Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Transforming Catford January 2014 update

Darren Green, Project Manager

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Catford Broadway

Streetworks due for completion in March/April.

New lighting, benches and trees. New awnings, signs, shutters etc

for several shopfronts. Completed street will be

pedestrianised, but with access for Catford Broadway residents and for businesses/traders to load/unload.

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Catford Broadway

Next two Sunday markets set for 2 February and 2 March.

On offer: street food, cakes and pastries, craft and vintage stalls.

Many of the traders are graduates from the Council’s market trader training scheme, and still trading over a year since they finished the course.

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Catford Centre

CRPL (Council’s Regeneration Company for Catford) is continuing to manage the Shopping Centre.

Currently the Centre has no vacant units.

A ‘pay & display’ machine has been re-installed in the Holbeach Road car park, after the cashless parking pilot ended.

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Transforming Catford

The Council has been undertaking a ‘market exploration’ exercise to gather feedback from developers, architects and commercial agents about possible ‘ways forward’ for Catford in general/ the three Council-owned sites in particular.

The next few months will be spent reviewing, distilling and furthering ideas.

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Catford Canteen

Events at the Catford Canteen – a pop-up restaurant in what was the one-and-only vacant unit – have continued to sell out.

Upcoming events/menus include Bajan, Vietnamese, Italian, and jazz and jambalaya.

For more details / to book, visit www.grubclub.com/ catfordcanteen.

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Minor amendments to plans for the former Greyhound stadium site have been approved.

Barratts expected to start on site from February.

The Council has been taking the opportunity to explore the possibility of improvements to/linkages between stations with Network Rail and other partners.

Greyhound Stadium site / Catford stations

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Road network and Local Plan

TfL and the GLA have developed a renewed interest in the realignment of the South Circular to the rear of Laurence House.

Work on the Catford Plan – the planning framework for Catford – has been temporarily halted while TfL carry out their study, which should take an estimated 6 months.

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Smaller projects

With landscape architects, we have been looking at how to improve the spaces between the major development sites - temporarily, short-term and long-term.

This work will have two main outcomes:- an exemplar project or projects - a document that can be used for bidding for funding or to direct developer contributions.

Catford regeneration updateRushey Green Assembly, January 2014

Moving forward

The market exploration exercise has demonstrated that there is a high level of interest in Catford.

The steps the Council has taken to date (purchasing the shopping centre, refurbishing Catford Broadway) have helped to further stimulate that interest.

Officers will continue to progress different initiatives alongside the overall transformation/ redevelopment plans.