Redevelopment of 32 Haverfield Gardens, Kew TW9 3DD
Update: 12 February 2023
Planning permission has now been granted for this development, subject to many stringent conditions.
Update: 16 November 2022
The revised application to demolish the 22 garages and the bungalow on this site and to build 5 houses on the site was unanimously approved by the Planning Committee of Richmond Council on Wednesday 16 November 2022. The scheme also provided for a turning area within the site at the head of Haverfield Gardens which will be usable by local residents. The application was opposed by many residents ( and indeed one objector was asked to leave the room by the Chair) but the officers recommended approval and the Councillors agreed. The recording of the meeting can be viewed on the Council website.
Planning application number: 21/1575/FUL
The controversial proposal to redevelop the 32 Haverfield Gardens site, currently 22 garages and a bungalow, has now been REFUSED by the Council on 5 October. Reasons were damage to heritage assets; damage to amenity of neighbours, particularly Cecil Court and 22 Kew Green; inadequate meeting of residential standards for potential occupants of the development; failure to demonstrate lack of or increased flood risk; absence of black restart survey (protected species); lack of fire safety statement; lack of legal agreement for financial contribution to affordable housing; and its being a gated development
The Kew Society has submitted an Objection to Richmond Council expressing our concerns over the redevelopment of this 0.4 acre site to the south-east of Kew Green. The site currently comprises one residential property and 22 single-storey garages, all of which would be demolished to make way for a development of five three-storey detached houses with integral garages, first floor terraces and grey mansard roofs.
Whilst we support the principle of the residential redevelopment of this site, we consider the development as proposed to be on too large a scale and not in keeping with the character of the Kew Green Conservation Area. Our principal concern is with the view north-west towards the site from Haverfield Gardens, where the proposed house fronting on to the end of the cul-de-sac would, with its three stories including grey mansard roof, be obtrusively visible and out of context with the Haverfield Gardens Edwardian streetscape.
We recommend that, at the very least, this proposed south-easternmost house be reduced in height to two above-ground storeys with a flat roof, as with the westernmost house nearest Kew Green.
Read our full Objection posted on the Richmond Council planning website TKS objection to 32 Haverfield Gardens
