File:Pond House 162 Lower Clapton Road Planning Application Listed Buildings - Rear View.jpg

English: One the left, the surviving pair of a Georgian Terrace early 1800s or perhaps originally even 1760s according to a survey, of which the southen part was demolished in the 1880s(!) to make an access for the Baden Powell Estate. Grade II listed. On the right, Pond House, a rare for Hackney Grade II* listed building. The planning application 2008/3076 and 2008/3077 is to demolished the garages and rear brick extension of Pond House, and replace it with a modern block stepped up to the roof height of the Listed buildings. The new building is completely out of keeping (p.36 here) with the brick surroundings, both of these and the two storey brick terraces of Mildenhall Road and the listed buildings around the Conservation area of Clapton Pond (p. 24 here)

Pond House has been bought by a company registered in 2006 above a Laundrette in Stamford Hill There is an implicit threat in the planning application that if the unsightly and overly massive development on the garages is not permitted the restoration of the Grade 2 star listed Pond House will not be possible. The scenario then is that Pond House will be left to rot, something not without precedent in the world of Hackney if this outrageous development in Mildenhall Road is not allowed, and one which would set an unpleasant precedent for development in the conservation area. Comments on the above proposal may be submitted to Hackney Planning Department until 27 April Write to hackneyplanning@hackney.gov.uk Of Pond House, PEVSNER says..."restrained Stucco Villa of c 1800 on a generous scale with semi-circular Doric porch,a basement with lunettes and tri-partite ground floor windows. Flanking quadrant walls with former stables to the north. Interior with elegant curved staircase" A recommendation of the Hackney Council planning document was A6 Alterations to the Conservation Area boundary The existing boundaries of the Conservation Area were carefully reviewed when the survey work was carried out for this appraisal, and the following changes are proposed: • Add in the rear garden to Pond House, and land between it and Mildenhall Road. This is external space is integral to the listed Pond House and its setting.

The current boundary of the conservation area does include all the grounds and garage site

see here