B PLANNING APPLICATION REF: 19/00024/FUL Site: 4, The Town, Enfield, EN2 6LE Proposal: Change of use of premises from a bank (A2) to a restaurant (A3) Site location Background No. 4, The Town comprises a Grade II listed, 17th-century or earlier, timber framed building of 2 storeys and attic, with 3 windows in all. A high pitched tiled roof can be seen over with 3 flat dormers. Externally the building is weatherboarded throughout, with 19th-century casements at first floor level. No 3, on the East, has one sash window, with external shutters, and a 4-panel door on ground floor. No. 4 has modern shop on ground floor. A 1950s single storey extension exists to the rear. The rear extension is not of any architectural or historic significance. Internally the building has suffered some unsympathetic alterations incurred as a result of its conversion to a building society, including inappropriate installation of a concrete slab a first floor level. Proposal This application seeks a Change of Use from a bank (A2) to to a restaurant A3. The interior is to be refitted to accommodate the restaurant. The main dining space is proposed at ground floor level, retaining the existing entrance from The Town. A small office and void are proposed at the first floor. Externally, it is proposed that the street facing elevations are to be overhauled with repair works proposed to the windows, gutters and timber weatherboard cladding. The cladding and windows is also to be repainted. Relevant Planning History Appeal REF: 17/00306/REFUSE Proposal: Change of use from bank (Class A2) to restaurant (Class A3), first floor rear extension involving plant enclosure to roof with glazed roof lantern and alterations to fenestration. Relates to planning Application Reference 17/02588/FUL Inspectorate Decision: Appeal Allowed Subject to Conditions Appeal REF: 17/00307/REFUSE Proposal: Change of use from bank (Class A2) to restaurant (Class A3), first floor rear extension involving plant enclosure to roof with glazed Inspectorate Decision: Appeal Allowed Subject to Conditions Relevant Extracts from the Enfield Town Character Appraisal 2.6.2 This character area is the heart of the Conservation Area. The market square and the unusual elongated triangle called The Town are not only evidence of early origins, but distinctive spaces in their own right, in contrast to the streets to which they connect. The market-town character of Enfield town centre radiates from this hub; the mediaeval core is overlaid with a few 18th century survivors, but mainly now with everyday, good-quality buildings of late 19th century and early 20th century commerce and public life. [p.17] The Town and the Market Place 2.6.3 The Town has retained the medieval street pattern and its focus on market and church, with the market place, St Andrew’s parish church and the grammar school still reflecting some of the ambience of a market town. The attraction of the market place area lies in the juxtaposition of six very individual buildings, forming an enclosure that allows their distinctive personalities free expression. St Andrew’s Church, the King’s Head public house, Barclay’s Bank, Market Chambers and the market house stand as representatives of most of the town’s past or present communal preoccupations, quite apart from their diverse scales and styles. The former Rialto Cinema, long disused by the time it was demolished, has been replaced by a new corner building which is part of the L-shaped Burleigh Gardens development of shops and flats between the Market and Church Street. Most of the pre-19th century buildings (including the only statutorily listed buildings, the Vestry Office and 3-4 The Town) and locally listed buildings in the town centre are located in The Town. Existing Elevations Existing Ground Floor Plan and Basement Plan Proposed Basement and Ground Floor Plan Existing First Floor Plan Existing Roof Plan Existing Section AA Existing Sections BB and CC Proposed Ground Floor Plan Proposed First Floor Plan Proposed Section AA For full details of the scheme, please access the supporting plans and heritage statement via the Council’s online public access system. LISTED BUILDING CONSENT APPLICATION REF: 18/04894/LBC Site: Cockfosters Station, Cockfosters Road, Enfield, EN4 0DZ Proposal: Installation of lift shaft and canopy Site location Background The site comprises Cockfosters Underground Station; a Grade II listed underground station designed by architect Charles Holden circa 1933 as part of the extension to the Finsbury Park Underground line. Stylistically the building is designed in a modern European style predominantly in brick, glass and reinforced concrete. It features a striking 1 storey concrete framed structure with central square headed entrance of brick and concrete with horizontal windows to either side, featuring horizontal panes and metal glazing bars. The main façade is stopped in end towerlets with London Underground sign finials. Internally, there is a 'prow' shaped booking hall and train shed with glazed roof which cants inwards above platform canopies to form a clerestory above the central track. The station has three tracks with four platforms; the central track being served from both sides by platforms 2 and 3. Over the platforms, cantilevered canopies are supported by portal frames of narrow ‘blade-like’ concrete columns and beams that rise from the platforms and span across the tracks. The building retains its original light fittings, signs, etc. Originally the building would have featured a passameter in place of the current ticket officers. The station is landmark in the area and features an impressive interior space. It is perhaps the most highly regarded example of Charles Holden's ground-breaking Modernist designs for the Piccadilly Line extensions of the early 1930s. Holden’s designs brought rational modern continental design to a wider British public and introduced the idea of image branding to buildings when this concept was still in its infancy. Structurally the building consists of a reinforced-concrete loadbearing frame with brick infill. The frame is clad in Buckinghamshire red and Staffordshire brindled blue brick with flat concrete slab roofs with dentiled soffits over. The station remains largely unaltered and retains its original fittings and notable features such as the original passimeter (ticket office) and telephone kiosks in the booking hall, in addition to the platform structures. The existing UTS ticket office windows are a later addition (circa 1980s) and are not of architectural or historic significance. Proposal The proposal is for the installation of lift shaft and canopy as part of Transport for London’s Step- free Access Scheme. Existing Cockfosters Road Elevation Proposed Cockfosters Road Elevation Existing North Elevation Proposed North Elevation Existing Internal Elevation at Ticket Hall Level Proposed Sections Proposed Internal Elevations at Ticket Hall Level Existing Street Level Plan Existing Ticket Hall Level For full details of the scheme, please access the supporting plans and heritage statement via the Council’s online public access system. .