SURBITON NEIGHBOURHOOD

Conservation Areas Advisory Committee

PLANNING APPLICATION COMMENT FORM DATE: 12 August 2025

CA8

RBK ref: 25/01574/FUL

Address: Willow Grange 1 - 3 Adelaide Road Surbiton KT6 4TA Planning Officer: Lucy Bennett

Description of proposed works: Change of use from care home (Use Class C2) to a large House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) providing specialist supported accommodation for vulnerable individuals (Use Class Sui Generis), including associated external alterations, changes to fenestration, provision of refuse storage, vehicle and cycle parking, landscaping and plant

APPRAISAL

By full committee on …… 12 August 2025 …… with …… 7 …… members present

Issued on 17 Aug 2025

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:

There is no evidence that CONNECT, the name on the Operational Management report, is a registered social housing provider which should be the bare minimum for this type of establishment to avoid rogue practices. Poor management of a 38 person HMO could radically alter the residential character of Adelaide Road and coupled with only modest internal communal facilities could engender an increase in anti-social behaviour in the area including noise and loitering. A marked increase in delivery traffic is also inevitable. There is still a requirement for well managed old peoples' accommodation in Surbiton so this change of use application should be refused to avoid an adverse effect on the character of the area.