Peckham Rye Station ? platform 3

[EDforME]

Has anyone noticed the awful smell of rotting fish that seems to be there every day, it?s vile. I wish someone would clean this area up.

On a side note, the ally way leading to Peckham Rye station, can someone please advise why this is never cleaned up? It?s littered with discarded wigs, burger cartons and it always, always stinks. Hardly what you want to see on your way to work in the morning. What kind of people work and live around here? They certainly need some lessons in cleanliness.

[red devil]

You should practice what you preach then...avoid Peckham.

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[EDforME]

have you spent anytime on platform 3?

[PeckhamRose]

Don't worry, the whole front area of the station will be pulled down and open up the entire square so it will look beautiful and clean and fabulous.

But if you are worried about it NOW, email the station master and / or the council. Go get their email address from notices or staff at the station.

[Jessie]

This must be another spoof!

[lane lover]

Firstly, this is not a forum for Peckham.

Secondly, this should help answer your question (relevant, though a bit dated): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peckham

[EDforME]

Alright lane over, less of the racism.

I like Peckham, for instance, did you know people used to come to Peckham for their holidays about 100 years ago?

[Girl82]

I agree - that bit around the entrance of Peckham station is disgusting! It smells horrible and is almost always strewn with litter. However, did you know it is set to be redeveloped? I think work begins in December, although can't remember where I got that from!

[EDforME]

if thats true then GREAT! Any link to the plans?

[Saila]

http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Peckham_Rye_Station

scroll to the bottom

[EDforME]

Wig sellers will be horrified !

I see the plans were laid out in 5 years ago, if it takes that long for funds to trickle down then i suspect you can forget about it ever happening.

I guess the daily dodging of old wigs, fox sh!t and fish bones will have to continue for now.

[Locana]

There's lots of tumbleweave in Peckham.

[Loz]

EDforME Wrote:

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> On a side note, the ally way leading to Peckham Rye station, can someone please advise why this is

> never cleaned up? It?s littered with discarded wigs, burger cartons and it always, always stinks.

Wigs? Is it a dumping ground for the local female impersonator troupe?

[Saila]

I think they now (finally) may have funding

[Eileen]

EDforME Wrote:

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> I see the plans were laid out in 5 years ago, if

> it takes that long for funds to trickle down then

> i suspect you can forget about it ever happening.

>

The news about the funding is on the page you were directed to but at the top of the page not at the end. All the funding has beenput in place over the last 12 months. Please read the first section http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Peckham_Rye_Station and also here http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Peckham_Rye_Station#Station_square_.26_rear_courtyard and here http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Peckham_Rye_Station#Original_station_square_to_be_restored_November_2011

The detailed plans are now being developed and the aim is that the whole works wil be completed by 2016 and possibly earlier. The Council will bring out more detailed information on it all later this year.

These matters were covered at the Peckham Vision exhibition in the Old Waiting Room http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Old_Waiting_Room off platform 3 on 2nd - 4th August. We will have some of the exhibition material at the Peckham Rye Fete on Sat 1st Sep next week (12pm - 5pm). Do come and visit the Peckham Residents Network stall to see the displays and find out the latest.

http://www.peckhamvision.org

[Eileen]

EDforME Wrote:

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> Has anyone noticed the awful smell of rotting fish

> that seems to be there every day, it?s vile. I

> wish someone would clean this area up.

>

> On a side note, the ally way leading to Peckham

> Rye station, can someone please advise why this is

> never cleaned up? It?s littered with discarded

> wigs, burger cartons and it always, always stinks.

> Hardly what you want to see on your way to work in

> the morning. What kind of people work and live

> around here? They certainly need some lessons in

> cleanliness.

Hi EDforME - why do you mention Platform 3 in particular? I haven't noticed anything there like a fish smell. Can you give more details about the location of the fish smell?

On the litter in the ally way - are you referring to the one leading from Blenheim Grove? I had assumed (not using the station in the early morning) that the previous day's waste is all cleaned up before the commuter run starts. Can you say what time the previous day's waste is still there when you go through?

One of the early successes we had through the Rye Lane & Station Action Group http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Rye_Lane_and_Station_Action_Group_RLSAG was to get the cleaning contract switched to the Council and that worked well for a long time. It sounds as if it might have gone to pieces again. Can we hear in this thread from other station users what their experience is on the state of waste and cleanliness in the ally ways and forecourt leading to the station, and importantly what time of day this is? We can then bring that together and see what the issue is and ask the Council to sort it out.

[jimmyraj]

Hi Eileen, yes, it's the alley from Bleinham Grove through to the station which is the problem. There are always large piles of black bin bags, usually ripped open, there in the morning. None of the businesses surrounding that alley seem to have any proper provision for disposing of their waste so by about 7.30 it's normally blowing down the alley.

I have asked Southwark, via the environment help desk to send people to clean it, and it sometimes has a short term effect but never for very long. Most nights on returning from work there is more rubbish piled outside.

It is pretty grim as most days it blocks half of the entrance to the alley.

If you think there is anything you can do through the action group then i am sure it would be helpful.

The fish/ rotting meat smell has mainly been over the past couple of weeks on platform three. Not sure if there is a store of gone off food nearby...

Plans for the station look great. Roll on 2016!

[Eileen]

Hi jimmyraj - I will see what I can find out about the latest cleaning arrangements.

On the platform 3 smell - I was there yesterday but didn't smell anything like this. But I will ask the station manager next time I see him if he has noticed anything.

jimmyraj Wrote:

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> Hi Eileen, yes, it's the alley from Bleinham Grove

> through to the station which is the problem.

> There are always large piles of black bin bags,

> usually ripped open, there in the morning. None

> of the businesses surrounding that alley seem to

> have any proper provision for disposing of their

> waste so by about 7.30 it's normally blowing down

> the alley.

>

> I have asked Southwark, via the environment help

> desk to send people to clean it, and it sometimes

> has a short term effect but never for very long.

> Most nights on returning from work there is more

> rubbish piled outside.

>

> It is pretty grim as most days it blocks half of

> the entrance to the alley.

>

> If you think there is anything you can do through

> the action group then i am sure it would be

> helpful.

>

> The fish/ rotting meat smell has mainly been over

> the past couple of weeks on platform three. Not

> sure if there is a store of gone off food

> nearby...

>

> Plans for the station look great. Roll on 2016!

[Mrs Ellen Griswald]

Discarded wigs?

These are more commonly known as weaves, and in the case of Rye Lane, when the wind blows 'tumble weaves'. I can assure you women of Peckham Rye don't discard wigs on their way to Asda

[Eileen]

This has reminded me of the earlier posts. I haven?t traced a fishy smell or source for it. But I have discovered that some residents in Blenheim Grove are attempting to activate the local councillors to try to get the council back on the case of the rubbish and waste, including loose hair pieces drifting around. If I hear anything I will post it up. In the meantime, if anyone else has experience of the issues, it would help if they email their ward councillors to ask what can be done about it. A pile of email requests might help galvanize something.

How to find yr ward councillors: http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?bcr=1

Helpful if also you cc in The Lane ward councillors whose ward the station is in. They are Rowenna.Davis@southwark.gov.uk, nick.dolezal@southwark.gov.uk, mark.glover@southwark.gov.uk

In the Rye Lane & Station Action Group, http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Rye_Lane_and_Station_Action_Group_RLSAG, we spent so much time in the mid 2000s sorting out with the Council an effective cleaning system but it has deteriorated all over again. It just has to be done all over again.