16/AP/1949
Redevelopment to create a gym on the first floor rear with entry/fire
escape points on the ground floor.
This seems to be a re-run of the application looked at last year
15/AP/2426 which looking at the Southwark website seems to have been
turned away and not determined.
So again the application is to provide a first floor gym (Use Class D2)
above the present shop and side yard infill extension occupying the full
triangular site.
Our previous comment:
Due to the commercial use on Denmark Hill and Valmar Trading Estate to
the rear the proposal has very little impact lost behind the front
façade which is raised/rebuilt to give a better storey height than the
present store rooms. The additional height will be a visual improvement
to the street elevation.
There are concerns from the other users of Milkwell Yard that the access
to the rear for refuse collections and to bicycle parking/storage will
over intensify the use of the yard but this would be relative to the
existing access and refuse collection to rear of other properties.
On balance the Camberwell Society does not object to this proposal.
In this new application the refuse collection and access would seem to
have been better addressed with refuse collection split so some is from
the rear but there is also provision from the front to collect three
Eurobins.
Whilst we had concerns about the actual use of these premises long term
we cannot comment on speculation and only what is in front of us and on
that basis —
Comment: No objection.