by Neighbors have criticized plans for a new country house for fears that it could destroy the location of Cardinal Wolsey’s long gallery.
The 45-hectare Wayneflete estate near Esher in Surrey was once the home of William Wayneflete, Bishop of Winchester, who lived in a medieval palace that was built in the 1460s.
But the owner of a modern two-story barn and the outbuilding on the premises would like to tear off both in favor of a land-manor house with five bedrooms.
Eduardo Pontes has also planned to add “a basement and swimming pool to the garage/business building”, such as a planning declaration that was submitted by DHA planning and development.
“There would also be two very discrete underground tunnel paths to connect the house to the outbuilding,” added the DHA planning.
Penny Rainbow, a local historian who lives in neighboring class I Wayneflede Tower -a Pre -Tudor -Gatehaus, which can be seen from the periphery of the Wayneflete estate -has objected to the plans.
She claims that the country could be in the place where Cardinal Wolsey’s long gallery of Henry VIII in 1531 had fallen out of favor after Wolsey.
She said to The Telegraph: “As for me, it is that you will disturb archeology. If someone has an excavator, how will you know if you go through foundations?
“This story is only wiped off the planet and knocked it away with a JCB,” she added. “It feels like Stealth for all of us. Our inheritance is simply sucked away step by step.”
In her objection, she wrote: “The discovery of these foundations would be a remarkable archaeological find, but in any case the potential archaeological importance of this position is enormous and cannot be ignored.”
Simon Thurley, a former CEO of the English Heritage, wrote that the gallery “was admired by Heinrich VIII so much that it carefully dismantled in 1531 on the royal command and from Cart to the Thames Ditton to send Barge to Whitehall Palace for the reconstruction as a private gallery.
She said that her “greatest fear” was that the new mansion “the green belt, the historical landscape, the loss of residential applications and floods and thus this proposal would cause long -term damage.”
Wayneflete Estate was taken over by Henry VIII in 1519, Prime Minister Wolsey and used them as the basis while monitoring developments in the Hampton Court Palace. The Tudor king took possession of the palace in 1530 after Wolsey got in favor of his favor under the king’s attempts to divorce.
Ms. Rainbow, the self-declared guard of the Wayneflete Tower, provides presentations of local societies and groups on the history of the cultural heritage value value and its residents, including Cardinal Wolsey. She writes that the gatehouse is sometimes referred to as Wolsey’s tower.
“The historical importance of the Wayneflete estate cannot be ignored,” said Ms. Rainbow in her appeal.
Ms. Rainbow added that the application suggests that the entire location will be changed to residential status and says: “In my opinion, this is mischievous and may point out important development plans. The Green Belt status of the location is apparently endangered.”
There were almost 30 public comments from objections to the plans. One of them – kept anonymously – is said: “[There] have subsequent applications to demolish the property and to build a new much larger property. There was a clear strategy of a creeping, always increasing development of development. “
The DHA planning says that the plans to change the house and change the structure “increase its visual contribution to a level that is appropriate for its historical environment and supplements its estate environment and at the same time offers modern practical necessities”.
Archaeological evaluation
The plans for the demolition and reconstruction of the existing apartment and the outbuilding had previously been approved, but the council later refused permission for the basement, the swimming pool and the underground Walkway link. The DHA planning argued that the rejection was due to the fact that it had previously proposed to solve the existing house again, but now it said that it would stay at its current location.
Sophie Hamilton-Gray wrote in an archaeological assessment that the location is “of great importance” in terms of local history. However, it came to the conclusion that archeology should not form the basis for the rejection of the proposals.
“While there is a moderate potential for under-diving archeology, especially for medieval and post-mediavale and modern periods, further investigations can be carried out within the framework of a planning condition to ensure that every archaeological meaning is examined, monitored and recorded,” wrote Ms. Hamilton-Gray.
Elmbridge Borough Council is considering the planning application. Ms. Rainbow and DHA planning were contacted for a comment.
