KINGSTON AND NORTH KINGSTON NEIGHBOURHOOD
Conservation Areas Advisory Committee

PLANNING APPLICATION COMMENT FORM
UPDATE: 2 Feb 2019

CA1
 RBK ref:

18/12876/FUL 		Address: 20 (2A,2B St James Road and 20 Eden Street) Eden Street, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1BB

Planning Officer: Karen Coles

Description of proposed works:

Demolition of all existing and the erection of a part two part eight storey office (Class B1a) building, with a basement and on site cycle parkingWithin the Kingston Old Town conservation area.There is a listed building present on this site.

APPRAISAL

By full committee on …… 12 December 2018 …… with …… 7 …… members present

Issued on 14 Dec 2018


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

Response to the updated application:
Issued on 2 Feb 2019


Karen Coles has advised she/ RBK did not receive this appraisal when it was originally published, sent to & receipted by them - probably because of the disruption caused by their migration to Idox. So herewith we are republishing at their request.

Response to the original application:
Issued on 14 Dec 2018


Reason for objection:

The design of any new buildings in this conservation area should enhance the views rather than disrupt them. It should have an architectural sensitivity to its surroundings by marrying up the new in scale, texture and height, and respecting the traditional solid and void appearance of existing buildings. This conservation area contains a Scheduled Ancient Monument, up to 40 Listed Buildings, and about as many Locally Listed Buildings.

The applicants heritage statement makes reference to the Surrey house proposal which is not determined. They isolate the proposals materiality to suggest it compliments, but in reality the insensitive could-be-anywhere and out-of-scale design they have illustrated is clearly alien to this setting. The double height glass ground floor is out of scale and completely inappropriate in this setting adjacent to Eagle Chambers which itself looks to be dwarfed.

This proposal would cause significant harm to the conservation area itself, to its heritage assets and to the settings of those heritage assets. This proposal would block views and would be harmful in its scale and insensitive architecture. It is any-where architecture that doesn't belong within this important conservation area. We strongly object to this proposal.