in the 1890s. Hilly Fields park opened on 16 May 1896 after campaigning by one of the Founders of the National Trust Octavia Hill. Conservation area Designated in 2010, the area consists mainly of late Victorian suburban residential development which was built by the local developer Samuel J. Jerrard. In the conservation area, external changes to elevations visible from public viewpoints require planning permission. These include: Changes to windows, doors, chimneys and other material alterations. Alterations to the roof of a house. The addition of a porch. This would include infilling an open porch. Construction of any building within the grounds of a house where this would be visible from any public viewpoint. Putting down a hard surface, for example a drive, or replacing an existing drive. New boundary treatments like gates, walls and fences and the demolition of the original. The painting of the exterior of a dwelling house or building within the grounds of the building. Through the 1880s and 1890s Jerrard built up long stretches of Vicars Hill and the newly laid out streets Algernon Road, Algiers Road, Ermine and Embleton Road, taking advantage of the topography and the good transport links to London. His houses are generously sized and are stylistically distinctive as a group. Many of his other houses in the area are protected within the Brockley conservation area. Jerrard’s development in Ladywell survives nearly complete, including its rich architectural detailing. It constitutes the core of the conservation area, supplemented by some later infill development of the late 19th and early 20th century that completed his streets. The conservation area also encompasses the commercial core of Ladywell along Ladywell Road, known as Ladywell Village, which contains some of the oldest houses and pubs of the area and Edwardian shops that were constructed at the turn of the century in response to the rapidly increasing community around them. The Council recommends a number of improvements that could be made to the benefit of both the character of the area as well as the value of individuals’ properties: reinstatement of painted timber windows to the original design. These will in most, but not all cases be vertical sliding sash windows reinstatement of original style doors, such as the Victorian glass and timber panelled doors that can be found on most of the Jerrard properties, the removal of later porch additions, removal of render or pebbledash where not