Planning application: 2025/2256 Land rear of 2-28 Bickley Street SW17 9NF

A planning proposal has been submitted for a small mews-style residential development on a ‘brownfield site’ at the back of a terrace of maisonettes on Bickley Street and next to Granada Street, which runs alongside the Grade I listed Granada Cinema building.

Details: erection of 3 x two-storey dwellings with associated bin stores, cycle parking and landscaping.  

Although not opposed to the principle of the development, Tooting History Group has expressed its concern, as this is in an Archaeological Priority Area. We have suggested that in the event of the planning application being approved, and before work begins, further investigation of the site is essential. Recent submissions from Historic England are encouraging.

Tooting History Group’s planning comment extract:

Map evidence shows that Eldon House was built on the proposed development site c.1740 by Joseph Salvador. It may have been on the grounds of a nearby earlier manorial residence. The Salvador family were obliged to sell Eldon House, and the building became a school which was eventually demolished in the nineteenth century. The site contains old walls, still standing, and fragments incorporated into later industrial premises. The ground level is uneven, and there are large granite blocks at the base of later built garden walls. The southern end of the site is bounded by the wall of a single-storey building, perhaps part of a forge (‘smithy’ on maps) made of reused bricks. We feel that there is sufficient surface interest and map evidence to suggest that more than a desk-top survey be conducted. 

Further details of the planning application and all comments can be found here: Online Standard Details

Libby Lawson, THG Conservation Officer. 25 January 2026.