Homebase Manor Road

On 16 July 2019 Richmond advised the Mayor that it was minded to refuse permission for the redevelopment proposals for Homebase, Manor Road.

On 29 July 2019, having considered a report on the case, the Mayor notified Richmond that he would act as the local planning authority for the purposes of determining the planning applications (under article 7 of the Mayor of London Order and the powers conferred by Section 2A of the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act).

The local authority for this case is 19/0510/FUL. The GLA reference is 4795.

The Mayor's initial stage 1 and 2 reports and decision letters can be downloaded here

Hard copies of documents are not available to view, and representations by letter are discouraged, in line with Town and Country Planning (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020.

If you intend to make representations of objection or support in respect of the revisions to the Application and/or the other information relating to the Environmental Statement these should be sent by email to the Greater London Authority at [email protected] by 3 September 2020.

The representation hearing has been scheduled for 1 October 2020 at 13.30.

Subsequent to the Mayor’s direction, the Applicant submitted revisions to the application on 22 November 2019 which were consulted upon in December 2019 and January 2020. Following that consultation, on 31 July 2020 the applicant made further revisions to the application, with amendments to plans and planning documents. The proposed amendments are set out in further detail within the applicants Planning Statement Addendum July 2020 but in brief summary include:

• Increase of residential units from 385 as originally submitted to 453 through increase in heights to some buildings and optimisation of layouts;
• Increase in height of building A (core A) by 1 storey, increase in building B by 2 storeys, increase in building C (core A) by 3 storeys and increase in building C (Cores B and C) by 1 storey.
• Decrease in height of building A (core D) and D (core B) by 1 storey;
• Reduction in floor to floor heights from 3.3m to 3.15m
• Removal of Building E which was part of the revisions made on 22 November 2019.
• Increased provision of affordable housing from 35% (134 units) to 40% (173 units) (with grant funding) by habitable room and amendments to tenure split from 30/70% affordable rent / intermediate to 52/48%.
• Reduction of basement and relocation of cycle parking and bin storage to ground floor of each Block.
• Increase in cycle parking to meet draft London Plan standards.
• Design amendments to maximise residential quality including additional cores, dual aspect units along Manor Road, less north facing units, increased overlooking distances and improvements to residential amenity spaces.
• Rearrangement of commercial floorspace including extending Block D commercial frontage towards North Sheen Station and removal of retail pavilion in central courtyard.
• Alteration to building elevations and detailed design.
• Public realm amendments including redesign of the central courtyard; revisions to the play space strategy; introduction of a half ball-court; and reconfiguration of car parking.
• Amendments to the site-wide Energy Strategy to comply with the London Plan Energy Hierarchy.

The amended application will now be described as follows:

“Demolition of existing buildings and structures and comprehensive phased residential-led redevelopment to provide 453 residential units (of which 173 units will be affordable), flexible retail, community and office uses, provision of car and cycle parking, landscaping, public and private open spaces and all other necessary enabling works.”

Copies of these documents are available to view at the following locations:



• Richmond Council website at:

https://www2.richmond.gov.uk/PlanData2/Planning_Search.aspx (using ref: 19/0510/FUL)

• GLA website at:

https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/manor-road-homebase-amended-consultation-documents

How to comment

Hard copies of documents are not available to view, and representations by letter are discouraged, in line with Town and Country Planning (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020. If you intend to make representations of objection or support in respect of the revisions to the Application and/or the other information relating to the Environmental Statement these should be sent by email to the Greater London Authority at [email protected] by 3 September 2020.

Notification period

The notification period runs until 3 September 2020. The application will not be decided before this notification period ends. Comments received after the date referred to above, but before a decision is made, may still be taken into account but failure to meet this deadline could result in your comments not being considered. Any representations you have previously made on this application to London Borough of Richmond or Greater London Authority will still be taken into account.