Planning permission refused, announced today on planning website. This is for Ref. No: DC/18/108169 application made July 2018 for the exterior finish of the hall block, the second phase of building.
Plan (November 2014) DM Policy 30 Urban design and local character.
Following meetings with the school governors and Lewisham Council, the proposed external design of the school has been further developed and improved. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark wish to invite the school’s neighbours and the public to view and comment on these designs at a meeting in the school hall from 5pm to 7.30pm on Thursday 31 January 2019. To be held at Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School, 208 Sydenham Road SE26 5SE. 0208 778 4386.
Large scale drawings will be on display showing these designs along with samples to show the finish and texture of the proposed external materials. Comments and observations are invited and these will be considered in the final design before it is submitted to Lewisham’s planning department.
Representatives from the diocese and the school will be present along with those from the architect, contractor and project manager who can answer questions on the design and also on the remaining works and programme to complete the construction. There will be an opportunity for an internal tour to see the nursery, classrooms, music room and other facilities in the new school.
I'll try and get down there - but if not can you take some photos so everyone can share and comment on the plan?
The point of the meeting is to give the developers feedback directly and ask questions before plans are formally submitted. Discussing it here will mean your points aren't recorded or considered, so please try and make it.
I will ask them to leave large-scale plans at the library, which would allow for everyone to check them out and fill in a form. No idea if they will say yes, but I will certainly try. For me, the larger scale hard copies make plans far easier to understand, rather than shuffling it around a screen.
Just a reminder that the St Philip Neri school consultation meeting is today, 5pm to 7.30pm.
4) From the side the roofline is broken to break it up a bit.
That's about it folks. If planning swallow this it could be done done summer hols.
Lipstick on pigs comes to mind. Compare the above with the realtively new build opposite. It is also three storey has about the same frontage and is 'right on the road'. But just using brick it folds back into the streetscape. Bland but not offensive. I like non-bland but they have to be iconic to succeed.
Lipstick on pigs comes to mind. Compare the above with the realtively new build opposite. It is also three storey has about the same frontage and is 'right on the road'. But just using brick it folds back into the streetscape.
Are these images an accurate reflection of what is being proposed for approval by the council ?
How are the black bars and black recesses to be achieved - a coat of black paint perhaps ?
And what brand of invisible paint is to be applied to mask the circa 1 metre over height issue ?
And a presentation of a picture of wholesale inadequacy in what remains a major planning breach.
The guy said the windows would receive an electrostatic coating. Good for 30+ years or your money back. The black recesses would have the current cladding removed to reveal a deeper recess which would have black casellated effect. I didn't think of taking a picture of that. I believe JRW was going to ask if the displays might be moved to the Library. That would be good. I guess she will passing by soon.
The real problem is that the original design was unbuildable. The developers then cut corners. Indigo appear to be more interested in gaining planning permission by reducing the deviances from the original which are feasible, many are not. So that's going to be a bit of a dog's breakfast.
Rather than forgetting the plan that didn't work - it may have been better for the community taking what they have and try and make it more attractive by other means. 'You know like going for 'Green' walls. There is a green roof but that's strictly for the birds.
I recall asking Viv Evans at the library meeting in 2018 about his views on whether he could recall any occasion in the UK where a school or public building, found to be in breach, had been subject to a demolition order or a substantive partial rebuild. i believe he said he could recall none.
So compromise will almost certainly be the precedent.
It will be the degree of compromise that his department will find acceptable that will determine which way this goes. I believe JRW has published decision notices where the council has rejected the most recent applications - which may or may not reflect the departments mind-set on this issue.
It would be interesting to know who decreed the original design was unbuildable - and which of the parties concurred with that view = builder and/or architect ?
The designs have not been left at the library, despite my having asked for them to be made available. I want to look over them all carefully before giving my feedback, and no handouts were available, either at the meeting or online. I will chase this on Monday.