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PNAAP cover.qxd:Layout 1 19/4/11 14:33 Page 1 Peckham and Nunhead Area Action Plan Development Plan Document CD5Towards - Consultation a preferred Report option - Appendix P March 2013May 2011 Preferred Option comments and officer responses www.southwark.gov.uk/futurepeckham Peckham and Nunhead Area Action Plan Publication/Submission version Consultation Report: Appendix P Comments received and officer responses at the Preferred Option stage March 2013 This document is part of our Consultation Report for the Peckham and Nunhead Area Action Plan (AAP). It should be read alongside the Area Action Plan, the remaining parts of the consultation report and the other supporting documents. This document is Appendix P of the Consultation Report and it sets out all of the response received at the Preferred Option stage and our officer comments on these representations. Obje Main Rep Organisa Site ctor Polic Para Details of Representation Officer Response to Representation Ref tion no. Ref y 1 789 Nunhead Policy STRONGLY SUPPORTED BY THE NUNHEAD Support noted. Surgery 6 SURGERY 3 790 12 A maximum of 3 storeys would be more appropriate to Our view is that development of up to a maximum of 4 the current surrounding. Only two buildings have 4 storeys is appropriate on this site. When a planning storeys. One is a Victorian terrace but with a lower application come forward on this site then the detail ground floor, thus it appears as if it was a 3 storey regarding appropriate heights will be determined through the building. The other building is a modern, pretty ugly planning application process house next to the Nun's Head pub. It doesn't fit at all to the historical character of Nunhead Green and is an example of what should be avoided by all means. 4 790 Policy It needs to be assured that existing attempts of Policy 23: Public realm requires new development to 33 improving the street furniture are continued and consider the existing context and local historic environment. completed. New lighting with a historical look which fits well to the Victorian terraces in Nunhead was implemented south of Evelina Road in Nunhead but not in the north of Evelina Road. See photos attached. 5 790 Policy Shopping frontages: the current refurbishment of some Policy 25: Built form, sets out guidance for the design of 23 shop frontages was done in a very cheap looking shop fronts. Work has already taken place through the design in Nunhead East of the station entrance. Improving Local Retail Environments (ILRE) scheme to improve shop fronts on Gibbon Road and this will continue through funding secured in 2012 as part of the Mayor’s Outer London Fund. 6 790 Policy I welcome the restriction of Nunhead's high street to Support noted. 4 not more than 5% of shops being takeaways, however I have a feeling that level has already been passed. We have updated the AAP to set out the existing levels of hot food takeaways. 7 149 2.1.8 Section 2 2.1.8 Journeys from PR station to Victoria This section of the AAP has been updated. take about 15 minutes. 8 149 Section 4.2 Enterprise P33. Policy 1 Peckham town We have changed the proposal site name to Copeland centre box * Here and throughout the report Copeland Industrial Park and 1-27 Bournemouth Road throughout the Industrial Park (CIP) is called Copeland Road AAP for consistency. Obje Main Rep Organisa Site ctor Polic Para Details of Representation Officer Response to Representation Ref tion no. Ref y Industrial Park. This is incorrect and can be confused with the Copeland Road car park. Hope it can be The saved Southwark Plan Policy 1.9 requires a minimum of corrected. * This section says the policy is to 50% of the protected shopping frontage to remain in A1 retail *strengthen the existing retail parades … by promoting use. This policy helps to ensure a mix of services is and maintaining a vibrant balance of uses …* But this maintained. The General Permitted Development Order is not happening now as there continues to be a (GPDO) 1995 (as amended) allows a change of use proliferation of the same kinds of retail offers. What we between various use classes without requiring planning need is to avoid this leading to the too narrow a range permission; for example, a change from A3, A4 or A5 of retail and monopoly of a few. This includes betting (restaurants, bars and hot food takeaways) to A2 financial or shops that are not the kind of retail likely to breathe professional services is permitted. As betting shops are new life into the town centre. Now we have seen classified within the A2 use class, this means that any another one just proposed in the brand new retail units restaurant or takeaway can become a betting shop without at the corner of Bournemouth Road and Rye Lane. permission. Also, a bank, building society, estate agent, How will the Council’s PNAAP policies make a employment agency, solicitors or other professional or difference on this? * ‘Support the setting up of new financial service would be able to change within the same markets and street trading areas’ - The experience of use class (A2) to a betting shop. The Council does not have street markets in the town centre is not always control over this change. positive. What can the PNAAP say on how these will be appropriate for the town centre revival, and how The government is committed to deregulation of the planning local people concerned about the town centre system and have recently undertaken a wider review of how developments will be consulted in time to make a change of use is handled in the planning system. An issues contribution to the thinking on their location and type? paper was published for consultation at the end of 2011, which invited views and evidence from a range of organisations and individuals. A further consultation was undertaken in the summer 2012 and sought views on whether there is scope to change elements of the current planning framework for change of use, contained in the Use Classes Order (2007) (UCO) and the General Permitted Development Order 1995 (GPDO) setting out a few proposals for consideration. We submitted a response to this consultation and raised concern in relation to the retail (A class) uses, particularly the issue on the proliferation of Obje Main Rep Organisa Site ctor Polic Para Details of Representation Officer Response to Representation Ref tion no. Ref y betting shops on our high streets. We suggested that betting offices should be reclassified as sui generis uses which would put them into a class of their own and require planning permission. Support for the provision of street markets in town centre locations is set out in both the NPPF and the London Plan. PNAAP policy 5 recognises that markets in the Peckham action area can increase the variety of retail provision, provide self-employment opportunities with low entry-costs and fulfil a valuable role in the local economy. The policy is supported by the Southwark Street Trading and Markets Strategy (2010). The strategy includes recommendations for developing and improving the borough’s street trading and markets infrastructure. Section 3.10 sets out a range of proposed actions which includes implementing action plans for individual market sites and consulting with other council departments and stakeholders on how new markets can contribute positively to an area. We will work with the street trading and markets team to ensure that consultation on options for improved or new markets in the town centre is undertaken. 9 149 Policy 4.2.8 P34. 4.2.8 vacant upper floors above shops. Can the We have removed this part of the policy because our current 1 PNAAP say something to encourage *meanwhile* borough-wide adopted policies are able to adequately uses of these? assess any scheme which comes forward on the upper floors of shop units. It is worth noting that the General Permitted Development Order 1995 (GPDO) allows the change of use of the space above a shop (A1 or A2 use) to be converted into a single flat without the need for planning permission, provided the space is not in a separate planning use from the shop and that there is no change to the outside of the building. The government has also recently resolved to Obje Main Rep Organisa Site ctor Polic Para Details of Representation Officer Response to Representation Ref tion no. Ref y increase this allowance to two flats, and will be consulting on a revision to the GPDO. 10 149 P35. Fact box – town centre uses We are desperately We have amended the ‘Town Centre Uses’ fact box in Policy short of suitable places for meetings – community 1 to be consistent with the National Planning Policy meetings, workshops, seminars and conferences. Framework (NPPF) definition of main town centre uses. This These need to be in the town centre for accessibility includes the following: Retail development (including by public transport. The only one so far existing is in warehouse clubs and factory outlet centres); leisure, Cator Street and relatively inaccessible and in any entertainment facilities the more intensive sport and case scheduled for closure making it even more recreation uses (including cinemas, restaurants, drive- important that we encourage replacements. Can these through restaurants, bars and pubs, night-clubs, casinos, be mentioned here as town centre uses? They could health and fitness centres, indoor bowling centres, and bingo be part of the uses of the vacant upper floors. They halls); offices; and arts, culture and tourism development would also be suitable in any hotels.