Policy information sourced from the Lewisham Local Plan
LCA4 A21 corridor
Strategic Objectives:
D A greener borough,
E Responding to the climate emergency,
F Celebrating our local identity,
G Healthy and safe communities,
H Securing the timely delivery of infrastructure.
A The transformation of the A21 Corridor (Lewisham High Street, Rushey Green and Bromley Road) and its immediate surrounds into a network of liveable and healthy neighbourhoods with a distinctive urban character is integral to the delivery of the spatial strategy. Development proposals must demonstrate how they have responded positively to the A21 Development Framework through the design-led approach.
B Development proposals along the A21 Corridor and its immediate surrounds must contribute to enhancing the place qualities of the corridor by:
- Responding positively to the evolving urban character of the area through the sensitive intensification of sites, where appropriate;
- Ensuring that the design of new development references the historic fabric of the local area. In particular, development should seek opportunities to enhance the setting of designated and nondesignated heritage assets along the route.
- Helping to establish a distinctive and legible urban grain along and around the Corridor, including clusters of development of an urban scale situated at major road junctions;
- Ensuring new development reinforces or creates a positive relationship with the public realm, including through the provision of positive frontages along the Corridor, and active ground floor frontages incorporating commercial and community uses, where appropriate, particularly in town centres and edge-of-centre locations;
- Maximising opportunities to integrate tree planting and other urban greening measures; and
- Enhancing connections between the Major Centres of Catford and Lewisham, as well as neighbourhoods surrounding the Corridor, through the delivery of new and improved public realm.
C Development proposals must reinforce and enhance the role of the A21 as a strategic movement corridor by applying the Healthy Streets Approach. This principal north-south route should be supported by a complementary network of legible, safe and accessible walking routes and cycleways that link with it to enhance connections between neighbourhoods and places, including open spaces such as Ladywell Fields, Lewisham Park, Mountsfield Park and the River Ravensbourne.
D Development proposals should investigate and maximise opportunities to reinstate or enhance the network of finer grain east-west connections for walking and cycling to and from the A21 Corridor, and the river valley, particularly where sites are to be delivered through comprehensive redevelopment.
For more information and policy context please see the Lewisham Local Plan