Why have we made this guidance?

Why have we made this guidance?

Why have we made this guidance?

The Greater London Authority has adopted the new London Plan which for the first time has allocated each borough with a target for delivering homes on Small Sites . This asks all boroughs to encourage more small site housing developments to be given planning permission.

Lewisham is a unique and characterful borough, we have fantastic range of historic and more modern neighbourhoods and an incredible coverage of greenery. We want to make sure new developments that come forward in the borough reflect what makes the borough great.

We want to be proactive in making sure that the borough is giving permission to the right kind of small site developments. This is why we have created this guidance.

The design guidance (which gives advice to applicants hoping to build homes in the borough) builds on the draft Housing SPG: Good Quality Homes for All Londoners October 2020 specifically Module B Small Housing Developments .

Please see the draft SPD and accompanying documents here. And comment on our draft guidance.

Find out How this might affect you here , and read our FAQ's page here .

Why encourage the delivery of small sites?

• Diversify who is delivering our housing supply to make it more resilient – Lewisham is currently heavily reliant on large strategic sites
• Encourage local builders and developers to build within Lewisham thus stimulating the local economy and creating local jobs .
• Increasing density/critical mass within our suburbs to help support local centres
• Help co-ordinate the delivery of infrastructure within the south of our borough through the collection of CIL and S106
• Deliver more homes, including those that are genuinely affordable
• Ensure that Lewisham hits its annual housing targets and meets the governments Housing Delivery Test
• The emerging Local Plan is proposing to introduce an affordable homes contribution for small sites for the first time which again will help deliver the councils home building programme , see https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/planning/policy/planning for more information.
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