{"id":2035,"date":"2014-02-02T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2022-08-29T07:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:32:38","slug":"convoys-wharf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/convoys-wharf\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoy&#8217;s Wharf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I returned to this in March as the Mayor sought comments in the final stage of consultation before agreeing or rejecting outline planning permission. New Cross Labour have published Joan Ruddock&#8217;s submission on their web site, <a title=\"at New Cross Labour's site\" href=\"http:\/\/newcrosslabour.weebly.com\/2\/post\/2014\/03\/convoys-wharf-labour-standing-up-for-local-people.html\">here<\/a>. She is arguing for the cultural planning gain represented by the Sayes Court Garden project and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildthelenox.org\/home\/\">the Build the Lenox project<\/a>. <em>20 March 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously I was working my way through the Officers report to Lewisham&#8217;s strategic planning committee which rejected the plan as it now stands on six grounds.<!--more-->The report to the committee is on Lewisham Council&#8217;s web site, <a title=\"Officers Report on the Convoys Wharf planning application\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210621095125\/https:\/\/councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk\/documents\/s26511\/Committee%20Report%2006-01-2014%20-%20FINAL%20-%20with%20diagram.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>S3.2 established that the plan has significant variances built into it, S3.2.6 summarises the proposal as,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>S3.2.6 A maximum of 3,500 units are proposed, all of which would be built to LifetimeHomes Standard, with 10% being wheelchair accessible or easily adaptable. 15%of the units would be affordable (525 units) of which 75% (394 units) would be intermediate tenure and 25% (131 units) for affordable rent. Given the Outline nature of the application, all figures are indicative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So 525 houses, the housing list is about 17,000, not sure if that&#8217;s people or applications<\/p>\n<p>Affordable means 80% of market rates, new builds (with 1 bedroom) to the south, without the river views and amenities but with better public transport are getting ~\u00a31,000 while two bedroom flats in New Capital Quay are asking for \u00a31,600.\u00a0 <em>3 Feb 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s intermediate tenure? Are there any low rent houses proposed?<\/p>\n<p>but I have installed jp-rss-feed which gives us this<\/p>\n<p>[jp-rss-feed url=&#8221;http:\/\/feeds.delicious.com\/v2\/rss\/davelevy\/convoyswharf&#8221; numitems=&#8221;7&#8243; getdesc=&#8221;50&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Ripped Off Britain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.rippedoffbritons.com\/2014\/01\/graphs-at-glance-whose-afraid-of.html\">discusses the trap councils are in<\/a>, where they are taking money in exchange for social or affordable houses.<\/p>\n<p>In the Spring of 2014, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London called the planning decision in and I wrote about his decisions <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.davelevy.info\/2014\/04\/03\/mega-city\/\">on my blog, in an article called &#8220;Mega City&#8221;<\/a> and made a storify also <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/mega-city-2\">called &#8220;Mega City&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Jack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jan\/02\/deptford-apex-of-fashionability\">comments on the Gentrification of Deptford<\/a>, in the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned to this in March as the Mayor sought comments in the final stage of consultation before agreeing or rejecting outline planning permission. New Cross Labour have published Joan Ruddock&#8217;s submission on their web site, here. 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