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By Robert Firth Fears HaVe been raised by oppositon politicians that southwark is ‘sleepwalking towards social segregation’ after it was revealed new council homes funded by developer cash are concentrated in the poorest areas.

Analysis of council figures by Southwark Liberal Democrats shows that over two thirds (68 per cent) of planned council homes earmarked for Section 106 cash are in Southwark’s three poorest wards: the Old Kent Road, Peckham and Faraday in Walworth.

Section 106 money is cash handed to the council by developers to fund affordable housing elsewhere in the borough when it

can’t be included within the development itself.

The median household income in the three wards was between £33,000 and £35,000 in 2022, compared to £44,000 in the wider borough.

In contrast, just two per cent of new council homes being funded by Section 106 cash are in London Bridge and West Bermondsey, where the median household income is above the borough average, standing at £49,000 per year.

This is despite 70 per cent of the council’s Section 106 money coming from developments in London Bridge and West Bermondsey.

Councillor Victor Chamberlain, leader of Southwark Liberal Democrats, said: “We desperately need more affordable housing in See sport

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the north of Southwark if we’re to maintain the social cohesion and diversity that makes our borough so great.”

Cllr Chamberlain, member for Borough and Bankside, also raised concerns that the disproportionate allocation of Section 106 cash meant residents in areas with high levels of development weren’t seeing the benefits of it locally.

The Labour-led council rejected Cllr Chamberlain’s concerns saying it was ‘confident’ its current approach to building ‘maximised delivery’ and wasn’t at risk of creating segregated communities.

The council said it had secured ‘substantial’ numbers of social homes through private developments in wards including Borough and Bankside and North Bermondsey, where the median household income is

above Southwark’s average.

A council spokesperson added: “Southwark is one of the most mixed boroughs in terms of housing tenure with the highest proportion of affordable homes of any council in the country. Our council homes building programme is ambitious and we have been building new homes in every part of the borough. However it also relies on finance and land availability. The s106 planning payments are an important source of funding and site availability dictates location.”

Last month, the council agreed to release over £35 million in Section 106 money for affordable housing in Southwark. The cash will go towards supporting the construction of over 1,600 council homes across the borough.

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rotHerHitHe Girl used Her last £200 saviNGs to Build a siX-FiGure cat-sittiNG BusiNess

By Isabel Ramirez

A Born-And-Bred rotherhithe girl used her last £200 to build a sixfigure cat-sitting business.

Michelle Adams, who grew up around Surrey Docks, said she never could have imagined her love of cats could go on to earn her a living.

After leaving school with ‘no meaningful grades’, Michelle went to college to study musical theatre.

“Growing up, Mum didn’t have much but she always took me to libraries and museums on the weekends.”

She said it was these trips out with her mum that helped to broaden her horizons and aspire for more.

“I went to Goldsmiths to study education,” the 35-year-old told us, “I thought I was going to be a teacher.”

Cat-sitting came about as a way to earn some extra money when studying.

But when she graduated, despite having a degree and a master’s, Michelle said she struggled to get a job.

“That’s when I thought I could do catsitting full-time,” she said.

“The idea is when people go away they

often like someone to stay in their house with their cat - cats like to be in their own home.”

Michelle continued: “I only had £200 in the bank, but I had built up a small client base who said they’d follow whatever I did.”

She spent the money on creating a website for her brand, Chatty Cats Care.

When she started to get busy, she started hiring students to work for her. “It’s the ideal student job - flexible, not stressful. I went to university job fairs and advertised there.”

Casual workers and students alike, Michelle said the job is also good for people who might struggle in workplace environments.

“I have some staff who are neurodiverse and they do such a great job.

“It helps with anxiety to have an animal around.”

Although she didn’t disclose her salary, she gave us a hint as to how the business was going - “In a year it made £120,000.”

Michelle commented that just before starting the business, she had just lost her dear cat, Gerry, whom she’d had for most of her life.

Gerry, her precious pet who sadly died in 2020

Michelle with one of her cats “He was my grandma’s cat - we took him in when she died. When we lost him it was like losing family.”

“But being around all these cats has helped me to heal from that loss.”

With 74 staff across London and more to be recruited in the summer, it seems things are only looking up. It costs £54 for an overnight stay (£60 for weekends) and

Michelle takes a 25 per cent cut of what the staff make.

The cat that got the cream, Michelle - who has only just started taking days off now that the business is making six figures - said she’s looking to the future.

But the good news is she won’t be going far.

“I want to start a cat cafe and live above

it, hopefully near Tower or London Bridge.”

“The idea is that we would get rescue cats and then people can adopt them.

“I love this area I don’t see myself leaving.”

She added that anyone interested in a job can email her to apply michelle@ chattycatscare.co.uk

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did you kNow soutHwark’s wwii Heroes wHo secretly sNapped NaZis FroM uNarMoured spitFires?

Air-to-air photograph of a reconaissance Mosquito PR.IX LR412 which crashed with the loss of both crew members on the 9th February 1944.

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The remains of Sandy’s Spitfire laid out in Surnadal town hall, Norway. The team deduced from the wreck that the engine had stopped at the time of impact and that the combat encounter with Heinz and Dieter had riddled AA810 with nearly 200 bullet holes. (Hoskins)

Pilots of D Flight 1 PRU relax in the summer of 1941.

Left to Rigt: Michael ‘Babe’ Suckling (killed July 41), unknown, Greenhill (became a Prisoner of War), Watts, Jimmy Swift (killed September 1941), Sgt Perrot – Peter Arnold collection colourised by RJM

A Reconnaissance Spitfire pilot watches on as groundcrew load a reconnaissance camera into his Spitfire at RAF Benson. (Public source colourised by Colour by RJM)

WHO WERE THE SOUTHWARK FOUR? FREDERICK LEGON

By Herbie Russell

allied military planning.

Eighty-five years after the boys from Bermondsey, Walworth and Blackfriars braved the Luftwaffe in pursuit of Allied victory, campaigners are desperate to learn more about them.

Despite suffering a horrendous casualty rate of almost 50 per cent, pilots and navigators who flew with the secret ‘Photographic Reconnaissance Units’ (PRU) have never been formally commemorated.

Roughly 150 MPs, including Bermondsey and Old Southwark’s Neil Coyle, have called for a memorial that would put their achievements back on the map.

The search is now on for more information about William Fisher and Frederick Legon, both born in Bermondsey.

Campaigners also want to know more about Lesley Baker, born in Walworth, and Frederick James, born in the old ward of Newington by Blackfriars Road.

WHAT DID THE PRU DO?

Formed in September 1939, three weeks after Germany invaded Poland, the unit captured more than 26 million images of enemy operations.

The pilots flew in Spitfires and Mosquitos stripped of their armour and guns, increasing their flying range from around 575 to nearly 2,000 miles.

But this left the aircraft incredibly vulnerable to enemy fire meaning of the 1,287 men who flew, there were 500 casualties including 378 killed.

One plane - the Spitfire AA810 - was famously flown by Pilot Flt Lt Alastair “Sandy” Gunn who was part of the iconic ‘Great Escape’.

He bailed from the craft and escaped imprisonment in the Stalag Luft III prison camp only to be recaptured and executed by the Gestapo.

The same campaigners behind the memorial are now rebuilding the plane after it was discovered in a Norwegian peat bog so it can fly again - possibly this year.

PRU servicemen weren’t always Brits citizens of Belgium, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Malawi also served and gave their lives.

Pru aCes’ reconnaissance work - including surveillance of the Bismarck German warship, normandy’s beaches and V2 rocket launching sites - was instrumental to

MPs CallinG for a permanent memorial to these brave men include 75 Conservatives, 50 from labour, and others from the lib

Four ForGotten WWii heroes who flew behind enemy lines to snap clandestine photos of nazi operations could be commemorated in a new monument.

WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE MONUMENT?

dems, duP, snP, Plaid cymru and alliance.

The Spitfire AA810 Project, the organisation behind the campaign, have been spearheading the movement since 2019 but have been hampered by Covidrelated delays.

In November 2021, MPs made passionate representations in favour of a monument at a Westminster Hall debate.

The memorial will probably be situated in “a central London location with historical relevance to the PRUs missions”, campaigner Anthony Hoskins told us.

Visitors will be able to scan the memorial with their phones which links them to a website telling the stories of the individuals who served.

The monument is currently scheduled to be completed and unveiled in 2025.

Neil Coyle MP said: “Southwark continues to amaze and impress me and inevitably the local contribution to this crucial military team is strong.

“Lesley Baker, William Fisher, Frederick James, and Frederick Legon, all served under exceptionally difficult conditions, and I would urge anyone who might have any more information on these four brave men to get in touch please.

“I look forward to working with the Spitfire AA810 Project to establish this memorial and to being able to pay my respects to the local, national and international heroes of this unit once it is completed.”

Frederick Vernon Legon was born in St Olaves, Bermondsey, the son of Albert and Martha Legon.

He trained as a pilot in the RAF converting to the Mosquito aircraft and was ultimately posted to 540 Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron based at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.

On April 10, 1944, Fred and his navigator F/o John Swann took off from RAF Benson for a mission to photograph Friedrichshafen. The crew were met by a number of German fighter aircraft who succeeded in shooting down Fred’s unarmed Mosquito.

Crashing in the Forest of Petit Failly in France, John Swann was able to escape the crash and was taken Prisoner of War. Fred, aged just 24, sadly perished and is buried in Verdun-sur-Meuse.

Williams’ unarmed aircraft with the loss of both crewmen.

William is still missing in action to this day.

FREDERICK JAMES

Frederick Edward James was born in St. Mary Newington, Southwark, served in the PRU during the war, and is believed to have survived the war but little is known about his post-war life.

LESLEY BAKER

Lesley Bernard Baker was born in Walworth, and is known to have served in the PRU, but little else is currently know about his wartime service, or postwar life.

WILLIAM FISHER

William Arthur Fisher was born in Bermondsey, the son of Arthur and Phyllis Fisher.

Selected to train as an RAF Photographer he was posted to No.2 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit based in Africa for operations over the Mediterranean.

He was responsible for the camera operation on the RAF Beaufighter aircraft used in desert conditions, and flew with the aircraft regularly.

On April 6, 1942, William and his pilot took off from RAF Maaten Bagush in Egypt for a reconnaissance of Crete.

They were intercepted by Ltn Wilhelm Schieter of 7./JG27 who shot down

The grave of Frederick Vernon Legon in Verdun-sur-Meuse

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reFuGee cHeFs laNd work at uNique soutH loNdoN caFe reFuGees are working as chefs at a south london cafe that connects communities through the ‘universal language of food’.

Plateful Cafe, on Lewisham Road, not only serves up delicious grub, but also hosts ‘bistro nights’ showcasing the music and customs of the cooks’ cultures.

Hadis, who was a physiotherapist back in Iran, is one of several cooks

who have sought sanctuary in south London.

“Plateful has allowed me to make a better lifestyle for myself in the UK and it’s been great to show off my culture and my style of cooking to customers,” she said.

Last month, Hadis led Nowruz celebrations at the cafe - the Persian New Year which takes place on or around March 20.

That night, diners gathered around a traditional Haft-Sin table to try

Photo by Plateful Cafe

By Herbie Russell

Plateful Cafe founder Iolanda Chirico

traditional dishes like Sabzi Polo Ba Mahi – a herby rice dish served with fried fish.

Traditional Iranian music played on the Tar, a long-necked lute, greeted people as they walked in, and the seven symbols of Nowruz were laid out on each table.

Plateful Cafe boasts a varied and affordable menu with a Syrian mezze platter costing just £7.95 and a full English breakfast priced at a reasonable £6.95.

tHree-year-old Hopes to see aGaiN aFter revolutioNary eye treatMeNt iN waterloo

Photo by Evelina Children’s Hospital

By Herbie Russell

a YounG girl’s eyesight is improving thanks to innovative treatment at evelina Children’s Hospital.

Three-year-old Khadija Chaudhry suffers from a rare form of blindness called LCA4 which has been untreatable until now.

But pioneering gene therapy, which involves inserting healthy gene copies into the eye, is giving kids hope of seeing again.

Khadija, who is from Hull, was just two when her parents noticed her eyes moving abnormally and her vision deteriorating.

Children born with the severe genetic eye condition known as LCA4 have profound visual impairment, and can only distinguish between light and dark.

Her dad Muhammad Muddassir, a doctor in infectious diseases, said: “Her eyesight was affecting her confidence and having her parents around reassured her, as her confidence dipped when she was by herself or in unfamiliar surroundings.”

Khadijah had both her eyes injected with the innovative treatment in two separate procedures at the specialist children’s hospital in Waterloo - an operation that took around one hour to complete.

Neruban Kumaran, lead surgeon for the treatment program, said it was “very promising” that Khadija’s parents had already noticed improvements to her vision.

The first procedure at Evelina London was undertaken by a surgical team including Neruban Kumaran from Evelina London, Roger Wong from St

Sara, another chef from Iran, studied Computer Engineering back home but fled to England two years ago.

As a child, she baked cakes and cooked for her mother, especially during the summer months, and has found “joy” in sharing her dishes with Londoners.

She said: “Moreover, I am excited to embrace the opportunity to learn and prepare dishes from various other countries.”

The other chefs include Faten, Yasmin, Nahed, Sana and Manar, all from Syria.

Iolanda Chirico, Plateful Cafe Founder, said: “I am so happy to be leading on a community initiative by local refugees to bring their cuisines to the local public and show their culinary talents.

“What amazing food and dishes will come your way in Spring 2023 at the Parkside Community Centre thanks to Peabody Housing Association who have generously offered the venue.”

All the money raised at Plateful Cafe’s ticketed fundraising events is used to pay chefs and musicians, and build our training programmes for

a PoliCe officer needed hospital treatment after he was injured whilst detaining a suspect in Walworth.

Thomas’ Hospital, and Chien Wong from Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Specialists from Evelina London Children’s Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital have joined forces to carry out the eye gene therapy.

A team at University College London

and Moorfields Eye Hospital, led by Professor Robin Ali, with the support of the National Institute of Health Research and Moorfields Eye Charity are behind the revolutionary medical care.

The treatment has previously been given to a small number of children at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

refugees wanting employment in the food and hospitality industries.

Met officer injured when detaining suspect in Walworth

By Isabel Ramirez

Khadijah in Evelina

Hadis is one of several cooks who have sought sanctuary in south London

On Monday 8 April around midday, officers were called to reports of a ‘disturbance’ on Walworth Road.

A 22-year-old man was then arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. Whilst detaining him, the officer sustained an injury to his hand.

According to the police, it is not yet known how this occurred.

Despite needing hospital treatment, he is expected to make a full recovery. There were no other injuries.

Chief Inspector Mark Kent, of the Met’s Central South Command, later commented that the incident highlighted the ‘danger’ that officers face daily.

He continued: “There is no place for knives on our streets. This is a city where millions of people live, work and raise their families. There is no need, and no place, for weapons such as this.

“The officer detained an armed suspect placing the safety of those at the scene ahead of his own and I commend him for

his brave actions.

“Nobody should have to go to work wondering if they will finish their shift without being injured. Whilst the officer did require hospital treatment, I am pleased to be able to say that, on this occasion, he is expected to make a full recovery.”

A Met Police spokesperson commented: “At 12:19hrs on Monday, 8 April, officers were called to reports of a disturbance on Walworth Road, SE17.

Officers attended and a man was detained at the scene.

During the arrest of the suspect, an officer sustained an injury to his hand.

It is unknown how the injury to the officer’s hand occurred.

A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. He remains in custody.

There were no other reported injuries.

Enquiries continue.

Anyone who witnessed this incident or has footage should call police on 101 or post on X @MetCC quoting reference CAD 2929/88Apr.” People who wish to remain 100 per cent anonymous are advised to call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit crimestoppers-uk.org

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peckHaM towN Fc is ‘aBsolutely Not’ reNaMiNG HoMe GrouNd aFter del Boy

The Menace Arena

By Isabel Ramirez PeCKHaM toWn FC says it will ‘absolutely not’ be renaming its home ground after derek trotter, despite fans’ reaction to an april Fools’ joke.

The tweet, posted by the football club on April 1, read: “BREAKING NEWS. We are pleased to announce that from the

start of the 2024/25 season, we will be changing the name of the Menace Arena to The Derek Trotter Community Stadium.”

The name is of course a reference to the adored character Derek Trotter, or Del Boy, in the Peckham-based sitcom, Only Fools and Horses.

Although fans knew what day it was, the tweet garnered thousands

of views, with people expressing their support for the proposition.

One Twitter user replied: “This but unironically please.”

Another wrote: “Again, another great idea. April Fools’ Day, sadly.”

Dave Webster at Peckham Town, who posted the gag, said he wasn’t expecting the reaction it got.

He told us: “I thought a few people

‘We’re paying £72 a week for a hallway’ say Camberwell residents

By Isabel Ramirez

tWo CaMBerWell residents are shocked that they are being charged £72 a week for the maintenance and fire safety in a tiny hallway leading to their homes.

Neighbours, Debi O’Brien and Marcia Wilson are fed up with what they claim is an ‘unreasonable charge’ - which has now risen to £3,758 per year.

They live in Camberwell, in two flats inside a converted house managed by Hyde Housing. Debi has been living there since the early ‘90s and Marcia for the last 11 years.

Since 2016, they have been paying a weekly charge for their hallway which is around 36 square feet, which according to Debi is ‘not even big enough for her 6ft 5 son to lie down in.’

They said it came in ‘with no warning.’

From this month, the £20 charge has risen to £36 a week each - making it £72 per week.

Marcia said: “It’s 20 per cent of what I pay for rent. It’s ridiculous.

“They shouldn’t be allowed to charge us this much without a proper explanation. I don’t understand why it’s falling on us as tenants to pay for it.”

A cost breakdown revealed the fire safety contract servicing was behind the majority of the charge. After contesting the amount, Hyde Housing said in an email that the changes were to comply with new building safety standards and they were ‘sorry it had not been more

The housing association says the costs are in line with fire safety standards set by the government

clear.’

Debi has lived there since 1993 and said the hallway charge first came in 2016 - equivalent to around £20 a week at the time, she claims.

She said 2016 was also the year that she found out the ‘communal electricity’ had been linked to her meter for the 23 years she had lived there.

With the help of the Housing Ombudsman, Hyde paid £600 compensation to her and a subsequent 15p a day for six years.

Debi added: “Coincidentally that’s when they started charging us for the hallway.”

Marcia said: “The money we’re being charged is my holiday money. Now I can’t afford to take a vacation any more.”

When we contacted Hyde for comment, they confirmed the service charges for the property were correct.

They said they send an estimate and then later any deficit or surplus is reconciled.

A spokesperson from Hyde told us: “The increase in charges is due to fire safety equipment in the communal area. The equipment, including fire alarms and emergency lighting, has

to be maintained within government safety standards. The fire alarm testing frequency has increased from quarterly to monthly, to align with the standards, which has led to an increase in costs.

Costs have gone up since 2016, as this is when we started recovering costs for this service – which we previously absorbed.”

“Finally, we’ve had to instal a smart lock onto the property, so that we can easily access the communal area so that we can carry out the checks.”

We asked Hyde to explain why the cost had fallen to tenants and why it was so much.

“As a landlord, it’s our responsibility to keep communal areas safe. Despite our best efforts, the cost of providing some of the services to keep our homes and buildings decent and safe has increased, particularly around building safety.

“As per their lease and tenancy agreements, customers must contribute to the cost of the upkeep and maintenance of shared areas. These costs are shared between customers.”

They added that whilst they were ‘very conscious’ of the cost-of-living crisis, safety was their ‘absolute priority.’

Del Boy would see it and laugh but I was surprised at the reaction - it got quite a lot of views.”

Given the positive reaction, we asked if they would consider changing the name.

“Absolutely not,” Dave commented.

“We like our Menace Arena - it has a lot of history behind it.”

He explained: “I think it was not long

after the club started out - we played a game that people weren’t expecting us to win - being a new team.

“But we won it.

“Someone overheard a parent saying, ‘That lot are a right menace,’ and it just stuck.”

“It won’t change unless they get a new stadium when they move up to the Premier League,” Dave added.

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Guides Need your Help to replace Pensioners enjoy unusual art with £15,000 funding Mouldy teNts aNd old equipMeNt Residents have been experimenting with light and shadow at Agincare’s Southwark care homes

Girls at St James Guides enjoying a camping trip

© Emily Bird

By Herbie Russell

By Isabel Ramirez rotherhithe guides are calling on southwark to help replace their mouldy tents and worn-out camping equipment.

Members of St James Guiding, based at Bacon’s College, could get a £1,500 grant if people vote for them while visiting their local Tesco.

Shoppers just have to ask for a blue token at the check-out which they deposit in the

voting boxes on their way out.

Guiding Leader Lesley Marsh said: “Exploring the outdoors and having adventures together is a big part of what we do but our camping equipment desperately needs replacing. Your votes can directly benefit many local children and enable us to continue taking them on exciting trips.”

Over 200 local girls, aged between four and eighteen, are members of Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers clubs at St James Guiding - Southwark’s biggest

guiding unit.

Clubs are run entirely by unpaid volunteers, some of whom juggle them alongside full-time work as nurses.

With the £1,500 grant, even more local girls will be able to experience the joys of camping, sleeping in tents and gazing up at the stars.

Voting for Tesco Strongers Starts is open in Tesco stores across Southwark until the end of June 2024.

Find out more tescostrongerstarts.org.uk

older PeoPle living at care homes across southwark have been enjoying unusual creative activities thanks to £15,000 funding from Postcode support trust.

Residents experimented with creating inks from beetroot and turmeric and playing with light and shadow with help from arts charity Magic Me. Agincare care homes including Greenhive, Bluegrove House, Rose Court and Waterside, in Peckham, Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, have taken part since January.

Emily Bird, Magic Me Project Manager said: “Thanks to a £15,000 award from Postcode Support Trust we have been able to bring Magic Moments to care home residents in Southwark for the first time.

“At Greenhive in Brayards Road, Peckham, older people were excited to try new arts techniques, experimenting with light to change their surroundings with colourful images on the walls and ceilings.

“Working creatively with care home staff they connected in new ways and revealed previously hidden talents and interests.”

Revitalised hospital garden giving anxious Fire starts in derelict families ‘precious’ moments together Walworth flat © King’s College Hospital

By Herbie Russell

A revitAlised King’s College Hospital garden is giving families “precious” moments when their loved ones get liver transplants.

Volunteers gathered to revamp the garden last month LISTEN members.

Paul McKie, specialist social worker (Liver Transplant) at King’s College Hospital, said: “The garden at our LISTEN Lodges has been brought back to life, and now we have a quiet and safe area for family members, carers and loved ones to retreat for some fresh air, comfort and reflection.

“The space has been completely transformed and we’re extremely thankful to everyone who has worked so hard to make this project a reality.”

Fruits of their labour: Tidied borders have created a more welcoming space

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Volunteers armed with pruning scissors and paintbrushes turned the tired patch in Denmark Hill into a “sanctuary”, on Friday, March 18.

The garden is part of the LISTEN Lodges - a comfortable environment where anxious families and carers can relax while their relatives undergo surgeries and treatment.

Bexley resident Angela Cattermole said: “It is wonderful to think of the sanctuary this garden will be able to offer people, and the precious moments it will bring. It’s an honour to be part of such a fantastic team effort.”

Patients from across the country travel to the King’s Liver Unit when they get that long-awaited call saying an organ is available.

The nearby LISTEN Lodges’ and its garden, which now has new planters, furniture and solar lights, are maintained by the LISTEN charity.

A number of staff members from organisations including CBRE Managed Services, TES, TES Building Services and The Tower 42 Estate gave up their time to help revamp the garden, alongside support from

By Herbie Russell A residentiAl block in Walworth caught fire and needed 25 firefighters to be extinguished.

A derelict flat on the fourth floor of a building on Thurlow Street was damaged by the blaze at 3.28am on Thursday, April 4.

The Brigade had brought the fire under control by 4.18am and there were no reports of any injuries.

Fire crews and four fire engines from Old Kent Road, Peckham, New Cross and Lambeth fire stations were deployed.

The Brigade and the Metropolitan Police Service are investigating the cause of the fire.

A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: “Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters tackled a fire at a flat on Thurlow Street in Walworth.

“Part of a derelict flat on the fourth floor of a residential block was damaged by fire. There were no reports of any injuries.

“The Brigade was called at 0328 and the fire was under control by 0418. Fire crews from Old Kent Road, Peckham, New Cross and Lambeth fire stations attended the scene.

“The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Brigade and the Metropolitan Police Service.”

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t Was fitting that former professional violinist, sally Brooke-Pike, at ninety-one years of age, should host the most musically uplifting event of 2020, writes Judy Fitton...

From her illuminated front garden, towering above the critical corner on Woodwarde and Druce Roads, a Christmas carol service was launched. I and a close neighbour, the eminent conductor and organist Noel Tredinnick, accompanied on flute and piano a massed crowd of fifty or more Dulwich residents singing their hearts out from the road below.

Whilst not musically participating in this event, Sally enthusiastically topped up the glasses of the musicians and entertained us afterwards with yet more wine and mince pies. She had, during her sixty years in Woodwarde Road, become the epicentre of musical activity in Dulwich.

She celebrated her 94th birthday on July 21, 2023, lying in her bedroom in sumptuous splendour, surrounded by friends and family. She ate a single chip, some birthday cake, and drank her favourite tipple - whiskey.

She was on good form, wearing her special pearl necklace and a yellow scarf I’d bought on impulse only days earlier.

Yellow was Sally’s favourite colour. She died thirteen days later on August 3, 2023, following a battle with bowel cancer.

Friends and family will gather later this month for a spreading of the ashes ceremony.

Sally was born in Notting Hill on the twenty-first of July 1929, the only child of Margery Cooper, an artistic woman whose sister Kathleen was a concert pianist, and George Brooke-Pike, a former rear gunner in the First World War turned (posh) motor salesman. George supplied cars to the Royal Household and in turned received an MVO. It was in early childhood that Sally first exhibited an interest in music. During a visit to a local tea shop which had live musical entertainment (as was customary at the time) five-year-old Sally pointed her finger at the violinist and said “I want to do that”. Her future was sealed!

Sally started lessons on her newly purchased violin which continued when the war broke out and she was evacuated with her family to Ampthill. There she learnt with a local teacher who would arrive at their borrowed house in a battered van – its missing front passenger seat replaced by a kitchen chair. Chickens occupied the back of the van from which he would retrieve eggs for a very grateful Marjorie.

As her playing improved, Sally pursued violin lessons with Oscar Lampe, who was for a time the leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Meanwhile she continued her uneventful general education at a local school, her only memory of the time being when she was the dinner monitor and was tasked with collecting milk orders on her bike, taking as long as she could in order to miss as many lessons as possible and collecting milk shakes enroute with her complicit best friend.

Having left academic education as early as possible, Sally went to the Royal College of Music where she studied with the eminent violinist Albert Sammons. This was her natural habitat!

A natural, instinctive musician, Sally recalled: “We mostly played duets in the lessons and I copied how he played, I learned so much from him”.

Whilst at the College, she also met her future husband Alan Park who had returned from the war where he was a medic and had switched from medicine to music, studying composition and the cello.

At just nineteen, Sally left College to join

A tribute to Sally Brooke-Pike

tHe violiNist ‘epiceNter’ oF dulwicH’s Music sceNe

Sally playing the violin as an adult

Sally enjoying a trip to Devon

Sally playing the violin as a child the Midland Light Orchestra. After several happy years there, she married Alan and the couple moved to a flat in Putney. She soon secured a position in the orchestra of Sadler’s Wells Opera Company, while Alan worked from home as a music copyist with Malcolm Arnold and other leading composers. Although I also joined Sadler’s Wells as principal flute and worked alongside Sally, it was earlier on in our lives that I first met her.

Our accidental encounter came about through a mutual boyfriend - my current, and her ex. Sid was playing in a seaside orchestra in the Isle of Wight and whilst visiting him on the island, I was taken to meet his ‘former flame’ Sally who was on holiday with her husband and two baby sons Jonathan and Philip.

In more recent years, it amused us that Sid, when passing through Dulwich, would look us both up, but he always knocked on Sally’s door first.

In 1961 the family, newly expanded with the youngest child Judy, moved to Woodwarde Road. With the children settled in local schools, she and Alan were enjoying life in their new home until disaster struck in 1968. On the way home from a holiday in the Scilly Isles, Alan suddenly collapsed and died of a heart attack. This was completely unexpected and too much to absorb. Two days later, Sally returned to Dulwich and a fraught new life with Jon aged thirteen, Philip

twelve, and Judy ten.

Sally somehow prevailed, coping as she always has done, by ‘getting on with it’. She stoically continued working with Sadler’s Wells while simultaneously caring for the children. It was exhausting and difficult but she had no option. She was eventually offered a daytime job as leader of the second violins with the BBC Radio orchestra. Although she supplemented her new position with some evening work, this new arrangement was much more conducive to family life.

Retirement had never been a word in Sally’s lexicon and it was when she reached the magnificent milestone of sixty, and left the Radio Orchestra, that she seriously expanded her musical activities. She began to teach the violin locally and became very much in demand, particularly with young children who flourished under her eccentric, stimulating tuition. There would be regular concerts in her music room where forty-plus parents and friends would congregate to hear their infants perform, accompanied by the charismatic Noel Tredinnick, and a glass of Madeira. Sally loved her pupils and dubbed one little five-year-old her ‘archangel Gabriel’.

Sally had miserably anticipated her youngest child leaving home but needn’t have worried. Empty-nest syndrome didn’t manifest itself with her house usually teeming with people. Along with

her many young pupils, one or other of her three grandchildren (aspiring novelist Lucy, entrepreneur Ben, policeman Jack) would be drifting in or out of her house along with members of her string quartet.

Performing at weddings and in restaurants, Sally had created quite an enterprise and the merry four musicians were very much in demand. She also expanded her teaching clientele with pupils from music college. The soonto-be professional violinists were often practising in her music room adorned with a big gold treble clef in the window.

Especially enjoyable were the soirées thrown by Sally to showcase and rehearse their graduation recitals. These became very sought after with, on one occasion, some of the audience spilling into the corridor.

My own memories of Sally go back to our giddy freelancing days in London’s West End when one or other of us would be on driving duties. Deputising in shows including Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and we had such fun, driving up to the Palace theatre and leaving the car behind on Waterloo Bridge. In summer months we wandered through Soho helping ourselves to the free glasses of wine being handed out from open-air art shows, sometimes only just making it to the theatre on time. Sally was unstoppable in all circumstances, including parking.

When we couldn’t find a parking space

once, she calmly backed the car onto a four-inch high pavement, got out, surveyed the scene and decided it was okay to leave it like that.

Emerging from our first Christmas without Sally, I missed most of all the amazing New Year’s Eve parties she had given for at least twenty-five years and which carried on until Lockdown.

Musicians from Dulwich and much further afield would turn up wielding their instruments and a food dish – each of us being assigned something to prepare from cold meat to salads. The mixture – culinary and musically - was gobsmacking. There would be the Trout quintet in the music room where the piano was and the Mendelsohn string octet in the sitting room perhaps with flute and oboe doubling up with the strings – everything was flexible and went on into the early hours, interrupted only

by Sally’s unique champagne cocktails at midnight.

Sally’s funeral last September was a source of sadness and celebration.

Her eldest son John gave a eulogy and summed her up in one pithy, topical sentence. “Before we all woke up to inequality, my mother was just getting on with it”.

She is survived by her three children, Jonathan, Philip and Judy, three grandchildren, Ben, Lucy and Jack, and three great grand-children.

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tHe last two MeN wHo were eXecuted For HoMoseXual acts were FroM soutHwark

By Isabel Ramirez

tHe last two men in england to be killed for engaging in homosexual acts were from southwark.

In 1835, James Pratt and John Smith were hanged outside Newgate Prison after being arrested on Blackfriars Road.

Since 1806, a total of 8921 men had been prosecuted for sodomy with 404 sentenced to death and 56 executed.

Both Pratt and Smith were pardoned by the Alan Turing Law in January 2017 which gave posthumous pardons for those convicted of homosexuality offenses.

Now, Cllr Victor Chamberlain, leader of the Southwark Liberal Democrats, has called for a memorial and rainbow plaque on Blackfriars Road to commemorate them.

Cllr Chamberlain said James Pratt and John Smith represented a ‘harrowing but important part of LGBTQ+ history for Southwark, London and the UK.’ Writing to Southwark Heritage Cllr Chamberlain asked for a rainbow plaque to be installed to commemorate their conviction and execution on Blackfriars Road, where they were arrested.

Rainbow plaques have been installed around London to commemorate significant places, people and events in LGBTQ+ history, such as the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre in Peckham.

Commenting, leader of the Southwark Liberal Democrats and member for Borough & Bankside ward Cllr Victor Chamberlain said: “James Pratt and John Smith represent a harrowing but important part of LGBTQ+ history in Southwark, London and the UK. “We have come so far. Last year we held our first Southwark Pride event, and I was immensely proud to help make it happen.

“A rainbow plaque to remember James and John will commemorate the importance of their story to our

“A rainbow plaque to remember James and John will commemorate the importance of their story to our community” - Cllr Victor Chamberlain

community and celebrate the progress we have made. I hope Southwark Heritage, the council and the Mayor of London will work with me to make it happen.”

A previous hanging at Newgate Prison

What are rainbow plaques? tHeY ForM part of a national scheme to identify hidden and lost lGBtQ+ heritage and celebrate the importance of the communities in our public spaces.

until last year there were only two such plaques in london – one for oscAr Wilde at Clapham Junction station and one for the 1985 film MY BeAutiful lAundrette on Wilcox road, Vauxhall. last Pride new five plaques were announced: BeautiFul tHinG at the

Greenwich tavern – a celebration of the landmark 1996 coming out and coming-of-age film that was set in thamesmead and Greenwich.

BlAck lesBiAn And gAY Centre, Peckham – the first centre established in europe to provide advice and support to the community.

JaCKie Forster, Westminster – honouring the life of the hugely influential journalist and activist who helped to found social group and long-running publication sappho. london lighthouse, ladbroke

Grove – a pioneering centre and hospice for people with HiV and Aids offering a respite for people marginalised or abandoned following their diagnosis. seCtion 28, Haringey Civic Centre – the site for a number of protests after the council launched the first of its kind lesbian and Gay unit to highlight and support the rights of lGBtQi+ communities. the announcement was made

by Mayor sadiq Khan at his annual Pride reception at City Hall last June.

By Robert Firth Local Democracy Reporter tHree soutH london councils are paying outside organisations £10,000 per week or more to look after children in their care. there were at least 22 children looked after by lambeth, lewisham and southwark councils whose residential care placements cost £10,000 or more last year, Freedom of information (Foi) requests reveal.

Kids in expensive placements often have complex and severe mental health problems or serious behavioural issues.

Residential care placements can include children’s homes and secure children’s homes. It previously also included unregulated accommodation, which since April has fallen under Ofsted’s remit.

In 2022/23, Lewisham spent £10,000 or more on 13 residential care placements.

Lambeth had eight placements costing at least £10,000. Southwark spent a fivefigure sum on an undisclosed number of placements between one and 10.

(The council refused to provide an exact figure, citing concerns about identifying individuals).

There is a nationwide shortage of suitable placements for children with complex needs and those that do exist are often offered by expensive private providers. A 2022 report by government body the Competition and Markets Authority said the children’s social care market ‘left local authorities hamstrung in their efforts to find suitable and affordable placements in children’s homes or foster care.’

The number of children’s social care placements costing £10,000 or more per week has increased 1,150 per cent in five years, the Local Government Association (LGA) revealed last year.

Figures revealed through FOIs suggest the increased cost of placements is causing inner South London councils’ spending on accommodation for kids to balloon.

Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark were asked to detail the amount they spent on private children’s home placements for the five financial years up to 2022/23.

Lambeth Council said it shelled out more than £6.4 million on them last year compared to just over £4.1 million in 2018/19.

Southwark Council said it spent over £10.1 million on ‘all children’s residential

placements’, including secure children’s homes. Five years ago in 2018/19, the council shelled out £7.32 million on these placements.

Lewisham Council replied saying that it spent £11.35 million on ‘independent fostering agencies’ in 2022/23. Five years ago in 2018/19, the council spent £8.34 million on such agencies.

Councillor Jasmine Ali, deputy leader of Southwark Council and cabinet member for children, education and refugees said: “Our preference is to find foster carers to provide a loving home close to our children’s local communities. However, we know that foster care isn’t always the best or preferred option for all our children.

“This is why we have expanded our offer to include children’s homes that accommodate very small numbers of children. There are exceptions where different placements are in the best interest of the child’s needs and safety, which can of course come at a higher cost.”

A Lewisham Council spokesperson said: “When making decisions about where to place a child or young person in our care, our first priority is securing a placement that meets their needs and ensures their safety and wellbeing. Value for money is

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Councils paying £10,000 per week or more to look after children in their care

Southwark Council HQ on Tooley Street. also important and only a small proportion of residential placements cost more than £10,000 a week. This is when there are specific and complex circumstances or needs that we need to support, for example through specialist provision.”

A Lambeth Council spokesperson said: “The cost of children’s social care placements has risen for councils across the country, and Lambeth is no exception. The lack of children’s social

care placements is driving up costs and we support wider local government sector calls for the government to both invest in the sector and act to address shortages.

“That includes new Department for Education programmes to support councils with the recruitment and retention of foster carers, the creation of more children’s homes and the availability of more support services for children with complex mental health needs.”

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Nunhead Green tarmac ‘abomination’ debacle cost taxpayer £26,500 © Anna Allalouf

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By Herbie Russell Disastrous resurfacing works that turned a Nunhead square into a tarmacked ‘abomination’ cost the taxpayer £26,500, a Freedom of Information (FOI) has revealed.

Residents were furious when Southwark Council tore up Nunhead Green and turned it into a sea of black.

There were also fears for the trees’ health when it emerged the new material wouldn’t let rainwater drain through.

Following the public outcry, the council dug up the tarmac and replaced it with a permeable green surface.

Jay Sopper, who runs the nearby FC Soper Fishmonger, said the spend was an “absolutely ridiculous waste of money”.

But he added that the £26.5k figure wasn’t as bad as he’d expected. “It could have been more expensive than that,” he said.

Local resident Anna Allalouf, whose photos of the tarmacked surface made national headlines, said the council had ignored previous consultations on the Green.

She added: “I’m unhappy, of course, about the money wasted due to incompetence on the council’s part.”

The works were undertaken in February to make the surface more even.

But Southwark councillor Catherine Rose swiftly admitted that the wrong highways surface had been ‘used in error’.

“Nunhead Green is one of our much loved green spaces and we’ve worked rapidly to ensure that the correct park quality surface will be used,” she said at the time.

In total, Southwark Council spent

Nunhead Green was tarmaced over by Southwark Council.

Historic dockers’ sculpture has returned to Rotherhithe

By Isabel Ramirez

A much-loved sculpture, which immortalises two dock workers, has returned to its place in Canada Dock.

Southwark Council swiftly relayed the surface with more attractive buff-coloured surface asphalt £26,576.95 on the works including £8,957.95 on the tarmac and £17,618.38 on the improved asphalt.

The FOI also revealed exchanges between council staff as they rushed to fix the problem.

One staff member, whose name was omitted, said they needed to “get onto this fast” after getting “lots of complaints”.

In another email, a staff member questioned why the redesign hadn’t

been done in ‘a more sympathetic way’ adding that the tarmac stood out ‘like a sore thumb’.

A council spokesperson said: “We are very grateful to the residents who alerted us to the error, which meant we could quickly resurface the area to improve accessibility and water drainage on the green. Now the area is much more in keeping with the rest of the park with better protection for the surrounding trees.”

Prisoners from HMP Brixton are being trained in pastry-making

By Isabel Ramirez Prisoners at HMP Brixton are being trained in pastrymaking and nutrition, as part of a programme to help them get back into society.

The Clink Charity runs a bakery as part of their mission to reduce reoffending by providing opportunities for employment for those leaving prison.

Individuals working in The Clink Bakery, based at HMP Brixton, are training towards their City & Guilds qualifications in General Patisserie and Confectionery.

In 2023 alone, the bakery trained 20 students and awarded eight

qualifications, including Level 2 Patisserie and Nutrition certifications.

These achievements are just one example of The Clink Charity’s overall commitment to reducing reoffending rates and empowering individuals for successful reintegration into society.

This Spring the bakery students made special hampers to raise money for the charity and to show off the skills they’d learned. The vast selection of delicious treats in the hamper includes pistachio, almond, and sour cherry biscotti and mixed berry meringues.

Furthermore, each one includes a bottle of Dry Dragon Kombucha, wholemeal flour from Brixton Windmill, a recipe card, and a 10th anniversary of The Clink recipe book.

Yvonne Thomas, Chief Executive of The Clink Charity, said: “Our goal at the bakery, and across the charity, is to help people develop practical skills that can help them rebuild their lives.

“As such, these hampers are a wonderful showcase of our students’ ability and creativity. We expect them to be very popular and customers can be assured that each purchase supports our work in reducing reoffending.”

With each purchase, customers not only experience spring food delights but will also contribute directly to The Clink Charity’s vital work in reducing reoffending and supporting students in rebuilding their lives.

There were over 800 individuals trained and 550 NVQ qualifications

First installed in 1990, the 7m-high Deal Porters’ sculpture has been away for nearly a year since it was taken for restoration last April.

The sculpture has been refreshed as part of works to improve and revitalise the dock as part of the 53-acre Canada Water development by British Land.

Until the mid-20th century deal porters were the characteristic workers in the Surrey Commercial Docks -representing the distinct culture of the area.

Their work, unloading and stacking large baulks of timber, known as deal, that arrived from Canada, North America and the Baltics, was acrobatic, tough and dangerous. The dynamic sculpture shows one porter lifting the end of a deal baulk while the other takes it onto his shoulder.

The figures have been cleaned and

delivered in 2023 alone.

Priced at £85, these Spring hampers offer a way to support The Clink Charity.

treated to maintain their condition, with the oak elements having been replaced and the steel arc cleaned and given a new coat of paint.

Contractors Galldris have been waiting for a suitable window in their dock restoration in which to have it reinstated.

It is hoped that the ongoing works at the dock, due for completion later this year, will create a natural habitat with enriched biodiversity and opportunities for people to enjoy it with a boardwalk, dipping pond and steps down to the water’s edge.

Michael Delfs, Development Executive at British Land, said: “We’re very glad to have the Deal Porters home again, overlooking Canada Dock where these workers plied their trade for so many years.

“As we work to revitalise Canada Water, we want to celebrate the history and identity of the place and help keep these stories alive. We hope the restoration of both the sculpture and the surrounding dock will enable people to enjoy this artwork in full.”

For more information and to place an order, visit: theclinkcharity.org/shop

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the Bermondsey man who turned palestine’s para-cycling team into emergency aid workers

The Gaza Sunbirds have delivered over $100,000 in aid to Gazan families.

Credit: Gaza Sunbirds

By Herbie Russell PAlestine’s PArA-cYcling team should be training for the Paris Paralympics right now. instead, they’re navigating blast craters, rubble and unexploded bombs as they deliver vital aid to Gaza’s embattled populace.

As their co-founder and international co-ordinator, Bermondsey resident Karim Ali is responsible for telling the Gaza Sunbirds’ story to the world.

He masterminded the Bermondsey Community Support Network when Covid-19 struck. So when images of his homeland’s devastation hit the airwaves after October 7, he knew he

Gaza Sunbird co-founder Karim Ali on the Blue in Bermondsey – an area he ‘loves’

could help.

The Gaza Sunbirds’ Paralympic dreams have taken a backseat. Since the invasion began, 20 volunteers have handed out over $100,000 worth of food, hot meals, nappies and sanitary products to desperate families.

Karim explains that bikes are useful in a place where fuel is scarce. They are also well-suited to an environment where Karim says citizens can be targeted.

The 24-year-old said: “They don’t make a lot of noise. It’s relatively secure. There have been a few people shot on bikes but if you’re a militant you’re probably not going to be riding

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a bike. It would be absurd.”

The Sunbirds, most of whom were maimed due to Israeli aggression, are struggling with the loss of family members. Karim says, at times, their disabilities can also make the work difficult.

“You have to carry bags at the end of the day and you have to do it one leg,” Karim says. “It’s really exhausting and it’s quite dangerous for somebody with a disability. The roads are battered.”

The son of two Palestinians, Karim grew up in the United Arab Emirates and came to the UK seven years ago as a student at King’s College London. He “loves” Bermondsey which he says is

The Gaza Sunbirds pictured in February. Credit: Mohamed Soleimane and Positive

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“home”.

He became aware of the paraathletes while helping to translate a documentary for disabled cycling champ Alaa Al-Dali whose leg was shot to pieces by an Israeli sniper.

Bankrolled by fundraising activities, the 20 athletes have been getting supplies in an ad-hoc way, sometimes buying from supermarkets that are left standing and often relying on aid organisations. However, the difficulty of getting aid into Gaza has been welldocumented.

They haven’t given up hope of Paris and adding to Palestine’s three Paralympic medals since Sidney 2000.

But even if a lull in the fighting allows

them to leave, obtaining foreign visas in Palestine, which is closed off to the world both figuratively and literally, is hugely difficult.

Karim says: “When you understand how many barriers need to be lifted for a person to compete, that journey of getting to a race is like a form of liberation.”

The Gaza Sunbirds organises bike rides through Southwark and on to Westminster twice a month to raise awareness of their work.

Donate to the emergency appeal, join or organise a Great Ride of Return in your city or sign up to Athletes for Palestine here: www.gazasunbirds. org

LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL An excellent Christian education for children in London

Local school connects with Southwark Parks to raise money for Project Waterfall London Christian School and Southwark Parks have been working to connect children with nature through Tabard Gardens.

Last Friday the pupils took part in a sponsored walk around Tabard Gardens to raise money for Project Waterfall. This is one of many ways in which the pupils of London Christian School have interacted with the park in recent years.

They have built bug hotels, planted bulbs and wild flowers in the nature area, working with Southwark Parks to improve biodiversity and to encourage positive community use of the space.

Funding is in place to create an outdoor classroom in the nature area and plans in place to work together to plant trees. As the pupils raise money for this excellent charity, seeking to bring clean water to coffee growing communities across the equator, they are also connecting to nature.

They are serving others and gaining just a little understanding of the challenge facing women and many children their own age, who may not be at school but collecting water for their families.

Independent primary school for age 3 to 11 year olds Open to children of all faiths and none An excellent record at 11+ Small, family feel Book a tour: admissions@londonchristianschool.com londonchristianschool.com 40 Tabard Street | SE1 4JU

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Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire

By Isabel Ramirez

The trailer has been released for a new crime boss film based around Bermondsey, starring Adam Deacon, Maisie Smith and John Hannah.

Kaleidoscope Entertainment and Seraphim Film Productions have announced next month’s release of Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire.

Based on true events, the ‘explosive and irreverent’ thriller tells the story of the South London crime family, The Romans, as infighting, cozzers and rival firms put everything they have worked for at risk.

London crime boss Mick Roman is deathly ill, and time is running out to find a successor.

His only options are an ageing consigliere or an impulsive enforcer, and neither is suitable to take the throne.

Meanwhile, chaos reigns over the family who are coping with a paranoid ex-soldier, the return of a rebellious niece, and a drug-fuelled business meeting in Amsterdam. With deceit, ambition and infighting on the rise, this Roman empire may be about to fall.

Gritty and unhinged in equal measure, Bermondsey Tales boasts a line-up of British stars including BAFTA-Nominee

Maisie Smith and Linda Robson.

John Hannah (The Mummy), Frank Harper (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels), Alan Ford (Snatch), Adam Deacon (Sumotherhood), Vas Blackwood (Lock Stock), Linda Robson, and Charlotte Kirk (Ocean’s Eight).

EastEnders actress Maisie Smith and comedian Daniel O’Reilly, known as

Pupils are being trained by police to treat stab wounds

Dapper Laughs, also feature.

Written and directed by Michael Head, the film will be in select UK Cinemas from 17th May and available on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download from 10th June.

Commenting on the UK release, director and writer Michael Head said; “’It was an honour to work with such a great cast on

Adam Deacon (centre stage) in an interrogation scene from the film. a story based on my family history. I am delighted to see it get a cinematic release and can’t wait to share this with the UK audience and hope it does my family and South London proud”.

Producer, Rohit Nathaniel, added; “This has been an incredible journey from discussing the script with Michael, to

getting a fabulous cast and now producing this gangster comedy on the big screen for everyone to enjoy”.

The film will premiere in London on Thursday 9 May. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

The trailer is available to watch on YouTube.

Petition calls for more community involvement and social housing on Peckham Town Centre redevelopment

A police officer training year nine pupils at City of London Academy

By Isabel Ramirez Pupils at a school in Bermondsey are being trained to treat stab and gunshot wounds so they could potentially save a victim’s life after an incident.

A group of year nine students at the City of London Academy took part in the training - which is being carried out by the City of London Police.

Chief Inspector Rob Bell, City of London Police said: “Going into schools and speaking to teenagers about pre-hospital trauma care not only imparts life-saving first aid skills but also highlights the dangers of knife crime and of carrying offensive weapons and it allows us to engage positively with young people.”

Since the terror attack in 2017 at Borough Market, all frontline officers have been trained on pre-hospital

trauma care, ‘including how to deal with major bleeds.’

“From our experience of dealing with terrorist attacks,” Rob continued, “we know that members of the public may be asked by first responders to deliver life-saving interventions.

People who have these skills can greatly help in those vital early minutes.”

“We know the value of this training and why it is vital for our highly skilled officers to share this knowledge with young people,” Rob explained.

“We’re proud to be a police force at the forefront of making a positive difference and helping reduce violent crime.”

In 2019, the City of London Police worked with the Daniel Baird Foundation to put over 300 stop-thebleed kits into licensed premises in the city.

The Aylesham Centre is at the centre of the site earmarked for redevelopment

By Herbie Russell Almost 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for more local involvement and social housing in the Peckham Town Centre redevelopment.

Campaigners and local residents are calling for Berkeley - the developer behind the landmark regeneration - to listen more to locals, provide 50 per cent social housing and protect shops on the site.

Berkeley’s current proposals would mean redeveloping the Aylesham Shopping Centre site and building 850 flats, including 35 per cent affordable, in fourteen blocks rising to twenty storeys. submitted for a massive redevelopment

of the Aylesham Centre in Peckham.

14 new buildings of up to 20 storeys are proposed for the site - however community awareness remains low.

“The current proposal doesn’t fit, won’t work and must change. Peckham’s communities have not been adequately listened to throughout the process.

“We support development of the site but the latest scheme contains the same issues as the previous, widely rejected plan. A more imaginative approach is possible.”

The current proposals are scaleddown versions of those initially unveiled

by Berkeley in December 2022.

Initial plans to build 1,050 homes in blocks rising to 27-storeys were met with huge public outcry and even

criticised by Southwark Council.

Although the latest proposals feature shorter towers and more green space, Berkeley has struggled to win campaigners over.

ACA has said the latest plans are “essentially the same” as previous proposals and that the scheme wouldn’t match the character of Peckham.

Berkeley is yet to submit a formal planning application. But if planning permission is eventually granted by Southwark, construction is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2025.

The first affordable homes would be delivered in 2029, the Aylehsam Centre would close in 2030, and the development would be practically complete by 2034.

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‘My Easter break in and out of Parliament’

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HoPe neWs readers had a great easter! i took a day off to celebrate my daughter esme’s 8th birthday, but it has been nice to otherwise be out daily in southwark whilst Westminster is in recess, although it does feel like i’ve also managed to stomach my bodyweight in easter eggs!

I went to Peter Hills school to thank the Rotherhithe Community Kitchen for all their work, providing free, hot meals to local people and to mark the Hindu ‘Holi’ celebration there. It was wonderful for a Church of England School to open up for the Hindu community, especially given the colourful paints used to celebrate Holi! It was a lot of fun.

What is not at all fun is the escalating costs of Tory failure. Just before

Parliament shut down for Easter, I raised the £2 million per person bill the Tories have now reached to send someone to Rwanda in Parliament as the same cost would fund six people to go to space with Virgin Galactic. It is an astronomically hideous proposal and is not taken seriously by anyone other than wannabe Tory leaders who use it as a campaign vehicle when the funds would be better spent on fixing the NHS, recruiting more police or building the homes our country needs.

It feels increasingly like the Tories have no funds to fix the problems they have created in the last 14 years, but find money to burn when it comes to nonsense gimmicks that are about their internal party management and failure to stand up to the extremists in their

‘Locally the single biggest practical issue is housing’

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t Has been my privilege to represent dulwich and West norwood for almost nine years.

Prior to my election as a Member of Parliament, I had served since 2010 as a local councillor in my constituency.

For my entire time as an elected representative, I have seen Conservative and Liberal Democrat-led Governments making my constituents poorer, and undermining and diminishing the services on which they rely.

As a newly elected councillor in 2010, I remember how shocked we were to receive the local government budget settlement that stripped millions from the council’s budget. We worked through it creatively and prioritised the services that mattered most to

our residents. We protected libraries, ensured the streets remained clean and continued delivering services for vulnerable children and adults.

We had no idea just how much more was to come. Both Lambeth and Southwark have lost more than 60% of their central Government funding. Those losses are in no way adequately replaced by the increases in council tax that the Government has forced our councils to make.

The single biggest practical issue affecting my constituents is housing.

The coalition Government’s decision to slash two thirds from the budget for building new social homes stymied the development of desperately needed new homes that make the biggest impact on the housing crisis.

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NEIL COYLE

MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark own ranks. Two more Ministers resigned last week, criticising Tory letdowns in the Ministry of Defence and we have new scandals involving a ‘honeytrap’ for one Tory with another quitting causing a further by-election in Blackpool.

The Tory chaos feels neverending.

The sooner we have a new, stable Government, resolutely focused on our national interest, security and economy the better.

I’ve spent part of the Easter break learning about the amazing Spitfire

AA810 project. It is an extraordinary tale, but it doesn’t surprise me that our community was over-represented in the daredevil crews operating these special and extremely dangerous reconnaissance missions. I hope readers can help identify the crewmen involved and build more of their story, as well as support the call for belated recognition of their valour.

I’ve also spent part of Parliament’s recess in Southwark Council’s Tooley Street office trying to get redress for

constituents badly failed by the Housing Department. For over a year a local family have been denied the right banding despite even the police backing their need to move for safety reasons.

They are finally in the right band but must be helped move soon. I am relieved there is now a new Director for Housing and I’m certain the elected Cabinet Member, Councillor Sarah King, will turn around this ailing department and just hope I don’t have to bring too many more families in before I see results!

HELEN HAYES

MP for Dulwich & West Norwood The Government’s decision to impose unfunded restrictions on social rents has taken £1 billion from the budget of Southwark Council alone over 30 years, funding that would have been spent on repairs, maintenance and delivering new council homes.

Yet there is next to nothing in this Budget to address the housing crisis,

despite its profound impacts on the lives of my constituents and many others across the country. It is as plain as day that after 14 years of Conservative and Liberal Democratled government in Westminster, nothing is better than it was in 2010.

My constituents have had enough of their lives getting worse under

the Conservatives. They have had enough of a government which does not understand their lives and has no ambition for our communities.

It is time for them to step aside, call a general election and make way for a new government who can begin the work of rebuilding the appalling damage that has been done.

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Friends and relatives - southwark’s WWii veterans need you!

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ome southwark residents will be old enough to remember WWii - those years when bombs rained down on the borough. so there is certainly hope that readers might be able to tell us more about our four forgotten heroes.

The men in question are Frederick Legon, Frederick James, William Fisher and Lesley Baker, born in Bermondsey, Walworth and Blackfriars. As explained in our article this week, all four will be commemorated in a monument dedicated to the Photographic Reconnaissance Units (PRU) that flew behind enemy lines in perilous, secret reconnaissance missions.

But the campaigners behind the monument want to know more about them and hope the veterans’ friends and relatives can step forward. Here at Southwark News, we’re feeling optimistic. Black-andwhite wartime photos and fuzzy radio can make the war feel distant but, in reality, the 1940s are a stone’s throw away. Who knows, maybe one of these men is still alive and living locally.

Memorialisation can be a touchy subject. When Jeremy Hunt announced the government will give £1 million towards a memorial for Muslim soldiers, numerous MPs and media figures, mainly from the right, criticised the move.

They argued that a WWII memorial on religious grounds was another example of the left’s attempt to silo people into categories based on characteristics like gender and race. While we don’t agree with this (there are already memorials to war monuments to Catholics, Hindu and Sikhs) it shows how controversial memorialisation can be.

However, we challenge anyone to seek controversy in a memorial to the PRU. These servicemen, hailing from the UK and nations across the globe - Malawi, Brazil and Jamaica among them - suffered a horrendous casualty rate of nearly 50 per cent. It’s undoubtedly time their sacrifice is recognised.

At the moment, bureaucratic stagnation appears to be preventing government from finally giving the monument the rubber stamp. Much like we’ve seen with the campaign to make the South Bank’s National Covid Memorial Wall a permanent fixture, it’s been delayed by the pandemic and domestic economic woes.

But remembering the past, and appreciating the sacrifices others made to preserve our freedom, will always be important. While Frederick James and Lesley Baker may have passed away - we know William Fisher and Frederick Legon have - their loved ones could be very much alive.

To them; a simple thank you to their parents, grandparents, uncles, and friends, would be very Flyer_A5.pdf 1 12/10/2021 22:35 meaningful.

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20 ARTS

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coMpleXity oF tHe BroNtË sisterHood

in tHe show Hamilton, there is a song titled ‘Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?’ this issue is well explored by ‘underdog: the other other Brontë’, writes Katie Kelly...

It is a question that torments and motivates Charlotte Brontë throughout this new play by Sarah Gordon. Charlotte was the last surviving sibling of the illfated Brontës. The family tree, included in the programme, makes pitiful reading.

All six children are killed by TB, or in Charlotte’s case, possibly pregnancy.

Yet this isn’t a tragic play. From the

moment that Gemma Whelan, as Charlotte, bursts into the auditorium asking audience members for their favourite Brontë novel, she owns the room. Fizzing with wit and anger, her energy never flags for a moment. She and the other sisters are not for one second portrayed as victims, even cracking jokes on their death beds.

Underdog is a funny play, using both verbal and visual gags to great effect throughout the action, often at moments of emotional intensity. The comic timing and knowing glances of the company are brilliant even if the pace of mood change

Photo by Michael Shelford

Trip the light fantastic

is occasionally dizzying. There is no question of settling complacently into a familiar tale here.

That isn’t to say that there isn’t deep sadness in this story. The fact that life for women in Victorian England was pretty crap(this Charlotte would no doubt use a more robust word), isn’t really news.

Three exceptionally talented women were forced to pretend to be men in order to get publishers to read their manuscripts. Their critical reception was completely shaped by their perceived gender.

What lends interest to this tale of

injustice is the fiercely competitive relationship between the three women.

The sisterhood is complex. Does their rivalry sharpen or deplete them? Let the viewer decide. Charlotte as the designated survivor dominates, and diminishes her sisters by her re-telling of their lives and taking Anne’s work out of circulation. Yet in this version of the story, ‘Underdog’ Anne, ‘the mouse’ to her family, is fascinating and unexpected.

This ‘mouse’ has the courage to enter the horror of being a governess in order to put food on the table, and she writes a revolutionary novel exposing the issue

of domestic violence to a scandalised public.

In the end, in one of many brilliant moments from the set, Charlotte herself is encased in a display cabinet, no longer able to control the narrative but the work of all three sisters continues to speak.

This euphoric electro-orchestral concert experience fuses Surgeon Girl’s (aka Sinéad McMillan) pulsing, cinematic techno-soundscapes with the acoustic realm of the orchestra.

McMillan’s powerful electronic scores are filtered through Oliver Vibrans’ orchestrations, with a mix of acoustic, analogue and digital instruments played by virtuoso disabled and nondisabled musicians, conducted by

Charles Hazlewood.

The show also includes the specially written Prelude to a Beginning by another Paraorchestra-affiliated composer Asteryth Sloane.

“This is a chance to experience familiar sounds and sights in utterly new ways,” said Paraorchestra director Charles Hazlewood. “Trip the Light Fantastic embodies Paraorchestra’s spirit of adventure in the very nature of its composition.

It’s not just as simple - or dare I say unimaginative - as a musician writing a score and an orchestrator creating a seedbed of sound to be played underneath.

Sinéad’s electronic compositions have been remodelled in the orchestral sphere by responding composer Oliver Vibrans. Throughout

the creation of the show, these were performed by and improvised upon

by Paraorchestra musicians. The resulting sounds are then mixed, dubbed, and modulated live by Oliver and Sinéad, bouncing the music back and forth between each other and adding new layers at every turn.

“We’re thrilled to collaborate with these brilliant artists and push the boundaries of what an orchestral performance can be.”

the london premiere of trip the light Fantastic is an electrifying mix of sound and light created by Paraorchestra in collaboration with Charles Hazlewood, electronic music luminary surgeons Girl, and ‘responding composer’ oliver Vibrans.

Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 9PX until May 25th.

Times: Mom - Sat 7.30pm; Wd & Sat matinees 2.30pm.

Admission: £20 - £65 Booking: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX. Friday 12 April, 8pm.

Ticket prices range from £10 to £30 and are available at www.southbankcentre.co.uk

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History Arts

FuNdraisiNG auctioN at tHe BieNNial CoMinG uP in may is the first drawing Biennial in drawing room’s brand new space.

This year’s Biennial is a vibrant pulsecheck of contemporary drawing in 2024, as well as a vital fundraising auction that provides Drawing Room with funding for the next two years of activity, supporting artists and our community through championing drawing, with the auction opening at noon, 19th June, and ending at 8pm, 3rd July, during our Grand Finale evening.

The Time of Our Lives focuses on the pioneering drawing practices of women artists and their impact on feminist activism from the 1980s until today.

The exhibition showcases the work of key artists, including Venice Golden Lion winner Sonia Boyce, Claudette

Johnson and Sutapa Biswas, examining drawing’s versatility as a medium and the ways it has been used by women to raise consciousness around social and political issues, such as reproductive justice, sexism, racism and other forms of oppression.

Working both independently and collaboratively, often without commercial or institutional support, the voices of these agents for change are now being heard and their trailblazing work taken forward by a contemporary generation of women artists. Beginning with drawings made by Monica Ross in the 1980s, the exhibition will include works by Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Margaret Harrison, Claudette Johnson, Lizzy Rose and Soheila Sokhanvari, and includes new commissions by Kate Davis

Photo by Manuel Harlan

Captain Amazing is ten years old

and Jade de Montserrat.

The Time of Our Lives will also include an interactive study display in our library, showcasing drawing in magazines, newsletters and posters from UK feminist collectives past and present.

The exhibition is curated by Jacqui McIntosh and Drawing Room, supported by a Curatorial Research Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Commissions fees are kindly supported by Marcelle Joseph. It coincides with Women in Revolt, a concurrent exhibition at Tate Britain.

Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, Unit 1b New Tannery Way, Bermondsey, London, SE1 5WS. 3rd May – 3rd July www.drawingroom.org.uk

A decAde on from when the critically acclaimed Captain amazing first caught the theatre-world’s eye the creative team behind that first success have reunited to do it all again, writes Michael Holland...

Alistair McDowall (Playwright), Clive Judd (Director) and Mark Weinman, the actor who the play was written for, always knew this work had more to give.

Captain Amazing tells the story of the transformative power of fatherhood, everyday acts of courage and how even the invincible aren’t immune to tragedy.

Mark took time out from his busy schedule to bring us up to speed.

Why revive this play?

‘The first run of the show was such a hit and left a lasting impression on audiences.

And after the final show, Clive said, “We’ll come back to this.” I immediately knew what he meant and why he’d said it. It had been a tremendously exhilarating and exhausting experience for us relatively young theatre makers and despite its success and the fact that I looked old enough to play Mark, there was still more to be explored when I was closer to that character’s age and life experience. Fast forward 10 years and here we are with Clive and I hoping to bring our collected years of experience into the restaging of this beautifully funny and poignant play’.

Were you all connected before this play?

‘Yes, we became good friends at the University of Manchester where we were studying Drama and worked together across numerous productions. Even at student level we were making work that was getting recognised by the industry and so we all continued to collaborate in those early years after graduating where you’re trying to navigate what you think the industry wants from you. Clive directed me in Herons by Simon Stephens, which served as a brilliant platform.’

Have you worked together since the play’s first production?

‘Not as much as we would have liked to!

We are all still incredibly close as friends, but all went on to such different things

after Captain Amazing. I was delighted when Clive directed my first play as a writer called ‘Dyl’ of which he crafted the most beautiful production and for which I will always be grateful.’ tell me about the play and your character?

‘Aside from being Captain Amazing (Mark) I get to play a whole host of characters, which was one of the main attractions for me, as not only does it allow me to be silly and playful but it also forces me to explore my range.

‘We’ve always tried to make sure we are as thorough and detailed in our creation of each of these characters, no matter what the size of their role in the story. Mark is a very ordinary guy. He just kind of blends in without making any fuss. He is inarticulate, kind, caring yet somewhat lonely and totally used to his own company. When out of the blue he suddenly finds love his life is catapulted through a turbulent ride of complex real-life events where only the use of his imagination, encouraged by his inquisitive daughter, seems able to save him.

‘What strikes me most about this play is how recognisable and familiar it is to its audiences; exploring the tiny and mundane things people are prepared to do for the good of other people. It doesn’t feel like it’s trying to be reactive, provocative or pass comment but instead makes you think about all the incredible people in your own life who have helped shape you.

Its strength lies in its ability to be laugh out loud funny one moment and poignantly nuanced the next.

‘I have had people approach me at parties, in the street and at music festivals to tell me just how much Captain Amazing meant to them and has stayed with them – something I’ve never had before with a piece of work. There might be times when you question the demands of being an actor, but those moments are the ones that keep you thinking about the next job.’

The PR blurb tells us this: “Have you ever met a superhero? A real superhero? What if superheroes were all around us? Mark, a reticent young man, is impelled into articulacy, action and superherodom by

the arrival of his daughter, Emily. You see, some superheroes don’t know they are superheroes until they become fathers.”

But Mark Weinman is not just a super-hero on the stage, he is the founder of The Ten, a not-for-profit mentorship programme designed to support undiscovered talent from underrepresented backgrounds. tell me about the ten and why you founded such a programme?

‘I am particularly interested in working with actors from underrepresented backgrounds who may not have access to the opportunities required to help break into the industry. I wanted to try and champion mentorship to try and help encourage actors to support one another. The industry is already incredibly competitive and I believe those early career performers deserve full transparency as to the realities, demands and complexities of the industry as they attempt to navigate it. It’s grown so quickly into something I never quite imagined but I’m incredibly proud of it and the people I get to work with. I truly believe mentorship is the best way we can try and promote the changes we want to see within the industry.’

So far, Mark tells me, many in the programme have got into prestigious drama schools, found work and got signed up by agencies.

‘One of our mentees from our first cohort was announced as the lead in a major new AMC Television Series,’ he said like a proud dad.

With The Ten work, working on writing a new play, performing in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ and preparing to bring Captain Amazing back, Mark Weinman proves that he is a Superhero both on and off stage.

More info on The Ten .thetentalent.co.uk Southwark Playhouse Borough, 77-85 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6BD. Dates: 1st - 25th May. Times: Mon - Sat 8pm; Tues & Sat matinees 3.30pm.

Admission: £24, £19, Previews £16, £10.

Booking: southwarkplayhouse.co.uk productions/captain-amazing/

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History Falcon Glassworks, Blackfriars

Southwark Blue Plaques: Pioneering glassworks in Blackfriars up for vote

By Isabel Ramirez A Blackfriars-based company that famously made lots of pioneering developments in glassmaking, has been nominated for a Southwark Blue Plaque.

Born in 1791, Apsley Pellatt was the son of a well-known glass manufacturer, based at the Falcon Glass Works on Holland Street - which no longer exists.

He joined Pellatt and Green, as the company was known then, in 1811.

After his father died, Pellatt inherited the Southwark glass factory, renaming it Apsley Pellatt & Co. Most notably he developed an innovative process for embedding ceramic figurines into the sides of paperweights, jugs, and decanters known as cameo incrustations.

The ceramic sculptures or portrait busts could be inserted into an opening made into the hot glass and then

resealed.

Over thirty of these works, made between 1815 and 1891, are displayed in the V&A Museum in Kensington.

Apsley Pellatt & Co. became the most famous and successful producer of such things in the country until the mid-century, its only rival being Baccarat in France.

When he retired, the glassworks reportedly went into decline at the hands of his brother - proving he was fundamental to its success.

Glass may have been his calling, but Pellatt also went on to have a short political career as well. He was deeply interested in the state of the sewerage south of the Thames, being a resident himself, and wanted to improve it to better the condition of the valuable properties situated there.

Pellatt was elected as MP for Southwark in 1852 and held the seat until his defeat at the 1857 general election. During his five years in parliament, he voted in favour of

all measures of reform, which were designed to benefit people in the poorer sections of society.

The new measures established the principle of government involvement in welfare provision, and in regulating conditions of work in factories, workshops and mines.

In 1859 he stood again but was unsuccessful.

For most of his life, Pellatt lived in Dulwich, at Blackwater Cottage in Lordship Lane, now the location of Blackwater Street, and Pellatt Road is named after him.

During the last years of his life, he resided in Middlesex. He was a leading member of the congregation at his church and was involved in helping good causes, whether on behalf of religion, education, or philanthropy.

He died of paralysis in 1863 at 72 years old.

To vote for Apsley Pellatt & Co. for a Southwark Blue Plaque please email isabel@southwarknews.co.uk

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Thursday, April 11th 2024

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; ROTHERHITHE GAS HOLDER SITE SALTER ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE16 6DU (Ref: 24/AP/0753) Demolition of the gasholder and all associated infrastructure; remediation of the Site; and redevelopment to provide residential dwellings (Use Class C3) and replacement telecommunications mast, together with public realm, landscaping, car and cycle parking, vehicular access and servicing facilities, plant and all associated works Reason(s) for publicity: MAJ (Contact: Matt Redman ) 54 DULWICH VILLAGE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7AJ (Ref: 24/AP/0801) Minor material amendment of planning permission ref no. 23/AP/3328: Erection of rear infill extension and adjustment of existing rear extension height. Replacement of the rear extension roof lantern with a low profile skylight and addition of 2 no. low profile skylights . Replacing 3 existing domed skylights with 2no. low-profile skylights to the existing front facing extension. Elevational repairs and upgrades including the rerendering of the property with breathable lime render and addition of decorative mouldings.

Replacement and repositioning of uPVC doors and windows with traditional style timber sash windows and timber doors and the reinstatement of a clerestory window.

Roof alterations including the replacement of existing front ground floor extension with lead grey EPDM and rear extension roof with sedum, and replacement of felt and copper roof to the main property with a lead grey single ply membrane roof and the addition of 3no. conservation style skylights to the main roof. Internal remodelling works proposed.'

Amendment sought: Request the removal of condition 6 'Valid Construction Contract' (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Chloe Rimell 0207 525 1397) 54 DULWICH VILLAGE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7AJ (Ref: 24/AP/0799) Minor material amendment of planning permission ref no. 23/AP/3327: Erection of a front facing 'portico' extension with 1no. skylight and the replacement of 2no. skylights to the existing front facing extension.

Replacement of an existing roof lantern with a low profile skylight and the addition of 1no. skylight to the existing rear extension.

Elevational repairs, including the re-rendering

of the property. Replacement and repositioning of uPVC doors and windows with traditional style timber sash windows and timber doors and the reinstatement of a clerestory window. Roof alterations including the replacement of existing ground floor front extension roof with lead grey EPDM and rear extension roof with sedum, and replacement of a copper roof to the main property with a lead grey single ply membrane roof and the addition of 3no. conservation style skylights to the main roof. Amendment sought: Request the removal of condition 6 'Valid Construction Contract' (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Chloe Rimell 0207 525 1397) 4 ROCK HILL LONDON SOUTHWARK SE26 6SW (Ref: 24/AP/0856) Installation of photovoltaic panels to front roof slope (Within: Dulwich Wood CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Susherrie Suki ) 66 MONCRIEFF STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE15 5HL (Ref: 24/AP/0861) Construction of a single storey rear and side infill extension. (Within: Rye Lane Peckham CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Chloe Rimell 0207 525 1397) 62 BEAUVAL ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE22 8UQ (Ref: 24/AP/0889) Construction of dormer roof extension to the outrigger and replacement of juliet balcony with a sash window. (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Susherrie Suki ) 14 SOLWAY ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE22 9BG (Ref: 24/AP/0911) Construction of a single storey rear extension. (Within: The Gardens CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Ibrahim Azam 020 7525 2876) 33A MANOR PLACE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE17 3BD (Ref: 24/AP/0836) Listed building consent for the conversion of 33 Manor Place (Former Manor Place Baths) to office, and retail use (Class E), and the associated internal and external refurbishment and alterations. Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Catherine Jeater 020 7525 5375) 276 - 278 MERROW STREET LONDON

SOUTHWARK SE17 2PA (Ref: 24/AP/0848) Construction of full-width single storey rear extensions, replacement windows to front and rear, loft conversion and installation of roof lights and alterations to front railings associated with the provision of bin and bike storage at 276- 278 Merrow Street. (Within: Liverpool Grove CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Glenn Ruane 020 7525 5447) 68 -70 RYE LANE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE15 5BY(Ref: 24/AP/0951) Temporary display of a static Illuminated shroud advertisement (Within: Rye Lane Peckham CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Megan Stevens ) 124 GLOBE WHARF 205 ROTHERHITHE STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE16 5XX (Ref: 24/AP/0916) Listed Building Consent for installation of three conservation style roof lights in the roof above Flat 124 Globe Wharf. Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Sandy Ng 020 7525 5000)

Installation of new heat recovery unit to existing external plant area. (Within: Borough High Street CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Samuel Hepworth 020 7525 5465) 162 TURNEY ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7JJ (Ref: 24/AP/0876) Installation of solar panels on the flat aspect of the main dwellinghouse roof and on the single storey rear extension roof. (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Megan Stevens ) Dated: 09 Apr 2024 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date.

STEPHEN PLATTS -Director of Planning and Growth

119A DULWICH VILLAGE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7BJ (Ref: 24/AP/0719) Replacement windows to first and second floors (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Alex Lambert 020 7525 1353) 13 DOVERCOURT ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE22 8SS (Ref: 24/AP/0960) Demolition of rear outhouse and replacement new single storey rear extension linking to the house. Installation of air source heat pump (ASHP) in the front garden. (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: William Tucker 07925 637 210) 3B CANNING CROSS LONDON SOUTHWARK SE5 8BH (Ref: 24/AP/0714) Construction of a roof terrace and ground floor extension. Roof terrace to be set back from the front elevation, and accessed via a new stair from the top floor. New glazed balustrade to be frosted for privacy. (Within: Camberwell Grove Conservation Area CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Glenn Ruane 020 7525 5447) EMPIRE SQUARE WEST EMPIRE SQUARE LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 24/AP/0934)

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

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

Please take notice that I / we LISSETH MAGDA AGUILERA ROJAS Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of 73-75 CAMBERWELL ROAD SE5 0EZ

Please take notice that I / we IRINA ELIZABETH SOLORZANO CHANGO Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of ARCH 146 EAGLE YARD HAMPTON STREET SE1 6SP

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

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

Days

Start time

Finish time

Days

Start time

Finish time

The retail sale of alcohol:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

23:30 00:30

The retail sale of alcohol:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

23:30 00:30

The provision of regulated entertainment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

23:30 00:30

The provision of regulated entertainment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

23:30 00:30

The provision of late night refreshment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

23:00 23:00

23:30 00:30

The provision of late night refreshment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

23:00 23:00

23:30 00:30

Opening hours:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

09:00 09:00

00:00 01:00

Opening hours:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

08:00 08:00

00:00 01:00

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: 2nd April 2024

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 April 2024

26 PUBLIC NOTICES

Thursday, April 11th 2024

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

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

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (REDCROSS WAY, SUGAR LANE, STEEDMAN STREET)

Please take notice that I / we Walworth Arms Ltd Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of The Tankard, 176-178 Walworth Road, LONDON, SE17 1JL

TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF ONE WAY SYSTEM, AND TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC 1.

2.

The Council of the London Borough of Southwark, hereby gives notice that to enable works to take place by Erith, Thames Water, and Centurion it made, an order, the effect of which, will be to temporarily suspend the existing southbound one way traffic flow system in part of Redcross Way and to close Sugar Lane and Steedman Street Whilst the restriction is in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed: (a) The existing southbound ‘one-way’ traffic flow system in Redcross Way, located between Park Street and Southwark Street, will be suspended to allow for a temporary ‘two-way’ traffic flow system. (b) Prohibit traffic in Sugar Lane, located between George Row and East Lane (c) Steedman Street, between Walworth Road and Hampton Street

3.

Alternative routes for affected traffic (a) Construction vehicles will access Park Street, via Redcross Way (b) East Lane, George Row (c) as indicated by the signs displayed

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 work and for any vehicle being used in connection with police, fire or ambulance purposes and anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.

6.

The restriction will come into force foe (2a) between the 19th April – 11th August and will be operational Monday – Friday, between 08:00hrs - 18:00hrs and Saturday 09:00hrs – 14:00hrs. (2b) 19th April – 30th May (2c) 17th April at 22:00hrs – 18th April 06:00hrs

6.

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

Dated this 11th April 2024 Ian Law Traffic Manager London Borough of Southwark Network Management Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth 160 Tooley Street PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX 160 Tooley Street, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (2a) 6890erith/onewaysusp2024-erith (2b) BER1-SULA80-01 thames (2c) LBSCR13426.2.2centurion/bridge

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we SIGIFREDO RAMIREZ Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of 720-722 OLD KENT ROAD SE15 1NG The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are

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

Start time

Finish time

Sale of alcohol by retail: (On & Off Sales Only):

Monday to Thursday Friday & Saturday Sunday

11:00 11:00 11:00

23:00 00:00 22:30

Live music:

Friday & Saturday

23:00

00:00

Recorded music:

Friday & Saturday

23:00

00:00

Late night refreshment:

Monday - Sunday

23:00

23:30

Performance of dance:

Friday & Saturday

23:00

00:00

Opening hours:

Monday to Thursday Friday & Saturday Sunday

11:00 11:00 11:00

23:30 00:30 23:00

Season variations:

NYE, Christmas day, Boxing day, St Georges day, St Patrick day:

11:00

01:00

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: 25th March 2024

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we Forma Arts & Media Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of FormaHQ and Peveril Gardens, 140 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4GW The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are Days

Start time

Finish time

The retail sale of alcohol:

Sunday to Thursday Friday to Saturday

10:00 10:00

23:30 00:30

Days

Start time

Finish time

The provision of regulated entertainment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday to Saturday

10:00 10:00

23:30 00:30

The retail sale of alcohol:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

00:30 02:30

Opening hours:

The provision of regulated entertainment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

00:30 02:30

Sunday to Thursday Friday to Saturday

10:00 10:00

00:00 01:00

The provision of late night refreshment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

00:30 02:30

Opening hours:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

09:00 09:00

01:00 03:00

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: 2nd April 2024

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 H Krupa Wholesale ltd have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of: Unit -2424, 15 Old Jamaica Business Estate, 24 – Old Jamaica Road - SE16 4AW The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are Days

Start time

Finish time

The retail sale of alcohol:

Monday to Sunday

00:00

00:59

Opening hours:

Monday to Sunday

00:00

00:59

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: 5th April 2024

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: 5th April 2024 Notice of application for a Premises Licence.

Notice is hereby given that Alebrix Ltd has applied to Wandsworth Council for a new premises licence at B45 - Big Yellow Self Storage - 55, Lombard Road, SW11 3RX for the Supply of alcohol for consumption off premises, sold exclusively online and dispatched exclusively via courier, between the hours of 00:00 and 00:00 Monday to Sunday. No access to the public. Any person who wishes to make a representation in relation to this application must give notice in writing by end of 07th May 2024 stating the grounds for making said representation to: Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX or by email: licensing@merton.gov.uk The record of this application may be inspected Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays) by prior appointment at the offices of Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden,Surrey, SM4 5DX between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Information on all new and variation applications received by the Licensing Authority can be viewed on the Council’s website www.wandsworth.gov.uk It is an offence, under section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003, to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in or in connection with an application, punishable upon conviction by an unlimited fine.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 27

Thursday, April 11th 2024

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we JOSE RAFAEL FERREIRA MINAYA Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of 229 OLD KENT ROAD SE1 5LU

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BORLAND ROAD. INVERTON ROAD, LIMESFORD ROAD, FRIERN ROAD,COMMERCIAL WAY, RUBY STREET, DEKKER ROAD, ROUEL ROAD, GREEN HUNDRED ROAD, CHAPTER ROAD, HYNDMAN STREET, SYLVAN GROVE) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are The retail sale of alcohol:

Days Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

Start time 11:00 11:00

Finish time 23:30 00:30

1.

The provision of regulated entertainment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

11:00 11:00

23:30 00:30

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

2.

The provision of late night refreshment:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

23:00 23:00

23:30 00:30

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:

Opening hours:

Sunday to Thursday Friday & Saturday

08:00 08:00

00:00 01:00

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: 4th April 2024 LICENSING ACT 2003 APPLICATION FOR VARIATION OF PREMISES LICENCE Vault Creative Arts Ltd has applied to the London Borough of Lambeth for the grant of a premises licence, in respect of the following premises: The Glitch, 134 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7AE The nature of the variations is as follows: EXTEND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL TO 09:00-23:00 SUN-THU AND 09:00-01:00 FRI - SAT EXTEND RECORDED MUSIC TO 08:30 - 23:00 SUN-THU AND 08:30-01:00 FRI - SAT 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 01.05.24.

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).

Notice of Application to apply for a Premises Licence made under the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that We, Chicken Club Limited Have made application to the London Borough Of Merton to apply for a Premises Licence in respect of: Address of Premises: Chicken Club, 16 London Road, SW17 9HW For: • The sale of alcohol for consumption off the premises • The provision of Late Night Refreshment Proposed hours of Operation: •1200hrs – 0200hrs, Monday to Sunday.

A register of all applications made with the London Borough Of Merton is maintained by: LICENSING SECTION, LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON, 2ND FLOOR, CIVIC CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, MORDEN, SURREY, SM4 5DX

(a) Borland Road, between Sartor Road and Inverton Road (b) Inverton Road, at it’s junction with Borland Road and Inverton Road (c) Limesford Road, between Inverton Road and Ivydale Road (d) Friern Road, between Etherow Street and Lordship Lane (e) Commercial Way, between Elcot Avenue and Naylor Road (f) Ruby Street, between Old Kent Road and Murdock Street (g) Dekker Road, between Court Lane and Woodwarde Road (h) Rouel Road, between Enid Street and Spa Road (i) Green Hundred Road, between Ethnard Road and Windspoint Road ‘at any time’ waiting and loading restrictions will be introduced on both sides of the carriageway (north and south side) (j) Chapter Road, cycle lane and road closure, between No’s 22 Chapter Road and Lorrimore Square (k) Hyndman Street, between Old Kent Road and Ruby Street (l) Sylvan Grove, between Old Kent Road and it’s blocked end 3.

The alternative routes for affected traffic for as indicated by the signs displayed

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 for (2a) (2b) (2c) 22nd April – 9 May (2d) 22nd – 24th April (2e) 20th – 21st April with back up dates of the 27th – 28th April (2f) 22nd – 27th April (2g) 24th April – 5th June (2h) 25th April – 11th May (2i) 29th April – 10th May (2j) 29th April – 28th June (2k) 29th April – 10th May (2l) 1st – 3rd May

7.

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

Dated this 11th April 2024 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) SLM00081332939-0050 (2b) SLM081332939-0050 (2c) SLM0081332939-0050 (2d) SLS00081163019-0135 (2e) LBSCR13403 (2f) 65003815 (2g) W119974175-00736 (2h) BER4ROR46-01 (2i) 30761-WAL-WK15 (2j) 90814349 (2k) 65003814 (2l) SLD00081342875-0020 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK GALLEYWALL ROAD IMPROVEMENTS The London Borough of Southwark (Charged-for parking places) (Galleywall Road improvements) Order 202* The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting restrictions) (Galleywall Road improvements) Order 202* 1. Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that it proposes to make the above Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

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 Section at the office or email address above and be received by the Merton’s Licensing Section within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below.

2. The effect of the Orders in GALLEYWALL ROAD (within Controlled Parking Zone ‘OKR’), on the north-east side opposite the Galleywall Nature Reserve, the purpose of which would be to accommodate the installation of a new kerb build-out to facilitate refuse collection, would be to remove 3 metres of existing ‘shared-use’ parking (12 metres would remain) and replace with 3 metres of new 'at any time' waiting restrictions (double yellow lines).

NOTES: (1) ‘shared-use’ parking refers to parking places in which holders of a valid permit for the Controlled Parking Zone listed or ‘pay’ paid ticket holders are permitted to park within the permitted hours. (2) All measurements are in metres and are approximate. (3) Parking charges are listed on www.southwark.gov.uk/parking

Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application.

A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine.

3. For more information contact Sunny Costin of the Council's Highway Development team Highways@southwark.gov.uk

Date application given to the Council: 3rd April 2024

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Notice of application for a Premises Licence.

Notice is hereby given that Shiraz Sause Ltd. has applied to Wandsworth Council for a new premises licence at La Grande Pizza, 187 Merton Road, London, SW18 5ef for Late Night Refreshment Both On and Off the premises.

Sunday to Thursday 23:00 to 02:00 Friday & Saturday 23:00 to 03:00 Any person who wishes to make a representation in relation to this application must give notice in writing by 6th May 2024 stating the grounds for making said representation to: Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX or by email: licensing@merton.gov.uk The record of this application may be inspected Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays) by prior appointment at the offices of Wandsworth Licensing Authority, Regulatory Services Partnership (Serving Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils) Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden,Surrey, SM4 5DX between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Information on all new and variation applications received by the Licensing Authority can be viewed on the Council’s website www.wandsworth.gov.uk It is an offence, under section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003, to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in or in connection with an application, punishable upon conviction by an unlimited fine.

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Dated 11 April 2024 Steven Grayer Head of Service - Highways, Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth

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dulwicH Fold iN play-oFF race

Boss: ’Supporters don’t deserve it - we’re all accountable’

By John Kelly HaKan HaYrettin said dulwich Hamlet “folded like a pack of cards” in the isthmian league Premier league play-off race after a third successive defeat last weekend.

The Hamlet lost 4-0 to Enfield Town at Champion Hill on Saturday and are tenth, six points off fifth with three games left.

Sam Youngs and Marcus Wyllie scored in the first half before Jake Cass and Marcus Wyllie completed the rout after the break.

Dulwich had only lost two of their previous thirteen league games as they surged towards the top five.

But the latest defeat has left their season in tatters.

“Very disappointing. I can’t put my finger on it,” Hayrettin said. “I think we’ve let ourselves down. Definitely 100 per cent let our supporters down. Not only today

Dulwich Hamlet have lost their last three games

but against Carshalton as well.

“It’s moments change games and we just didn’t deal with the set-piece, that we gave to them, by the way, we kicked it out from a position on the right-hand side where we had the ball from a throw. It’s gone back to the goalkeeper somehow and we’ve kicked it out. They’ve had a throw, attacked us, got a corner and scored. Ade Shokunbi didn’t pick his man up on the edge of the box, and that was the start of it. I don’t know what Manny [Parry] was doing for the second goal and after that is was like trying to stop the rot, but it got worse.

“The supporters definitely deserve better than that. We’re all accountable and we need to look at it.”

Dulwich’s last win before their collapse over the last three games was 2-1 at Potters Bar Town in pouring rain on a sodden pitch.

“One of our directors said they left their legs at Potters Bar,” Hayrettin said. “That game should never have been played.

Now you can see they haven’t played on it for three games. Then we had a tough fixture straight after it [against Billericay Town] because the team that we were playing didn’t have a fixture [in midweek when Dulwich played Potters Bar], so they had fresh legs.

“We’ve crumbled, we’ve folded like a pack of cards. It’s never our intention or anyone’s intention when they go and play football to do that. We just haven’t been able to deal with certain situations that was asked of us to deal with. We didn’t do it.

“We need to have a look at ourselves. We need to apologise to our supporters for letting them down badly [on Saturday], terribly. It’s not acceptable by me, it shouldn’t be acceptable by anybody what

happened. I’m accountable like everybody else, there’s no hidden agenda or hiding place, we have to address it and move forward.

“Three games ago we were on the verge of the play-offs and now…some of our defending [on Saturday] was shocking. We played without any purpose. Everybody has to be held accountable.”

There was a capacity crowd of 3,334 at Champion Hill against Enfield. And Hayrettin didn’t spare his players in the dressing room when he pointed out a harsh reality.

Hayrettin said: “I’ve told them in there, next season, when some of them are not playing for this football club and they’re playing in front of 70, 80, 90 people - then they’ll understand what it means to be a Dulwich Hamlet player.”

Dulwich travel to Canvey Island on Saturday.

said. “Both sets of players wanted to be out there as much as possible, so it was disappointing. The weather wins.”

Cam Steel and Dan Lawrence both returned career-best figures as the defending champions dismissed Lancashire on the first day.

Bowling in tandem, the two legspinners engineered a collapse that saw the home side lose their last eight wickets for 52 runs in 18 overs, Steel finishing with five for 25 and Lawrence four for 91 from 21 overs which were bowled from the James Anderson End. Batty said: “Sometimes when people put lots of work in they don’t always get the performances straight away but for Cam to bowl the way he did was just a continuation of the way he finished last season against Hampshire. He was magnificent in that game and the shape he got on the ball in this match was brilliant.

“And for Dan to come in on debut and to really put in a shift and show he had

a skill-set was also great. I think both Cam and Dan are very skilled spinners but because we have a very good seam attack, the spinners don’t always get a go.

They got a go here and they were both quite magnificent.

“For Dan to have done what he did, to show that level of control and skill when bowling against a very strong win for such a long period of time was exceptional. Nothing has been won yet but it’s a very nice confirmation that we’re on the right track.

Lancashire’s head coach Dale Benkenstein said Surrey’s spinners made it a “tough” game.

“It wasn’t ideal but there’s a few grounds where it has been worse. At least we got some play. We got some positives out if it and there were a few areas in which we can do better,” Benkenstein said.

“A lot has been said about the wicket and not being able to get ten wickets or bowl sides out because it’s too flat.

We saw there was really nice turn and bounce, which I think is a great sign – especially for the makeup of our team.

“Their spinners made it tough for us and showed you can get it to spin and there was nice bounce. It’s a pity we didn’t get the overs in to see the two of them get into their spells.

“There wasn’t a lot of grass on the wicket and with all the [poor] weather we thought there might be a bit of movement for the seamers. But there wasn’t much movement, and that [lack of movement] doubled up with the slightly flatter seam of the Kookaburra ball.

“Although there wasn’t a lot of cricket out in the middle, the nets have been great. Everybody’s managed to get a good bowl outside, and there has been a lot of batting in the nets on grass which helps us top up and get ready for the Hampshire game.”

Rory Burns’ Surrey return home to play Somerset at The Oval in a game starting on Friday (April 12).

‘Weather wins’ as Surrey’s defence starts with anti-climax

By Sport Reporter

surreY’s First game in their defence of the Vitality County Championship title against lancashire ended in a draw after no play was possible on the final day of the game at emirates old trafford on Monday.

The water table on the ground is very high and heavy overnight rain had made the prospects of play slim even before a further morning shower, but umpires Peter Hartley and Paul Pollard carried out three inspections before finally pulling the plug at 2.15pm.

Having bowled out Lancashire for 202 on Saturday , Surrey take eleven points from the game while Lancashire take eight points.

“You have a lot of natural energy before the first game of the season but the weather’s taken the sting out of the game,” Surrey head coach Gareth Batty

Millwall net four-tune

By Jeff Burnige at Three Bridges FC MillWall lionesses returned to winning ways with a well-deserved 4-1 victory over aFC Crawley in the l&serWfl Premier division last sunday.

The game was played at a very windy Three Bridges FC, under which banner the hosts will be competing from now on.

Lionesses co-managers Alex Russell and Adam Rowland kept faith with their youthful back four, which featured three outstanding under-18 players. Billy Burgess (16) retained her place at centreback after her player-of-the match debut at Ebbsfleet United. She partnered first Poppy Payne and later Sophie Chapman, the established centre-back pairing.

Liv McGregor was fit to return up front alongside Chloe Fowler and they both scored in this game.

Fowler scored first from the spot after she was brought down in the box, and seventeen-year-old left-back Emel Huseyin added a second in a dominant opening for the Lionesses.

Millwall were playing into a strong wind, and the hosts’ Sarah Chapman pulled one back before half-time when she ran on to a long ball which had sailed over the head of Payne.

Crawley found some confidence from this and the encouragement of the home crowd, and Millwall found themselves under pressure.

However after the interval, Millwall dominated even though the wind had died down considerably.

McGregor scored the third from a header down by Ellen Napper.

Sixteen-year-old Daniella Menezes, promoted from the under-18s, came on for a very impressive and mature debut in central midfield, where Grace Seely and Ciara Watling were now pulling all the strings. It was Watling who scored the final goal from 25 yards, her first since returning to the club.

It was the Lionesses’ first win in eight games in all competitions.

Millwall are seventh in the league with 23 points from nineteen games. Their next fixture is against Enfield Town in the league on Tuesday, April 23 at 7.30pm at St Paul’s Sports Ground in Rotherhithe.

The opposition have hit form recently, and this makes for a perfect opportunity to watch the Lionesses other than on a Sunday.

Dulwich by the dozen

By John Kelly

dulWich hAmlet Women reeled off their twelfth successive l&serWfl Premier division win as they defeated dorking Wanderers 2-1 at Champion Hill last weekend.

Angel Reid and Summer Roberts scored either side of the break before Megan Stow pulled a goal back for the visitors.

The Hamlet are three points clear of Dartford with three games left as they remain on course to clinch the one promotion spot to the FA Women’s National League Division 1 South East, the fourth tier of the football pyramid.

Dulwich host Enfield Town this Sunday in what will be club captain Brittany Saylor’s last-ever home game before she retires.

Saylor has played over 100 games for Dulwich and will lead the side out at Champion Hill at 2pm.

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Adam Mayor made his debut against Coventry City in February

By Kiro Evans triButes HaVe been paid to former millwall player dave Mehmet after his death at the age of 63.

Lions youngster ready to blossom when he gets his chance EXCLUSIVE

By Kiro Evans BirthdAY BoY adam Mayor can reach his potential - with a bit of game time and the support of the den.

That is the view of freelance journalist Derek Quinn who has reported on Mayor’s former club Morecambe for 30 years and watched the winger’s dramatic rise to the first team.

Mayor turned 20 years old yesterday and will be hoping he can get more time on the pitch soon as he looks to properly introduce himself to the Millwall crowd. He is viewed as a talent of the future but some fans are key to see more of their new man now.

The Liverpool-born attacker signed from Morecambe at the end of January and has been limited to fleeting cameo appearances amid Millwall’s desperate battle against relegation.

If and when he finally gets his first start,

there is plenty of talent waiting to be unleashed according to reporter Quinn.

He enjoyed a season-and-a-half in Morecambe’s first team in League One and then League Two before his arrival at The Den and quickly caught the eye of fans and observers.

Quinn told our paper: “It was a shock when he first got his place to be honest, because we hadn’t really heard that much about him from the academy. “[Former Morecambe manager] Derek Adams brought him in and we weren’t that sure if he was ready. But he soon really, really shone. He got a chance and he took it with both hands and over seven, eight months became one of the first names of the team sheet.”

The left-winger quickly won favour with supporters due to his dynamic ability on the ball and a rapid pace to get him past well-drilled EFL defences. But he has also bulked up to help handle the more physical side of the game.

Match preview:

Tributes paid to former Lions star

Quinn said: “He’s got a great left foot. He’s got a fierce shot. He can cross it well and he’s pretty quick. He’s mobile and he likes a tackle. He works really hard for the team and he’s a decent finisher.”

“And during the close season [last summer] he came back looking like a different guy. He didn’t look like a gangly teenage anymore, he looked like a grown man.

“He can get really frustrated but he works really hard. He wants to defend and he likes to defend.”

Along with picking up 11 yellow cards in all competitions, meaning he was suspended for his first Millwall game, Mayor registered three goals and five assists in 23 league appearances for Morecambe. Quinn believes that with the right support the 20-year-old can push his career to new heights in the Championship.

He said: “I think you need to give him time. But he needs game time and to play against those players on a regular basis.

Millwall vs. Cardiff

“In League One for Morecambe, he stepped up really quickly when many of us probably weren’t expecting him to do it.

“So maybe he could do the same for the next level but he’s still only a kid and he’s not played that many football league games and the Championship is a massive step up.

“He’ll need some support, mentoring maybe from some of the senior players and the crowd to get behind him. If he can get a good pre-season in, then who knows for next season?”

ADAM MAYOR’S LIMITED MILLWALL GAME TIME Coventry - 13 minutes Ipswich - 19 minutes Rotherham - 16 minutes Huddersfield - 1 minute

Mehmet was a skilful midfielder for the Lions and made 153 appearances for the club.

He played at The Den over two spells between 1977 and 1981 before rejoining from 1986 to 1988.

Mehmet also played for Gillingham and Charlton Athletic before playing for several clubs in non-league football.

He would then go on to a coaching career and manage Fisher FC. In a statement, Millwall said: “A skilful and intelligent midfield performer who graduated through Millwall’s youth system, Dave was a member of the exciting youth team which saw Millwall earn success by winning the FA Youth Cup for the first time in 1979.

Dave was not only Millwall’s youngest goalscorer when he netted the equaliser at The Den in a 1-1 draw against Sheffield United in October 1977 as a 17-year-old, but he was also the youngest Lion to reach 100 appearances at 19 years, 260 days when he faced Brentford in August 1980.

“Everyone at Millwall Football Club would like to extend their condolences to Dave’s family and friends at this very sad time.”

Fisher FC also paid tribute to Mehmet and thanked him for showing “huge loyalty in very challenging circumstances” at the club.

Millwall wore wear black armbands against Leicester City on Tuesday night as a mark of respect.

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Lions fighting for safety against Bluebirds

By Kiro Evans MillWall Will be looking to edge closer to safety when they host Cardiff City in their penultimate home game of the season.

Matija Sarkic’s mistake saw Cardiff to take all three points in the reverse fixture

The Lions are part of a scrum of sides looking to avoid occupying the final relegation places come the end of the season on May 6.

Back-to-back defeats against Rotherham United and Huddersfield Town did considerable damage to Millwall’s ambitions of staying up and they will now have to take some points off the teams above them in the table.

Cardiff could be the perfect opponents to come to The Den as, unlike recent opponents Rotherham, Huddersfield and Leicester City, they are not fighting

for anything.

The Bluebirds are about where many would have expected them to be at the start of the season - too far away from the play-offs to be promoted but also far away from the relegation fight.

Cardiff fans can travel to The Den in peace and enjoy some spring sunshine in the capital without any pressure.

However, questions hang over the future of manager Erol Bulut with it still being unclear if the club will renew his contract this summer.

The Turkish boss, 49, has taken the Bluebirds forward from this season but has faced criticism over his style of play.

All the expectation will be on Millwall to produce a big performance in a season that has largely been lacking them until the win against Leicester on

Tuesday.

Against Rotherham and Huddersfield, they missed way too many chances before conceding sloppy goals in what were underwhelming but not awful performances.

Neil Harris, who won three of his first four games in charge, needs his team to find their footing and goal touch again.

Cardiff are capable of causing problems and have picked up some big results away from home this season.

But they are likely to be without striker Kion Etete who could be sidelined with injury until the end of the season.

Meanwhile, Millwall strikers Tom Bradshaw and Kevin Nisbet could be ready to return after their long spells out of the team.

Cardiff have not been victorious at

The Den since 2012, failing to win in any of their last six visits. But they did win the reverse fixture in Wales back in December when Matija Sarkic failed to stop Dimitrios Goutas’ header 12 minutes from time.

MATCH DETAILS

Possible Millwall starting XI: 4-4-1-1: Sarkic; Leonard, Tanganga, Cooper, McNamara; Norton-Cuffy, Mitchell, Saville, Longman; Flemming; Obafemi Last meeting: Championship, December 9, 2023 - Cardiff 1-0 Millwall

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Ryan Longman’s excellent strike won it for the Lions

ry aNd MiGHty Longman scores a screamer as Millwall beat Leicester

THE EFL CHAMPIONSHIP Millwall - 1 Longman 59’ Leicester - 0 Date: Tuesday 9th April 2024 Attendance: 14,889 (1,873) Man of the match: Ryan Longman Referee: Sunny Singh Gill

By Kiro Evans a stunninG goal by ryan longman saw Millwall take down leicester City and get their rollercoaster season back on track.

Eight days after losing to the Championship’s bottom side, the Lions toppled the league leaders with a disciplined and robust performance.

The Den erupted just before the hour mark when Longman let rip and scored a rocket from just outside the box.

The Hull City loanee, who also netted against Rotherham United days earlier, has shown the ability to do the spectacular before and could not have timed his effort better.

Billy Mitchell then produced a brilliant moment of his own in stoppage time as he cleared a Kelechi Iheanacho header off the line to stop the Lions conceding another late goal.

Leicester were not at their best but Millwall repeatedly forced them into a

corner with a steely, mature performance that topped the 1-0 win over Norwich City after Christmas and the victory over Southampton in February.

Millwall ended the night four points clear of the bottom three while the Foxes’ hopes of promotion took a major blow.

The Lions had come under fire for underwhelming performances and sloppy mistakes in their back-to-back losses at Rotherham and Huddersfield Town.

Like a team with a point to prove, they demonstrated a determination that had perhaps been missing in Yorkshire during the match.

Leicester were limited to very little in the opening 45 minutes and Millwall held firm on the rare occasions the Foxes sprung.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall looked like the visitors’ most enterprising player, playing in both Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy in the first 10 minutes but both openings came to nothing. The midfielder also had

a shot that took a big deflection off George Saville after half an hour that whizzed just past the post.

Otherwise, Millwall kept the former Premier League side contained and had openings of their own but weren’t sharp enough with the execution.

Their first chance came inside a minute when a free-kick from George Honeyman found Longman who gave Mads Hermansen his first save to make.

Ricardo Pereira would then have to make a last-ditch tackle on Honeyman at the back post a few minutes later. During a busy first half, Honeyman would be booked for a late challenge on Yunus Akgun and need treatment from medical staff after a challenge by Pereira.

Probably Millwall’s best chance of the half fell for Jake Cooper after 43 minutes as he had a decent headed opportunity at the back post but it was a comfortable save for Hermansen. Michael Obafemi also caught the eye with a mazy run from the halfway line but he could not pull off

the final pass from the edge of the box.

Five minutes into the second half and Honeyman went down injured again with a shoulder problem after being caught

by Jannik Vestergaard and the special youngster Romain Esse would arrive on the right flank to replace him.

But it was down the left flank where something special would happen.

Longman, whose star moment this season was scoring a belter against Rotherham in September, topped that goal and then some.

He picked up the ball on the left wing, looked like he would go outside, came back inside and unleashed the most stunning effort that would ping off the underside of the crossbar on its way in.

The Den went mad.

Obafemi should have made it 2-0 when he went around Wout Faes but could only steer his effort straight at Hermansen.

Tom Bradshaw was introduced after his extended spell out injured after 75 minutes. He received a big round of

applause but so did the man he replaced in Obafemi, who did not take his chance but ran himself into the ground.

Leicester had their first proper chance of the game after 81 minutes when Matija Sarkic had to get his whole body behind a Pereira effort from inside the box.

And then in a stomach-churning stoppage time period, Mitchell made his brilliant, goal-saving clearance off the line, Mavididi sent a curling effort off target before Patson Daka would head well wide from inside the six-yard box.

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use the disappointment from Leeds as motivation.

He told our paper: “Not the result everyone wanted but I thought, particularly with the second half performance, we were outstanding.

“I thought we let ourselves down a tiny bit in the first half, maybe a little overawed by the occasion and potentially gave Leeds too much respect. But second half we came out and showed what we were all about and really put up a great second half performance and arguably deserved to take something from the game and take it to extra-time.

“But it just didn’t quite happen for us.

A bit more luck in both boxes and maybe we could have gone through.

“We really wanted to focus on how well

we done, how proud we were of them and to take the disappointment from that Leeds game and use it as fuel to take into the final next week.”

Perry, who manages the under-18s alongside Larry McAvoy, believes the strong showings in the cup competitions is evidence of Millwall’s rude health at youth level.

He said: “I think it has been [strong] for the last four years. We’ve brought some really good players through with the under-21s top of the league at the moment and winning the league last year.

“There’s good players coming through the club, through the academy and we’re trying to nurture them and hopefully get more closer to the first-team.”

leicester: 4-3-3: Hermansen; Pereira, Faes, Vestergaard, Doyle (Justin 73’); Ndidi (Praet 73’), Winks (Daka 88’), Dewsbury-Hall; Akgun (Fatawu 62’), Vardy (Iheanacho 73’), Mavididi.

FUEL TO THE FIRE U18 boss hoping Leeds loss can push youngsters on

By Kiro Evans millWAll under-18 boss Chris Perry has urged his young stars to use last week’s semi-final heartbreak as ‘fuel’ for the future.

Chris Perry is proud of his young players

Millwall: 4-4-1-1: Sarkic; Leonard, Tanganga, Cooper (c), McNamara; Honeyman (Esse 51’), Mitchell, Saville, Longman (Norton-Cuffy 89’); Flemming (De Norre 90’); Obafemi (Bradshaw 76’).

The young Lions lost 4-3 away to Leeds United last week in a thrilling FA Youth Cup semi-final game.

They were major underdogs heading into the match and had already surpassed expectations by knocking Chelsea out on penalties in the quarterfinal stage in February.

With a League Cup final against Swansea City coming at The Den next week, Perry is keen for his players to

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Sport Southwark

cHopper: My lioNs out-FoXed ‘eM Neil Harris hails Millwall

DULWICH FOLD IN PLAY-OFF RACE Ryan Longman celebrates his audacious winner

neil Harris believes the tactical discipline shown by his players in the triumph over leicester City was as good as anything he has seen as Millwall boss.

The Lions stunned the league leaders on Tuesday night with a brilliant display to grab a 1-0 win courtesy of an outrageous strike by Ryan Longman.

It was a much-needed victory after Millwall slumped to consecutive losses against relegation rivals but they responded by putting in one of their best displays of the season. They ended the night four points clear of the relegation zone.

Harris, who has now taken charge of 254 Millwall games on a permanent basis, said the way his players executed his tactics was better than some of the famous FA Cup wins he delivered during his first spell in charge.

The Lions boss said: “That was so Millwall-like, wasn’t it? To lose at Rotherham and Huddersfield in the last minute of both games and then come back and beat the league leaders.

It’s what this football club does.

“I’m delighted because it’s been a tough week for the football club and the fanbase. I could sense a little bit of nervousness and a bit of fear coming back in. I said to the group yesterday: ‘I haven’t got time for that. I’ve not come here for that. I’ve come here to galvanise and support and help. It’s down to you to go and show me.’ And they did. They’ve answered that critic again.

“I thought we scored a goal that was worthy of winning any game of football at this level. I thought the shape and discipline of the team was as good as any team I’ve put on the pitch here at The Den. And I’m talking about Brighton [FA Cup quarter-final penalty loss in 2019], Everton [FA Cup

fourth-round win in 2019], Leicester [FA Cup fifth-round win in 2017]. I thought it was an excellent Millwall performance.”

The only negative for Millwall was a shoulder injury picked up by George Honeyman, which Harris said will be assessed in the coming days.

Kevin Nisbet is set to return from his prolonged injury absence while Tom Bradshaw came off the bench in the Millwall victory. This adds competition for the striker position up front after Michael Obafemi put in an impressive display against the Foxes.

Harris said: “Michael Obafemi has put in his best performance in a Millwall shirt for sure. He showed the hunger and desire to play as a Millwall number nine. Michael has set his standards.

“Tom Bradshaw is getting back to full fitness. We’re hoping Kevin Nisbet will be involved at the weekend as well.

There’s competition for that place.

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Ryan: strike was one of the best

By Kiro Evans rYAn leonArd hailed ryan longman’s winning goal against leicester as “one of the best” he’s seen in a game he’s taken part in.

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Michael wants to play, he’s come here to play. If he’s going to play at that level and that’s the standard, it’s going to be difficult for anyone to dislodge him from the team. But that’s the standards that I demand from my number nines.”

The victory gave Millwall a huge boost to their survival hopes while also damaging Leicester’s automatic promotion ambitions. It has not escaped Harris’ attention that even by the Championship’s standards, it has been an unpredictable season full of twists.

He said: “The Championship is outstanding, it always is. Very rarely does the Championship disappoint.

You look at the bottom of the league this year and look how close it is and that’s going to run to the last day of the season for sure. I just hope it’s not us involved.

“The top will probably run to the last day of the season and the play-offs, you just don’t know.”

Just before the hour mark, Ryan Longman cut inside and drove a spectacular effort at goal which clipped the underside of the crossbar on its way in.

The strike was enough to seal a superb 1-0 victory for Millwall and was Longman’s third for the club since he joined on loan from Hull City last summer.

Leonard said: “I think that’s one of the best goals I’ve seen in a game I’ve played in.

“When he’s got the ball and cut inside... to be fair he did it earlier in the season against Rotherham but that was more of a tap-in than this one. The fact that it’s glanced the bar and gone in made it even better.

“It was a hell of a strike by Longy, fair play to him. It was fitting for the performance and fitting for the game and it’s a goal worthy of winning any game of football.”

Leonard showed off his defensive excellence again as he successfully shackled Stephy Mavididi, one of the Championship’s best wingers.

He said: “It’s a player that we’ve tried to study and I’ve tried to look at what he does and what he’s good at. He’s probably one of the best wingers in the whole league.

“He’s a very good player but I try and back myself in one-v-one defending and it’s one of those where thankfully it worked and we got the result.”

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