19/AP/1150
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