UPDATE – 7th January 2025
We have uploaded the follow up letters / reports to the website:
Please note that we are still fundraising to pay for the recent DCC planning objection, heritage objection, parking report & survey, printing of banners/leaflets and planning consultant advice. Please help us reach the target.
We are only about 50% of the way there so urgently need more support.
History - an Unwanted and Unsupported Planning Application
On 28th March 2025, Acorn Developments submitted a planning application to develop on the site of the Blackheath Station car park.
This development is neither wanted nor supported by the local community. Of the (unprecedented) 1,168 public comments submitted to the Lewisham Planning Portal for the initial application, 1,127 (over 96%) people came out against the development with just 30 (under 3%) in support.
A number of public figures and celebrities with a strong connection to the area have voiced their concerns about the planning application and have put their names to an open letter written by author and historian John Willis. Signatories range from Hollywood A-listers Jude Law and Dominic Cooper to music industry giants Mark Knopfler and Jools Holland to civic and political figures Sir Terry Waite and Dame Joan Ruddock.
More recently, 101 local businesses including the Blackheath Conservatoire and Blackheath Halls got together to submit to the council a letter of objection to the development proposal.
The campaign to stop the development has been featured on ITV London news as well as in numerous press outlets including The Independent, The Telegraph, The Architects Journal, The Sun, The Express, The Daily Mail, My London, Time Out and News Shopper.
To understand why this development is so bad for Blackheath see here.
