EIR - Dulwich Hamlet Football Club [Jul 2023]

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Information request 1 – Please provide me with: All communications with regard to Southwark planning application 19/AP/1867 - GLA application 2022/0088/S2 to and from and the London Borough of Southwark after the 27th July 2020 to the date of this FOIA request. This will include the communication sent by Wing Lau dated the 2nd February 2022. Information request 2 – Please provide me with: a) All information concerning the ‘due regard’ the London Mayor applied to his decision regarding the users of the existing astro-turf as set out in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 in making in decision not to object to planning application 19/AP/1867. b) If such information addressed in Information request 2 a) above does not include a demographic breakdown of the users/community that uses the astro-turf pitch please state why. Information request 3 – Please provide me with: All internal GLA communications with regard to air quality and noise with regard to Southwark planning application 19/AP/1867/GLA application 2022/0088/S2. Information request 4 – Please provide me with: All internal GLA communications with regard to the London Plan Policy 3.6 Children and young people’s play and informal recreation and the Mayor of London’s SPG: Shaping Neighbourhoods: Play and Informal Recreation (SPG, 2012) with regard to Southwark planning application 19/AP/1867/GLA application 2022/0088/S2. Information request 5 – Please provide me with: a) The GLA policy or policies that is or are applicable where a local authority, whether by an individual officer or as an organisation, misleads the GLA with regards to a planning application. b) If different from the response to Information request 5 a) above please provide the GLA policy with regard to responding to fraud. Information request 6 – Paragraph 21 of the planning officer’s supplemental Agenda No. 2 in relation to Southwark planning application 19/AP/1867 states: 21. Planning policies require the provision of play space for new developments in line with the minimum areas stated in the Mayor’s SPG. Officers have concluded in the main report that adequate children play space is provided in the development and as such would meet the demand created by the children who live in the development. The policies do not specifically require a new development to provide play space to cater for the wider existing population of children. In this case, the play areas within the green link area, which is provided as part of the requirement for replacement open space due to the loss of the stadium pitch, would be open to the wider public. Some of the areas between the residential blocks would be closed at night, in order to reduce the risk of disturbance to the new residents. It is requested that in responding to this information request that consideration is given to paragraph 4.33 and Implementation point 13 (at P68) of the Mayor of London’s SPG: Shaping Neighbourhoods: Play and Informal Recreation (SPG, 2012). Paragrath 4.33 states, ‘Where development is itself taking place on land that has previously been used by children for play, and as a consequence results in a loss of play provision in an area of defined need for that type of provision, the development should be resisted or compensatory improvements on top of any need arising from the expected increase in child population should be made. Development proposals involving loss of play spaces without adequate justification or provision for replacement should be resisted (Policy 3.16B). Please provide me with: Confirmation that the London Mayor accepts that the planning officer’s statement, ‘The policies do not specifically require a new development to provide play space to cater for the wider existing population of children’ was incorrect and that policies do require do specifically require a new development to provide play space to cater for the wider existing population of children,’ was incorrect and that local children who use the astro-turf should have been considered by the Southwark planning officers

Our response to your request is as follows:

Please find attached the information that the GLA holds within the scope of your request.

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19/AP/1867 | Redevelopment of the Dulwich Hamlet Football (Champion Hill) Stadium, including the demolition of existing buildings, and use of land at Greendale, to provide: - the erection of a new stadium with relocated playing pitch with associated floodlighting and boundary treatment, and part two-part three storey clubhouse building with sports and leisure facilities, with capacity for 4,000 spectators (Use Class D2); - the construction of a multi-functional kickabout space and associated boundary treatment; - the erection of a series of buildings between four and six storeys in height to provide 219 residential dwellings, (Use Class C3); - associated car parking, cycle parking, refuse storage and access road; - the widening and greening of a public route with associated hard and soft landscaping; - the relocation of telecommunications equipment and re-provision of the substation together with plant and equipment. | Dulwich Hamlet Football Club Edgar Kail Way London SE22 8BD And Neighbouring Artificial Pitch At Greendale