Policy information sourced from Lewisham Development Management Local Plan
DM Policy 44 Places of worship
The Council’s preferred locations for the development of public places of worship are the network of major and district town centres as defined in Core Strategy Policy 6.
Proposals for development in the major and district town centres and all other areas will only be considered in locations that are:
- highly accessible to users through public transport and cycling and walking routes and
- able to source an adequate level of parking for users, without negatively impacting on local street parking or the accessibility of other local services.
All applications for places of worship will be required to:
- demonstrate they are not causing a detrimental effect to employment or future employment space
- demonstrate that there will be no detrimental effect on local amenity through noise, hours of operation or any other environmental impacts
- provide a travel plan to show that the points detailed in Point 1 of this policy and other transport issues can be mitigated and
- be delivered to the highest design standards.
For more information please see the Local Plan