Photos were taken on Friday 15th February 2013 by Cllr. Hamish Pollock of Cedar Close, a sheltered housing development of the mid-1980s.
Cedar Close is situated off Salisbury Road, Carshalton, a long, quiet residential road consisting of a mix of houses (mostly inter-war) and a considerable number of flats (mostly seemingly conversions).
Entrance to Cedar Close
The site of Cedar Close is attractively woody and the mix of single-storey and two-storey sheltered housing units is being demolished to make way for a mews-type development of 9 two storey houses with attic rooms/loft conversions.
Our regular readers may recall that we had reported that previously the developer acceded to the demands of local residents and local councillors at the meeting of the Council’s Development Control Committee that the development would not be gated, one of the biggest concerns.
Other concerns we made were in relation to potential overlooking from the new properties on the north side of the new development over the gardens of nos. 43 and 45 Salisbury Road, which will be (hopefully) addressed by planting suitable new trees when these are installed.
The Demolition Crew get to Work!