Proposed Development - The Sidings, Railway Rise, SE22

[march46]

I see the objections have almost doubled over the weekend, with many concerns being raised about the impact on the neighbouring Charter East site.
 

Interesting to read this objection from a local business. The access through a narrow passageway (4 metres wide?) for 500+ pedestrians being shared with vehicular access for car parking, deliveries and taxis doesn’t sound sensible.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

On 10/10/2024 at 16:25, Penguin68 said:

 student accommodation is by definition short-term.... But I do suspect hidden agendas here.

1) Student accommodation is NOT by definition short term. Short term lets are for 90 days or less.

https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/housing-and-land/improving-private-rented-sector/guidance-short-term-and-holiday-lets-london

2) it's easy to imagine things are a conspiracy when you don't understand how they work.

Edited 13 hours ago by Dogkennelhillbilly

[Penguin68]

3 hours ago, Dogkennelhillbilly said:

Student accommodation is NOT by definition short term. Short term lets are for 90 days or less.

You are right, technically there is a legal thing called a Short Term Let, but student let's are unlikely to be for more than 3 years, and are frequently one year (and in fact only occupied often September to July) whereas the crying need is for family housing for several years continuously. Hence my use of (lower case) 'short term' to describe typical student tenancies. 

Lets to student nurses are more likely to be continuous and for a longer period than a year, but the Dulwich Society comment on the nature of the rooms on offer does suggest that most would want to move out to something less cell like if they could. 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Penguin68

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Plus ca change

During WWI, Vera Brittain worked as a VAD nurse at the 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell - the military extension of St Bartholomew's Hospital.

The satellite hostel was nearly two miles away on Champion Hill.

 

"...it seemed strange to be the quarter-possessor of a bare-boarded room divided into cubicles by much-washed curtains of no recognisable colour, with only a bed, a washstand and a tiny chest of drawers to represent one's earthly possessions...

to meet the needs of about twenty young women, was one cold bathroom equipped with an ancient and unreliable geyser...which took about twenty minutes to half fill the bath with lukewarm water."

 

Edited to add source: "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain published 1933.

Edited 2 hours ago by Peckhamgatecrasher