Brenchley Gardens development

[malumbu]

Passed a poster earlier about potential redevelopment and found this article: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/exclusive-campaign-against-infilling-gains-momentum-as-brenchley-gardens-and-bells-gardens-estates-protest-against-plans/

Interested in views - pro and con. We need more homes.

[Guest]

[Guest]

Please support saving parts of Brenchley Gardens from development, everything helps bounce the council's plans. It's happening in other boroughs, locally in Lewisham, at Greystead Road and between Horniman Drive and Honor Oak Road. Other parts of Forest Hill have also been identified for potential development. The louder the council's hear residents objecting to their plans the more chance their is of these plans being over turned.

Please, Please help in anyway you can to save the green space. Once it's been developed the green space is lost forever.

[malumbu]

There is a bigger picture here. We need more affordable/social housing. Where do we put it, particularly if there are not enough brown field sites. This is not to say that Brenchley Gardens is the right or wrong place. It would be good to get other views.

I posted a thread some time ago about the continual development of private houses. It just seems wrong that some cannot afford bricks and a roof, yet others are extending left, right and centre. I understand that low interest rates and poor return on many forms of investment make housing even more attractive. But still feels rather perverse.

[heartblock]

Southwark seem fairly cavalier at taking green spaces away from poorer estates, with flats and no gardens while giving extra space to those with large front and back gardens only yards away from parks. Brenchley, Deverell Street, Bells Garden Esate, Woodland Rd Esate...

[hpsaucey]

Agree heartblock. Can only assume its cheaper/easier to build on green rather than brownfield/ appropriate and renovate empty housing. Shortsighted approach.

HP

[Nigello]

If you want all the benefits (to many, not all) of living in London you?ll have to accept that the people who provide some of those benefits (in the shape of services) then you can?t deny them a place to live. Teachers, nurses, train drivers, beauticians, restaurant owners and others have to live somewhere. I?d like to see four-storey developments as standard, like in Paris or Barcelona or Glasgow.

[heartblock]

Nigello, it is the residents living in these estates that are having their green spaces, children's playgrounds and community halls built on, denying teachers, nurses, etc access to space, light and places for their children to play. I suggest you do some research about the 'stop the infill' resident run campaign.

[Earl Aelfheah]

We?ve had a massive derelict site o the corner of lordship lane and the south circular sitting there for years. It?s just one example of an empty brownfield site. Before building on parkland, I would be looking at those.