Transforming Catford
January 2014 update
Darren Green, Project Manager
Catford regeneration update
Rushey 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 update
Rushey 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 update
Rushey 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 update
Rushey 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 update
Rushey 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 update
Rushey Green Assembly, January 2014
Greyhound Stadium site / Catford stations
 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.
Catford regeneration update
Rushey 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 update
Rushey 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 longterm.
 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 update
Rushey 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.
Catford regeneration update
Rushey Green Assembly, January 2014