Lambeth Council is deciding in less than a week's time (26 November) whether to allow a huge, 70 metre high skyscraper to be built towering over the two storey Victorian streets, low-rise flats and local park of our neighbourhood. It's going to be on Belmore Street, between the Patmore Estate, Cornell Square and the Crimsworth, Thorparch, Goldsboro Road communities. We know they want to regenerate the site to house a new college, but the developers are trying to make this massive tower part of the deal!

This tower does not meet Lambeth Council’s own planning requirements or the London Plan’s tall buildings policy, and it is conspicuously out of character with the surrounding area. It will harm the quality of life of local residents and many more further afield, including visitors to our well-loved Larkhall Park. The developers’ own plans show that the skyscraper will tower over the surrounding streets cutting out sunlight for hundreds of residents and blighting the skyline for miles around.

We fully support the regeneration of a college on this site but completely reject the argument that it justifies this grotesquely disproportionate tower being imposed in the face of overwhelming local opinion, which has been registered at multiple meetings and through official channels.

We call on the Councillors of Lambeth Council’s Planning Application Committee to refuse planning permission for this Beast of Belmore.

Please sign this campaign and send it to your friends and neighbours (you don't have to live locally to sign it). The more signatures we get, the bigger the effect will be when Lambeth Planning Application Committee is meeting this coming Tuesday, 26 November to decide on this and the recommendation they have received from their officials is to grant permission for this development!