The Former Stag Brewery, Lower Richmond Road, London, SW14 7ET

Planning appeal 3339060 at The Former Stag Brewery, Lower Richmond Road, London, SW14 7ET (Richmond Upon Thames London Borough Council) was allowed on 2 May 2025 by Inspector Rollings G, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area.

Comprehensive phased redevelopment of the former Stag Brewery site: demolition and mixed residential/retail/leisure development east of Ship Lane (detailed), outline residential development west of Ship Lane (Appeal A), and erection of a new secondary school with sixth form, sports pitch, MUGA and associated works (Appeal B)

Authority: Richmond Upon Thames London Borough Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Other Major Developments
Inspector: Rollings G
Postcode: SW14 7ET

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area
The effect of the proposed development on the historic environment
The effect of the proposed development on transport in the area, with particular regard to sustainable travel, the movement network, parking provision and highway safety
The effect of the proposed development on the natural environment
The effect of the proposed development on local education provision
The effect of the proposed development on the local supply of affordable housing

What decided it

The substantial and wide-ranging public benefits of the scheme—including housing and affordable housing delivery, a much-needed secondary school, employment provision and optimum viable use of a brownfield site—outweighed the less-than-substantial heritage harm and other limited harms identified.

The substantial benefits of housing, affordable housing, education, employment, design and brownfield redevelopment outweighed the less than substantial heritage harm and other limited/moderate harms, such that the adverse impacts of granting permission did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits when assessed against the Framework as a whole, and the proposals accorded with the development plan as a whole.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Local Plan Policy LP 1Local Plan Policy LP 2Local Plan Policy LP 3Local Plan Policy LP 4Local Plan Policy LP 5Local Plan Policy LP 8Local Plan Policy LP 10Local Plan Policy LP 14Local Plan Policy LP 15Local Plan Policy LP 20Local Plan Policy LP 21Local Plan Policy LP 23Local Plan Policy LP 29Local Plan Policy LP 35Local Plan Policy LP 36Local Plan Policy LP 44Local Plan Policy LP 45Local Plan Site Allocation SA24ELP Policy 10ELP Policy 11ELP Policy 28ELP Policy 29ELP Policy 31ELP Policy 36ELP Policy 37ELP Policy 39ELP Policy 40ELP Policy 44ELP Policy 45ELP Site Allocation 35London Plan Policy D3London Plan Policy D4London Plan Policy D6London Plan Policy D8London Plan Policy D9London Plan Policy HC1London Plan Policy T1London Plan Policy T2London Plan Policy T4London Plan Policy T5London Plan Policy T6London Plan Policy T7London Plan Policy GG2London Plan Policy G5London Plan Policy G6London Plan Policy SI 12London Plan Policy SI 13London Plan Policy S3London Plan Policy S6London Plan Policy H4London Plan Policy H5
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 9Paragraph 11Paragraph 15Paragraph 57Paragraph 64Paragraph 79Paragraph 100Paragraph 116Paragraph 124Paragraph 125Paragraph 130Paragraph 135Paragraph 180Paragraph 181Paragraph 182Paragraph 195Paragraph 212Paragraph 215Paragraph 216

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

375 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Richmond upon Thames

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Dismissed20 October 20266010388
163 Garrick House, High Street, Hampton Hill, TW12 1BZ
Dismissed1 October 20266011219
10 Water Lane, Richmond, TW9 1TJ
Dismissed1 October 20266007390
1-54 Garden Road, Richmond, TW9 4NR
Dismissed28 July 20266006160
Tearfund, 100, Church Road, Teddington, TW11 8QE, 100, Church Road, Teddington,, TW11 8QE
Dismissed22 July 20266003237
Land to the Rear of 256–258 Kingston Road, Land Adjacent to 26–28 Lindum Road, Teddington, TW11 9DR

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.