritage assets, including Buildings of 4. optimises the potential of sites by that contribute to the special character of Townscape Merit, memorials, particularly The Council will exercise strict control contributing towards a suitable mix of uses the River Thames, including river-related war memorials, and other local historic over the design and siting of advertisements that enhance the vitality and viability of the industry (B2) and locally important wharves, features. and hoardings to ensure the character of centre. boat building sheds and boatyards and other individual buildings and streets are not There will be a presumption against the riverside facilities such as slipways, docks, materially harmed, having regard to the Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) demolition of Buildings of Townscape Merit. jetties, piers and stairs. interests of amenity and public safety the equivalent policy is Policy CP8. Within the existing Development (including highway safety). Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) Policy LP 18: River corridors Management Plan (2011) the equivalent the equivalent policies is Policy CP1 land in Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) policy is Policy DM HD 3. the Development Management Plan (2011) the equivalent policy is Policy CP7 and in Development adjacent to the river the equivalent policy is Policy DM OS 11. the Development Management Plan (2011) corridors will be expected to contribute the equivalent policies are Policy DC1 and to improvements and enhancements to the Policy DC7. river environment.
7 Policy LP 13 Green, Metropolitan Open Land Policy LP 29: Education and Training people’s health and wellbeing. The Council should be linked to the wider Green and Local Green Space promotes and supports healthy and active Infrastructure network as they play an The Council will work with partners to lifestyles and measures to reduce health important role in creating social cohesion, Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land encourage the provision of facilities and inequalities. encouraging and promoting healthier and services for education and training of all A. The borough’s Green Belt and more active lifestyles. age groups to help reduce inequalities and Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) Metropolitan Open Land will be protected support the local economy, by the following the equivalent policies to LP29 and LP30 Impacts on existing provision and retained in predominately open use. means: is CS Policy CP13, Policy CP17 and Policy Inappropriate development will be refused B. The Council will require all major CP18. unless ‘very special circumstances’ can be 1. supporting the provision of facilities to development proposals in the borough to demonstrated that clearly outweigh the meet the needs for primary and secondary Policy LP 45: Parking Standards and Servicing to meet the Public Open Space and play harm to the Green Belt or Metropolitan school places as well as pre-school and space needs arising out of the development. The Council will require new development Open Land. other education and training facilities; to make provision for the accommodation Within the existing Development Appropriate uses within Green Belt or 2. safeguarding land and buildings in of vehicles in order to provide for the Management Plan (2011) the equivalent Metropolitan Open Land include public and educational use; needs of the development while minimising policies are DM OS 7 and DM OS8. private green spaces and playing fields, open the impact of car based travel including 3. identifying new sites for educational A wider list of relevant policies (in full) can recreation and sport, biodiversity including on the operation of the road network and uses as part of this Plan; the Council will be found in Appendix 1. rivers and bodies of water and open local environment, and ensuring making the work with landowners and developers to community uses including allotments and best use of land. secure sites for pre-schools, primary and It should be noted that all adopted policies cemeteries. Development will be supported and guidance should be assessed for their secondary schools as well as sixth forms to Within the existing Development if it is appropriate and helps secure the relevance in respect of individual planning ensure sufficient spaces can be provided for Management Plan (2011) the equivalent objectives of improving the Green Belt or applications, not just those referred to children aged 2-18; policy is Policy DM TP 9. Metropolitan Open Land. above. 4. encouraging the potential to Policy LP 31 Public Open Space, Play Space, Local Green Space maximise existing educational sites Sport and Recreation D. Local Green Space, which has been through extensions, redevelopment A. Public Open Space, children’s and young demonstrated to be special to a local or refurbishment to meet identified people’s play facilities as well as formal community and which holds a particular educational needs; and informal sports grounds and playing local significance, will be protected from 5. encouraging flexible and adaptable fields will be protected, and where possible inappropriate development that could cause buildings, multi-use and co-location with enhanced. Improvements of existing facilities harm to its qualities other social infrastructure. and spaces, including their openness Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) and character and their accessibility and Policy LP 30: Health and Well Being the equivalent Policy is Policy CS 10. linkages, will be encouraged. Planning, at all levels, can play a crucial role New open spaces, play facilities and formal in creating environments that enhance and informal land for sport and recreation
8 2.3 Planning Policy Aims will be resisted, and new housing to ■■ Local shopping parades at Kingston employment, where loss of industrial meet local needs will be provided on Road, Stanley Road and Waldegrave Road floorspace will be resisted. This SPD reinforces the existing planning appropriate sites. will be protected and improved, enabling policy aims for Hampton Wick and ■■ The impact of new development on them to provide shopping and other Teddington, and draws on the Local Plan. ■■ Hampton Wick’s unique river the transport network will be carefully services to meet local needs. Planning policy seeks to achieve the environment will be protected and considered, and appropriate provision following: enhanced where possible, for wildlife ■■ Shopfronts, signs and advertisements will for parking, walking and cycling will be and recreation. Open space and Areas maintain local character. made. The impact of through traffic and Hampton Wick of Metropolitan Open Land will be ■■ The distinctive local character of the congestion will be managed and reduced ■■ The local shopping area at Hampton protected. area will be maintained and enhanced, where possible, and improvements Wick will be protected and improved, ■■ The impact of new development on including Teddington’s listed buildings and to public transport will be sought in enabling it to thrive and provide the transport network will be carefully Conservation Areas. New development, partnership with organisations including shopping and other services to meet considered, and appropriate provision including associated green space and Transport for London. local needs. for parking, walking and cycling will be planting, will be of high quality design ■■ Front garden parking will be resisted ■■ Shopfronts, signs and advertisements will made. The impact of through traffic and which respects and enhances the unless there would be no harmful impact maintain local character. congestion will be managed and reduced distinctive local character. on the character of the area including where possible, and improvements ■■ Facilities to meet community and social the streetscape or setting of the ■■ The distinctive local character of the to public transport will be sought in property, as well as other considerations. area will be maintained and enhanced, infrastructure needs will be sought, to partnership with organisations including help reduce inequality and support the ■■ Teddington’s open spaces and the unique including Hampton Wick’s listed Transport for London. buildings and Conservation Areas. New local economy. river environment will be protected and development, including associated green ■■ Front garden parking will be resisted ■■ The loss of housing generally, and that enhanced where possible, for wildlife space and planting, will be of high quality unless there would be no harmful impact which meets specific community needs, and recreation, notably the natural design which respects and enhances the on the character of the area including will be resisted, and new housing to and historic environment of the River distinctive local character. the streetscape or setting of the meet local needs will be provided on Thames including Teddington Lock and property, as well as other considerations. appropriate sites. Trowlock Island. Areas of Metropolitan ■■ Land will be protected for employment Open Land will be protected. use, notably at Hampton Wick’s Key Teddington ■■ Land will be protected for employment Office Area of the High Street and ■■ The role of Teddington village centre will use, notably at Teddington’s various Key Lower Teddington Road. be maintained and reinforced, providing Office Areas which include Teddington ■■ Facilities to meet community and social shops, housing, services and employment centre and Waldegrave Road, National infrastructure needs will be sought, to opportunities for local communities Physical Laboratory and the High help reduce inequality and support the as well as being a cultural focus. The Street. Teddington Business Park, the local economy. restaurant sector will be supported and National Physical Laboratory and part office space enhanced as appropriate. of Waldegrave Road are designated as ■■ The loss of housing generally, and that locally important areas for industry and which meets specific community needs,
9 3. Spatial Context
This section covers transport, green spaces, to support wider community benefits, Connectivity and accessibility connecting Kingston Bridge with Bushy shops and services which are an essential and modern fit for purpose healthcare Park. ■ Two railway stations are located in the part of the villages’ character. These are facilities. ■ area, Teddington Station and Hampton Green Infrastructure detailed below and, together with their ■■ Teddington has a number of open spaces Wick Station. Fulwell Station lies on historic assets, are mapped on the following ■■ The whole area benefits from access and facilities suitable for sports, including the northern boundary of the area. pages. to Bushy Park, and within the Park Teddington Pools and Fitness Centre, Network Rail are developing proposals Teddington Sports Centre, Lensbury The King’s Field provides sporting Facilities in Hampton Wick and for Crossrail 2 which would serve facilities and a skate park on Church Teddington Club and St Mary’s University Sports Teddington and Hampton Wick stations Grounds, Broom Road Recreation Grove, managed by London Borough with an increased frequency and new of Richmond. There are also allotments ■■ Teddington’s retail offer is focussed on Ground and Udney Park Playing Fields. trains from 2030. Broad Street and Teddington High Street, Sports teams in the area include within the park available to local ■ The main roads are the A310 and A309 providing many independent and local Teddington Athletic Football Club, ■ residents. which run north - south through the businesses alongside national chains. Teddington RFC, Teddington Hockey ■■ There are a number of significant public area and the A313 running between This is complemented by Church Road, Club and Hampton Wick Royal Cricket local spaces including Manor Road and Teddington Lock, along the High Street Stanley Road and Waldegrave Road’s Club. Broom Road Recreation Grounds, Grove parades of local shops. Teddington also and up towards Hampton Hill. Gardens, Udney Hall Gardens, Langdon ■■ A number of water sports clubs are offers a wide range of places to eat and ■ Bus stops and major routes are focused located along the river, particularly ■ Park and King’s Field. drink. along both High Streets and around around Trowlock Island. ■■ Smaller pocket parks include School ■■ Hampton Wick provides a relatively local centres in Hampton Wick and ■ Sports facilities, including a skate park House Lane Orchard in Hampton Wick small range of independent and specialist ■ Teddington including Stanley Road. can be found in King’s Field and Elmfield and Jubilee Gardens in shops, restaurants and services. Services include the 33, 281, R68, X26 Teddington. ■■ Teddington is home to Park Lane Stables. and the 285 amongst others. The 481 has ■■ Schools in the area include: Teddington recently increased its frequency during ■■ You can find out more about parks ■ Local churches include St Mary with School, St. Mary’s and St. Peter’s Church ■ weekdays and a Sunday service has been projects at www.richmond.gov.uk/ St Alban Church, Teddington Baptist of England Primary School, Sacred Heart introduced. services/parks_and_open_spaces/parks_ RC Primary School, Stanley Primary Church, Teddington Methodist Church, improvements_and_conservation School, Turing House School, St John the Christ Church, St Michael and St George, ■■ Movement in the area is influenced ■■ Trowlock Island, which sits tightly to the Baptist Church of England Junior School, St John’s Hampton Wick, Hampton by the location of Bushy Park and its private meadow on Teddington bank of Hampton Wick Infant and Primary Wick Baptist Church, Sacred Heart RC boundary wall, and the river Thames and the River Thames, includes a wooded Schools and Collis Primary School Church, Salvation Army Centre and St Kingston Bridge, which shape the layout green area. amongst others. Mark’s Church amongst others. of the wider area. ■■ Other significant open spaces include ■■ There is an increasing demand for ■■ There are walking routes along limited St Mary’s University Sports Grounds, healthcare provision locally, particularly stretches of the River Thames bank and Lensbury Club and Udney Park playing in Teddington, and the Council is working around a number of open spaces. There fields. with service providers to identify any is also a small dedicated cycle route property opportunities that will assist along Church Grove in Hampton Wick
10 Connectivity and Accessibility in Hampton Wick and Teddington
KEY Fulwell Station
Teddington Station
Hampton Wick Station
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11 Facilities in Hampton Wick and Teddington
Stanley Primary, Infant and Secondary School Teddington Cemetery
St Michael and St George Fulwell St Mary’s and St Peter’s CofE School Teddington Tennis Club St Mary with St Alban Teddington Pools and Church Lensbury Hotel Fitness Centre and Club Teddington Library
Church of SS Peter Teddington Methodist Salvation Army and Paul Church Church
National Physical Laboratory Landmark Art Centre
Thameside Medical Practice Teddington Sports Centre and Teddington Hockey Teddington Baptist Club Church Christ Church Teddington Memorial Hospital Turing House School
Elleray Hall
Park Road GP Surgery Tamesis Sailing Club St Marks Church
Teddington School Royal Canoe Club, The Skiff Club, Walbrook Kingston Road LGC Ltd Sacred Heart RC Rowing Club, Kingston Royals Dragon Boat Club Primary School St John Ambulance Hall The Langdon Down Collis Primary School Centre Sacred Heart RC Church Sea Cadets Hampton Wick Infant Twickenham and Nursery School
Bushy Park Lodge
Hampton Wick Baptist Church
St John the Baptist CofE School Hampton Wick GP Hampton Wick Library Surgery
St John’s Hampton Wick and The Warehouse
King’s Field
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12 Green Infrastructure in Hampton Wick and Teddington
Teddington Cemetery
Grove Gardens and Bowling Green Manor Road Recreation Ground
Teddington Lock
Allotments Lensbury Club
Landmark Arts Centre Trowlock Island
Udney Hall Gardens
St Mary’s University Broom Road Sports Grounds Recreation Ground Udney Park Playing Fields Broom Road Recreational Ground Langdon Park
School House Lane Orchard
Bushy Park
Kingston Bridge
King’s Field
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13 Historic Assets in Hampton Wick and Teddington
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Produced from our Corporate Geographic Information System © Crown copyright and database rights 2015. Ordnance Survey 100019441 Scale 1:11,282 Note that Archaeological Priority Areas are recorded in the Development Management Plan. Buildings Of Townscape Merit are not designated and are locally listed. Listed Buildings are designated and recognised nationally. Please note that these are correct at the time of adoption of the SPD. For the most up to date information please see the Council’s website.
14 4. Vision for Hampton 5. Vision for Teddington Wick
Hampton Wick will retain its sense of identity and a mixed The Vision for Teddington is that it will continue to be a community, derived from its role as a historic settlement by the welcoming community for residents, visitors and business. River Thames and its residential areas offering mainly family The thriving and safe district centre will provide a wide range housing. of independent and other shops, employment, leisure, cultural, Its centre will thrive and be attractive, with a mix of retail and health and social facilities. other facilities, and its residential areas, public realm, pedestrian Teddington will support a range of community activities. It will routes and open spaces will be maintained and enhanced. continue to enjoy good public transport. Access, traffic and Residents and businesses will enjoy the convenient location parking will be managed so that the role of the centre and close to the River Thames, outstanding open spaces at Bushy needs of the community are supported. and Home Parks, excellent schools, and other community and Residential areas will continue to enjoy and use amenities such retail facilities in Teddington and Kingston. as Teddington’s open spaces, the historic Royal Parks and the Public transport will be improved as a result of Crossrail, and the River Thames. detrimental impacts of traffic and parking will be managed and Teddington - a Pen Portrait Broad Street is also mainly Victorian and through traffic reduced. Edwardian with some more modern retail Teddington is a long established centre units. At times there are heavy volumes of Hampton Wick - a Pen Portrait there is more variation in style and age of providing a wide range of shops and traffic through the centre. residential development. Houses on the services as well as cultural opportunities. Hampton Wick ‘old village’ forms the core Lower Teddington Road and the River are It provides a successful balance of multiple Outside the town centre Teddington is of this area comprising a mix of shops and more substantial and there are a number of and independent shops and services mainly residential. It is largely Victorian or services. The area is very distinct being modern apartment blocks. and the vacancy rate is consistently low. Edwardian in character comprising uniform between the River Thames, Hampton Court The town centre provides a wide range terraced and semi-detached houses in Park and Bushy Park. of employment opportunities including avenues of mature trees. There are local the National Physical Laboratory and shopping parades at Stanley Road and The area has a strong village character Teddington Business Park. Kingston Road. through a variety of building styles and narrow winding streets. South of the railway The High Street is a designated The area is largely defined by Bushy Park to line development is mostly Georgian, conservation area and it retains some the south and the River Thames and related Victorian and Edwardian and small in scale eighteenth century buildings as well as a green spaces to the east. Teddington Lock with a tree lined backdrop relating to mix of Victorian and Edwardian shopping provides a pedestrian and cycle link to Ham Hampton Court Park. North of the railway parades (some with original shop fronts) and Petersham. and artisan cottages in small side streets.
15 6. Objectives
The Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD has been developed to meet the following objectives, which correspond to those in the Council’s Design Quality SPD.
Identify local character – to identify Design Review – to provide a framework local character and historic assets for for the Council to use in reviewing the enhancement or protection. effectiveness of planning and public realm decisions. Promote high standards of design – through high quality illustrative material and Local Policy Context – to identify policies simple guidance and advice to local residents in the Local Plan which are essential to and businesses. addressing local issues.
Development Management – to set design guidelines for householders, developers and the Council (in relation to public realm) to encourage high quality development and, if possible, avoid the need to refuse development proposals.
Implementation of schemes – to provide advice for householders and businesses that will help them achieve repairs and modernisation which respects local character and where possible restore original details which have been lost during earlier modifications.
16 7. Character Area Assessments
The identification of local character is one of Character Area 1: Stanley Road north the primary objectives of the SPD. Character Area 2: Cambridge Road and surrounds Character Area 3: The Grove Conservation Area The character area assessments sub-divide Character Area 4: Teddington Lock Conservation Area 1 Hampton Wick and Teddington into a smaller Character Area 5: High Street (Teddington) set of sub areas, some of which are further 3 Conservation Area 2 17 4 sub-divided. Character Area 6: Udney Park Road and surrounds Character Area 7: Blackmore’s Grove Conservation Each area has been defined by grouping 16 properties where a large proportion have Area 5 9 Character Area 8: Broom Road and Kingston Road similar characteristics, features and materials. 7 These have been identified and recorded. Character Area 9: Broom Water Conservation Area 6 8 15 Character Area 10: Teddington School, Fairways and 14 A number of the areas included within this Glamorgan Road section are adopted Conservation Areas. Character Area 11: Hampton Wick Conservation Area 10 More information regarding Conservation Character Area 12: Normansfield Conservation Area 13 Areas can be viewed at http://www.richmond. Character Area 13: Sandy Lane and surrounds 12 gov.uk/home/services/planning/conservation_ Character Area 14: Park Road (Teddington) areas.htm Conservation Area Character Area 15: Broad Street and Queen’s Road Some areas are the subject of what is known Character Area 16: Hampton Road 11 as an Article 4 direction. These remove Character Area 17: Mays Road Conservation Area certain Permitted Development Rights from properties. This means that if you want to extend or alter your home in a way that 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 necessarily mean that Character Area Plan planning permission will be refused, 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
17 Character Area 1: Stanley Road north
Character Summary including brick, in response to the local character Threats from Development (e.g. Boucher Close and Prince’s Close). Sutherland The character area is located to the north west of ■■ Conversion of shops to housing. Some shops on Grove is also in a modern, brick idiom and includes Teddington and is bounded by Wellington Road, the Stanley Road have been converted to housing in a six storey tower block, Treherne Lodge, which is railway line and Connaught Road to the south. The a way that has altered the character, quality and prominent in the surrounding townscape. area is adjacent to Mays Road Conservation Area. consistency of the townscape (e.g. Nos. 152, The southern part of Church Road, beyond 154, 156, 160). The area straddles the northern part of Stanley Somerset Road, stands out as having quite a mixed Road, an established shopping area. The shops ■■ Painting of brickwork. Many of the brick houses character, sometimes varying from one plot to the and businesses of Stanley Road contrast with have overpainted brickwork, which in places can next. Toward the southern end the character is the quieter streets leading off it, which are harm the character of the street. Those brick more apparent and comes from the frequent use of characterised by closely spaced terrace housing. houses that have not yet been painted should mixed stock brick with red brick dressings. Here, be left unpainted (this is also considered good The heart of the character area is broadly defined the Teddington Baptist Church complex, with some conservation practice as painted brickwork can by terrace housing in a mixture of styles. Terracing high quality red brick buildings, has a positive street trap moisture). is generally in mixed stock brick with red brick presence. The silver birch trees here also add to the Windsor Road dressings, with or without canted bays (e.g. Church distinctive character. ■■ Replacement of historic timber windows Road, (north part) Fulwell Road, Luther Road, and doors with modern materials (uPVC) or To the north of the Character Area, Clonmel, Railway Road, Royal Road, Sydney Road, Victor designs that do not follow the original glazing Wilcox and Winchendon Roads are populated with Road, Somerset Gardens and Walpole Crescent). pattern and opening style. properties from the 1930s or later, with many of Notable exceptions include Church Road, which the semi-detached properties pebbled dashed or ■■ Poor quality pavements (e.g. tarmac is often has two significant post war office developments overpainted. mixed with paving slabs on the same road). and St Mary’s and St Peter’s CofE School.’ 1930’s properties are also evident to the south of ■■ Loss of street trees along Stanley Road. A few roads are more richly treated, e.g. with the character area along Anlaby Road and adjoining ■■ Loss of quality shop frontages and signage. gable features and ornamental stucco enrichments Roads. (King’s Road, Stanley Road, Stanley Gardens Road Opportunities In the north east corner of the area is Teddington and Windsor Road). Front gardens are generally Cemetery, opened in 1879 and now a mature green ■■ The general appearance of Stanley Road suffers modest in size and are noticeably green and well space. It has a strong character, the graves grouped from a lack of maintenance of the building Railway Road planted, with either brick dwarf walls or timber around a formal layout of paths, lawns and trees. frontages and public realm and there are fencing. The original chapel building forms a handsome opportunities to improve this (e.g. through A number of roads have adopted royal names landmark, with two matching spires denoting the painting render, removing paint from brick and (Princes Road, Royal Road and Windsor Road). two chapels within. improving street surfaces). These also are primarily terraced houses, some ■■ Maintain wooden joinery and window cases with shared gabled entrances, white painted timber Dominant Materials and Features (where existing). balustrades along with other traditional Victorian Characteristic features and materials include: mixed ■■ Improve pavements. terrace features. stock brick with red brick dressings, canted and bay windows, flat roofs, contemporary brickwork The area also includes quiet culs-de-sac of later, palette, red brick, render, pitched roofs with clay post-war housing, in a modern, flat-roofed idiom, tiles, slate roofs and sash windows. more loosely planned, but with traditional materials,
Teddington Cemetery
18 Character Area 1: Stanley Road north
19 Character Area 2: Cambridge Road and surrounds
Character Summary the former existence of an ‘old gravel pit’ (as shown mid nineteenth century terraces in mixed stock on the 1894 Ordnance Survey map). To the east is brick and stucco, with modern brick housing in Waldegrave Road, Cambridge Road and Twickenham Vicarage Road, which gives access to two sports between. At the southern end of Manor Road is a Road are the main roads running north through facilities, a swimming pool and tennis club, neither of distinctive group of detached Edwardian villas in red this character area towards Strawberry Hill. which are prominent due to their secluded location brick with white-painted render and full-height bay The character area also surrounds The Grove and low buildings. windows topped by prominent gables (decorated Conservation Area. with hung tiles or applied timbering). The streets are relatively quiet except for the The broad, gently curving roads in this area, laid out two busy through routes along Waldegrave Road in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, relate partly Dominant Materials and Features and Twickenham Road, with the former being to historic field boundaries. Much of the housing Characteristic features and materials include: mixed a key through route for local traffic as well as consists of large detached and semi-detached stock brick with red brick dressings (and vice versa), having shops and other facilities, adding to its busy houses. red brick with render, gables, canted bay windows, character. These are located at the south end near hung tiles, applied timbering, terracotta, stucco, sash the High Street, and further north near the junction Cambridge Road and surrounds windows, casement windows and clay tiled and slate with Shacklegate Lane. Again, the housing is very The character of housing in the area is mixed roofs. Manor Road mixed in character, but with a high proportion because the progress of development did not of interwar semi-detached houses in pebble- follow a coherent pattern. The earliest houses, from Threats from Development dash (sometimes overpainted) with bay windows, around the 1870s, are in sporadic groups: the south prominent clay-tiled roofs and often with roof lights. ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and side of Teddington Park, the north side of Manor Also on Waldegrave Road, particularly on the west replacement with different design/material Road, and parts of Teddington Park Road. They are side, are groups of late nineteenth century houses (often to provide vehicular parking). This often detached, are generally in mixed stock brick in red brick with bay windows and ornamental undermines the green character of the area and with red brick dressings (and sometimes vice versa), details in terracotta, with fine timber porches. There consistency of townscape. with Gothic or Italianate detailing in terracotta are street trees for much of the length of the road. ■■ Replacement of historic timber windows and or stucco and with pitched slate roofs. Opposite doors with modern (uPVC) or designs that and adjacent to these groups are later houses of Twickenham Road do not follow the original glazing pattern and a different character, especially interwar semi- On the eastern side of the area is Twickenham Road, opening style. detached houses with bay windows or gables, which a broad road with fast-moving traffic. The housing is are generally in red brick and render with clay tiled ■■ Poor quality pavements (e.g. tarmac is often varied, but several front gardens have the distinctive Teddington Park roofs. mixed with paving slabs on the same road). feature of relatively tall boundary walls, in red There are also pockets of post-war housing, e.g. brick with slightly projecting piers. The riverfront is ■■ Rooflights on front roof slopes which interrupt in brick with hung tiles and flat roofs, often with generally inaccessible but has a consistent character the regularity of the streetscape. formed by the gardens of houses on the east side of off-street parking. This mixture lends the area Opportunities a character of informal variety. Nevertheless, the road. The post-war housing development Stoney the coherent street pattern, with street trees Deep, on the east side, is planned around five brick ■■ Maintain wooden joinery and window cases and planted front gardens, is fairly consistent blocks with distinctive oriel windows, carefully (where existing). throughout. grouped around spacious lawns to allow views ■■ Maintain front gardens. through to the river (the effect more subtle now Elmfield Avenue is also noticeably eclectic in the that the planting has matured). ■■ Improve pavements. character of its housing. Toward the north end is a group of several Victorian houses that are Further south along Twickenham Road, the surprisingly only one storey tall, which may relate to character of the housing is more mixed, including Elmfield Avenue
20 Character Area 2: Cambridge Road and surrounds
21 Character Area 3: The Grove 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 which although designed to be in-keeping, give Conservation Area Statement: http://www. a terracing affect with only small gaps between richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ The Grove Conservation Area (26) is located buildings. conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. to the north of Teddington centre. It is situated htm between Twickenham Road and Cambridge Road The green space known as Grove Gardens, with its immediately north of Teddington High Street, and tall cedar trees, is the central feature with benches Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. west of the River Thames. It consists of Grove set around a bowling green and two low hipped gov.uk/ca_studies_26_web.pdf Gardens, Grove Terrace, The Grove and parts of roofed alpine style pavilions are set in the gardens. Cambridge Road. Dominant Materials and Features The Conservation Area is a distinctive and Grove Gardens peacefully secluded residential estate built in the Characteristic features and materials include: 1920s. The estate is formed by small terraced continental cottage style, Mock Tudor, hipped groups of three or four unspoilt original houses and roofs with hanging tiles, timber bays, rendered and a group of later semi-detached houses. painted brick, panel shutters, louvred shutters, porch canopies and six over six sash windows. Grove Terrace and The Grove Threats from development Laid out in groups of two, three and four, the houses along Cambridge Road, Grove Terrace and ■■ Further development of forecourt parking will The Grove are two storeys high, designed in the reduce the greenery and rural feel of the area. then modern continental cottage style in mixed ■■ Additional extensions that further impact the stock brick, often painted in soft tones, and roofed open feel of the road, particularly along Grove in plain tiles. Gardens. These houses are all virtually unaltered. The front Grove Terrace gardens of the properties in Grove Terrace and The Opportunities Grove run into each other with no dividing walls ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement or fences. This creates an impressive vista along the of architectural quality and unity, particularly roads, reinforced by the boundary posts and chains the interesting continental cottage style that and beautifully maintained front gardens. There are defines the area. some instances of forecourt parking along these ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments roads, but cars do not dominate. and discourage increase in the amount of hard Grove Gardens surfacing in front gardens. Grove Gardens was built at a later date and houses ■■ Coordination of colour and design and are of a Mock Tudor style in brick with hanging tiles, improvement in quality of paving around much half timbering and hipped roofs. The majority of of the Conservation Area. these houses now have two storey side extensions, Grove Gardens
22 Character Area 3: The Grove Conservation Area
23 Character Area 4: Teddington Lock 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 High Street (eastern end) Opportunities Teddington Lock Conservation Area (27) The eastern end of the High Street is defined more ■■ Improvement and protection of river and incorporates the historic centre of Teddington, by houses and green space rather than shopping. landscape setting. midway between Twickenham and Hampton. It A stand out feature of the eastern end of the High ■■ Fencing along the boundary of St Mary’s falls between the High Street to the west and the Street is the former St Alban’s Church which is Churchyard could be improved. Kingston bank of the Thames to the east. It adjoins currently in community use as an arts centre, which High Street (Teddington) Conservation Area (37). was left half finished in 1886 and acts as a gateway ■■ Opportunity to improve Landmark Art Centre to the High Street from the riverside. gardens. Teddington Lock Conservation Area forms Landmark Arts Centre ■■ Improve the links between former Teddington the distinctive historic core of Teddington. Key There are two distinctive groups of houses in the Studios site and the Riverside. landmarks are the contrasting pair of the modest Voysey style in Twickenham Road and Kingston brick St Mary with St Alban Parish Church and the Road. The Listed Peg Woffington’s Cottages ■■ Areas identified for environmental exceptionally grand French Gothic stone St Alban’s comprise a compact group on the corner of the improvement include: Ferry Road Flood Church, now known as the Landmark Arts Centre. High Street. Wall, Udney Hall Gardens and approach to footbridge from Ferry Road. Riverside On Twickenham Road is an exceptional and distinctive early twentieth century group of large Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Ferry Road retains its historic village character houses of roughcast render, stone dressings richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ and acts as gateway to the Thames. Here there are and hipped roofs, similar in character to its conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. a mix of modest two storey cottages and more contemporary group on Broom and Kingston htm substantial later Victorian semi-detached houses. Roads. Next to the Landmark Arts Centre is Udney Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond.gov. Teddington Lock itself, the noisy weir and the Hall Gardens, a valuable open space which helps uk/teddingtonlock_highststudy27_37.pdf and http:// colourful suspension footbridge between the to alleviate the dominance of the Kingston Road www.richmond.gov.uk/teddington_lock_and_high_ Richmond bank, Swan Ait and Kingston bank, is a junction in the local landscape. st_study_27_37p_map.pdf key landmark feature. From the Lock, wide views can be seen up and down stream. Manor Road Dominant Materials and Features Recreation Ground is an important area of open Characteristic features and materials include: mixed space on the riverside and offers views of the stock brick, painted render, hipped roofs, white attractive, well maintained Lock. painted detailing, stone dressing, sash windows.
The Thames Path is well used by walkers and Threats from development cyclists. Along Broom and Kingston Roads is ■■ Development pressure which may harm the a distinctive group of unspoilt early twentieth balance of the river and landscape-dominated century houses of roughcast render, mullioned setting, and the obstruction or spoiling of views, stone window surrounds and hipped slate roofs. skylines and landmarks.
Ferry Road
24 Character Area 4: Teddington Lock Conservation Area
25 Character Area 5: High Street (Teddington) 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 Off the High Street, Watt’s Lane is a distinctive Opportunities group of tightly packed modest terraced cottages The Conservation Area (37) is situated in the ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement that enclose this historic lane behind small centre of Teddington. It incorporates the length of architectural quality and unity. front gardens and boundary walls. Glimpses up of the High Street between the railway line to the narrow traditional streets and both Watt’s ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments the west and Kingston Lane to the east. The and Wade’s Lanes add further interest to the and discourage increase in the amount of hard Conservation Area was designated in 1982 and streetscene. surfacing in front gardens. was extended in 2013. It adjoins Teddington Lock Conservation Area (27) to the east. ■■ Coordination of colour and design and Dominant materials and features improvement in quality of street furniture and A number of eighteenth century houses still survive Dominant materials and features include: red pavements. along the High Street in close proximity to both Teddington High Street and mixed stock brick, birch trees, traditional ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and the river and the Royal Parks. Grand three storey shopfronts and white painted masonry. pedestrian convenience and rationalisation of Edwardian shopping parades were built on the existing signage and street furniture. south side following the widening of the street in Threats from Development 1903 for a tramway. There has been some larger ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shopfronts ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and and advertisements. scale infill and redevelopment to the south and materials due to unsympathetic alterations. west in the later twentieth century. ■■ New development that does not complement Conservation Area Statement: http://www. It has a traditional high street character of mainly the existing built form, particularly in terms of richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ specialist shopping, retaining an exceptional number height and massing. conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. htm of original shop fronts and single storey shop ■■ Conflict in building form between commercial units built on the frontage of older houses. This and residential properties including ventilation, Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond.gov. is a unifying feature of the area. The High Street and other features such as storage and is enclosed by a mix of predominately two storey uk/teddingtonlock_highststudy27_37.pdf and http:// servicing. Teddington High Street traditional brick eighteenth century and later www.richmond.gov.uk/teddington_lock_and_high_ Victorian buildings on distinctively narrow plots to ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front st_study_27_37p_map.pdf the north side, in well detailed red and yellow brick. gardens for car parking. The variety of building forms, facades and roofscape ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of street provides interest and diversity to the street scene. furniture and pavements. Key buildings include the listed eighteenth century buildings of Elmfield House, numbers 79 – 85 and ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian the Lloyds Bank building with its distinctive concave safety, leading to clutter of signage and street stone frontage. furniture. ■■ Loss of original or quality shopfronts and Elmfield House and its gardens is a prominent insensitive alterations and advertisements. feature fronting onto the High Street adjacent to Waldegrave Road.
Teddington High Street
26 Character Area 5: High Street (Teddington) Conservation Area
27 Character Area 6: Udney Park Road and Surrounds
Character Summary barge boards with pronounced kneelers supported on slender wooden brackets. The houses have good This character area is immediately south of sized front gardens and some retain original mixed Teddington High Street Conservation Area. It is stock brick boundary walls. Many pairs feature bordered by Cromwell Road to the south, Station white-painted wooden balustrades above the Road (and Teddington Railway Station) to the west entrance porches. and Kingston Road (A310) to the east. Kingston Road is an arterial route, with heavy traffic. The Udney Park Playing Fields is one of the largest open internal roads within this character area are mainly spaces in the area. It was formerly the Teddington used for residential access and as such vehicular Sports Ground of Imperial College, University flow is lighter although on-street car parking is of London. A number of houses back onto the heavy throughout. The former playing fields of playing fields (to the south of Udney Park Road) Imperial College, London, are located roughly in the with much of the perimeter kept clear, allowing for centre of this character area; this large open space important views across the field. The playing fields lends a collegial aspect to this area. The majority of have been designated an Asset of Community Value. the housing is late Victorian to Edwardian. The area is generally well maintained. There are later twentieth century houses here but they are uncommon. The southern section of Udney Park Udney Park Road has the highest concentration of Cromwell Road, Kingston Lane and Langham twentieth century housing in this character area. Road (and the northern half of Udney Park Generally these buildings are much plainer than Road to a lesser degree) are well-proportioned the earlier houses and do not contribute to the residential tree lined streets, with mature trees overarching character of this area. and grass verges running between the pavement Station Road and the road. These roads feature a mixture of terraced, semi-detached and detached houses This road hosts Teddington Business Park located largely dating from the late Victorian to Edwardian adjacent to the railway station, with the 1980s periods. The majority of houses are paired and it industrial units standing out as being commercial premises in the predominantly residential area. is common that each pair is detailed differently Gomer Gardens from its neighbours, but taken together they form a Station Road is a busier part of this character area harmonised whole. due to the railway station and business park traffic. Late Victorian houses in this character area are Gomer Gardens built of mixed stock brick with red brick dressings This area consists of a tighter network of smaller to the windows and front door. The porches streets with smaller scale terraced houses, that are have slender wooden arches, painted white. The often cottage-like in appearance. Gomer Gardens, rectangular bays have sash windows (four over one) the southern part of Field Lane (formerly Gomer and window cills are painted white to match the Road) and Gomer Place were the first streets in window joinery. The gable features a slot window this sub-area to be built up; they are shown on the above the first floor. Roofs are covered in slate 1892 OS map. tiles and have terracotta ridge tiles and finials on the gable; the gable ends have simple white-painted
Cedar Avenue Udney Park Road
28 Character Area 6: Udney Park Road and surrounds
29 Character Area 6: Udney Park Road and Surrounds
There are predominantly two types of houses in Threats from Development this area — mixed stock brick cottages or small ■■ Potential loss of Udney Park playing fields to red-brick terraces — with individual detailing and development. finishes varying both from street to street but also along the same street. An example of the first type ■■ Replacement of historic timber windows and is paired, two storey, mixed stock brick cottages doors with modern (uPVC) or designs that with very simple red brick dressing. They have do not follow the original glazing pattern and simple pitched roofs covered in slate, and sash opening style. windows with slender glazing bars. Each property ■■ Rooflights on front roof slopes which interrupt has a small front garden but with differing boundary the regularity of the terraces. wall treatments. ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and An example of the second type is short terraces replacement with different design/material of red brick two storey houses. Each house has (often to provide vehicular parking). This a simple pitched roof with gable ends, atop the undermines the residential character of the canted bay windows. Some houses retain their area and regularity of the terraces, and results decorative ridge tiles on the gable. The distinctive in a loss of decorative detail. sash windows consist of arched three over two or two over one. A continuous brick dentilation runs Opportunities across the terrace above the bay window heads ■■ Maintain and improve front gardens and and porch lintel. Many elevations have been painted. boundary treatment. Boundary wall treatment varies but includes white ■■ Maintain painted joinery. picket fencing, privet hedges and brick walls. ■■ Maintain the open space provided by Udney Dominant Materials and Features Park playing fields, and maintain its tidy Characteristic features and materials include: boundary. joinery painted white, mixed stock brick, red brick, ■■ Coordination of colour and design and wooden sash windows, slate roof tiles, mature improvement in quality of street furniture and street trees and privet hedges. pavements. ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and pedestrian convenience and rationalisation of existing signage and street furniture.
30 31 Character Area 7: Blackmore’s Grove 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 around 1863 to provide suitable accommodation Opportunities for the employees of the market garden and Blackmore’s Grove Conservation Area (39) is ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement Gomer House. situated to the south of Teddington High Street, of architectural quality and unity. and is focused around three tree-lined residential The Conservation Area also contains one Public ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments streets - Blackmore’s Grove, Field Lane and House; The Builder’s Arms at 38 Field Lane which is and discourage increase in the amount of hard Bridgeman Road. considered to be of townscape merit. surfacing in front gardens for forecourt parking. The Teddington Railway Station (a key transport Since their original construction in the mid to late ■■ Coordination of colour and design and hub in Teddington) is located only a short distance 1800s the cottages in this area remained relatively improvement in quality of street furniture and from the Conservation Area boundary to the south unchanged, apart from a number of new modern flooring. Field Lane on Station Road. brick porches. Formal recognition of the area’s conservation ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and Dominant Materials and Features importance is relatively recent, as the Conservation pedestrian convenience, and rationalisation of Area was first designated in 1982 and further Dominant materials and features include: mixed existing signage and street furniture. extended in 2005. The High Street (Teddington) stock brick, slate tiles, (sometimes overpainted), Conservation Area is located to the north, and the pitched roofs, projecting eaves, parapet walls, sash Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Park Road (Teddington) Conservation Area (22) is windows, brick and fenced boundary walls. richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ situated to the west. conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. Threats from Development htm The Conservation Area consists of a group of 38 ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. Victorian homes, which are predominately two materials due to unsympathetic alterations. storey terraced cottages, but also includes a small gov.uk/ca_studies_39_web.pdf number of detached and semi-detached houses. ■■ Replacement of front gardens with paving to Two of the most notable features are the terraces allow for forecourt parking. Field Lane at No.’s 1-15 (odds) Blackmore’s Grove and No.’s. ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of street 40-50 (evens) Field Lane. These properties are the furniture and pavements. oldest within the Conservation Area having being built in the mid 1800’s.
The history of the area is considered to be associated with the estate of the author of “Lorna Doone”, R D Blackmore. Apart from literary talent, R D Blackmore also owned a market garden and orchard extending to some 16 acres to the north of Gomer House. It is reputed that the cottages in Blackmore’s Grove and Field Lane were built
Blackmore’s Grove
32 Character Area 7: Blackmore’s Grove Conservation Area
33 Character Area 8: Broom Road and Kingston Road
Character Summary Kingston and Broom Road This large character area is located between This area is characterised by residential streets of Kingston Road to the west and the River Thames houses built in pairs or small groups that are well- to the east, the former Teddington Studios marks maintained and smart in appearance. Holmesdale the northern end of the area, and the residential and Munster Roads and King Edward’s Grove Holmesdale and Melbourne Roads mark the (formerly Cornelius Road) had been laid out southern boundary. The designated Broom Water by 1896 with a few detached and paired semi- Conservation Area is surrounded by this area. detached houses on Holmesdale Road. By 1915 the There is a small parade of shops on Kingston Road. roads, including King Edward’s Grove and Atbara The character area can be divided into four sub- Road, were fully built. areas. While the individual pairs and groups have differing Teddington Lock playing fields design details, two particular design features help to create an interesting and harmonised whole: The northern part of this character area is largely white-painted joinery and original glazing often open space; between Kingston Road and Broom incorporating a border of dark glass. A house from Road are sports grounds owned and operated by a typical terrace on King Edward’s Grove is of brick St Mary’s University. Between Broom Road and the on the ground floor and painted render on the first river lies the site of the former Teddington Studios, floor, and has a rectangular bay window on both which is being redeveloped for residential use and floors with casement windows. There is a small will provide increased access to the riverside, the balcony on the first floor above the entrance porch Lensbury hotel and conference facility. The buildings which has a decorative wooden balustrade. The are set back from the road in their own grounds roof has clay tiles, a dormer window, and restrained and so there is little interaction with the street or decorative ridge tiles. Many of the houses retain pedestrians. wooden casement windows. Generally the A notable exception is the former lodge to decorative joinery is well maintained. Broom Hall (demolished 1930s). Although standing The houses have small front gardens and the behind a dwarf brick wall with tall privet hedge, majority of boundary walls are red brick. There Atbara Road the decorative gable, with its distinctive gable are subtle yet distinctive glazed black tiles found in timberwork and roof is visible from the pavement. properties on King Edward’s Grove, Holmesdale The gable features pale terracotta tiles and the Road and Kingston Road. The casement windows timber strapwork, projected eaves and tall chimney are divided by white-painted wooden mullions and give the house a ‘Tudorbethan’ look. The roof is transoms, while the smaller upper portions are covered in a pattern of fish-scale and plain tiles and leaded and have a border of black glass tiles. These the walls at first-floor level are hung with fish-scale are present on both ground and first floors. tiles lending an Arts and Crafts appearance to the building; it is a playful addition to this sub-area. The roads have mature and young street trees at irregular intervals. There are some pockets of later twentieth century semi-detached houses.
King Edward’s Grove Bucklands Road
34 Character Area 8: Broom Road and Kingston Road
35 Character Area 8: Broom Road and Kingston Road
Bucklands Road Threats from Development The three to four storey flats were built in the ■■ Variety of boundary wall materials and styles 1950s. Each block has horizontal bands of casement detract from quality of architecture. windows and glazing, with fish-scale hung tiles ■■ Pavement surfaces are of differing qualities and between each storey, and flat roofs. The houses the different phases of repair which detract are more concealed from the road than in other from the appearance of the area. sub-areas due to the curves in the road and mature trees. There are lawns in front of the blocks and ■■ Infill development of low quality and plentiful provision of off-street parking. detrimental character, particularly breaking up the flow of streets, particularly along Trowlock Avenue and Melbourne Road Holmesdale and Munster Roads, among others. These were laid out between 1949 and 1962. The detached houses, of red brick and render, are set Opportunities back from the road, with front gardens, drives and ■■ Maintain the original patterned glazing with garages. black glass tiles. Melbourne Road is notable for the number of ■■ Maintain white-painted decorative joinery. original timber and glazed garage doors that ■■ Maintain original garage doors on Melbourne survive. There are mature street trees and grass Road. verges between the road and the pavements. Dominant Materials and Features Characteristic features and materials include: red brick, render, wooden casement windows, window leading, clay roof tiles, red brick boundary walls and street trees.
36 37 Character Area 9: Broom Water 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 By virtue of its unique location bordering the inlet, Threats from Development the Conservation Area has a unique character Broom Water Conservation Area (28) abuts the ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and in both landscape quality and suburban form. eastern boundary of the Borough, in a location that materials due to unsympathetic alterations. The inlet runs along the rear of the properties is to the south east of Teddington centre. and is enthusiastically used for river sports and ■■ Domination of on-street parking. The value of the Conservation Area was contributes to the area’s valued landscape setting. ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front first recognised in the late 1970s with formal gardens for surface car parking. designation on 15th March 1977. Anchorage Boathouse and White House Boathouse Opportunities A linear man-made inlet of the River Thames A Building of Townscape Merit (referred to as the ■■ Maintenance of the properties to ensure divides the residential roads of Broom Road, Broom Water West Anchorage boathouse) performs the role of a they maintain good structural and decorative Broom Water and Broom Water West. The man- terminal feature of the inlet sited at the end of the condition. made inlet dates back to the late 1800s when creek. The outlook south along the inlet towards ■ Preservation and enhancement of authentic speculative builder, Charles Drake worked to the boathouse is considered to be an ‘important’ ■ architectural detailing quality and unity. lengthen the Thames Creek (a natural creek) in view. order to provide land for new housing. The linear ■■ Preserve and enhance the quality of the inlet nature of the inlet and the property arrangements The White House Boat House with its locally listed and views towards the boathouse. provides each house on Broom Water and Broom building were added to the Conservation Area in Water West with direct access to the creek and 2003. Conservation Area Statement: http://www. moorings. richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ Atbara Road and Broom Road houses opposite the conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. Mr Drake led the project completing the full-length Anchorage were added to the Conservation Area htm of the creek by 1894. The phased construction of in 2005. the residential dwellings in the Conservation Area Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. Broom Water West took place at a relatively slow rate. The twenty one Dominant materials and features gov.uk/ca_studies_28_web.pdf houses on Broom Water (which at that time was Characteristic materials and features include: referred to as Hambledon Road) were completed mixed stock brick, yellow brick, traditional timber in 1899. The next phase of house construction windows, white painted bays and porches, steeply (up to no. 12 Broom Water West) was completed gabled or hipped roof, decorative barge boards and in circa 1907. Nos. 14 and 16 Broom Water West prominent chimneystacks. A feature common to were completed by 1915 and the remainder of the the Broom houses is the use of red brick on the houses on Broom Water West were constructed façade. between 1930 and 1965.
A high number of the dwellings are identified as Buildings of Townscape Merit. These properties are of high design quality with fine balconies and worthy timber detailing. Broom Water
38 Character Area 9: Broom Water Conservation Area
39 Character Area 10: Teddington School, Fairways and Glamorgan Road
Character Summary Park. St John the Baptist Church of England School Trowlock Island is a late twentieth century building and has its main This character area borders the River Thames To the north of the character area is Trowlock entrance on Teddington Road where there are to the north, incorporating Trowlock Island and Island which supports a small community of traffic calming measures in place. includes the Teddington School and its recreation residential and commercial buildings, moorings and grounds. The area sits between the Normansfield Near Teddington School, there are a group of accompanying green spaces. The Island sits closely and Hampton Wick Conservation Areas. It includes buildings of modern construction that support a to the bank and its trees and greenery adds to the Hampton Wick Railway Station. number of river based activities, including Walbrook setting and rural feel of this part of the character Teddington Rowing Club and Kingston Royals area. The housing development adjacent to the recreation Dragon Boat Club. ground is marked as private and accessible to Dominant Materials and Features residents only, making it feel somewhat detached The Fairways Characteristic features and materials include: mixed from its surroundings. The blocks of flats are stock brick, white painted render, timber, casement generally three storeys tall and of purple brick, with The Fairways is a 1970s housing development windows, uPVC window frames and metal window eight over twelve sash windows, and simple tile centred around a marina to the north of the frames. covered pitch roofs. Many have driveways which are character area. The architecture very much reflects Glamorgan Road tarmacked with shrub planting dividing the plots. the design and construction of this period, with Threats from Development There is one block of flats that is eleven storeys; this minimal exposed brick, white painted weather is the highest building in the locality. It is of yellow boards, large metal framed windows and flat roofs ■■ Replacement of wooden window frames with brick with casement windows. The elevation is setback with balconies. The development itself uPVC window frames spoil the character of the broken up with plait bands. is in good condition with the marina still being street. actively used. This is a unique development from this ■■ Rooflights disrupt large roof surfaces. The principal roads through the lower part of this period and as such, adds value and diversity to the character area are the busy Upper Teddington Road character of this area. ■■ Loss of front gardens to forecourt parking, (A310) and the quiet, residential Glamorgan Road. examples of this can be found along Glamorgan Buildings along the tree-lined Upper Teddington Glamorgan Road Road. ■■ Increase in development could impact the Road vary in age, type and use. They include 1960s Glamorgan Road was laid out between 1880 and character of the area, in particular the tight four storey residential flats, Hampton Wick Doctors 1896 and its large houses, as well as houses around uniform streets closer to the centre of Hampton Surgery (Tudor House, built by 1880) and office/ the railway station, were built by 1896 but some Wick. Broom Park commercial Tabard House (built by 1969) which, have since been replaced. Although only part of the being painted white with teal coloured joinery, is a road falls within this character area the majority of Opportunities landmark building on this road. houses along Glamorgan Road are red brick; all have ■■ Maintain wooden joinery and window cases front gardens — although many have been given (where existing). Teddington School over to car parking — and boundary walls to the Teddington School is a large modern building, set tree lined street. Roofs are a variety of projecting ■■ Maintain front gardens. back from the road and surrounding by playing fields gable fronted slate covered roofs, half hipped ■■ Improve the appearance and function of and the recreation ground. Some views of the river roofs covered in clay tiles, or simple pitch roofs. Hampton Wick railway station and the railway and opposite bank are afforded from the recreation Casement windows are either plain or with leaded bridge. ground. upper portions; a number of windows frames are uPVC. Joinery on the houses is painted white; these There are two further schools in this character elements include brackets to the porch roof, and the area. Hampton Wick Nursery and Infant School is distinctive gable timberwork. a modern building and faces the historic Langdon Upper Teddington Road
40 Character Area 10: Teddington School, Fairways and Glamorgan Road
41 Character Area 11: Hampton Wick 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 overpainting and reworked public realm. Park Road is a quiet residential street located off the High Hampton Wick Conservation Area (18) is located Street with predominantly nineteenth century two within the historic core of Hampton Wick and is storey semi-detached or short terraced houses. defined by the River Thames to the east, Bushy Contrasting styles on the road unite by the use of Park to the south and west, and the suburban brick, render and slate with well-defined and well- development of Teddington to the north. The kept front garden boundaries. St John’s Road lacks Conservation Area adjoins the Bushy Park, a cohesive character and acts as a route linking Hampton Court Green and Hampton Court Church Grove to the village core. Park Conservation Areas. Hampton Wick was first designated as a Conservation Area on 11th Riverside November 1969 and was extended on 15th April 2014. To the north of the railway bridge, Lower Teddington Road is characterised by a leafy, suburban group of The development of this area dates back to at least large eighteenth and nineteenth century houses. To the Medieval period and the village has prospered the south of the railway bridge, the character of the and grown benefitting from its river crossing at riverside changes dramatically from a natural river Kingston Bridge and prestigious location near to the bank in the north to a man-made quayside with sixteenth century Hampton Court Palace and Royal large new commercial and residential developments. Parks. To the south of Kingston Bridge there is a further contrast between the two adjacent pieces of The Village Core riverside with a rural character and mature trees The distinctive curve of the High Street is a key forming the furthest edge of Home Park. feature of the village core which is emphasised by Public access to the riverside is limited to the the continuous facades which provide a strong sense Lower Teddington Road southern end of the area, where there are also areas of enclosure. The buildings are largely eighteenth of houseboat moorings. and nineteenth century and are generally two to three storeys in height. Render and brick are a key Moorings run along much of the river bank, either feature, as are clay tile roofs. The roofscape is of situated within a small quayside marina or to the visual interest due to the variation in eaves line, rear of significant detached properties. parapet and roof design. A variety of traditional shop-fronts have been retained. Key buildings include Forrester’s Pub, the former Hampton Wick Urban District Council offices and Navigator House. The High Street ends at the railway bridge and station which is considered to not be aesthetically pleasing, due to modifications to its form over time, including
Hampton Wick High Street St John’s Road
42 Character Area 11: Hampton Wick Conservation Area
43 Character Area 11: Hampton Wick Conservation Area
Bushy Park Edge of high red brick walls and low walls and hedges. ■■ Domination of traffic and poor pedestrian Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. Street trees form a key feature to the road. safety leading to clutter of signage and street gov.uk/hampton_wick.pdf The character of this area is defined by the high furniture. brick wall of Bushy Park on the western edge of Seymour Road is similar in form to Glamorgan Hampton Wick and the relationship between the Road but differs in materials such as white/cream ■■ Loss of original or quality shop fronts and wall and the houses opposite on Church Grove render with red brick and white joinery. Numbers unsympathetic alterations and advertisements. and Park Road. Mature street trees along these 16-22 are of interest due to their large hipped slate roads reinforce this edge. Two important areas roofs enhanced by gables or dormers and their Opportunities of open space include the War Memorial Garden unusual timber balustrade front balconies. St John’s ■■ Improvement and protection of river and and the entrance to Home Park which is lined Vicarage is contrasting in design and character but landscape setting. with eighteenth century Grade II Listed houses. is screened by mature trees. The St John’s Church spire on Church Grove is a ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement key local landmark and the buildings on this road Large Victorian villas are also evident along the of architectural quality and unity. vary in character and style but are united by their west side of the Lower Teddington Road. ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments materials. The northern end of Park Road forms and discourage increase in the amount of hard a part of the Bushy Park edge and contains an Dominant Materials and Features surfacing in front gardens. important and attractive terrace of eighteenth Characteristic features and materials include: century cottages between numbers 52-68 that ■■ Coordination of colour and design and traditional shop fronts, render, white/cream render, date back to the 1700s. The cottages are on narrow improvement in quality of street furniture and clay tile roofs, parapets, brick, red brick, white plots with deep front gardens which are densely pavements. masonry details, white painted joinery, slate, gables, planted, resulting in a screen of vegetation along ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and dormers, high brick boundary walls, wooden picket the street edge. Hedges and wooden picket fences pedestrian convenience, and rationalisation of fences, hedges, street trees and timber balustrade mark the front boundary creating a rural character. existing signage and street furniture. front balconies. The Thatched House and Bushy House Grade II ■■ Retain and improve the quality of shopfronts Listed buildings are also of architectural merit. Threats from Development and advertisement. Seymour Road, Glamorgan Road and ■■ Development pressure which may harm ■■ Look at solutions to alleviate parking issues the balance of both the river and landscape Lower Teddington Road ■■ Areas identified for environmental dominated setting, and the obstruction or improvement include: The Swan PH car park, The Seymour Road and part of Glamorgan Road spoiling of views, skylines and landmarks. area was added to the Conservation Area in Hampton Wick Railway Station and Bridge, 1982 and extended in 1988. The area consists ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and Environs of Junction High St and Lower of large grandiose Italianate or Gothic Victorian materials due to unsympathetic alterations. Teddington Road. villas located on large plots at a distance from ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front Conservation Area Statement: http://www. the pavement edge. Characteristic materials on gardens for car parking. Glamorgan Road include, warm red brick and richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ white masonry details and white painted joinery. ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of street conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. The front boundaries are strongly defined by a mix furniture and pavements. htm
44 45 Character Area 12: Normansfield 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 former hospital has been converted into Opportunities residential accommodation, with the building The Conservation Area (59) is bounded by ■■ Improvement and protection of the landscape and grounds maintained to support an array of Kingston Road to the west, Normansfield Avenue setting. high quality flats. The nature of the refurbishment to the south, Broom Road to the east and the rear maintains the heritage and architectural quality of ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement of properties on Holmesdale Road to the north. the building. of historic buildings, architectural quality and The Conservation Area was designated in 1991. unity. The development was previously used as a private Landscape is a key character within the grounds hospital built in 1868 where Down’s syndrome ■■ Look at solutions to alleviate parking issues and the main concentration of mature trees Mary Crellin House, Langdon Park was identified and named. The NHS took over is evident at the southern part adjacent to Conservation Area Statement: http://www. the site in 1951 but has since sold the site for Normansfield Avenue. This is outlined by the brick richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ redevelopment for partial residential use. wall which runs east to west. The northern part of conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. the site is more open in character. The Trematon The Conservation Area consists of nearly 20 acres htm site where a residential development is present of grounds and the retained boundary wall fronting maintains some of the parkland character and its Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Lower Teddington Road/Kingston Road is a key wide entrance allows views into the site. richmond.gov.uk/conarea59_a3_rgb.pdf feature of the site which has protected the original cast-iron railings. All the buildings are listed, some Dominant Materials and Features at grade II and the Hospital, including the theatre from 1877, as II*. Characteristic features and materials include: cast- iron railings and gate piers, brick quoins, stucco The Conservation Area is an important area of enrichment, fish-scale slate, bracketed eaves and open space in an Edwardian suburban development. corbelling and chestnut trees. Normansfield Avenue The space links with Broom Road playing fields and the river to the east, and the views into the site Threats from Development from Kingston Road/Lower Teddington Road are of ■■ Development pressure which may harm the key importance. Normansfield Avenue is lined with balance of the remainder of the landscape mature chestnut trees which respond to the heavily setting, and the obstruction or spoiling of views, treed aspect of the west side of the site. skylines and landmarks. The main hospital buildings on the site are of Victorian style with a curved vaulted roof clad in fish-scale slate and bracketed eaves and corbelling to the stacks. The gate piers and railings create a key focus to the site on the Kingston Road frontage. The clock tower and conservatory are distinctive features of the elevations of the buildings.
46 Character Area 12: Normansfield Conservation Area
47 Character Area 13: Sandy Lane and surrounds
Character Summary boundary walls and gates which appear slightly incongruous. This is a large character area bordered by Upper Teddington Road/Kingston Road (A310) to the east, The stretch of Bushy Park Road between Kingston Sandy Lane (B358) to the west, Cromwell Road to Road and Fairfax Road is notable for the uniform the north and Vicarage Road to the south. The main appearance of its houses along this gentle crescent. internal route is Fairfax Road, which links Kingston This is an attractive feature of this character area. Road to Cromwell Road. The area is mainly The houses are of red brick with a gable front residential, and is characterised by quiet streets and slate-covered pitched roof. There is brick and well-maintained houses. In addition, there are dentilation above the ground floor windows and two schools in this area — Collis Primary School three subtle fine string course of terracotta tiles on and Sacred Heart Primary School — two shopping the first floor. Where original sash window frames parades on Kingston Road, and St Mark’s Church exist they are in a Queen Anne Style with small (consecrated 1939). upper lights to the top sash. Window cills and heads are painted white. These houses have small front The houses on the internal roads of this character gardens and many original brick front boundary area present a harmonised whole where the walls survive. development of the area from the late nineteenth century onwards is legible. The perimeter roads Between Bushy Park Road and Cedars Road is an have a different character: Upper Teddington Road/ area characterised by small, cottage-like houses Kingston Road is characterised by a jumble of along School House Lane. The narrow streets building types and ages, and Sandy Lane features are lined with houses largely dating from 1896. modern apartment buildings which seem quite Wick Road is an attractive small, tree lined street. separate from the rest of the area. The two storey cottages here are either mixed stock brick with red brick dressings or red brick Throughout this character area there are discrete with mixed stock brick dressings. One of the two pockets of mid-late twentieth century housing bays at ground floor is canted, with large sash estates, for example Borland Road and Down Road windows (varying between six-over-six or a plainer (both 1950s), and Crieff Court and Harrowdene two-over-two), and the joinery is painted white. Gardens (both 1960s). These developments have Window heads either have a straight lintel (painted Warwick Road lawns in front of the properties and off-street white to match the joinery) or are slightly curved parking areas. These are not highly visible from the and made up of a brick soldier course. Roofs are streets and so do not influence the appearance of plain pitched and covered in slate; several now have this character area. modern rooflights. The row of cottages on School Fairfax Road, a main route through the character House Lane are each painted different colours that area, is lined with semi-detached and detached complement each other: this is a colourful, playful houses becoming larger in size towards the north street that a visitor might happen upon. end of the street. This road and the substantial detached houses were laid out by 1896; the age of housing is predominantly late-Victorian but there are some plots of modern houses. It is noticeable that the modern buildings tend to have larger Harrowdene Gardens Kingston Road
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Character Area 13: Sandy Lane and surrounds
49 Character Area 13: Sandy Lane and surrounds
Warwick Road Sandy Lane Sub Area Opportunities Warwick Road, a cul-de-sac off Upper Teddington There is housing only on the one side of Sandy ■■ Protect and enhance features and the setting Road near Hampton Wick railway station, stands Lane; the other side is the boundary wall to Bushy in distinct parts of the area, notably Warwick out as a complete late-Victorian development. This Park. Due to the railway line intersecting this Road. short terrace of houses was built in 1901. As built, character area, this sub-area feels separate and ■■ Maintain white-painted joinery where the elevations were of red brick with elaborate there is only one footbridge over the railway to appropriate. terracotta mouldings above and pilasters to the link the two sides. The houses here are twentieth side of the porches, as well as terracotta string century and sit inbetween Harrowdene Gardens ■■ Look at solutions to alleviate parking issues that courses, window heads of the first-floor and eaves (1960s) to the north west and the modern blocks compromise the interesting layout of the likes brackets. The eaves are slightly curved and rendered of flats (an extension of Bushy Park Road, Blagrove of Harrowdene Gardens. in pebbledash. There are canted bay windows which Road, and Southcott Road) to the south east which have plain sash windows at ground-floor level, and have been built on the site of a South Eastern round-headed sash windows at first-floor level. Electric Board works. Each house has a black and terracotta tiled path and small front garden. Since built, a small number Dominant Materials and Features of houses have had the brickwork rendered over Characteristic features and materials include: red and one house has a large dormer window addition: brick, pebbledash, mixed stock brick, terracotta, these detract from the strong character of the roof slates, wooden sash windows, Queen-Anne street. style sash windows, white-painted joinery, street trees, picket fences and Street lined streets and Vicarage Road brick garden walls. Vicarage Road, which connects Hampton Wick High Street with Sandy Lane at the south of this Threats from Development character area, was also laid out by 1896 and has ■■ Rooflights disrupt the rooflines along the examples of large semi-detached houses; there streets. are also small terraces of Edwardian houses. ■■ Pavements are generally cracked and An exemplar semi-detached house is of two inconsistent in their design and use of materials. storeys with a dormer and tall chimney stacks. The elevation is red brick with rendering and ■■ Loss of front gardens for car parking. brick dressings on the first floor; there is a large ■■ Modern dormer window additions are canted bay window at ground and first floors. unsympathetic to the architecture and There is red brick dentilation along the top of character of the streets. the bays. Windows are plain sashes and there are gently curved brick aprons beneath the first floor ■■ Infill development and height increases along windows. Each house has a small elliptical-arched Sandy Road if continued could compromise porch that has a stone key stone and pilasters. A views in and around Bushy Park. large number of front gardens to these houses have been given up to car parking. Cedar Road, which branches off this displays similar characteristics and high quality Edwardian, semi-detached and terraced houses.
50 51 Character Area 14: Park Road (Teddington) 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 distinctive Cedars estate is a sympathetic 1958 ■■ Coordination of colour and design and Span development of two storey terraced tile hung improvement in quality of street furniture and Park Road (Teddington) Conservation Area (22) is houses set around a central green. pavements. located just to the south of Teddington centre. It is ■■ Improvement of highways conditions and contained by the railway line to the east and Bushy Clarence Road South Park to the south. The development of this area pedestrian convenience, and rationalisation of began in the eighteenth century with the building of Towards Bushy Park is a distinctive group of later existing signage and street furniture. large villas on the west side of Park Road, along this unspoilt two storey semi-detached houses set in ■■ Areas identified for environmental important route between the village of Teddington substantial garden plots with well planted front improvement include: Environs of Teddington and Bushy Park. gardens behind consistent front boundary walls to Station, Teddington Police Station. this curving treed avenue. The houses are of mixed Clarence Road Park Road stock brick with red brick and terracotta detailing Conservation Area Statement: http://www. under slate roofs. Later fine Edwardian villas The oldest part of the Conservation Area is richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ overlooking the park and interwar houses continue defined by the straight and wide vista along the conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. the pleasant suburban character of this part of the treed avenue of Park Road. The road is lined on htm road. the west side by substantial detached houses set in Conservation Area Study: http://www.richmond. generous mature grounds with trees. These houses Dominant Materials and Features gov.uk/ca_studies_22_web.pdf include a number of 18th Century dwellings with impressive villas of two to three storeys of brick or Characteristic features and materials include: mixed render with shallow hipped slate roofs. The Grade stock brick with red dressings, gault brick and II Listed Park Hotel (dating back to 1863) is located painted brickwork, stone work, slate roofs, stone to the north of Park Road which, in contrast is lintels, mullions and sills, painted cornerstones, surrounded by larger, modern buildings. white painted detailing, dwarf walls, hedges, painted iron fencing and street trees. Around Teddington Station Victoria Road Threats from development This area is focused on the Grade II Listed Teddington Station, and is defined by a tightly ■■ Infill development that adversely impacts the packed cohesive grid of streets of mid to late- character and continuity of the Conservation Victorian and Edwardian Houses along Victoria, Area, examples of this can be seen along Albert Albert and Adelaide Roads, these are set behind Road. small front gardens and consistent front boundary Opportunities walls enclosing the street. They are generally modest in scale of two storeys, eclectic in style ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement and mostly semi-detached or terraced in form. of architectural quality and unity. Materials are brick or stucco with slate roofs and ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments chimneys. and discourage increase in the amount of hard surfacing in front gardens. Albert Road
52 Character Area 14: Park Road (Teddington) Conservation Area
53 Character Area 15: Broad Street and Queen’s Road
Character Summary Queens Road incorperates a mix of housing including the front boundaries have brick dwarf walls with a row of 1930’s houses to the south after Park taller brick piers. Also c. 1920s in date is St Mary’s This character area to the north of Bushy Park Lane. On the south side of Queen’s Road, the late Avenue, a planned housing estate with terraces and includes the large gated complex of the National twentieth century Admiralty Way development semi-detached houses grouped around a cul-de- Physical Laboratory and the busy shopping area is planned around car access, not addressing the sac with a planted central lawn. The houses have a of Broad Street. Between the two is a network of street, but the character of the housing is based on cottage aesthetic with pebble-dash (overpainted with wide streets characterised by busy traffic, but with traditional models and features shaped gables, in brick white paint in places), clay-tiled, hipped roofs and a historic urban form including some large set-back and stucco and with sash windows. external shutters that have been colourfully painted. houses and later terraces. Park Lane Stables is located The front gardens are typically defined by timber along Park Lane to the east of the character area. National Physical Laboratory fences or privet hedges. Broad Street is a busy shopping route and its The National Physical Laboratory, established character comes partly from the survival of several in this area since 1900, is housed in a variety of Dominant Materials and Features late nineteenth century shopping parades. These are buildings on the fringe of Bushy Park, the most Characteristic features and materials include: red often in red brick with eclectic detailing in stucco conspicuous being the white-painted laboratories brick, pebble-dash, gables, applied timbering, hung or timber, though there is variety overall due to from the redevelopment of 1998-2007. This large tiles, pitched roofs, clay-tiled roofs, timber casement Avenue Gardens several modern buildings. The shopfronts are lacking gated complex has a negative effect on Coleshill windows with leaded upper lights, planted front in traditional character, especially when compared to and Blandford Roads where the Victorian housing gardens with brick walls and timber fences or privet Teddington High Street. Opening off Broad Street is a now faces rows of metal fencing. There is a range hedges. series of relatively narrow streets with closely spaced of housing in this western part of the area, but nineteenth century terraced housing in mixed stock particularly Edwardian housing in red brick or stucco, Threats from Development brick or render, sometimes with canted bay windows. with gables and timbering or hung tiles. On the ■■ The main threat to the character of the area is Some modern housing in this area has continued the other side of Coleshill Road is Teddington Memorial traffic, which unduly dominates the way the area use of mixed stock brick. Hospital, built in 1929 of red brick with classically is experienced, especially on Hampton Road. framed entrance and a significant roof of hanging tiles Broad Street is linked to a network of wider roads and clock tower atop. ■■ Loss of the remaining 19th Century shopfronts with faster traffic – Hampton Road, Park Road, and installation of unsuitable advertising along Queen’s Road and Stanley Road. These still display, in To the west of the Laboratory site, Blandford Road Broad Street. places, an old pattern of development characterised is primarily comprised of properties from the 1950s ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and by large properties set far back from the road, but onward, with runs of red brick semi-detached North Lane replacement with different design/material (often many of the large houses have been replaced by later properties and three storey blocks of flats from the to provide vehicular parking). This undermines housing blocks. These are generally in brick, though 1970s with large windows, yellow brick and white the green character and consistency of the in a modern style. In between these plots are more painted bargeboards. conventional rows of detached and semi-detached townscape. Avenue Road, Avenue Gardens and St houses, often of the Edwardian period and with a mix Opportunities of red brick and stucco. Typical features are pitched, Mary’s Avenue Sub Area clay-tiled roofs with applied timbering to the gables. ■■ Improving the quality of shop frontages along Abutting the Park Road Conservation Area, Avenue Broad Street in line with Richmond design Elleray Road, an tributary road of Broad Street hosts Road and Avenue Gardens, which were built in guidance for shopfronts and shop signs. a row of Victorian Terraced houses, many with white c. 1920s, have a consistent character, with semi- ■■ Improving the poor-quality (tarmac) pavements, painted picket fences which lead to Elleray Hall, a detached housing, again in a mixture of red brick and e.g. around North Lane. large community hall clad in corrugated iron. stucco, also with hung tiles in places and bay windows and gables. The windows are timber casements, often ■■ Replanting original alternate species on Avenue featuring leaded lights. The front gardens have mature Gardens. Queen’s Road planting, though some have been paved for car use;
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Character Area 15: Broad Street and Queen’s Road
55 Character Area 16: Hampton Road
Character Summary timber (Nos. 71-93, Buildings of Townscape Merit). Belvedere Close is also in a modern idiom, with This character area straddles busy Hampton Road semi-detached houses loosely grouped around and is marked by a contrast between this busy a cul-de-sac, detailed in contrasting materials route and the pleasant, leafy streets and culs-de-sac including red brick, render and hung tiles, with opening off it. Many of the houses are substantial in gravel front gardens. size, with much interesting, traditional detailing. The western end of Hampton Road is composed Bushy Park Gardens partly of regular mid nineteenth century terraces Bushy Park Gardens is especially distinctive, with in mixed stock brick with classical mouldings in large detached houses grouped spaciously around stucco. Bayleaf Close is an exception, with modern an oval garden. Again, the detailing is eclectic (in housing set in small car parks built partly in the the Domestic Revival tradition) and the materials grounds of a surviving Victorian mansion, Laurel include render, applied timbering and clay tiles to Dene. the steep roofs. Moving eastward, large, detached and semi- Dominant Materials and Features detached late Edwardian and interwar houses increasingly take over, set back in leafy front Characteristic features and materials include: red gardens, many of which have been converted for brick, mixed stock brick with red brick dressings, off-street parking. This pattern of development pebble-dash, hung tiles, canted bays, timber porches extends into the side streets, e.g. Anlaby Road, with white-painted joinery, steeply pitched clay-tiled Gloucester Road, King’s Road and Oxford Road, roofs and leafy front gardens. up to Connaught Road. Much of the housing is of Threats from Development the Edwardian period and is generally in red brick (or mixed stock brick with red brick dressings), ■■ The main threat to the character of the area displaying a range of other materials and features, is traffic, which unduly dominates the way the especially pebble-dash or hung tiles, steeply pitched area is experienced, especially on Hampton clay-tiled roofs and timber porches with white- Road. painted joinery. ■■ Removal of front garden boundaries and Gloucester Road replacement with different design/material To the west, Laurel Road has short 1930’s terraces (often to provide vehicular parking). This with hipped roofs in red brick and pebble-dash undermines the green character and (sometimes overpainted) with shallow canted consistency of the townscape. bays with hung tiles, set in, leafy front gardens. The original windows (perhaps steel casements) Opportunities have invariably been replaced with uPVC or other modern units, which have altered the proportions ■■ To enhance and protect distinctive parts of the houses and the regularity of the terraces. of the area, particular Bushy Park Gardens including the improvement of road surfaces and To the east, Blandford Road includes a distinctive pavements around the cul-de-sac. modernist terrace with the houses set at an angle ■■ Improve traffic calming and pedestrian crossing to the street line, detailed in mixed stock brick and options along Hampton Road.
Laurel Road Belvedere Close
56 Character Area 16: Hampton Road
57 Character Area 17: Mays 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 windows, chimneys and porches, hedges, gates and grass verges. Mays Road Conservation Area (42) is situated to the north of Hampton Hill centre and is Threats from Development surrounded by the Stanley Road north character ■■ Loss of traditional architectural features and area. The road can be accessed from Wellington materials due to unsympathetic alterations. Road to the west and Kings Road to the east. The development at Mays Road has formed around two ■■ Loss of front boundary treatments and front detached Victorian villas on Wellington Road which gardens for car parking. has dictated the shape of the 1930s residential ■■ Lack of coordination and poor quality of street estate although the villas have been replaced by furniture and pavements. post-war modern development. ■■ Continued degradation and alteration of The Conservation Area is an example of a existing buildings, particularly regarding the cohesive planned estate that identifies Garden upkeep of painted render, hanging tiles and City principles. The houses are situated around a retaining existing windows. central green space or roundabout. The housing is formed of one and a half storey semi-detached Opportunities pairs and terraces along Mays Road and along ■■ Preservation, enhancement and reinstatement one side of King’s, Prince’s and Connaught Roads. of architectural quality and unity. The houses benefit from an Old English cottage ■■ Retain and enhance front boundary treatments style of roughcast walls under steeply pitched and discourage increase in the amount of hard tiled roofs with gables, small integral dormer surfacing in front gardens. windows, chimneys and porches. Other houses on the estate are formed of two storey semi- ■■ Coordination of colour and design and Mays Road detached houses of a differing but sympathetic improvement in quality of street furniture and character on King’s Road. Well-kept front gardens flooring. are set behind hedges and gates to the road ■■ Encourage the reinstatement of original render and grass verges contribute to the Garden City wall boundaries and hedging to encourage a principles. Properties along Mays Road have been return to the garden village character of the degraded over the years, with poor upkeep and street. some alterations to buildings (particularly PVC ■■ Encourage the repair and upkeep of painted replacement windows) and boundary treatments. render frontages.
Dominant Materials and Features Conservation Area Statement: http://www. Characteristic features and materials include: richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/ roughcast walls, steeply pitched tiled roofs, dormer conservation_areas/conservation_area_statements. htm Mays Road
58 Character Area 17: Mays Road Conservation Area
59 8. Features and Materials
The architectural features and palette Materials Features Victorian Terraces. Most have white painted of materials used in the construction render and quoining, some with retained Hampton Wick and Teddington includes a Victorian: The Victorian period (1837- and decoration of buildings are a large white archway entrances and the majority wide variety of historic buildings that define 1901) saw an explosion of different styles part of what makes up the character retaining their original sash windows. the character of the area with most from and technological innovation. House of an area. They vary depending the late nineteenth and twentieth century. building increased at a great rate to deal Cedars Road to the North West of Hampton on when and where a building was The area utilises a palette of similar materials with the surge in population. The terraced Wick Station includes many fine examples of constructed. Even for buildings of the predominately used in house building. house continued as the most popular and gable ended two and half storey properties same period, subtle differences in proliferate form of housing but mansion from this period, each detached property has construction materials can be what Using the correct materials (such as stock blocks of flats became increasingly common white painted barge boards and spires, sash distinguish buildings in one part of the and red brick, clay tiles, slate and timber) in London through the nineteenth century windows and built from mixed stock brick. country from another, contributing to is important for any repairs, alterations or for all classes of people. Whilst Classicism local distinctiveness. extensions to existing buildings but also retained a strong foothold through Queen should be a consideration for any new Victoria’s reign and the simple, brick terraced development if it is to respect the context house persisted, particularly as the most basic and character of the area. This is also form of housing, the Gothic Revival is most important as traditional materials allow a commonly associated with this period and building to ‘breathe’ (allow air to circulate and was popular as a way of enlivening houses. the materials to both absorb water when it rains and subsequently dry out). Brick was still the basic load-bearing material for most buildings during this period though Using modern, impervious materials can decorative coloured detailing became more trap water and cause damp. Sourcing popular. Renders and ornament (the latter materials is very important, and it is always usually made from artificial stone) also advisable to ask for samples that you can become more widespread. The Borough look at on site and compare with the palette hosts a wide array of quality Victorian housing of existing materials. In the context of of all scales, styles and forms, from terraced historic buildings, it is useful to look at the mews to large detached villas. directory of specialist professionals on www. buildingconservation.com. Victorian properties can be found across both Teddington and Hampton Wick. In the area surrounding Teddington Station, Adelaide Road, Albert Road and Clarence Road amongst others, are well maintained mixed stock brick (some overpainted) two storey
60 VICTORIAN EDWARDIAN
Corbelled chimney Tall chimney stacks with Overhanging eaves Recessed doorway Slate roof Hung tiles Gable with bargeboard stack corbelling
Timber casement windows with narrow side lights
Planted front garden
Brick dwarf wall with Red brick Planted front garden Timber sash windows Contrasting brickwork Brick dwarf wall in two creasing tiles and piers tones
61 8. Features and Materials (continued)
Edwardian and Late Victorian: The Interwar housing: Interwar housing can Post war (60s and 70s): A radical shift Contemporary: There is a variety of Edwardian period was a high point in be found across the Borough. The vernacular away from the traditional styles of the past more modern development across the traditional construction, and late-Victorian semi-detached houses that became popular century occurred with modernism and a new area, including some infill and some more architecture is often indistinguishable pre-WWI became regularised into the attitude to architecture and place-making. substantial estates. Recent development less from that of this period. The architecture standardised designs of the ‘Mock-Tudor Blocks of flats were seen as the ideal solution rigorously conforms to a particular style or confidently mixes features from numerous semi’ but has many forms due to the variety to increasing density, though the regular ethos. Higher density developments are more styles. The work of Norman Shaw and the of construction through this period. terraced house and low rise blocks of flats common as the pressure on land is greater. Arts and Crafts movement had a profound and maisonettes persisted. Examples of interwar housing can be found Due to the historic character of effect on house-design that was to dominate across both areas but in isolated locations, Examples of housing from this period can both Hampton Wick and Teddington, for decades to come with features of such as Cambridge Road, Avenue Road and be found across both areas, of note the contemporary development often vernacular architecture becoming much more St Winifreds Road. Along Sandy Lane, Ingram Fairways, which looks out across Broom incorporates traditional design features, common. House is comprised of two Art Deco four Road Recreation Ground and encloses a examples of this can be found along Broom In both Hampton Wick and Teddington there storey blocks of flats. The buildings are set small marina, and Harrowdene Gardens. Road, such as Trematon Place. These are many of examples of buildings from in red brick with angular canted bays, white Harrowdene Gardens is a purpose built properties typically include gable fronted this period. Warwick Road, located along painted windows with distinct bars that estate that sits between Sandy Lane and the roofs, traditional brick with some detailing Teddington Road Hampton Wick has a fine mirror the iron railings of the flat balconies. Railway line. Due to limited space the estate around windows and cornices. original run of late Victorian terraces, set in has a narrow and interesting arrangement, There are a number of more modern red brick with crafted ornate mouldings set with three storey maisonettes and flats developments also within these areas, of note around canted bays amongst other details. sharing a communal green space. This new block of flats in Southcott Road, which arrangement is typical of this period, as is the In Teddington, exemplary buildings with addresses Sandy Lane and Bushy Park. The architectural style with pitched roofs, simple ornate detailing and a wide variety of three and a half storey blocks are of modern large pained windows and angular white approaches can be seen around Broom construction and design with stock coloured painted porches sheltering the entrance to Road and Broom Water. Many of the two to brick, grey panelling, white painted render as each block. three storey detaches properties including well as glazed formal and Juliette balconies. distinctive turrets, glasswork and ornate arts and crafts detailing that defined the period.
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Canted bay with Overhanging eaves Flat roof Blocky massing hung tiles Weatherboarding
Large metal windows with horizontal emphasis
Canopy
Unpainted stained Purpose designed off-street Steel casement windows Pale bricks Panelled door Brick dwarf wall with timber parking alternating with lawns with leaded light ‘rubble effect’
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Victorian Late Victorian / Edwardian Interwar
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65 8. Features and Materials (continued)
Windows Timber windows: considering replacing your timber windows uPVC is often considered as it is seen as a with uPVC bear in mind that the embodied cheaper option than most timber double- Windows are key features in all the buildings ■■ Historic timber windows are made energy lost by disposing of your windows glazed units. However, it is not authentic and in Hampton Wick and Teddington irrespective from more durable timber than modern, and replacing them with uPVC, which have a cannot achieve the same detailed mouldings of the construction period. The location of softwood timber. Repairing them is limited life-expectancy, can be less sustainable or appearance and is therefore discouraged. the windows, their proportions, the number therefore often a more durable as well as than repairing them or installing secondary If you feel that this is your only option you of glazing bars, the use of coloured glass, or sustainable option. glazing. Traditional internal shutters are also should bear in mind: the presence of old glass and the decorative ■■ Timber windows were always meant to a very effective means of improving thermal treatment around the windows, all give each ■■ the materials, design, proportions and be painted to protect them from the efficiency so if your property once had building its special character. The diversity the means of opening (sash/casement) of elements. Keeping them painted will help shutters, restoring them can be a sensible of window types across the area add to its the existing windows and try to faithfully prevent them from rotting. If maintained, option. character and reinforce the distinctiveness they can last indefinitely. replicate them. of the different styles. Therefore if houses There are a number of options to consider if ■■ the proportions of the glazing bars should or flats have original windows they should Metal frame windows : the installation of double-glazing is pursued: replicate those on the original windows. be restored or, if necessary, replaced like ■■ A common form of windows used in the ■■ Have existing windows adapted by ■■ glazing bars should be integral to the with like. Along with the promotion of post war period, typically made of steel inserting an additional pane of glass within structure of the window and not applied character, sustainable materials should and aluminium. the existing frame to improve sound to the outside of the glass and should be also be prioritised, through the use of and thermal insulation. This is only really raised rather than flat. environmentally friendly materials and also ■■ If well looked after can be long lasting and possible with unlisted buildings with deep improving the energy efficiency of buildings. ■■ top-hung casements are not a good generally require less maintenance than window profiles. timber construction. substitute for sliding sashes. ■■ Timber double-glazing is now a good Window details: option with improving technology that Historic England provide guidance can achieve very slim window profiles that ■■ Original leaded lights can add character to on sensitive alterations to enhance compare with Victorian and Edwardian the street and be an important aspect of environmental performance in historic single-glazing. the design of the buildings. If the original buildings: https://historicengland.org.uk/ windows have leaded lights they should be ■■ Thin profile acoustic glass is available that advice/technical-advice/energy-efficiency-and- replicated if repairing them is not possible. can be fitted into existing timber frames. historic-buildings/ This can be a way of upgrading the sound ■■ Stained glass should be retained or and insulation performance of windows incorporated in replacement windows. without the need for total replacement. Double-glazing and thermal efficiency: ■■ Install secondary glazing which is very Improving the thermal efficiency of historic effective in improving thermal and sound windows is a common reason for replacing insulation. They can often be removed in them with double-glazing. If you are the summer months when less needed.
66 Ornate white painted wooden porch and canopy entrance with White painted casement window with curved tops original painted door in a stained glass surround
Sash window with attractive glasswork detailing and white Victorian property with narrow sash windows curved with Original painted door, flat roof canopy and white painted painted barge board above the aligning brickwork. White quoining above and below cornices
Timber door with curved glazing and ornate wooden porch Timber door with fanlight above and a classical white painted Sash windows with hybrid design set in the canted bay of an Lead light windows set in timber casements surround curved entrance interwar property 67 9. Development Guidance
1. Teddington Telephone Exchange massing as part of the rhythm of the Any development proposals would need to 3. Strathmore Centre, Strathmore (Local Plan ref. SA5) street. This may include plot sub division consider the following: Road, Teddington(Local Plan ref. SA7) as smaller units or the use of pilasters or Proposal summary: If the site becomes ■ Respond to the scale and massing of the Proposal summary: Social and community similar to break up the frontage. ■ surplus to requirements, appropriate uses surrounding setting, particularly the 2.5/3 infrastructure uses are the most appropriate include retail or commercial on the ground ■■ Maintain and enhance the existing parcel storey frontages along the High Street land uses for this site. floor, alongside employment. This could of open space on the north east corner and also the significant Harlequin House Any development proposals would need to incorporate residential above and to the rear of the site, effectively integrating this into and the associated green space. consider the following: of the site, which would include affordable the development proposals to contribute ■■ Protect and respect existing open spaces housing. to the High Street. ■ Account for the residential setting either in close proximity along the High Street ■ side of the site, particular in terms of Any development proposals would need to ■■ Commercial and retail opportunities on and within the surrounding area. scale, height and massing as appropriate. consider the following: the ground floor should improve on and ■■ Give due consideration to the site’s respect the existing business and facilities ■■ The architecture in this area is mixed ■■ Take into account the scale and massing location within the Teddington High on the High Street. and contemporary design elements of Teddington High Street and the Street Conservation Area. that respect and complement the local residential setting behind the site, ■■ Contemporary design elements may be ■ Take into account the building’s part context would be appropriate, particularly particularly along Springfield Road. appropriate where they complement ■ designation as a Building of Townscape accounting for Stanley Primary School This would need to include suitable and do not negatively impact the existing Merit when considering any changes to and its modern architectural features consideration of any noise or other buildings and setting. the external fabric of the building. Any that are sympathetic to the setting of the environmental disturbance to the ■ Transport and access arrangements proposals would also need to respect surrounding area. surrounding residential area. ■ would need to be accounted for, with and complement the existing Victorian, ■■ Access, parking and general transport ■■ Give due consideration to the site’s the potential increase in commercial and Edwardian and Georgian architecture and arrangements of any potential uses location within the Teddington High residential traffic and parking demand. the street scene. should be considered, accounting for the Street Conservation Area. 2. Teddington Delivery Office(Local ■■ Contemporary design elements may low Public Transport Accessibility Level ■■ Respect and complement the existing Plan ref. SA6) be appropriate, given the proximity of (PTAL) rating of the site. Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian buildings from a variety of periods, where Proposal summary: If the site becomes architecture and historic setting of the they compliment the buildings part surplus to requirements, retail or High Street. This includes the use of designation as a Building of Townscape commercial on the ground floor, and appropriate materials that complement Merit. employment uses. Potentially mixed use existing buildings and public realm. redevelopment with residential above and ■■ Transport and access arrangements ■■ Contribute to improving the quality to the rear of the site, which would include would need to be accounted for, with of frontages in this part of the High affordable housing. the potential increase in commercial and Street, taking into account the quality residential traffic and parking demand. and character of adjoining shop fronts, particularly their arrangement and
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69 10. Shop Front Guidance
Richmond Borough Council has an The Shopfronts SPD sets out the policy When considering alterations to a shopfront Shutters adopted general guide to shopfront design context for when planning permission and or its replacement consideration should be External metal security shutters are not (Shopfronts Supplementary Planning listed building consent is needed for new given to: a traditional feature of shopfronts and Document (SPD), March 2010). This guidance shopfronts and gives borough-wide guidance. ■ the appearance of the host building as generally detract from their character. does not replace that SPD but provides Planning permission is invariably needed for ■ a whole and the designs of the adjacent Roller shutters, when lowered, can create area-specific information on shopfronts in replacement shopfronts and advertisement shopfronts; an unattractive environment. If considered Hampton Wick and Teddington, highlighting consent may be needed for new signage. This necessary, metal lattice-type shutters on positive features in particular shopfronts. Village Planning Guidance SPD should be ■■ uniformity: where a parade historically the inside of the shop window can provide This is a means of identifying shopfronts read in conjunction with the 2010 SPD. had identical shopfronts, reinstating the security without spoiling the external worth preserving and may provide ideas for same appropriate design and materials, Hampton Wick and Teddington have many appearance of the shop front. Other enhancing other shopfronts. where the replacements are poor quality, individual historic shopfronts as well as can help create a more attractive street; traditional alternatives include external unified shopping parades. Teddington High and timber shutters. Street, in particular, has a remarkable ■■ if there are a couple of identical surviving collection of fine, well preserved Edwardian historic shopfronts in a parade these shopfronts that is worthy of close study. may well be the original historic design, Good examples should be preserved and, replicating them in place of low-quality where architectural details are missing, they modern shopfronts should be explored. should ideally be replaced. As a general rule, Within a building or parade there are often shopfronts and alterations proposed to them two or more good different examples of should respect the character, overall design shopfronts which should be retained and and materials of the host building. Where sometimes the subtle differences in detail shopfronts are divided by matching piers, will enhance the character of the area. e.g. of glazed brick, these should remain However, the basic structure and features unpainted. of traditional shopfronts (as identified in Shopping parades were often built with the the Shopfront SPD) are usually present and same shopfronts along their length. Over should be adhered to and enhanced where time many get replaced and the uniformity possible. of the parades is undermined. Sometimes the replacement shopfronts have value for the quality of their design, craftsmanship or historic value and should be retained. Often however, the replacement shopfronts lack aesthetic value and are installed without consideration for how they will affect the appearance of the whole parade and street.
70 71 High Street, Hampton Wick The two matching parades at Nos. 32-40 Key examples (even) and 44-56 (even) High Street are only Hampton Wick High Street is a trafficked No. 5 Home Park Parade, High Street, two storeys in height but distinguished by busy street, with vehicular movement Hampton Wick an unusual brick cornice that is integrated dominating the setting, resulting in narrow with the gauged brick arched of the upper Currently occupied by a barbers, this single pavements in places. It has only partially windows. The original pebbledash treatment storey development has an array of positive developed as a shopping street, still retaining has been overpainted in several places. original features such as a recessed entrance domestic frontages in places, interspersed The shops are divided by piers with gabled with tiled pavement, thin timber glazing bars with a few shopping parades of one or two console brackets, but again these have been with capitals and decorative corner sections. storeys. overpainted. Some of the shops retain a No. 17 High Street, Hampton Wick The Neo-Tudor parade at Nos. 13-27 (odd) recessed entrance with an angled doorway, High Street has become degraded through but all have been modernised in a way that This restaurant includes an array of loss of original features. The upper storeys detracts from the overall character. attractive features including: glazed brick feature buff bricks and gables with applied At the south end of the High Street is a piers with console brackets, recessed timbering, with ball finials in between (some short single-storey parade that curves entrances with tiled pavements, glazed brick missing). The original sashes are distinctive, around the junction with Kingston Bridge stallrisers, slender glazing bars and a glazed with nine small lights over one large pane, Nos. 1-5 Home Park Parade. It retains four door with shaped frame. but many have been replaced by metal or of its glazed brick piers between the shops, uPVC units, which detract. The shopfronts but two appear to have been removed and are divided by piers of glazed bricks. In at the building is much modernised. Only No. least three places the recessed entrances to 5 retains a characterful shopfront, complete the upper apartments also survive and these with recessed entrance. are lined with visually striking Art Nouveau tiles (Nos. 17, 23 and 25). No. 17 preserves a traditional shopfront including a stallriser of deep red glazed bricks. The other modernised shopfronts fail to relate to the distinctive character of the parade.
72 Typical key features to shop fronts, Hampton Wick
Decorative corner sections Glazed door with shaped Slender glazing bars frame
Glazed brick piers with Recessed entrance with Thin timber glazing bars with Recessed entrance with tiled Glazed brick stallrisers console brackets tiled pavements capitals pavement
17 High Street 5 Home Park Parade
73 High Street, Teddington The parade at Nos. 72-86 (even) High Street Outside of the parades, there are good No. 148 High Street, Teddington is in red brick, with a gabled roofline and individual shopfronts at Nos. 45, 73, 93, 100, Teddington High Street is a busy Studio 148, a mens clothing shop is one decorative sash windows with arched upper 104, 166 and a matching pair at Nos. 79 and thoroughfare with a wide variety of of many fine example of well-maintained lights. The steeply pitched roof features 81. characterful, high quality shopfronts. In 1903 original shop fronts that have been retained decorative slate work. Again, the shopfronts the street was widened by rebuilding the Broad Street continues to the west and has along this high street. The frontage includes are divided by the original piers of glazed south side, and many of the best examples far fewer characterful shopfronts due to its features such as glazed brick piers with brick supporting gabled console brackets. are concentrated in the long, red-brick later construction and is, as a result, outside console brackets, recessed entrances, main There are good examples at Nos. 45, 47, 72, shopping parades built at this time. the Conservation Area. There is therefore entrance with tiled entryway and panelled 73, 74, 77, 80, 86. a significant opportunity to improve on the ceiling, stallriser, very fine timber glazing The impressive parade at Nos. 114-160 The parade at Nos. 8-38 (even) High Street quality of Broad Street’s shopfronts, based bars carved to resemble colonettes, arched (even) High Street is in red brick, with is in dark red brick, the upper storeys on the examples found in Teddington High corner pieces, smaller upper lights with canted bays featuring pediments enriched enlivened by canted bays and decorative Street. etched glass and well-proportioned fascia with terracotta reliefs. The shopfronts are sash windows featuring arched upper lights. board. divided by the original piers of glazed brick Key examples The brickwork has been painted over at supporting gabled console brackets. Also No. 28, which detracts from the character. No. 28 High Street, Teddington intact are the recessed entrances leading The shopfronts are still divided by the to the apartments, complete with moulded original piers of glazed brick supporting Currently occupied by a clothing shop, the archways and panelled doors with etched gabled console brackets. Again, many of the shop front includes a number of positive glass. These entrances survive even where shopfronts are early and likely to be original, features including glazed brick piers with the shopfronts have been modernised and yet interestingly no two are the same. There console brackets, recessed entrance, slender they should continue to be preserved. are good examples at Nos. 8, 10, 16, 18, 26, glazing bars with bases and capitals, leaded Between these entrances, the shopfronts 28, 30, 32, 34, 36. upper lights, ventilation grilles and well- themselves are all different. The fact that proportioned inclined fascia board with many appear to be original yet no two The north side of the street has an older moulded architrave. are alike suggests that the original owners built form and is more irregular. However, erected their own shopfronts. A remarkable the shops at Nos. 45-59 (odd) High Street No. 45 High Street, Teddington variety is achieved using the same basic are united by the same glazed brick piers A coffee shop and French bakery painted in components, including thin timber glazing found in the parades on the north side, a traditional blue, the shopfronts features bars and arched corner sections. The best featuring similar gabled console brackets. No. include pilasters with capitals, traditional examples are Nos. 114, 116, 120, 122, 146, 45 is a good example, with its canvas awning canvas awning apparatus, recessed entrance 148, 156 and 160. still in working order. There is a modern with mosaic pavement, panelled stallriser shopfront at No. 59, the design of which (renewed), thin glazing bars with arched successfully responds to this rich context, corner pieces, ventilation grilles and well- using thin glazing bars and an arched motif. proportioned fascia board.
74 Typical key features to shop fronts, Teddington
Well-proportioned inclined fascia Glazed brick piers with Traditional canvas awning Well-proportioned fascia Ventilation grilles Pilasters with capitals board with moulded architrave console brackets apparatus board
Slender glazing bars with Recessed entrance with Thin glazing bars with Leaded upper lights Recessed entrance Panelled stallriser bases and capitals mosaic pavements arched corner pieces
28 Teddington High Street 45 Teddington High Street
75 Stanley Road, Teddington which originally would have had carefully Panelled piers with console Well-proportioned fascia Traditional canvas awning proportioned timber shopfronts. brackets board apparatus Stanley Road in Teddington is residential for most of its length but retains a local shopping The parade at Nos. 107-121 (odd) Stanley district about half way up the road. The Road is also of two storeys but has the shops are pleasantly set back behind deep added embellishment of a tall, shaped parapet. forecourts, although the quality of the surfaces However, this has been damaged or removed is generally not very high. in several places and the red brickwork has been overpainted, which detracts from The two-storey parade at Nos. 186-204 the character. The present shopfronts are (even) Stanley Road has become degraded generally modern units which do not relate through loss of traditional features. The to the Edwardian character of the parade. upper storeys are in mixed stock brick with In particular, there is much variation in the red brick dressings and a gabled roofline, size and position of the fascia boards, which but all of the timber sash windows have should be carefully proportioned in relation been replaced with metal or uPVC units to the console brackets. No. 107 retains which detract from the character. Most some traditional features including a recessed, of the shopfronts are divided by panelled angled entrance. piers supporting little segmental pediments, though some are altered or damaged. No. Key examples 186 retains a traditional shopfront featuring No. 107 Stanley Road, Teddington a recessed, angled entrance. The other shops have been modernised and most now have Although not currently in the best condition, oversized fascia boards that fail to relate to this art shop has a number of original features the proportions of the console brackets. that stand out in the setting, such as piers with paired console brackets, recessed angled The two-storey parade at Nos. 91-105 (odd) entrance and brick stallriser. Stanley Road is in mixed stock brick with red brick dressings. On the upper floors, most of No. 186 Stanley Road, Teddington the timber sash windows have been replaced Slender glazing bars Recessed angled entrance Stone threshold with metal or uPVC units which detract from An electrical specialist shop with panelled the character and uniformity. The shops are piers with console brackets, recessed angled divided by rendered piers supporting paired entrance, stone threshold, slender glazing bars, 186 Stanley Road console brackets topped by little pediments. traditional canvas awning apparatus and a well- The present metal-framed shopfronts do proportioned fascia board. not relate to the character of the parade,
76 Key examples Waldegrave Road, Teddington Glazed brick piers with paired Traditional canvas awning Well-proportioned fascia console brackets apparatus board Waldegrave Road is predominantly residential No. 158 Waldegrave Road but has a group of shops near the junction Occupied by a flower shop, this white painted with Shacklegate Lane. frontage with dark blue well-proportioned There is a two storey parade at Nos. 150- fascia board includes other positive features 158 (even) Waldegrave Road. It is a building such as glazed brick piers with paired console of two phases, the northern part in red brackets, traditional canvas awning apparatus, brick with visually striking arches and gables, recessed angled entrance and leaded upper the southern part rendered with canted lights. bays. However, the shops are each divided by identical piers, uniting the whole. The piers are in glazed brown bricks, with paired console brackets and little wavy pediments. Three of the shops retain recessed angled entrances but all of the shopfronts have been modernised to some degree. No. 158 is the best example, a modern replacement that incorporates leaded upper lights. There is a row of shops at Nos. 197-205 (odd) Waldegrave. This may not be a parade, in the sense of a purpose-built row of shops, but is more likely to be a converted terrace. It is included here in order to highlight the opportunities for improvement. The building is pleasantly set back behind a deep forecourt, but the surfaces are of poor quality. The terrace is much altered and the shopfronts lack any cohesion as a group. However, No. Recessed entrance Leaded upper lights 197 retains a well-proportioned fascia board between brackets, and No. 201 has recessed 158 Waldegrave Road entrances and a tiled pavement.
77 11. Forecourt Parking
The Council has an existing Supplementary impact on the appearance of an area The Council’s Local Plan (Policy LP45) Boundary walls to Victorian housing often Planning Document (SPD) covering ‘Front and detract from its overall character if generally discourages front garden parking consist of low brick walls punctuated by Garden and Other Off Street Parking undertaken without careful consideration. because of the impact on the appearance taller piers in the same brick, topped by Standards’ (adopted September 2006). This of the street and loss of vegetation and coping stones. The larger houses would often The Council is keen that where front garden document provides detailed advice on the biodiversity. When forecourt parking is have bespoke, more ornate versions, as seen parking does occur, it is done in the best legal and design issues when creating a proposed, this SPD seeks to ensure it is in the surviving example on Manor Road in possible way, by following guidance given in parking area in your front garden and access provided in a sympathetic way. Teddington. this and the 2006 SPD. to it from the highway. Council Policy LP45 It is generally considered that additional In Hampton Wick, fine examples of ornate also establishes the principle approach to Planning Permission forecourt parking does not significantly red brick walls can be seen retained on a Forecourt Parking, notably that it will be reduce parking congestion as it results in the number of gable end detached two and a half discouraged. Highway Authority permission In some cases alterations to front gardens loss of on-street parking. storey houses along Seymour Road. for construction of a crossover is required fall within the terms of ‘permitted development’, in which case planning in all cases, and the SPD standard will be Important features in Hampton Wick The interwar period, especially, produced approval is not required and therefore applied to all highway crossover applications. and Teddington a streetscape with a distinctive character. the Council has little or no control over The boundary walls to the many detached The Hampton Wick and Teddington Village the creation of forecourt parking. You will Many front gardens and frontage features in and semi-detached houses from this period Planning Guidance SPD draws upon the not normally need planning permission, Hampton Wick and Teddington contribute often had a stepped or undulating profile, 2006 SPD, providing updated and specific outside of a Conservation Area if a new significantly to the overall character of the sometimes rendered but more often in brick. information for Hampton Wick and or replacement driveway of any size uses area and local street scene both within Teddington. It is important that the 2006 permeable (or porous) surfacing which and outside of the Conservation Areas. A large number of boundary walls in both SPD is read in conjunction with the guidance allows water to drain through, such as These include brick gate piers, dwarf walls Hampton Wick and Teddington from this below. It is also advised to refer to the permeable concrete block paving or porous incorporating railings or hedges, planted period have either been replaced over time Council’s Supplementary Planning Document asphalt, or by directing rainfall to a lawn or front gardens and a very high number of with different design approaches or with no on ‘Design Quality’ and ‘Public Space Design border to drain naturally. street trees. wall at all, typically for forecourt parking. Guide’. A number of examples of undulating walls If the surface to be covered is more than five Boundary Walls are still found in isolated locations along In both Hampton Wick and Teddington, as in square metres planning permission will be Boundary walls are perhaps the most Cambridge Road in Teddington. other areas of Richmond and across London needed for laying traditional, impermeable important and defining feature of a street as a whole, increases in population and car driveways. It is important to note that in Dwarf walls without additional features are scene, and their preservation and uniformity ownership have resulted in greater demand Conservation Areas, planning permission is typically associated with Victorian terraces adds considerably to an area’s character. for car parking spaces. Where houses are required for demolition of boundary walls, and are prevalent across both Hampton not able to have garages, or where there is fences and railings over 1m in height. They enclose front gardens and define public Wick and Teddington areas, with fine insufficient on and off street parking, this can and private space. Low walls create this examples of consistent runs on and around Article 4(2) Directions can also restrict lead to increased demand for front garden space without reducing visibility. Conforming Wick Road. the removal of structures such as those parking. traditional brick types and brickwork along a that would be required to allow access for street is an important characteristic. Conversion of front gardens for car parking parking (see the 2006 SPD for details). can individually and cumulatively adversely
78 Fencing Hedges Enclosure Picket fencing can be found intermittently Hedges enclose front gardens and define Retaining a form of enclosure to front across the Hampton Wick and Teddington public and private space. They provide an gardens and forecourts is an essential part character area, with some traditional attractive green feature to the streetscape. of retaining local character and maintaining fencing boundaries retained. Therefore, it is important for them to be the street scene. Partial loss of existing retained as frontage features, either on structures is inevitable to allow vehicle A number of well maintained picket fences their own or in combination with walls or access but some structure should be can be found along Church Grove looking railings. retained. Inward opening gates help to out across the Kings Field and Bushy Park. complete a defensible line. For the above Of note, a white painted picket fence can be Hedges are frequently used boundary reasons the gap in the boundary should not found fronting a Victorian property with a treatments across Hampton Wick and exceed that needed for the passage of a car. manicured hedge sitting behind. Teddington. Along Queen’s Road, many of This also reduces the loss of parking space the more significant Edwardian properties Boundary walls, Seymour Road In other areas, tight Victorian terraces in the road outside. have hedging as a buffer from the main road have picket boundaries amongst tradition and in Hampton Wick many properties, Permeability redbrick boundary walls. Field Lane in including particularly well maintained Teddington has a number of properties The base and finished surface should be laid properties along Lower Teddington Road fronted by natural and white painted at a slight gradient and be of a permeable have hedging above dwarf boundary walls. fencing. material, to allow the satisfactory drainage Many examples of well maintained hedges and absorption of rainwater. Water should Iron railings and gates can be found along the cul-de-sac of St not drain from the property onto the Iron railings (and gates) feature on houses Mary’s Avenue, helping to offset the negative footway. A length of drain or soak-away across Hampton Wick and Teddington but impact of significant on-street parking. may be required at the site boundary to for the most part with no consistency. More prevent this or a connection to a surface Retention of existing features traditional railings typically are embedded water sewer can be established with the into a lower boundary wall, enclosing The general aim of any design for car agreement of the Water Authority. Loose Hedges, Queen’s Road the front garden whilst keeping visual parking in front gardens should be to gravel should be avoided. obstruction to a minimum. retain as much of the existing features as is Green features practical – such as existing walls, railings or Dwarf walls with iron railings atop are a hedging. Where an opening has to be made Loss of existing green space may be relatively common boundary treatment, in an existing wall, railing or fence, it should inevitable, however retaining and / or typically as addition/alterations to front be made good at both ends to match replacing some planting in a generous boundary walls. The former NHS site existing materials and details, and should be manner may help to maintain the area’s within Normansfield Conservation Area is no more than a car width wide. character, screen vehicles and create a more surrounded by traditional cast-iron railings pleasant natural environment by absorbing above a mixed stock brick boundary wall. local exhaust fumes.
Picket fences, Church Grove 79 12. Flood Risk
Reducing flood risk to you and your propertys-flood-protection. In areas at risk of flooding, all proposals on Flood defences property sites of 10 dwellings or more or 1000sqm of D. Applicants will have to demonstrate that Relevant Planning Policies non-residential development or more, or on There are a number of things that residents their proposal complies with the following: any other proposal where safe access/egress in Hampton Wick and Teddington can do to The Council’s planning policy documents cannot be achieved, a Flood Emergency Plan 1. Retain the effectiveness, stability and ensure that they are prepared for and aware outline ways in which new development must be submitted. integrity of flood defences, river banks and of the potential risk of flooding to properties. within Hampton Wick and Teddington should other formal and informal flood defence account for flood risk. This includes new build Where a Flood Risk Assessment is required, Find out if you are at risk infrastructure. construction of residential and commercial on-site attenuation to alleviate fluvial and/ The map outlines the broad areas in which buildings, as well as significant alternations or or surface water flooding over and above 2. Ensure the proposal does not prevent there is a potential flood risk in both changes of use of existing buildings that may the Environment Agency’s floodplain essential maintenance and upgrading to be Hampton Wick and Teddington. A more be impacted by flooding. compensation is required where feasible. carried out in the future. detailed map can be found at www.gov.uk/ The policies cover all flood risk Basements and subterranean developments 3. Set back developments from river banks prepare-for-a-flood/find-out-if-youre-at-risk. considerations, responding to the Borough’s and existing flood defence infrastructure As flood risk maps are updated frequently to B. Basements within flood affected areas of setting, which is very susceptible to flooding. where possible (16 metres for the tidal reflect the latest modelling, you are advised to the borough represent a particularly high Relevant local policies from the Council’s Thames and 8 metres for other rivers). check the latest maps via this link. Local Plan include the following: risk to life, as they may be subject to very rapid inundation. 4. Take into account the requirements of the Actions to reduce flood risk Policy LP 21: Flood Risk and Sustainable Thames Estuary 2100 Plan and the River Sustainable drainage There are a number of ways to reduce and Drainage Thames Scheme, and demonstrate how the mitigate the impacts of flooding on your A. All developments should avoid, or C. The Council will require the use of current and future requirements for flood property: minimise, contributing to all sources of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in all defences have been incorporated into the development proposals. Applicants will have development. ■ Sign up for flood warning www.gov.uk/ flooding, including fluvial, tidal, surface ■ to demonstrate that their proposal complies sign-up-for-flood-warnings. water, groundwater and flooding from 5. The removal of formal or informal flood sewers, taking account of climate change with the following: ■ Contact Floodline 0345 988 1188 (24- defences is not acceptable unless this is part ■ and without increasing flood risk elsewhere. hour service) in case of an emergency or 1. A reduction in surface water discharge to of an agreed flood risk management strategy Development will be guided to areas of for further guidance. greenfield run-off rates wherever feasible. by the Environment Agency. lower risk by applying the ‘Sequential Test’ ■■ Make a personal flood plan, Government as set out in national policy guidance, and 2. Where greenfield run-off rates are not Within the existing Development guidance can be found at: www.gov.uk/ where necessary, the ‘Exception Test’ will feasible, this will need to be demonstrated Management Plan (2011) the equivalent government/publications/personal-flood- be applied. Unacceptable developments and by the applicant, and in such instances, the policies are Policy DM SD 3, Policy DM SD 6, plan. land uses will be refused in line with national minimum requirement is to achieve at least Policy DM SD 7 and Policy DM SD 8. ■■ Improve your home’s flood protection, policy and guidance, the Council’s Strategic a 50% attenuation of the site’s surface water the Government have outlined a number Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) and as runoff at peak times based on the levels of measures that you can take at: www. outlined in the table below. existing prior to the development. gov.uk/prepare-for-a-flood/improve-your-
80 Flood Risk map for Hampton Wick and Teddington 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.
81 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 Publication Local Plan (January best use of land; sensitive areas, rigid and gloss finish blinds of trips should be located within a Main 2017) will generally be unacceptable. Centre Boundary. Elsewhere development 4. space between buildings, relationship of should be located within the defined Area Main policies that the SPD will support: heights to widths and relationship to the Advertisements and hoardings of Mixed Use (AMU boundary). For centres, public realm, heritage assets and natural or parts of centres where no boundary Policy LP 1: Local Character and Design features; The Council will exercise strict control Quality over the design and siting of advertisements exists, proposals should be well-related to 5. inclusive design, connectivity, permeability and hoardings to ensure the character of designated shopping frontages. The Council will require all development (as such gated developments will not individual buildings and streets are not Proposals not in the above locations, to be of high architectural and urban design be permitted), natural surveillance and materially harmed, having regard to the including extensions to existing retail and quality. The high quality character and orientation; and interests of amenity and public safety leisure developments of more than 200sqm heritage of the borough and its villages will (including highway safety). need to be maintained and enhanced where 6. suitability and compatibility of uses, taking gross, should satisfy the Sequential Test as set opportunities arise. Development proposals account of any potential adverse impacts of Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) out in national policy and guidance. Out of will have to demonstrate a thorough the co-location of uses through the layout, the equivalent policy is Policy CP7 and in the centre retail development is not considered understanding of the site and how it relates design and management of the site. Development Management Plan (2011) the appropriate in line with the London Plan; and equivalent policies are Policy DC1 and Policy to its existing context, including character All proposals, including extensions, 3. does not adversely impact on the vitality DC7. and appearance, and take opportunities alterations and shop fronts, will be assessed and viability of the centre in which the to improve the quality and character of against the advice set out in the relevant Policy LP 25: Development in Centres development is proposed, or another centre. buildings, spaces and t he local area. Village Planning Guidance and other SPDs When assessing proposals for development A. Development in the borough’s centres, To ensure development respects, contributes relating to character and design. outside of existing centres, applicants will as defined in the centre hierarchy, will be to and enhances the local environment and have to comply with the requirements of Shop fronts acceptable if it: character, the following will be considered national policy and guidance in relation to when assessing proposals: The Council will resist the removal of 1. is in keeping with the centre’s role and impact assessments. For retail developments, shopfronts of architectural or historic function within the hierarchy and is of a scale including extensions of over 500sqm gross, 1. compatibility with local character including interest. Shopfronts, including signage appropriate to the size of the centre (also the Council will require a Retail Impact the relationship to existing townscape, and illumination, should complement the see the Spatial Strategy of this Plan); and Assessment. development patterns, views, local grain and proportions, character, materials and frontages as well as scale, height, massing, The scope of such assessments will need detailing, surrounding streetscene and 2. is in an appropriate location, as follows: density, landscaping, proportions, form, to be agreed with the Council before the building of which it forms part. Blinds, materials and detailing; a. A1 uses should be located within, adjacent submitting a planning application; and canopies or shutters, where acceptable to or well-related (or capable of being made 2. sustainable design and construction, in principle, must be appropriate to the so) to designated shopping frontages. 4. optimises the potential of sites by including adaptability, subject to aesthetic character of the shopfront and its context contributing towards a suitable mix of uses considerations; within which it is located. External security b. For other appropriate uses (see B & that enhance the vitality and viability of the grilles and large illuminated fascias will only C below), major development and/or centre. Commercial or community uses 3. layout, siting and access, including making be allowed in exceptional circumstances. In developments which generate high levels should be provided on the ground floor
82 fronting the street, subject to other Local 1. supporting proposals which promote LP12: Green Infrastructure demonstrated that clearly outweigh the Plan policies, including the retail frontages and enhance the borough’s existing tourist harm to the Green Belt or Metropolitan Green infrastructure is a network of policy LP 26. attractions, including the unique, historic Open Land. multi-functional green spaces and natural and cultural assets that are connected via B. In addition to A above, the following elements, which provides multiple benefits Appropriate uses within Green Belt or the River Thames, such as The Royal Botanic applies to development proposals in the for people, nature and the economy. Metropolitan Open Land include public and Gardens, Kew, Ham House and Hampton borough’s five main centres: private open spaces and playing fields, open Court Palace; A. To ensure all development proposals recreation and sport, biodiversity including 1. The Council will support appropriate protect, and where opportunities arise 2. proposals that lead to increased visitors rivers and bodies of water and open development(2) in the five main centres. enhance, green infrastructure, the following and tourists need to be of an appropriate community uses including allotments and will be taken into account when assessing 2. The Council will encourage proposals for scale for the size of the centre and will be cemeteries. Development will be supported development proposals: leisure, cultural and tourism facilities which assessed against the transport policies of if it is appropriate and helps secure the contribute to the diversity of the offer. this Plan; a. the need to protect the integrity of the objectives of improving the Green Belt or green spaces and assets that are part of Metropolitan Open Land. Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) 3. requiring accommodation and facilities the wider green infrastructure network; the equivalent policy is Policy CP7 and in to be accessible to all; at least 10% of hotel B. It will be recognised that there may be improvements and enhancements to the the Development Management Plan (2011) bedrooms should be wheelchair accessible; exceptional cases where inappropriate green infrastructure network are supported; the equivalent policies are Policy DC1, development such as small scale structures 4. enhancing the environment in areas Policy DC7, Policy DM TC 2. b. its contribution to the wider green may be acceptable, but only if it: leading to, within and around visitor infrastructure network by delivering destinations where appropriate. 1. Does not harm the character and Policy LP34: New Housing landscape enhancement, restoration or re- openness of the Green Belt or Metropolitan B. In relation to visitor accommodation: creation; and A. The Borough’s target is 3,150 homes Open Land; and for the period 2015-2025. This target will 1. proposals which result in the loss of c. incorporating green infrastructure assets, 2. Is linked to the functional use of the be rolled forward until it is replaced by a bedspaces will be resisted; which make positive contributions to the Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land, or revised London Plan target. The Council wider green infrastructure network. will exceed the minimum strategic dwelling 2. proposals which increase the number supports outdoor open space uses; or of bedspaces will be supported subject to Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) requirement, where this can be achieved in 3. Is for essential utility infrastructure other Local Plan policies; the equivalent policy is Policy C10. accordance with other Local Plan policies. and facilities for which it needs to be Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) 3. proposals will be supported which LP13: Green Belt, Metropolitan Open Land demonstrated that no alternative locations the equivalent policy is Policy C14. contribute towards providing a range of and Local Green Space are available and that they do not have visitor accommodation, including small any adverse impacts on the character Policy LP43: Visitor Economy independent hotels and bed and breakfast A. The borough’s Green Belt and and openness of the Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land will be protected A. The Council will support the sustainable accommodation, subject to other Local Plan Metropolitan Open Land. and retained in predominately open use. growth of the visitor economy for the policies. Inappropriate development will be refused C. Improvement and enhancement of the benefit of the local area by: Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) unless ‘very special circumstances’ can be openness and character of the Green Belt the equivalent policy is Policy C20. or Metropolitan Open Land and measures
83 to reduce visual impacts will be encouraged b. it can only be a replacement of, or minor Secondary Shopping Frontages Policy LP3: Designated Heritage Assets where appropriate. extension to, existing built facilities; and B. A non-A1 proposal will be acceptable in A. The Council will require development When considering developments on sites c. it does not harm the character or the secondary shopping frontages only if it: to conserve and, where possible, outside Green Belt or Metropolitan Open openness of the open land. take opportunities to make a positive 1. (a) meets community needs (such as a Land, any possible visual impacts on the contribution to, the historic environment of Improvement and enhancement of the dentist, clinic or health centre, veterinary character and openness of the Green Belt or the borough. The significance (including the openness or character of other open land surgery, gym, fitness studio and facilities Metropolitan Open Land will be taken into settings) of the borough’s designated heritage and measures to open up views into and which would enable the public better access account. assets, encompassing Conservation Areas, out of designated other open land will be to police services) and provides a direct Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments as encouraged. service to visiting members of the public, or Local Green Space well as the Registered Historic Parks and D. Local Green Space, which has been When considering developments on sites (b) falls within Use Classes A2 to A5, or Gardens, will be conserved and enhanced by demonstrated to be special to a local outside designated other open land, any the following means: (c) is another commercial use which community and which holds a particular possible visual impacts on the character and provides a direct service to visiting members 1. Give great weight to the conservation local significance, will be protected from openness of the designated other open land of the public without appointment. of the heritage asset when considering the will be taken into account. inappropriate development that could cause impact of a proposed development on the harm to its qualities. In addition to (a) or (b) above, the proposal Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) the significance of the asset. must the meet the following criteria: equivalent policy is Policy C10. Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) the 2. Resist the demolition in whole, or in part, equivalent policy is Policy C10. 2. the proposed use should retain a ‘shop- Within the existing Development of Listed Buildings. Consent for demolition like’ appearance; it should not have a Policy LP14: Other Open Land of Townscape Management Plan (2011) the equivalent of Grade II Listed Buildings will only be detrimental visual impact on the shopfront Importance policy is Policy DM OS 3. granted in exceptional circumstances and and should respect the heritage and for Grade II* and Grade I Listed Buildings in Other open areas that are of townscape Policy LP26: Retail Frontages character of the centre, taking into account wholly exceptional circumstances following a importance will be protected in open use, the Village Planning Guidance SPDs; The Council has designated parts of centres thorough assessment of their significance. and enhanced where possible. It will be as Key Shopping Frontage or Secondary 3. the proposed use has to be recognised that there may be exceptional 3. Resist the change of use of Listed Buildings Shopping Frontage. complementary to the area’s shopping cases where appropriate development is where this would materially harm their function and provide a direct service to the acceptable. The following criteria will be Key Shopping Frontages character and distinctiveness, particularly public; and taken into account when assessing whether where the current use contributes to the A. Proposals that result in a loss of development is appropriate: 4. it will not create an unbroken run of three character of the surrounding area and to its floorspace in Use Class A1 in Key Shopping or more non-A1 units. sense of place. a. it must be linked to the functional use Frontages will be resisted. Other uses of the Other Open Land of Townscape converting to retail will be supported, Within the existing Development 4. Require the retention and preservation of Importance; subject to there being no adverse impact on Management Plan (2011) the equivalent the original structure, layout, architectural the centre. The Council will seek to retain policy is Policy DM TC 3. features, materials as well as later features or key facilities including Post Offices. of interest within Listed Buildings, and resist the removal or modification of features
84 that are both internally and externally of optimum viable use, outweigh that harm; or Policy LP 4: Non-Designated Heritage Within the existing Development architectural importance or that contribute Assets Management Plan (2011) the equivalent 3. the building or part of the building or to the significance of the asset. policy is Policy DM HD 3. structure makes no positive contribution to The Council will seek to preserve, and 5. Demolitions (in whole or in part), the character where possible enhance, the significance, Policy LP5: Views and Vistas alterations, extensions and any other character and setting of non-designated or distinctiveness of the area. The Council will protect the quality of modifications to Listed Buildings should be heritage assets, including Buildings of the views, vistas, gaps and the skyline, all based on an accurate understanding of the C. All proposals in Conservation Areas are Townscape Merit, memorials, particularly of which contribute significantly to the significance of the heritage asset. required to preserve and, where possible, war memorials, and other local historic character, distinctiveness and quality of enhance the character or the appearance of features. 6. Require, where appropriate, the the local and wider area, by the following the Conservation Area. reinstatement of internal and external There will be a presumption against the means: features of special architectural or historic D. Where there is evidence of intentional demolition of Buildings of Townscape Merit. 1. protect the quality of the views and significance within Listed Buildings, and the damage or deliberate neglect to a Applicants will be required to: vistas as identified on the Proposals Map, removal of internal and external features designated heritage asset, its current 1. retain the character of Buildings of and demonstrate such through computer- that harm the significance of the asset, condition will not be taken into account in Townscape Merit, war memorials and any generated imagery (CGI) and visual impact commensurate with the extent of proposed the decision-making process. other non-designated heritage assets; assessments; development. E. Outline planning applications will not 2. submit a Heritage statement to assess the 2. resist development which interrupts, 7. Require the use of appropriate materials be accepted in Conservation Areas. The potential harm to, or loss of, the significance disrupts or detracts from strategic and local and techniques and strongly encourage Council’s Conservation Area Statements, of the non-designated heritage asset, vistas, views, gaps and the skyline; any works or repairs to a designated and where available Conservation Area including from both direct and indirect heritage asset to be carried out in a correct, Studies, and/or Management Plans, will be 3. require developments whose visual effects; scholarly manner by appropriate specialists. used as a basis for assessing development impacts extend beyond that of the proposals within, or where it would affect 3. describe the significance of the non- immediate street to demonstrate how B. Resist substantial demolition in the setting of, Conservation Areas, together designated heritage asset affected, including views are protected or enhanced; Conservation Areas and any changes that with other policy guidance, such as Village any contribution made by their setting; could harm heritage assets, unless it can be 4. require development to respect the Planning Guidance SPDs. the extent of the relevant setting will be demonstrated that: setting of a landmark, taking care not to proportionate to the significance of the Within the existing Development create intrusive elements in its foreground, 1. in the case of substantial harm or loss asset. Appropriate expertise should be used Management Plan (2011) the equivalent middle ground or background; to the significance of the heritage asset, it to assess a non-designated heritage asset; policies are Policy DM OS 4, Policy DM HD is necessary to achieve substantial public and 5. improvements to views, vistas, gaps 1 and Policy DM HD 2. benefits that outweigh that harm or loss; and the skyline, particularly where views 4. retain or restore the structures, features or vistas have been obscured, will be 2. in the case of less than substantial harm and materials of the asset, which contribute encouraged where appropriate; to the significance of the heritage asset, that to its architectural integrity and historic the public benefits, including securing the interest. 6. seek improvements to views within
85 Conservation Areas, which: policy is Policy DM HO 1. existing homes or gardens, in accordance of the development while minimising the with policy LP 8 Amenity and Living impact of car based travel including on the a. are identified in Conservation Area Policy LP39: Infill, Backland and Backgarden Conditions; operation of the road network and local Statements and Studies and Village Plans; Development environment, and ensuring making the best 9. Provide adequate servicing, recycling and b. are within, into, and out of Conservation Infill and Backland Development use of land. It will achieve this by: refuse storage as well as cycle parking; Areas; A. All infill and backland development must 1. Requiring new development to provide 10. Result in no adverse impact on c. affect the setting of and from development reflect the character of the surrounding area for car, cycle, 2 wheel and, where applicable, neighbours in terms of visual impact, noise on sites adjacent to Conservation Areas and and protect the amenity and living conditions lorry parking and electric vehicle charging or light from vehicular access or car parking. Listed Buildings. of neighbours. In considering applications for points, in accordance with the standards infill and backland development the following Backgarden Development set out in Appendix 3. Opportunities to Within the existing Development factors should be addressed: minimise car parking through its shared use Management Plan (2011) the equivalent B. There is a presumption against loss of back will be encouraged. policy is Policy DM TC 7. 1. Retain plots of sufficient width for gardens due to the need to maintain local adequate separation between dwellings; character, amenity space and biodiversity. 2. Resisting the provision of front garden car Policy LP38: Loss of Housing Back garden land which contributes either parking unless it can be demonstrated that: 2. Retain similar spacing between new A. Existing housing should be retained. individually or as part of a larger swathe buildings to any established spacing; a. there would be no material impact on of green space to amenity of residents or B. Proposals for reversions and conversions road or pedestrian safety; 3. Retain appropriate garden space for provides wildlife habitats must be retained. In should assess the suitability of the property adjacent dwellings; exceptional cases where it is considered that b. there would be no harmful impact on and design considerations. a limited scale of backgarden development the character of the area, including the 4. Respect the local context, in accordance C. Redevelopment of existing housing should may be acceptable it should not have a streetscape or setting of the property, in line with policy LP 2 Building Heights; normally only take place where: significantly adverse impact upon the factors with the policies on Local Character and 5. Enhance the street frontage (where set out above. Development on backgarden Design; and a. it has first been demonstrated that the sites must be more intimate in scale and applicable) taking account of local character; c. the existing on street demand is less than existing housing is incapable of improvement lower than frontage properties. or conversion to a satisfactory standard to 6. Incorporate or reflect materials and available capacity. Within the existing Development provide an equivalent scheme; and, if this is detailing on existing dwellings, in accordance 3. Car free housing developments may be Management Plan (2011) the equivalent the case with policy LP 1 Local Character and Design appropriate in locations with high public policies are Policy DM HO 2 and Policy DM Quality; transport accessibility, such as areas with a b. the proposal does not have an adverse HO 3. impact on local character; and 7. Retain or re-provide features important PTAL of 5 or 6, subject to: to character, appearance or wildlife, in Policy LP45: Parking Standards and Servicing c. the proposal provides a reasonable a. the provision of disabled parking; accordance with policy LP 16 Trees and standard of accommodation. Parking standards Landscape; b. appropriate servicing arrangements; and The Council will require new development Within the existing Development c. demonstrating that proper controls can be 8. Result in no unacceptable adverse impact to make provision for the accommodation Management Plan (2011) the equivalent put in place to ensure that the proposal will on neighbours, including loss of privacy to of vehicles in order to provide for the needs
86 not contribute to on-street parking stress To ensure development protects, respects, protected throughout the course of and informal land for sport and recreation in the locality. contributes to and enhances trees and development, in accordance with British should be linked to the wider Green landscapes, the Council, when assessing Standard 5837 (Trees in relation to Infrastructure network as they play an All proposals for car free housing will need development proposals, will: design, demolition and construction – important role in creating social cohesion, to be supported by the submission of a Recommendations). encouraging and promoting healthier and Travel Plan. Trees more active lifestyles. The Council may serve Tree Preservation 4. Managing the level of publicly available car 1. resist the loss of trees unless the tree Orders or attach planning conditions to Impacts on existing provision parking to support the vitality and viability is dead, dying or dangerous; or the tree protect trees considered to be of value to of town and local centres within the is causing significant damage to adjacent B. The Council will require all major the townscape and amenity and which are borough whilst limiting its impacts on the structures; or the tree has little or no development proposals in the borough to threatened by development. road network. amenity value; or felling is for reasons of meet the Public Open Space and play space good arboricultural practice; Landscape needs arising out of the development by Freight and Servicing meeting a set criteria: 2. resist development which results in the 1. require the retention of important New major development which involves damage or loss of trees that are considered existing landscape features where Within the existing Development freight movements and has servicing needs to be of townscape or amenity value; the practicable; Management Plan (2011) the equivalent will be required to demonstrate through Council will require that site design or policies are DM OS 7 and DM OS8. the submission of a Delivery and Servicing 2. require landscape design and materials to layout ensures a harmonious relationship Plan and Construction and Logistics Plan be of high quality and compatible with the between trees and their surroundings and Other relevant policies that it creates no severe impacts on the surrounding landscape and character; and will resist development which will be likely Policy LP 29: Education and Training efficient and safe operation of the road to result in pressure to significantly prune 3. encourage planting, including new trees, network and no material harm to the living The Council will work with partners to or remove trees; shrubs and other significant vegetation conditions of nearby residents. encourage the provision of facilities and where appropriate. 3. require, where practicable, an appropriate services for education and training of all Within the existing Development replacement for any tree that is felled; a Policy LP 31: Public Open Space, Play Space, age groups to help reduce inequalities and Management Plan (2011) the equivalent financial contribution to the provision for Sport and Recreation support the local economy, by the following policies are Policy DM TP 8 and Policy DM an off-site tree in line with the monetary means: TP 9. value of the existing tree to be felled will be A. Public Open Space, children’s and young people’s play facilities as well as formal 1. supporting the provision of facilities to Policy LP 16: Trees and Landscape required in line with the ‘Capital Asset Value for Amenity Trees’ (CAVAT); and informal sports grounds and playing meet the needs for primary and secondary The Council will require the protection fields will be protected, and where possible school places as well as pre-school and of existing trees and the provision of 4. require new trees to be of a suitable enhanced. Improvements of existing facilities other education and training facilities; new trees, shrubs and other vegetation species for the location in terms of height and spaces, including their openness 2. safeguarding land and buildings in of landscape significance that compliment and root spread; the use of native species is and character and their accessibility and educational use; existing, or create new, high quality encouraged where appropriate; linkages, will be encouraged. green areas, which deliver amenity and 3. identifying new sites for educational 5. require that trees are adequately New open spaces, play facilities and formal biodiversity benefits. uses as part of this Plan; the Council will
87 work with landowners and developers to car dependency. 4. Applications for new or improved facilities ground level in buildings fronting the river. secure sites for pre-schools, primary and or loss of health and social care facilities will 2. Access to green infrastructure, including Public Access secondary schools as well as sixth forms to be assessed in line with the criteria set out river corridors, local open spaces as well ensure sufficient spaces can be provided for in the Social and Community Infrastructure C. All development proposals alongside or as leisure, recreation and play facilities to children aged 2-18; policy. adjacent to the borough’s river corridors encourage physical activity. should: 4. encouraging the potential to maximise Within the existing Core Strategy (2009) 3. Access to local community facilities, existing educational sites through the equivalent policies to LP29 and LP30 is a. Retain existing public access to the services and shops which encourage extensions, redevelopment or refurbishment Policy CP13, Policy CP17 and Policy CP18. riverside and alongside the river; and opportunities for social interaction and to meet identified educational needs; active living, as well as contributing to Policy LP 18: River corridors b. Enhance existing public access to the 5. encouraging flexible and adaptable dementia-friendly environments. riverside where improvements are feasible; A. The natural, historic and built buildings, multi-use and co-location with or 4. Access to local healthy food, for example, environment of the River Thames other social infrastructure. allotments and food growing spaces. corridor and the various watercourses in c. Provide new public access to the riverside B. The Council will promote local the borough, including the River Crane, and the foreshore where possible. There is 5. Access to toilet facilities which are employment opportunities and training Beverley Brook, Duke of Northumberland an expectation that all major development open to all in major developments where programmes. Where the employment River, Longford River and Whitton Brook, proposals adjacent to the borough’s rivers appropriate (linked to the Council’s opportunities generated by construction will be protected. Development adjacent shall provide public access to the riverside Community Toilet Scheme). as well as the end use of the development to the river corridors will be expected and foreshore. create more than 20 (Full Time Equivalent) 6. An inclusive development layout and to contribute to improvements and River Thames public riverside walk jobs, a Local Employment Agreement, public realm that considers the needs of all, enhancements to the river environment. secured through a Section 106 agreement, including the older population and disabled Thames Policy Area D. All development proposals adjoining will be required. people. the River Thames are required to B. Development proposals within the provide a public riverside walk, including Policy LP 30: Health and Well Being B. This policy will be delivered by requiring Thames Policy Area should respect and for pedestrians and cyclists, which will developments to comply with the following: Planning, at all levels, can play a crucial role take account of the special character of the contribute to the overarching aim of in creating environments that enhance 1. A Health Impact Assessment must be reach as set out in the Thames Landscape providing a continuous publicly accessible people’s health and wellbeing. The Council submitted with all major development Strategy and Thames Strategy as well as the riverside walk. For major developments, promotes and supports healthy and active proposals. Council’s Conservation Area Statements, applicants will be expected to work with lifestyles and measures to reduce health and where available Conservation Area adjoining landowners in case ownership 2. The Council will refuse proposals for new inequalities. Studies, and/or Management Plans. issues would prevent public access. fast food takeaways (A5 uses) located within Developments alongside and adjacent A. The Council will support development 400 metres of the boundaries of a primary to the River Thames should ensure that Riverside uses, including river-dependent that results in a pattern of land uses and or secondary school in order to restrict the they establish a relationship with the river, and river-related uses facilities that encourage: availability of unhealthy foods. maximise the benefits of its setting in terms E. The Council will resist the loss of existing 1. Sustainable modes of travel such as safe 3. Existing health facilities will need to be of views and vistas, and incorporate uses river-dependent and river-related uses cycling routes, attractive walking routes and retained where these continue to meet, or that enable local communities and the that contribute to the special character of easy access to public transport to reduce can be adapted to meet, residents’ needs. public to enjoy the riverside, especially at the River Thames, including river-related
88 industry (B2) and locally important wharves, Within the existing Development and convenient access to public transport E. River transport boat building sheds and boatyards and other Management Plan (2011) the equivalent services. Proposals will be expected to Encourage the use of the River Thames for riverside facilities such as slipways, docks, policy is Policy DM OS 11 support improvements to existing services passenger and freight transport through the jetties, piers and stairs. and infrastructure where no capacity Policy LP44: Sustainable Travel Choices protection of, improvement to, and provision currently exists or is planned to be provided. This will be achieved by: of new relevant infrastructure including The Council will work in partnership to Protect existing public transport interchange wharves, slipways and piers. 1. resisting redevelopment of existing promote safe, sustainable and accessible facilities unless suitable alternative river-dependent or river-related industrial transport solutions, which minimise the F. Safeguarding of routes and facilities facilities can be provided which ensure the and business uses to non-river related impacts of development including in maintenance of the existing public transport Land required for proposed transport employment uses or residential uses unless relation to congestion, air pollution and operations. Applications will need to include schemes as identified in the London Plan it can be demonstrated that no other river- carbon dioxide emissions, and maximise details setting out how such re-provision and the Council’s Local Implementation dependent or river-related use is feasible or opportunities including for health benefits will be secured and provided in a timely Plan for Transport will be protected from viable; and providing access to services, facilities manner. developments which would prevent their and employment. The Council will: 2. ensuring development on sites along the proper implementation. D. The road network river is functionally related to the river and A. Location of development Local filling stations and supporting services includes river-dependent or river-related Ensure that new development does not have Encourage high trip generating development such as car repair facilities will be protected uses where possible, including gardens which a severe impact on the operation, safety to be located in areas with good public from redevelopment for alternative uses are designed to embrace and enhance the or accessibility to the local or strategic transport with sufficient capacity, or which unless exceptional circumstances can be river, and be sensitive to its ecology; highway networks. Any impacts on the local are capable of supporting improvements to demonstrated that warrant their loss. or strategic highway networks, arising from 3. requiring an assessment of the effect of provide good public transport accessibility the development itself or the cumulative G. Taxis and private hire vehicles the proposed development on the operation and capacity, taking account of local effects of development, including in relation of existing river-dependent uses or riverside character and context. to on-street parking, should be mitigated Ensure that taxis and private hire vehicles gardens on the site and their associated are adequately catered for in appropriate B. Walking and cycling through the provision of, or contributions facilities on- and off-site; or requiring an towards, necessary and relevant transport locations. assessment of the potential of the site for Ensure that new development is designed improvements. river-dependent uses and facilities if there to maximise permeability within and to the are none existing; immediate vicinity of the development site In assessing planning applications the through the provision of safe and convenient cumulative impacts of development on 4. ensuring that any proposed residential walking and cycling routes, and to provide the transport network will be taken into uses, where appropriate, along the river opportunities for walking and cycling, account. Planning applications will need to are compatible with the operation of the including through the provision of links and be supported by the provision of a Transport established river-related and river-dependent enhancements to existing networks. Assessment if it is a major development, uses; and a Transport Statement if it is a minor C. Public transport 5. requiring setting back development from development. river banks and existing flood defences along Ensure that major new developments the River Thames. maximise opportunities to provide safe
89 Relevant SPDs/SPGs ■■ Design Quality SPD Adopted Feb 2006 Also of relevance is the Council’s ‘Public www.richmond.gov.uk/media/7624/spd_ Space Design Guide’ (Jan 2006). The overall design_quality_doc_lowres-2.pdf aim is to provide guidance to help deliver the goal of improved streetscene and public ■ Front Gardens and other Off-street ■ spaces. www.richmond.gov.uk/public_space_ Parking Standards SPD Sept 2006 www. design_guide richmond.gov.uk/media/7625/front_ garden_and_other_off_street_parking_ Thames Landscape Strategy (2012 refresh). standards_spdv4.pdf This can be viewed at http://thames- ■■ Residential Development Standards landscape-strategy.org.uk/ March 2010 www.richmond.gov. The Council’s policy on tree management is uk/media/7629/spd_residential_ set out at: www.richmond.gov.uk/trees development_standards_2010_final_ version_30_11_10.pdf ■■ Shopfronts SPD March 2010 www. richmond.gov.uk/media/7631/ shopfronts_2010_lr.pdf ■■ Small and Medium Housing Sites SPD Feb 2006 www.richmond.gov.uk/ media/7632/spd_small_and_medium_ housing_sites.pdf ■■ Design Guidelines Leaflets 3 and 4: House Extensions and External Alterations. Adopted Sept 2002. Reformatted with minor updates July 2005. Based on UDP policies www. richmond.gov.uk/media/7617/house_ extensions_and_external_alterations_ spd_may_2015.pdf ■■ Design Guidelines leaflet 11: Shopfront Security. First published 1997 and Reformatted with minor updates July 2005. Based on UDP policies www. richmond.gov.uk/shopsfront_security.pdf
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