CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY THE NEWSLETTER OF THE CAMBERWELL SOCIETY N o.159 Winter 2008/9 £1 (FREE TO MEMBERS) www.camberwellsociety.org.uk Vote for the Green – p11 The old Mary Datchelor School – p8 Champion Hill and the Manor of Dulwich – p12 Contents Gazette From the Chairwoman . 3 Planning . 4 Auditor wanted Safer Neighbourhoods . 6 Christmas Party . 7 Very many thanks to Mr D R B Steel who Mary Datchelor . 8 has kindly audited our accounts from 1994 Baths Update . 10 to date. He has given his expertise freely, News . 10 for the benefit of the charity. If any of you Diary Dates . 11 are suitably qualified and willing to take Boundaries and Landmarks . 12 on the mantle, please get in touch. Letters . 14 Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob Directory . 15 THE CAMBERWELL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP AND EVENTS Membership is open to anyone who lives, works, or is interested in Camberwell. The Executive Committee is elected annually at the Society’s AGM. Meetings of the Executive Committee are usually held on the first Thursday of the month – please contact the Secretary for dates. Members are welcome to attend as observers with prior notice to the Secretary, Ann Dannatt (see inside back cover). Sub-Committees on planning, parks and open spaces, traffic and transport, publications and local history form an important part of the Society’s work and all members are welcome to involve themselves in areas which interest them. GAZETTE OF LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS We recommend checking details Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Tenants and Residents Crypt, Camberwell Church Street, SE5. Admission £6, Association Jason Mitchell 07985 548 544. concessions £3. Cheap food and bar. Contact Les Alden [email protected] 020 8693 5207. See www.jazzlive.co.uk for latest listings. Burgess Park, Friends of Monthly meeting. Membership is Lambethans’ Society See Brixton Society website free. Contact Steve Hedger. Email [email protected] www.brixtonsociety.org.uk Camberwell Gardens Guild Membership enquiries to: Minet Conservation Association 020 7737 8210. Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road, SE15 3XT. www.minet.fsnet.co.uk Carnegie Library, Friends of See the Friends’ tray in the Nunhead Cemetery , Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of Nunhead Library or email: [email protected] Cemetery (FONC) 020 8693 6191. www.fonc.org.uk Cuming Museum , Old Walworth Town Hall, 151 Walworth Peckham Society Peter Frost 020 8693 4001. ‘Recent Road, SE17 1RY. 020 7525 2332. Archaeology’, Dr Christopher Constable, Goose Green Centre, www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouthwark/Museums St John’s Church, 22 February. www.peckhamsociety.org.uk Dulwich Picture Gallery , College Road, SE21 7AD. 020 8693 5254. www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Ruskin Park, Friends of Mary Kidd 020 7274 4756. Friends of the Earth Southwark Tim Atkinson South London Gallery , 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: 020 7358 9905. E-mail: [email protected] Saturday 3-9pm, Sunday 4-9pm. www.southlondongallery.org Herne Hill Society Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008. Membership: Herne Hill Society, PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA www.hernehillsociety.org.uk The views expressed in the Camberwell Quarterly are not necessarily those of the Society unless clearly stated as such. The Camberwell Society is a registered charity (No. 264751). Jazzlive Live jazz music every Friday night at St Giles’ Church Cover: Camberwell Green: cast your vote to make it better. See page 11 159.2 From the Chairwoman Report from the chairwoman he twist of tinsel at the top of we have now applied for money the street lamps at the Green from the Mayor’s tree planting Thas been suggesting scheme for some trees to be planted Christmas since early November but in the apron of road at the Denmark by the time this reaches you we will Hill/ Camberwell Church Street have had our Christmas party at the junction, outside the Silver Buckle Dark Horse, twinkling trees will and Mozarella e Pomodoro. Many have come and gone from windows thanks to Oliver Stutter, the tree and we will all be at the thank you officer at the Council, for helping letters end of the process. Many us with this. thanks therefore to everyone who The Camberwell Baths came to the party and supplied raffle Campaign has kept our pool at the prizes. top of the agenda with excellent But the person I have to thank representations at the Overview and most this year is Jane Benham who Scrutiny committee this autumn. The has been our energetic Membership Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob Council is now committed to finding Secretary for more than two years extra funding from central and has greatly increased our scaffolding. It has already applied government and matching it to membership with her efforts, from for possession but it can take several refurbish the pool and provide free 529 in March 2006 to 637 in 2008. months to be granted. We hope for swimming for under 16s and over She has delivered old copies of CQ good news early in the New Year. 60s. (See the article on page 10 by to whole streets and put leaflets in Repainting the bridge over Councillor Lewis Robinson). Camberwell New Road has proved The Planning Sub-committee to be such an expensive task (over continues to engage with big and £200,000) that it seems unlikely that small projects around Camberwell. we will be able to obtain a grant for The Maudsley is consulting us, and this, especially as it is considered other stakeholders, about its plans to non-essential work. redesign its campus, and so is the Planters have appeared on Salvation Army. The Planning railings at the Green in response to Sub-committee has the biggest our application for funds to soften workload of any of our committees that area, but they have not been and would welcome a volunteer to placed where we asked, at the help with the administration of its Denmark Hill junction. Many have cases. Do get in touch with Nick been placed on the railings of the Holt if you might be interested. Jane Benham: our thanks Green itself. Although they are still And a very Happy New Year cheerful, this is perhaps the least to you all! local shops and, crucially, she has needy spot for greening. Accordingly Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob sat, together with Bill Knights, for hours on the gate at Open Gardens Days, signing up an average of 30 new members a session. She has also been an invaluable member of the Subscription reminder executive committee. Jane is now concentrating her efforts on her Subscriptions to the Camberwell Society fall due on 1 January various choirs. We will miss her each year. Many of you pay by Standing Order, so the money greatly and welcome an approach comes to us automatically. But could we please remind the from anyone interested in even part rest of you – assuming you would like to continue as members of her old job. – to send your cheque to: In respect of projects I can report that the redevelopment at the The Camberwell Society Stationmaster’s House is still due to 7 De Crespigny Park happen. The start date is dependent London on Network Rail which has agreed to SE5 8AB reinstate the roof at the same time as it repairs the pub roof, which was Rates are unchanged at £15 for a household, £8 for single stripped of lead last year by thieves. membership and £3 concessions. To do this it needs possession of the line – stopping the trains – to put up 159.3 Planning Applications he Society looks at all (one two-bedroom and one planning applications within three-bedroom) with the Tthe SE5 area and occasionally erection of a single storey side/rear at other applications which are of extension and a loft conversion significance to our area of interest. incorporating two rear dormer We advise the relevant planning windows and installation of two authority (either Lambeth or front rooflights, and alterations to Southwark) that we object, front elevation comprising support or have no objection to an replacement of shopfront with application where we have decided domestic windows and door, to comment. installation of window to the front Owing to the limited space elevation at basement level and available in the Quarterly , we are creation of front lightwell with only able to print a selection of the railings. applications on which the Society The Society has noted this application. has commented. 181 Denmark Hill Camberwell Grove: Mary parking spaces, amenity space and 39 Grove Lane SE5 Datchelor School Development landscaping. Demolition of a two Conversion of a 'home office' to The erection of six conservatories storey former coach house to form provide a one-bedroom on plots 30-35. new vehicular and pedestrian access self-contained flat including The Society objects to this planning to the rear. elevational alterations and provision application because the erection of The Society supports this of walled front garden. these conservatories would be application which promises to The Society supports the contrary to Southwark Council’s provide additional good quality Council’s objections to this planning own Residential Design Standards accommodation for the area. House application. The application was Supplementary Planning Document, layouts and scale are reasonable, refused by Southwark Council on adopted September 2008. with amenity space behind. The 30 April 2008 on the grounds that it This application has now been modern house elevations are slightly would ‘represent an incongruous and withdrawn. uninspired and the solar panels inappropriate feature harmful to the perched on the roofs have an amenities of the general public, 181 Denmark Hill SE5 insubstantial look, but on the whole residential amenities of future Alterations and conversion of existing this is a reasonable use for the occupiers and detrimental to the two storey Victorian property to existing building and site.