Aylesham/Morrison site

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Introduction

Tiger Developments the previous owner conducted a poor consultation in summer 2020 the height of the holiday season and when we were all still in the pandemic. They said that was the last before submitting the planning application in September. ACA (Aylesham Community Action) was set up to campaign for a delay to allow proper consultation, and created the petition for much better community engagement: http://www.change.org/PECKHAMVOICES to have really meaningful consultation before the planning application. Tiger sold the site in 2021 to Berkeley Homes another developer.

  • Berkeley Homes now have a unit in the Aylesham Arcade open on Tuesdays and Fridays staffed to answer queries and discuss the development. They are also occasionally open on Saturdays. more information.
  • ACA is continuing to campaign for an Aylesham development fit for Peckham. Click here for information.

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Latest News about the development

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2023

May 2023 Start again

April 2023 impact on heritage

Southwark News - Peckham historian battles to get listed status for the Jones & Higgins building despite Historic England snub. Nancy Coleman-Frank said Berkeley's plans for the Aylesham Centre made heritage status "more important than ever".

March 2023 Over development

  • ACA (Aylesham Community Action) has created a series of graphics images here giving an impression of how a pedestrian would see Peckham town centre if the Berkeley Homes masterplan proposals, published in December, were developed. The page also gives links to media articles about the plans, and copies of ACA campaign leaflets and posters.
  • Southwark News March 2023 "... the ‘Borough Triangle’ development, in Elephant and Castle, could be forced back to the drawing board thanks to Sadiq Khan’s new fire safety announcement. It appears that one of south east London’s biggest residential developments may have hit an even bigger stumbling block. Developer Berkeley declined to comment on whether it would be submitting revised plans, but it’s difficult to see what other options are open to them. Khan has been clear that every residential block over 30 metres must have two staircases and their current plans simply don’t tick that box. It will also be interesting to see what implications this has for other tall developments across the borough. Will the Aylesham Centre 27 and 20-storey blocks, also proposed by Berkeley, meet the new standards? This is something the News will investigate."

February 2023 Staggering scale

January 2023 green space misleading info

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2022

December 2022 Masterplan criticised

November 2022 Masterplan published by Berkeley

12th August 2022 Southwark News

https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/regeneration/peckham-braces-for-the-next-chapter-in-aylesham-centre-redevelopment/

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10th August 2022 ACA online meeting

It is important for local people to have a chance to discuss the emerging ideas with each other, rather than just responding to sometimes not very clear or informative surveys. So ACA (Aylesham Community Action) has arranged a zoom meeting to report and discuss the latest on the development on Wednesday 10 August from 8pm-8:45pm, with informal discussion to 9pm, if you want to stay. We are keen also to hear what else you would find helpful to digest the information about this big development with a major impact on Peckham.- If you would like to attend, please register by email to get the zoom link: ayleshamcommunityaction@gmail.com or scan QR code on the poster -->>>

July 2022 Berkeley Homes consultations

Berkeley Homes (BH) consultation BH, the developers of the site, are continuing their consultation process by doing it in short stages over the summer. There seem to be two consultation surveys at this time:

To discuss and ask questions, you can visit their consultation hub (in the Aylesham Arcade) on Tuesdays from 1-5pm and Fridays from 9am-1pm in July. They aim to release their actual proposals in Autumn, with more detailed and fixed proposals in Winter, and official planning application submission in early 2023.

  • After you have done the surveys, let us know what you think of the consultation process and the development ideas by emailing ACA at - ayleshamcommunityaction@gmail.com . The ACA online meeting on 10th August will report on the information emerging and the questions arising.
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June 2022 ACA Saturdays 11am-1pm table in Rye Lane

Beginning in May, ACA is most Saturdays (when there are enough volunteers) in Rye Lane at the entrance to the Aylesham Centre with information about the ACA, about the development, and with the Self-led Site visit leaflets. Do come and say hello. Join the mailing list - ayleshamcommunityaction@gmail.com - and ask for info about the dates the ACA table will be there.

May 2022 Self-led Site Visit

ACA has produced a leaflet encouraging local people to visit the site, on a guided walk in their own time, and learn about the redevelopment issues. This leaflet can be downloaded from the ACA news item here or directly from the pdf here. A copy can also be picked up in printed form from Peckham Vision's shop in Holdrons Arcade, 137A Rye Lane. The Arcade is open every day and the site visit leaflets are available in the leaflet boxes in front of Peckham Vision shop window, half way down the Arcade. Email to let us know if you make a visit and let us know how it was, and if any queries or comments.

April 2022 update

Berkeley Group have conducted some consultations to raise awareness of their presence and work to develop plans for the site. Information on these can be found on [ Berkeley Aylesham website]. ACA have had a few meetings with them urging a two way dialogue but it mostly remains one way from Berkeley to local people on ad hoc encounters. They say they will soon be consulting on their ideas for the site. The time scale seems to be slipping as we expected it would, though they are still they say aiming for a planning application by the end of the year.

January 2022 Community online workshop

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It was a great community event - an example of real horizontal engagement - local people talking to one another - about Peckham's requirements in coming decades. The great event brought local people together through zoom to learn from each other about the site and how it fits into the town centre. Horizontal engagement strengthens the community and is essential for any corporate (vertical) engagement to be meaningful. If you want to keep up to date on what happens next, please join the ACA mailing list – email: ayleshamcommunityaction@gmail.com

2020-2021

July 2021 site sold to Berkeley

The site has been sold by Blackrock to Berkeley Group. ACA and Peckham Vision will seek discussion about Berkeeley working collaboratively with the local community - all parts of it - in creating the brief for the site. That has been missing all the time so far. It is a new start and we will be approaching them to ask for collaboration on devising real community engagement on the brief. They talk about community engagement on their website so worth trying to pioneer how to do it for real.

December 2020 first success

graphic created for the petition by Aylesham Community Action

The first stage of the campaign for meaningful consultation has been successful. The planning application was not submitted in 2020. Discussions are now in process on the way to design a different and genuine informed public discussion about the development of the site. These discussions are taking place between ACA members and local ward councillors and representatives of Tiger Developments, the owner of the site. See also here: history of the Aylesham site and latest update from Aylesham Community Action (ACA).

September 2020 SIGN PETITION

Petition for meaningful consultation on Aylesham Redevelopment. SIGN HERE http://www.change.org/PECKHAMVOICES We can have an effect if we get a lot of signatures for thorough examination of these plans before the planning application. There are big questions about the amount of truly affordable housing, amenities for children and families, public space, impact on the character of the area, impact on adjacent housing, and many other issues. Their consultations fail tests of genuine consultation. The petition is simply seeking a real consultation. We have proposals for that ready to discuss with them. This is a collaboration with others from Peckham Heritage and Peckham Society in the new group Aylesham Community Action - leaflet. A5 flyer The four images below show the whole site and its surrounds. The first is an aerial view now, and the others a photo of the developers model, their diagram of the plan, and a campaign graphic showing heights of the new buildings on the diagram.
Media coverage:

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February 2020 Developer's exhibition

AYLESHAM CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION: Tiger Developments are holding exhibitions of their plans for their major redevelopment of the Aylesham Centre at Unit 15 in the Aylesham Centre on SATURDAYS 22nd and 29th FEBRUARY 10am-2pm WEDNESDAY 26 and THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY 4-8pm

  • Visit to give your feedback. This redevelopment will have a major effect on the town centre. Some issues to look at - height of buildings, affordable housing, commercial spaces, redesign of bus station, effect on historic buildings, effect on rest of town centre.
  • Further information from: http://www.ayleshamcentrepeckham.co.uk . Phone: 0800 307 7562. email: info@ayleshamcentrepeckham.co.uk and ask to be put on their mailing list.

2019

December 2019 news

We have heard that there will be a pre planning application consultation in the first three months of 2020. This is usually just a few weeks before the formal planning application is submitted. So these are likely to be the final plans from the developer. The concerns remain the same as before: The height of any buildings interfering with the rooftop views and the provision of social housing and not unaffordable flats.

March 2019 news

There has been no public news about the development for over a year. The Developers say they wil be consulting again in 2019.

2017

December 2017 Petition to stop the 20 Storey Tower in Peckham

The rooftop view from the Peckham Multi Storey and the Bussey Building is now famous. But we have heard that the developers of the Aylesham Centre / Morrison's site are doing what the Council has been encouraging them to do throughout our campaign to draw attention to it - planning a 20-27 storey tower block. This is just in front of the Peckham Multi Storey and the Bussey Building. So the view that we and others have promoted for 10 years, and has had a dramatic positive effect on Peckham's economy, is threatened. Previous information about the campaign to protect the rooftop views. There are also additional reasons for opposing a tall building in the town centre - it is the wrong kind of housing for Peckham people, the real housing need can't be met by expensive flats in tall towers, and it is totally out of scale with the nature and character of Peckham town centre that has evolved over centuries.

To support the campaign to halt the tall building on the Aylesham Centre:

  • Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/southwark-council-stop-a-20-storey-luxury-tower-in-peckham
  • Call in to Peckham Vision’s shop in Holdrons Arcade, 135A Rye Lane, Saturdays 2-5pm, Tuesdays 2-4pm
  • Write to: letters@slp.co.uk , letters@southwarknews.org , letters@standard.co.uk
  • Write to developers at: info@ayleshamcentrepeckham.co.uk
  • Spread the word through your networks and contacts
  • tweet your picture of the view to @NTlovesLondon @peckhamvision

5th November 2017 - 27 Storey Tower Block

The rooftop view from the Peckham Multi Storey and the Bussey Building is now famous. But we have just heard that the developers of the Aylsham Centre / Morrison's site are planning a 27 storey tower block. This is just in front of the Peckham Multi Storey and the Bussey Building. So the view that we and others have promoted for 10 years, and has had a dramatic positive effect on Peckham's economy, is threatened. Previous information about the campaign to protect the rooftop views.
To support the campaign to halt the tall building on the Aylesham Centre:

1st April 2017 Peckham Vision 4 sites walk

The Aylesham development site (NSP55) is one of 4 Peckham sites in the Council’s draft New Southwark Plan (NSP). Nearly 40 of us went on our Peckham Vision walk last Saturday to visit these 4 large development sites. In spite of forecast rain showers, it was a lovely day to explore from a new angle Peckham town centre. See here some photos of the walk: and Further information.

23rd February 2017 Local voices from 2016

Each year, Peckham Vision takes its stall and mobile exhibition about the town centre developments to several community fairs and festivals. The fairs are well attended and over the years since 2008, we have discussed the town centre developments with hundreds of local people. In 2016 one of the displays was about the Aylesham Centre redevelopment and we asked people to put comments on post-it notes. All the comments were typed up and are shown here. Selections and summaries of the comments are shown to illustrate the themes that emerged under these headings: • Scale & height of buildings • Street scene • Housing • Uses on the site • Facilities on the site • Consultation process. This document has been sent to the developers and their consultants and published through Peckham Vision's communication channels to contribute to the discussion. This community exercise, over several months in 2016 organised by Peckham Vision quite separately from the developers two workshops in November 2016, produced similar and complementary local responses showing their consistency with different audiences.

6th February 2017 New Southwark Plan (NSP)

The Council has published its Preferred Option of the New Southwark Plan (NSP) the borough land use planning policy for the next 15 - 20 years. This contains 4 proposed development sites in Peckham town centre, one of which is a revised plan for the Aylesham site which was first designated as a development site in the 2014 PNAAP (Peckham & Nunhead Area Action Plan). The proposals for the Aylesham site can be seen on pages 208-210 of the NSP in this extract of the Peckham pages. This Preferred Option Version of the NSP is out for consultation until 5pm 28 April 2017. Peckham Vision will be disseminating further information and holding discussions about the plans during the NSP consultation period.

21st January 2017 Community-led workshop

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Members of Peckham Vision and Peckham Citizens met together in this Community-led workshop on Sat 21st January 2017 to develop communities' ideas and aspirations for the site.

2016

First consultations November 2016

Tiger Developments held their first public discussions with local people in November 2016 at two developer organised workshops in Rye Lane Chapel. The reports from these workshops are here. To be kept up to date with future events organised by the developers email: info@ayleshamcentrepeckham.co.uk . Their website is here: http://www.ayleshamcentrepeckham.co.uk

Background to Aylesham & Morrison's site development

2016

The largest re-development site in Peckham town centre is the Aylesham Centre and Morrison’s car park.

Southwark News has reported that up to 1000 new flats, with shops, evening entertainment and public space could replace the current shops and car park. The site is owned by a joint enterprise between Tiger Developments and hedge fund Blackrock. For such a large and important site it is essential that local people have a chance to contribute their ideas and their needs before the site owners develop their plans for discussion with the Council.

For a long time we asked Tiger Developments and Blackrock, the owners and developers, to meet with us to discuss how local people can contribute before the plans are further developed. We had no response. Out of the blue in mid November 2016 we received an email about a consultation workshop on 23rd November 2016. This was far too little notice, and places limited to 50. After protestations at the limit on numbers they arranged a second workshop for the following evening. The developer's report on the workshops is here. Developer's information about the development is here. People should email info@ayleshamcentrepeckham.co.uk to ask to be on their mailing list for further events and information.

What local people say

Local voices from summer 2016

Each year, Peckham Vision takes its stall and mobile exhibition about the town centre developments to several community fairs and festivals. The fairs are well attended and over the years since 2008, we have discussed the town centre developments with hundreds of local people. In 2016 one of the displays was about the Aylesham Centre redevelopment and we asked people to put comments on post-it notes. All the comments were typed up and are shown here. Selections and summaries of the comments are shown to illustrate the themes that emerged under these headings: • Scale & height of buildings • Street scene • Housing • Uses on the site • Facilities on the site • Consultation process.

Spring 2016

We held an informal event in March 2016 at Peckham Library Square together with UCL students who presented their design proposals for the site, all with the purpose to bring awareness to the demolition and potential changes and to received feedback from locals on what they want. Their survey showed that local people think they should be allowed to decide how the development goes, who it's for, how tall the buildings are and how it contributes to the local economy. The survey reflects well known opinion about the town centre:

  • We wish to protect the view from the Multi-storey
  • We do not wish for tall buildings on this site as it would block views from the Multi-storey & Bussey building
  • We need more affordable social houses not private homes
  • We wish to keep Peckham mixed and diverse
  • A call for more public toilets
  • Traffic flow considerations
  • Provision for the disabled
  • A call for green space
  • We need safe spaces and activities for the elderly, children and community use
  • We wish to support local business
  • Keep parking capacity that currently serves the site and help local businesses
  • A call for a market, garden growing, and fresh produce for Peckham people
  • we want a street scene and not a closed shopping mall
  • We want the gaps filled in basic quality high street provision

Oliver Goldsmith Estate (Peckham) resident, Peckham Vision volunteer and UCL academic John Bingham-Hall said:
“this is the biggest development in the town centre and will fundamentally shape Peckham’s character. The developers are working on plans without having asked residents what they would like to see happen here - they’re missing out on so many good ideas. Many people are positive about change but want to see it happen in a way that benefits them. So rather than wait to be consulted we decided to start the conversation ourselves and get people talking. It’s fantastic that we could link up Peckham Vision’s energy with the skills of the Bartlett students, who were looking for a community project to work on. I just hope Tiger Developments can see that this will be better for everyone if we work together.”

Upcoming events and consultation dates

  • Developer's workshop on 23rd November 2016.
  • Peckham Vision's stall has information about the development. The photos show the stall and display informing people of the Aylesham's redevelopment and asking them for views on what they wanted on that site, at Goose Green community fair on 8th May 2016. We have had the stall at several community fairs over the summer - Nunhead Cemetery Open Day on Sat 21st May, Choumert Sq Open Gardens 5th June, Brimmington Park Festival 2nd July, and at the Peckham Rye Fete on 3rd September. The information is also available in the Peckham Rye shop in Holdron's Arcade at 135A Rye Lane on Saturday and Tuesday afertnoons 2-4pm. Do come and visit.

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Social media

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More info

Press coverage

South London Press (29 March 2016)


Webpage started March 2016

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