As the occupier, designer, builder-to-be, and partner of the owner, of 11 Tewkesbury Avenue, the property in question, I'd like to end all this non-sensical conjecture :

Planning permission was granted fairly and squarely in June 2008.

Neither I, nor my partner, has any connection whatsoever with any councillors at LBTH, which cannot be said for the failed objectors.

An application for Judicial Review in the High Court was thrown out in December 2008 with such force that costs of LBTH were (very unusually) awarded against the JR applicants. Quite possibly ?10 - ?20k including lawyers, barristers, costs, fees, interest, etc.

Let that be a warning to any other groups of gossiping coffee-morning miscreants who feel it right to meddle in correct process.

Yes, it?s going to be a really big house, quite possibly the biggest and most valuable house in Forest Hill. Yes, it?s going to be on Channel 4?s Grand Designs when it?s built. Yes, it?s architecture is divisive, yet, in our opinion, stunning. Yes, it?s going to be completely demolished before it gets rebuilt. Yes, it?s going to cause massive disruption to the neighbours.

But, after those neighbours decided to gang up on us behind our backs without as much as a by-your-leave, after we?d tried really hard to communicate honestly and openly with them, we really couldn?t give a toss now how much they?re affected, as well they know by now.

Yes, it?s going to get a SAP A rating and will be zero-carbon in construction and in ongoing operation, well before the government's deadline of 2016 to do so.

Yes, it?s going to be exemplary, and yes, that does upset a lot of people one way or another.

Jealousy to this degree is quite pathetic.

11 Tewkesbury Avenue has been in the same extended family for 30 years ? long before any of its direct neighbours had ever thought of buying into the area. It will remain in the same extended family for the next 20 years at least. Lest there be any more ridiculous talk of ?property developers?.

Diatribe over : if any one wants to really know more detail, and they can contain themselves to be decent, intelligent, non-manipulative, non-cheating and non-gossiping, as some good folk in Tewkesbury Avenue are showing themselves to be, then you are more than welcome to contact me for full details. Or you can just check :

http://acolnet.lewisham.gov.uk/LEWIS-XSL...mkey=53311

http://acolnet.lewisham.gov.uk/LEWIS-XSL...mkey=52570

http://acolnet.lewisham.gov.uk/LEWIS-XSL...mkey=53175

http://acolnet.lewisham.gov.uk/LEWIS-XSL...mkey=51614

http://acolnet.lewisham.gov.uk/LEWIS-XSL...mkey=50337

Frank Lloyd Wright ? What-ever idiot thought that that was what we were doing ?

Dominic Lowes, 11 Tewkesbury Avenue, Mar 2009
Peace.
:-)