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Issue 183 Winter 2014/15 CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY The magazine of the Camberwell Society No 183 Winter 2014/15 £1.50 (free to members) www.camberwellsociety.org.uk Perk up your park – p9 Planning Enforcement – p4 The Huguenots of Camberwell – p7 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair ............3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS Planning enforcement ............4 We recommend checking details Great expectations for Camberwell art ......................6 Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Nunhead Cemetery Tenants and Residents Association Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of Huguenots of Camberwell ....7 Jason Mitchell 07985 548 544 Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) Perk up your park ..................9 [email protected] 020 8693 6191 www.fonc.org.uk Viet Café Review ................12 Burgess Park, Friends of Green Dale ..........................14 For meetings, events and updates on Peckham Society Burgess Park improvements Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 News ....................................15 www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Sunday 15 February, 3pm, Recent [email protected] archaeological finds in Southwark. Community Council: Arts, Meet at St John’s Church, charts and housing starts ......16 Butterfly Tennis Club Goose Green www.butterflytennis.com www.peckhamsociety.org.uk and TU BE or not TU BE ....17 Planning comments..............18 Camberwell Gardens Guild Ruskin Park, Friends of Membership enquiries to: Doug Gillies 020 7703 5018 Directory ..............................19 Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road, SE15 3XT SE5 Forum SE5Forum.org.uk THE CAMBERWELL Carnegie Library, Friends of [email protected] SOCIETY See the Friends’ tray in the Library or MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS [email protected] South London Gallery 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: Concerts in St Giles’Church Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, Membership is open to anyone Camberwell Church Street closed on Monday who lives, works, or is interested [email protected] www.southlondongallery.org in Camberwell. Cuming Museum Southwark Friends of the Earth The Executive Committee is Old Walworth Town Hall, 151 Stephanie & Jim Lodge elected annually at the Society’s Walworth Road, SE17 1RY. 020 7701 3331. Emails: AGM. Meetings of the Executive 020 7525 2332 [email protected] Committee are usually held on www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSout [email protected] the first Thursday of the hwark/Museums month – please contact the Wells Way Triangle Residents Secretary for details. Members Dulwich Picture Gallery Association are welcome to attend as College Road, SE21 7AD Andrew Osborne observers with prior notice to 020 8693 5254. [email protected] the Secretary, Robert www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Wainwright (see inside back Cover story: cover for contact details). Herne Hill Society Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 Made in Camberwell Sub-Committees on planning, Membership: Herne Hill Society traffic and transport, PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA publications and local history www.hernehillsociety.org.uk form an important part of the Society’s work and all members Lambethans’ Society are welcome to involve See Brixton Society website themselves in areas which www.brixtonsociety.org.uk interest them. Maudsley Learning ORTUS learning and events centre, The views expressed in the 82-96 Grove Lane, SE5 8SN Camberwell Quarterly are not www.maudsleylearning.com An arts market, Made in Camberwell, necessarily those of the Society held at the beginning of December in unless clearly stated as such. The Minet Conservation Association Datchelor Place, proved hugely Camberwell Society is a registered 020 7737 8210 successful, drawing more than 700 charity (No 264751). www.minet.fsnet.co.uk visitors. 183.2 Report from the Chair Will they, or won’t they, give us the Tube? he Camberwell Society has 1,000 junior doctors and medical long campaigned for a Tube students and an extension of the extension and once again the Bakerloo line via Camberwell would T have a huge impact on their efficiency. possibility has been dangled invitingly before us! Similarly, connecting As we all know, TfL is currently Camberwell with the Tube network consulting on the possible extension to the north would greatly assist of the Bakerloo Line. One of the patients and clinicians, who travel to proposed routes would serve St Thomas’s and Guys. Camberwell and Peckham. The other The Institute of Psychiatry has would run down the Old Kent Road. 2,000 staff and students; The (See page 17.) Maudsley has 1,500 staff, contractors At the end of November a large and students, with 65,000 crowd gathered on the Green to appointments a year and 25,000 demonstrate support for bringing the visitors. The Ortus Centre currently Tube service to Camberwell and has more than 3,000 visits a month. Peckham. Supporters who addressed Nick Holt Camberwell Arts College has over the gathering included Harriet 1,000 students and members of staff Harman MP for Camberwell and is no evening or Sunday service. and 700 students live in the King’s Peckham, Ganesh Thiagamoorthy, Camberwell is home to a number College Halls on Champion Hill. Senior Registrar, Obstetrics and of institutions: King’s College The extension of the Tube to Gynaecology at Kings, Naoomi Hospital, the Maudsley, the Institute Camberwell has long been seen as a Newstead, Conservative candidate of Psychiatry, the Ortus Centre, good and logical idea. It was proposed for Camberwell and Peckham, Chris Camberwell Magistrates Court and in 1939, appeared on some 1950s Porter, TfL’s Transport Plannng Camberwell School of Arts. The maps and was recommended in the Manager, actor Jenny Agutter, and Salvation Army has its international 1989 Central London Rail Study. We Ian Wingfield (deputy leader of the headquarters in Champion Park and hope that this time it will happen. Council), ably assisted by a number King’s College London has just built Meanwhile, I wish you all a of other local councillors. its biggest Hall of Residence on happy and peaceful 2015. Champion Hill. Huge benefits King’s has a million patient visits Nick Holt Extending the Bakerloo line to a year. It employs 9,000 staff and [email protected] Camberwell and Peckham would in our view bring huge benefits in terms of health, wealth and efficiency to a densely populated area. There are some interesting facts to support this. The area around Camberwell Green has a density of 130 persons per hectare, compared with 99.9 persons per hectare in Southwark and 52 persons per hectare in Greater London. A good bus service links Camberwell to other parts of London, but the buses are very overcrowded and there is no more room on the mostly one-lane trunk roads for any further bus traffic. Denmark Hill is the third most congested road in the country and 20,000 vehicles pass through the junction at Camberwell Green every day. Just under two years ago services from Denmark Hill into central London were significantly reduced. There is no longer a direct service to London Bridge, daytime services to Victoria have been reduced and there Supporters for the Tube to Camberwell and Peckham 183.3 Planning Enforcement Cause no harm! he first Saturday in November failure to ensure the removal of an development unless it is harmful. started quietly at the Pigeon unauthorised four-metre rear But what is harm? Blocking out THole café in Datchelor Place. extension in Grove Park. someone’s light is harm, but going On the terrace customers relaxed By 8pm five architects and a half a brick over the line shown in over breakfast, enjoying the last of retired lawyer were sitting around a the plan is not. The Grove Park the winter sun – until a steel girder dining table in Grove Lane – Tim, extension was unauthorised – but not appeared over their heads. And was Liz, Simon, Valerie, David and necessarily harmful. Stop notices can slowly manoeuvred into place on Anthony – the members of the be, and are, issued. But enforcement the roof. Committee, with two keen new can be expensive – two lawyers need Alarm, surprise and then lots of attendees, retired planner Keith and to be employed and it takes the time chat. Speculation about why the new Tet, a young architect. Over red wine of two Council officers. So the first owners of the building had built an and breadsticks Tim led the discussion approach to unauthorised building is extension, demolished the ground to suggest that a planning application floor front, changed windows and is made, to remind builders that were now adding a new top floor – Planning policy without permission they proceed at before planning permission was their own risk. granted. Heads were shaken about is not to hinder And what would Mr Rice say to the deficiencies of planning the café customers in Datchelor enforcement in the borough – some Place, alarmed by the building thought the problem was staff cuts, development works? “We have received a planning others suspected much worse. The application.” reality is more prosaic as Camberwell Then the architects raised a Society’s Planning Sub-Committee with Southwark’s Head of Planning bugbear – uPVC windows. Why is was soon to find out. Enforcement. the Council installing uPVC in its Some three weeks later on a grey Gary Rice, charming and housing stock when it is too often chilly night the Committee assembled engaged, explained in a soft mid-west inappropriate for the design of the to meet their guest Gary Rice, accent that cuts were not the problem; building, may be a fire risk, Southwark’s Head of Planning in fact staff in planning enforcement discolours over time, does not last as Enforcement. Their aim – to has increased. But the system has long as many timber and steel understand and better influence changed – builders now employ composites and is therefore less cost enforcement in the borough. Their Approved Inspectors and Local effective in the long term. Planning motivation – local concern about Authority Building Control officers design and some councillors agree – Southwark’s perceived “lackadaisical” are not able to monitor every site and but the issue is the initial cost.
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