Noticed that the Lambeth planning website no longer posts objections, last objections posted on the site were in mid December. The Brixton Society sent in an objection on 21st December - still not on Lambeth's planning website - but you can read it on our website. http://www.brixtonsociety.org.uk/te.../2021/01/Ropers-Walk-SW2-2QN-20-02406-RG3.pdf
Lambeth's plans to demolish Cressingham Gardens and other estates without the consent of residents
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Hardly getting over it.
Yeah, I noticed the lack when posting objections for residents without internet. When I submitted it did confirm receipt, but the number of objections hasn't changed since 21st Dec.
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Cressingham Gardens update Cressingham Gardens: SAVE Britain’s Heritage and 20th Century Society add their support
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More objections to Lambeth's sneaky plans
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Herne Hill Society joins objectors to Lambeth’s proposal to exclude Cressingham Gardens from Brockwell Park Conservation Area
Earlier this week, we reported that SAVE Britain’s Heritage, the Twentieth Century Society and the Save Cressingham Gardens Campaign had teamed up to ask Lambeth Council to include the award-winnin…
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Ianvisits article
The campaign to save a modernist housing block in South London
A pioneering housing estate in Lambeth is under threat of demolition by the local council.
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Opinion piece: South London Estate trashed by Homes For Lambeth
Vulnerable residents on the South Lambeth Estate are experiencing what they’ve described as the “chaos, stress and misery” that comes with being on the ‘Homes for Lambeth’ hit lis…
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Lambeth Planning Committee set to vote on first phase of Cressingham Gardens regeneration with premature scheme ahead of masterplan
Lambeth’s Planning Committee will decide next week on the first phase of the ‘regeneration’ of Cressingham Gardens in Tulse Hill.
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Since when did it become the job of Lambeth planning officers to provide information that the developers army of paid consultants failed to provide? A good example of this is in the section of the officer's report which looks at the issue of views from the park and whether this would cause damage to the park's setting. The heritage and conservation report submitted by Homes for Lambeth hardly mentions this, and the only images supplied are about the impact on terraced housing in Trinity Rise (part of the park conservation area). Since then its clear that Lambeth planners received a large number of objections, from local amenity groups (the Friends of Brockwell Park, the Brixton Society, the Herne Hill Society) and from national bodies (the Twentieth Century Society, Save) arguing that the development would impact on views from Brockwell Park towards its larger unspoilt and sylvan north west boundary. It might have been a reasonable expectation that Lambeth planning officers would respond to this by deciding that the application fails to comply with Lambeth's local plan in relation to policies on heritage assets. No surprise to anyone reading this blog that they didn't. But not only that - the officers report to next week's meeting includes some "visualisations" which they claim back up the claim that the impact on the park would be minimal. If you're a developer, why bother to pay good money to planning consultants if Lambeth officers are willing to make up their deficiencies and work for free?
Just heard that the MP for Streatham (Bell Ribeiro Addy) which includes Cressingham, has applied to Lambeth's committee services team to speak agains the Ropers Walk application at the planning committee meeting on 9 Feb. Not sure how much difference this will make - Helen Hayes spoke out against the Hondo tower and PAC members voted it through anyway - but at least it's a change to see our local MP supporting local communities.
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Bell Ribeiro Addy has been excellent on many issues.
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This appears to be the norm for planning officers now. Happened with Hondo.
After Hondo I wrote to my ward Cllrs to say I was concerned at how the planning department operate.
Instead of being neutral at planning committee meetings they take the side of the developer. I saw them do this with Hondo and Hero of Switzerland.
Imo planning officers job should be to present to committee the pros and cons of an application and aid Cllr in making a decision. Not presenting a one sided case which takes a determined Cllr like Ben Kind to oppose.
None of my Ward Cllrs took this seriously.
I think they are all scared of criticising how the system the run works.
Which is a it rubbish imo..
Agree it was a depressing meeting, with paid Lambeth officers acting as PR consultants for the developer and members of the committee failing to challenge officers when they provided obviously misleading information. Most blatant example of this was the statement by Lambeth's conservation officer that you wouldn't notice the new building from the park boundary as it would only be two metres higher than the existing one - as the rear section of the new block will be four storeys high and replaces one two storeys high must have been obvious that this couldn't be true (I went back and checked the elevation plans after the meeting and the rear of the block will actually be six metres higher than what's there now).
Only small ray of hope I thought was that three of the councillors wanted it to be recorded in the minutes of the meeting that they were "disappointed" that an application for a small section of the estate was being submitted in behalf of the Masterplan. The chair seemed to agree with them and said something along the lines that she was concerned they were only seeing "a small part of the jigsaw puzzle". If all this IS reflected in the official minutes of the meeting, then it might make it more difficult for Homes for Lambeth to get away with more applications like this one before they publish and consult on the Masterplan.
Only small ray of hope I thought was that three of the councillors wanted it to be recorded in the minutes of the meeting that they were "disappointed" that an application for a small section of the estate was being submitted in behalf of the Masterplan. The chair seemed to agree with them and said something along the lines that she was concerned they were only seeing "a small part of the jigsaw puzzle". If all this IS reflected in the official minutes of the meeting, then it might make it more difficult for Homes for Lambeth to get away with more applications like this one before they publish and consult on the Masterplan.
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This is consistently the case - I didn't watch this meeting, but have sat in on others. They fail to do their job. Even when things are laid out on a plate for them by objectors - they are given all the info they need to ask the significant questions, but they don't do anything with it. Instead they waste all the time asking stupid questions about minor aspects of the proposals. Very often, their questions demonstrate that they simply haven't understood important things about the application and/or have not spent any time looking at it in any detail.
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Lambeth just can't get enough of flattening people's houses and cutting down trees
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Activists set to face off demolition workers at Truslove House on the Central Hill Estate
Early this morning, demolition workers arrived outside Truslove House on the Central Hill Estate, where Lambeth has pushed through plans to flatten the existing residential building and tear down s…
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It's really hard not to get really angry reading this:
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Lambeth Planning Committee vote along party lines for ‘demolition through the backdoor’ on first phase of Cressingham Gardens estate regeneration
The Planning Applications Committee voted 6-1 along party political lines on Tuesday evening to approve the demolition of part of the Cressingham Gardens estate in Tulse Hill.
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This is what our 'co operative' council is doing to people:
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Truslove House latest: chair of the Central Hill residents association is locked on to the gates in sub-zero conditions
The chair of the residents association on Central Hill is currently locked on to the gates at Truslove House to try to prevent the destruction of trees and homes as part of Lambeth’s unpopul…
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More dodgy crap from estate-flattening Lambeth Lambeth set to loan Homes for Lambeth a further £5.5M for estate ‘regeneration’ – despite lack of resident support rated as ‘likely’
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Lambeth continue to trample over people's homes Lambeth Cabinet head nods through extra £5.5M for Homes for Lambeth with lack of resident support rated as ‘likely’
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This is astonishing bullshit from Lambeth.
There is also the claim from the Committee that:
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There is also the claim from the Committee that:
The minutes clarify that these figures are:
No data is given explaining how many ‘contact points’ HfL has had with residents.
Lambeth confirms no masterplan for Cressingham Gardens plus a broad claim of 76% resident satisfaction with estate regeneration
The minutes for the Lambeth Ownership and Stewardship Committee show that masterplanning has yet to start for the estate ‘regeneration’ at Cressingham Gardens.
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Two councils under investigation by ombudsman for complaint procedure failures
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Lambeth is under investigation by the Housing Ombudsman for failing to comply with the watchdog’s new complaint-handling failure orders.
Another demonstration of the indifference to democratic scrutiny of the unaccountable one-party state that is Lambeth Council.
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