KINGSTON AND NORTH KINGSTON NEIGHBOURHOOD
Conservation Areas Advisory Committee

PLANNING APPLICATION COMMENT FORM
DATE: 11 May 2022

CA6
 RBK ref:

22/00997/HOU 		Address: 20 Orchard Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2QW

Planning Officer: Shelley Gifford

Description of proposed works:

Demolition of existing rear extension and outbuilding, erection of part two storey and part single storey side and single storey rear extension. Installation of 1no side and 1no rear rooflights. Erection of cycle storage, electric gate and fence including widening the driveway access and drop kerb. Alteration to existing gate.

APPRAISAL

By full committee on …… 11 May 2022 …… with …… 4 …… members present

Issued on 12 May 2022


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



Reason for objection:

Objection unless revised as below.

This property holds a key position in the string of locally-listed houses that define the Fairfield / Knight's Park Conservation Area, along the east side of Orchard Road where it meets Wheatfield Way. The applicant acknowledges it as being one of a pair of semi-detached houses (the other at #22) & has set-back the side extension proposal in deference to this. But they fail to acknowledge that #20 & 22 together have a matching pair - #16 & 18 - on the other side of Grange Road. Currently the facades of #20 & 18, as they face each other across Grange Road, match completely and form powerful 'book-ends'. This has been ignored by the applicant and must be taken into consideration in this proposal.

The CAAC is pleased to note the proposed removal of the render retro-added to the rear facade and extensions of #20. However, this is not a straightforward process and any consent should be conditional on the submission and approval of a clear method statement and commitment to appoint a suitably qualified specialist contractor.

Disappointingly, other than a proprietary bike shed, no 3D representations of the scheme have been included in the PA. They might have made clearer for example the elevation details, which show two distinctly different patterns of brickwork despite the application stating that brickwork will match the existing, & would better inform the impacts of the changes to #20 and its pair #22, the view down Grange Road, and the matching pair of properties at #16 & 18.