Firstly, DC/11/78175/X
The long awaited application from Cathedral plc for the development attached to the new Deptford station otherwise known as The Deptford Project...featuring a rather massive Richard Rogers building full of luxury flats, accompanied by alterations to the existing St Paul's House to provide low-cost housing...plus a piazza etc...View the application here. The Planning Statement is here (78 pages).
If you got involved in any way with the "highly visual and participative consultation" process (a rather random sticky dot exercise), you might want to have a butchers at the The Statement of Community Views, which appears to show a majority in favour, although the process was so unscientific it would surely be impossible to say exactly what the community is in favour of. Apparently we want more tall buildings and luxury flats.
For more detail on the plans see The Deptford Dame.
Secondly, DC/11/77795/X
An application for a change of use at 37 Deptford High St to a Retail Jewellers and Pawnbrokers, together with the installation of a new shop front (with an additional application for an illuminated sign). See here. As yet no documents to look at or deadline for objections. We'll be keeping an eye on this...Can anyone remember what was here before?
The long awaited application from Cathedral plc for the development attached to the new Deptford station otherwise known as The Deptford Project...featuring a rather massive Richard Rogers building full of luxury flats, accompanied by alterations to the existing St Paul's House to provide low-cost housing...plus a piazza etc...
ReplyDeleteA massive glass box, dwarfing the church and the entire area. WITH 120 apartments but only 20 parking spaces!!!
It is going to get really really bad round Idonia Street, where hooting matches and arguments are frequent on Saturdays already.
Funny how they ignored my views in the 'survey'.
P.
I've just been through all the 91 pages of the report.
ReplyDeleteAt the time I made VERY plain my concerns about the area behind Idonia Street and the affect on local parking. It has been some time since the consultation, the parking locally has become markedly worse in that time, and I now have to avoid the Douglas Way area on Saturdays.
I feel entirely cheated by the 'consultation' which was nothing of the sort.
You do realise that this giant glass box is going to dominate Deptford? Funny how there is no representation of the local church (C of E) in the drawings... That's because it will be overshadowed and dwarfed by the 'box'.
P.
It's simple really - if you need to have a car in London then you should not look at buying one of these flats. If you, like me, don't have a car and rely on public transport then it is a great location to consider. It is a fix plot size so I don't see why we should increase the number of parking spaces and cut back on the number homes to be built as there is a severe property shortage already in London!
ReplyDelete@anon is there really a severe property shortage in London? I believe there is a shortage of housing for people on low incomes, and in particular those with families, but these new apartments are not going to address this.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree Dame! I think last Anon probably works for Cathedral! Surely there is a glut of unaffordable housing in this area and this is more of the same.
ReplyDeleteP is right about the size of the box – it needs to lose at least three floors to avoid being the most dominant building in the area, even worse than Creekside Village in its effect. Do you mean St Paul's Church, P?