Lewisham Local Plan Part 3
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PART THREE 3 466 PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE PART THREE 13 LEWISHAM’S NEIGHBOURHOODS AND PLACES ................................... 469 14 LEWISHAM’S CENTRAL AREA ..................................................................... 475 15 LEWISHAM’S NORTH AREA ......................................................................... 559 16 LEWISHAM’S EAST AREA ............................................................................. 633 17 LEWISHAM’S SOUTH AREA ......................................................................... 673 18 LEWISHAM’S WEST AREA ............................................................................ 733 Lewisham Local Plan 467 468 PART ONE PART TWO 13 LEWISHAM’S NEIGHBOURHOODS AND PLACES PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE 13 LEWISHAM’S NEIGHBOURHOODS AND PLACES Celebrating Lewisham’s diversity and valuing its distinctiveness .......................................... 471 Delivering the spatial strategy and meeting local needs ............................................................ 473 Lewisham Local Plan 469 Key Southern neighbourhood area Central neighbourhood area Western neighbourhood area Eastern neighbourhood area Northern neighbourhood area Figure 13.1: Character areas and neighbourhoods 470 PART ONE PART TWO 13 LEWISHAM’S NEIGHBOURHOODS AND PLACES PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE Celebrating Lewisham’s diversity and valuing its distinctiveness 13.1 Lewisham is a diverse Borough comprising many 13.3 Each character area will play an important role communities of people, neighbourhoods and in supporting the delivery of the Borough’s places, all of which have distinctive identities spatial strategy, helping to accommodate that should be celebrated and valued. The Local growth that meets local needs (such as for Plan aims to respond to the unique qualities genuinely affordable housing, new workspace of our communities and neighbourhoods in and supporting infrastructure). To set clear supporting Good Growth. To achieve the Vision expectations in this respect, and to ensure that for Lewisham and secure the successful delivery new development is sensitively integrated into of spatial strategy, new development must our neighbourhoods, the Local Plan sets out respect and contribute positively to Lewisham’s a future vision, key (spatial) objectives and local distinctiveness. place principles for each area. These should be used to inform investment decisions and guide 13.2 To assist people with understanding and development proposals. appreciating Lewisham’s local distinctiveness, and to establish ‘place-based’ priorities for 13.4 In addition, each character area is accompanied guiding investment and sensitively managing by site allocation policies. These establish land new development, this part of the Local Plan use principles and design guidelines for strategic is organised around five character areas. These development sites. These sites have been areas contain a number of neighbourhoods which included within the Local Plan because they are together share similarities that distinguish them considered necessary to support the delivery of from other parts of the Borough.53 This includes the spatial strategy for the Borough. similarities in the prevailing urban form, historic character, topography, landscape and other 13.5 We have published, and are in the process of features. Figure 13.1 illustrates the extent of the preparing, additional guidance to help realise character areas and their neighbourhoods. the vision for the character areas and to support implementation of their place principles. This includes supplementary planning documents and masterplans that all new development proposals will be expected to have regard to and positively engage with. Some of the key guidance documents for Lewisham’s character areas are signposted throughout the following section. 53 The setting of the character areas has been informed by the Lewisham Characterisation Study (2019), which should be referred for further information. We acknowledge the neighbourhood boundaries overlap with each other, and that communities may define themselves around different geographies and social contexts. However, the organisation of the Borough in this way provides a useful starting point for a place-based planning and delivery framework Lewisham Local Plan 471 Lewisham in the context of London 13.7 The overarching objective for “An Open Lewisham as part of an Open London” reflects our 13.6 It is recognised that neighbourhoods and communities are defined around different commitment to strengthening relationships with geographies and social contexts, and that the rest of the Capital. This will not only promote people’s sense of place is not solely shaped inclusive neighbourhoods and communities but is by the extent of Lewisham’s administrative necessary to support the delivery of the London boundaries. Places and spaces beyond the Plan’s spatial development strategy. The Local Borough also contribute to local distinctiveness Plan sets out a shared vision for how Lewisham’s and influence the way in which people relate character areas should evolve over time, building to their surroundings. The vision and place on their functional relationships with other parts principles for each character area are therefore of London. This includes, for example, cross- informed by Lewisham’s relationships with other boundary relationships established through London boroughs, particularly those adjoining it. transport connections and the public realm, the network of green infrastructure (including open spaces and waterways), town centres and the local economy. As well, the character areas will be influenced by their changing sub-regional context, including significant new development delivered in Opportunity Areas near the Borough, such as Canada Water and Old Kent Road in Southwark and at Greenwich Peninsula. 472 PART ONE PART TWO 13 LEWISHAM’S NEIGHBOURHOODS AND PLACES PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE Delivering the spatial strategy and meeting local needs 13.8 To help facilitate Good Growth in Lewisham the 13.9 Each site allocation includes information on the Local Plan includes site allocation policies. These development capacity of a site for different types are detailed policies for strategic development of land uses. The process for indentifying sites sites that are critical to the delivery of the spatial and the methodology used for setting capacity strategy. The sites will play an important role in figures are set out in the “Lewisham Local Plan: addressing the Borough’s needs for new housing, Site Allocations Background Paper” - this should workspace and main town centre uses, along with be referred for further information. The site supporting infrastructure (including community capacities are indicative only and should not be facilities, transport and green infrastructure). read prescriptively for the purpose of planning applications, where the optimal capacity of a site must be established on a case-by-case basis using the design-led approach, and having regard to relevant planning policies. Table 13.1 summarises the overall delivery outcomes expected by the site allocations, both borough-wide and by character area. This demonstrates that the Local Plan has identified sites with sufficient capacity to meet the Borough’s new housing target, as set by the London Plan (Intend to publish version), as well as needs identified in our latest Employment Land and Retail Capacity Studies.54 Table 13.1: Site allocations – indicative delivery outcomes Table CHARACTER AREA HOMES WORKSPACE TOWN CENTRE USES (NET UNITS) (GROSS FLOORSPACE (GROSS FLOORSPACE SQM) SQM) Central 7,901 98,000 144,123 North 12,497 56,918 121,726 East 1,298 5,074 12,045 South 2,288 - 4,521 21,488 38, 679 West 1,049 16,403 11,434 Total 25,034 – 27,267 197,882 328,006 NET ADDITIONAL (Excluding NET ADDITIONAL (Excluding consented developments) consented developments) 38,327 24,361 54 For the South area, the housing capacity figures are set out as a range. This is owing to the significant uplift in development capacity that could be achieved on selected sites in Bell Green/ Lower Sydenham through Lewisham Local Plan 473 delivery of Phase 2 of the Bakerloo Line Extension. 474 PART ONE PART TWO 14 LEWISHAM’S CENTRAL AREA PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE 14 LEWISHAM’S CENTRAL AREA Context and character ......................................................................................................................................... 476 Vision .............................................................................................................................................................................. 477 Key spatial objectives ......................................................................................................................................... 478 LCA1 Central Area place principles ........................................................................................................................... 481 LCA2 Lewisham major centre and surrounds .................................................................................................... 483 LCA3 Catford major centre and surrounds .......................................................................................................... 486 LCA4 A21 corridor .............................................................................................................................................................. 488 LCA5 Central Lewisham Links .....................................................................................................................................