SOUTHWARK CYCLISTS

8 Gilkes Crescent

SE21 BS

6 Sep 04

James F Sherry

Interim Development & Building Control Manager

Southwark Council Planning & Regeneration

Council Offices

Chiltern, Portland St, SE17 2ES

Dear Mr Sherry Re: TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended) APPLICATION FOR FULL PLANNING PERMISSION Your ref: 04-AP-1276

Luke Gardiner told us on the phone that this application is like the previous application (03-AP-1778), differing only by the omission of the proposal for 40 flats at the Dog Kennel Hill end of the Sainsbury site. Our comments on the current application are therefore similar to those in our letter of 29 Oct 03 and are:

1. From the N end of the cycle path going through Sainsbury’s car park: A pedestrian path is proposed going NW and N to the Champion Hill Estate. Alongside and separated from the footpath by a difference in level should be a cycle path, and both should also have a W spur to Greendale.

2. Cycle parking for the Sainsbury’s store should be in front of the ground floor front entrance to the extension.

3. The two pavements at the corner of Edgar Kail Way and Dog Kennel Hill should be built out to sharpen the corners and reduce traffic speed, with cycle slips separating cyclists from motorised traffic.

4. The pavement buildout on the N side of the entrance from Dog Kennel Hill to Pytchley Rd should have a cycle slip through it so that cyclists can use this road in both directions.

5. The proposed cycle lanes along Edgar Kail Way (where motor vehicles go fast and sweep round the corners) should be protected by a series of small islands.

6. The cycle lanes along Edgar Kail Way should be continued S along Abbotswood Rd to link with housing to the S of the site, protected by islands as in 5. above.

7. The reduction in car parking spaces in front of the store, and the increased floor space within the store, linked with policies to encourage non-car travel, should be accompanied by appropriate financial contributions from the developer. To this end we propose:

i) modest funding for minor local improvements for cyclists e.g. dropped kerbs at the entrance from Abbotswood Drive to St Francis Rd,

ii) a continuing program of individualised travel marketing in the neighbourhood along the lines of the project currently in progress in N Southwark.

iii) construction of a pedestrian/cycle path from Greendale eastwards to Abbotswood Road along the line of an overgrown former pathway (if not achieved through the current activities of Groundwork Southwark in association with the Dulwich Community Council and the Camberwell Community Council)

Figure 5 in the report for the previous application (03-AP-78) by Savell, Bird & Axon shows a footway under the railway to the Dulwich Hospital site. This is at present blocked off. We have discussed with council officers and the Hospital re-opening of this path for pedestrians and cyclists to acceptable standards of security. Given the proposed expansion of Sainsbury’s and the need for more customers to come by non-motor means, the re-opening of this tunnel should be given a priority.

We hope that you will incorporate these suggestions as conditions of any planning consent, using Section 106 as needed.

Yours sincerely

Alastair Hanton Professor Isaac Marks, MD, FRCPsych

Southwark Cyclists (the 600-member branch of the London Cycling Campaign)

cc:Turley Associates,20DeringSt,HanoverSq,W151AJph76297010bweaver@rta.co.uk

Savell Bird & Axon 58 Berners St, W1T 3NQ ph7580 8844 sba.@sbax.co.uk;

Giles Oliver, Penoyre and Prasad Architects, 28 Banner St, EC1 8QE