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The local plan will set out long-term development strategy until 2040 Redeveloping Leegate Shopping Centre, turning the South Circular into a ‘healthy street’, and building more than 1,200 new homes are some of Lewisham Council’s plans for east of the borough. The plan also sets out priorities for specific areas, including for green space and transport. The final version is expected to be adopted by the council between summer and autumn of 2022. The council is hoping that 27,267 new homes will be built across the borough by 2040. The plan, which will feed into planning decisions, is divided into central, north, east, south, and west.
The wetlands A community group is urging people to object to a proposed development that would destroy rare wetlands and vital habitats if it goes ahead. The land in Grove Park, previously used by Willow Tree Riding School, is home to wetlands and species such as the common newt, frog, toad, migrant birds, hedgehogs, hairstreak butterflies, and bats. The site, just behind Northbrook Park, came under threat in 2019 after owner Austringer Estates Ltd, a company previously registered off-shore under a different name, applied to build new stables. But the application was refused because the proposed development would have had an “urbanising visual impact and harm the openness of the Metropolitan Open Land (MOL)”.