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Unless I'm missing something that a quick google doesn't provide, The Champion Hill accommodation seems to have some sort of fire safety problem that is entirely separate from whether or not there is demand. Quite a lot of info online, including: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/statements/accommodation-ch https://roarnews.co.uk/2024/kcl-accommodation-still-empty-four-years-after-evacuation/

Precisely - there's huge demand for student housing in London, and right next to a train station within walking distance of shops and leisure facilities seems perfect. See https://www.cityam.com/is-there-enough-student-housing-for-the-next-cohort-of-school-leavers-in-september/ But guess what, it doesn't stop there, there's actually huge demand for all housing. The failure over many years to build housing is pushing UK productivity down and exacerbating the cost of living crisis. Of course it's fine to have an opinion that a building is too big, or whatever, but at the end of the day we don't solve the housing crisis without building more houses. So it's either brownfield spots like this former warehouse, or it's densifying existing residential (i.e. knock down and rebuild), or it's building on greenfield. I struggle to see how London meets the housing needs of the next few decades without plans like this one.

Not sure if this applies to the specific drugs mentioned above but recently I was looking for antibiotics my toddler had been prescribed. I went to five different pharmacies in the area and they all said they were out. Finally the bigger one in Nunhead explained to me why. Apparently for every prescription the pharmacies complete they get a set fee (I don't remember exactly but £20 or so) but this is fixed whatever the price of the drug is. The Dr had prescribed a drug that was more than £20 for the course, so any pharmacy who completed the prescription would lose money. Hence none of them stocking it. Seems like a totally mad system!

Strange response - the perimeter path is great for jogging (when not too wet). Dog walkers easy to avoid and less of a dog poo issue than most pavements in Southwark. This take is completely different to my experience on the jogging route - which I find to be one of the nicest places to run in the area (plus Dulwich Woods).

Invested heavily in expansion in the late 2000s, Not particularly successfully. Filed for bankruptcy in 2015. Emerged from that a year or so later with a private equity backer who rolled up a few brands into Boardriders. That got bought up Authentic Brands Group recently, a very large fashion group and now Quiksilver seem to be (from what I've seen) a pretty generic brand with a beach/surf theme. I guess that might be seen as going strong but it's a far cry from the late 1990s and early 2000s when they actually were an authentic surf brand and had long partnerships with pros like Kelly Slater and were big backer of the pro tour.

It seems to be a well-worn cycle now for many of the adventure-sports linked clothes brands: start in a niche and get a strong committed following (in White Stuff's case it was skiing). Overtime dilute the relationship to the original sport to attract larger market. Open stores in London and other urban areas, often unrelated to the original sport. Become a relatively middle-of-the-road brand. Lose popularity and get forced into consolidation. See also Finisterre which shifted from a Cornish surf brand, to a finance-manager's anorak of choice. Or at a global scale, Quiksilver an Australian surf brand that went bankrupt in the mid 2010s.

General Parks Enquiries: [email protected] Dulwich Parks Office : 020 8693 8635 Southwark Council Out of hours number : 020 7525 5000 As seen at: https://dulwichparkfriends.org.uk/about/

Some interesting findings on them from the Fundraising Regulator earlier this year https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/more-from-us/resources/inside-success-union-cic-january-2024

There are quite a few points made above that are worth trying to disaggregate: Want more affordable/subsidised homes in this development (i.e. those provided by the council or Housing Associations to tenants at a discount to market rates). This seems to be a fair enough point, but I would have thought this should lead to a desire for a bigger development as much as a rebalance of the proportions. It's worth also remembering that this is not a development that is taking housing stock out to put new stock back in, it is a net gain of housing stock, even the market-rate housing will help ease pressure on rents and prices in the area. This article provides a handy summary on the academic literature of how market-rate construction makes cities more affordable. Buildings are too big. Clearly this is subjective, I happen to really like what is being done in places like Elephant and Castle and Hackney Wick, some posters above clearly do not. In my view, the only way we build a London that is fit for the future is by increasing density, especially at transport hubs. Where else would we build new homes if it is not on sites like this? (Be specific, show us which fields you want to build on, which facilities those residents would use and how they would get to their jobs.) No green space to spend time outside. The current plan has public access green space and kids play areas where there is currently just buildings and tarmac. It is a short walk from Peckham Rye, Cossall Park, Surrey Canal Walk etc. South London is pretty fantastic for parks, many of the best are a short bus ride away. Ability to cool air or absorb flood water. Likewise, there will be new trees and green space where there are currently just buildings and tarmac. Local economy. Currently local architects are designing the development. Short term there will be significant job creation and influx of construction workers who will spend money in the local economy. Long term there will be 850 new homes, so something like 2,400 new potential customers for all the businesses in Rye Lane. It is only a small stretch of Rye Lane shops that will be redeveloped - and they are mostly large brand name businesses like JD Sports, Poundland, EE, Holland and Barrett etc. Broadly speaking it is the least "independent" or "thriving night-time economy" part of Rye Lane. It's hard to think of any single action that could be more supportive of the local economy. Turning its back on the town centre. It's creating a modern supermarket, new shopping spaces, new public areas and new homes in the town centre. I don't see how it is turning it's back on Peckham - it is literally investing in the future of Peckham. Given the intensity of the cost of living crisis and the fact that housing is a major driver for this, the onus has to be on people against projects like this to provide other solutions: what do you want to see happen that can ease rents and house prices? What services should governments and councils cut to fund subsidised social housing? As mentioned above, be specific. Until there are credible alternatives, I think targeted densification and development of brown-field sites is the least controversial option for London.

This development looks fantastic - we have a housing crisis and this is building scores (hundreds?) of new homes on an under-used car park, in an area with significant existing facilities and a very short walk to one of South East London's best connected train stations (as well as many bus routes). Southwark, like every borough in London, needs more homes. I can't think of any better place in the area to do so.

Might be worth contacting the Amnesty International Bookshop https://www.amnesty.org.uk/bookshops-donations-collections

https://www.hse.gov.uk/work-at-height/myths.htm -- nothing as far as I can see.

You can find up-to-date crime stats here https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/metropolitan.police.service/viz/MonthlyCrimeDataNewCats/Coversheet it's a bit clunky to use but it's all there. If you select a few of the neighbourhoods around East Dulwich and look at offences like robbery or theft it's not obvious to me that there is a notable trend different from longer term averages - some crimes a bit above, some a bit below (this goes back to 2018). We had a spate of robberies earlier this year in the streets around us (near Goose Green) and a few residents wrote to our councillors (easy to find contact details here: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/councillors-and-mps/your-councillors), our local MP (easy to find contact details here: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP) and our local police liaison (easy to find contact details here: https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/southwark/). It does make a difference and it only needs to take five minutes to draft an email and find the right contact details.