Tileman House planning news
The Council has at last got round to producing a Planning News leaflet on the Tileman House application for Upper Richmond Road near the corner with Putney Hill. You can download it here.
My initial reaction when I opened the file is that we're on course to have exactly the same issues here as residents are having with the Clapham Junction towers consultation (and Danebury Avenue), namely the questionable veracity of the artists' impressions of the impact of the plan.
Take this one: you'd never take from this impression that Tileman House is almost TWICE the height of the brown building this side of it - the Heathbridge Clinic building - 125 Upper Richmond Road. Later on I'll post some photos that I've taken from the top of 125 Upper Richmond Road just so you can see how high this building is - Tileman will be almost doubly high.
The elevations also employ considerable artistic license: the one below is supposedly the "rear" elevation - ie the view as it towers over St John's Avenue. Curiously, all the blocks in St John's Avenue have vanished, to be replaced by lovely trees.
The plans for Tileman House are clearly of a superior design and fit less badly into their surroundings than the Putney Place towers, further up Upper Richmond Road did. They are also an improvement on the current Tileman House. But the fact that they are better does not mean they are the best they can be - and design alone is not the biggest problem here.
That would be the height, followed by the loss of office space, followed by the housing. And I'll write more about each of these in subsequent posts.
My initial reaction when I opened the file is that we're on course to have exactly the same issues here as residents are having with the Clapham Junction towers consultation (and Danebury Avenue), namely the questionable veracity of the artists' impressions of the impact of the plan.
Take this one: you'd never take from this impression that Tileman House is almost TWICE the height of the brown building this side of it - the Heathbridge Clinic building - 125 Upper Richmond Road. Later on I'll post some photos that I've taken from the top of 125 Upper Richmond Road just so you can see how high this building is - Tileman will be almost doubly high.
The elevations also employ considerable artistic license: the one below is supposedly the "rear" elevation - ie the view as it towers over St John's Avenue. Curiously, all the blocks in St John's Avenue have vanished, to be replaced by lovely trees.
The plans for Tileman House are clearly of a superior design and fit less badly into their surroundings than the Putney Place towers, further up Upper Richmond Road did. They are also an improvement on the current Tileman House. But the fact that they are better does not mean they are the best they can be - and design alone is not the biggest problem here.
That would be the height, followed by the loss of office space, followed by the housing. And I'll write more about each of these in subsequent posts.
Labels: East Putney, overdevelopment, Thamesfield, Tileman House
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