A decision on a controversial Bermondsey infill housing project has been pushed back by a month, because planning committee members have not done a site visit yet.
Southwark Council wants to build eighteen council flats on the site of a car park by Matson House in the Slippers Place Estate. Some residents of the estate are against the plans, as we have reported, saying they are worried about a loss of light because of potential overshadowing.
The Matson House car park site was included on the agenda for Southwark’s planning sub-committee B on Monday (September 14) but the application will now go back to the committee on October 20, after committee members have undertaken a site visit.
The development is part of a wider Southwark programme to build council flats on spaces that the local authority considers under-used, to help tackle the huge housing need in the borough. Many proposed sites have been controversial, as current residents think they would lose open space.