Design and Access Statement
Householder – Extension (in a Conservation Area)
Re: 66A Princedale Road, W11 4NL
Proposal:
Additional new room at second floor level to serve the second floor flat.
1. Features of the existing site.
The house is c.150 years old and built of London stocks with
white painted sash windows and simple rendered features.
To the top is a rendered parapet wall. The roof is a flat roof
hidden by the parapet at the front, but showing a V-shape at
the rear.
2. Access
Internal access to the proposed new room will be from the
existing bedroom at second floor level.
3. Layout
The proposed room will be accessed via a new door created in the rear
elevation of the host building.
4. Scale / Appearance
The proposed new room will not be visible from the street or
from neighbour’s properties. There is no change visible within
the conservation area. The existing flat roof at first fllor level
where the proposed room will be sited is surrounded on three
sides by high walls and on the fourth by an existing 2 metre
garden screen. The shallow sloping roof of the proposed room
has been carefully designed to hide behind this screen so that
the room is not visible from the road. The rear windows and
doors in No 68 are all opaque glass. The existing window in the
rear elevation of No 66 at first floor level is also opaque glass.
As a result there is no overlooking or loss of privacy for any of
the neighbours.
A light well will be retained which provides light to an existing
bathroom and existing kitchen on the first floor. Both these
rooms also have only opaque privacy glass windows although
they have no direct view of the proposed room. There is no loss
of light to any windows because of the proposed development.
5. Landscaping
N/A
6. Heritage Assets
The property forms part of the Norland conservation area.
It is felt that there is no impact on the conservation area and that
the proposals do not contravene any of the council’s policies for
conservation areas. There is only one view; from Pottery Lane
where the NW elevation of the proposed room would be partially
visible if it were not for the existing bamboo garden screen. As a
result the proposals are not visible. Behind the room (in Pottery
Lane) there is an existing grey zinc roof which shields any roof
top views of the proposed room from neighbours. As a result
the building has been carefully designed to minimize any impact
on neighbours and the CA. The building is designed in
reclaimed London stock bricks and a grey slate roof with white
painted sash windows in keeping with the CA.
7. Street-view and Precedent for this type of development at neighbouring
properties.
The proposed room is already present on most of the houses in the
immediate terrace in Princedale Road.
The roof line in this area is already a varied collection of piecemeal
extensions. Our proposed extension would add to this roof line and is
not visible from the street.
There is no alteration in the street-view in the CA as the proposed
room is not visible from the ground.