A mixed-use building in Teddington is set to get an extra flat.

Richmond Council has this week approved a planning application for the building on Teddington Park Road - which currently has three flats and offices - to be turned into four flats.

The two-storey detached Edwardian property was previously used as offices for the neighbouring Newland House School, with plans previously signed off in the 1990s for flats to be created there.

Sheds to the rear serve as storage for Newlands and the building itself is designated as a Building of Townscape Merit (BTM).

The application said the loss of the office space was acceptable, which planning officers at Richmond Council agreed with.

Signing off on the application, a council report said: "The applicant notes that the building was previously a dwellinghouse, and given its domestic layout and scale, the potential for meaningful alternative social infrastructure is inherently limited. 

"In addition, where the building historically contained school staff residential accommodation – continued residential use functions more effectively, more realistically and more deliverable in practice than inserting a completely separate non-school related social infrastructure use (e.g. medical).

"Therefore, the conversion to four residential units is the most appropriate re-use and satisfies policies."

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No changes will be made to the outside of the building.

The full application can be viewed here.