Kathleen Olander

Forget the fair, enjoy the Maypole dancing on Dulwich Village Junction instead! 10th May, stick it in your diaries.

It is being advertised on a banner outside Dulwich Park.

Yes, you are quite right about Gary Cady he took it on in the 90s. I was thinking of the chef, but cannot remember their name.

It's complicated, the Dulwich Estate own the freehold of the land and Southwark Council are responsible for Belair Park, presumably on a lease. In the 80s the house was sold, presumably on a long lease, to quite a famous chef whose name I forget!

It is privately owned. Southwark Council sold it years ago and it was then called Beauberry House then renamed Belair House. Southwark Council own the park around it, Belair Park. When Southwark owned the house it was just a dilapidated crumbling shell.

No, my parents are in Nunhead and it was really noisy there too. They were only just going to bed so didn't wake them up 😁

I heard it as well, woke me up, very strange. I don't care for myself but I do worry for people with children and animals, it is a nuisance and happens more and more nowadays.

Southwark does not normally allow provision for car parking in planning applications.

I was amazed at the amount of staff employed by the Dulwich Estate and the private schools in this area that live miles away. No way could they cycle, and the ones coming in from Essex would spend hours on public transport. Southwark Council also employ staff that do not live locally, but they moved the town hall from Peckham so they can all travel in directly to London Bridge! 😜

That's a shame, I appreciated all the works you did improving the area, especially the tree planting.

The displacement of vehicles since the CPZ went in is unbelievable. Woodward Road, Desenfans, Dekker, Court Lane etc are now bumper to bumper all day. It has done nothing to deter all the school staff from bringing their cars in, since Carlton and Townley are no longer an option. I have no doubt these roads will desperately want their own CPZ soon! The cars will then migrate further afield and so it goes on.,,,,,

Jones and Higgins was a lovely shop. It had a revolving door at one entrance. At Christmas Father Christmas used to be in the basement and the kids got on a little train to see him. They used to have a little zoo at the same time. When Father Christmas arrived they used to parade animals from the shop in Rye Lane up to Peckham Rye Park, they did this without closing any roads!

You could have reposted the whole of my post rather than that one bit! Anyway I am out of here, otherwise I will have 7.4 posts to my credit as well. Where do you find the time??????????

@Earl Aelfheah" The kids won't be arriving by car will they, there will be a CPZ so parents will just park elsewhere. Making coaches pay for a permit is fair, residents have to buy permits for their visitors, so why shouldn't the schools visitors pay too. The purpose of a CPZ is to create more income for Southwark Council.