Fresh plans to partially demolish Hampton Court station rejected by local authority.
Elmbridge Borough Council’s north area planning sub-committee has rejected fresh plans to knock down parts of Hampton Court train station.
Gladedale Estates Ltd and Network Rail are seeking to redevelop the station and the former Jolly Boatman site next to it.
Under their proposals, a hotel, a care home and apartments will be built, while the station will be refurbished and a new transport interchange will be created.
As part of these plans, Gladedale and Network Rail have been looking to part demolish the existing gable entrance to the station building, as well as the single-storey addition to the station building comprising the platform level staff room and male toilets.
In addition, the companies have also been looking to demolish two existing platform canopies, a car sales building and low level boundary walls.
Elmbridge Borough Council originally gave the firms conservation area consent to undertake the demolition work at the station in 2009.
However, this consent expired in June last year and the companies had to submit a fresh conservation area application, which they did in December.
The borough council received more than 800 letters of objection regarding the new proposals.
During a meeting held at the Civic Centre in Esher last week, the authority’s north area planning sub-committee decided to reject the application.
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