Ram Brewery Development Gets Planning Go-Ahead On Listed Georgian Houses
But plans for 1-9 Church Row have met with local opposition
Above: Church Row was built in 1723. Image: Google Streetview
A Grade II listed Georgian terrace in Wandsworth Town Centre is to be restored and converted into housing by the developers of the Ram Brewery site, the Greenland Group.
The Council has given planning permision for restoration works, alterations and rear extensions to the existing buildings at 1-9 Church Row on Wandsworth Plain to enable a change of use from office space to residential.
The warehouses at
the back of the buildings can now be demolished and a 2-6 storey building comprising residences, commercial floorspace and offices can now go ahead.
However The Wandsworth Society
rigorously opposed the latest plan, "This is a gross over-development spoiling views of the terrace from front and back... it would be out of sympathy with the terrace in height, scale and architecture, robbing it of its importance and depriving it of amenity and openess."
Above; an artist's impression of the development at the back of historic Church Row
The Society also points out that both Historic England - the public body that looks after England's historic environment - and the Council's own Conservation Area Advisory Committee have objected.
The new scheme which includes
landscaping, refuse storage, cycle parking and public access to the River Wandle from Wandsworth Plain, was passed by Wandsworth's planning committee by a majority of six votes to two. Four objections were lodged and dealt with concerns that the redevelopment of the warehouses would be too dense and high in relation to Church Row, and that the architecture bears no relation to the existing heritage houses which were built in 1723.
August 13, 2017