KINGSTON AND NORTH KINGSTON NEIGHBOURHOOD

Conservation Areas Advisory Committee

PLANNING APPLICATION COMMENT FORM DATE: 12 August 2020

CA1

RBK ref: 20/01185/FUL

Address: Bishops Palace House Thames Street Kingston Upon Thames KT1 1QN Planning Officer: Harsha Bhundia

Description of proposed works: Proposed change of use from a nightclub (Sui Generis) to Class A1/A3/A4/B1/Sui Generis use of part of the first floor of Bishops Palace House, currently occupied by The Viper Rooms (nightclub).

APPRAISAL

By full committee on …… 12 August 2020 …… with …… 9 …… members present

Issued on 15 Aug 2020

1. Positive support		2. No objection	X
3. Objection		4. Objection unless revised as below
5. No comment/neutral		6. Lack of detail
7. Decision already issued

Reason:

In principle no objection for a change of use which is understandable during the current Covid 19 pandemic.

However, we would advise that the Planning Officer ensures the proposed change does not provide the applicant with permitted development rights to convert the property into dwellinghouses which, we believe, would in the long term be harmful to the restaurant/cafe scene now returning to the riverside.