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Plans to develop land at Whitbread Rd & adjacent to Honor Oak Park station
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lacb


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05-01-2017 10:03 AM

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Feels like an exercise in navel gazing by a self-appointed elite.


That is because it is. Neighbourhood planning was intended to be a people-led exercise by the Localism Act. This is all about Crofton Park Ward and is being driven forward by Councillors.

It is instructive to note that the proposed areas for housing are all at the margins from a Crofton Park perspective and I think they need to nominate zones for new housing in order to be able to control development elsewhere.

The area by HOP station is right at the heart of Honor Oak and is where lovely big trees were felled to clear the illegal dumping by Southwark Council which was causing slippage onto the platform and lines. I was assured by Network Rail that they would allow nature to return. As this is part of the New Cross to Forest Hill railway embankment, a green space of borough-wide (Lewisham) significance, and adjoins the Old Nursery site which has hedgehogs, newts and invertebrates, I would hope that sense would prevail and development should not be allowed there. People do need to respond to this though, poor website or no, or this will just get rubber-stamped.

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RE: Plans to develop land at Whitbread Rd & adjacent to Honor Oak Park station - lacb - 05-01-2017 10:03 AM

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