The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with news from across the development sector, and this week features the Architect’s Journal (AJ) on Alison Brooks’ ‘revised plans for tile-clad Hampstead house’.
…opulence and originality of the materiality…
… a number of objections…
The AJ writes:
Alison Brooks Architects has submitted revised plans for a new house within the Hampstead Conservation Area featuring a teal-coloured, faïence tile façade.
The practice lodged its initial plans to replace an ‘unremarkable’ 1960s three-storey semi-detached house in Frognal Gardens, north-west London…
However, that application was withdrawn in November last year and the proposal tweaked, primarily to address comments on the plans raised by Camden Council and the borough’s design review panel in March 2020. Although the panel had praised the scheme and said the ‘opulence and originality of the materiality’ would make the finished house a ‘special building’, it asked for a reduction in its mass to prevent it ‘seeming over-dominant’.
The original proposals had also received a number of objections, including some from the owner of the adjoining building and other local residents, with one claiming the scheme was ‘too large and overwhelming’ and another from the Hampstead Neighbourhood Forum, which said the colour [was] ‘inappropriate and damaging to the conservation area’…
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