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Huggers Wrote:

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> I went to one of the meetings re the tram. As far

> as I remember, the artists thing was quite a

> peripheral issue, the main one being the

> destruction of a fairly newly built large housing

> estate behind Rye Lane- the one that is built with

> 'closes' a bit brookside-like- where the trams

> would be stored .



Hi Huggers, the plans for the depot would have taken out the Copeland industrial estate that is between Rye Lane and Bournemouth Road, the housing estate would not have been affected by the depot in terms of pulling any of the houses down, and additional retail spaces were planned along the Bournemouth road section.


I do know that the Peckham Vision group tried to raise the question of noise for this estate, the issue of shards of metal in the air from re-profiling the wheels and other things like that, but all of those issues were positively addressed by TfL/CrossRiver at the time. In terms of just a big depot in the town center, the PTCMG did discuss the concept of an enclosed depot, with retail / office or residential units above (much like Victoria / Charring Cross stations) and this wasn't ruled out.


But in essence you are correct, the lack of funding has mothballed the scheme, although Southwark Council and others are still looking at ways of making the first stages of the development happen.


Sadly the economic and physical regeneration that the tram would have brought to Peckham may now need to happen in other ways (including the increase in footfall from the East London line)

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