justannoyed

When the next meeting? Sounds like a good idea. Please see the following: Dear Mr Bennett Thank you for your email. The meeting on December 15 2008 is the Peckham Community Council. Rosenthorpe Road, Athenlay Road and Ferholme Road are in Peckham Rye ward which is part of the Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council. The next general meeting for the Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council is January 14 2009. The next Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council Planning meeting is on January 29 2009. If you would like to send a deputation to the meeting on January 14 2009, I will pass on this request to the Community Council Chair, Cllr Glover. Please let me know how you would like to proceed. Yours sincerely, Gerald Gohler Community Councils Team (Peckham CC and Nunhead & Peckham Rye CC) Southwark Town Hall Peckham Road London SE5 8UB Tel: 020 7525 7420 Fax: 020 7525 7498

Thanks to all for your responses and help. We are getting a committee together and several people have already started the leafletting. We are hoping that the school will support us too. I am hoping that we can eventually co-ordinate ourselves enough to employ a planning expert to represent us as any planning committe or inquiry. I am also hoping that this forum will gather speed and numbers. One of the residents affected is Mick Barnard who was one of the Councillors who has offered to chair our committee.

The site plan. We are hoping to garner enough interest and objections to ensure a planning committee decision rather than delegated - hopefully a public enquiry - at a minimum there will be a meeting of local residents in january. The school is oversubscribed as it is so hoping to involve them too.

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Attached is a photo of the site: collectively I believe the locals would prefer bungalows for the more elderly residents as in Athenlay Road. Parking is an issue - but we appreciate that there are other elements of the scheme that is contrary to the council UDP. I will post here soon the plans.

I am hoping that this thread will help us here in making sure that the planners at Southwark Council see sense: I will try to keep it short. We all live in a quiet street with a nice friendly mix of younger and older: however Hexagon have summitted plans to built a block of flats in Rosenthorpe Road and houses with strange looking coloured panels - I think that that is the nicest description. In no particular order our problems are: the houses opposite face the prospect of: 1. The top floor flats to the proposed block of 10 flats ? dormer windows to roof line ? overlook the master bedrooms (children?s rooms in our case). 2. The entrance into the development is a tight turn that will cause cars to abruptly stop outside of these houses in particularly ? danger to pedestrians and noise pollution 3. The proposal of the removal of one on-street parking space for the entrance and 2 further roadside spaces for the disabled bays is going to impact on the street scene massively 4. Height of development exceeds existing building roof lines In general: 1. The design build has no continuity whatsoever with low-cost low-grade materials with no consideration for the impact and planning blight on house prices in the streets 2. No aesthetic matching in materials 3. Provision of 12 parting spaces to a development with 1*3bed, 6*2-bed, 2*1bed and 7 houses is crazy even allowing for the fact that fronting the development is road-side parking: allowing one bay outside of each house to Fernholme at 6 spaces and 6 to Rosenthorpe (less one for the entrance), including the 2 disabled bays allows for a total of 23 spaces, surely this is not in accordance with the LDP or UPD. 4. Insufficient green space to the development 5. Central core green space will cause noise pollution 6. Social mix and strain on local amenity ? there are within 500 metres 2 new flat schemes and 1 in the process of being constructed - without considering all the new blocks built on Borland Road and Peckham Rye 7. Loss of greenery with removal of trees 8. No attempt at screening to reduce visual intrusion on rear gardens. 9. Overcrowded/Oversubscribed Ivydale School inundated If I think of more I will let you know but in the meantime bearing in mind that the consultation period expires 21 days from 25th November 2008 it is now urgent. Please copy in all your friends and neighbours and make sure you post your objections online at the Council on THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP