| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:The case against a Conservation Area for Northfields | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 10/01/24 11:29:00 |
| I think there is reasons there enough there to have a CA in this area. It is just largely unspoiled but the onset of some wholly inappropriate loft developments totally out of keeping with the existing environs are making the place look a mish mash. Oddly, planners have insisted on use of correct materials and details to harmonise with the neighbouring environs without a CA. But this in recent years seems to have gone out the window. If you are advocating overdensfication - which is highly likely without a CA and all that entails, then just go and take a look at what has and is happening in local areas where there is no chance of a CA. Then take a look at what WAs are like. WAs are not exclusive to big posh high cost homes, and listed building are a completely different tranche. There are Council Estates and modest districts of mixed demographics. And the CAs have them places to be proud to live in. It's a shame so many places are not. There are modest terraced streets in Brentford which are in GAs. The area is full of upgraded homes that were beginning to look a mess and over the past 25 years the district looks better than it did in the 1970s. There are clear parameters on aesthetics and use of materials and what can and cannot be done which protects neighbours. There are different levels of CA and the proposed one for this area is not like Brentham. This will be flexible. But it will reign in those developments which damage other peoples homes, which upset the largely unspoiled harmony of buildings and will prevent complete developments. This won't stop what you do inside. Only protect the exteriors and those rear extensions that impact neighbouring homes and environs. This is no longer a low cost district. People pay a premium to reside here. All around there are huge developments. All around there are once smart streets that look truly awful. Some of the suburban streets of Bordering boroughs look really awful as a result of permitted developments being taken the the nth degree. As has been said before by others why move here and want to completely alter the appearance. Leave it any longer and the district will start to slip the same way as others. |