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Lordship Lane Estate: Stop the tower block petition


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Sydney Carton Wrote:

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> Southwark says half the development will be social

> housing, presumably the bottom half, the lower

> floors with no park views. So the upper parts will

> be very desirable apartments, which will go for

> top dollar.


I don't think that's what the information says. It says that half of the flats will

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Sydney Carton Wrote:

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> Southwark says half the development will be social

> housing, presumably the bottom half, the lower

> floors with no park views. So the upper parts will

> be very desirable apartments, which will go for

> top dollar.


I don't think that's what is being proposed It, at least going by what is said here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ru5ioQ17lVcEQD1yGfdlQCOuQ4y2ZoVm/view


It says that half of the flats will prioritised for (existing) local tenants in housing need (of which there are about 40 on the Lordship Lane Estate). It doesn't say the others will be sold or rented at market (ie high) rate. Neither does it say anything about top half or bottom half.


Where are you getting your information that the top flats will be sold on the private market? Is there other info from the council that says that?

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Where are you getting your information that the top flats will be sold on the private market? Is there other info from the council that says that?


There's a precedent for that, the building at the elephant. Can't remember the nickname but it has 3 turbines at the top that have never worked?


Only the lower floors were for social housing

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Castleton Wrote:

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> There's a precedent for that, the building at the

> elephant. Can't remember the nickname but it has 3

> turbines at the top that have never worked?

>

> Only the lower floors were for social housing


No, that's different. You're talking about Strata House, which was a private development on private land. A condition of planning permission was that a certain proportion of flats were designated as "affordable".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata_SE1


The proposed building is a Southwark development on land owned by Southwark.

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