“On this particular application,pre-application advice was sought and advice was given by officers. These discussions involved the submission of details to demonstrate the mitigation of any adverse impacts of the development upon the listed Livesey Hall and wider area, and led to the submission of a planning application.”
On examination of this entire thread it would appear that this post places me as the most prolific poster by a margin of one.
Interestingly it was on this thread that I made one of my my first posts on SE23.life
I will make every effort to hawd ma wheesht for a while.
You don’t have to reside in a ward to be affected be developments in that ward, particularly a densely populated area like Lewisham where the geographical area of wards is quite small; there are many residents just outside the boundary line who will be affected by this. Also, by that logic, does it mean only those resident in the Forest Hill Ward are allowed to input into the Dartmouth Road redevelopment, for example?
Everybody should be able to comment, the only criteria should be common sense sadly something missing in general.
However, as previously stated time will tell, the site in question has been an eyesore for the last 5 years to my knowledge I am sure others will testify as to the exact duration so we just have to be patient.
New funding update which is very relevant is published in News Shopper today.
A £20 million grant has been awarded to Lewisham Council by the Government to build new homes in Catford and Lewisham town centres.
The grant appears to be specific to town centre sites of which and of course Bell Green unfortunately is not one. So new funding may have been on the horizon at decision time but does not apply to this site.