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2024 Planning Applications

№ 2

ADDRESS: 2 Beaconsfield Road KT10 0PW APPLICATION NUMBER: 2024/1803 PROPOSAL: Claygate Foley Estate Conservation Area - Removal of 1 x Conifer. CPC VERDICT: Nothing on website, though we were a Consultee. [Decision Date: 12/08/24 – i.e. just days before our last meeting on 15/8/24] EBC VERDICT: Conservation Area Tree Works Acceptable

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'Killara' № 17

ADDRESS: Killara 17 Beaconsfield Road APPLICATION NUMBER: 2024/1479 PROPOSAL: Claygate Foley Estate Conservation Area - Crown reduce 1 x Ash and Fell 1 x Sweet chestnut.

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Historical Notes

The Foley Estate

The arrival of the railway stimulated the development of housing in Claygate. One of the village's largest landowners, the Hon Fitzalan Charles John Foley, later the 6th Baron Foley, parcelled up for sale in 1885 the area which is largely encompassed by Church Road, Vale Road, Hare Lane and the railway. This area was divided up into 258 plots. Many of the plots had 25 foot frontages and cost £50, as it was expected that the main development would comprise small suburban villas. In fact only a limited number of these smaller properties were built, mainly along Vale Road and the northern end of Gordon Road, as many purchasers bought two or more adjoining plots on which they built one large house.

The development plan was also altered in a number of other respects:

• Abrook (not Arbrook) Lane which was an old lane to Arbrook Farm was not developed.
• Fitzalan Road was confined between Beaconsfield and Foley Roads and not extended to Church Road.
• Plans to build St. Johns Road on the east side of the railway, Charlotte Road, St. George's Road and St. James's Road on the west side, were not executed.
• The proposed level crossing halfway along Gordon Road did not materialise, but a bridge over the railway off Claremont Road (the proposed name was Charles Road) was constructed.

It would seem that Fitzalan Foley misjudged his market who in the main built large Victorian houses, most of which still remain to this day although there have been several casualties along the way. Perhaps it is not surprising that the size and quality of houses that were built were rather better than originally envisaged.

• Firstly, there was the attraction and influence of nearby Claremont.
• Secondly, the terms of sale tended indirectly to encourage such development:
  • For example, no private dwelling houses could be erected on plots 1 to 19, 40 to 46, 71 to 146 and 161 to 209 inclusive of less value than £300 for a single house or £500 for a pair of houses.
  • For plots 20 to 39, 47 to 51,56 to 70, 147 to 160 and 210 to 258 the minimum values were £500 to £800 respectively, and for plots 52 to 55 £300 for a house or shop.
  • The excavation of clay and other soil was prohibited except for the purpose of erecting the building, as also were the manufacture of bricks and other industrial activities.

Thus although the original development plan was not realised in its entirety, nevertheless by 1914 the basic pattern of housing envisaged by Fitzalan Foley was established along much of Gordon Road and Beaconsfield Road, and also along part of Foley Road and Claremont Road. The houses on Foley Road near the junction with Coverts Road that back onto the recreation ground were originally built to accommodate some of the living-out domestic staff of Ruxley Lodge when it was owned by the Foley family.

Further Information

• Beaconsfield Road in previous years