Glengall Road Conservation Area Appraisal Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 1.1 What is a Conservation Area? ...................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Purpose of this Appraisal: conserving what’s special ................................................................................... 2 1.3 Using this document ...................................................................................................................................... 2 1.4 Glengall Road: Location, description and summary of special interest ........................................................ 2 Summary of special architectural and historic interest of the conservation area .................................................. 4 2 History and archaeology .................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Early history and archaeology ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 19th-century development ............................................................................................................................. 5 2.3 Glengall Road: the suburbs ........................................................................................................................... 6 2.4 20th-century decline ...................................................................................................................................... 7 3 Appraisal of special character and appearance of the area .............................................................................. 8 3.1 Historic significance ...................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Layout and form ............................................................................................................................................ 8 3.3 Landmarks, views and setting: ...................................................................................................................... 9 3.4 Character areas ............................................................................................................................................ 9 4 The conservation area today ........................................................................................................................... 15 4.1 Audit of designated and undesignated features.......................................................................................... 15 5 Management and development guidelines...................................................................................................... 17 5.1 What changes can you make to your building or your development site? ................................................. 17 5.2 What needs permission? ............................................................................................................................. 17 5.3 Trees ........................................................................................................................................................... 17 5.4 How will be the Council judge planning applications? ................................................................................ 17 5.5 Advice on common building projects .......................................................................................................... 18 6 Proposed boundary changes and additional planning regulations. ................. Error! Bookmark not defined. 6.1 Boundary changes: ...................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 6.2 Management of the Conservation Area ...................................................................................................... 21 6.3 Consultation ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Glengall Road Conservation Area Appraisal • southwark.gov.uk • Page 01 1 Introduction 1.1 What is a Conservation Area? 1.3 Using this document 1.1.1 The purpose of this statement is to provide both 1.3.1 The appraisal is intended to assist and guide all an account of the Glengall Road Conservation those involved in development and in making Area and a clear indication of the Council’s changes to buildings within the area. By laying approach to its preservation and enhancement. It down what’s special about the area it will allow is intended to assist and guide all those involved anyone applying for planning permission to judge in development and change in the area. Once whether their proposal will meet the legal test of adopted by the Council, this appraisal will be a preserving or enhancing the character and material consideration when assessing planning appearance of the conservation area. It will also applications. be used by the Council when making its judgement on planning or listed building 1.1.2 The statutory definition of a conservation area as applications. laid down in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act, 1990 is an ‘area of 1.3.2 The appraisal is organised into several chapters, special architectural or historic interest, the each with a summary of what’s special. It character or appearance of which it is desirable concludes with Section 5 which lays down to preserve or enhance.’ detailed planning guidelines for owners, occupiers and developers who wish to make 1.1.3 Under the Act the Council has duty to decide changes to their building or to the area. which parts of the borough are of special architectural or historic interest and to designate 1.3.3 This appraisal has been prepared in line with the these parts as conservation areas. The Council Historic England guidance report Understanding has designated 48 conservation areas to date, of Place: Designation and Management of which one is Glengall Road. Conservation Areas (2011). 1.1.4 Conservation areas are normally centred on 1.4 Glengall Road: Location, description and historic buildings, open space, or an historic summary of special interest street pattern. It is the character of an area, rather than individual buildings, that such a 1.4.1 The Glengall Road Conservation Area is situated designation seeks to preserve or enhance. to the south of the Old Kent Road, approximately 350 metres south-east of the entrance to 1.2 Purpose of this Appraisal: conserving what’s Burgess Park. special 1.4.2 It was designated as a conservation area by the 1.2.1 The control of change to buildings within Glengall Council on 21 November 1971 under the Civic Road Conservation Area is via the normal Amenities Act of 1967, and extended on 30 planning system. All planning applications to the September 1991 and again 3 April 1998. On 14 Council (including for small scale changes such May 2019 the conservation area was extended to as changing windows) will be judged as to the north, to take in a section of Burgess Park at whether they preserve or enhance the character the junction of Old Kent Road and Glengall Road, and appearance of the conservation area. and west to include the Former John Mills and Sons Mineral Water Factory and Bottling Works 1.2.2 This appraisal therefore at No. 12 Ossory Road. describes special architectural and historic interest of 1.4.3 It is a small area comprised principally of Glengall Road Conservation Area and properties on Glengall Road and Glengall Terrace that were mainly built during a short defines its special character and appearance period between 1840 and 1870. These properties so that it is clear what should be preserved or enhanced. remain remarkably intact, helping to give the conservation area a distinctive 19th-century character that remains despite the demolition and comprehensive redevelopment of the Glengall Road Conservation Area Appraisal • southwark.gov.uk • Page 02 surrounding streets in the 1960s and 70s. To the The form and setting of the conservation area west and south are the irregular edges of has been much altered by the formation of the Burgess Park and to the east and north are Burgess Park which cleared away surrounding warehouses, light industry, builder’s yards and streets. garages. The boundaries of the conservation area are therefore well defined and emphasise the special character of the area when compared to its hinterland. Along with the adjacent Trafalgar Avenue and Cobourg Road Conservation Areas it was one of the first parcels of formerly open land around the Old Kent Road to be developed for suburban housing in the early to mid-19th century. 1.4.4 Visually the conservation area is generally level, with a gentle slope rising from 2.3 metres up to 3.0 metres above OS Datum at the southern end. Figure 1 Location of Conservation Area Glengall Road Conservation Area Appraisal • southwark.gov.uk • Page 03 Summary of special architectural and historic interest of the conservation area A good example of early residential development off the Old Kent Road. Fine intact cohesive mid-19th-century terraced and semi-detached properties with largely unaltered exteriors attributed to the notable Regency architect Amon Henry Wilds. Typical middle class later 19th-century terraced houses with fine detailing, again