South London Weekly - August 18th 2023

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By Noah Vickers

Local Democracy Reporter

met poLIce commissioner sir mark rowley and London mayor sadiq khan have called on the mobile phone industry to help reduce phone thefts –by ‘designing out’ the incentives to steal them.

The pair said in a letter to company bosses they needed the “collaboration and expertise” of the phone manufacturers and software designers “to develop solutions to make this crime less rewarding”.

According to statistics provided to the BBC by the Met, some 90,864 phones – equating to almost 250 a day, or one every six minutes –were stolen across the capital in 2022.

In their letter, Mr Khan and Sir Mark said: “Whilst relentless work to pursue perpetrators and the worst offenders will continue, we know we cannot arrest our way out of the issue.

“Much more can be done to prevent mobile phone theft by making it harder for stolen phones to be re-used and registered for services not just on carrier networks but also for services provided by hardware and operating systems vendors.”

Mr Khan told the Standard: “[This is] the commissioner and I saying to mobile phone companies – those are the manufacturers and the networks – ‘Can we work together, using your tech savvy, your innovation, to make a stolen phone almost worthless for somebody trying to steal it?’

“Because what we do know is – they [criminals] steal the mobile phone, they repurpose it, and then they sell it on.

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“We’ve seen through recent history how working with car manufacturers, we made a car stereo almost worthless, because we ‘designed it out’, by making sure car manufacturers had [the stereo] in the dashboard… so [it] couldn’t be stolen.

“But also working with car manufacturers, we ‘designed out’ sat-navs being stolen as well, and we’re hoping that that can-do attitude of mobile phone companies, networks, will mean that it wouldn’t be worth a robber or a thief stealing a mobile phone.”

According to City Hall, mobile phone crime is driving the rise in robberies and thefts in the capital, with 38 per cent of all personal robberies last year – equating to more than 9,500 offences – involving a phone being stolen.

Nearly 70 per cent of all thefts in London last year related to mobile phones.

Sir Mark said the Met was working to bring the number of offences down, by targeting London’s theft hotspots and boosting neighbourhood policing in high streets and local communities, as part of the New Met for

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He warned however: “As long as there is massive profit to be made by the resale of these stolen phones, and the companies don’t use their technology to block them – as long as that’s going on, there’ll be a market, and these offences will happen.

“So yes, we need to keep working hard… but we need the industry to help drive this down, and that’s why we’re demanding this roundtable.”

He added: “Every mobile has a digital serial number embedded in it, the IMEI number as it’s called.

“We know the serial numbers of stolen phones. It must be possible for the phone companies, and those providing the operating systems – like iOS and Android – it must be possible for them to block the use of a stolen phone. That would kill the second-hand value overnight.”

Police data shows that young people are

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disproportionately involved in robberies, both as victims and perpetrators, with those aged between 14-20 particularly at risk of being targeted by criminals.

“I think they’re seen perhaps as an easy

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target for the offenders,” Sir Mark said. “This is about protecting everyone, and over the summer particularly, when kids aren’t in school, we’re running lots of operations to protect them as well.”

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By Isabel Ramirez

In camBerWeLL a club is hoping to coach the next generation of Lionesses and is looking for support to take their team onto the global stage.

The girls' football club, based at Lyndhurst Primary School, could represent south London in the world's largest youth competition, as the head coach attempts to 'raise the profile' of local players.

Led by a former England Player Pathway Coach, South London Girls' Football Academy aims to provide as many young local girls as possible with professional coaching - which you would traditionally have to be selected to receive.

Director and head coach, Jamie Greaves has years of experience coaching girls that have gone on to represent the country. "Youth girls' football is growing and it's great to see," Jamie told us. "The barrier we aim to overcome is to bridge the gap between grassroots and talent centre football."

He explained that although there are more opportunities than ever for girls to receive professional coaching, "the disparity has always been huge."

Emerging Talent Centres identify and develop future potential players by providing local, accessible high-quality training environments.

"High-performing girls are selected to play for emerging talent centres, but these are the only ones to receive structured, professional coaching."

The number of these centres is growing, but Jamie commented his mission is to ensure more girls get this level of training.

"If we can provide that level of structure and coaching for a wider array of players that don't need to go through a selection process then it will give more players the opportunity to fulfil their potential."

Two years since it started, the club now has 70 players in total from across Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Greenwich, with an open-door policy regardless of experience, ability or financial background.

Their next challenge is getting the girls into competitive league football and competitions, including the largest youth football tournament in the world - the Gothia Cup.

They have started a campaign to raise £12,500 to take our Under 12's, who recently won a Charlton Athletic

help club train the neXt generation oF lionesses

Tournament, to represent south London at the Gothia Cup next year in Sweden.

"This team could compete and raise the profile of girls' football in south London," Jamie added. The money will also go towards supporting two of their teams entering the local league. Jamie said a number of girls are striving to be professional players, "the youngest of these being four years old."

"The Women's World Cup continues to inspire them."

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Girls' football club in Camberwell could represent south London in world's largest youth competition.

Former teacher imprisoned For 12 years For paying indian teens to abuse younger children

By Herbie Russell

a Former deputy head teacher from east Dulwich has been jailed for twelve years for paying Indian teenagers to abuse children.

Matthew Smith, 35, who worked at Battersea’s prestigious Thomas’s Prep School, paid the teenagers £65,398 for videos and images of child sex abuse over a five-year period.

He was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on August 9, having pled guilty to 22 counts, including encouraging the rape of a child under thirteen.

National Crime Agency (NCA) Officer Helen Gore said: “Matthew Smith is a prolific offender and master manipulator, who coerced young men into abusing children on his behalf.

“It’s clear Smith has absolutely no empathy for his victims and the harm he has caused them.

“He presents a very real and significant risk to children, but this investigation has ensured he will spend a long time in prison.”

Smith was arrested by the NCA in November 2022 after investigators established he was sharing abuse material on the dark web. They said at the time of his arrest, he was caught online requesting sexual images of a child from a teenage boy in India in exchange for money.

He also had dark web sites and forums dedicated to child sexual abuse open on his computer.

NCA investigators established that he’d paid that same teenager and another, also in India, a total £65,398 to abuse children over five years. They said chat logs showed Smith would instruct the young men to perform sexual acts on boys.

He would also send them images and videos as examples of the content he wanted in return.

The teacher would even give them advice on how to befriend children and build their trust with a view to abusing them.

Officers recovered over 120,000 indecent images of children which Smith had saved on a laptop, SD card and phone.

Between 2007 and 2014, he also spent periods working in orphanages and NGOs across India.

Investigators said they have "found evidence of potential offending by Smith against children while he was working in India."

The NCA has shared information with the Indian authorities and is working with them to identify and safeguard potential victims.

From 2017 to 2022, Smith spent the majority of this time living in Nepal and working at a school there.

In July 2022, Smith moved back to the UK and began working at Thomas’s Prep School, where he was a deputy head teacher and head of pastoral care.

The NCA says there was “no evidence” suggesting Smith has committed offences against children in Nepal or the UK.

NCA officer Helen More said: “The NCA is committed to operating online and overseas, working with global partners to ensure that children are safeguarded and offenders like Smith are brought to justice.”

By Isabel Ramirez

Fake posters advertising areas as 'crack and heroin zones' popped up around southwark, claiming to be from the council.

Southwark Council responded to the influx of the bogus signage, which was also been seen around London Bridge station and Borough High Street, by saying they are not from them and that they are dealing with the matter.

The council told us that relevant teams on the ground have been briefed and the posters are being removed 'as soon as they are found.'

The fake posters say: "the sale and use of crack and heroin are permitted in this area" and feature the logos of Southwark Council and the Metropolitan Police.

Not just a meaningless prank, they are the work of a youth collective - Pattern Up - as part of their campaign to raise awareness about issues in cities around the UK.

A spokesperson from Pattern Up - made up of young people based in London and Brighton - said: "The crack and heroin notices depict the lack of community effort in preventing the exploitation and destruction of young lives through the supply and use of Class A and B drugs in the city."

They added that their aim is to "start a conversation.”

The posters have been spotted in other parts of London like Brixton and Camden and also in Brighton, Cambridge and Dublin.

By Isabel Ramirez

one oF the 'Uk's best' drum and bass festivals is coming to a south London park next weekend, with some of the biggest artists of the genre.

Hospitality in the Woods is back for another bumper one-day celebration of all things Drum & Bass on Saturday, August 19 at Beckenham Place Park.

The famous sound will be showcased across five stages with headliners including Netsky, High Contrast, A.M.C Calibre, Roni Size, DJ Marky, Camo & Krooked, Goddard, LTJ Bukem, Metrik and many more.

Last year the event, which used to be over a whole weekend, was cancelled due to rail strikes. This year it returns for one day only everyone is invited to share in some sunkissed good times at what is frequently described as one of the best UK drum and bass festivals.

The team commented: “With such amazing memories from Hospitality Weekend In The Woods in 2021, we cannot wait to continue the next chapter of the festival this summer.

"Beckenham Place Park is the perfect location with a beautiful lake, enormous mansion, ancient woodland and unique and interesting terrain to host unique spaces to dance. We welcome the entire drum and bass community to join us for a whole day celebrating the music we all love.”

There will be five stages hosting some of the biggest DnB legends.

"This one-day Hospitality In The Woods is a perfect excuse to go hard and then go home," a spokesperson added. Tickets are available on their website hospitalityinthewoods.com Saturday, August 19 from 12 pm - 10 pm. Beckenham Place Park, Beckhenham, BR3 1SY

Mathew Smith

bogus 'designated crack and heroin zone' posters removed in southwark

Massive drum and bass festival returns to south London park

NCA investigators established that he’d paid a teenager and another a total of £65,398 to abuse children over five years

silvertown tunnelling complete but the environmental debate rages on

By Noah Vickers

Local

Democracy Reporter

the seconD of two boreholes beneath the thames – which will together form London’s new silvertown tunnel – is now complete.

Transport for London (TfL) confirmed that the project’s main tunnelling works have finished, after photos taken from the nearby IFS Cloud cable car – showing the tunnel boring machine on the north bank of the river – were shared with the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The machine – named ‘Jill’, after London’s first female bus driver – completed the first bore when it reached the river’s south bank in February.

It was then rotated to make a return journey to the north bank, drilling the second bore in the process.

Due to open in 2025, the 1.4km twinbore road tunnel will link Silvertown, in Newham, with the Greenwich Peninsula,

close to the O2 Arena.

The project has been controversial, with opponents arguing it will increase carbon emissions and worsen air quality and traffic.

TfL says the scheme will address the queuing and delays at Blackwall Tunnel, as well as provide cross-river zero emission buses – and it says the project will reduce pollution.

The photos of the complete second borehole were taken by Siân Berry, a Green member of the London Assembly.

Ms Berry – who believes the scheme will increase car dependency and risk new traffic and pollution – previously authored a report which proposed several alternative uses for the tunnel, including a tram system or an extension to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR).

Commenting this week, she called on mayor Sadiq Khan to “make this real blot on his record turn into something more positive”.

She added: “There are options for being very creative about how we use [the] Silvertown [Tunnel] in different ways to support public transport, walking and cycling, and not increase the traffic.”

Approached for comment on the completion of the second bore, Helen Wright, head of the Silvertown Tunnel programme at TfL, said: “The main tunnelling works at Silvertown are now completed, which once open will support growth in the local area, provide new public transport connections across the river via zero-emission bus routes and address the chronic issues Londoners face at the Blackwall Tunnel.

“We remain committed to delivering this project with minimal impact to those living, working and visiting the local area and the project remains on target to be completed in 2025.”

TfL said it also remains committed to delivering an overall improvement in air quality as a result of the scheme, and that

drivers will be subject to a user charge when it opens.

In July, plans were unveiled for a ‘bike bus’ to transport cyclists through the tunnel.

The “bespoke” shuttle bus could run every ten minutes and would only carry cyclists and their bikes, which would either be loaded onto the bus or a trailer pulled behind the bus.

In September last year, Mr Khan defended the Silvertown Tunnel on BBC Radio London. “The east of London has been neglected for centuries,” he said.

“You have got 18 river crossings looking west from Tower Bridge, only one looking the east.

“We are trying to make sure there is a new crossing which will have a lane reserved for double-decker buses to improve public transport.

“And it will be in the Ultra Low Emission Zone, so the air afterwards will be cleaner than it is now – that’s a win-win.”

When are we getting more toilets on the Tube and at bus stations?

By Noah Vickers

Local Democracy

Reporter

a stUDy looking at whether more public toilets can be installed across London’s transport network has been hit by delays.

The review, examining where and how more loos can be created at Tube and bus stations, was promised earlier this year by Sadiq Khan.

The mayor’s team had said in May that they expected Transport for London (TfL) to share the terms of reference for the study with “interested parties” in June, but TfL now say the documents will be made available “in the coming weeks”.

The need for more public toilets at the city’s transport hubs has been raised for several years by the capital’s politicians, as well as campaign groups like Age UK London.

Caroline Russell, Green group leader

on the London Assembly – said it was “incredibly disappointing” that TfL “haven’t even shared their proposals yet”.

TfL and the mayor’s office said “early work” has started on the study and confirmed that Mr Khan remains committed to it, as he “recognises the importance of free and accessible public toilets”.

Ms Russell, who in February unsuccessfully tried to pass an amendment at City Hall to have more loos created on the network, said: “Many Londoners plan their journeys around toilet availability.

“A properly accessible public transport system must include access to toilets and information on where to find them.”

Approached for comment on the delay in sharing the documents, a spokeswoman for Mr Khan said: “The Mayor recognises the importance of free and accessible public toilets for Londoners and he has committed to TfL carrying out a review of existing and new

facilities on the transport network.

London mayor Sadiq Khan. Photo by London Assembly “TfL has started early work on this study and the Mayor will continue to work with TfL, organisations and stakeholders across London in order to improve existing facilities and identify future opportunities for more toilets."

Mark Evers, chief customer officer at TfL, said the organisation was also committed to the study, and that it recognises “toilet provision is important for customer care and particularly for disabled customers”.

The feasibility study was proposed by Mr Khan after the Assembly’s Labour group blocked Ms Russell’s amendment to the mayor’s budget – which would have cost £20m and seen 70 new toilets installed across TfL’s network.

Ms Russell’s amendment was backed not only by her own party, but also by

the Assembly’s Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups.

The Labour group, who hold more than a third of the Assembly’s seats and therefore have the power to block budget amendments, voted the proposal down, with group leader Len Duvall arguing that the proposal “just seemed too vast” to commit to without first carrying out a study.

Mr Khan said at the time that installing toilets was a more complex process than many recognise – something he had realised only after a programme of installing water fountains across the city. The mayor told the chamber: “Let me go away and do this feasibility study and see what progress we can make, and I’ll report back to you in the Assembly in due course.”

A handy map of where the toilets are can be found t�l.gov.uk/help-and-contact/ public-toilets-in-london

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Photos of the completed tunnelling works were taken from the ICS Cloud cable car by Siân Berry, a Green member of the London Assembly.

Photos of the completed tunnelling works were taken from the ICS Cloud cable car by Siân Berry, a Green member of the London Assembly.

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Caroline Russell AM, Green Party group leader on the London Assembly

King's to feature in Channel 4's 'Emergency'

By Isabel Ramirez

kInG's coLLeGe hospital is featuring in a four-part channel 4 series this month, as cameras go behind the scenes of their trauma department.

Staff from the Denmark Hill-based hospital returned to our TV screens on Tuesday, August 15 for the second season of the ground-breaking Channel 4 documentary series Emergency. The programme, which first aired in February 2022, shows the minuteby-minute decisions made by staff across the world-leading London Trauma Network and colleagues in rehabilitation, including staff at King’s Hospital.

From serious road traffic accidents to knife violence and the dangers faced by older people from a simple fall, the programme reveals how NHS staff provide world-leading and compassionate care.

Working day and night, the teams care for the most seriously injured people in London and the South East of England.

centre has a new restaurant with a michelin-trained cheF

By Isabel Ramirez

the aFrIca centre, which hosted the king earlier this year, now has a new resident chef who was michelintrained and promises a 'taste of africa' with a twist.

And this time, Emergency goes even further with cameras joining London Ambulance Service to capture the innovative and life-saving care that begins only moments after the trauma occurs.

Ibraheim El-Daly, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon is among the King's staff who appeared in the series.

He explained: “Participating in Emergency was important to show the life-changing decisions we take on a daily basis to help our patients, while also providing a glimpse into the challenges of the job and what it’s like working in the NHS.

“I enjoy the fast-paced nature of Orthopaedics - every case requires me to think on my feet, managing risks to successfully alleviate a patient’s pain and improve their movement.”

You can also catch up online at www.channel4.com/programmes/ emergency

In April 2010, London was the first area in the UK to implement a regional trauma system, ensuring the highestquality care for its population of 10 million people.

Cally Munchy Lounge at The Africa Centre is open from Wednesday, August 16 as the new resident eatery - based in the heart of Southwark.

Founded in 2015 by British-Nigerian chef Ebenezer Sogunro, Cally Munchy is an Award-Winning Afro-Fusion food company.

Ebenezer, who grew up around Greenwich, is a Michelin-trained chef who, whilst learning his craft at De Vere Academy and Pinsent Masons, recognised a gap in the food industry and the lack of modernisation of African food.

He began to experiment by fusing foods from different countries with African concepts and invented new dishes such as Jollof Katsu Curry, Moi Moi Burger, and the Efo Tempura Prawn Bao which took the industry by surprise.

The restaurant will offer a Pan African and Afro-fusion immersive dining experience and these dishes are all on the menu.

Since 2015, millions of individuals have been drawn to Cally Munchy, including some celebrities like Afrobeats' artist Davido and actor Alfred Enoch (Harry Potter, How to Get Away with Murder), as well as reality star Vicky Pattison.

Cally Munchy continues to develop and expand as a business. With the mission of bringing a taste of Africa to many cultures and fostering intercultural understanding by bringing people together.

Beginning as a street food vendor, Cally Munchy went from a food truck, to eventually opening UK's first-ever AfroBao restaurant to now residing in central London at the cultural hub of the African diaspora.

Ebenezer has developed and manufactured products like the Shi-tuan sauce, an Afro-Fusion chilli oil - which complements every dish.

The food company has a vast number of accomplishments, including winning a prize for the best Jollof rice in 2020 – 2022. In January, King Charles III visited the centre The Africa Centre – a charity which has been championing the cause for Africa and its diaspora in the UK since 1961 –at its new home in Southwark on Great Suffolk Street in Borough. The centre will host Cally Munchy for the next six months. Check out our video online to see what we thought when we checked it outincluding a preview of some of the dishes. Cally Munchy Lounge will be open Wednesdays - Saturdays from 12 pm at The Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 OBL.

Furious businesses claim they weren’t told oF tower bridge august bank holiday closure

By Adrian Zorzut Local Democracy Reporter

FUrIoUs BUsInesses say the closure of tower Bridge over the august Bank holiday weekend will hit them hard – and they claim they weren’t even told it was happening.

London’s most iconic bridge will be shut to traffic and pedestrians from 10pm on Friday, August 25, until late on Monday, August 28 – unless works are completed earlier.

During the works, motorists will be diverted via Southwark Bridge while London Bridge will remain open to pedestrians and is a 13-minute walk from Tower Bridge via Queen’s Walk along the river.

Marine traffic will continue as normal as the bridge will be in the raised position for much of the maintenance work.

The work will replace metal plates at the rear of the bascules – the moving parts of the bridge – which have become damaged through wear and tear.

But while the repairs are essential, businesses like The Raven on Tower

Bridge Road say they’re going to be hit hard and had no idea it was happening.

Pub manager Christina Fletcher, 48, became aware of the closure when she was contacted for comment by the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).

She said: “It would have been nice to know. We are reliant on tourists to the area and if [Tower Bridge] is shut then we don’t have any footfall. We would have preferred some warning. It’s frustrating.”

She is worried the roads south of the bridge are going to become congested with traffic, making it tougher for workers to come in. She said: “We are going to lose out massively.

"It is going to be congested all round and getting to work will be abysmal. I normally catch the train in but because it’s a public holiday, I could have driven in but now I’m going to have to catch the train.”

She added: “It’s an absolute nightmare. It’s like a kick in the teeth.”

Her boss and pub owner Michelle Tempest said the closure was “not fantastic”, claiming there was no reprieve for businesses like hers. She said: “The rent stays the same, the

business rates stay the same and the wages stay the same.”

She said The Raven was used to the bridge closing for big events like the London Marathon and “wouldn’t have it any other way” but she said getting notice would have been helpful.

Michelle said: “It’s like they have no respect for us and just do it anyway.”

Magali, 50, who works at The Tower Hotel in St Katherine’s Dock, was shocked to hear about the closure when contacted by the LDRS. He said: “This is the very first time I am hearing about this… The bridge not being open will definitely stop people coming.”

Andy Bishop, who runs the Shipwrights Arms on Tooley Street, also had no idea. He said: “I feel like I should know really but it could be that I have been sent a notice but not seen it. It’s no doubt going to be a pain but what can you do?”

Senior manager at Two Bridges Ale House & Kitchen on the same street, Warren Garver, 32, said his business relies on tourists visiting the bridge and popping by for a pint afterwards.

He also thinks the traffic caused by the closure won’t lead to any more

punters coming by for a drink. He said: “I wouldn’t say I am overly worried, necessarily. I can imagine it’s not going to do great things. People who are re-routed aren’t going to stop and get out of their car for a pint.”

A spokesperson for Bridge House Estates, the 900-year-old charity which owns and maintains Tower Bridge and four other Thames crossings, said the scheduled shutdown came at short notice and meant not all businesses were informed.

They said: “We appreciate this work will cause some disruption but it is essential to ensure the bridge can continue to operate smoothly, and it has to be in the raised position for us to carry out this work.

“We have had to schedule the work at short notice, meaning unfortunately we haven’t had as much time to notify local businesses as would normally be the case.

"Carrying out the work over Bank Holiday weekend means many businesses in the area will be closed and many people will not be at work, which will help to minimise the impact on road users, businesses and the local community.”

The famed London crossing will be in a raised position for long periods while work is carried out, however, the visitor attraction will remain open and people are being advised to book their tickets in advance and check entry routes.

The essential repairs are being carried out at no cost to the taxpayer by Bridge House Estates, the estate said.

Giles Shilson, Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Board, said: “As well as being a defining landmark of London, Tower Bridge is one of the capital’s key arteries and the wear and tear of daily traffic naturally affects the structure, which celebrates its 130th birthday next year.

“We appreciate that the closure will cause some inconvenience but this work is essential to the smooth operation of the bridge, and will ensure it can continue to do its job for decades to come.

"The bridge will continue to welcome visitors throughout the Bank Holiday weekend, but it’s important that people know they need to book in advance and to enter the bridge from the north side.”

Michelle Tempest, standing outside The Raven on Tower Bridge Road.

wandsworth sets up its own scrappage scheme to help low income homes and carers

It comes after Merton said it would launch a £1m scheme to complement Mayor's £160m fund

By Noah Vickers

Local

Democracy Reporter

Labour-run WandsWorth council has announced it is establishing its own £1m scrappage fund to help people cope financially with the expanded ultra low emission zone (Ulez).

It comes after Merton – another Labour-run borough bordering Wandsworth – said last week it would be launching its own £1m scheme to complement mayor Sadiq Khan’s citywide £160m fund.

Wandsworth said its scheme – which will offer grants of £1,000 – will only be open to residents in receipt of certain means-tested benefits, and those registered as carers.

Council leader Simon Hogg said: “Switching to more sustainable modes of transport as part of the expansion of Ulez is at the heart of tackling air pollution – something we know is a real priority for local residents.

“At the same time household budgets are very stretched for everyone, and in particular those on lower incomes.”

He said the scheme, known as the Wandsworth Sustainable Travel Fund, will “provide targeted support to help local people struggling with the cost of living – as well as dedicated, hardworking local carers – make the transition away from high polluting vehicles”.

Residents will be entitled to apply to the fund regardless of whether they

have also applied to Mr Khan’s city-wide scheme.

The London mayor said: “Wandsworth is yet another example of a local authority doing the right thing and stepping up where the Government has failed to provide sufficient funding to London.”

A Government spokeswoman said in response it was “for the Mayor of London to justify his decision to expand the Ulez”.

“At a time when the Government is doing everything it can to support people with the cost of living, it is for the Mayor to explain why he thinks it is fair to change those with non-compliant vehicles £12.50 every time they drive.

“The Government has already provided TfL with £6bn in funding support since 2020, including almost £102m for projects specifically targeted at helping to tackle pollution.”

Wandsworth’s scrappage scheme will launch in September, with further details on how to apply expected shortly.

The Ulez currently covers the area within the North and South Circular roads, but is expanding on August 29 to cover the whole of Greater London.

As the South Circular runs through Wandsworth, the borough is currently split in half by the existing Ulez area.

Battersea and Nine Elms are entirely covered by the current zone, along with parts of Wandsworth Town and Putney, while the rest of the borough is, until the end of the month, outside it.

Drivers of non-compliant vehicles are

liable to pay a £12.50 daily charge if travelling within the zone.

Mr Khan announced earlier this month that he will be expanding his city-wide scrappage scheme on August 21 to enable every single Londoner to apply to the fund, with grants of £1,000

available for motorbikes and £2,000 for cars. Larger amounts are available to businesses and charities looking to replace vans or minibuses.

The mayor’s fund – administered by TfL – had previously only been open

to Londoners on certain benefits, as well as small businesses and charities registered in the capital.

Wandsworth Council said residents can contact ulez@wandsworth.gov.uk with questions about the borough’s scheme or to register to receive updates.

The council is also offering help to pay for school uniforms

By Charlotte Lillywhite Local Democracy Reporter

Wan Ds Worth coU nc IL has set aside £150,000 to help families pay for new school uniforms as they struggle with the cost-ofliving crisis.

It is allocating the extra cash to continue the scheme for a second year, after it first launched in 2022.

The scheme opened this summer and offers uniform vouchers worth £40 to kids entering reception, along with vouchers worth £160 for those starting secondary school. It is open to kids who receive free school meals and are moving into Reception or Year 7 this September.

The council has already given just under 1,000 uniform vouchers to families on lower incomes this

summer, in the scheme’s second year, after contacting eligible parents to tell them how to access the support.

The scheme is part of the authority’s cost-of-living fund, which recently expanded from £5million to £10m.

The council is providing a range of support to residents with the fund, including food vouchers during the school holidays and free swimming and gym memberships for lowerincome families.

The measures include providing council tenants with more energyefficient and water-saving devices, securing low-cost internet connections and offering cost-ofliving payments totalling £130 to pensioners who receive council tax reduction.

Regarding the uniform support scheme, Labour councillor Kate Stock,

cabinet member for children, said:

“People across Wandsworth are facing real hardship with the cost-of-living crisis showing no sign of letting up. “Families shouldn’t have to face the dreadful choices of paying for fuel or food or buying a school uniform. We know how much this helped local families last year which made us determined to offer the support again this summer.

"The vouchers are easy to access and simple to use so we can look forward to all Wandsworth children turning up to school in September looking smart, full of confidence and ready for the year ahead.”

The authority said those who have not been contacted but think they are eligible for the uniform support scheme should email voucherandholidaysupport@ wandsworth.gov.uk.

Simon Hogg, leader of Wandsworth Council

Wandsworth Council

By Isabel Ramirez

here's oUr pick of what's on this weekend - including free yoga classes and a day of love for Latin america, with live music, salsa and food from across the whole continent.

Free summer Fun at Canada Water

e veryone's W eLcome to join the free activities in rotherhithe this summer, including yoga and plant workshops.

Love Summer, located next to Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, is in its final fortnight and there's still lots to get involved in.

There are free activities every day, but on weekends you can listen to live music and do free yoga and pilates. If you want to eat, there's space for picnics, as well as a pop-up bar and table tennis tables to work up your appetite. Love Summer is on until Bank Holiday Monday, August 28.

Go to canadawater.co.uk to see the full programme and book free classes.

Where? Next to Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, Redriff Rd, SE16 7LL

When? Every day until Bank Holiday Monday (August 28).

Admission: Free Carnaval del Pueblo at burgess Park t he hIstorIc Latin american festival is due to return to Burgess park this sunday, august 20, with a food and drinks market, salsa tent, and a main stage with DJs and live music - all free.

The music lineup includes Colombian salsa star Charlie Cardona, Percussionist

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Roberto Pla’s jazz big band, Cuban jazz violinist Omar Puente and his sextet and many more acts from across Latin America.

New to this year’s Carnaval is the Carnavalito Family Village run by Latin Hub UK. For kids, there will be bilingual activities like a storytelling tent, a toddlers club, arts and crafts, mini football, and kids' karaoke.

Don't miss the chance to grab a free salsa lesson and look out for the parade on Old Kent Road from 2 pm.

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When? Sunday, August 20 from 11 am to 10 pm

Admission: Free learn about the roots oF aFrobeats

the neW exhibition is a celebration of a genre that paved the way for african musicians who have shot to international stardom today. Starting this Friday, August 18, The

Africa Centre will present FUJI: A Opera, a multi-dimensional exhibition which tells the story of the fuji music genre, dating back to the 1960s – one of the most important in Nigeria’s history. The story will be told through archival footage of previous performances, audio installations and memorabilia across the 60-year history of fuji music.

A spokesperson said: "With Nigerian artists Rema, Asake and Davido providing songs of the summer in the UK, Burna Boy becoming the first African artist to

headline a stadium in the UK this year and Wizkid set to follow, now is a fitting time to look back on the country’s musical origins and witness its evolution and the international impact it has made on the music industry today."

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When? Friday, August 18 – Monday, August 28 (Tues – Sat: 10 am – 6 pm; Sun: 10 am – 4 pm)

Admission: Tickets priced from £6.99 on sale at www.fujiopera.com

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ltn s have become so contentious c ouncil o FF icers have re F used to meet waterloo pensioners

By Robert Firth Local Democracy Reporter

LamBeth coU nc IL refused to meet pensioners concerned that a nearby road closure had turned their quiet back street into a rat run, telling them it feared staff would be “at risk of intimidation and abuse.”

Councillor Rezina Chowdhury, deputy leader of Labour-led Lambeth Council, told Waterloo resident Mike Tuppen that the council didn’t attend public meetings because they were “unrepresentative and hostile” in an email last month.

Cllr Chowdhury, cabinet member for clean air, also scolded 78-year-old Mr Tuppen for contacting council officers by social media to raise his concerns about traffic on the street. She branded the method of communication “not acceptable” in an email seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Lambeth Council said it had received hundreds of public comments and survey responses about the restrictions and that these had been

used to tweak the final scheme.

The council added that at times public discussion had become abusive and it had to “draw a line for the wellbeing of both councillors and staff.”

Mr Tuppen, chair of Octavia Hill Residents Association, is one of a number of residents living on Ufford Street concerned about a surge in traffic since Lambeth Council closed a section of The Cut to drivers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Vehicles that would have once used

The Cut to move between Waterloo Road and Blackfriars Road now turn right on Short Street and get onto Blackfriars Road via Ufford Street and Boundary Row.

As a result, residents of Ufford Street say their once sleepy road now regularly has lorries and tour buses hurtling down it, causing nuisance noise and posing a risk to children who play in a park on the street.

Videos taken by local residents show giant lorries struggling to squeeze down Ufford Street between parked cars. Other clips show vans and coaches accelerating along the street

and other nearby side roads.

Lambeth Council has now said it will restrict vehicles from accessing Ufford Street and nearby Webber Street in response to residents’ concerns. But for some locals, it’s too little too late.

Mr Tuppen said: “It’s just ridiculous. We’re getting lorries, tour buses and taxis come down here. We never saw a coach down this street before they closed The Cut. They just won’t listen. They made the decision and that’s it.”

Mr Tuppen added that he was frustrated the council were using an online platform which allows anyone to comment on proposals for consultation but were refusing to attend a meeting with people who actually lived in the area.

In an email to Mr Tuppen on July 19, Cllr Chowdhury wrote: “It is not our standard practice to organise or attend ‘public meetings’ as you describe. Our experience with such meetings in previous projects is that they are unrepresentative and hostile because people content with a scheme’s progression do not generally feel the need to give up their time to meet us.

“Therefore we find these meetings do not give genuine qualitative feedback and can put officers at risk of intimidation and abuse. As a democratic organisation and a responsible employer, I hope you understand why we do not use this method.”

Terry Blissett, 85, who also lives on Ufford street, said he couldn’t understand why the council had made the traffic restrictions permanent. He said: “I can’t believe Lambeth are doing it. The traffic is a nightmare down here. There’s a kids’ park and kids run out into the road all the time.

“It’s absolutely crazy. It’s a rat run. Everybody is fighting it. No one from the council has been around at all to ask how we feel. It’s unbelievable. This is to no benefit to anyone down here.”

Since traffic restrictions were introduced on the Cut during Covid-19, the number of people cycling on the street has more than doubled and the number of vehicles using the road has been slashed. But traffic on Boundary Row, the street that drivers use to get onto Blackfriars Road via Ufford

Street, has increased by more than 100 per cent.

A Lambeth Council spokesperson said: “We thoroughly engage with residents on all our projects. For this scheme we have held site visits, ran two online surveys and delivered several letters to local people and businesses. In addition to this our councillors and officers have had numerous direct correspondence exchanges with local residents, businesses and stakeholders.

“In response to public engagement and traffic counts, we are proposing additional traffic filters on Ufford Street and Webber Street. These will reduce traffic on local streets by keeping through-traffic on larger main roads.

“Also, following local feedback the council is looking at how loading and deliveries on The Cut work, and having listened to local input we are aiming to provide a wider exemption for delivery vehicles that use any of the loading bays on The Cut, and allowing them to exit via the traffic filter rather than them using local streets.”

Ufford Street resident Terry Blissett said traffic was a 'nightmare'.

Ufford Street resident Mike Tuppen said the traffic was ridiculous.

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In an email one resident was told Lambeth Council staff at public meetings are 'at risk of intimidation and abuse'

residents divided as drivers Face restrictions on Four more south london roads this autumn

By Robert Firth Local Democracy Reporter

Dr I vers WILL face restrictions on four more south London roads from autumn under £450,000 traffic restrictions revealed by a council, which come into effect just a few weeks after ULeZ is expanded.

Motorists in Streatham already facing the potential for a £12.50 a day charge if they have a non-compliant vehicle when ULEZ expands, will face fresh restrictions on Leigham Avenue, Culverhouse Gardens, Valley Road and Gleneldon Road under Lambeth Council’s plans for the Streatham Wells Low Traffic Neighbourhood [LTN].

The new rules, which apply to side streets in an area bounded by Leigham Court Road, Streatham Common North and Streatham High Road, aim to reduce traffic and pollution and allow people to cycle more safely.

The proposed traffic restrictions have proved divisive in the neighbourhood which has no London Underground station.

Will Hadley, 35, said the changes would likely add time onto his commute but felt it was worthwhile if the measures cut pollution and traffic down his street.

He said: “As a car driver I have to drive to work and I can’t really avoid the fact that cutting off bits of the road will affect my route. But if that adds three minutes on to my journey it’s not too bad because reducing pollution and traffic is a good thing. It’s a positive move overall.”

But he admitted the proposals had been “incredibly divisive,” with some residents loudly opposed to the plans.

Local mum Vicky Brain previously told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she would be forced to cancel her disabled daughter’s after-school clubs because of the extra time that changes would add to their journeys.

Speaking in December 2022, she said: “It’s going to restrict our lives considerably when we get the lowtraffic neighbourhood. It’s going to mean that my daughter can’t take part in educational and after-school activities.”

Nyasha Oliver said she was concerned about the impact of the restrictions on

some of her disabled neighbours who couldn’t rely on public transport as easily.

The 30-year-old, who doesn’t own a car, said: “Some of my neighbours are disabled and their carers have to take cars with them. It restricts them from being able to go where they need to go.” Ms Oliver, a writer and blogger, added that while speeding was a problem on local roads, she wasn’t fully convinced that the restrictions would lead to improvements in safety.

As part of the plans, disabled blue badge holders will be able to pass freely through one of the roadblocks in the Streatham Wells LTN. But they will not have permission to pass through all traffic filters, as some residents have called on the council to allow.

A council report with details of the new LTN says that allowing blue badge holders access through all filters had the “potential to undermine the legibility of the schemes and encourage greater levels of non-compliance as well as having potential safety impacts”.

Exemptions from the restrictions will also apply for buses, emergency service

vehicles, dustbin lorries and taxis. Once they come into force, the new rules will be in place for eighteen months.

The council will monitor pollution and traffic levels on streets within the LTN and on boundary roads during the trial.

A decision will be made on whether to make the restrictions permanent before the eighteen-month period is over. The trial is being bankrolled by £330,000 of the council’s own cash and £120,000 from TfL.

Many residents the Local Democracy Reporting Service spoke to didn’t want to share their names because of how bitter the debate around the LTN had become.

One resident, who gave her name only as Maureen, said discussions in a local Whatsapp group had been “heated”.

“I’m on the fence really. I don’t drive so it’s not going to affect me. I can see where people in favour are coming from. I get annoyed when cars drive down here at ridiculous speeds because of my kids. But also I used to live on a road in another borough where traffic was being diverted because of an LTN

and it was a problem,” she added.

Labour-led Lambeth Council will also consult on banning non-local heavy goods vehicles from Leigham Court Road as part of the proposals.

Streatham Wells is already part of a trial to roll out delivery lockers to reduce the number of final stage journeys by vans in the area.

Councillor Rezina Chowdhury, cabinet member for clean air, said: “These proposals will lead to a significant improvement in road safety, air quality, and will allow more space for people to enjoy their neighbourhoods without worrying about traffic jams and exhaust fumes.

"The proposed Streatham Wells LTN, as well as the other improvements, show we are taking bold steps to address issues like road danger, toxic air quality, and climate resilience.

“We have been listening to the community for more than two years to ensure these proposals strike the right balance between reducing overall traffic volume and supporting people where they live or work and will continue to ask for feedback as we move forward.”

Robert

Firth

Nyasha Oliver said she concerned about the impact of the road closures on her disabled neighbours.

Streatham Wells LTN traffic restrictions.

Ariande with her mum Vicky Brain outside their home in Streatham

Will Hadley said he was in favour of the traffic restrictions even if they added minutes to his journeys.

By Kevin Quinn

a Woman was taken to hospital after it is believed she mixed bleach with toilet cleaner – and breathed in the fumes.

Emergency services responded to the incident at a house in Lomond Grove in Camberwell last Thursday afternoon (August 3).

man charged with murder oF Julian e banks-Ford

By Kevin Quinn

a 20-year-oLd man has been charged with the murder of Julian ebanks-Ford.

Ismaiel Kallon, of Kender Street was charged with murder on Friday August 11, the Met Police said, and was due appear in custody at Bromley Magistrates’ Court the following day.

Julian Ebanks-Ford, 20, was found with stab wounds on Kender Street,

at the junction with Queen’s Road, between Peckham and New Cross, just before 1am on Friday August 4.

He was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died that afternoon.

A post-mortem examination on August 5 confirmed Mr Ebanks-Ford died as a result of a single stab wound.

Two other people were arrested in connection with the incident.

A 19-year-old man was held on suspicion of murder on August 5 and

released on bail.

A 19-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder on August 7 and released with no further action.

Police asked anyone who can help the investigation to call 101 or Tweet @ MetCC quoting 265/4AUG.

To remain 100% anonymous call the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit crimestoppers-uk.

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A school's former boarding houses could become homes in Dulwich

By Robert Firth

Local Democracy Reporter

a pr I vate school’s former boarding houses in Dulwich could be turned into nine homes.

Dulwich Prep stopped using the accommodation in West Dulwich in 2018 due to a drop in pupils opting to board at the £23,385 per year all boys’ school.

The building has since been returned to the Dulwich Estate, a charity which owns 1,500 acres of land around Dulwich – an area larger than 1,130 football pitches.

The Dulwich Estate has now revealed plans to turn the Grade-II listed Brightlands Boarding House into seven flats and build two new homes on the site. Of the flats, four would be onebedroom, two would be two-bed and one would be three-bed. Both of the new semi-detached homes would have three

bedrooms. All the homes would be for private sale.

The boarding house on Gallery Road was originally constructed as a schoolhouse in the 1800s.

It was acquired by the headmaster of Dulwich College Preparatory School during the Second World War to house 200 boys, after their boarding house was destroyed in bombing.

After Brightlands stopped being used as accommodation in 2018, Dulwich College re-purposed the building to provide support services to pupils and staff. But by 2020, the school no longer had any need for the boarding house.

If the redevelopment plans are approved by Southwark Council, the new homes will go towards the council’s target of 2,355 homes being built every year in the borough, which the council has recently fallen short of.

Planning documents submitted to the

council on behalf of the Dulwich Estate read: “This application looks to provide much-needed housing, as supported by national, regional and local policy, and of particular benefit in terms of securing the sustainable and meaningful future use of an important, statutorily listed heritage asset.

“As well as the delivery of new homes in a sustainable location and on brownfield land, of specific note are the benefits achieved through uplifts in urban greening proposed, making excellent use of an area of hard standing previously dedicated to parking. This is evidenced in the ecological and arboricultural reports submitted with this application.

“Overall, the development achieves significant benefits and is of high-quality design, and as such should be supported by officers.”

The council will make a decision on the application at a later date.

The London Fire Brigade sent two engines a fire and rescue unit, a command unit and a Hazardous Materials & Environmental Protection Officer to the scene after receiving a call at 11:50am.

The woman was taken to hospital by an ambulance crew suffering from breathing difficulties as firefighters in protective breathing apparatus ventilated the property and made the scene safe.

It has prompted the Brigade to issue a safety reminder about mixing household cleaning products, saying this is one of at least ten similar incidents that have occurred in London this year.

Group Commander Pete Gustafson, who leads the Brigade’s hazardous materials team, said:“Most cleaning chemicals are either acid or alkali based – and if they were to be mixed, there is a very real risk that there will

be a chemical reaction.

"This reaction can often release a harmful, irritable or even toxic gas which can have an incredibly strong smell and have a harmful effect on anyone breathing in these gases, especially the young and the elderly.

"Inhaling this gas can cause breathing difficulties as well as choking and irritation of the airway.

"The gas can also cause eyes to water and, in stronger concentrations, can cause loss of consciousness.

"If you accidentally cause this chemical reaction, it is vital you leave the premises immediately and call 999.”

In other saFety advICe the brIgade says:

• Always follow the instructions for cleaning products and chemicals carefully and don’t be tempted to mix them as it could produce hazardous fumes.

• It is important that you always make sure to rinse away one cleaning chemical before using a different one.

• Make sure you always keep cleaning products securely sealed and out of the reach of children.

Woman taken to hospital after 'mixing bleach with toilet cleaner' in Camberwell

© Met Police

Julian EbanksFord

CGI of the planned development at the Brightlands boarding house site in West Dulwich.

CGI of the proposed development at the boarding house development in West Dulwich.

© Southwark Council planning documents

M U L T I - A W A R D W I N N I N G

£1.7m make over For care scheme

By Isabel Ramirez

a care facility in nunhead, that offers affordable supported living for over 55s, has just had a £1.7 makeover.

Lime Tree House is an Extra Care scheme exclusively for those aged 55 and over with a care need in the area.

Residents have their own homes, with access to communal facilities available to all residents, as well as on-site care whenever they need it.

Housing 21 invested £1.7 million in a full makeover to modernise the scheme for it to meet the housing providers' property standards.

The transformation included renovation of the entrance, communal areas including the lounge and dining area, and the garden.

To mark the event, residents and employees from across Housing 21 came together to celebrate, with live music and a buffet.

A resident living at Lime Tree House, Vernon, said: “The refurbishment is great and has made a big difference.

“The communal areas are so good, the garden, the lounge, and especially the entrance which is so beautiful. It is excellent, and the scheme feels more homely.”

Lime Tree House was purchased as part of an acquisition from Hyde Housing in 2019.

Acquisitions form a key part of Housing 21’s growth and commitment to providing high-quality housing with support and care for older people of modest means, 2023 marks an incredible year of acquisitions for Housing 21.

In February, 427 Extra Care properties were acquired from Notting Hill Genesis - the largest transfer of Extra Care in the sector in recent years. More recently, Housing 21’s portfolio increased by 445 properties from Clarion, with 11 schemes from across London, East Anglia and South East. This further solidifies Housing 21's position in the market and demonstrates its commitment to meeting the housing needs of older people.

In conjunction with its acquisition plans, Housing 21 continues to prioritise investment into existing homes while also delivering on its development plans to provide up to 400 new homes for older people each year.

Lime Tree House consists of 54 social rented properties, with on-site care provided to residents who need it.

Free film festival to return to Peckham and Nunhead next month with outdoor screenings and lots more

By Isabel Ramirez

a FILm festival will return to peckham and nunhead next month, with flicks for every ageand it's completely free.

The Peckham and Nunhead Film Festival will take place in venues across SE15 from September 1-10.

For fourteen years, the popular volunteer-run event has been bringing free entertainment to locals, offering a mix of movies to suit all ages and tastes in vibrant indoor and outdoor locations.

This year’s event kicks off with a prefestival film quiz on Wednesday, August 30 at the Ivy House in Nunhead, ahead of the opening night screening of The

Rest is History: The Early Days of Drum and Bass at Peckhamplex cinema.

Sticking with music, you can swap jungle for ska with the early ‘80s concert film Dance Craze showing at The Green community centre, enjoy Oscar-nominated Elvis at the Copleston Centre, and try your luck with the classic musical Guys and Dolls at The Ivy House.

Family-friendly films include Soul at the Copleston Centre and an outdoor screening of Fantastic Mr Fox on the Clifton Estate.

Other highlights include outdoor screenings of the local rom-com Rye Lane at Northfield House and Woman at War in Glengall Wharf Garden. Festival joint co-ordinator Ann Lazim

said: “The Festival is entirely organised and run by volunteers from a range of backgrounds – and there’s still time to contact us if you fancy getting involved in helping run these fun events”.

Fellow co-ordinator Neal Browne added: “Everyone’s finances are being stretched right now, so we’re delighted to be able to offer Peckham and Nunhead residents a bit of escapism and the chance to discover some amazing films, absolutely free”.

The programme may be subject to change – keep an eye on the website (freefilmfestivals.org) for up-to-date information and more details about all the events.

No tickets are required, entry is first come first served.

makeover For portobello road which can get 80,000 visitors on a saturday

By Alicia Curry

Local Democracy Reporter

portoBeLLo roaD is set to undergo a major rejuvenation project, but locals say the community is underpinned by a fear of change.

While the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council have pre-existing aims for the area – namely improvements to flood mitigation, transport flow and greening – no decisions have yet been finalised.

In an attempt to reflect the interests of the community, a panel of local voices from residents, businesses and traders has been recruited to help inform a consultation on modifications to the Portobello Road. But with the year-long engagement process underway, residents have expressed ‘heavy mistrust’ in the council’s activities following the Grenfell tragedy.

Ruth Odusanya Daniel, who is one of the panellists and lives close by to the worldrenowned market, said: “There’s definitely a sense of huge fear in the community and worry over what the council is hiding.

“I hope this project can help to repair the relationship with the council and that transparency over plans will stop people feeling insecure,” she added.

“Ever since the Grenfell fire people have held an anger because they didn’t help enough and this paranoia is impacting peoples mental health.”

Lead Member Cllr Elizabeth Campbell said that the council understands that ‘rebuilding trust takes time’.

She added: “We have been set the challenge to become the best council for our communities by the bereaved and survivors of the Grenfell tragedy and have been working with our residents over the

By Charlotte Lillywhite Local Democracy Reporter

s oU th Lon D oners have thrown their support behind plans to rebuild a popular outdoor activity centre where you can go open water swimming and kayaking to accommodate guests year-round and replace ‘outdated’ facilities.

Surrey County Council (SCC) put forward the plans for Thames Young Mariners, in Richmond, which is used by schools, community groups, colleges and families across Surrey and London.

The scheme would see the existing outdoor learning buildings at the centre on Riverside Drive, run by Surrey Outdoor Learning and Development (SOLD), demolished and replaced with five modern buildings.

The plans include a new main building with a kitchen, toilets, changing space and replacement staff accommodation, along with new residential blocks and outdoor activity equipment.

The centre was built more than 60 years ago and offers water-based activities to young people and adults, including open water swimming, paddle boarding, kayaking and sailing. It is set in a 25-acre site with a 10-acre lake.

A planning statement with the application, submitted to Richmond

last year to understand what this means to them.”

The body is investing in the area to ensure the famous street market continues to serve the day-to-day needs of residents while attracting visitors from across the country and the world.

Portobello and Golborne Road Market can see over 80,000 visitors on a single Saturday and traders have shared that despite their fear of change the road is crying out for improvements to accommodate the heavy footfall.

Charlie Barnett, 69, owns an antique store inside the Vernon arcade and claims

he was robbed a few months back: “Safety is the biggest issue that needs addressing, there’s always been a pickpocketing problem but whether you live or work on the road we all deserve to feel a little more secure.”

“Tens of thousands of people come to the market and everyone is welcome, we want to keep it that way.

"Portobello Road is a worldwide bit of culture and any plans made to keep it running smoothly are important.”

Other traders expressed hope that the plans include more space to park their produce vans, better organisation of

merchants and a clean-up of graffiti.

Cheryl Devlin, the fifth-generation owner of Devlin’s Fruit and Veg stall, said: “It would be great if it could be made to look a little prettier, some trees or something would clean the area right up.

“But I think the priority should be working out a new system for the market so that it’s better organised.

"Clothes all in one place and hot food in another so that we don’t get the smells wafting over our fresh produce and it’s easier for customers.”

Cllr Campbell added: “People want to be involved from the outset in decisions that

s outh l ondoners throw support behind plans to rebuild popular activity centre

affect them and we agree that local people know what their communities need.

"We put residents at the heart of many projects and are pleased that residents want to work with us and hold us to account.

“From helping us design new standards for all Council staff to resident membership of the new Portobello Engagement Oversight Panel – we are working together for the sake of our communities.”

The period of consultation for the project will end in Spring 2024, with plans for the road to be drawn up by this time.

The development will also allow SOLD to extend their residential offering to a year-round basis, rather than a current summer seasonal offer, enhancing the variety of facilities SOLD can offer to the community.”

The plans have received 172 letters of support so far.

Supporter Jane Stephens Nield wrote: “This is an excellent plan, there are no other facilities like these is this area. With the addition of new activities and buildings and the site being open all year round it will be a great addition to the area, benefiting many children, young adults and people with learning difficulties.”

Steve Kitson also welcomed the plans as he described the centre as a “valuable community resource” but its facilities as “somewhat tired and outdated and in need of modernisation”.

Ellie Wrigglesworth, another supporter, commented: “A well-loved facility finally getting the upgrading it deserves to increase the benefits of outdoor education available for the local community and schools.”

Council, says it will “deliver sustainable, fit-for-purpose buildings which will enable SOLD to continue operating in the long-term”.

It says Thames Young Mariners “requires redeveloping in order to bring the site up to the current health

and safety standards with modern, fit-for-purpose facilities, which would allow SOLD to increase its service capacity and strengthen its commercial operation for SCC”.

The statement adds: “The proposed development will enable SOLD to

continue providing an important element of social infrastructure to support schools, colleges, community groups and families with outdoor learning and education within Richmond, whilst also supporting Surrey and other London boroughs.

Haidee Gummer added: “This is a wonderful facility and the proposed changes will have far reaching benefits for years to come. I wholeheartedly support the proposal.”

Richmond Council will make a decision on the application in due course.

Thames Young Mariners, Richmond

Cheryl Devlin comes from a line of greengrocers who have all worked on her fruit and veg stall

Charlie Barnett, 69, has worked at the Market since the late 1970s and has seen it transform over the years

the 'nicest place to live' in south london but 'roads are terrible'

By Charlotte Lillywhite

Local Democracy Reporter

a soUth London neighbourhood has been described as the city’s ‘nicest place’ to live despite the ‘terrible’ state of its roads and lack of bins.

Residents in Berrylands praised its tightknit community but want to see better maintenance of the area as they claimed it is plagued by litter and potholes.

Kingston Council recently consulted on rolling out more measures to slash the speed and volume of traffic travelling through the residential neighbourhood, including humped zebra crossings and pedestrian islands.

It comes after the council approved restricting residential roads it controls in Surbiton, which includes Berrylands, to 20mph in 2021. But people living in Berrylands told the Local Democracy Reporting Service they want to see other changes.

Local Bekah Lumb, 24, (pictured above) said the neighbourhood is “beautiful” but should be maintained better. She said: “It’s the best place I’ve ever lived in and I’ve lived in seven different places before. It’s honestly the nicest place.

"If I could stay here forever I would, I’d bring up a family here. It’s a beautiful place, lovely community, 100 per cent.

“It’s also why the community here is very adamant on keeping it well-maintained and safe.

"I wouldn’t say it’s an unsafe area. I’d feel very safe just keeping my door unlocked. It’s a very nice area, I just think it could be a little bit more maintained.”

Ms Lumb said there are not many bins in Berrylands which “causes a lot of litter… it’s bad for the environment but also it just encourages people to throw things on the floor”.

She said locals litter cigarette butts and dog waste due to the lack of bins, with it taking up to 20 minutes to find one. She added foxes “ruin and rip bags open” so “you wake up and there’s just food everywhere, it’s not nice”.

Ms Lumb works at pub The Berrylands, on Chiltern Drive, and called for safer crossings locally. She said: “There’s just not really many accessible crossings around here, especially if you’ve got little kids. You see them just running out into the road.”

She described the road at the junction outside the pub as “so uneven, the amount of people you see fall over when it gets cold here and icy – I’ve fallen over so many times, we’ve seen people just go”.

Local Pauline Phillips (pictured above) also works at the pub and raised concerns about the state of local roads, claiming “it ruins people’s cars”.

The 65-year-old said: “The roads around here are awful, especially where the school is, the side roads. They flood around here.”

Ms Phillips said there are potholes in the area and called for roads “to be redone properly” as she argued “you can only put a plaster on it so many times”.

But she likes living in the area and praised its public transport, particularly the K2 bus service to and from Hook. She said it “picks up all the pensioners that want to go to Kingston or Kingston Hospital, it’s a good service”.

Chris Green, 66, has lived in Berrylands for most of his life and said “it’s not that bad, it’s just the roads are terrible”. He said: “I know it costs a lot of money to resurface a road as [opposed] to patching it, I know it does, but you can’t keep patching a road.”

He added: “All they’re doing is putting a plaster on it. Come the winter and the frost gets in, it all comes back up again.”

He said public transport is “very good” in the area but criticised the 20mph speed limit. He said: “People are getting done for 22mph and 23mph – you see bikes going faster than that.”

Mark Chivers, 56, used to live in Berrylands and recently took over Surbiton-based firm W.E.B. transport, which makes deliveries locally, after working there for eighteen years.

He described the area as “lovely” but

raised concerns about “all the potholes” on the roads and said having to travel at 20mph, “if you’ve got three, four jobs on, it’s just terrible”.

He understands the speed limit around schools and residential roads, he said, but not at Surbiton Hill Park as it is “like a main road”.

Mr Chivers said he has noticed a lack of bins in the area and “a lot of people… don’t live here but they carry their bin bags and they just dump their bin bags and get on the train”.

But he added the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), on August 29, is his biggest concern. He recently spent around £46,000 on replacing one of his non-compliant vans and needs to replace another, but will have to pay the £12.50 daily charge until he finds enough cash.

He said he does not know “what the future’s going to hold”.

The Mayor of London has consistently said ULEZ is important to tackle air pollution to reduce the impacts of climate change, slash congestion and cut the number of preventable deaths.

Anita Kamalathasan manages Stuart’s Newsagents next to Berrylands train station on Chiltern Drive.

The 54-year-old claimed parking is difficult on the road as it is restricted from 1pm to 2pm and she can’t get a permit. She

said it makes unloading heavy deliveries “difficult”. She explained: “We don’t need to pay for parking but 1pm to 2pm we’re not allowed to park here. It’s difficult.

"When the traffic warden comes we… shut the shop and take our vehicle far from here, so that’s the main problem. We need to get a permit or something.”

Ms Kamalathasan also said the shop relies on footfall from the train station, operated by South Western Railway (SWR), but that it has been struggling as services are often cancelled completely or limited during industrial action.

She said she “cried last Saturday” when SWR closed the station during a strike by the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, as the shop only made around £400. She said: “We are paying for the staff and the electricity. We are thinking to sell the business because of the station.”

In response to concerns raised by locals, a Kingston Council spokesperson said it is “committed to delivering a greener, fairer, safer, borough for all residents, working together with communities and partners”.

An SWR spokesperson said Berrylands station is served by two trains an hour during industrial action by ASLEF, and it closes on RMT strike days as there are “fewer colleagues available to safely operate” it.

They apologised for the “large amount of disruption our customers continue to face due to the ongoing strike and industrial action by the RMT and ASLEF unions”.

The spokesperson said: “On RMT strike days we are only able to run a significantly reduced service on a limited number of lines across our network.

"With a limited number of colleagues available, it is not possible to operate as many train services or serve as many stations as we would with a normal timetable.”

Mick Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, said: “We regret the situation at Berrylands, but it’s a matter for SWR to step up and do the right thing.”

RMT has been contacted for comment.

© Charlotte Lillywhite

Chiltern Drive, Berrylands.

Pauline Phillips, 65, and Bekah Lumb, 24, at The Berrylands, Chiltern Drive.

The Berrylands, Chiltern Drive.

what’s on

t he eFFect oF illicit romance

For those of us who have been fortunate enough to see performances on the national theatre’s Lyttleton stage, the revival of Lucy prebbles’ 2012 play the effect certainly gives you a new perspective and not only in the literal sense, writes Christopher Peacock...

Soutra Gilmour has converted this proscenium space into traverse and lighting designer Jon Clarke has his rig hovering above the stage as you enter, creating a cold, antiseptic environment.

This play about a clinical trial for a new antidepressant and two of its trialists is matched with bright clinical lighting and a bare LEDlit stage. This production note is perfectly taken on by George Dennis’s sound design and Michael Asante’s composition which gives an unsettling and unnerving soundscape throughout.

Prebble’s script has been updated with modern references to suit a new audience. The young trialists are Connie, a Canadian psychology student played by Taylor Russell in an accomplished and nuanced professional theatre debut, and Tristan a cocksure, charismatic Hackney lad played by Paapa Essiedu. The clinical trial they begin starts benignly but as it goes on their dopamine levels rise dramatically and they risk their places on the trial as their interest in each other develops into romance.

Completing the quartet of performers are Michele Austin as Dr Lorna James, who is conducting

the trial and measuring the metrics, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Dr Toby Sealy whose drug trial this is. The relationship between the two doctors is revealed to have been more than just professional in the past and the tension between them climaxes as the play progresses. Holdbrook-Smith and Austin put in great performances in the more fervent scenes.

The Effect, directed by Jamie Lloyd, highlights the ethical challenges behind the very trials that lead to the pharmaceutical breakthroughs that have advanced medicine to where it is today. The people subjected never know what is real or not whilst in the programme, their emotions and decision-making left open to either the effect of the drug or a placebo reaction of their own making. Although focussing on the interpersonal difficulties and morality there is also passing commentary on the industry as a whole with quips fired in from Dr James at Dr Sealy’s expense.

Thought-provoking and with an overall design that never leaves you particularly comfortable. The production is executed extremely well in all departments and at times you feel immersed in the trial itself, just with less dopamine flowing through your system.

National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 9PX until October 7th.

Times: Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat matinees 2.15pm.

Admission: £20 - £89.

Booking: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

Photo by Hugo Glendinning

Photo by Marc Brenner

p laying with art

t hIs s U mmer, visitors to tate modern are invited to bring participatory artworks by rasheed araeen to life as part of UnIQLo tate play, tate modern’s free programme of art-inspired activities for families.

Staged in the iconic Turbine Hall, Araeen’s interactive Zero to Infinity offers families of all ages the chance to contribute to an ever-changing artwork, whilst outside the gallery Shamiyaana IV (Food for Thought: Thought for Change) encourages people to sit together and enjoy a free meal while chatting to one another.

First devised by Araeen in 1968, Zero to Infinity consists of brightly coloured lattice-construction cubes which are initially arranged in a minimalist grid. For its staging at Tate Modern, this dynamic work will begin with 400 cubes painted red, yellow, green and blue neatly laid out by the artist in the Turbine Hall. Visitors are invited to dismantle this symmetrical structure and create new configurations, initiating a process of play and transformation.

Through this creative act of making and remaking, people will find themselves participating in a continuous performance of infinite possibilities.

To complement Zero to Infinity, tables constructed with the same colourful cubes will be installed on the bridge in the Turbine Hall, offering a place for families to sit and engage with a range

of activities inspired by Araeen’s practice and texts written by and about the artist.

Since last Saturday August 12, Zero to Infinity has been joined by Shamiyaana IV (Food for Thought: Thought for Change), an installation by Araeen outside Tate Modern comprising four colourful gazebos with tables and chairs.

Appearing as a café or restaurant at first sight, this public participatory artwork is based on the idea that art can be part of everyday life, such as cooking and eating food, playing, and reading.

First created in Athens in 2017 as part of DOCUMENTA 14, Shamiyaana resulted in people from all walks of life sitting,

eating and talking together. Despite being from different cultures and backgrounds, with several unable to speak the same language, participants found a way to tell their stories to one another.

Visitors to Shamiyaana at Tate Modern will share free food with all those who have gathered there and be encouraged to discuss art and anything else they like.

Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Until August 28.

Open daily 10.00–18.00 Free

From fact to Finnish football to fiction

peter cor DW eLL was born in catford, in a prefab built to house those bombed out by hitler’s Luftwaffe, and from that beginning his life has apparently been one conflict after another, writes Michael Holland...

‘I passed the 11-Plus but was turned down by Brockley County Grammar School because my Dad was a delivery driver and my Mum a home-help, so I was sent to South East London Tech to “get a trade” but to this day I’m the least technical person on the planet!’

He seethes when recalling a traumatic piece of metalwork, but seems to soften when talking about sport: ‘I was good at cricket, a spin bowler, and played for London Schools… We played against Eton, who beat us easily.’ A match that obviously still hurts. His working-class roots were once again taking a bashing.

‘I was offered professional terms at Millwall when I was 17 - I’d been playing in the Reserves with the legendary Harry Cripps.’ A glimmer of light cut through the darkening clouds. ‘But I turned them down.’

Peter also turned his career projection in another - less sporty - direction when he was taken on as a cub reporter at the Kentish Independent in Woolwich. ‘I couldn’t work out if I was hopeless or hapless, a working-class boy marooned in a middle-class world.’ His editor, Charlie King, worked it out and kept him on after a six-month trial.

‘My breakthrough story – a

17-paragraph piece on local pop singer Sandie Shaw, the build-up leading to the last paragraph where, at a charity event, I asked her for an interview. “No,” she said.’

When his editor died, Peter’s enthusiasm for the Kentish Independent also waned and he left for the TV Times where they offered him a full-time job.

But now, Peter’s erstwhile football career was re-ignited when he was taken on by newly-promoted VPS (Vaasan Palloseura) in the Finnish Premier Division!

After two seasons he was back in journalism as sports editor of the Mercury, when it was based in Deptford High Street. He remembers the editor Roger Norman producing a magnificent front page on local elections day, urging people not to vote for the National Front.

One day while at the Mercury, Peter had to welcome some children from the Downham Estate and he thought he would build a rapport by saying their Downderry School team used to ‘put the fear of God’ into his school’s team.

One boy’s response shocked Peter when he said, ‘We don’t have a football team any more.’ Peter found that the school had joined a 1980s’ campaign against competitive sport.

The following week, he wrote a frontpage story condemning the decision: ‘It was about the sports teacher at Downderry resigning in disgust and opening a tropical fish shop in Bromley!’

He laughs at the memory now.

The upshot was that the school reinstated their football team and Peter was awarded UK Weekly Newspaper Sportswriter of The Year.

A bigger campaign was getting Charlton back to The Valley, ‘a battle that took seven years to win.’

When the South London Press took over the Mercury they made Peter editor. ‘It wasn’t a happy marriage,’ he recalls, so when he was headhunted for the council’s Greenwich Time weekly he went off to be the editor there. ‘I took a Mercury team with me,’ he says with a smile.

Under his leadership, the paper won the national competition for local authority newspapers three times, The lockdowns were the catalyst for the next stage in Peter’s life. ‘I started to write fiction during Covid, just as something to do but really enjoyed it,’ says the man who has spent most of his adult life as a journalist dealing in facts. ‘I found I could think of a person from the past and write a story around him or her, finding a twist and a positive ending. Positive, because I’m not interested in “dark.”’ The book, Buzzing! Tales of Empathy and Optimism, is on sale now on Amazon.

www.amazon.co.uk/BUZZINGempathy-optimism-Peter-Cordwell/dp/ B0C9SK175H#

ISBN: 9798851041846

RRP: £5.99

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (LYNDHURST WAY, LOWER ROAD)

TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable various works to be carried out, it made, an order, the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in:

3.(a) Lyndhurst Way, between Chadwick Road and Holly Grove carriageway and cycle lane (b) Lower Road, between Croft Street and Bestwood Street

4.The alternative route for affected traffic will be (2a) as indicated by the signs displayed (2b) Plough Way, Grove Street, Oxestalls Road.

5.The existing ‘one-way’ working in Lyndhurst Way will be made ‘two-way’ for access and egress purposes for (2a)

6.Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

7.The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

8.The works will be in operation for (2a) 31st August at 22:00hrs and 1st September at 06:00hrs (2b) 18th – 23rd September

9.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 17th August 2023

Ian Law

Traffic Manager

London Borough of Southwark

Network Management

Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth

160 Tooley Street

PO Box 64529

London SE1 5LX

Ref: (2a) 6684/BTH1-03-47-310823-NR (2b) 6630/01445310-Conway

LONDON

ROAD

REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (WEBSTER ROAD) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable water mains replacement works to be carried out, it made an order, the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in Webster Road:

(a) between its junctions with St James’s Road and Stork’s Road.

(b) between its junctions with Stork’s Road and Webb Street.

(c) between its junctions with Webb Street and Clements Road.

3.The alternative route for affected traffic will be:-

(a) St James’s Road, Clements Road and Stork’s Road.

(b) & (c) Stork’s Road and Clements Road.

4.Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

5.The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

6.The works will be in operation from 1st September until 5th December 2023.

7.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 17th August 2023

Ian Law

Traffic Manager

London Borough of Southwark

Network Management

Regulatory Services

Environment and Leisure

160 Tooley Street PO Box 64529

London SE1 5LX

Ref: BER5-WEBR263-01 - thames

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (AYSGARTH ROAD, BARRY ROAD, LORDSHIP LANE, BORLAND ROAD, COLYTON ROAD, COTHAM STREET, GOODRICH ROAD, HORSLEY STREET, KING JAMES STREET, MILCOTE STREET, MAWBEY ROAD, MERROW STREET, LYTHAM STREET, PHELP STREET, NEWINGTON CAUSEWAY, SILWOOD STREET, HOLLAND STREET, HOPTON STREET, SUMNER STREET) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable carriageway resurfacing works to be carried out, it made an order, the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads and to alter sections of ‘one way’ traffic flow schemes for connected purposes of access, egress and diversion in some of the above named roads.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in:

(a) Aysgarth Road, between its junctions with Turney Road and Dulwich Village.

(b) Barry Road, between its junctions with Underhill Road and Tyrrell Road.

(c) Barry Road, between number 252 and its junction with Lordship Lane.

(d) Borland Road, between its junctions with Limesford Road and Stuart Road.

(e) Colyton Road, between its junctions with Forest Hill Road and Homestall Road.

(f) Cotham Street, between its junctions with Charleston Street and Morecambe Street.

(g) Goodrich Road, between its junctions with Hillcourt Road and Upland Road.

(h) Horsley Street, between its junctions with Westmoreland Road and Arnside Street.

(i) King James Street, between its junctions with Milcote Street and Lancaster Street.

(j) Milcote Street, between its junctions with Borough Road and King James Street.

(k)Merrow Street, between its Eastern extreme and its junction with Lytham Street.

(l) Newington Causeway in a North Eastbound direction between its junctions with Southwark Bridge Road and Borough Road.

(m) Newington Causeway, in a South Westbound direction between its junctions with Harper Road and Rockingham Street

(n) Silwood Street, its North to South arm, between its junctions with Rotherhithe New Road and Corbett’s Lane.

(o) Sumner Street, North to South arm, between its junctions with Southwark Street and Holland Street.

(p) Holland Street, from its junction with Sumner Street, Northwards for a distance of 40 metres.

3.The alternative route for affected traffic will be:-

(2a) Turney Road, Pickwick Road and Dulwich Village

(2b)&(2c) Barry Road, Peckham Rye Western arm, East Dulwich Road Southern arm, Lordship Lane, South Circular Road, Honor Oak Road and Forest Hill Road.

(2d) Stuart Road, Rye Road, Surrey Road and Inverton Road.

(2e) Peckham Rye both arms, East Dulwich Road south arm, Forest Hill Road, Mundania Road, Barry Road and Lordship Lane.

(2f) Charleston Street, Brandon Street, Browning Street and Turquand Street.

(2g) Underhill Road and Upland Road.

(2h) Westmoreland Road, Queen’s Row and Arnside Street.

(2i)&(2j) Borough Road, Library Street and Lancaster Street.

(2k) Villa Street, Wooler Street, Dawes Street, Trafalgar Street, Portland Street, Lytham Street, Phelp Street and Westmoreland Road.

(2l) New Kent Road, Bricklayers Arms Roundabout, Great Dover Street and Borough High Street.

(2m) Borough Road, St George’s Circus Roundabout, London Road and Elephant & Castle.

(2n) Rotherhithe New Road, Rotherhithe Old Road, Lower Road, Bush Road, Oldfield Grove, Concorde Way, Eugenia Road and Silwood Street NW to SE arm.

(2o)&(2p) Hopton Street and Southwark Street.

4.The existing section of Southbound carriageway Bus Lane on Lordship Lane, between its junctions with Landells Road and Barry Road, will be closed to all traffic. (2c)

5.The existing ‘one way’ Northbound only traffic flow scheme in Milcote Street will be suspended to allow ‘two way’ traffic flow for access and egress purposes. (2i)(2j)

6.The existing ‘two way’ Cycle Lane in Mawbey Road between Mawbey Place and Old Kent Road will be suspended on 18th September between the hours of 0800 and 1800, to allow for resurfacing works.

7.The existing ‘one way’ Southbound only traffic flow schemes in Lytham Street (North to South arm) and Phelp Street as well as Eastbound only traffic flow scheme in Lytham Street (West to East arm) will all be suspended to allow ‘two way’ traffic flow for access and egress purposes. (2k)

8.The existing ‘one way’ South Eastbound only traffic flow scheme in Holland Street between Hopton Street and Sumner St will be suspended to allow ‘two way’ flow for access and egress purposes (2o)&(2p).

9.The existing ‘one way’ Eastbound only traffic flow scheme in Hopton Street, East to West arm between Holland Street and its own North to South arm, will be suspended to allow ‘two way’ flow for access and egress purposes only (2o)&(2p).

10.Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

11.The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

12.The works will be in operation for (2a) 1st September 2023 (2b) 4th September 2023 (2c) 5th September 2023 (2d) 22nd September 2023 (2e) 11th - 14th September 2023 (2f) 21st –22nd September 2023 (2g) 6th – 7th September 2023 (2h) 29th – 30th September 2023 (2i)&(2j) 15th September 2023 (2k) 28th – 30th September 2023 (2l) 25th -26th September 2023 between hours 2000-0500 (2m) 26th – 28th September 2023 between hours 2000-0500 (2n) 19th – 20th September 2023 (2o)&(2p) 20th September 2023.

13.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this

BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

TRAFFIC

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended) PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended)

The planning applications listed below can be viewed on the planning register at https://planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applications/ You can use facilities at your local library or 'My Southwark Service Points' to access the website.

How to comment on this application: You should submit your comments via the above link. Comments received will be made available for public viewing on the website. All personal information will be removed except your postal address. Online comments submitted without an email address will not be acknowledged and those marked 'confidential' will not be considered. Written comments can be submitted to; Southwark Council, Chief executive's department, Planning division, Development Management, PO Box 64529, London SE1 5LX.

Reason for publicity. The applications are advertised for the reasons identified by the following codes: AFFECT - development affecting character or appearance of a nearby conservation area; OR development affecting setting of a nearby listed building(s); DEP - departure from the development plan; EIA - environmental impact assessment (these applications are accompanied by an environmental statement a copy of which may be obtained from the Council - there will be a charge for the copy); MAJ - major planning application; STDCA - development within a conservation area; STDLB - works to or within the site of a listed building;

DULWICH PARK COLLEGE ROAD LONDON

SE21 7EB (Ref: 23/AP/1956)

Changing place facility next to existing WC facilities within Dulwich park and relocation of existing bike and bin storage facilities. (Within: Dulwich Wood CA) Reason(s) for publicity:

STDCA STDCA (Contact: Glenn Ruane 020 7525 5447)

157 - 169 WALWORTH ROAD LONDON

SOUTHWARK SE17 1RY (Ref: 23/AP/1966)

Installation of one external air conditioning unit and a retrospective application for three existing air conditioning units situated on the first-floor roof facing Walworth Road (Within: Larcom Street Walworth Road CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Agneta Kabele 07548097486)

6 HARMSWORTH MEWS LONDON

SOUTHWARK SE11 4SQ (Ref: 23/AP/2174)

Installation of Air Source Heat Pump system to reduce carbon footprint (Within: West Square CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Anna Poulose )

BUNCH OF GRAPES 2 ST THOMAS STREET

LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 9RS (Ref: 23/AP/2225)

Installation of new pergola with rectractable roof in the rear beer garden. (Within: Borough High Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA

(Contact: Louise Dinsdale 07513137967)

36-38 SUTHERLAND SQUARE LONDON

SOUTHWARK SE17 3EE (Ref: 23/AP/1812)

Listed Building Consent: Demolition and reconstruction of the existing boundary wall (Within: Sutherland Square CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948)

37 QUEENS ROW LONDON SOUTHWARK SE17 2PX (Ref: 23/AP/2264)

Erection of a mansard roof extension to rear roof slope and over outrigger with front roof lights. (Within: Multiple CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Samuel Hepworth 020 7525 5465)

118 BURBAGE ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE24 9HD (Ref: 23/AP/2261)

RESUBMISSION Partial demolition with fa?ade retention, alterations to doors and windows, a part 1, part 2-storey front, side, and roof extensions, 2x ground floor rear extensions, 2x dormers, 3x rooflights, and excavation forming a basement with light well to provide additional living accommodation to an existing detached dwellinghouse with associated hard and soft landscaping. The proposal also includes the removal of 3 trees. (Within: Dulwich Village CA)

Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Agneta Kabele 07548097486)

1 NEW TANNERY WAY LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 5WS (Ref: 23/AP/2183)

Display of Internally Illuminated Two-Sided

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003

Please take notice that I / we Fleurie Bermondsey Ltd

Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of Fleurie Bermondsey Ltd, 92 Bermondsey Street, London. SE1 3UB

The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are

Projecting Signs (Two Signs) (Within: Bermondsey Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Anna Poulose )

1 MALTINGS PLACE 169 TOWER BRIDGE ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 3JB (Ref: 23/AP/2057)

Listed building consent for a first-floor extension of atrium space to separate commercial ground floor space from atrium space above. Proposed glass floor to abut listed building. (Within: Bermondsey Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Eleanor Heagney 020 7525 5403)

Dated: 15 Aug 2023 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date.

A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH

A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/licenseregister.asp

It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above (or by email via licensing@southwark.gov.uk) and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below.

Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Date of application: 3rd August 2023

STEPHEN PLATTS - Director of Planning and Growth To

place a public notice, please email em@cm-media.co.uk

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London Borough of Southwark

NOTICE OF DESIGNATION OF AREAS FOR SELECTIVE LICENSING

Section 80, Housing Act 2004

1. The London Borough of Southwark (“The Council”) in exercise of its powers under section 80 of the Housing Act 2004 ("the Act") hereby designates for selective licensing the areas described in paragraph 5

CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND DURATION

2. These 2 Designations shall be known as the London Borough of Southwark Designations for Areas for Selective Licensing 2022. All privately rented residential accommodation situated within the designated areas must be licensed with the Council unless subject to sta tutory exemption as set out in paragraph 6.

3. The Designations are made on 6 December 2022. The Designations fall within a description of designations for which confirmation is required by Secretary of State. On 14 June 2023 the Secretary of State confirmed the Designations, and the Designations sh all come into force on 1 November 2023.

4. The Designations shall cease to have effect on 31 October 2028 (not more than 5 years) or earlier if the Council revokes the scheme under section 84 of the Act.

AREA TO WHICH THE DESIGNATION APPLIES

5. These designations shall apply to the following areas of the London Borough of Southwark. Designation 3 is delineated in red with the area itself coloured light blue on the map and Designation 4 is delineated in red with the area itself coloured darker blue on the map both in annex A below. The following wards are included in each

Wards included in Designation 3Wards included in Designation 4

North Walworth Camberwell Green Peckham Rye

Nunhead & Queens Road Chaucer Rotherhithe

Old Kent Road Dulwich Hill Rye Lane

Peckham Dulwich Wood South Bermondsey

London Bridge & West Bermondsey Surrey Docks

APPLICATION OF THE DESIGNATION

6. This designation applies to any house1 which is let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the area described in paragraph 5 unless:

a. the house is a house in multiple occupation [HMO] that falls within the nationally prescribed category of HMO that is required to be licensed as a ‘mandatory HMO’ under section 55(2)(a) Part 2 of the Act2;

b. the house is a house in multiple occupation that falls within the prescribed category of HMO that is required to be licensed under the London Borough of Southwark Designation of an Area for Additional Licensing of Houses of Multiple Occupation made on 1 January 2022 under Section 56 of the Housing Act 20043;

c. the tenancy or licence of the house has been granted by a registered social landlord4;

d. the house is subject to an Interim or Final Management Order under Part 4 of the Act;

e. the house is subject to a temporary exemption under section 86 of the Act; or

f. the house is occupied under a tenancy or licence which is exempt under the Act or the occupation is of a building or part of a building so exempt as defined in Paragraph 5(f): Exempted tenancies or licences, Selective Licensing of Houses (Specified Exemptions) (England) Order 2006 SI 370/2006.

EFFECT OF THE DESIGNATION

6. Subject to sub paragraphs 6(a) to (f) every house in the area specified in paragraph 5 that is occupied under a tenancy or licence shall be required to be licensed under section 85 of the Act.6

7. The London Borough of Southwark will comply with the notification requirements contained in section 83 of the Act and shall maintain a register of all houses registered under this designation, as required under section 232 of the Act.5

If you are a landlord, managing agent or a tenant, or if you require information regarding this designation, or to apply for a licence, further information and assistance is available from the Council’s Private Rented Property Licensing Team by telephone on 020 7525 3114 or by email to resi@southwark.gov.uk, or by writing to Private Sector Housing Enforcement Service, PO Box 70063, Queens Road, London, SE15 2HP.

The Designation may be inspected at the above address during office hours. All landlords, managing agents or tenants within the designated area should obtain advice to ascertain whether their property is affected by the Designation by contacting the Council’s Private Rented Property Licensing Team.

Upon the Designation coming into force any person having control of or who manages a licensable property without a licence or allows a licensed property to be occupied by more households or persons other than as authorised by a licence, is liable to prosecution and upon summary conviction is liable to an unlimited fine pursuant to the provisions of section 95 of the Housing Act 2004. A person who breaches a condition of a licence is liable upon summary conviction to an unlimited fine. The Council, as an alternative to initiating a prosecution, may pursue one or more of a range of other enforcement actions including the imposition of a financial penalty of up to £30,000 and/or taking management control of the unlicensed property. Further, where an offence has been committed an application may also be made by the Council and/or tenant under the provisions of section 96 and 97 of the Housing Act 2004 for a Rent Repayment Order to pay back up to 12 months’ rent, Housing Benefit or Universal Credit. No notice under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 may be given in relation to an assured shorthold tenancy of the whole or part of an unlicensed house so long as it remains an unlicensed house.

Signed by Caroline Bruce, Strategic Director of Environment, Neighbourhoods & Growth for and on behalf of the London Borough of Southwark on 14 June 2023

1 For the definition of "house" see sections 79 and 99 of the Act

2 Section 55 of the Act defines which Houses in Multiple Occupation are required to be licensed under the Act. See also The Lic ensing of Houses.in Multiple Occupation (Prescribed Descriptions) (England) Order 2005 (SI 2006/371)

3 Additional Licensing covers HMOs that are not within the scope of Mandatory HMO Licensing where tenants share one or more ‘basic amenities’ i.e. a WC, personal washing facilities or cooking facilities. ‘Section 257’ HMO buildings would need a selective licence unless; an individual flat was itself multiply occupied which would need an additional or mandatory HMO licence depending on the number of persons accommodated or, where the building or part of a building is of three or more storeys that have been converted into three or more self-contained flats and where both the building and self -contained f lats it contains are under the same ownership or considered by the council to be effectively under the same control.

4 Section 79 (3) of the Act. For the definition of a Registered Social Landlord see Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996 Section 232 of the Act and paragraph 11 of SI 373/2006

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Annex A: 2 Maps below showing selective licensing designations 3 and 4 with the designation boundaries marked in red and the designation areas marked in light blue for designation 3 and blue for designation 4

Designation 3

Map below showing selective licensing designation 3 with the designation boundaries marked in red and the designation areas marked in light blue

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Designation 4

Maps below showing selective licensing designation 4 with the designation boundaries marked in red and the designation areas marked in blue for designation 4

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (FENWICK ROAD) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable telecoms infrastructure works to be carried out, it intends to make an order, the effect of which would be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in Fenwick Road, between its junctions with Amott Road and East Dulwich Road (Southernmost East-West arm).

3.The alternative route for affected traffic would be Amott Road, Gowlett Road and East Dulwich Road (Southernmost East-West arm).

4.Exemptions would be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

5.The restrictions would not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

6.The works would be in operation from 4th– 6th September 2023.

7.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 17th August 2023

Ian Law

Traffic Manager

London Borough of Southwark

Network Management

Regulatory Services

Environment and Leisure

160 Tooley Street PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX

Ref: LO00000500310346007 – bt centercomms

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (MANOR PLACE, BRAGANZA STREET, CHAPTER ROAD, DELVERTON ROAD, TARVER ROAD) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable carriageway resurfacing works to be carried out, it intends to make an order, the effect of which would be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads and alter traffic flow schemes in sections of the above named roads.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in:-

(a) Braganza Street, between its junctions with Kennington Park Road and Chapter Road.

(b) Chapter Road, between its junctions with Westcott Road and Braganza Street.

(c) Manor Place, between its junctions with Chapter Road and Penton Place.

(d) Delverton Road, between its junctions with Manor Place and Tarver Road.

(e) Tarver Road, between its junctions with Delverton Road and Abbeyfield Road.

3.The alternative route for affected traffic would be Penton Place, Kennington Park Road, Kennington Park Place, Cooks Road and Westcott Road.

4.The existing ‘one way’ Northbound only traffic flow scheme in Chapter Road, between Westcott Road and Manor Place would be suspended to allow ‘two way’ traffic flow for access and egress purposes only.

5.Exemptions would be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

6.The restrictions would not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

7.The works would be in operation from 27th September – 2nd October 2023.

8.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 17th August 2023

Ian Law

Traffic Manager

London Borough of Southwark Network Management

Regulatory Services

Environment and Leisure

160 Tooley Street PO Box 64529

London SE1 5LX Ref: 65003656 – city grey

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BELVEDERE BUILDINGS, BOMBAY STREET) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable bridge examination works to be carried out, it intends to make an order, the effect of which would be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in :-

(a) Belvedere Buildings, between its junctions with King James Street and Webber Street.

(b) Bombay Street, between the intersection of its North East - South West arm with North West - South West arm and the South East boundary wall of number 16.

3.The alternative route for affected traffic would be:-

(a) King James Street and Rushworth Street.

(b) Blue Anchor Lane, Southwark Park Road and Bombay Street (North - South arm).

4.Exemptions would be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

5.The restrictions would not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

6.The works would be in operation from:-

(a) 28th - 29th September 2023 between 2200-0600 hrs.

(b) 19th - 20th September 2023 between 2200-0600 hrs.

7.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 17th August 2023

Ian Law

Traffic Manager London Borough of Southwark

Network Management

Regulatory Services

Environment and Leisure

160 Tooley Street

PO Box 64529

London SE1 5LX

Ref: (2a) HHH-01-08-280923 – centurion TM (2b) LBW-01-17-190923 – centurion TM

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BROWNING STREET)

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable highways scheme improvement works to be carried out, it intends to make an order, the effect of which would be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in Browning Street, between its junctions with Brandon Street and Walworth Road.

3.The alternative route for affected traffic would be Brandon Street, Portland Street, Albany Road, Camberwell Road, Walworth Road, Heygate Street and Rodney Road.

4.Exemptions would be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

5.The restrictions would not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

6.The works would be in operation from 25th September – 2nd December 2023.

7.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 17th August 2023

Ian Law Traffic Manager

London Borough of Southwark

Network Management

Regulatory Services

Environment and Leisure

160 Tooley Street

PO Box 64529

London SE1 5LX

Ref: 42256288– lbs conways

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1)

(BERMONDSEY WALL EAST, LOFTIE STREET, FORT ROAD, LANDCROFT ROAD, JENNINGS ROAD, LUCEY ROAD, OLD JAMAICA ROAD, SUN PASSAGE, FREAN STREET, MARINE STREET)

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable mains replacement works to be carried out, it intends to make an order, the effect of which would be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads and alter traffic flow schemes in part of the above named roads.

2.Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload at any time in:

(a) Bermondsey Wall East, between its junction with Bevington Street and the Eastern boundary of number 202.

(b) Bermondsey Wall East, between its junctions with Bevington Street and Loftie Street.

(c) Fort Road, between its junctions with Balaclava Road and Alma Grove.

(d) Landcroft Road, between its junctions with Heber Road and Jennings Road

(e) Jennings Road, between its junction with Landcroft Road and the Eastern boundary of number 12.

(f) Lucey Road, between its junctions with Goodwin Close and Rouel Road.

(g) Old Jamaica Road, between its junctions with Abbey Street and Marine Street.

(h) Old Jamaica Road, between its junctions with Thurland Road and Marine Street.

3.The alternative route for affected traffic in 2(a-h) would be:-

(a) Bevington Street, Scott Lidgett Crescent, Janeway Street, Emba Street and Wilson Grove.

(b) Bevington Street, Chambers Street and Loftie Street.

(c) Balaclava Road, Lynton Road and Alma Grove.

(d) Lordship Lane, Goodrich Road, Landcroft Road and Pellatt Road.

(e) Goodrich Road, Crystal Palace Road and Heber Road.

(f) Rouel Road, Spa Road, Grange Road, Southwark Park Road and Yalding Road.

(g) & (h) Abbey Street, Enid Street, Rouel Road, Spa Road and Thurland Road.

4.The existing ‘one way’ Southbound only traffic flow scheme in Loftie Street would be suspended to allow ‘two way’ flow for access and egress purposes only. (2b)

5.The existing ‘one way’ Northbound only traffic flow scheme in Sun Passage, between Frean Street and Old Jamaica Road would be suspended to allow ‘two way’ flow for access and egress purposes only. (2g)(2h)

6.The existing ‘one way’ Eastbound only traffic flow scheme in Frean Street, between Marine Street and Sun Passage, would be suspended to allow ‘two way’ flow for access and egress purposes only. (2g)(2h)

7.The existing ‘one way’ Southbound only traffic flow scheme in Marine Street, between Old Jamaica Road and Frean Street, would be suspended to allow ‘two way’ flow for access and egress purposes only. (2g)(2h)

8.Exemptions would be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.

9.The restrictions would not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

10.The works would be in operation from:-

(a) & (b) 22nd September – 23rd November 2023.

(c) 18th September 2023 – 18th January 2024.

(d) 28th August – 28th November 2023.

(e) 15th September – 28th November 2023.

(f) 18th September – 6th December 2023.

(g) & (h) 25th September – 19th November 2023.

11.Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk

Dated this 17th August 2023

Ian Law Traffic Manager London Borough of Southwark

Network Management

Regulatory Services

Environment and Leisure 160 Tooley Street PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX

Ref: (2a)&(2b) BER2-BWAE100-01 – thames (2c) BER8-FORT183-01 – thames (2d) 5515-04 –thames (2e) 5515-05 – thames (2f) BER6-LUCR166-01 – thames (2g)(2h) BER3-OJR407-01thames

LICENSING ACT 2003 APPLICATION FOR GRANT OF PREMISES LICENCE

Aji (Restaurants) Limited has applied to the London Borough of Lambeth for the grant of a premises licence, in respect of the following premises:

Jeux Jeux, Riverside Building, County Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB

which would authorise the following licensable activities:

Supply of alcohol, everyday, 12:00 - 23:00

Recorded music, everyday, 11:00 - 23:00

Live music, everyday, 11:00 - 23:00

The record of this application may be inspected during normal office hours by an appointment at the Licensing Section, London Borough of Lambeth, 3rd floor Civic Centre, 6 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1EG, or via the licensingauthority’s website, at www.lambeth.gov.uk/licensing

A responsible authority or any other person may make representation to the licensing authority in respect of this application. Representations must be made in writing, either by post to the above address, or by email to licensing@lambeth.gov.uk and must be received no later than

5th September 2023

It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with a licensing application, and the maximum fine for which a person is liable on summary conviction for that offence shall not exceed level 5 on the standard scale (£5,000).

By Sport Reporter

sam cUrran held his nerve after a potentially crucial no-ball as oval Invincibles edged London spirit by two runs in a last-ball thriller to extend their lead at the top of the men's hundred table to four points.

Curran overstepped bowling what should have been the final delivery of the game, leaving Spirit requiring three from the final ball to overhaul Invincibles' total of 189-4 at The Kia Oval on Tuesday.

But the England seamer then bowled Chris Wood with a superb yorker off the resulting free hit as Spirit finished on 187-7 in a cracker of a London derby that featured 22 sixes across the two innings.

Spirit's Matt Critchley (32no off 13) fired the final maximum of the night, hauling Curran over the leg-side to cut his team's requirement to eight from two balls, but was then denied another six as Ross Whiteley pulled off a stunning one-handed save at deep midwicket.

Curran sent down a no-ball next up with Spirit needing six for victory but the visitors only ran one when Critchley drove the bowler to long-off, believing at the time that the game was done.

That left Wood on strike for the re-bowled final delivery and he had his stumps splattered as Invincibles moved to nine points from six games and Spirit were left on four from five, although that is only one point off the top three as things stand.

Will Jacks had earlier fired with bat and ball for Invincibles, cracking four maximums in his 68 off 42 balls and then taking two wickets with his offspin in the space of three balls.

The England man's double strike - Adam Rossington (61 off 32) and Michael Pepper (0 off 2) the Spirit players to fall - came amid the visitors slipping from 94-0 to 96-3 in six deliveries, at which point the requirement for the away side was 94 from 45 deliveries.

Cameos from Dan Lawrence (24), Matthew Wade (19) and Critchley kept Spirit in the game and they needed 17 heading into Curran's final set of five deliveries.

A single for Wood and a two for Critchley kicked things off - and then carnage followed.

invincibles edge Final-ball thriller

Curran survives late scare to see off Spirit

Sam Curran bowled a noball to give rivals chance

Magic Wand earns point

By John Kelly

LUke WanaDIo scored twice as ten-man Dulwich hamlet opened their Isthmian League premier Division campaign with a thrilling 2-2 at hashtag United last weekend.

Dulwich took a point away from Essex despite Manny Parry’s dismissal just 22 minutes in, as they were indebted to goalkeeper Jack Ruddy who produced a series of outstanding saves.

Parry was dismissed for a lastman foul on the edge of the box after the hosts - who won 21 games in a row last season - had made the better start.

Dulwich survived an onslaught for the next thirteen minutes before they went ahead against the run of play when Kreshnic Krasniqi found Wanadio who twisted and turned before finding the bottom-left corner.

The Hamlet were even more up against it as manager Hakan Hayrettin was forced into using all three substitutes before the break. Ryley Scott and Elliott Romain went off injured, and in a tactical change Cem Tumkaya came on for Ademola Shokunbi.

Despite all of that, the visitors took a 1-0 lead into half-time.

Hashtag piled on the pressure and Ruddy proceed a remarkable save from Max Cornhill’s volley, when some home fans were already celebrating what they thought was the equaliser.

Ruddy continued his oneman show of defiance with more stunning saves, before the Scotsman was eventually beaten in the 73rd minute.

And in an ironic twist, it was one of his own players who put the ball past him as a low cross went in off Tumkaya. The goal was not without controversy as the Dulwich players claimed the ball had gone out over the endline before the cross.

Jacks was backed up with the bat for Invincibles by Heinrich Klaasen (46no off 24), Curran (35 off 17) and Jason Roy (23 off 18), while Australia spinner Adam Zampa also picked up two wickets for the hosts in the Spirit run chase.

New Zealand's Daryl Mitchell (2-16)

and Nathan Ellis (2-36) shared four wickets for Spirit, with Ellis on a hattrick in the final over of the Invincibles innings after having Curran pouched on the boundary and then nicking off Whiteley (0) first ball.

Spirit batter Rossington subsequently bossed his 94-run opening stand with

Zak Crawley (19), nailing four sixes and six fours, before he was pinned lbw on the reverse sweep by Jacks, three balls after Crawley had been bowled by a Curran slower ball. The Invincibles are away at Southern Brave on Saturday. The match starts at 6pm.

Five-star teens drive Dulwich to Valley victory

By John Lewis

DULWIch once again fielded five players under the age of 20 in their aJ Fordham surrey championship Division 1 match at valley end last weekend, and all made significant contributions in securing victory by 107 runs.

Dulwich chose to bat and eightee-yearold Ollie Sykes led the way in a dynamic opening partnership with Ollie Steele which took full advantage of the fielding

restrictions to put on 74 for the first wicket in just 11.4 overs. Steele was first to go, having played a supporting role in making 23 off 34 balls. Sykes passed his half century shortly afterwards off just 39 balls, but soon lost Apoorv Wankhade and skipper Chris Purshouse as Dulwich declined to 96-3 after 17.2 overs.

This brought in 17-year-old Sam Seecharan, and together they added 62 in fifteen overs for the fourth wicket before Sykes fell for 89, off 85 balls. Seecharan was now joined by Ahmed Khan, a first team regular for the last four years despite still being only eighteen. They added 60 together in just 10.3 overs before Seecharan fell for 59 off 82 balls, his first half century for the club. The next four batsmen were either run out or leg before

as the innings closed on 263-9 after 50 overs, leaving Khan undefeated on 47, off 57 balls.

By a remarkable coincidence, the Valley End openers also put on 74 for the first wicket, in just eleven overs. The onslaught was led by South African overseas player Josh Dodd, who emulated Sykes by reaching his half century off 39 balls. But there the similarity ended, as Dodd failed to go on, falling leg before to Khan two balls later. The Dulwich bowlers then worked their way through the rest of the order. Khan picked up the second wicket, and Seecharan took the next two in a superb spell of accurate pace bowling which gave him 2-21 off seven overs.

Jon Lodwick then returned for a second spell in which he took two wickets for

seven runs in five overs to finish with 2-19 off seven. Kaif Ramzan, 19, took the seventh wicket. Khan chipped in with the eighth and Ramzan took the last two in successive balls. Valley End had lost all ten wickets for 82 runs in 24.3 overs, to be all out for 156 after 35.2. Ramzan finished with 3-23 off 6.2 overs and Khan 3-38 off eight. The fifth teenage player, eighteen-year-old keeper Robbie Keaton, also excelled in taking three catches and a stumping.

Dulwich had been in seventh place for the last nine matches, since losing the first meeting between these sides in early June, but now move up one place to sixth.

This weekend, they have a home fixture against Camberley, who are in eighth position and are one of three clubs fighting to avoid relegation.

The away side responded well to that setback and just three minutes later took the lead again as Wanadio went past Harry Haysom and fired another shot into the same corner as his first.

It appeared Dulwich had done enough to take all three points, but the thriller had a fitting ending as Toby Aromolaran’s effort was deflected and the ball looped over the luckless Ruddy.

If this game was a sign of things to come, Dulwich fans are in for a rollercoaster season.

Photo by Mark Sandom

Oval Invincibles 189-4 (100) beat London Spirit 187-7 (100) by two runs Valley End 156 (35.2) lost to Dulwich 263-9 (50) by 107 runs

Hakan Hayrettin

Bobby eyes improvement

By John Kelly

MatCh-WInner bobby De cordova-reid said “there is room for improvement” after Fulham’s opening-day 1-0 win against everton at Goodison park last weekend.

Substitute De Cordova- Reid finished a pass from Andreas Pereira to give Marco Silva’s side all three points.

“It’s always nice to start with three points,” De Cordova-Reid said. “We’ll continue to build, we’ve still got a lot of room for improvement, and we’ll get on the training pitch and we’ll do that.

“It’s always nice to get three points away at Goodison Park. The lads worked really hard in difficult conditions. [Everton] were really at it and we weathered the storm, and thankfully we got the goal.

“We understand that with Sean Dyche’s teams they’re going to be right on it, high energy, and we have to weather the storm. And we did so, and we got our own chance and we scored it, so we’re really pleased with it, and we’ll continue to build.”

Cottagers goalkeeper Bernd Leno made nine saves. Fulham scored from one of their two efforts on target.

Silva said: “That was not a good performance from ourselves at all. I think overall during the game, we didn’t perform at our level.

“Even if we started the game well, after the first fifteen, 20 minutes we started to lose so many balls in our build-up, in certain areas. We gave so many chances for Everton to punish us in counter-attacks.”

By John Kelly

CHELSEA MANAGER Mauricio

Pochettino eased fears that Reece James picked up an injury in the 1-1 draw against Liverpool last Sunday, explaining the new club captain was taken off because he was “tired”. James appeared to hold his calf in the 76th minute of a thrilling game, before he was replaced by Malo Gusto.

Luis Diaz gave the Reds the lead in the eighteenth minute before debut defender Axel Disasi equalised in the 37th minute.

Pochettino was asked about James in the post-match press conference.

“Because he was tired. You need to see from where he came. The first thing we did when we arrived was to assess and analyse all of the players from the past. He was injured for three or four months,” Pochettino said. “This preseason was tough for him, we didn't

poch allays James Fears

want to take any risk and that is why at 80 minutes, we wanted to avoid the risk.”

Pochettino also explained the decision to give James the captaincy.

He said: “After nearly six weeks working, we decided with the club to give the armband to him because I think he is the perfect profile. He is a fantastic player, he is a fantastic boy, loves Chelsea and he is a leader.

“The team-mates respect him and everyone in the club respects him and the fans love him also. I think he is a perfect player to be a captain.”

Pochettino was pleased with his side’s response after Jurgen Klopp’s visitors started much better and also had a Mo Salah goal ruled out at 1-0 after a VAR check for offside.

“I think the beginning was flat, it was difficult, it was better after fifteen, 20 minutes,” Pochettino said. “After we started to feel more comfortable on the

pitch, I think we started to find our ways to play and find our positions that we working on the training ground. After that I thought the performance was really good.

“I am so pleased with the performance, we deserved to win because we only conceded one shot on target against a team like Liverpool. It's only the start, only the beginning after six weeks together. I say thank you to all of the staff in all of the areas of the club and the players, they are the principal actors.”

Pochettino, who was appointed in the summer, added: “When we arrived here on the first day we didn't want to talk about the past. In football it's about moving on, even when some action happens on the pitch, you need to move on because if you are thinking about what happened two seconds before you are not going to be ready and anticipate the action that is coming. Which is the most important action in football? It's

this one. That is always what we want to settle from the beginning. When we arrive it's about the present and the future.

“But I am so pleased because when some difficult moments appeared, the team was there and the crowd was fantastic. It was very good for the team to keep fighting and never giving up.

“I think today in the second half the team finds very good positions. In the opposite half, it is how we want to dominate games even if we are playing a team like Liverpool. It is only the beginning. It is only the first step. I am so pleased but we are far away from what we expect and want from them. We are going to push every day to take them to every area, every single relationship, individual and collective we need to be better and better and better.

“It will help when the transfer window closes, it's going to be fantastic and we are in a tough time to work.”

By John Kelly

QUeens park rangers have a “diamond” on their hands in sinclair armstrong, according to r’s boss Gareth ainsworth.

Armstrong, 20, scored his first goal for the side and set up Kenneth Paal for the second as QPR recovered from their 4-0 opening-day mauling at Watford to win 2-1 at Cardiff City last weekend.

The Hoops signed Armstrong from Irish side Shamrock Rovers in 2020.

“We have worked hard with Sincs this week on what he is good at: pace and power,” Ainsworth said.

“If we can keep opening up the spaces for him to use then he’ll be a threat to any defence.

“I told him at the hotel he was going to score his first goal, and the beaming smile on his face gave me confidence, never mind him.

“The way Paul Smyth put it on a plate for him for was brilliant, but I was really pleased with the composure he showed for the second goal and Kenneth made an unbelievable 50yard run for a great finish.

“Sincs is still a work in progress but I think we have a real diamond there.”

Armstrong went off with cramp in

the second half.

Ainsworth said: “He is young, he has come out of a lower level in Ireland and due to the intensity of the Championship he hasn’t really had enough games to go to the well and know what it feels like.

“But he will get there. We’ll get him fitter but there is a trade-off that we don’t want him injured.

“He is a powerful boy, he’s like a 100-metre sprinter and the fastest player I have ever worked with.”

After Aaron Ramsey hit the bar, Armstrong gave the visitors the lead in the 34th minute before Paal made it 2-0 in the 65th minute.

Ike Ugbo tapped in with twelve minutes left, and the home side almost grabbed an equaliser in the 89th minute only for Mark McGuinness’s effort to hit the bar.

Ainsworth revealed after the win in the Welsh capital that he did some soul-searching after the defeat against the Hornets.

“My system and setting the boys up didn’t give them the best chance of winning, and it has been a big week for me,” Ainsworth said.

“It’s a big day for me, a long week, and I can’t thank the boys enough for their time with me and patterns on the training ground about how I want

to do things.

“I really did think, ‘How do I get the best out of the players I have got rather than what has got me success [at Wycombe] in the past?’

“I had to say to myself, ‘This is new, Gareth’ and I thought I was stifling what the boys are good at, so we changed things up.

“There are still some nonnegotiables with me and fundamentals, like scrapping and giving their all, but there was a little bit of a more of a style, which I enjoyed. The boys went out there and delivered.”

‘Diamond’ Sincs helps QPR to victory against Cardiff City

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Rowett defends tactics after Bristol City loss

By Kiro Evans

Gary roW ett has given a staunch defence of his back five formation following last week's 1-0 loss to Bristol city.

Some fans had criticised the manager's tactics and urged the Millwall boss to return to the more traditional back four which the club played for most of last season.

But Rowett has backed his ideas and pointed to the opening day win at Middlesbrough and April's triumph at Blackpool as evidence that the formation does work.

The Lions manager even referenced Manchester City as he looked to explain why he thinks one system is not objectively better than the other. He told our paper: "It's just preference as a manager for certain games. Everyone has an opinion and everyone is entitled to an opinion and if you pay your money of course you can have whatever opinion you want.

"But if you look at the last ten games, our two best performances have been

Blackpool away and Middlesbrough away. We played a back five in both. Did anyone sit there after the secondhalf against Blackburn [the 4-3 loss in May] and say 'I'm really glad we played a back four because it worked a treat?'

"It's a talking point, it's something I think about all the time. In certain games it suits us and we've spoken about the flexibility. We spoke about our home form and that home form has been largely with a back four and it's not been as good as we want [this year].

"So as a manager you're trying to do something about it and find solutions. On Saturday, we didn't do that. But for me it's not about [just formation]. Man City played a back five in the Champions Final and won.

"Does the back five suit us? I think that's an opinion and something I'll always look at.

"I know it's a hot topic of conversation and it's not for me to say right or wrong. But I'm not going to sit here and try to justify my tactics on a weekly basis whether we've won or lost as I don't think that's the right thing to do either."

Magic Wand helps Hamlet to point

By John Kelly

LUke WanaDIo scored twice as ten-man Dulwich hamlet opened their Isthmian League premier Division campaign with a thrilling 2-2 at hashtag United last weekend.

Dulwich took a point away from Essex despite Manny Parry’s dismissal just 22 minutes in, as they were indebted to goalkeeper Jack Ruddy who produced a series of outstanding saves.

Parry was dismissed for a last-man foul on the edge of the box after the hostswho won 21 games in a row last season - had made the better start.

Dulwich survived an onslaught for the next thirteen minutes before they went ahead against the run of play when Kreshnic Krasniqi found Wanadio who twisted and turned before finding the bottom-left corner.

The Hamlet were even more up against it as manager Hakan Hayrettin was forced into using all three substitutes before the break.

b illy's call F or calm

By Kiro Evans

BILLy mI tcheLL has urged against an "emotional swing" after millwall suffered some bumps in the road in their early season form. Optimism from the opening day win at Middlesbrough has receded after the Lions lost back-to-back home games in the Carabao Cup against Reading and then in the Championship against Bristol City.

But midfielder Mitchell, 22, said he and his teammates were staying calm with so long in the season still to go.

He said: "It's been a mixed bag so far. The performance against Boro and the

on opening day

Ryley Scott and Elliott Romain went off injured, and in a tactical change Cem Tumkaya came on for Ademola Shokunbi.

Despite all of that, the visitors took a 1-0 lead into half-time.

Hashtag piled on the pressure and Ruddy proceed a remarkable save from Max Cornhill’s volley, when some home fans were already celebrating what they thought was the equaliser.

Ruddy continued his one-man show of defiance with more stunning saves, before the Scotsman was eventually beaten in the 73rd minute.

And in an ironic twist, it was one of his own players who put the ball past him as a low cross went in off Tumkaya. The goal was not without controversy as the Dulwich players claimed the ball had gone out over the endline before the cross.

The away side responded well to that setback and just three minutes later took the lead again as Wanadio went past Harry Haysom and fired another shot

into the same corner as his first. It appeared Dulwich had done enough to take all three points, but the thriller had a fitting ending as Toby Aromolaran’s effort was deflected and the ball looped over the luckless Ruddy. If this game was a sign of things to come, Dulwich fans are in for a rollercoaster season.

Dulwich hamlet: 1 Jack Ruddy, 2 Sanchez Ming, 4 Mark Ricketts (c), 5 Michael Chambers, 6 Manny Parry, 7 Luke Wanadio, 8 Ryley Scott (15 Kreshnic Krasniqi 35’), 10 Anthony Jeffery, 16 Ademola Shokunbi (12 Cem Tumkaya 23’), 18 Jerome BinnomWilliams, 19 Elliot Romain (9 Danny Mills 45+2’)

Unused substitutes: 11 Miquel Scarlett, 20 Richard Pingling

attendance: 399

referee: Adam Merchant

result was fantastic. But it's important given a couple of disappointing results in the league to not have too big of an emotional swing.

"You cannot judge any team off the back of two or three games. I think you need to wait until probably near ten games to really assess where the team and squad is at. Had we performed like we did in the Boro match for all three games people would perhaps say we might be promoted, and after the other two games [we would be tipped] for the other end of the table.

"So I think it's important to maintain level heads and realise we're only two games in to a 46-game minimum season

and just keep working away and see where we are come 10 games in."

One positive from Saturday was the emotional pre-match scenes as everyone at Millwall came together to pay tribute to former chairman John Berylson, who died in a car accident last month.

Mitchell said: "I think it was a testament to all the Millwall fans who turned up in their numbers to support the chairman who has been fantastic for the club.

"Fair play to his family who looked remarkably strong and represented [the club] really well. So I think it was a great day but it's a shame we couldn't get the result to match."

Former Lion makes temp Bromley exit

By John Kelly

B rom L ey have sent exmillwall forward George alexander on loan to national League south side slough town until January.

Alexander, 22, scored six goals in seven games on loan at the Rebels late last season.

The striker also spent time on loan at Welling United in 2022-23 and scored a hat-trick against Slough.

Alexander signed a new contract at Bromley last season. He has played 42 times for Bromley and scored seven goals.

Alexander came on in the 83rd minute of the Ravens’ 2-0 defeat at Halifax on the opening day of the National League last weekend. Meanwhile, Marcus Sablier has

joined Isthmian Premier Division side Cheshunt on a short-term loan. Midfielder Sablier has previously had loan spells at Bowers & Pitsea, Hampton & Richmond Borough and Cray Wanderers.

Rashid Kamara has joined AFC Croydon Athletic on a short-term loan deal.

George Alexander in action for former club Millwall

Billy Mitchell has started both league matches so far

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Charlton concede in 98th minute against Joey Barton’s side

Paul Green at The Valley

charLton manaGer Dean holden insisted his squad will not be feeling sorry for themselves after conceding a 98th-minute goal at home to Bristol rovers on tuesday.

The Gas took the lead on 58 minutes when Antony Evans’ free-kick was initially saved by Ashley Maynard-Brewer, only for the ball to be played back in by Aaron Collins allowing Scott Sinclair to tap home.

Sinclair saw an audacious chip over Maynard-Brewer fly agonisingly wide and

then former Millwall striker John Marquis had an effort cleared off the line by Lucas Ness as Rovers went in search of a second. Instead it was Charlton who drew level in the 73rd minute as substitute Daniel Kanu drilled a low shot from inside the box past Matthew Cox.

Alfie May almost grabbed his first Addicks goal on 89 minutes with a 20-yard shot that cannoned back off the post with Panutche Camara unable to convert from the rebound.

But there was to be late heartbreak for the hosts when Luke McCormick struck Rovers’ winning goal in the eighth minute of

stoppage time to consign Charlton to backto-back league defeats.

Holden said: “I think we started the first half well. I thought we had some good chances. They’ve had one moment really in that first half where we’ve not got tight early enough around the halfway line, they’ve wriggled out of trouble and they had that one chance.

“When we conceded the first goal I think we got a little bit ragged. We were going to bring Daniel Kanu on anyway but we immediately got ragged, we went 4-4-2.

“They had an extra man in midfield, there

were gaps appearing and we were chasing it a little.

“I think that was when one of the ones off the line was cleared from Nessy.”

The Valley boss added: “Quickly we got that goal back and we really put our foot to the gas and should have come out with at least a point, there is no doubt about that.

“But we have to be better defensively, of course we do. We have to be better in both boxes at the moment.

“There are a lot of really good signs, there is a lot of really good stuff but we’re being punished.

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“The last thing we will do is feel sorry for ourselves. We are going to need our supporters behind us again at home to Port Vale at the weekend.

“I thought they were excellent again tonight even when they scored the first goal they were still continually singing.

“They can see the boys are giving everything. Yes, there is a little bit of [lack of] concentration and a bit of naivety but the boys are giving everything, you can see that.

“I think for the most part we had a really good shape defensively but we didn’t get what we deserved again.”

Chelsea take spending under Todd Boehly to over £900million

By John Kelly

cheLsea contInUeD their lavish spending spree this week as they splurged £173 million on two defensive midfielders to take their outlay under owner todd Boehly to over £900million since last summer.

After the Blues confirmed the £115million signing of Moises Caicedo from Brighton & Hove Albion earlier this week, they were set to complete another raid on the south coast after agreeing a deal worth up to £58million with Southampton for Romeo Lavia.

In a remarkable week, Chelsea beat Liverpool to the signings of both players. The Reds had agreed a fee of £110million for Caicedo and £60million for Lavia, but both players opted to join Mauricio Pochettino’s side instead.

The pair join £106million World Cup winner Enzo Fernandez in Chelsea’s midfield.

Conor Gallagher started alongside Fernandez in the 1-1 draw against Liverpool at Stamford Bridge last weekend but he could now be made available for transfer. Tottenham have been linked with a move for the England international.

Chelsea have spent over £285million this summer, recruiting Christopher Nkunku, Axel Disasi, Nicolas Jackson, Robert Sanchez, Lesley Ugochukwu, Angelo Gabriel, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Diego Moreira and Alex Matos.

The Blues have recouped more than £230million by offloading Kai Havertz, Mason Mount, Mateo Kovacic, Christian Pulisic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Kalidou Koulibaly, Edouard Mendy and Ethan Ampadu.

Chelsea’s spending is not yet done as they have triggered the £35million release clause in Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise’s contract.

The France under-21 international

is currently recovering from a hamstring injury he picked up at this summer’s European Championships.

Hammersmith’s Olise, 21, was in Chelsea’s academy until 2016 before he went to Manchester City and then Reading, where he made his senior debut.

Palace paid the Royals £8million for Olise in 2021 and he has scored six goals in 71 appearances for the Eagles. He is more renowned for his assisting abilities, registering eleven in the Premier League last season.

Reds boss Jurgen Klopp was asked about Pochettino’s success in the transfer market this summer and

couldn’t resist a dig as he said: “That's what Chelsea managers want and they usually get it.”

Moises Caicedo in action for Brighton last season