tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59511132008-06-23T10:57:09.117+01:00Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-10952738874543643312008-06-23T10:40:00.004+01:002008-06-23T10:57:09.256+01:00

Sorry not to have blogged for so long. I'll do some updates soon, but as a special treat here's a video I made at the St Mary Magdalene Church open day on Saturday. It's a display by the Brunswick Community Gymnastic Club from Camberwell. It really gets going about 1min in - they're amazing.

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Tuesday night saw the Council's LibDem-Tory Executive Committee meet to agree their budget recommendations. Their coalition has an overall majority on the council and so their recommendations are likely to be agreed at Full Council Assembly next week when the budget is finalised. A huge number of concerned residents and children came down to the Town Hall to protest against the proposals. It was

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Following on from Save the South London Line, Save the Community Centre, Save the Childrens Museum, Save Brimmington Green, my latest campaign is Save Brayards Green (I fear it'll be Save the Post Office next). The LibDem-Tory Council Executive decided last night that they want to build houses on part of Brayards Green. In fairness they are going to be affordably housing association homes and

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Good news. It's now been confirmed that the site compound will go on the hard standing near the railway line and not on Brimmington Park. So the Brimmington Festival should be able to go ahead after all!!

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-2204311388361700612008-02-08T13:51:00.001Z2008-02-08T14:03:11.560Z

The campaign to save the Livesey Children's Museum is picking up pace. On Tuesday I joined local parents, children, Val Shawcross AM and some of my fellow councillors at the Museum. The online petition now has over 350 signatures and our two local papers, the Southwark News and the South London Press are also helping to publicise the campaign.Unfortunately it seems we need to redouble our

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The Livesey Children's Museum is a fantastic resource on the Old Kent Road for the local community and beyond, but it is now under threat due to budget cuts by the Lib Dem/Tory run Council. If the budget cuts go through later this month the museum could close as soon as April. There has already been a great community response to this issue. Please add your voice and help defend this asset by

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The council is about to start some major works on council owned properties in and around Clifton Crescent, Culmore Road, Pomeroy St and Astbury Road. Council tenants will be getting long awaited double glazing, rewiring, new bathrooms and kitchens. Unfortunately the building contractor for the works isn't locally based and needs to have an enormous site compound for storing equipment, materials

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-64785628106729937202008-02-02T11:35:00.000Z2008-02-02T11:43:13.650Z

There was enormous support across South London for the campaign against the divertion of the South London Line rail service (London Bridge - Victoria via Queens Road Station). Our London Assembly Member Val Shawcross took the matter up with Mayor Ken Livingstone and secured his agreement for a proper survey to be done of the use of the line. TfL London Rail are carrying out this survey which

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I've been working with residents on quite a few planning applications. 1) 2-8 Ansdell Road There was an entirely inappropriate application to build a block of 31 flats on a site where there used to be 2 prefab bungalows. The application was refused by the planning department on 11 seperate grounds. Astonishingly the developer has appealed against the decision and there will be a hearing on it,

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The numbers of street drinkers seems to have fallen considerably at Queens Rd. They were gathering near the bus stop opposite Asylum Road and generally making a nuisance of themselves - not a big deal when there were one or two, but sometimes there were as many as 20! Our local police team have been working hard and the council has put a fence up on the wall they liked to sit on. I dare say the

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Not a huge amount to report. The work on Astbury Road should start shortly. It's less clear when anything much will happen elsewhere. The current Executive Member for Regeneration has announced that he will resign in Febuary to take up a new job in political lobbying. Hopefully his sucessor will take a greater interest in this project - which I think tends to get overlooked in favour of bigger

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-8069629063468444632007-11-02T14:51:00.000Z2007-11-14T10:50:40.284Z

UPDATE THIS CONSULTATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS THERE IS A COUNCIL BYELECTION IN RIVERSIDE WARD AND AS A RESULT LOTS OF LEGAL RESTRICTIONS ON THE COUNCIL. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE NEW YEAR. A number of readers have asked me what's going to replace the now demolished Woodene blocks on Queens Road. And now I have an answer (of sorts). The council is holding a consultation event/exhibition

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-79342831475809602862007-10-25T17:04:00.000+01:002007-10-25T17:11:59.337+01:00

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and tomorrow is Wear it Pink day. So wear pink tomorrow and donate £2 to the Breast Cancer Campaign so they can continue researching for a cure to breast cancer.

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The deadline for responses to the draft South London Line Route Utilisation Strategy is this Friday. We decided that as well as the petitions it would be best to send one response from all the Southwark Labour councillors as together we all represent the areas of Peckham, Camberwell and Bermondsey affected by the proposed cuts to the South London Line. We've also sent it to the council officers

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-91858621040892906162007-10-19T10:16:00.000+01:002007-10-19T10:28:08.284+01:00

Thanks to all the commuters who gave us a warm welcome this morning as we handed out leaflet/petition forms at Queens Road Station. I was joined by fellow Nunhead councillor Dominic Thorncroft (pictured) and Livesey councillors Andrew Pakes and Mary Foulkes. Unfortunately Althea Smith was too ill to join us, but she did come and collect some leaflets to hand out as soon as she feels better. The

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The online petition is a great success with over 560 signatures so far. My colleagues in Camberwell have been out at Denmark Hill Station gathering signatures for the petition. Cllr Peter John, Val Shawcross AM and Cllr Veronica Ward are in the picture (Cllr John Friary was also there he took the picture). Nunhead and Livesey councillors will be at Queens Road Station tomorrow morning.

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Update on my last post, Quaywe has kindly set up an online petition. Please sgn up here.

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Last night I hosted the inaugrual meeting of the Southwark Rail Users' Group, which is the latest project of Peckham community activist Eileen Conn. With two stations in my ward (Nunhead and Queens Rd Peckham) I take a close interest in overground services in the area. The most urgent issue facing us is the Network Rail consultation on the future of rail services in South London (aka the draft

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Just a quick post to highlight the excellent work being done by our local police to close crack houses on the Cossall Estate. See this article in the South London Press for details. I can never say enough good things about our local police team and the council's crack house specialist Ken Dale. The energy, enthusiasm and courage they put in is an example to us all.

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-49415295157138216762007-09-21T14:52:00.000+01:002007-09-21T15:26:13.334+01:00

One of the stories you may have missed during my blogging break was the closure of the Nunhead Community Centre. It was locked up after one of the ladies who helps run the centre contracted Legionnaires disease. Traces of the legionella bacteria were found at the centre, although the council claims it didn't match the strain the lady had. Anyway, even though the centre's water system has been

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The council has recently decided to relocate Tuke Special School from Woods Road to a brand new building in Daniel Gardens in north Peckham (fuller details of the plans here). The move won't happen till 2010, but nearby residents have been asking me about what will happen to the old school site, in particular the area which used to be part of Cossall Park until sometime in the 1990s when the

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-28500520274514966162007-09-20T15:09:00.000+01:002007-09-20T15:25:58.018+01:00

Mixed news on the renewal area. I'm told that the Council has finally managed to recruit two "Renewal Managers", one to cover the Queens Road area and the other for the Evelina Road area. I'm not sure if they've started yet, but since this lack of staff has been the reason given for the lack of progress I hope that we will start to see some action. The other good news is that a contract has

Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099283558496010588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951113.post-91165920908658744132007-09-20T15:03:00.001+01:002007-09-20T15:07:42.235+01:00

Blogger is now working on the Town Hall computers, so I've no excuse not to get back to blogging. For some reason the update pages are now partially in German, but hopefully I'll be able to work round that.

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At the beginning of the month I finally pinned down the Nunhead & East Peckham Renewal Team to give them a good grilling. The news is mixed. On the plus side the Bellenden Renewal project is just about polished off, so the team can now focus entirely on Nunhead and East Peckham. They also seem to be making reasonable progress with the street renewal project on Astbury Road and Colls Road which

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I've spent quite a lot of time over the last month battling with council bureaucracy on behalf of the kids of Juniper House on Pomeroy Street. The Nunhead & Peckham Rye Community Council gave the estate £30k in 2003 so they could build a multi-sport ball court at the back of the estate where there used to be garages. The council owned estate is run by a very efficient tenant management

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