Peckham Not For Sale
Peckham Not For Sale
Latest: July 14, 2026
Peckham is Not For Sale! Our day in the High Court will prove it!
PECKHAM IS NOT FOR SALE - AND WE WILL WIN AGAIN!
We need £5,000 to continue our fight, and are asking for donations to help us do this.
It’s another attempt by the massive deve…
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STOP THE AYLESHAM DEVELOPMENT AND BEAT BERKELEY HOMES
Please donate towards our legal fees!
Peckham V Berkeley Homes
Berkeley Homes are threatening to destroy the heart of Peckham and its community by demolishing the Aylesham Centre and turning it into luxury flats with just 50 social homes out of 867 new properties.
We are Aylesham Community Action and we are fighting back, just as we always have done.
To become a party in the appeal at the Inquiry in October, we need at least £50,000 for a top notch legal team, to give us the best chance to beat Berkeley. It is a fight that can be won, but only with your help, with the whole community behind us. So please donate to our legal fund. Any amount, big or small helps.. and if you can’t donate, please share our message!
Peckham is one of the most diverse parts of London; a traditional working class area which has provided opportunities for people from all over the world to make a home and earn a living for themselves.
Thousands of residents have posted their objections to Berkeley’s proposal - articulate, passionate and angry views from across the generations.
They all agree! Berkeley’s Aylesham development is too big, too tall and does not give Peckham the affordable housing it needs.
In the 16 densely packed blocks up to 20 stories high, just 50 of the 867 new homes are allocated as social housing.
Southwark Council agrees that Berkeley’s proposal is a bad one. They listened to local residents and resoundingly rejected their plans.
Our local MP Miatta Fahnbulleh also agrees -
“this is the human cost of the housing crisis, children robbed of childhood.” She has told Berkeley to listen to local people, or they “will find this community united in opposition - and me by their side.”
But Berkeley are ignoring all this. They want the government to overrule the council and force the development through. At the planning inquiry in October, Southwark Council will have to defend its decision. We are not going to just stand on the sidelines though, we need to keep up the pressure!
Please help us by making a donation and share across your network!
With your help we can make sure the community voice is heard, just as the council heard us, loud and clear enough for them to agree with us and say NO to Berkeley
The flats Berkeley want to build will do nothing for families in inadequate housing or on the council waiting list, nothing for local young people who want to stay here, nothing for the local traders who make a living here, and nothing for the people who have their roots here.
It takes generations to build a community…
We will not allow Berkeley to destroy it for profit.
Please donate to our campaign and share our message
If you can’t donate please share our message with your family, friends and on social media.
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO HELP US WIN!
ACA is pleased to be supported by planning solicitor Jed Holloway and the Southwark Law Centre, and represented by barrister Hashi Mohamed of Landmark Chambers, listed as one of the highest rated planning barristers in England and Wales
Ann Lalic & Siobhan McCarthy
July 14, 2026
Peckham is Not For Sale! Our day in the High Court will prove it!
PECKHAM IS NOT FOR SALE - AND WE WILL WIN AGAIN!
We need £5,000 to continue our fight, and are asking for donations to help us do this.
It’s another attempt by the massive developer, Berkeley Homes, to defeat us!
Peckham won a famous victory on the 18th May, when the Planning Inspector found in our favour and rejected their greedy and inappropriate plans.
Berkeley Homes are now pleading in the High Courts of Justice, trying to overturn that famous victory for community and common sense.
The planning Inspector has already judged that Berkeley Homes’s plans breach the site allocation and policies around design, heritage, tall buildings, and protection of small businesses.
But Berkeley Homes are just NOT listening to the Inspector or our community!
Our local MP and the local council have also condemned the plan and agree this is a landmark struggle, one that has implications for ALL councils and developers.
Our strength has sent a message loud and clear. Communities count and have power!
WE WILL WIN AGAIN!
And we are again asking for your help to do so.
We need £5,000 to cover the court costs to stay involved in the action.
Every donation, big or small is a huge help and a huge NO to Berkeley Homes. And they hear it!
We have come so far and this has only been possible with your help. We are forever grateful.
Your donations will let us be heard again loud and clear. So please consider donating!
Thank you very much
Ann Lalic & Siobhan McCarthy
May 20, 2026
DAVID BEATS GOLIATH : PECKHAM HAS WON!
We are so happy to announce that on Monday the 18th May, the results of our struggle with Berkeley Homes was announced!
The Inspector has found in our favour and rejected their plans: a key paragraph is below:
The planning Inspector agreed that Berkeley Homes’s plans breached the site allocation and policies around design, heritage, tall buildings, and protection of small businesses.
The Inspector relied on the additional heritage harms which ACA presented as a rule 6 party during the Inquiry.
The Inspector noted that the site allocation “entails a generational opportunity for Peckham which should be carefully managed to ensure a more optimally designed scheme for future generations”. He noted the how ACA position around affordable housing was “well-intended” and “with residents welfare in mind”.
We all know that heritage is an intangible thing, not just there in the built environment, and this decision will help us to protect Peckham as well as plan for a better development.
This has only been possible with your help, and we are forever grateful.
Thank you very much
Ann Lalic & Siobhan McCarthy
Nov. 3, 2025
We Are Almost There!
Dear Backers,
We are rapidly approaching two crucial deadlines.
Your generosity has allowed us to close in on and and hopefully even surpass our target funding!
It’s a testament to the strength of feeling that this case has aroused, with the community reaching into their pockets to fund the fight!
Every donation counts!
Nothing but the greed of the developers, Berkeley Homes, is behind their attempt to force through this hideous and divisive development.
The final week of the Planning Inspectorate inquiry starts tomorrow, Tuesday the 4th.
We will be there, encouraging our brilliant team of barrister, Hashi Mohamed, and lawyer,Jed Holloway, of Southwark Law Centre.
It’s your support that has allowed our community to have this voice, to allow for a more nuanced and comprehensive opposition to Berkeley, that looks at what it would do to Peckham, not just the profits amassed by a greedy developer!
Ann Lalic & Siobhan McCarthy
Oct. 21, 2025
David v Goliath: Help us beat Berkeley!
We are so thrilled to be within touching distance of our target!
It’s a testimony to the strength of feeling throughout our community and wider.
Can you help us reach the finish line with another donation?
Our appeal against the developers, Berkeley Homes starts this coming Tuesday, 28th October, (10am to 5pm) and continues each week day thru Fri 7 Nov (9:30am-5pm) at Southwark Council Offices (160 Tooley St, London SE1 2QH). It is open to the public and we encourage people to attend.
The link below is to all documents for the inquiry including our rule 6 witness statements which are part of the ACA was opposing the plans
https://gateleyhamer-pi.com/en-gb/aylesham-centre/core-documents/cd8/
What Berkeley Homes want to build will not solve the housing crisis, it will make it worse!
Please help us with one more donation, big or small.. it all goes toward our brilliant and hard working legal team.
It’s a battle we have to win, for now and for future generations.
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