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September was a tough call. It meant “a process of planning negotiation on both the detailed and outline planning,” and was, as he says with some understatement, “a fairly tight timescale.” After “a couple of tweaks” to both outline and detailed proposals before resubmission in November the scheme entered committee stage in March 2015. Barratts is in the frame as developer for the private sale elements of the FDS including the towers, however this is yet to be confirmed.
Site geography
The ‘spine’ of the unevenly-shaped master- plan is Thurlow Street to the east, towards Old Kent Road. As well as many residential blocks, the site includes two health centres,
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Many of the buildings in the scheme will be clad in brick to achieve both visual variation and consistency across the site LEFT
One of the planned neighbourhood squares
a school and conservation area at the centre of the plan and runs to East Street at its northern edge. The FDS, technically Phases 1b and c, is bordered at the south western corner of the plan by Phase 1a designed by Levitt Bernstein and completed in 2012. A ‘reserved matters’ planning application has been submitted for a new library and community hub to the north east of the site. David Morton knows the area well, as he once lived just north of the school. He says
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