Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Hi East Dulwich people

FYI Southwark are considering allowing a company called

Treeamigos to sell trees in goose green park. This company

Come from Devon.

Please support your local Xmas tree sellers who pay lot of

Money for a street license in Southwark some of these sellers

Have been selling every year some for over 20years

Please Dont put our local people out of business,support our

Locals not people coming to force us out

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

I

The street sellers "pay a lot of money for their street licences" to Southwark. Presumably they make a profit.


Treeamigos may be these guys: http://www.treeamigos.org/the-tree-amigos/


Presumably they make a profit too.


We can all make up our own minds.

"...considering allowing..."


From the activity in the park today, I'd say it was a done deal.


I can't say I'm happy that a commercial enterprise is taking a huge chunk of the green for what will be weeks - it's not even December yet. Who buys trees this early? It's not like one day events for fetes and fairs.

I haven?t seen the Christmas trees for sale on Goose Green but I always find the sight of Christmas trees waiting to be sold rather jolly. Southwark will be receiving much needed revenue from the sellers. Selling trees in public parks is nothing new, I?ve seen them being sold in Brockwell and Battersea Parks, and there are probably many more parks where they are sold.

Yeah there's a whole area (most of the Western side of GG) cordoned off for the tree operation.

Where will the poor souls buying trees park, if they're coming by car ?!

I did wonder as I passed the cordoned area, whether it was being set up for cars to come actually onto the green - which I hope is not the case.

You can also buy locally- collect from Jags or get delivered and support a fantastic charity

Your tree helps put hot food on the tables at The Feast, a weekly drop-in meeting. Last year we served 4500 three-course meals.


https://www.kingschristmastrees.org

Remember there are regular shops (i.e. florists) who are with us 52 weeks a year and who stock trees - the guy in the Parade opposite (sort of) the old Harvester (next to the former Barcelona) is a great florist and sources good trees. And wreaths and other Christmas greenery.


Edited to add:- ...and of course our local garden centres, again serving us 52 weeks a year.

I don't have a problem with a 'pop-up', most of them are, excluding Penguin's good point above, but I do have a problem with a beautiful community park being taken over for commercial use in the run up to Christmas...it's just far too big...a corner of Dulwich Park would be more appropriate....horrible for the residents looking out onto and the dog walkers...and within metres of the Church..


I am assuming it is there until Christmas but maybe I've got that wrong...maybe it's just for the Christmas Cracker...ironic when I thought that was to boost local businesses?


Anyone have an email address of who to contact at the council.....

Having now seen Treeamigos on Goose Green, I agree it is a dreadful eyesore and totally out of keeping made worse by the 'hoarding' surrounding it and far too large for the space. Can our councillor James McAsh do anything to prevent a repetition next year?

when I first saw this I thought it might be an overreaction to a 'few Christmas trees being sold in the corner of the green'. I walked past today and now totally understand the issue. Almost half the green is fenced off with opaque barriers and huge advertising for Amigos trees. Its not a nice festive scene, its a huge commercial operation being run out of what is supposed to be public open space.


If posting photos on here wasn't such a pain I would do - but definitely worth a look in considering whether this is appropriate.

What is wrong with someone trying to make money out of Christmas - taht's exactly what it's all about


If you feel very strongly about buying locally, then please also remember to support local shops instead of teh big supermarkets.



Same principle.


If fact, just remember - the shopper owns the market.

Cora Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> I don't have a problem with a 'pop-up', most of

> them are, excluding Penguin's good point above,

> but I do have a problem with a beautiful community

> park being taken over for commercial use in the

> run up to Christmas...it's just far too big...a

> corner of Dulwich Park would be more

> appropriate....horrible for the residents looking

> out onto and the dog walkers...and within metres

> of the Church..

>

> I am assuming it is there until Christmas but

> maybe I've got that wrong...maybe it's just for

> the Christmas Cracker...ironic when I thought that

> was to boost local businesses?

>

> Anyone have an email address of who to contact at

> the council.....


I rather think it might be [email protected]

To contribute to the above discussion points without too much repetition...


The Christmas tree selling enclosure on Goose Green is an eyesore, day and night.

It is a commercial operation on a green that most consider for community use and enjoyment.

Most people feel excluded from having their considerations being taken account off.

It is an external operation that takes business away from traditional local sellers.

It's business hours are supposedly eight to eight but presumably preparation and closure extend these hours.


Attached image shows light pollution at 20:39 on Friday evening

Yes yet again Southwark Council have sold local traders down the river

With this eyesore and not only digging up the park and take my most of it

There trees are more expensive than our local traders does any one know why

There in our small park why not Peckham rye

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Discussions

    • That is sad. I didn't go much but it was interesting. The pizzas were really nice. Hopefully it's not just a chicken shop for the after school market. 
    • There's an 8 storey building about 200 yards NW of the site in question! It's so unremarkable that apparently many of the objectors don't even know it exists.   1) you're objecting to the economic analysis on the basis of "having a student"? That's hardly an evidence-based position. 2) 50-100 vehicles per day for move-in and move-out weekends, not every weekend, then?  3) It is a bit disappointing that you are disregarding the fairly obvious substantive difference between students enrolled in universities and pupils enrolled in local schools. Adults travel from all over England, the UK and the world to study at university in London. Parents of pupils at state schools try to send them to study as close to home as possible. Equally, you are ignoring that the student accommodation sector doesn't have enough capacity to house all students anyway. That is why many students live in share houses, whic increases competition with "regular" non-students who also want to rent those houses. Further, it's disappointing that you have decided students' accommodation needs are somehow not a valid consideration for you. They are also members of society - although perhaps they don't vote as much in local elections as houseowners do. Finally, you are again contradicting your own position that more student accommodation is unnecessary when you point out how expensive it is! That indicates an undersupply, and is a good reason to allow private companies to build more - it depresses the market price and makes it incrementally more accessible to lower income students.   Does it not strike you as odd that are simultaneously suggesting that only rich foreign students will live in the student accommodation BUT also that there aren't enough local students to fill it up and students don't have any money to spend in the local economy anyway?
    • You can also use the CDs on a string as bird scarers on a vegetable patch or allotment! Loads of other ideas online, eg: https://www.momsandcrafters.com/things-to-do-with-cds/ It seems a waste (literally)  for them just to go into landfill. If I didn't already have a house full of things to do, I would take them off your hands! Maybe kids at  a nursery or primary school might be able to do something with them?
    • I'm in East Dulwich and heard them in the distance and also wondered what they were celebrating. 
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...