Teddington residents have been submitting their objections to a planning application seeking to convert the site of a former car repair workshop and apartment blocks into a commercial unit and residential dwellings.

The application, which was submitted to Richmond Council in March this year, seeks to "demolish buildings and workshops associated with a car repair business and erect a 2 storey and part 2/3 storey building" located on the land rear of 189 to 207 189 Waldegrave Road, to "create a new commercial unit and 3 x 1 apartments".

The existing apartment blocks which the applicant, Matthew Allchurch, wishes to demolish accommodates 15 self-contained apartments.

According to an application document, "No.189 is a 2 storey end of terrace property on the Western side of Waldgrave Road" and the "ground floor is occupied by a Class E unit".

The document added that there is a self-contained flat on the first floor.

The car repair workshop located at the proposed wite is Waldgrave Motors.

The site of Waldegrave Motors is being marketed for £1,900,000 by Snellers (Credit: Snellers)

Allchurch proposes that the site would be car free with no on-site vehicular parking other than one disabled parking bay on the forecourt of No.189 Waldegrave Road.

There would, however, be 30 long term and six short term cycle spaces.

The document says that the former car repair workshop located at the proposed site was previously on the market for three years between 2018 and 2021.

However, the inspector was critical of the marketing evidence.

The site is currently up for sale on the Snellers website with an asking price of £1,900,000.

Allchurch has started a new marketing exercise "targeted to address" the issues the inspector previously found.

In the past, five planning applications for the proposed site have been refused.

This application has received 33 public objections from locals.

Reasons for the objections include the lack of car parking, which could cause congestion in the area, residential overcrowding, and loss of privacy for those living in the area.

One objector wrote: "Adding 18 new residential units without any designated parking will only intensify the strain on local infrastructure and exacerbate existing parking difficulties."

Richmond Council is yet to make a decision on this application.

You can view the full application here.