KINGSTON AND NORTH KINGSTON NEIGHBOURHOOD

Conservation Areas Advisory Committee

PLANNING APPLICATION COMMENT FORM DATE: 10 January 2018

CA7

RBK ref: 17/12978/FUL

Address: 2 Springfield Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2SA Planning Officer: Euan Cheyne

Description of proposed works: Conversion of existing basement to create 1x self contained one bedroom apartment to be used as social housing.

APPRAISAL

By full committee on …… 10 January 2018 …… with …… 12 …… members present

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

Reason:

The committee applauds the enhancement of existing social housing. However, there is insufficient information on flood risk issues. This basement development is in an area of high flood risk, where basement housing has been discouraged in the past due to flood risk.