Policy information sourced from the Richmond Upon Thames Local Plan

PBS3 Twickenham, Strawberry Hill & St Margarets (C)

Future development in this place is expected, where relevant, to:

  • Contribute to a sense of activity and vibrancy in the town and local centres, to encourage arts, culture and leisure developments to enhance the mixed-use potential of the area and make it more of a destination to spend time.
  • Encourage the provision of office floorspace and new flexible workspaces within the town centre and intensification of existing employment sites to provide for jobs and support local businesses.
  • Ensure that any expansion and management of entertainment and leisure facilities is sensitive to the amenity of people who live in the centre and the wider functioning of the area, promoting the night-time economy through diversifying the range of cultural venues and offers, encouraging on-street al fresco dining and making a welcoming environment for all night-time economy users and workers.
  • Enhance the public realm through creating high quality spaces and implement more high-quality street furniture, including implementing the East Twickenham streetscene improvements, providing a new public square or civic space at Twickenham Riverside, and reanimating local commercial areas such as Wellesley Parade.
  • Promote routes for active travel and exercise, encouraging healthy activity and exploration of the area by local workers, visitors and residents. Support greening through tree-planting.
  • Contribute to protecting, enhancing and making the most of the character of the built and open environment, including the River Thames and Crane riversides and associated river related activities and Twickenham working waterfront, including preserving and enhancing public access to the Thames.
  • Support the cultural and community offer for both residents and visitors around the Twickenham Cultural Quarter, including the area focused around the Civic Centre,York House and Gardens, the Mary Wallace Theatre,Twickenham Museum and Library, with potential to extend as a cultural hub into the town centre and along the Riverside, to provide a destination for visitors, and encouraging outdoor temporary and permanent art and theatre interventions.
  • Maintain and provide new public toilets within the public realm, supplementing the Richmond Community Toilet Scheme, including provision at Twickenham Station and to serve Twickenham Riverside.

Within the town centre boundary, development is expected at Station Yard (Site Allocation 15) to provide additional residential use, and there is potential for new development to contribute to a mix of uses at Twickenham Telephone Exchange (Site Allocation 16).There is a tall building zone around the station and north of the railway line, where redevelopment has recently occurred, with a surrounding mid-rise buffer, for any future proposals to be considered against Policy 45 Tall and Mid-Rise Building Zones. At Twickenham Riverside and Water Lane/King Street (Site Allocation 17) there is the opportunity for the site to regenerate the town centre and increase footfall, making the Riverside a destination and improving its connectivity.

Outside of the town centre, there is an opportunity to enhance the sporting role of Twickenham Stadium (Site Allocation 13) and The Stoop (Site Allocation 12), and enhance the education offer at St Mary’s University (Site Allocation 10) and Richmond upon Thames College (Site Allocation 11). At Mereway (Site Allocation 14) there is potential redevelopment for a social or community infrastructure use.There is opportunity to bring forward a residential-led redevelopment of the Homebase site on Twickenham Road (Site Allocation 18) as well as some residential which complements the bus garage operation and social infrastructure uses on site at the Fulwell Bus Garage (Site Allocation 19).

See details in the Site Allocations within this area:

  • St Mary’s University, Strawberry Hill
  • Richmond upon Thames College, Twickenham
  • The Stoop (Harlequins Rugby Football Club), Twickenham
  • Twickenham Stadium, Twickenham
  • Mereway Day Centre, Mereway Road, Twickenham
  • Station Yard, Twickenham
  • Twickenham Telephone Exchange
  • Twickenham Riverside and Water Lane/King Street
  • Homebase, Twickenham Road, Hanworth
  • Fulwell Bus Garage, Wellington Road, Twickenham

For more information please see the Richmond Upon Thames Local Plan