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.
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.
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”.
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.
