Thanks Graham, can others stick to the point or start a new thread. Can the Webmaster put this back onto the main site as my point is developments in SE23, the rest of Lewisham is incidental.

The hotch potch as far as I am concerned refers to no strategic vision in how the housing stock has evolved. This means street scenes may lack any sense of coherency - nowt wrong with mixing old and new, but it is a fine art in getting it right.

What we are experiencing is a new breed of selfish owner developers who want their own castles at the expense of others in the vicinity who may feel that there quality of life is degraded by local over development. And here I am talking about people doubling or trippling the size of their place, not affordable housing which is a separate issue.

I have an interesting letter from the Communities Department, for another time,