This application went to planning committee last night. I was not able to attend but apparently after initially voting against the application (2-0 with lots of abstentions), the planning committee changed its mind and approved the application.

We will soon see this development take shape with a density of 950 habitable rooms per hectare as well as commercial premises underneath. To give you an understanding of this figure this is 50% more than Berkeley Home/Forest Hill Central site, and is 20% more than the maximum guideline for urban locations set out in London planning guidance.

I'm sure this will development will bring increased vitality to the town centre, but the cost is the highest density development in Forest Hill. It did not need to be like this, planning permission had already been granted which met the London planning guidance.

Unfortunately Lewisham planning department and planning committee B have let us down again.