Bid to turn Lewisham House into 230 new homes
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The building was once the main UK office for Citi, but the international bank outgrew its Lewisham home and decamped to Canary Wharf decades ago. What's left is a useless eyesore that Citi has been holding on to as a contingency plan in the event of an emergency.
Details are sketchy at this stage and ideally this project would involve a full re-skin or something more dramatic than simply installing new windows, but it would be nice for something to be done with this lump.
A credible plan for some sort of incubator space might be better for the future of the area, but this plan would help Lewisham meet its new homes-target and put more life in to the town centre, boosting its chances of building a viable "night time economy."
