Application made to demolish locally listed house on Alton Road

The house at 66 Alton Road, Roehampton. Picture: Google Streetview

Campaigners hoping to prevent the demolition of a gothic style building in Roehampton have launched a petition.

The unusual detached house at 66 Alton Road is locally listed and part of a conservation area but planning permission is being sought by Denton Homes Ltd to replace it with two new blocks containing 24 one and two bedroom flats. The development will also require the removal of a number of established trees at the location.

The building is one of the last surviving Victorian villas in a road which is now mainly comprised of buildings from the twentieth century.

An objection Roehampton Housing Association states, "we object to the Application and the proposal to demolish a building of artistic merit and to replace it with two unattractive over­large buildings of no architectural merit, for the purpose of cramming as many housing units as possible on to the small site at No 66 Alton Road."

Objectors also say that the building of flats will add to existing parking difficulties in the area which they claim the Council’s Transport Plan understate.

The petition had 64 supporters at the time of writing. The organisers are planning to deliver the petition to Wandsworth Council on Wednesday 19 July.

You can also make a comment on the application on the Council’s planning portal.

July 14, 2017