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So for a week about a fifth of the park is out of use? Meanwhile the local council makes a bit of money to spend across the borough and some young people who as things stand could never dream of affording to buy the nearby (or indeed any) property, have some fun. And people are up in arms about this? Come on, get a grip

Some plastic was removed from the courtyard roof while the existing building remained at the back of the plot with alterations made to the roof and internal walls. So essentially none of it was "levelled"

I was following the logic of your argument which does not seem to acknowledge the complexities of city planning and the need to balance a variety of factors. Many of London's finest green spaces, parks and squares would not have been created if communities, pressure groups and authorities always acquiesced to the developers' justification that "we need more houses". This applies equally to more modest public spaces that, although not on the scale of our best parks, still provide quiet enjoyment and help create interactions in the community. Yes we need more houses to address excessive house prices(along with myriad other policy initiatives) but the Coal Line is a rare opportunity to create something of lasting value to the community and it would be a shame if this limited proposed development prevented that from happening.

I'll be objecting to the new development. El Presidente - yes we do need more houses but I'm sure you will agree good city planning requires a fine balancing of numerous factors including narrow commercial interests, housing provision and the quality of the public realm. If we were to follow your simplistic "but we need more houses" argument we'd soon be concreting over Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath.

Yes mine is a negative argument but that is inevitable when arguing for the status quo. It should be perfectly valid to point out risks without provoking a cry of ?scaremongering?. Not that Iain Duncan Smith was engaging in that when his first contribution to the debate was a warning that staying in the EU would make a Paris style attack more likely. As you ask though I?d say that being in the EU gives us a stronger economy with greater employment opportunities. If you want ?joys? though, that's stretching it.

I can't help thinking that the Leave camp have a worryingly na?ve expectation of the ease with which we could secure favourable replacement trade deals. Yes we're a big market for EU exports but that does not mean they are going to roll over in any negotiation (they didn't exactly when faced with Cameron's demands did they?). They will not stand back and allow UK products to become more competitive against their companies by the UK weakening workers rights or watering down standards and practices. Consequently, there would be no-bonfire of red-tape as the EU would insist on a level playing field (at best). Much is made of the fact that we import more goods from Europe than we export (not true of services though I don't think) and how they'd be desperate to maintain access to our market. This misreads the balance of power in the negotiating positions though. The UK is far more dependent on trading with the EU than the EU collectively is in trading with the UK. They know that, we know that, so in any negotiation we would likely blink first. The same principle extends to trade deals with non-EU countries. Access to a market of 500 million people is a far more attractive proposition than the UK's 60 million. It allows the EU to drive a very hard bargain which the UK simply couldn't do.

M1 then A1 down to Archway, Junction Road to Tufnell Park tube then Brecknock Road/York Way to Kings Cross. Then Blackfriars Bridge, Elephant and Castle, New Kent Road, Old Kent Road and then a right towards Peckham on Trafalgar Avenue. Sounds fairly central but the Archway - E&C stretch is generally fairly quiet in my experience.

I cycle up and down Rye Lane pretty much every day. That stretch of pathway is so poorly marked it is not surprising that pedestrians stray across the cycling strip without looking. However even if it was clearly marked cyclists really must anticipate that pedestrians may well pop out from behind/between buses and therefore moderate their speed where vision is limited. There is a similar pedestrian/cyclist clash on the pathway across the Strand from Waterloo Bridge to Covent Garden. At least once a week I see a fellow cyclist failing to adjust/slow down for an approaching pedestrian who looks like they may not have spotted that they need stop at the cycle pathway - end result either a low speed collision or the pedestrian leaping out of the way as a cyclist zooms past an inch from their face. Right of way or not it drives me nuts as it's inconsiderate, dangerous and contributes to the negative feeling towards cyclists in general.

They changed their website relatively recently but didn't seem to bother with a redirection on the old one. Here's the new address....... http://www.peckhamplex.london/

Honest Burgers is opening this Saturday in Peckham. They're giving away 500 burgers including 250 to those with an SE15 postcode