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Why don't Southwark turn the wasteland next to the hospital into a temporary car park while they decide what to do... ?That would relieve pressure on parking in area, allow people using ED station to park there rather than the streets near the station and potentially bring more shoppers into ED as a result of easy parking.


If it works, they could keep the car park and turn ED into a CPZ without impacting the shops.


In Balham, Sainsburys were allowed to build a new supermarket only if they made car parking available for all shoppers using Balham High Road. If that space next to Dulwich Hospital becomes a Waitrose then the council should consider a similar provision in the lease.

I believe the land is not owned by Southwark Council but Southwark PCT who I guess are more concerned with healthcare provision than parking issues. Having said that I believe that the local LD councillors have involved the Harris Federation in lobbying for a new Primary School on the site.

http://www.harrisfederation.org.uk/185/east-dulwich-free-school

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> A car park will simply attract more people (local

> or otherwise) to drive to the station who

> currently don't. An increase in traffic and no

> change to local parking pressures.


This would imply a huge, unmet, demand for parking close to the station - which is unlikely. More likely is a huge pent up commuter frustration at the difficulty in locating a parking space at 07.30 in the morning and resident frustration at problems in parking close to home. Gimme's suggestion would alleviate both of these - at least temporarily.

Canada Water is right next to several major residential areas.


I realise this is a hypothetical discussion as such a car park will NEVER be built, but I am pretty sure that if someone was going to drive in from "outside the area", then somewhere a bit more central that was on the Jubilee line would be much more attractive.

We have enough parking in East Dulwich. There, I said it. It may be frustrating, it may be annoying, but we have enough. I don't see cars double-parked in Lordship Lane or dumped on Denmark Hill... Ergo, we have enough.


And if you think people who live near The Plough, say, somehow deserve to have a car park so that they can drive to the station, I'd seriously question the public benefit.

Just imagine if that space was made available to park (say) 100 cars. Then in two years time the car park is closed as building work starts. Suddenly 100+ people who have become used to parking close to the station in East Dulwich and regard it as a right can't do so. For a while they'll therefore be looking to park in whatever other spaces they can find in the area. Everyone will be unhappier than they are at the moment.
Yes, maybe the Elmington Estate which Southwark demolished a decade ago and then left derelict could also be used for parking...... Or Southwark could stop being so disgracefully inefficient and incompetent in creating huge areas of wasteland in the first place.

They could use some of the space for allotments as there is a high demand in the area and this would have lots of positive local benefits including re health & community.


If people find car use inconvenient, then maybe we should keep it that way. Then people might just stop using cars so much and everyone else benefits.

they drive there because a) it's the nearest station to the private schools and nurseries in East Dulwich, thus easier pickups etc, b) they're lazy, c) it's in zone 2 and you can park for free near it


and before we get the standard 'nobody actually does this' East Dulwich Forum thing going, people genuinely do park near the station every morning, i see them doing it on my way in.

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