#AyleshamTownCentre

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Ward Meeting 16/5/24 to include Aylesham Peckham Redevelopment discussion

A public meeting to include discussion about the large #AyleshamPeckham development, will be hosted by Southwark Council this Thursday 16 May (7:15pm for a 7:30pm start) at the Harris Academy Peckham. Part of the East Central area joint ward meeting with Community Updates as main topic. Other area developments, such as Peckham Square will also be discussed.

Plans are to be submitted by Berkeley Homes in association with Southwark, for the redevelopment referred to as "The Aylesham Peckham".

Locals are encouraged to attend this Thursday as public awareness remains low.

The Aylesham Centre has been primed for redevelopment ever since Tiger Developments and hedge fund Blackrock revealed their plans to build flats and shops on the site in 2016. In July 2021, Blackrock sold the site to Berkeley and their 2022 version included 3 build phases over a decade for 1050 homes, 14 buildings ranging from 6-27 storeys, a central courtyard and a linear park.

Scaled-down plans were released this February but have yet to win campaigner support. Aylesham Community Action quoted by Southwark News: "The ACA continues to question if this is the right type of development for Peckham ... The new proposals are essentially the same as those rejected by thousands of local people over the last 10 years: the insertion of very large buildings into low-rise, historic Peckham, to create flats that will be unaffordable to most local people, with minimal green or open space.”

An ACA graphic published yesterday in Southwark News shows the buildings will still tower over “historic low-rise Peckham”, with the iconic Jones & Higgins building being dwarfed by huge towers. See https://southwarknews.co.uk/.../graphic-shows-how.../

A petition launched by the group making several demands of Berkeley and Southwark Council has gathered over 3,000 signatures: https://www.change.org/.../we-demand-a-development-that-s...

Campaigners ask if Peckham is set to become the next hi-rise Lewisham.

3 posts in From The Murky Depths worth examining: https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/.../lewisham.../ & https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/.../lesser-known.../ & https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/.../lewisham.../?

See the Berkeley exhibition boards at https://theayleshamcentre.community/the-aylesham.../.

More on ACA: https://www.ayleshamcommunityaction.co.uk/