Who wrote this piece? Dan the Perry Vale resident or Bridie Witton local democracy reporter?
Dan wrote the press release which I published in the earlier posts here above, the reporter wrote the article herself. She contacted us, asked questions and what you read in News Shopper is her piece. Part of the post removed by Kat due to misunderstanding of Starman’s post . Dan also sent the press release to them as i did to various papers.
If you stay with the website the authority can be tracked in terms of its poor performance.
But do go direct if you feel it will be more beneficial.
Ok, understood.
The post is deleted by Kat due to misunderstanding of Starman’s post
@starman Starman, please accept my sincere apologies.
Attention!!!
We have 1 day left until the deadline - 26/04/2018!
Dear resident,
As you may probably be aware, Lewisham Homes, on behalf of the Lewisham Council, is planning to build houses on the open green space between Standlake Point, SE23-2XB, and Fifield Path, removing the ball court, the single standing house and garages. A lot of residents and neighbours disagreed with the building plans and objected, but they were not heard/supported by Lewisham Homes, local councillors, Lewisham Councillors, the Cabinet, the Deputy Mayor, the Mayor of Lewisham. The decision has been made to forward the project to Lewisham planning department for consideration and consequently approval. We have our last chance to save our green space and the current ball court by forwarding our objections to the planning department. The objections have to be based on material considerations. The deadline is before 16/04/2018!
The case reference DC/18/106504
http://planning.lewisham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_LEWIS_DCAPR_94410 4
The project:
DC/18/106504 | The demolition of seven (7) existing garages, one (1) dwelling house and a ball court at Bampton Estate, Bampton Road SE23, to allow for the construction of one (1) part four/part five storey building to provide fifty (50) over 60s dwelling units and associated ancillary uses, together with the provision of the relocated ball court, associated landscaping, refuse storage, cycle parking, car parking and the extension of Windrush Lane onto Bampton Road. | BAMPTON ESTATE, BAMPTON ROAD, LONDON SE23 2AX. (The project submitted to planning has 54 documents (some of them have multiple pages) to be looked at).
If you disagree with the building plans on Bampton Estate, if your flat or house is affected, please object to Lewisham planning department: via email to planning@lewisham.gov.uk or by post to Planning Services, 3rd floor, Laurence House, 1 Catford Road, SE6-4RU quoting the reference DC/18/106504 and location.
Do you feel that the new buildings will have/create:
- negative visual impact
- negative effect on the character of our neighbourhood
- negative effect on the residential amenity of neighbours
- create/increase noise or disturbance
- overlooking
- loss of light/overshadowing
- loss of privacy
- loss of view as a part of the residential amenity
- loss of space
- loss of amenity
- loss of parking
- loss of trees, negative effect on nature, eco-environment
- overbuilding/ overdevelopment/ increasing housing density in our neighbourhood
- are the new buildings over-bearing, out-of-scale, out of character?
- Windrush lane becomes a cut-through road with an added cycle lane– do you feel it is safe? Do you feel it is safe for children? Can such road extension cause rat-running, increase pollution, increase traffic and consequently noise? Can the extended road, the cycle lane be a hazard for residents, children?
- do you feel that the project does not comply with local and national planning policies? What points in the policies it does not comply with?
- with the new buildings, do you feel there will not be enough room for fire engines, ambulances, rescue teams in case of any emergencies?
Please object if you feel that the new buildings will have negative effects on our neighbourhood.
Every voice is very important!
Tell your neighbour, tell your family, tell your friends! Ask for support!
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Dear Lewisham Council,
I have neither received a response to my FOI request, no any response to my request for an internal review.
This is not acceptable, particularly for the public government body. I insist you acknowledge the receipt of my last request within 2 working days and confirm the intiation of the internal review within 5 working days. Failure to do so will result in the matter being referred to the local MP for further investigation.
Yours sincerely,
Yekaterina Kartasheva
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We will be meeting Journalism students today at 8pm by the ball court on Bampton Estate, SE23-2XB. They will be writing an article about how the new building complex affect local residents. Everyone is welcome to come and have a chat.
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The journalists came today, we had a proper video interviews with a microphone and camera))). No one expected that but every person attended was given unlimited time to speak.
They found out about our troubles through BBC London online news, apparently BBC London reposted the article from News Shopper. We all are hoping for the success of the work done today and a good final piece to see the bigger audience. Everyone attended is very grateful to the journalists and their time spending with us and listening our troubles giving us opportunity to speak out. Shame that the Council and Lewsham Homes did want to hear our opinions.
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Dear All, we are receiving a letter from the Lewisham planning department inviting to attend an informal meeting on 5th June at 19:30 in Civic Suite, SE64RU regarding the building plans on our Estate. Pls see attached.
It is very important that we all attend and all who objected in the area are to attend as well. We need to ensure that there are a lot of us and not just few concerned. Number of us attending is very important to confirm the scale of our objections and our resistance. The planning stage is our last chance to save our local green space and the ball court. Please find time to attend. If the project is approved, our green space will be destroyed and lost forever and we will regret that we did not do enough. We need lots of objecting people to show our voice.
We can also speak at the meeting so we can say at the meeting what we have been saying to Lewisham Homes all this time. Please spread the word and the attached letter!
Kat
I will be coming.
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Hello Kat we received our invitation to the meeting because we raised concerns and we will both be there. Should we all prepare something to share or is it better to have a “spokesperson” I think there is very little time allocated to each review.
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The problem is there are more people objected that i know of)) and would be hard to get organised and choose the spokesman. Also objections are so broad the spokesman will find it hard to summarise it all, my objection is 5 pages email)) I think the best is to prepare 5 min brief speech and if we have chances to speak, as many of us as possible, we will do that. This is an informal meeting and i have a feeling we all will have a chance to say our opinions. They want to see the volume of people coming and talking, i dont see other reasons for the meeting. They got our objections and feedback, they have all details, why else they want us coming.
At the public meetings, rather than planning committees, everybody has a right to speak. Doesn’t need a detailed presentation, just clear reasons for objecting.
If you are worried that some people don’t know about the meeting you can stick leaflets through every door on the estate (shouldn’t take too long if you get 5 people to help).
At these meetings it can often be possible to ask for changes to the schemes, and help correct poor layout, but it is rare to make a large difference to the developer. It is instead important for the planning officers to hear the valid objections and the unwillingness of the developer to make concessions - it is well worth giving them the opportunity to agree to better developments and for them to rule them out as not being profitable enough too expensive.
What you want is a report to the planning committee that says - this could be done better and it is reasonable to reject the application based on the grounds raised by residents.
It is also possible that you may be able to get improvements to other parts of the estate to ‘compensate’ for the impact of the new buildings. It is well worth some people on the estate considering what you would like to see improved on the estate if you didn’t have to pay for it. You have a good bargaining position and some good may come of the development, even if it is approved.
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Thank you Michael, it is clear now. I will be spreading flyers again week or two before the meeting informing neighbours who wants to attend.
We will be attending - as it is an informal drop in session with the planners and local councillors I am expecting to be able to enagage and play through concerns with the officer directly.
Hi all, today I received the following email. What does it mean @Michael?..I understood the meeting is canceled. Re-consulation of the planning application? Is it good for us or bad?
Dear Resident,
Further to the Council’s letter dated 3rd May 2018 notifying you of a local meeting in relation to the planning application at the Bampton Estate, Bampton Road SE23, it has been found necessary to carry out a re-consultation of the planning application. This email is therefore to inform you that the local meeting arranged for the 5th June 2018 at Catford Civic Suite is now cancelled and will be re-arranged for a further time following formal re-consultation which will include you as a previous objector.
You will be notified in writing of a revised local meeting date, and apologies for any in convenience caused.
Kind Regards,
LBL Planning Team
London Borough Of Lewisham Planning Department
3rd Floor, Laurence House, Catford, SE6 4RU
New Planning Pre-application, Duty Planner Advice Charges applying from 1st May 2018 – please visit the following webpage to see a summary of the structure and charging levels which will apply to requests submitted from 1st May onwards:
https://www.lewisham.gov.uk/Documents/PreApplicationAdviceServiceRevisedFees1May2018.pdf. Note that these charges do not relate to statutory planning application fee levels, which can be found here.
Just as I typed that I recieved an email stating the need to re-consult. I take the council will have taken advice on the validitiy of the previous consultation and the reccomendations presented of the back of it!
So it is good for us, right? Just to make sure I am not dreaming…
I believe so - in essenece will be going back to scratch on the consultation point - and will need to take on board correctly the views of those not previously consulted. This will require due work to take concerns onboard and represent proposals - if any.
At this stage - it is very rare to reconsult - someone very high up must have dictated this - espeacily as the letters only dropped through doors about the drop in session.
Quite embarresing for the planners concerned - as it shows they haven’t undertaken their job correctly - for what is quite a lengthy period of time.
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I wonder if that’s has been done across the board with the newly elected mayor and his deputies? They might just want to review all their current projects…