Thanks! Just checked my post and meeting cancellation was received today.
New Zoom meeting date: 6pm 18 Jan 2022.
Registration of interest should be sent to newinitiatives@lewishamhomes.org.uk
For those who didn’t receive the pack… attached are some pics of info and links provided in the pack…
Best.
Looks like it, yes.
These are the display boards being presented:
FAIRLAWN NURSERY ANNEXE - final boards - January 2022.pdf (6.3 MB)
As a construction manager I’m always intrigued by the logistics of these types of proposals. Particularly on our narrow residential streets…
where is this lovely road? spacious, leafy, pedestrians, children, cyclists, no parked or moving cars - the kind of place I think I’d like to live!
The development looks lovely and if it was private, it would no doubt be called Luxury appartments, some with private balconies.
We have over 7,000 people in Lewisham homeless and 12 homes is a drop in the ocean compared to this. It is quite a big site and I do wonder if the council has got the balance right between quality and quantity both in terms of housing those in need and spending our council tax effectively.
Actually Waldenshaw is quite spacious and leafy. But sadly not without parked cars (or builders vans atm).
The trees are retained at the front - note how the right hand side of the facade curves back around them.
I had a 1-1 with the project team last night (as I live next door so they’re being good about reaching out). Some other notes I picked up that aren’t in the brochure…
It will be a ‘car free’ development i.e. they’re not providing any parking at the rear, but they will have bike lockers (yay) albeit that probably means more street parking on Waldenshaw. There will be one disabled bay out front for the ground floor wheelchair accessible flat.
They’re aiming for an energy efficient building and it will have Solar PV and a heat pump for heating/hot water (all up on the roof behind the top brick facade), plus ‘quality’ building materials all round and lots of insulation. Again all good.
Bins will be out front (!) Interestingly they have no control over the Sainsbury’s access road at the back - it’s owned by Lewisham as part of the car park but Sainsbury’s have a perpetual access license to use it whenever they want.
Passageways on both sides will be gated with Key Fob access for residents.
They’re still working on the balconies to make them less of an ‘overlook’ and not transparent glass, some of the rear design may still change in terms of window sizing.
Bricks will be new ‘old fashioned’ style i.e. slightly worn and not too geometrically perfect flat surfaced
I appreciate that the quality, quantity and look of the new housing is very important. As is the biodiversity gain that I think they will have to include. One part of this could be a quick and easy win by providing nest sites or bricks for swifts. There are already swifts nesting locally and they are a wonderful sight with their evening flights over Sainsburys car park. This would be a great chance to expand the colony. The council could even work with other local householders who might be interested in getting swift bricks installed at the same time. The numbers of swifts in Lewisham has halved over the last ten years and this is a wonderful opportunity to help restore numbers. If you are commenting on the local plans it would really help if you could include a postitive mention for including swift nesting sites in the development.
Yes as I have mentioned before one of the nursery staff had a row with the then obnoxious manager of Sainsbury’s who thought it was his God given right to park where or his colleagues liked!
The parking spaces directly behind the building were for nursery staff & all school staff or deliveries.
The business manager of fairlawn had to get confirmation from Lewisham that the car parking spaces belonged to Lewisham, so the point could be argued.
This was about a year before they closed the nursery, & management have changed, but it sounds like it is an ongoing feud.
can someone DM me the Zoom link please… it’s on now.
For anyone interested in details discussed, The meeting was recorded by organisers, they may share it?
For me most important points were:
They were asked they should share all surveys and layouts with neighbours… let’s see if they do…
There were no reaction re. comment on whether neighbours could get reduced local taxes while enduring the construction works for 2 years🤔
They are obviously aware that the building has a lot of asbestos in it as well!
Thanks very much for sharing!
I’m fairly livid that living next door they didn’t share the Zoom link with me. We had a 1-1 with them but we had also asked to join this and would like to have been invited to this zoom call to hear feedback and comment. It’s really tarnished my view of how they’re proceeding with this.
5-10m past the rear of the other buildings is not cool. I’ll not be supporting this now.
Not sure what they’re playing….sorry to say but I got (read “confirmed”) the feeling they are not honest and withhold info unless you ask specifically.
Unfortunately it is and will be a case of “give them an inch they take a yard”….
That’s why I asked about a site visit for residents, as everything they were saying felt quite vague.
This is a typical council turnout isn’t it.
I don’t know if anybody remembers before Dominoes opened on Honor Oak Park.
They were having a meeting that I had applied to attend, but when it came to it you could again only ask certain questions.
You couldn’t object to Dominoes opening in the first place, & there were a lot of people objecting.
So I didn’t bother going, Dominoes still opened & to be fair haven’t caused any major problems as far as I am aware.
