"Major plans to demolish the legendary shopping centre and replace it with blocks of flats are set to be approved later this week. The developer, Landsec Lewisham Limited, has applied for permission to bulldoze the mall and multi-storey car park and build towers up to 35 storeys high in its place. Currently, the shopping centre is home to more than 65 outlets, including H&M, M&S and Boots."
"Outlined in a 10-year plan, Landsec wants to build 1,744 new homes, of which just 329 (19 percent) will be affordable. Out of the 329 affordable homes, 98 would be for social rent and 231 would be rented at discount rates or to key workers. The remainder would be privately rented. The plans also include new student digs, which would house 661 students in a 23-storey co-living block containing 445 homes."
Landsec Lewisham Limited has applied to demolish the 1970s shopping centre and multi-storey car park and build towers up to 35 storeys. The proposal includes 1,744 new homes, of which 329 (19%) are labeled affordable: 98 for social rent and 231 at discounted rates or for key workers, with the rest privately rented. The scheme also proposes student accommodation housing 661 students across a 23-storey co-living block of 445 homes, a new music venue, a rooftop wild meadow, and a possible return of the Model Market. Several existing buildings and many retail units would be lost. Public responses numbered 784 (105 objections, 637 support, 42 neutral), while local campaigners launched a petition demanding at least 50% genuinely affordable homes and warning of gentrification and community displacement.
Read at Time Out London
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