KINGSTON AND NORTH KINGSTON NEIGHBOURHOOD
Conservation Areas Advisory Committee

PLANNING APPLICATION COMMENT FORM
DATE: 13 June 2018

CA25
 RBK ref:

18/12421/FUL 		Address: The Barge Dock Site Down Hall Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1PS

Planning Officer: Barry Lomax

Description of proposed works:

Erection of a traditional boathouse style building incorporating nine residential apartments and encompassing the existing plant room over the Barge DockWithin the Riverside North conservation area.

APPRAISAL

By full committee on …… 13 June 2018 …… with …… 8 …… members present

Issued on 19 Jun 2018


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



Reason:

This is a key site that will attract a great deal of public interest. It is the last remaining development plot from the old power station demolished c 1990. The current site is near derelict and would benefit from sympathetic development. This latest proposal largely reflects the footprint/ design of a scheme consented in c 2005. That scheme, however, was for a restaurant, which met some public opposition on grounds of noise etc. whereas the current proposal is residential. We are not unduly concerned about encroachment on the River Thames as the proposed structure would not extend further than the existing Barge Dock nor indeed the 5 storey conveyor building (part of the power station) that previously stood on the same site. We are concerned that the site is Metropolitan Open Land (effectively green belt in the London Plan) but given this is previously developed land we believe sympathetic development would outweigh any harm to the local environment. Critically this proposal protects & enhances the existing mooring facilities for the Thames River Boat Project & views of the River from the East bank. RBK published a Riverside Strategy earlier this year that would inter alia deliver much-needed improvement to Canbury Gardens, subject to funding being available. We would encourage RBK to use the opportunity of this proposed development to negotiate an appropriate Section 106 agreement(s)/ CIL(s) with the developer to help deliver that Strategy in tandem.

In addition:
Concern that the existing paving in the adjacent Thameside Car Park be retained.