LauraW

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Fantastic video showing COC before the tree felling in Area Z (the left side looking to the North). https://youtu.be/b76wj7BO8yI

Save Southwark Woods have posted this on their website. It reprints Southwark Council's answers to FAQs and adds SSWs answers. http://savesouthwarkwoods.moonfruit.com/faqs/4591807665

Posting this on behalf of Blanche who hasn't been able to log in today. Summary from the Save Southwark Woods campaign: Southwark Council has started the largest ever UK project to excavate all private graves over 75 years old and mound over all public graves at Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries, a total of 98 acres. These cemeteries are nearly full. In June 2012, Southwark decided to mound over and excavate all public and private graves and remove all the old headstones and memorials for ?new? burial plots. In 2013, the Council cut down a beautiful ancient hawthorn hedgerow and mounded over public graves for rows of new graves along the Woodvale boundary of Camberwell Old Cemetery (Forest Hill Road, East Dulwich). Every new grave there is over the public graves of local people. Now, in February 2016, the Council has just cleared 2.5 acres of Grade 1 SINC woodland in the corner of the Old Cemetery on Underhill and Ryedale Roads. Next, illegally dumped building rubble is to be excavated, crushed and used to mound over the public graves of 48,000 Londoners and six areas of Commonwealth War Graves, and 740 private burial plots sold over the top of them. About 12 acres (now 9.5 acres) of Grade 1 SINC woods are to be cut down in the Old Cemetery. The woods have grown over and around the public and private graves. The next area the Council has given itself permission to clear is on the steep slope of One Tree Hill in Camberwell New Cemetery (Brenchley Gardens) next to the Nature Reserve boundary. Dozens of native broadleaf woodland trees including oaks and wildlife-supporting scrub are to be destroyed for 140 private graves, less than 8 months? burial. In 2022, after all public grave areas have been mounded over, the Council plans to excavate and rebury all private graves over 75 years old, removing headstones and other memorials. Save Southwark Woods is campaigning for the woods, graves and headstones to be preserved and protected for the benefit they bring to current and future generations. Blanche Cameron Save Southwark Woods savesouthwarkwoods@gmail.com Go to our website for more information: http://www.savesouthwarkwoods.org.uk To read Southwarks Burial Strategy : https://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/3046/cemetery_strategies

Rather a lot of people on EDF seem to make a hobby of getting into conflicts. I'm not suggesting Lewis sought them out here. He was posting on this forum for a campaign he is involved in. Other people pick fights when they could leave threads alone. Sad.

It's a campaign and they've been working hard to make it successful. Do you have a problem with campaigns or are you just particularly keen for this one to not succeed? What's it to you, Sue?

Woah, where has this accusation of misogyny come from? Lewis gets into conflicts with people and they get into conflicts with him but a Twitter spat with Sue doesn't make him a misogynist. If it's relevant, I'm a woman and have known him for 4 years. I'm disappointed now that I know who Sue is that someone in the folk scene would be in favour of turning a green space as wonderful as COC into another waterlogged sterile place to plant graves. The fact that she's reacted so badly to having her identity exposed does suggest that she was using online anonymity as a shield while behaving trollishly on EDF.

I love Camberwell Old Cemetery and the rest of Southwark Woods because I've had many hours of joy there. It's great that so many people are putting in their time and energy voluntarily to save green spaces and habitats from being rendered into the kind of sterile burial plots we've seen already put in place at COC recently. It's sad that some people on here want that to happen and I can't imagine what their motivation is for being in favour of the Council doing these works. I think they can do their anti-woods campaigning though without being so trollish toward Lewis. By the way, I remember filling in the consultation survey, and it was at best unintentionally misleading about options and consequences. It absolutely doesn't justify the Council's current plan.

We have had verbal reports of nesting and this is why I'm asking.

To save their habitat from destruction we need photos of the birds nesting in Camberwell Old Cemetery now. Send to savesouthwarkwoods@gmail.com asap thanks!

I saw two green woodpeckers in Camberwell Old Cemetery on Sunday.

I saw two green woodpeckers in Camberwell Old Cemetery on Sunday.

CCTV is no solution. Police patrolling is an actual deterrent.

I'm looking for a donation of high chair with straps and also a walker for an eight month old baby. Can't pay but can of course collect. Many thanks! Laura 07761 770 997

Sane respose to the roadworks, I reckon.

James Barber, Why on earth are you using your position as a councillor to call for Harris to have a new free school set up? New primary schools are needed and they do not need to specifically be either free schools or run by Lord Harris. This smacks of corruption to me. Do you have conflicts of interest to declare?

Lord Harris won't rest until he's got into every child's head in this borough. His company has far too much power over education in Southwark already and it looks like citizens will have to stop him since councillors like Barber are happy to roll over and play dead for him.

Here you go... http://s335571041.websitehome.co.uk/selfolk/BandsandMusicians.asp

Any more news on this? Has the campaign stopped since Boris Johnson got re-elected? The only evidence I've found online for an ongoing campaign is this: http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/extendthe63 Like many other folks, I'd find this an extremely useful route.

Thanks for this, Ian. Useful!

I used to live in a block of flats in Deptford that every estate agents in the area used as free advertising space. Signs had been up for years - attached with nails that had rusted! I took them all down and used the wood etc for diy projects.

Thanks folks :)

I'm looking for a local pub likely to be showing the Harlequins match on Saturday. It's being shown on ESPN. thanks!

It's frightening the extent to which the right to protest has been systematically attacked in this country. Did the police say they had issued a Section 30? If I get down there tomorrow I may do so as a legal observer. Clearly the police saw this protest as a soft target for their threats.

The local voluntary agency Peckham Settlement has gone into administration after 116 years, making its 32 staff members redundant. Does anyone know what actually happened to lead to the closure?