Through the work of the sub-committee, the Society has been instrumental in saving many buildings of note including Addington Square, Denmark Hill Station and part of Windsor Walk. The Society has also been instrumental in influencing new development to make a positive contribution to the area, and works with local residents and tenants groups where there are common issues. The current composition of the Planning sub-committee is: Tim Gaymer, Anthony Kyrke-Smith, Elizabeth Borowiecka, Jason Leech, Robert Potz, Jonathan Hunt, Paul Cohoon, Somayya Yaqub, Michael Galt and Tom Harvey. Potential new members are welcome to attend a meeting as an observer initially. The Society is currently under represented by members from the Myatt Fields and Brunswick Park areas.
19/AP/1150 | DOUGLAS BENNETT HOUSE, MAUDSLEY HOSPITAL, WINDSOR WALK, LONDON, SE5 8AZ
Demolition of the existing building and erection of a new five storey building to accommodate a new in-patient mental health facility comprising 8 wards together with associated landscape works. The mental health facility proposed by this application is unsympathetic to its surroundings in terms of scale and design:
Massing: the 5 storey building plus rooftop plant room is out of scale with the existing Victorian terrace which the Camberwell Society has worked hard to protect from unsympathetic re-development in the past and it will be clearly visible from Denmark Hill Station uphill from the site.
Design: The Windsor Walk elevation proposed is not sympathetic to the existing buildings adjacent. Its large areas of brickwork and render and its extraordinary protruding glazed and angled corner contrasts unhelpfully with the orderly succession of vertical and horizontal lines which characterise the rest of the street elevation
The Camberwell Society objects to this proposal on the grounds that it is an inappropriately bulky and an inappropriate intervention in Windsor Walk