Agenda item

Report:  Circulated at the meeting

The guillotine having fallen, Councillors Martin Seaton and Helen Morrissey, formally moved and seconded the late motion.

The late motion was put to the vote and declared to be carried.

RESOLVED:

1.  That Nursery Row Park is currently protected as an open space and a site of importance for nature conservation under the category other open space in the Southwark Plan. Open spaces provide an essential amenity and recreational resource for people living and working in Southwark.

2.  That council assembly notes that at council assembly on 4 November 2009 a decision on which sites to save from the Southwark Plan was taken and three sites on Nursery Row Park (including Sites 52P and 53P) were all saved for housing.

3.  That council assembly also notes that sites 52P and 53P are no longer part of the development programme for the Elephant and Castle, therefore they are no longer contributing to delivery of the council's housing targets. It is also noted that the council owns the sites.

4.  That council assembly therefore requests the cabinet member for regeneration and corporate strategy to write to the Secretary of State inviting him to revise the council's request to save council's housing sites by omitting sites 52P and 53P.

5.  That council assembly notes that at this stage it is only possible to save or not save policies from the Southwark Plan and it is therefore not possible to amend the boundary of site 51P that also covers the Stead Street car park which is required for housing.  Council assembly notes the commitment given by the cabinet member for regeneration and corporate strategy that the council will not build on any part of the park and calls on the cabinet member to take steps to provide additional planning policy protection to this remaining part of the park at the earliest possible opportunity.

Note: This motion will be referred as a recommendation to the cabinet for consideration.