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Seems like there's a bigger story here via SE1's website.

600 carparking spaces, zero renewables, no cycle facilities, only 71 social housing units?
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/166095

1. Instead of 1,100 new social housing units included only 71. So no right of return for over 1,000 families.
2. Instead of social housing, 2,400 private luxury apartments to be built instead.
3. Instead of building human scale housing, the supposed brutal ugly Heygate which had at maximum 12 storey blocks, is to be replaced with a plethora of massive tower-blocks up to 30 storeys tall.
4. The council has a policy of requiring 20% renewables in new buildings. The developer proposed ZERO and it was granted.
5. The council has a policy of zero car parking in developments at major transport hubs. The developers proposed 600 car parking spaces and it was granted.
6. The council has a policy of requiring space for cycling in new developments. The developers proposed zero meters of segregated cycle paths and it was granted.
7. The new roads and footpaths in the development are to be privatised.
8. Existing public park is to be replaced with a privatised park.
9.The council has a policy of protecting existing tree canopies. The developer proposed to fell 286 trees (70% of the existing mature tree canopy) and it was granted.
10. The council is to pay the developers demolition costs of £15 million ( would build 60 council homes).