Plans approved for new flats on narrow strip beside London Bridge approach lines
Plans for new homes at a narrow site beside tracks leading to London Bridge station were approved last night by a Lewisham Council committee.
Councillors gave the thumbs up for 61 flats at an awkward site in Bermondsey near Silwood Street located alongside tracks and close to London Overground sidings, an incinerator and a major rail junction.
Affordable housing is set at 35 per cent – with those located closest to SELCHP incinerator. This is the building with a tall chimney near Millwall’s New Den which many trains pass on approach to London Bridge station.
To protect against noise from the tracks, elevations facing the railway include screens and small windows. Unfortunately this is south facing thus reducing natural light.
Commercial units and a community venue are planned at ground floor levels alongside arches below the rail viaduct.
Buildings top out at nine floors.
You can view the planning meeting here.
Further details on this development can be seen here.
Hard up against the elevated tracks with the London over ground lines along side. Nice.
so another 10,000 tonnes of concrete…no green space…no community space..no child space…no parking…no roof garden…no exercise area..years ago I saw vertical car parking in Tokyo…this looks almost like a Prison for animals…another faceless block saying and meaning nothing
Yep, this is all part of UN Agenda 21 & 2030, as is the low traffic zones that are popping up in boroughs around the capital! It’s part of ‘sustainable development’ – expect more of this.
These blocks are not for the good & well-being of society!
Absolutely HK you are not wrong.
Affordable housing is set at 35 per cent – with those located closest to SELCHP incinerator.
No surprise there
People who have no choice but rely on social housing always seem to get a raw deal now days !!
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are ‘poor doors’, too.
Surprise, surprise – looks like it’ll be a storage site for the next 3+ years…it’s not as if locals hadn’t raised issues. https://m.search-prop.com/open-storage-yard-silwood-street-london