Eastcote Conservation Panel
Planning application 81, Field End Road
There is an application to redevelop the doctors surgery Deane Croft Road, Eastcote.
The current building is single storey ,small and square . The proposal is to replace it with a three storey block of flats, with a roof garden. Below is the objection letter sent to Hillingdon Council.
The planning application can be seen at
http://w10.hillingdon.gov.uk/OcellaWeb/planningDetails?reference=363/APP/2015/3827&from=planningSearch
If you object to this development please write to Hillingdon Council
The Conservation Panel will be organizing a petition so that the Panel's Chairman can speak at the committee meeting.
Best wishes
Lesley
Dear Mr. Unuigbe
Re. 363/APP/2015/3827 81, Field End Road, Eastcote, Pinner, Middlesex.
Demolition of current building, erection of a three storey mixed purpose block.
The address given in the application form is inaccurate, this area is a Pinner postcode HA5 not Ruislip as stated.
81, Field End Road is a triangular plot situated at the cross road junction of Field End Road with Deane Croft Road and Field End Road with Meadow Way. The appearance of this area is an open, tree lined space the focal point being the Grade II listed buildings and the War Memorial Garden.
It is adjacent to the Eastcote War Memorial Garden, which is surrounded by a yew hedge. This hedge is now nearly 100 years old and will need protection during any building works on this site.
Eastcote Town centre is classed a Metroland development, mostly built between the two World Wars. The architecture being based on the original 1920s Arts & Crafts development [Eastcote Conservation Area –Morford Way]. One small area, which includes Eastcote Library on the corner of Field End Road/Meadow Way, being built post WWII, but retaining the same style as the rest of the Town. The cut off point for these three storey pitched roof buildings is this cross road.
Opposite to the proposed development site stand two Grade II listed buildings. The Barn and Field End Farm. Both timber framed buildings of considerable note. Each set back from the road with complimentary landscaping. The status of these buildings is not acknowledged within the application.
The two storey pitched roof buildings on Deane Croft Road and Meadow Way are again inter war development architecturally in keeping with the town centre. Walsh House, recently built, follows the general architectural style of the area, being two storey with a pitched roof. The dwellings on Deane Croft Road are next to Walsh House, not further down the road as stated in the D&AS.
This proposal will be over dominant and totally out of keeping with the street scene. In fact it could be described as a carbuncle on the face of Eastcote.
The proposal is for a three storey flat roof block. On top of the third storey is a building to house the lift. Equivalent in height to another storey.
The roof garden will intrude into the privacy of the surrounding dwellings.
The large protruding balconies will be intrusive into the street scene.
The amount of parking for the Doctor’s surgery will be reduced from 8 spaces to three. There are three Doctors registered, so there is no parking for patients. This is not acceptable as the surrounding roads have Residents parking schemes in place..
The Pharmacy will require deliveries, no provision has been made for deliveries within the parking layout.
The drawing showing access to the underground car park does not show any gradients to prove that this idea is feasible.
The D&AS refers to the waste storage area being hidden from view. It is so well hidden that it does not appear an any of the drawings.
A bat survey has not been carried out. The area has many large trees that could provide roosts for bats, especially those near to the War Memorial Garden, a wild life survey should be carried out before any determination is made.
Hillingdon’s Local Plan acknowledges the ‘Metroland’ developments as important to the Borough. It must also be noted that Hillingdon will more than fulfill its housing quota during the next 15 years. This area is not included in the Local Plan’s Site Allocations.
This proposal is an over development of the site, by it’s size, height and mass it will be totally out of keeping with this part of Eastcote.
We ask that the application be refused.
Lesley Crowcroft – Chairman, Eastcote Conservation Panel.