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In February 2021, an application was submitted for “Change of use from a children’s hospital, to reinstating the villas back into use as residential dwellings. Contemporary extensions are proposed to both villas to expand and rationalise their layouts. A new single residential dwelling is also proposed to an open area to the east of the plot currently occupied by a tennis court.”
Betsy Williamson, the applicant, contacted the Association prior to submission to advise of these proposals, for which we are grateful, and created a thread on the forum on our old website to explain the proposals. This is a transcript of that thread. It contains links to this Design Statement showing the plans in detail.
On 29 March 2021, GrangePlanning wrote: “We are grateful to Betsy Williamson for engaging with the Grange Association concerning this application. As Betsy notes, there is a range of views about the proposals, but a number of members raised concerns with us about the proposals for the new house to be built on the former tennis court, as No. 16A. We have submitted this objection.”
Beacuse of the large number of comments (27) on the application, it was determined by the Council’s Development Management Sub-Committee at its meeting on 8 September 2021, for which this report was presented. The application was granted.
In July 2022, applications were made for Non-Material Variations to the plans. These are described in this Design Statement. The Variations were approved on 8 September 2022.
There is an application to amend the design of the new-build house which will become 16A Hope Terrace, to be built on the former tennis court. The submission is for a “Non-Material Variation” and comprises:
- Omit side garage and incorporate within massing of new house – provide additional garden space and external access to the rear garden.
- Reduce length of garden wing, and move further west away from neighbouring No18 Hope Terrace, giving more space to the garden and improving privacy and daylighting amenity to next door.
- Omit Limestone banding course and consolidate with unified sandstone – as per consented material schedule.
- Updated window pattern sequence to reflect internal layout revisions.
- Rationalise the street elevation, reducing randomised window patterns whilst increasing articulation of the stone façade.
- Slight increase to widths of [principal] rooms to give better proportions and usable internal space.
- Introduce step down to ground floor of garden wing to reflect site levels, giving a more generous ceiling height to the living kitchen / dining space, and on grade access to the rear garden.
- Re-align (straighten) proposed boundary wall with No. 16
- Add pedestrian side door to main entrance gates.
- Revisions to internal room layouts including moving stair into central location and omitting second stair.
The amended drawings are available for review at 21/00857/VAR4. They include this North (front) elevation:
and this West elevation:
There is also this visualisation from the South (rear):
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