A council that allowed the complete removal of affordable and social housing from city centre development plans has “acted unlawfully”, a High Court judge has ruled.
We are currently consulting on the Scoping Report for the Integrated Impact Assessment of Southwark’s emerging New Southwark Plan
An Integrated Impact Assessment is a method of estimating the possible implications, intended and unintended, of the emerging New Southwark Plan policies. It will examine how the emerging policy options may affect the communities in Southwark.
The aim of the Integrated Impact Assessment is to make recommendations to enhance potential positive outcomes and minimise negative impacts of a policy.
The Scoping Report contains:
· Baseline information regarding key environmental, social and economic matters relevant in the borough.
· A review of the relevant plans, strategies and legislation.
· A framework for undertaking the Integrated Impact Assessment, setting out sustainability, health and equality objectives, decision making criteria and indicators that will be used to measure the impacts of the New Southwark Plan policy options upon sustainable development, equalities and health.
The baseline information and the relevant information contained within the relevant plans, strategies and legislation, will be taken into account in the preparation of the next stage of the New Southwark Plan – the Preferred Options paper.
We are consulting on the Scoping Report for a period of 5 weeks, between 20 February and 27 March 2015. All comments must be received by 5pm on 27 March.
During the consultation period, we strongly encourage comments to be submitted, where you can suggest improvements or point out if there is any thing we have missed.
Comments can be returned by post or email to:
FREEPOST SE1919/14
Planning Policy
Chief Executive’s Department
London
SE1P 5LX
Email: planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk
More information on the preparation of the New Southwark Plan can be found in this link
Scoping Report – Integrated Impact Assessment New Southwark Plan Feb 2015
Southwark Council has now launched an interactive consultation map provides the opportunity to comment on proposed site allocations and/or suggest any new sites. This map also identifies all council estates which may be considered at a future point as part of the 11,000 new council homes delivery programme:
http://southwark.communitymaps.org.uk/#/welcome
Whilst the consultation on the New Southwark Plan concludes 6th March the interactive map will run into April/May.
NSP105, where Southwark ‘may be able to build more new homes.’
The Sky Garden at 20 Fenchurch Street spans three floors and offers uninterrupted views across the City of London. Served by two express lifts, visitors arrive to a beautiful landscaped garden with a viewing area, terrace, café, bar and restaurant. The Sky Garden is a truly unique space and has been designed to create an open and vibrant place of leisure, offering visitors a rare chance to experience London from a different viewpoint.
The Sky Garden is now open. Please visit the Sky Garden website to book your visit.
Southwark Council run out of excuses –
Neighbourhood plan finally on the starting blocks
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Meeting
Wednesday 18 February Globe House 6.30pm
Last wednesday evening’s Council-hosted meeting was as unfocused and inconclusive as we expected. For all the Council’s lecturing on the necessity for broad community engagement in the Community Planning process they demonstrated a dismal failure to engage with local people themselves: Aside from BVAG supporters, they managed to attract scarcely a handful of representatives from the area that they defiantly designated. Council community planning PR woman and double-agent, Juliet Seymour, failed to see the irony in preaching to the meagre meeting the necessity of broad community awareness and participation.
We have been forced to attend countless meetings knowing that, pointless or not, the Council would exploit any failure to show up. Needless to say, one more was water off a duck’s back. On the positive side, the Council really have now run out of excuses for refusing to process our application for Neighbourhood Forum status. With new Localism Act amenments forcing reluctant councils to comply with time limits to determine neighbourhood forum applications and a letter from our lawyers threatening Judicial Review the delay game is almost over.
In a final gesture of defiance Southwark have stalled us further by claiming that our application is defective as to the terms of our Constitution, a requirement for a new name to reflect their imposed neighbourhood area and some other minor technicalities. Since they could have raised such issues two-and-a-half years ago but in fact accepted our application as valid, nobody is under any illusion about their true purpose. Nonetheless, as with acceptance of their dictated area, our simplest course is just to give them what they want by way of technicalities. For this purpose we are holding a meeting next Wednesday 18 February to finalise the new or varied information that has been demanded (see letter from Mark Williams 26 Jan here).
Also for discussion is a BVAG response to any matters in the new Southwark Plan, presently in its ‘consultation’ phase. In particular we will want to express a position on high-rise buildings, conservation and housing policies. Whilst we know Southwark’s long-established attitude to consultation and the opinions of local people, if we are looking for a real change through localism we need to at least set out our stall for the record in this ‘consultation’.
Southwark Council has recently produced a series of videos about those repairs around your home that are easy to fix yourself, but only if you know how.
The videos give you a step by step guide on how to unblock your toilet or sink, change your bathroom and kitchen lights, set up your central heating correctly and change and test your smoke alarm. They are not the most glamorous of jobs but definitely important for keeping your home running smoothly.
Our repairs and maintenance service looks after over 50,000 homes across the borough. Every year, we receive thousands of calls to help you manage small repairs around your home. By showing you how to do these yourself within the comfort of your home, we hope to save you time and money. Reducing these callouts will also help the repairs team focus their time and expertise on more complex repairs. As we try and meet the large cuts to council funding without affecting frontline services, reducing callouts for repairs which are not our responsibility is a key priority.
All the videos are simple and easy to follow, and are based on what our own expert plumbers and electricians would do themselves. There is no complicated equipment needed. So make sure you check out the videos and recommend them to your family and friends. And watch this space as there are more to come.
To watch the videos go to http://www.southwark.gov.uk/fixitathome or http://www.youtube.com/southwarkcouncil
MESSAGE SENT ON BEHALF OF DAVID LEWIS, HEAD OF MAINTENANCE & COMPLIANCE, SOUTHWARK COUNCIL.
Dear colleagues,
I just wanted to let you know that after a significant period of review, we have decided mutually to bring our contract with heating contractor T Brown to an end. T Brown currently provides the heating contract in Bermondsey, Borough and Bankside, Peckham and Nunhead and Peckham Rye and borough-wide services for water treatment and dry risers. The heating contract covers the annual gas servicing programme for council tenants who have an individual boiler as well as the responsive service for individual and district boilers.
Arrangements have been put in place for contractors OCO to take over the remainder of the T Brown contract. OCO are our heating contractors for the rest of the borough and have consistently proved themselves our best performing heating contractor. The change will be effective from 11 May 2015 until the existing contract ends in March 2016. Plans are already well advanced for the procurement of new heating contractors when the current contract comes to an end.
We have not taken this decision lightly, but are now agreed that this mutual termination of the contract is in the best interests of everyone involved, especially our tenants.
Regards
David
February holiday camps (week)
A great chance for your child to play every day, improve quickly and keep fit. The final day of each course is based around friendly competition.
Juniors are required to join the Club to attend coaching sessions. The cost is £10 for the year, please fill in the form by clicking the following click:
http://www.beactivesocialenterprise.com/membership/
Burgess Park Tennis Centre
Camps from 10am to 1pm (weeks beginning Monday 16 to Friday 21 February),
Ages 5 – 17
* Price £35
Tanner Street Park
10-12am – ages Under 10 and beginners.
* Cost £20
* Price is for advanced booking – places can be booked on Monday for £5 more (subject to availability).
All courses require a minimum number of participants to go ahead. Advanced notice and full refunds will be given if we have to cancel any course.
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Tabard Gardens North T&RA 