Page 1 of 23 ST. KIERNANS GFC CLUBHOUSE KING GEORGE V PLAYING FIELDS, Contents BARNET EN5 2DN. APPLICATION DESIGN PROPOSALS 1.00 Introduction 2.00 Project Background 3.00 Sequential Test for Alternative Sites 4.00 Site Location 01 Site Context 02 Sports Masterplan 5.00 Constraints 01 Green Belt 6.00 Opportunities 7.00 Justification and needs for the Sports Clubhouse. 8.00 Application Design Proposals 01 Schedule of Accommodation/ Amount 02 Clubhouse Design 9.00 Massing and Scale 10.00 Materials Appendix A Sequential Test for Alternative Sites 11.00 Transport Statement Appendix B Masterplan 12.00 Energy & Sustainability Appendix C Justification and Needs Report 13.00 Hard & Soft Landscaping Appendix D Aerial Photographs 14.00 Bins/Refuse Appendix E Existing buildings nearby 15.00 Drainage Appendix F Transport Statement 16.00 Summary Page 2 of 23 1.0 Introduction 3.00 Sequential Testing of Alternative Sites This document has been prepared as part of the full plans submission St Kiernan’s GFC have undertaken a site search and evaluation exercise for the design of a new Gaelic football clubhouse/changing rooms at on 12 alternative sites within the Borough to determine if the St George V Playing Fields ,28 Barnet lane, London EN5 2DN clubhouse/changing rooms could be located elsewhere. All the alternative sites listed below are all existing open green spaces which 2.0 Project Background have the required space for playing pitches. St Kiernan’s have had pitches in Barnet for many years. Firstly, at Montrose Recreation Site No 1 Montrose Recreation Ground, Edgware, London NW9 5tf Ground since 1985 and then at Copthall Leisure Centre in 2006 before vacating due to redevelopment works. St Kiernan’s have lost the use of the pitch at Montrose Recreation Site No 2 Barnet Copthall/Mill Hill Rugby Clubhouse, London NW4 2EQ Ground and at the start of 2017 moved the training venue from Copthall Leisure Centre to Hendon Rugby Club entering into an agreement for the temporary use of their Site No 3 Hendon Rugby Club, Greenlands Lane, London NW4 1RL facilities. Site No 4 Buttonhole Lane and St Vincent’s Lane, Mill Hill St Kiernan’s have been in discussions with the London Borough of Barnet with regards to the relocation of a new home as consequence of the redevelopment of their pitches at Site No 5 Copthall Playing Fields, Champions Way. London NW4 Copthall Leisure Centre, Mill Hill and Montrose Recreation Park, Colindale. Barnet Council are required to relocate St Kiernan’s by conditions attached to the grants of Site No 6 West Hendon Playing Fields, Edgware, London NW9 7EZ planning consent for these sites. Site No 7 The Hive Playing Fields, Camross Ave, Edgware, London The Council subsequently identified an alternative site which is King George V Playing Site No 8 Lyttleton Playing Fields, Kingsley Way, London N2 0DQ Fields, Barnet Lane, Barnet, London. An overall new sports hub masterplan has now been produced by the council in which the new Gaelic pitches and clubhouse/changing roomA Site no 9 Byng Road Playing Fields, Barnet EN5 4NP have been incorporated. Please refer to the masterplan in Appendix B. In addition, Barnet Council have commissioned Agrostis Sports Surface Consulting to prepare a new Site No 10 Old Elizabethans Memorial Playing fields, Barnet EN5 2AG pitch development specification and tender documentation. Works have now been completed on site. Site No 11 Oakhill Park, Parkside Gardens, Barnet EN4 8JS A Pre-Planning Application submission was made to Barnet Council in December 2019. Site No 12 Rowley Lane Sports Ground, Rowley Lane, Barnet EN5 In their response Report (reference 19/8569/QCE) they requested that a sequential testing of alternative sites be submitted to weigh up the nature of the very special See Appendix A for full details of all the above sites. circumstances. See Section 3.00 and Appendix A. Page 3 of 23 4.00 Site Location The site is known as King George V Playing Fields located on Barnet Lane EN5 3DN in the London Brough of Barnet. Page 4 of 23 4.02 Site Context The site for the new clubhouse/changing rooms is located along the boundary with Barnet Lane and sits within Green Belt (see section 5.01 for more detail.) There is an existing vehicular and pedestrian access onto an area of tarmac hardstanding for servicing and a car parking area for 54 cars. A sports clubhouse once occupied the site and although now demolished, the footprint of the floor slab is clearly visible and would have covered an area of 480m2. The extent of the site, including the new Gaelic sports playing fields, are bordered with extensive planting of shrubbery, mature trees, and hedges. The Dollis Brook stream sits beyond the northern boundary running west to east. Immediately to the north is the Barnet Table Tennis Centre, a single storey brick building with a pitched corrugated metal roof. There is a large area of hardstanding for 69 car parking spaces. (see photographs in Appendix D) There are further extensive sports areas to the north known as the Barnet Playing Fields and a new School Arts Academy which has replaced the site of the Barnet football club. It should be noted that Barnet Council have produced a masterplan for all these areas including a new building for a community sports hub including the new Site Context Gaelic football club Pavilion noted as No 7 of the legend of this plan. (see Appendix B) Immediately to the north west of the site is a housing development known as Dollis Valley Estate comprising 4.02 Sports Hub and Masterplan predominantly of two storey terraced housing with Barnet Council have produced an overall masterplan for the combined playing field area rendered and tile clad walls and pitched tiled roofing (see identifying the King George V Playing Fields as the site for the new Gaelic pitches and the Appendix C for photographs) GFC clubhouse (see Appendix B) Immediately to the south on the boundary with Barnet Lane is the Stables Horse Activity entre which is a group of single storey stables and two storey outbuildings with pitched roofs. On the south east boundary is the South Herts golf course. Page 5 of 23 Extent of Green Belt Site Page 6 of 23 5.00 Constraints Greenbelt The King George V Playing Fields is an existing recreation / sports site which is located within the Green Belt. Any new proposed facility for outdoor the existing vehicular access off Barnet Lane and for continued use of the sport and recreation must be mindful of Central Government Advice and existing tarmac hard surface for parking. the Local Plan Policies. There once was a sports clubhouse/changing rooms adjacent to the car parking These include: area and although demolished after fire damage (date not known) its footprint is NPPF and National Planning Guidance clear to see from the remaining floor slab. Planning archive research reveal that Mayor’s London Plan 2021 approval was granted for the erection of a Sports Pavilion. Planning approval Barnet’s Local Plan 2012 was also granted for the extension to the Pavilion to provide changing and Barnet’s relevant Core Strategy Policies shower facilities. Barnet’s relevant Development Management Policies Paragraph 145 of the NPPF states that a local planning authority should regard as inappropriate the construction of buildings in the Green Belt. Exceptions to include: 6.00 Opportunities b) the provision of appropriate facilities for outdoor sport d) the replacement of a building provided the new building is in the same and Barnet Council are required to relocate St Kiernan’s by conditions attached to not materially larger than the one it replaces. the grant of planning consent for its redevelopment of the Copthall Leisure Centre and the Montrose Recreation Ground. As a result, the identification of It would be the intention to replace the building with one of a similar size and the King George V Playing Fields as the location for the new Gaelic pitches and use. clubhouse (as part of the new sports masterplan hub) has provided a tremendous opportunity for the Policy DM15 of the London Plan states the following: The construction of new continuation of Gaelic sport and culture within the Borough of Barnet. The King building within the Green Belt or MOL, unless there are very special George V Playing Fields covers an area of approximately 11.47 acres and is circumstances, will be inappropriate. ideally suited to the layout of 2 Gaelic football pitches and the provision of clubhouse facilities in connection with the proposed sports use (the site area for It would be the intention to demonstrate these” very special circumstances” in the clubhouse/changing rooms would be 1.32 acres.) There is also the Section 7.00 and Appendix C) of the statement. opportunity to use Page 7 of 23 7.00 Justification and Needs for new clubhouse and changing rooms. The club is used by children and adults as St Kiernan’s GFC have youth teams for both girls and boys for the following age St Kiernan’s GFC have produced a “Justification and Needs Report “ groups; nursery, under 7, under 9, under 11, under 13, under (Very Special Circumstances)—See Appendix C for full Report. See abbreviated version below: 15, under 17, under 12 girls, under 14 girls and under 16 girls. The club also has three adult teams. All teams partake in This report outlines the justification and needs of St Kiernan’s GFC for new training during the week and have games at weekends during clubhouse/changing facilities at the King George V Playing Fields, Barnet Lane.