northernmonkey

MG - the bit near the station is north and the bit between ED Grove and Lordship Lane is South. Hopefully that helps people work out which bit is being discussed.

Well unless you have a different user name you weren't actually commenting on this at all - i was responding to the posters who had concerns about the wooden planters falling apart. Do carry on though...

It was always meant to be a loading bay rather than parking spaces, but just got used for parking. It still is a loading bay though.

If you're talking about the wooden planters at the end of Melbourne Grove, Elsie, Tintagel etc they were always temporary and clearly in place longer than their lifespan but the work taking place now is to put in the permanent scheme. So the falling apart planters will be removed as part of this.

Think thats right actually - further investigation and its a barbers and a nail bar! Can't imagine how there could be unmet demand for more nail options locally, but anyway, theres another one!

You could look at JASSPA if Saturdays would work for you - you'd need to get in touch to see about how you sign up for lessons starting in Sept or whether there are any slots for any instruments before then.

Also saw that the barbers on Grove Vale next to Alpine Dry Cleaners has become another nail bar.

St Barnabas Church has a choir, as does St Faiths. Alternatively JASSPA on Saturdays has a children's choir and a community choir for adults.

Still time to object to this on the grounds of over development, no local need, not addressing the community need for affordable family homes etc. https://planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=SHWOSNKBJXR00 There is a huge shortage of family homes in this area and allowing developers to maximise gain by building individual bedsits for students in an area where there is no demand for that would be such a waste of this land and once built that opportunity has been lost. The ongoing cost of maintaining the area will be met by taxpayers and none of it will be picked up by student residents or the developers so its a particularly poor local proposal and one that will affect people much more widely than just the neighbouring streets.

24/AP/2314 | Demolition of existing buildings and construction of a mixed-use development of 3 buildings being 1) part 5, part 6 part 7 storeys, 2) part 5, part 7, part 8 storeys and 3) part 7 and part 8 storeys, accommodating up to 1,229sqm of flexible employment space (Use Class E), up to 53 residential homes (Use Class C3) and up to 360 purpose-built student accommodation rooms (Use Class Sui Generis) with ancillary cycle parking, refuse stores, car parking and landscaping. | Hall And Co Ltd Jewson Site Railway Rise London Southwark SE22 8WW Submission here - there is a s106 form submitted but doesn't detail what the payment would be - just that they're seeking relief for the social housing component.

I imagine they will have enough data that they can get demand for it and fill it - but the issues about the impact more broadly - costs of waste collection, street cleaning, healthcare etc plus transport with zero uplift in council tax to pay for any of it is a concern. The only winner here would be the developer who would make huge amounts of money from the site leaving Southwark and ultimately local residents with the costs.

I think that the concern is that originally in the Southwark Plan this site was earmarked for housing - and the expectation would be that affordable housing would be part of that given the size of the development. This development has a derisory amount of housing and an even smaller absolute number of 'affordable homes' - again to purchase not for rental and they are being subsidised by the developer looking to build student accom for much higher £ per square m. The concern from my perspective is that the development doesn't meet the need we have in this area for more family homes and in particular 'affordable housing - either to buy or rent' but does add a large amount of accommodation for which there is no clear need locally. Once this is built as individual student rooms that land and possibility of suitable accommodation will be gone forever. There aren't many sites locally where a significant impact could be made in building new homes and this is one of the last few! There is a separate and related point on infrastructure in terms of 400 students needing to register with a dr for example. All reports on Tessa Jowell health centre seem to indicate it can't cope with current levels so an influx of 400 individual students is going to increase pressure there. The trains from East Dulwich still haven't returned to precovid frequency and given the narrative that students will travel to uni sites elsewhere the capacity isn't there at peak times..

walked past this on the weekend and it looks really nice - the seating area is by the doors so works well with the space. Think it will be a good addition.

Bowling (Lane 7 or All star lanes), cinema trip plus food, sleepover, karaoke. Depends what they're into. Crystal Maze or escape room or if they're sporty there's an archery place near London Bridge / Bermondsey. With the exception of cinema trip most of those would mean heading somewhere centrally rather than ED though.

It was Thistell and then Le Chardon. It had a brief stint as Tart then flooded, closed and reopend as Kartuli