PeckhamRose

Hello, how many of you went to the drop in meetings at Peckham Levels? Me and a mate went at 7.30pm. Three of the production people were there. They admitted they did not like the tree cutting issue and could not answer to the higher volume this year that appeared to affect so many of us. I did not believe there were only eight objections! But that didn't include those who complained directly to [email protected] They said they had explored the area that day and we had also been and I showed them photos of the large and many areas that still needed to be made good, four months on. They agreed and said they would be doing the 'making good' on that soon. Anyway, the 3 Gala people said that they had had emails from people who said they could not make the drop in centre days, and so would be arranging for a zoom event with those of you who said they could not attend. Gala may be an event you think is just to be discussed immediately before and after the event, but plans are started months ahead and post event analyses are worked on long after, as well as these post event meetings. I told them that whilst they might be nice professional people I wished Gala would never come back for all the bad feeling and disruption it causes in OUR park to our residents.

In August or September all residents of Southwark will be given food waste bins. Currently, those of us who live in flats don't get them. This is a good thing, Last Government had withheld money but paid up a while before election and now Southwark will be doing this.

So let's all go for about 7.30pm?

An interesting series of responses here. I think they're trying to do the divide thing too, rather than have us all together in one space near to the venue, and away from Peckham Rye Park. By the way cyclemonkey, regarding postcodes. Peckham Rye has two postcodes. Peckham Rye Common is SE15 ie. Peckham postcode. Peckham Rye Park is SE22 ie. East Dulwich. But I have an idea. Why don't we - as many of us who can - all arrive together around 7.30pm? The email said they'd be taken us one by one to the Auditorium. Well we can ALL sit in the Auditorium. By definition it is a big space. Let's do that! I won't be able to get there much before then anyway. We can demand to all be heard together and we all have the same questions.

Hi, it was cancelled at 5.30pm half an hour before it was due to start for reasons of "operational needs". We got there at 10 to 6 and the doors were closed and I looked at my phone and saw that email. Shall update you when it is next due. Nope. All they have on their website within the met police is an online contact form, as per the attached, if it works. However, I do have contact number for the PCSO for the area and he can pass it on to the appropriate officer: [email protected] https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/southwark/peckham-rye/contact-us/our-priorities

CANCELLED Hi folks. Short notice but what can I do. At Brenchley Gardens TRA Hall 10th July 2024 6pm till 7pm (so be back for kick off) is the local police safer neighbourhood team meeting. It used to be so well attended years back, and many on here will be in that catchment area. https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/southwark/peckham-rye/about-us/crime-map We can ask questions of the police of their thoughts about the GALA festival this year and how they felt it went crime-wise, and learn of issues in the area. The police themselves do not publicise the meeting anymore on social media. They have their email list and it includes councillors and local resident housing officers who rarely, if ever, attend. But it is useful. We do live in the quieter / least crime area of SE15/22 it's true.

Hi folks. A reply from Events re my questions: "Thank you for taking the time to send us this feedback. We have an internal event debrief booked to take place on Thursday 18 July and all of the issues you have raised have been recorded and will be reviewed at this meeting. I will be able to respond fully to you after this meeting has taken place. There will also be an opportunity for local residents to attend a community debrief meeting. This is scheduled to take place at a venue close to the park w/c 22 July. This meeting will be facilitated by the GALA team, but council officers will be present also. Details will be circulated to those on the council’s stakeholder register and GALA’s stakeholder register and also to anyone who has complained about the event but does not have their contact details listed on either register. If you have any further questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Charlie Simm Senior Events Officer London Borough of Southwark Email direct: [email protected] Email general: [email protected] Tel: 020 7525 2739" We must go to the meeting if you're invited because you made a complaint, or are on the list from being invited to the pre-Festival meetings.

I have emailed [email protected] with a series of questions about the event including asking how many complaints were made to them and Gala, and how many times the readings went over the limit of decibels allowed, as well as asking about if they are satisfied with the state of the park afterwards and how much money will go directly to the park. I asked quite a few pertinent and important questions. Given the replies I think we shall have more ammunition to stop this next year. However, if replies are refused or not answered in enough detail, a FOI shall be fired off and the responses to that shall be even more ammunition as it would have taken an FOI to acquire it. Either way shall keep you informed. If all of you who didn't turn up to meetings this year, turn up and join the rest of us next year, with all the information about how Events and Gala went against their word on what would happen, we may just stop this. Look, I can dream, ok?

Councillor Renata Hamvas is Chair of the Licensing Committee so she can't do anything because she agrees they can have a licence. The noise possibly because of the wind went east and so those of us on the east side of the park were bombarded, it was dreadful. At the meetings I attended - yes Gala boys in their smart suits including the boys in the PR company they'd hired - all said yes yes yes they'd restore it and it would be clean and essentially we had nothing to worry about. Just like they say every year. The Friends of Peckham Rye Park (I am a member but not on the committee) do attend meetings but feel their hands are tied. They are never told how much goes back to the park. They would never see it anyway, but they should do. They do so much for the park and the Community Garden area is the best most precious place to be for me, which they maintain and work hard at. And Gala will not stop at asking for more days. One of the six days they had wanted would have been for us locals - but personally why should I go for free to a festival which puts on music I can hear from my flat? I don't want to give them any time of day or night. And yes, suggestions that the festival be had on the common were knocked back even by Southwark Events Team (who are just as responsible for this, for letting them get away with this) ([email protected]) because Peckham Rye Common has no tree surrounding to buffer noise, and being smack in the middle of that triangle it would cause more harm because of the traffic. I would beg everyone who is posting against Gala, please please get your complaints in now, and let's all physically go to the meetings next year. The ones this year were quite well attended at the Clockhouse. Sorry to go on but the sight of the site now is really upsetting and is exactly what Gala said would NOT be allowed to happen.

That photo bottom right (from the pictures posted on X), is that really Peckham Rye Park? Looks like the Sierras after a fire when there were only burned twigs, before a rainstorm happened.

On the east side of the park - ie. the other side of the park from the festival site, it has been hell this year. The music has been so loud and disturbing. They have to - and did so - turn the music off 10.30pm sharp. But when one is stuck at home even with double glazing it's so disruptive, and on warm days and evenings you want to open windows but can't. Anyway, I am interested to know just how many complaints were made this year, and also would be interested to know what the results were from the independent sound company that were hired to come round our side of the park to test the Db levels when we made complaints. How many were too high? I asked both [email protected] and Gala themselves and have not been replied to, so that may need FOI request too. As for the commercial sensitivity reasoning behind Gala not disclosing how much they pay Southwark Council for this disruption (all kids of it), that has also to be challenged. With all the complaints I don't think Southwark would continue to allow it if the money was not worth our disruption. I hope next year all of you will attend the meetings. There were a few well publicised meetigs leading up to Gala, and they seemed to have broken all their promises for change; for example more toilets, yet people pee'd in bushes; more bins yet photo evidence shows not being emptied regularly; Southwark cutting big branches off trees - why couldn't Gala just work out better areas to avoid the trees, maybe angle the fencing a bit? So yes, I think I shall be firing a few FOI's and the sooner the better. Best wishes all.

So how many of you attended the meeting at the Blakes Bar above the Clockhouse last week. It was interesting. I think they were a little stunned by how much information we had gleaned about their company and plans. The Friends of Peckham RYe Park members and the Chair was there and said it was awful just how little the park would get from the money being made by the Council. The two Southwark Events Officers were there listening to it all. Someone raised the really important issue of all the diesel trucks chucking out heaps of disel whilst it's all going on, right near kids playing grounds too as it was being set up. And others made great points about the damage to wildlife habitats. The doubling to SIX days and nights was discussed, and the company's weak and rather patronising argument that one of the days will be for older and younger people who can be let in for free, was laughed at. As I said before, research the company, do some work, and please make your observations known to the council by the due date. We said, it is OUR park, bought for the public for all our enjoyment in 1894 (I think that is the year; I attended the centenery in 1994 with Tessa Jowell and others dressed in Victorian dress where a rather poor and now rusty looking plinth celebrates the point), and for a section of it to be closed off for a month, and six days of noise and disturbance is not reasonable, or fair.

Hi folks. In the leaflet put through our door, from the Council, it said, "..... we have received an application from Assembled Live Ltd...." Southwark have made a mistake. There is no such company (in Companies House anyway) with this name, but there IS a company called Assembled Gala Ltd. There was a meeting at Southwark a few years ago where a woman I think is called Lisa, from this company, told us she was a local herself. Well Lisa Boden Shah was a director and left this position in Jan 2022, and the same date a company called Edition Capital Ltd joined the other two individual male directors as directors of Assembled Gala Ltd. Edition Capital Ltd is a corporate director, and listed as having 20 directorships including Assembled Gala Ltd. They can't be considered a local company anymore, they refuse to say how much they benefit the council (for commercial reasons), and they regularly ignore the serious and many concerns of the local people surrounding the park. My own councillor is Renata Hamvas who is the head of licencing committee. I look forward to seeing everyone on 29th November and see what they have to say. Looks like it will be at the Tenants and Residents Hall of Rye Hill Estate and Rye Hill Park but not necessarily; we'll be told by email on the morning of 29th. It's also good it will be available to live stream so all digitally capable/connected people will be able to take part.

Hi ianr, Indeed the full title is King's College Hospital Foundation Trust which is just plain nuts. One is expected to write that on cheques, yes, cheques, when paying for dental treatment at their outreach clinics!

You are sounding like you are proactively looking for problems. There are current problems because the consultants tell me that they are having to book fewer appointments while the system sets in and everyone learns to use it. I am a patient at three different hospital trusts. The first MyChart use was set up by one in the north, and it and the other two do not link up with one another which is a bit annoying since they would all be useful to one another. However - and I have already reported this to the MyChart techies - when results are posted on our apps this can be really problematic. Whilst they have promised NOT to post positive tests for cancer (how thoughtful), they are putting on results of tests for other things which can and for me DO still cause massive concern. One can ask the hospitals not to post the tests results on the App. So far, no one is doing this for me. It's a concern because you have to wait the lengthier time for your next consultation to discuss the very worrying test results. And don't tell me not to look at them when they come through. The other problem is, what about the digitally excluded? Here's another problem you may want to focus your reporting skills on. The private company that runs the phlebtomy departments of all the hospitals associated with Kings College Hospital, and the fact we now have to register with that separate company, and we can't phone them for appointments, and it is really made hard for digitally excluded older people and younger ones who can't use it, too. Report on that please.

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I am not sure he remembers how many kids he has. By the way, if child support is only for the first two kids, but a man marries another woman and has two more, are those kids entitled to the child support? And then if the woman also goes on to have two more with another man, are those kids entitled to the child support? The point is, if one is rich they can breed all they like, but if one is poor and the child support stops after the first two..... and THROW that discussion bomb into this thread!

And GALA have more plans for Peckham Rye Park. They have been one of four shortlisted for the Bowling Green area to set up a permanent music area. I hope the Friends Of Peckham Rye Park manage to persuade them of the insensitiveity of this idea, including to the planting and so on nearby as well as the disturbance. http://www.peckhamryepark.org/news

THAT is my point. She died in 2013 and she died from pollution, yet the LTNs set up on Grove Vale and others, from a main residential road and school, means more traffic shall affect kids in the school, and those living on the main roads being made to breathe in more fumes BECAUSE of the LTNs forcing more traffic on to those roads. Please follow the logic. ohthehugemanateeLTN3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PeckhamRose Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who died of an asthma > > attack who had lived on South Circular Road: > this > > terrible story is ignored when setting up Low > > Traffic NEighbourhoods. > > She died in 2013,long long before the LTNs. > Walthamstow LTN set up in 2015 has shown that over > an extended period, the fears about increased > traffic do not pan out. > > What's worse is that traffic has increased > substantially in London since 2013: > > https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/regions/6 > > And yet people here keep proposing basically doing > nothing. Yes I know people are proposing wild > grand schemes that are unimplementable. Proposing > something that cannot or will not happen is no > different from proposing nothing.

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who died of an asthma attack who had lived on South Circular Road: this terrible story is ignored when setting up Low Traffic NEighbourhoods. The school and residents on Grove Vale, for example, suffer more now because traffic can't turn into the side roads to get where they need to be more quickly. It also means cars and delivery vans and so on are using more petrol/electricity even, in traffic jams. The logic does not add up for me. Goose Green Roundabout is not always at a standstill, but very, very often is. But putting Low Traffic Neighbourhood blocks at the areas of residential streets such as Grove Vale is, is just thoughtless. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55330945

DO you assume that the only people upset about the noise own houses? How small minded of you. If ever you are involved in an accident or need the services of A&E I hope you are not faced with a nurse who through lack of sleep in his or her council or private flat they can barely afford the rent on, doesn't make an error in treating you. We are part of one society reliant on one another whether we like it or not. Houseoflego Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Welcome to the forum johncollins > > > johnhcollins Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Man, you all need to chill out. it?s three days > > man ahah if you don?t like it sell your gaff > and > > move to surrey to be with likeminded people. > just > > take pleasure in other people having a good > time. > > > > > > I?d recommend if you have a problem with it > > happening go and ask if anyone partying there > has > > got a spare spliff for you

Quite a few I know have complained to noise team and they have a van going around checking the decibels levels. As are Gala themselves, (who also said at the 'consultation' meetings they would be reseeding and making good the land they have been on. But it depends on the decibel levels I suppose. It can still be loud and disruptive to people when in their own homes surrounding the park and beyond, whilst still being in the levels set (by someone!) jazzer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was banging out loud enough even up the hill > last night. Are these events not governed by the > no. of db's and if exceeded, need to be reduced. > Where's the noise team??? > I do feel very sorry for those in the midst of the > intolerable bass. > Today Hornimans Gardens are closed for the Jerk > music and burnt food event that they have brought > back, so stuck in the middle of the two. > It seems to be all about ?? Money at the expense > of local residents.

There was a thread on Fb about this which also got nasty. I found a hotline number to complain to Gala 02081917220.

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