The Former Carshalton Bus Garage

Jill, Alan and Hamish have recently received some information from the council’s planning officers on the current major planning application for the former tram/trolleybus depot/bus garage site in Westmead Road, in response to residents’ recent queries:-

• The current application is for a re-development scheme to provide a total of 3 commercial units and 29 residential units of which 4 units are proposed for affordable housing (all within block C which is located towards the rear of the site). 
• From the onset 3 blocks of flats (Blocks A, B and C) and a row of terraced houses were proposed for the site. 
• The residential units in Block B are not proposed as affordable housing and Block B has apparently always been present in the pre-application discussions with the Council’s planning officers.
• There has been no increase or decrease in the number of terraced properties (11) proposed before the application and the current application scheme. However, the scheme has been “toned down” in the number of flats proposed from 24 flats before the application to 18 flats in the current application.
• Although the total number of units proposed within the site has been reduced, the number of car parking spaces to be provided within the site has been increased from 38 spaces before the application to 42 spaces with the current application.
• There has been no reduction or variation in the number of terraces (11) proposed from the scheme before the application and the present application scheme. However, Block C was re-designed to address the specific concern of family-sized housing and the four affordable housing units contained within it would provide for two 4-bedroom houses and two 3-bedroom maisonettes.

Please do let us know if you have any particular concerns. More in a future update in FOCUS and/or on this web site.

A Recent View of the Former Garage