Clapton CAAC September 2020

Clapton CAAC September 2020 clapton_caac_september2020

2020/2056 5 Clarence Place E5 8HN alterations to floor layouts along with fennestration changes to rear elevation and lowered patio. This application seeks retrospective Listed Building and Planning Consent for the works undertaken, alongside seeking consent for rectification works to make some unsupportable alterations acceptable (Raymond Okot 020 8356 8080)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2045 5 Clarence Place E5 8HN alterations to floor layouts along with fennestration changes to rear elevation and lowered patio. This application seeks retrospective Listed Building and Planning Consent for the works undertaken, alongside seeking consent for rectification works to make some unsupportable alterations acceptable (Raymond Okot 020 8356 8080)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2422 7 Clapton Square E5 8HP "Full planning permission and listed building consent for the change of use of the basement storage to create a 2 bedroom residential unit (C3) as well as various internal and external alterations following issue of Enforcement Notices under reference 2018/0139/ENF." (Kelsi Bolstad 020 8356 4160)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2394 Flat 3 31 Reighton Road E5 8SQ Installation of 2 front roof-lights (Micheal Garvey 020 8356 8053)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2317 and 2020/2339 96-98 Clapton Common E5 9AL Extension of basement to whole of ground floor extent of building and excavation of new Mikvah baths. [Note for consultation: Listed Building Consent application 2020/2339 also received] (Gerard Livett 020 8356 8398)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal provided further details of the existing and proposed reinstated bays are secured and considered appropriate by conservation officers. Furthermore officers should secure a detailed excavation and construction management plan which demonstrate minimal harm to what officers have rightly described as a "fragile listed building". 

2020/2504 5 Clapton Terrace E5 9BW Erection of extension to and alterations to single-storey outbuilding in rear garden. (Gerard Livett 020 8356 8398)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2424 359-363 Mare Street E8 1HY Temporary advertisement on scaffold for a period from 01/02/2021 to 01/10/2021. (Kelsi Bolstad 020 8356 4160)

The Clapton CAAC objects to the proposal. No details of work being done is provided so it is impossible to gauge if the time period proposed is the minimum required for the works. A lucrative advertising income provides a significant disincentive for any works to be completed rapidly and the scaffold - which is injurious to the street scene - to be removed. The proposed advertisement is large in comparison to elevation covered and the image of the building behind is of no help in mitigating the visual harm. Other precedents are of limited benefit and stand on their own merits. Here it is plainly an economic opportunity whose benefit is entirely private and 'architecturally dishonest'. It would be better to see the works going on in plain site and for as short a time as possible.

2020/2468 12-16 Rowe Lane E9 6EL Non-material amendment to application 2016/3868 dated 18/07/19 for the demolition of existing building and erection of part 3, part 4 storey building comprising 16 flats, 135sqm of business floorspace (Class B1) and associated individual private amenity spaces, cycle / refuse storage. The amendment is to regularise the development as built with a projection of the front facade at the junction with the property at 17 Rowe Lane. (Yvette Ralston 020 8356 1208) and 2020/2237  Non-material amendment to application 2016/3868 dated 18/07/19 for the demolition of existing building and erection of a part 3, part 4 storey building comprising 16 flats, 135sqm of business floorspace (class B1) and associated individual private amenity spaces, cycle / refuse storage. The amendment is to the bricks at the junction with the property at 17 Rowe Lane. (Yvette Ralston 020 8356 1208)

The relationship between these two applications is far from clear. The application form for the later application (2020/2468) implies officers find the earlier application (2020/2237) unsatisfactory but it has not been withdrawn. On the face of it the later application appears to reverse all that the first application sought and revert to the position of the extant consent but modestly proud of the adjacent building.

The drawings appear to contain modest fenestration changes with respect to the consented application (2016/37868). If the proposal seeks to regularise this then the description should say so. There have been no amendments - only discharges of condition - since the granting of the original consent (2016/37868). Save for one withdrawn application.

Planning consultation should not be a set of complex hurdles for the public to navigate. And this is exactly that.

Notwithstanding this considerable confusion we have no objection to either application in respect to the primary elevation with a marginal preference for the recess expressed in 2020/2237. Insofar as other changes are sought to be introduced we object on the grounds that the application offers insufficient explanation.

2020/2337 63 & 65 Forburg Road N16 6HR Erection of ground floor rear extensions with sukkah rooflights to numbers 63 and 65 Forburg Road. (Alix Hauser 020 8356 6377)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal in principle but the detailed design is crude and rudimentary and would benefit from further detailing to retain some quality and relationship to the host building.

2020/1798 30 Forburg Road N16 6HS Change of use from B1(Office) at basement and conversion to a studio flat. (Micheal Garvey 020 8356 8053)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/1490 119 Osbaldeston Road N16 6ND Loft conversion including construction of a rear dormer window. (Fabian Culican 020 8356 4747)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2195 90 Osbaldeston Road N16 6NL Erection of a rear roof extension and a conservation style rooflight in the front roofslope (Kim Aukett 020 8356 4740)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2196 90 Osbaldeston Road N16 6NL Erection of a rear roof extension, a conservation style rooflight to the front roofslope and a side hipped roof with roof light (Kim Aukett 020 8356 4740)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal provided more details of the side extension materials are secured by condition. This is to ensure it does not end up being mostly flashing which will make it more obtrusive.

2020/2112 25 Fountayne Road N16 7EA Construction of lightwell to rear of property and reducing floor level in existing basement to form additional habitable room and storage utility space. Provision of new glazing to basement room elevation and alteration to external access to ground floor kitchen on rear elevation. Alterations to garden landscaping. No alterations to the street elevation. (Raymond Okot 020 8356 8080)

The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal.

2020/2228 45 Fountayne Road N16 7ED Excavation and extension of the existing basement, erection of a glazed lightwell enclosure to the rear (Danny Huber 020 8356 1453)

The Clapton CAAC objects to the proposal. We note there is no details of water runoff from the underground extension, but in any event it creates an unpleasant living space and harms the amenity of the garden which will no longer support any growth above it. This is also harmful to biodiversity. In reality this application introduces a awkward 'patio' in the garden with an extended lightwell disconnecting the remaining part of the garden.