Peckham rye station redevelopment

[LD929]

I am probably very late to this, but I see that the redevelopment of peckham rye station has been approved: http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk:8190/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=details&keyVal=_STHWR_DCAPR_9563201

Maybe I can't read the drawings correctly, but I couldn't see plans to make the station handicap accessible. That can't be correct, is it?

[goosey-goosey]

I wouldn't put it past Southwark Planning to forget that sort of thing, though I hope it's just an oversight on your part; I've not looked at the details myself.

[Earl Aelfheah]

There's going to be a lovely weave lawn at the front.

[JohnL]

Well a lift was supposed to be provided by 2019 - See article

If this hasn't been cancelled :)

http://www.southernrailway.com/southern/news/news-archive/2014/04/access-for-all-at-three-southern-london-stations-each-to-get-step-free-access/

[dirac]

sounds like a good plan (not that I've read it all yet). Will be nice to get that stench that's regularly there sorted out too.

[Bob Buzzard]

LD929 Wrote:

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> I am probably very late to this, but I see that

> the redevelopment of peckham rye station has been

> approved:

> http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk:8190/online-appl

> ications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=details&k

> eyVal=_STHWR_DCAPR_9563201

>

> Maybe I can't read the drawings correctly, but I

> couldn't see plans to make the station handicap

> accessible. That can't be correct, is it?

Shouldn't that be 'disabled access' as noted in the Equality Act 2010 (formerly the Disability Discrimination Act 1995).

[Eileen]

LD929 Wrote:

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> I am probably very late to this, but I see that

> the redevelopment of peckham rye station has been

> approved. Maybe I can't read the drawings correctly, but I

> couldn't see plans to make the station handicap

> accessible. That can't be correct, is it?

You're right. It's not there. This is the result of one of many sleights of hand from the Council to recover from their disastrous approach to the station site planning during 2012/13 which led to the notorious Weston Williamson plan to demolish everything and build 5-7 storey housing blocks and clear out all the businesses alongside and behind the station at once: http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Peckham_Rye_Station_Gateway/Jan-Sep_2014#Network_Rail_plans_reveal_total_demolition_18th_January_2014

They then said they would 'codesign' it with local people (just before the 2014 local elections). But then two years of obfuscation since then has resulted in a plan for the new square being approved with no relationship to all the other integral parts of it - this includes step free access for the station, and design of the public realm in the immediately adjoining streets! All objections that the details of the related parts of the station site had to be part of a whole have been brushed aside by the Council to give planning permission. All the other parts are probably being dealt with behind the scenes but in spite of the promise to 'codesign' the station site, no one knows anything. How well they fit together or when remains to be seen. This is how the Planning system operates now unfortunately.