Wednesday 17 January 2018
News & features published on 17 January 2018
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre scheme knocked back by planning committee
Southwark Council's planning committee is poised to reject the massive redevelopment scheme for the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre and London College of Communication after a late-night hearing lasting nearly eight hours.
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Tweets on 17 January 2018
Wednesday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2018-01-17
18 people have signed a peitition in support of the Delancey scheme for the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre and L… https://t.co/mUuXI9bX59
@RichTWarms @tomcopley @BryanDaveyLdn @RossLydall @LonTravelWatch @MayorofLondon Given that Thameslink in central L… https://t.co/bnf5BWKqcm
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre: if @BBCLondonNews has whetted your appetite to learn more about what happened at… https://t.co/pVvBs4YXBe
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre is the lead story on @BBCLondonNews at 6.30
RT @NTN24: [VIDEO] Victoria para la comunidad latina en Londres: centro comercial de Elephant and Castle no será demolido https://t.co/0Qas…
Interesting that simultaneous with last night’s Delancey planning application hearing for c1000 built-to-rent (PRS)… https://t.co/4aswDAHtUk
[Job ad] Sales and Events Manager (maternity cover), @CoinStreet Community Builders https://t.co/KaBhwcWIwm
Developers Delancey call on supporters of Elephant & Castle scheme to “make their voices heard†in the run up to ne… https://t.co/ecoITjTk8A
Updated Delancey statement on last night’s Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre / LCC (non-)decision at Southwark plan… https://t.co/TyOaBt4w8p
@rebeccalury Delancey have just been in touch to say they sent the wrong statement first time round, as that one do… https://t.co/p5NmmB1HiA
@ldwgf @FriendsofNRPark To be fair Shopping Centre is currently private space. They’re pretty strong on clamping do… https://t.co/PwrqjkZk0A
@LatinElephant @karleastham @AdeleCathedrals @UpTheElephant_ @SouthwarkLawCen @bridgewithout @SouthwarkNotes… https://t.co/29Bfy3gmHt
Statement from Delancey on last night’s Elephant & Castle decision just inpic.twitter.com/IeaqQWfDcdcd
@karleastham @AdeleCathedrals @UpTheElephant_ @SouthwarkLawCen @bridgewithout @SouthwarkNotes @35percent_EAN… https://t.co/HGFSwkWWup
RT @james_hatts: I will be on @BBCRadioLondon’s drivetime programme this afternoon with @JimDavisOnAir talking about the Elephant & Castle…
The construction of Waterloo International Station, 20 March 1991 https://t.co/ZkzQNhqtDd
@bethfollini @SarahButler100 @rebeccamdavies @eva_sajovic It's on Vimeo - embedded in the article linked in the tweet above
RT @WalworthSociety: Just in case you have not heard the planning application was refused (more accurately not approved) by 4 votes to 3. h…
@RewterP @AdeleCathedrals No, because they were simply voting on a motion to approve. Onus is on the proposer of a… https://t.co/qtNeUDX5N3
@UpTheElephant_ @AdeleCathedrals @SouthwarkLawCen @bridgewithout @SouthwarkNotes @35percent_EAN @LatinElephant Not… https://t.co/DY3u34UvWw
@UpTheElephant_ @AdeleCathedrals @SouthwarkLawCen @bridgewithout @SouthwarkNotes @35percent_EAN @LatinElephant The… https://t.co/T6gyY0rzBS
@RewterP @AdeleCathedrals Regardless of one’s views it’s preferable that the reasons for refusal are well-drafted a… https://t.co/ifNuCZJpBu
@clairec58 @UpTheElephant_ @SouthwarkLawCen @bridgewithout @SouthwarkNotes @35percent_EAN @LatinElephant A motion t… https://t.co/JkquRTuMSw
RT @AdeleCathedrals: Just to be really clear about the Elephant and Castle shopping centre decision last night - the decision to approve wa…
RT @langrabbie: Auld Rabbie's Almanack - predicting the future of @se1 since 1988 - is available from all good booksellers or by post enclo…
@aklettner That’s actually household income rather than individual. But still ....
@garygazza In favour of resolution to grant permission: Dolezal, King, Mitchell
Against resolution to grant: Green… https://t.co/C3SyYnWzng
@PlanAbby Will require a big culture shift on the part of LCC / UAL. They are very quick to batten down the hatches… https://t.co/eaPE8ztaGA
RT @darryl1974: This is crazy because Thameslink was on the Tube map in the 90s when it was far less frequent (along with Northern City and…
@rmholdsworth It'll be a stopping train - prob still quicker to change at King's Cross
RT @GJ_Exec: Principal - London (Central), London (Greater) - WALWORTH ACADEMY https://t.co/3NlpYPMNe5
RT @guineagibbs: This makes me feel properly old: they have been talking about redeveloping E&C as long as I’ve been living in London - TWE…
@Caute3 @SouthwarkNotes The opposition is more about the way that people/businesses/communities there at the moment… https://t.co/2jWgARRZWf
RT @Radha_Burgess: Especially true as the day before we had unconscious bias training which emphasised the need for members not to be tired…
RT @EllieCumbo: As a council candidate, I'm on record as sharing the concerns about this scheme. I hope there is now an opportunity to make…
RT @JambusterLondon: A3203 Lambeth Road (SE1/SE11) (Eastbound) at the junction of Lambeth High Street - Road partially blocked due to a col…
TfL doesn't want to include Thameslink on the tube map https://t.co/iaRrFKINSa via @RossLydall
RT @rebeccalury: Turned on BBC Breakfast to see the moment we found out the Elephant and Castle shopping centre application was rejected! #…
Chavender Finished sketch of@last nights demo start at UAL @se1 @Londonist @guardian @DailyMirror pic.twitter.com/t6CmJ4sf1N
@4socialhousing @lb_southwark “Social housing equivalent†- not actual social housing as we know it.
Just uploaded 7 hours (!) of audio of last night's Southwark planning committee re Elephant & Castle Shopping Centr… https://t.co/GwVfO9dNMH
Reminded now of comments of Eric Reynolds in recent film by @SarahButler100 @rebeccamdavies @eva_sajovic about how… https://t.co/BYNZ5mq2U8
ICYMI - earlier this morning (!) Southwark’s planning committee voted NOT to approve the controversial Delancey red… https://t.co/qgleJKkm8P
That’s it. Heading home for some sleep.
And at 1.50am the meeting is closed. Nearly 8 hours.
Elephant & Castle decision deferred till 30 January when planning committee will finalise the reasons for refusing… https://t.co/rQhaDupWix
Planning committee is now reconvening
Jerry of @35percent_EAN tells Planning chair that he fears that councillors are being pressurised to change their m… https://t.co/VNl2uhYn5I
@SouthwarkGP As proposed.
@SouthwarkNotes Cllr Lauder
At 1.30am everyone’s getting a bit frazzledpic.twitter.com/KlV3wzmhDoDo
All getting a bit tense after 7.5 hours. pic.twitter.com/9ppIPOfRxJ
@dougmcfarlane 50 or so seats.
Planning committee meeting still adjourned whilst members take advice.
After 7 hours the backup recording device is now full ...
@mirabarhillel @TimMinogue It’s not over yet. A motion to grant was voted down. We still need a motion to refuse.
@sdishman2 Comms person!? Independent local journalism project.
Plenty of Southwark Labour people unhappy about how the administration has attempted to railroad the Elephant plann… https://t.co/zncBw77saN
Uproar as planning committee leaves the room to take advice in private pic.twitter.com/2tLa5mhfwy
Chair wants to take another adjournment for advice before a motion to refuse is put to the committee
lawyer Jon Gorst now explaining the state of play and why another vote is required if application is going to be turned down.
We will have a write up and video on the SE1 website on Wednesday mornjng.
Could still be here for some time while councillors thrash out reasons for refusal and vote on a motion to refuse planning permission.
@skipratmedia Yes almost certainly.
To be strictly accurate committee defeated a motion to approve the application. 3 votes in favour; 4 against; 1 abstention.
Discussion now turning to formulating the committee’s reasons for refusal.
Breaking news - councillors vote 4 to 3 to reject Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre planning application. One abstention.
Committee told they can’t have final say on the section 106 agreement - not least because TfL and GLA support is also needed.
@skipratmedia Certainly is!
@AnneMcLaughlin Yes!
We are now back in session. Decision approaching.
Five minute comfort break as we move towards 7 hours of this meeting.
We’re now moving to the part of the meeting where councillors debate the application before voting.
There 1200 construction jobs during the 10 year build period for the Elephant Shopping Centre development and LCC Scheme
@EventsBermondz Whenever they finally get to the stage of taking a vote
Now on to questions about the impact of the scheme on the Metropolitan Tabernacle
@BecksterW @paulwfleming Well open market prices are so high even people earning that much can’t afford them.
Legal officer Jon Gorst now giving advice to committee - provision of bingo at E&C “not a matter of planning policy… https://t.co/KHvJNpUJeV
We're now moving on to committee members' questions to council officers about bingo. It's 13 minutes past midnight… https://t.co/wKhhQdBWnL
Delancey will pay a monitoring fee to meet the council's costs of ensuring they are complying with the affordable housing deal
Committee member asks what other boroughs are doing when assessing affordable housing provision on build-to-rent schemes like this
RT @paulwfleming: Well, sat here a week later, at the planning committee, the justification for the affordable/social housing provision is…
Committee still dealing with viability questions. Rapidly approaching six hours since this meeting started.
@dw0 Council promise me they are working on improvements to WiFi in their meeting rooms. We shall see
Job vacancies posted on 17 January 2018
- Sales and Events Manager – 12-month fixed term contract (maternity cover) at Coin Street Community Builders
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