KINGSTON AND NORTH KINGSTON NEIGHBOURHOOD

Conservation Areas Advisory Committee

PLANNING APPLICATION COMMENT FORM DATE: 9 November 2022

N/A

RBK ref: 22/03217/FUL

Address: Greencoat House 183 Clarence Street Kingston Upon Thames KT1 1AN Planning Officer: William Flaherty

Description of proposed works: Recladding and internal reconfiguration of existing building with extensions (3 upper floors to Clarence Street and full height extensions up to 9 storeys to the rear) to create co-living units (sui generis) (in place of 64no. student rooms (sui generis)) with retention of a number of ground floor commercial units (Class E), creation of new café (Class E) and co-working areas (Class E) at ground floor with internal and external residential amenity spaces, bike storage, refuse, disabled car parking, service yard and new basement plant room

APPRAISAL

By full committee on …… 9 November 2022 …… with …… 6 …… members present

Issued on 9 Nov 2022

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

Reason for objection:

Objection.

We objected strongly to the previous PA for this site due to its inappropriate scale, mass & very poor design. Regrettably our concerns were ignored by the LPA.

This updated PA fails to improve the exterior elevations of the proposed building but seeks to cut costs on its interior by inter alia reducing the amount of ground floor commercial space & increasing the number of already very small co-residential units.

Strong objection maintained.