Sent:	19 May 2020 14:50
To:	Bakall, Gary
Subject:	Application  2020/1433/P


Dear Mr Bakall 

Thank you for that very helpful conversation just now, and for allowing me to express my 
reservations about this application, even though my comments can have no bearing on a 
Certificate of Lawfulness being issued.

I object to the proposed change to the roof of No 21. The mews is an unusually well-preserved 
piece of mid-century planning, with a harmony, symmetry and consistency in the original design 
that remain fairly unchanged sixty years on. No 21, one of the few semi-detached houses, shares 
an identical profile with No 19, which it faces across a courtyard; the echoing profiles of the two 
houses makes this one of the handsomest part of the street. 

Replacing the original 1960s roof with one of a completely different line will result in the terrace 
becoming visibly asymmetrical from the front, to the detriment of the streetscape. 

Although Fairfax Place is not a designated conservation area, it would be a great loss to the area 
and the borough if the integrity of the existing streetscape was eroded by insensitive changes, 
however small, such as the one proposed here—not least because it will encourage other 
applications with similar disregard for architectural history and coherence.  

Kind regards