Conservation Area Plan for the Glebe Estate
Status would mean more planning restrictions for local homes
Glebe Street in the Glebe Estate. Picture: Google Streetview
A report has been produced by Hounslow Council officers recommending that a consultation be held on making the Glebe Estate in Chiswick into a conservation area.
It is due to be presented to the Area Forum meeting on 12 January.
The council’s Spatial Planning Team have started a programme of producing new conservation area appraisals (CAAs) for all of the borough’s conservation areas.
The council has a duty to consider which parts of the borough of Hounslow are ‘areas of special architectural or historic interest’ which are desirable to preserve or enhance.
The Glebe Estate is an enclave of mainly two storey Victorian cottages between Duke Road and Devonshire Road, Glebe Street and Fraser Street. Originally built in the 1870s for predominantly working class families, terraced houses in the area now sell for well over £1,000,000.
The area is known as the Glebe Estate since the field on which it was built was ‘glebe land’ – land which had previously been assigned to the local church.
A consultation is to be held on the conservation area plan for the estate. Conservation area status does come with certain restrictions on permitted development rights including the positioning of satellite dishes, solar panels, two-storey or side extensions, dormer windows and external cladding.
Trees within conservation areas with stem diameters of 75mm or greater, measured at 1.5m above ground are protected. Additionally, anyone wishing to work on these trees must normally give six weeks written notice to the Local Authority.
The consultation will take place from 18 January 2021 to 20 March 2021. The council says it will be sending a letter to all residents within the conservation areas above to inform them of the consultation and invite their comments.
From the 18 January, the consultation will be available on the council’s consultation page.
Should anyone want more information on the consultation or have any queries contact conservation@hounslow.gov.uk.
A brief history of the Glebe Estate written by local historian Gillian Clegg was published by the Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society.
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January 10, 2021