We reported in our 30 April 2021 news story on the latest twist in the Southwark Metals metal scrap yard application saga. Please now:
- Submit your fresh objections to the planning application (even if you have done so already; points to make have been developed by Norwood Action Group; see below)
- Sign the petition (if you did not sign this earlier; see below)
The Windsor Grove application (for the site at the end of the road, opposite the Post Office Sorting Office) is for the demolition of all existing buildings and use of the site as a metal recycling and management facility.
The related Shakespeare Wharf (Herne Hill) application is to remove the safeguarding of that waste site so it can be redeveloped with 217 new homes. That waste would now come along the streets of south east London to West Norwood.
The developers posted 407 further pages of evidence on the Lambeth Planning portal here (the planning reference is 20/01066). This necessitated a fresh round of public consultation, because:
- A reduction of throughput capacity from 35,000 tonnes per annum to 25,000 tonnes per annum is now proposed.
- Additional technical information on transport and air quality is provided.
- Further information and evidence has been provided under Regulation 25 of the EIA Regulations, including an ES Review Response Table and a Windsor Grove Capacity Change Technical Note.
Norwood Action Group has now undertaken an analysis of the new evidence from the developer. Please read their analysis here and use all or some of their suggested pointers and your own to add your objection to the application here. The Planners have asked for comments by 29 May 2021.
Also:
- Sign the petition against this development here (if you have not already signed).
- Follow the dynamic community response on the West Norwood Local Facebook page here
Norwood Action Group considers the application to now be reaching its end game; consideration by Lambeth’s Planning Applications Committee is possible as soon as July or August. In addition to making formal objections and signing the petition, we expect local people will need to come together in other ways to ensure the depth of feeling in the local community is understood and the plan is defeated. We are in touch with interested parties and hope to report further soon.
Our local environment is threatened with colossal daily and ever-increasing environmental damage. We must work together over the coming weeks to ensure the application is refused planning permission and Southwark Metals reverse their plans.
