Plans in for new housing development on Catford car park

An application to build 113 homes on a car park in Catford has been submitted to Lewisham Council.

The site is Thomas Lane car park located seconds from both Catford and Catford Bridge stations.

Current site as seen in planning application

Two buildings are planned on site totalling nine and 13 storeys in height. A workshop also sits on part of the site.

Catford Constitutional Club sits just to the south.

Area of development outlined in red. CCC in blue

Social housing – or lack of

It’ll be 100 per cent “affordable” though only 30 per cent is social rent despite being public land. Not ideal as the authority is in financial crises owing to a lack of council and social housing, with costs to the authority up 30 per cent in the last year to £85m as its forced to pay for extremely expensive temporary accommodation at vast cost to the taxpayer.

Low numbers of social housing is barely going to make a ripple on that ever growing number adding to both the council’s financial crises and national housing benefit bill of £30.5 billion a year.

Catford Town Centre framework

It’s one of a number if sites set for change as part of 2021’s Catford Town Centre framework.

It’s expected that 2,700 homes will be built alongside major changes to the south circular. Plans which have been around for donkey’s years without much progress.

Back in early 2018 an award of £10 million for road changes was announced via the Housing Infrastructure Fund. Even back then I labelled it a “never-ending saga”.

Catford

Another project in the town is the Catford Constituional Club beside planned flats. In July I covered a £1.4 million cost overrun.

Nearby Milford Towers was supposed to be demolished 12 years ago with residents being moved out but it was recently announced £16 million would be spent refurbishing the site despite demolition plans still being in place.

And then this week a cinema closed in the town. To say things havn’t been smooth sailing is an understatement.

The application can be viewed here. The proposal developed by Turner Works.

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5 thoughts on “Plans in for new housing development on Catford car park

  • As someone who has just left Catford after 20 years, I can’t say I will miss it. The local council are desperately anti car and slowley destroying the Lewisham/catford areas. London is about movement of people from homes to jobs and social engagements. Not everyone can use the (far too many) buses that plague the towns or the point to point railways. A rabid anti car policy is killing the area. No one will travel to the town centres – Catford has very little to offer these days and Lewisham is a complete mess – not shopped in Lewisham for years. Removing yet more parking is just another signof the councils desperate policy against cars.

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    • Agree, LAbour greenwich, lewisham wherever are new rabid tory sheep. Wreckers of society just as much as Thatcher & T BLiar.

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    • @Kevin turner: ‘Not everyone can use the (far too many) buses that plague the towns…’. If you say so, but lots of people do not have an alternative. If ‘Catford has very little to offer these days’ the loss of a carpark makes no odds.

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      • @ anonymous201486. I totally agree with you. Well said.
        Also a lot of people can no longer afford to buy let alone afford to run cars nowadays.
        You cannot not have enough buses if you need to travel for work shopping hospital appointments etc. Most bus routes could do with more buses on them let alone fewer of them.

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    • The reason that Lewisham and Catford are unpleasant, noisy, dangerous, polluted and failing is because of decades of pro car policy, it’s only very recently that the council have changed policy. Time for change and put people and the environment first and business, customers and jobs will come.

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