Policy information sourced from Lewisham Core Strategy

4 Local Hubs

Individual Local Hubs will be managed to enhance their identity and distinctiveness in order to achieve an overall upgrade in urban quality and amenity. Local Hubs are places where the availability of development sites will be capitalised to secure physical and environmental improvement and integration with the surrounding neighbourhoods including local shopping parades.

Mixed use development is expected, as is working closely with stakeholders and the local community, the Council will take a design-led approach to the form of development and seek to secure improvements for the wider area as a result of new development. The Council will ensure that the design of new development is appropriate to ensure the occupation of the non-residential element of these schemes. The Council will work in partnership with applicants to identify end-users of these developments in order to achieve high levels of occupation at an early stage of completion in order to meet the Council’s regeneration aims.

Brockley Cross

  • Protect the local shopping parade to ensure the provision of day-to-day retail needs and employment.
  • Retain the Local Employment Location (LEL) largely dedicated to uses within the B1 (a) Use Class (Offices) at Endwell Road (Endwell Road Business Centre).
  • Support the local economy by providing suitable and flexible premises to enable an increase in the number and variety of businesses (including creative businesses).
  • Improve the pedestrian environment including by providing better accessibility to Brockley Station and contributing to feelings of safety and security.

Hither Green

  • Protect and support the functioning of the local shopping parade located on Hither Green Lane and Staplehurst Road to ensure the provision of day-to-day retail needs and employment.
  • Provide space for the operation of a farmers’ or street market.
  • Upgrade the character and appearance of the approaches to Hither Green Station by redeveloping sites in industrial and business use and creating new mixed use developments that will retain and enhance the variety and varied nature of the local economy and complement the new developments at the Hither Green Hospital site (Meridian South).
  • Contribute to feelings of safety and security on the approaches to the station and create a sense of place.

Bell Green

  • Designate as an out-of-centre retail park within the Council’s retail hierarchy.
  • Limit the floorspace and range of goods sold to that contained in the granted planning permission to protect the viability of adjacent town centres.
  • Address ground contamination issues and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) implications of the gasholders.
  • Ensure an adequate safety zone is provided around the gasholders.
  • Achieve high quality landscaping across the site and a green landscaped link to the long distance foot and cycle path running to the west of the site.
  • Retain the Local Employment Location (LEL) at Stanton Square for uses within the B Use Class (offices, industry and warehousing/storage).

For more information please see the Core Strategy