Lewisham Borough Council has given the thumbs up to the first major residential block of flats in the Farrells-designed scheme on the Royal Docks in Deptford.
The redevelopment of Convoys Wharf will sustain 1, construction jobs as the formerly inaccessible site is transformed into a new waterfront district. Plans include building a 1. It will include three acres of new public parks, a new school, space for cultural usage, a range of shops, restaurants and cafes, as well as link to and enhance the existing High Street in Deptford and the historic town centre.
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Living and working in the area offers an insight into what is happening locally. This site must have been empty for more than twenty years now since News International moved out and the site sold off o the developer. This goes to show despite a massive housing crisis developers are in no urgency to build on large developments.
The Convoys Wharf development will really help to regenerate this area of Deptford. But surely a lot of the planning permission already granted for some of the plots of the development will soon lapse again if construction is not started soon. It may also be better for one or two blocks of flats on larger new developments be set aside soley for social housing at affordable rents. Dependent on the amount of blocks to be built on the development.
This could be considered as part of the planning application process. CDT I agree this site has been left empty and unused for far too long. This development will help to regenerate Deptford. Providing much need new homes and jobs in construction. However, with regard to social housing Labour Councils do not care about social housing or homes to be let at affordable rents on new developments. Council Planners Officers often pass planning permission for new developments with very little social housing or homes at affordable rents.
Greenwich Council have recently rejected a development in Charlton which was to built to be let at affordable rents. Which means aonther site could be empty and unused for years while new planning applications are made. Is there a risk that a high density development here on a site with maritime historical interest could endanger our Unesco World Heritage Site status, awarded for maritime heritage in RBG.
Already Liverpool docks threatened in this way through riverside over-development, other sites such a Stonehenge with its Govt agreed road tunnel Grant Shapps again! We have a unique heritage here in Greenwich and Deptford dating back to , over years of building and maintaining warships, and an association with Drake and Raleigh, which we do not always appreciate with housing planning.
Liverpool has transformed and for the better, the city has to live and cannot be confined solely to worship the past, in fact now the museum and apartments are next to the three graces it has never been better. Stone Henge was a landmark of civilisation and history long before UNESCO though it worthy, who really cares if they take away their acknowledgment. This needs to be looked at for the main application, the first plots will be massively of date to regulation by the time they start.
I guess the development is moving to avoid new future building regs, which should be seen as the minimum for good building design.
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