Nursery and nine flats at Bright Horizons Battersea Day Nursery and Pre-School, London SW11

“Official 29/11/1973: (73/12470) Approved: Use for a further limited period, of a single storey shop, as a heating engineer's office and store. 24/12/1969: (69/5985) Approved: Use for a further limited period of the single storey shop, as a heating engineer's office and store. 27/07/1963: (63/27652) Approved: Erection of a three-storey building comprising six self contained flats.”

“Erection of a three-storey (plus lower ground) building to provide 9 flats with associated amenity space, cycle parking and refuse/recycling facilities. The northern building would be a part single, first and second storey (including basement level) development to provide 9 x new residential flats (4 x 1-beds, 4 x 2- bed units and 1 x 3-bed units). Nine dwellings were proposed under 2024/1461 which comprised 3 x 1-beds, 5 x 2-bed units and 1 x 3-bed units.”

“SITE DETAILS: The application site relates to a single-storey detached building located on the west side of Latchmere Road, on the corner with Abercrombie Street to the south. The site was previously used as a nursery school (Class E(f))) and the surrounding streetscape is predominantly three storey and residential in nature, with the four storey Harling Court opposite the site, while more commercial/mixed-use buildings located along Battersea Park Road, within the Battersea…”

“Official The Council’s Constitution does not give delegated powers to determine the application in the way recommended and must be determined by the Planning Applications Committee. RELATED PLANNING APPLICATIONS: 19/09/2024: (2024/1461) Refused: Demolition of the existing nursery building and erection of part two storey, part three storey building to provide a replacement day nursery (Use Class E(f)) with associated refuse/recycling, cycle, scooter and buggy storage…”

“The proposal, by reason of its excessive scale and massing, would result in harm to the residential occupiers fronting Atherton Street, through an unacceptable reduction in received daylight to the detriment of their amenity. As such, the proposal fails to comply with policy LP2.B.1 of the Wandsworth Local Plan (2023) and the NPPF 2023. Appeal to the Planning Inspectorate dismissed 02 July 2025 under appeal reference APP/H5960/W/25/3358594.”

“Official 12 Conclusion/Planning Balance 12.1 The development would make a positive contribution to the local housing supply and the density and mix of residential units is considered acceptable in its setting. A new and improved nursery building would be provided on site, thus retaining adequate provision of education facilities within the local context.”

“Subject to recommended conditions, the proposed development would not cause any significant harm to the amenity of surrounding properties in relation to losses of outlook or privacy, nor is it likely to result in excessive levels of noise and disturbance in accordance with policy LP2 of the Wandsworth Local Plan (2023).”

“Members were informed that consideration would therefore be best focused on the outstanding outlook impacts in arriving at a resolution, and whether the degree of re-design and setting back of the first and second floors of the proposal were sufficient in minimising the harm, as previously identified.”

“In response to concerns about the installation of heat pumps, the Area Team Manager (East Team) confirmed that Condition 6 was imposed in relation to the air source heat pumps which required for further information, specifically for that equipment, over phases two and three so that specific information could be included on its future performance.”

“RESOLVED – (8 for and 1 against) that planning permission be granted as set out in the report, noting the additional information as set out in the late items of correspondence paper.”