Strategic Objectives:

B Housing tailored to the community with genuinely affordable homes,

C A thriving local economy that tackles inequalities,

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 Development proposals must demonstrate how they will contribute to securing the long-term vitality and viability of Lee Green District centre, including by enhancing the place qualities of the centre as well as reinforcing its role as a key focal point for community activity in the East Area. Development proposals must contribute to a coordinated process of town centre renewal that responds positively to the area’s distinctive character. They must also deliver a complementary mix of main town centre uses, along with new housing, whilst ensuring that the centre’s predominant commercial and community role is maintained and enhanced.

B The comprehensive redevelopment of the sites at Leegate Shopping Centre, Sainsbury’s Lee Green and the land at Lee High Road and Lee Road will together form a central focus for the renewal and revitalisation of the District Centre. Development proposals at these sites must be delivered in accordance with relevant site allocation policies.

C Development proposals must contribute to enhancing the public realm by applying the Healthy Streets Approach. They should promote and enable movement by walking, cycling and the use of public transport to make the town centre a significantly more accessible, safer, healthier and attractive environment. This will require that a clear hierarchy of streets is established within the wider town centre area, along with a cohesive and legible network of walking routes and cycleways running through and/ or connecting key commercial, leisure and cultural destinations, public transport nodes, public open spaces and residential areas. Particular consideration will need to be given to movements along and across the main junction, Lee High Road, Lee Road, Burnt Ash Road, Taunton Road, Leyland Road and Hedgley Street.

D Development proposals should respond positively to the evolving urban character of the town centre and its immediate surrounds. Development should be designed to provide for an appropriate transition in scale, bulk, mass, height and character between the centre, its edges and surrounding residential neighbourhoods, with generous setbacks provided along major roads and movement corridors.

E Development proposals should be designed with positive frontages and active ground floor frontages within the town centre and at its edges. In order to ensure development creates a positive relationship with the public realm, special attention should be given to design at the ground floor and podium levels of buildings.

F Development proposals must maximise opportunities to improve the ecological quality and amenity value of the river environment. This includes measures to deculvert and naturalise the River Quaggy and to improve public access to it around Lee High Road.

For more information and policy context please see the Lewisham Local Plan