In the 3D renditions the facades of the adjoining buildings are deliberately left blank. The reason being that if you showed the architectural detailing on the existing properties the new build would stick out like a sore thumb in both style and scale.

However, I am afraid this kind of over dense stacked rabbit hutch development is just the latest in the long line of crass developments allowed/likely to be approved by Lewisham's planners.

The planners allowed the bunker like Manor development between Canobie Road and Fairlawn so this will be a shoe in.

If you want to know what might have been going on behind the scenes you can always submit a freedom of information request to Lewisham requesting details of all correspondence and meetings between the planners and the developers. Make sure that you word the request as widely as possible so that they can't withhold the fact that meetings might have taken place without minutes having been kept.

Incidentally, when you hear developers on the news complaining that they can't build enough social housing do you think this is the type of scheme they had in mind?