Wood Dene | Southwark | 9 fl | Proposed

[Peckhamdamo]

Notting Hill Housing's plans for the derelict site of the former Wood Dene Estate, Peckham. Demolished in 2007!!

http://nhhwooddene.com/index.html

[SE9]

I've been waiting a long time for some plans...

Originally Posted by SE9

I haven't seen anything 'concrete'.

The worst thing that could happen, is what happened to the Wood Dene estate in Peckham (the estate on stilts). It was demolished, and now we're left with an empty, unused, rubble-filled, fenced off area where the estate used to be. Its been that way for several years now. I hope Southwark won't let the same happen to Heygate.

Wood Dene 1970s - 2006:

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Wood Dene 2006 - present:

What's the local reaction to the proposed scheme?

[jamiefearon]

Originally Posted by SE9

What's the local reaction to the proposed scheme?

I can guess it will be:

"awwww noooo.. it's too tall, I have sand in my vagina, oh no the light from the thing will stop the emmmm thing....."

[Swissdave]

The new plans really don't look all that different in massing and general layout to what was demolished here!

This interesting then-and-now site on the Wood Dene estate is worth a look - with photos of the old development and the general site plan (note that the lower density northern half of the old estate has survived demolition). This photo in particular looks a lot like the new development.

[Peckhamdamo]

I did see these plans and thought future slum! Pokey flats off a dual carriageway, with an underground car park and dark unloved public spaces! But I could be wrong, though I wouldn't want to live there...

[SE9]

The proposed plan for the site: http://www.nhhwooddene.com/

[Peckhamdamo]

Apparently the new development has to contain as many flats as the old estate, hence the similarity! The architects are Jestico & Whiles, they brought us the new East London Line (yay) and that new M&M building on Leicester Square (boo)

[SE9]

A clip of Brian Paddick and some local boys in the old Wood Dene Estate:

[Retro Specs]

The old building reminds me of the Barbican. If it hadn't had had such social problems (plus if had the Barbican's water features) it might have been a desirable place to live, especially if Peckham had got the Bakerloo line extension. Actually given the way things are going it probably would have lost most of its social problems by now anyway and started being more mixed from people moving in to buy a cheap flat etc. If I could afford one I'd buy a flat on the remaining parts of that estate (can't get a mortgage due to being self-employed) - I stayed over at a friends who lived in a studio flat on the estate a few times and it seemed like the area had a good community and it didn't feel dangerous. That was about two years ago, maybe it was worse before. While the new scheme doesn't look bad, having that American brick high rise style, it lacks some of the imagination of the old one. Pretty certain if the same residents were in that building and the same lack of care for the building by the council took place then it would be just as bad.

[delphine21]

Looking forward to see result!

[2005]

Originally Posted by SE9

A clip of Brian Paddick and some local boys in the old Wood Dene Estate:

I remember being in the car with my mum driving past that estate whilst it was being knocked down and we both cheered at the sight of it finally being dismantled. It was so fucking hideous I can't even put it into words, you really had to see it in the flesh.

I always knew of the trouble in Peckham as I was from nearby Forest Hill and a few Peckham Boys went to my school, I remember my head teacher telling the whole School Assembly that Damilola Taylor had been accepted into the school just before he was killed. In my honest opinion those boys in that video pretty much hit the nail on the head in everything they said. Seriously though was hearing robbery, rape and murder round that area, all for nothing as well absolutely awful.

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