Planning Applications PDF 1 MB - Meetings, agendas and minutes

normal PlayFootball off peak prices. Bookings of this type would be made in the normal
way.
- The basketball area would be open access to anyone at any time that the park is
open. This area would operate in the same way that the current hard courts are used.
Therefore, there would not be a booking system for this area.
- The pavilion would include changing rooms, bar/café, and toilets, which would be open
access for all users of Hammersmith Park (not just PlayFootball customers).
PlayFootball would manage this in accordance with their standard operating
procedures, but the facilities would be permanently available to the public during the
opening hours of the park (this would be secured in a legal agreement).
3.7 The permanent provision of the free community pitches, along with a management
plan including full details of the membership and operation of the proposed community
forum, would be secured within a S106 agreement.
DESIGN AND CONSERVATION
3.8 The whole of the site is within the Wood Lane Conservation Area. Core Strategy
Policy BE1 and Policy DMG7 of the Local Plan emphasise the need for new
development to integrate successfully and sympathetically into the existing built
environment, open space and historic environment, including the need to preserve and
enhance existing historic assets.
3.9 Conservation Area Consent is required for the demolition of the three existing
structures on the site. These buildings are poor quality, and have been heavily
vandalised, leaving the existing pavilion open to the elements. As the buildings do not
contribute positively to the character and appearance of the conservation area, there is
no objection to their removal and thus to the granting of Conservation Area Consent.
3.10 The only new building proposed would be a single storey pavilion, providing
changing rooms, a bar and public toilets, which would be located towards the southwestern
boundary of the site beyond the proposed car park. The building would be a
simple brick-faced structure with a mono-pitched metal clad roof and black panelling
details surrounding the entrances, windows, and the western side elevation. The
building would incorporate PlayFootball's branding but the signage would be restrained
and non-illuminated. Any additional signage would need separate advertisement
consent. Whilst the proposed building would be relatively functional in appearance, its
modest size and height would ensure that it would not detract from the character and
appearance of its surroundings. Three existing poor quality brick buildings (one of a
similar size and in a similar location to the proposed building) would be removed from
the site.
3.11 The perimeter of the football pitches would be surrounded by 5m high fencing,
including 2.5m of solid boards and 2.5m of mesh fencing above. On the front boundary
with South Africa Road there would be a 3m mesh security fence. On the southern
boundaries, a 3m-high timber acoustic fence with trellis for climbing plants would be
erected outside the perimeter fencing. On the western boundary of the car park, where
it meets the park, 1.8m high metal railings would be erected. The scheme would also
provide 36 lighting columns, each 8m in height.