[10] In September 2016, Lewisham Council's mayor and cabinet voted for use of its purchase order powers at New Bermondsey.

[10] In February 2017, an independent inquiry ran to investigate allegations made by Millwall Football Club about New Bermondsey and the Surrey Canal Sports Foundation.

[13] In March 2012 planning permission was also granted to create a new residential and leisure development at the junction of Surrey Canal, Trundleys and Grinstead Roads in North Deptford.

Buildings and landscaping will extend between Plough Way and Oxestalls Road down to where the canal ran parallel with Evelyn Street on its last (eastern) leg.

The residential apartments will overlook a shallower, very linear, lake replicating part of the canal's route.

Renewal, the developer, agreed in late 2011 to fund the missing capital needed for the new station,[3][16] and Lewisham Council's strategic planning committee resolved to grant the application at a meeting on 13 October 2011.

[18] The developments will now include shops, restaurants, business space and new leisure and sports and multi-faith facilities along with up to 2,400 new homes,[17] replacing warehouses, light industrial estates and a handful of 1990s-built residential blocks.