Planning Applications: Major Schemes
We are trying to get the best designs and outcomes from the real plethora of new developments that are facing residents. Lately most of them are predicated on the alleged increase in the population of Greater London in the next 15 years (for Kingston this will mean around 30% more residents than now) and the suggested building of Crossrail 2, again in the next 15/20 years’ time which will affect virtually all the stations and forever change the face of this Borough.
There are a few major planning consultations and applications that need a detailed review before we can submit our comments. The details vary each time but the sorts of things that we do to form our view are attend public exhibitions and meet with the developers. We also try to get input from our members and the public though the timescales for consultation do not give us as much time for this as we would like.
See also : Minor Schemes & Other Consultations
This is a summary of our position on the following current and recent major consultations and applications:
Kindly contact the editor if you see any errors or omissions: editor@kingstonuponthamessociety.co.uk
Hobkirk House: retraction, correction and apology
The Kingston Society has withdrawn its inaccurate report of the Hobkirk House planning decision. We apologise unreservedly for misrepresenting the committee’s proceedings and confirm that the application was approved.
Bryson House, Horace Road: 48 flats planned for former funeral directors
Bryson House proposes 48 flats beside the Hogsmill, with promising architecture and landscaping, but concerns remain over affordable housing, daylight, flood risk, parking, height and long-term riverside quality and delivery.
Lever House: Revised but still too tall and too dense.
Lever House planning application lodged but its excessive height, density, co-living emphasis and unresolved heritage and public-realm impacts remain fundamentally unacceptable for this sensitive site.
Thames Side Wharf returns with a lower scheme, a better riverside and a large affordable housing question
Fenwick is reviving plans for its long-vacant Thames Side Wharf. The proposal for 135 to 145 flats in two buildings, with restaurants, commercial space and a substantial redesign of the riverside public realm.
Lever House: when a small planning change is not so small
KingSoc is objecting to a seemingly procedural Lever House amendment which could weaken the Design Code’s role by allowing detailed proposals and the rules governing them to be considered together.
Motspur Park Gasholders: from refusal to a possible government call-in
Kingston refused the Motspur Park Gasholders scheme, City Hall approved it, and residents now want ministers to intervene as the Local Plan points in another direction.
Current planning applications:
Larger schemes currently awaiting planning decisions (updated weekly)
Source: RBK, curated by Kingston CAACs
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