Tag Archives: Cricket Green

Brook House

1A Cricket Green, Mitcham, CR4 4LB.

Office block built after the London Borough of Merton sold Mitcham Court and surrounding land to Alfred McAlpine Homes in 1985.

Redeveloped as a block of flats after it was sold for £3,085,000 plus £617,000 VAT to Java Asset Management (Co. No. 06181412) of Chesham House, 55 South Street, Epsom KT18 7PX on 16th March 2015, financed by Titlestone Property Lending Limited (Co. No. 08144104) of 40 Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 0BT. Source: Land Registry title SGL458390. A Royal Mail postcode search shows 30 flats.

before conversion to flats

before conversion to flats

December 2016

December 2016

Planning application 16/P0080 was refused for extension to roof to provide 6 residential units (2 x 1 bed and 4 x 2 bed) and alterations to external elevations 

Of the 23 flats already sold, 15 were to buyers in Hong Kong, 1 in Shanghai China, 1 in France, 1 in Italy, 1 in Japan and 4 in the UK. Source: Land Registry title obtained December 2016.

Malcolm Arnold Robertson, MP

Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson was MP for Mitcham from August 1940 to July 1945.

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Born 1877, died 1951.

1921 – 1925 : Consul General Tangier
1925 – 1927 : Envoy & Minister Buenos Aires
1927 – 1929 : HM Ambassador to Argentina

Knighted

3 June 1924, KBE (Knight Commander of the British Empire)
3 June 1929, KCMG
1 January 1930, GCMG

In 1944, his wife suggested that Lower Green East be renamed to Cricket Green.

The Mitcham parliamentary constituency was created in 1918, and abolished in 1974.