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HOW DID SOUTHWARK’S MPS VOTE ON THE ASSISTED DYING BILL?

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By Issy Clarke SOUTHWARK'S MPS reflected the national divisions over the assisted dying bill, with votes for and against the controversial policy proposal.

MPs narrowly voted in favour of the Bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill patients with less than six months to live. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill scraped through with a wafer-thin majority of 23 votes, and will now head to the House of Lords for scrutiny.

MPs were given a free vote, enabling them to vote on their conscience rather than under party instruction. The issue has bisected party lines, cutting across the Cabinet and every political party; and has similarly split Southwark’s MPs down the middle.

The bill first appeared before MPs in November last year, when it was voted through by a majority of 55. Since then, the bill has been studied line-by-line in various scrutiny committees, and several amendments have been proposed. One of these is the abandonment of the previous requirement for a High Court judge to sign off assisted dying applications. Instead, this will now be done by a three-person panel featuring a senior legal figure, psychiatrist and social worker.

All assisted dying applications must also be approved by two independent doctors.

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2nd Reading - Against 3rd Reading - Against Coyle has twice voted against the assisted dying Bill, revealing in an exclusive conversation with the News last year that he felt it was “”badly timed” after “14 years of Tory damage”.

The MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark pointed to the example of Canada, where he claimed that “assisted dying accounted for 4% of all deaths just six years after its implementation as the legislation spiralled to include treatable conditions with ‘being a burden’ commonly cited as the reason for wanting to die.”

Before the vote’s second reading, he added: “The Bill risks fundamentally switching the purpose of the NHS away from sustaining life.”

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we should explore ways to give terminally ill people facing a painful death some autonomy and the right to choose when to die with dignity, on their own terms.

"I fully appreciate the deep concerns many have about the potential impact, particularly on vulnerable individuals and disabled people.

"That’s why any implementation must emphasise caution and put in place unambiguous regulation, with comprehensive safeguards to protect these groups.”

2nd Reading - For 3rd Reading - For Miatta Fahnbulleh has previously expressed her tentative support for the principle of assisted dying, “provided there are tight safeguards in place”.

She previously told the News before the first Commons vote last November: “I believe

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2nd Reading - Abstained 3rd Reading - For The Chancellor’s sister abstained from voting when the Bill was first presented before MPs for a vote, but recently told a constituent she had decided to vote in favour after meeting with its proponent Kim Leadbeater.

She said: “Kim reassured that the scope is tightly limited to those with terminal illnesses and that robust safeguards — the strongest anywhere in the world — would be in place.”

“After careful consideration of my position, taking into account the reassurances on safeguards and limited scope, your correspondence, the international evidence and the impact assessment, I am now intending to support the Bill.”

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2nd Reading - Against 3rd Reading - Against Hayes voted against the Bill on both occasions. She also voted against legalising assisted dying when a similar Bill appeared before Parliament back in 2015.

In a blog post shared by the MP in 2024, Hayes stated that “few decisions have weight more heavily on my mind or caused me more sleepless nights.

“I have found myself completely torn on this issue. In 2015 when draft legislation on assisted dying was last in Parliament, after much deliberation I finally voted against it.”

2nd reading - Abstained (teller) 3rd reading - Against Eshalomi didn’t cast a vote the first time round because she was working as a teller an MP tasked with counting and verifying the votes made by parliamentary colleagues, who is not allowed to vote.

The MP for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green has been a consistent opponent of the assisted dying Bill and made the following comments during a recent parliamentary debate: “If we are to legislate for something as serious as the end of someone’s life, then the bar that the legislation must reach in order for it to be deemed safe needs to be much higher than it is in other areas.

She went on: “I do not think the Bill is the appropriate mechanism for a national decision of this magnitude to be made.”

Eshalomi expressed particular concern about the effects on ethnic minority communities. “If hospices are unable to opt out of a collective policy of providing assisted dying, the people who already feel ignored by healthcare systems are more likely to fear accessing the care that they need at the end of their life.

“That would create further unnecessary suffering, and I know that we are all united in wanting to avoid that.

“Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that instead of giving a universal right to dignity in death, this Bill would reinforce the health inequalities that deprive so many from our vulnerable communities of dignity in life. “

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The MP expressed her fears that the Bill could lead some patients to opt for an assisted death in order to escape catastrophic social care costs.

She said: “If assisted dying is introduced it should be in addition to good palliative care and social care, not instead of it.”

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‘THE WORLD’S COOLEST FILM FESTIVAL’ CALLS COUNCILS ‘PATHETIC’

A screening at CPIFF at Everyman Crystal Palace in 2024

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Two South London councils are demanding money to age rate movies at the Crystal Palace International Film Festival (From left) CPIFF founder Neill Roy and comedians Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi and Mark Steel

By Cameron Blackshaw Local Democracy Reporter A SOUTH London film festival is battling to survive after two borough councils demanded to watch and rate every film before they are screened, at significant cost to organisers.

The Crystal Palace International Film Festival (CPIFF) has been running for 16 years and is attended by stars such as musician Paul Weller and comedian Johnny Vegas.

It’s currently rated 5th in the world on film festival website FilmFreeway’s top 100 best reviewed film festivals and is also the second best reviewed festival in the UK behind Nottingham’s Beeston Film Festival.

Dubbed ‘The world’s coolest film festival’, the annual celebration of independent cinema takes place in March and hosts several screenings of short films that cover a range of genres, from documentaries and animation to horror and comedy, at Everyman Crystal Palace in Bromley and West Norwood Picturehouse in Lambeth.

Founder Neill Roy has launched a petition to save the festival after claiming the licensing departments of Lambeth and Bromley councils have demanded to watch and rate every single film before they are screened at the festival.

Mr Roy said the councils would charge him to do so at £25 a film and £1.50 per minute.

There were 132 films in this year’s festival which would have equated to a charge of over £6,500, a cost that Mr Roy says would sink CPIFF. He has been critical of these new demands, calling the councils “short-sighted” and “pathetic” and likening their stance to that of a “nanny state”. He said: “They’re not looking at any kind of a bigger picture and what the festival does for the area. Filmmakers fly in from all across the world to spend their money

Neill Roy, founder of the Crystal Palace International Film Festival

in these boroughs. We sell out while other film festivals are empty with just filmmakers there.

We sell out nearly every night. We do brilliant things for independent film and for the area, getting youngsters into work and inspired to go and make films themselves. You come along and meet the filmmakers and you see these incredible works of art on the big screen.

It’s just inspirational and a lovely thing to do.”

Mr Roy feared that if the festival had to shut down, it would have a negative impact on the development of young creatives in South London. He said: “An 18-year-old lad came to me on launch night this year and said, ‘I came to this when I was 15 and I was so blown away that I’m now studying film at university’. It’s lovely to hear that but you’re not going to get that again because under 18s will not be able to come.”

He has offered to rate the films himself, as the festival has done for the last 16 years, or issue a blanket 18 age rating for the entire festival and stage three nights in each borough for under 18s. However, Mr Roy claims that these ideas have fallen on deaf ears.

A Lambeth Council spokesperson said: “Lambeth is committed to supporting a wide range of community organisations and events that entertain and enrich our community.

“We have worked closely with the Crystal Palace International Film Festival over many years to help ensure that the event could take place with all its films were properly classified.

“But the council, like other local authorities, has a responsibility to classify films which have no age rating certificate from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) before they can be shown to the public. Fees are charged to all organisations that ask us to classify their films.

“Licensing in Lambeth went through all of the CPIFF films for 2025 to be shown at West Norwood cinema – which included differently-themed groups of films shown on separate dates.

“We issued ratings for each group of film showings and provided individual classifications for these groups based on the classification of the ‘highest-rated’ film within each of those groups which allowed films to be viewed not just by adults over 18. We also undertook cross-checking as to what films had already received a BBFC classification (and therefore didn’t need a rating from us) and let the organiser know about those.”

Bromley Council, like Lambeth, has said that it is simply seeking to comply with legislation and its approach to CPIFF has not changed.

A council spokesperson said: “There is no change in how the council has treated the film festival in over a decade, with the only change being that the film festival now wants to include children in the audience, where legislation therefore needs to be complied with.

“Under the Licensing Act 2003, any premises licensed for the exhibition of films must ensure that all films shown carry a classification certificate from either the BBFC or the local authority. The council currently has serious financial challenges of its own but we have, in previous years, revised application fees to support the festival and remain open to discussion about the way forward but we need to ensure the law is complied with, part of the aim of which is to protect children.”

In response to the councils’ concerns Mr Roy said: “In 16 years no child has been harmed and there’s been no issues whatsoever. They’ve got access to the internet where they can find anything anyway. It’s not going to be CPIFF that’s going to harm them. It really is pathetic.”

Despite the setback, Mr Roy said he’s “always hopeful” that the festival will survive.

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FOOTAGE SHOWS WHAT ELEPHANT & CASTLE TUBE STATION WILL LOOK LIKE IN FIVE YEARS’ TIME

‘YOU COULDN’T ADAM AND EVE IT’ Rotherhithe’s Pearly Queen and Homes 4 Heroes campaigner’s housing nightmare

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By Issy Clarke CGI FOOTAGE has revealed what Elephant and Castle will soon look like once a major transformation project is complete – after construction of the new tube station entrance leapt forward this week.

Responsibility for the underground concrete station box has been handed over to TfL, which will start working on building new tunnels linking the Northern line platforms with the new station entrance.

Escalators will carry passengers from the platforms to the ticket hall, providing step-free access between the Northern line platforms and the street for the first time. But commuters will have to be patient: the new station entrance isn’t expected to open until 2029 at the earliest.

The new station box also includes space for three new escalators linking to the Bakerloo Line extension once it is eventually built – which last week received yet another setback after it was shunned from the government’s latest spending review.

The station entrance building was constructed by Get Living and is part of the developer’s £1.5 billion regeneration of Elephant and Castle town square on the site of the old shopping centre, which closed in 2020.

The new town centre, expected to be completed by September next year, will

be a mixed-use development containing shops, office space, a multiplex cinema and a new building for the London College of Communications.

Above the new station, three towers will contain 485 homes, of which 172 will be affordable by room, with just three set at the cheapest social rents.

There are additional plans for the site of the current London College of Communications, which will be partially demolished once the new town centre is complete, with proposals for 507 new homes, 116 of which will be socially rented and 49 affordable.

Supporters of the station upgrade hope it will further help to make the case for the Bakerloo line extension, after it was shunned from the government’s spending review this month.

The extension of the line from Elephant and Castle to Hayes via the Old Kent Road and New Cross is predicted to unlock land for the construction of 100,000 new homes and is forecast to inject 1.5 billion into the economy each year.

At the last estimate, carried out in 2021, the cost of constructing the extension was pegged at between £5 and 8 billion, making it one of the UK’s most expensive infrastructure projects of all time.

Cllr Kieron Williams, Southwark Council’s outgoing leader, said he was “confident” the route would receive funding eventually, but added: “I was slightly sad slightly sad it didn’t get announced last week, if I’m honest. I didn’t think it would, either.”

He continued: “Why am I confident it will happen? £1.5 billion pounds – ultimately,

the Treasury is some point going to have to say – we need that growth, we need that improvement in people’s lives.”

Earlier this year, the land for the proposed route was safeguarded by the government, protecting it against future development. Last week, TFL confirmed the launch of a new ‘Bakerloop’ express bus service connectng Waterloo and Lewisham, set to begin ferrying passengers this Autumn.

“The way you get these kinds of projects done is by simply plugging away at them” said Cllr Williams, acknowledging there was “political pressure” on the government to direct investment outside of London. The new station will provide step-free access between the Northern line platforms and the street level for the first time – but step-free access between the Northern and Bakerloo line platforms is awaiting funding from Network Rail.

The town centre will also provide a more seamless transition for passengers moving between the train station and the underground, with plans to open up the arches beneath the railway line.

Richard Allen, Asset Director at Get Living, said: “Think of this as a place where people will be able to transfer very easily from the Thameslink coming into the Elephant and Castle rail station onto the tube network.

"We can see Elephant becoming that point where people transfer because it’s a really pleasant journey. You can literally stand in the town square and see where the back of the rail station is – then walk down the main street and you’re straight into the tube network.”

A COCKNEY Pearly Queen who runs the Homes 4 Heroes Charity has herself been living in a housing nightmare for the last four years.

Michelle Thorpe has lived in her one-bedroom home on Stave Yard Road in Rotherhithe for 17 years. She is a Director of Homes 4 Heroes UK, a charity providing housing support for homeless ex-service personnel.

She first reported a leak in her ceiling to Sanctuary, her housing association, in 2022. The Cockney Queen said Sanctuary initially ‘denied’ there was a leak, saying they hadn’t a Scooby Doo what they were doing: “Then they said it was a two-person job. On a number of occasions, I was told there wasn’t a leak.”

As her housing association dithered for two years, things took a turn for the worse, and Michelle says she was very nearly brown bread. The entire kitchen ceiling fell through in October 2024, she told us. “I was left with an enormous pile of rubble in the middle of my kitchen and I only narrowly avoid it. Luckily I was sat on the other side of the room.”

And you would not Adam and Eve what happened next when housing officers visited to address the disaster.

She says was informed that the ceiling had asbestos. Several weeks later, men clad head to toe in safety suits arrived to extract the toxic material and place it into sealed bags, which Michelle had been inhaling unprotected for weeks.

For the ensuing weeks, she lived stranded in darkness with no ceiling or lighting in her home - during which time

she also received a cancer diagnosis.

She was offered just £50 in compensation from the housing association’s delay in addressing the leak. “I told them where they could put that” she quipped.

Michelle received a new ceiling in February, but is still waiting to have it repainted. She has taken several days off from her philanthropic work to sit around at home waiting for repair teams who she claims ‘never show up’.

“I would do it myself if I could afford it - it’s not that I’m being lazy” she said.

“It means I can’t do home visits because I’m having to stay in.”

A spokesperson for Sanctuary said: “A significant amount of work has been carried out in Mrs Thorpe’s home and we can confirm that a weekend appointment has been agreed from Friday 27 June to redecorate in her kitchen and bathroom, and install new flooring.

“We are sorry it took longer than expected to identify the source of the original leak and for the disruption this has caused Mrs Thorpe.”

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Was Southwark the most fashionable suburb in Londinium?

By Issy Clarke

AN EXTRAORDINARY archaeological discovery in London Bridge has sparked speculation that Southwark could have been a suburban escape favoured by Rome’s elites.

Archaeologists have painstakingly pieced together thousands of tiny fragments of wall plaster discovered around London Bridge and Borough market stations, revealing an illustrious piece of Roman wall art which is thought to have once adorned 20 internal walls of a luxurious Roman villa.

The house was demolished sometime after AD200, with the fragments tossed into a pit where they have lain undiscovered for almost 2,000 years.

They were discovered at ‘The Liberty’ development site in Southwark, where excavations were led by MOLA (Museum

of London Archaeology) on behalf of Landsec.

The fragments – which are mostly bright yellow in colour and feature images of birds, fruit, flowers, and lyres (harps) – are of a kind which have only been found in a handful of sites across the country, including Fishbourne Roman Palace in Sussex, but finding repeating yellow panels like these is even rarer.

The decorative panels suggest Southwark could have been a suburb favoured by Rome’s most well-heeled elite to escape the hustle and bustle of the city – and has been described by the archeological team as the “Beverly Hills of London”.

“There was this thriving, bustling settlement quite early on in the Roman period, and it’s almost the kind of wealthy suburb – the Beverly Hills of Roman London,” said Andrew HendersonSchwartz from Mola.

Photos of Brockwell Park taken after the festivals last summer, 2024

“And what this shows is that the Romans are committing to London.

They’re investing in London, and they’re seeing it as a place to settle in, a place to stay. It’s not just a kind of provincial outpost.”

The painters responsible also took inspiration from wall decorations in other parts of the Roman world – such as Xanten and Cologne in Germany, and Lyon in France.

Some fragments imitate high status wall tiles, such as red Egyptian porphyry (a crystal speckled volcanic stone) framing the elaborate veins of African giallo antico (a yellow marble). Styles like these have been found north of the river in Londinium, in Colchester, Germany, and Pompeii.

Excitingly, among more than 120 boxes of painted plaster is a tangible link to the artist: the remains of their signature – the first known example in Britain. This is framed by a tabula ansata, a carving of a decorative tablet used to sign artwork in the Roman world. It contains the Latin word ‘FECIT’ which translates to “has made this”. Tragically, the fragment is broken where the painter’s name would have appeared, meaning their identity will likely never be known.

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“I was lucky to have been helped by my colleagues in other specialist teams for helping me arrange this titanic puzzle as well as interpret ornaments and inscriptions – including Ian Betts and the British School at Rome – who gave me their invaluable opinions and resources.

“The result was seeing wall paintings that even individuals of the late Roman period in London would not have seen.”

The Romans occupied London in AD43, and it is believed the villa was built some time after this before AD150. At some point before AD 200 the building was demolished and the wall plaster dumped into a pit.

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By Issy Clarke THE OWNER of a beloved cafe in Belair Park that has been repeatedly ransacked by thieves says she has been forced to start paying staff wages out of her personal overdraft.

Stephanie Morgan, the owner of Stephanie’s SE21 on Thurlow Park Road, has been locked in a losing battle against magnum-munching vandals who regularly break into her cafe and raid the ice-cream freezers and drinks fridge.

Since we reported on Stephanie’s plight in April, the cafe has suffered several more break-ins. One piece of CCTV footage depicting a recent incident shows a man clambering over the wooden fence onto the ice cream freezer, before delving inside and helping himself to its contents.

Another clip shows the thief rummaging through the ice-cream freezer before disappearing from view, presumably while he hunts around the cafe, scouring for more potential loot.

“I feel defeated” said Stephanie. “It’s like Groundhog Day. No matter what I do everything constantly gets smashed up or stolen – it’s incredibly depleting.

“Its difficult to create a more comfortable environment for the customers as well because anything that I do just gets stolen or destroyed.”

Stephanie has started paying her staff overtime to lock away the ice creams at the start and end of each day. “It takes a good chunk of time in the morning and the evening. And the staff are less motivated because it takes so long. On days when it’s tipping down with rain, the staff have to go out and restock the outdoor fridges.”

As well as the extra staff wages, Stephanie has spent thousands of pounds on damages and a new upgraded security system.

“I’ve been paying the staff from my personal account and this month I’ve had to dip into my overdraft” she said.

The arduous work of packing up the entire cafe indoors each night and the limited inside storage space – the cafe only has a cabin and a horse box – means sometimes items are left out overnight,

BELOVED OUTDOOR CAFE IN WEST DULWICH ON ITS KNEES Greedy thieves continue relentless ice cream raids

prompting the thieves to strike.

“There’s no point getting another shed because they’ll just smash it up”, she said despairingly.

Despite her frustration with the endless cycle of break-ins, Stephanie said the response from local police officers had been “really great”. On the day that the News spoke to Stephanie, she was due to receive a visit from the Neighbourhood Policing Team later that day to inspect the cafe.

Alongside the cafe, Stephanie is setting

up a humanitarian aid and animal rescue non-profit, Global Relief and Rescue Foundation, which recently received registered charity status.

She says she would rather invest her personal money into this than into restoring the cafe – especially when she knows it is only a matter of time before the thieves smash their way in once more.

Ultimately, it is the depth of love customers feel towards the cafe which has encouraged Stephanie to battle on.

“I set it up myself because my Dad was

dying” she said. “Customers will still send me emails and messages saying how much it means to them.

“I don’t want it to be destroyed – but I can’t keep spending so much when it just

then gets smashed up.”

Despite repeated attempts by this paper to get an update from the Met, at the time of going to press we were still waiting on a response.

Plans for a new stadium for Dulwich Hamlet move

The popular football club has had to turn fans away as the current ground is too small © ASouthwark Council

By Ruby Gregory

Local Democracy Reporter PLANS FOR a new stadium for Dulwich Hamlet Football Club have moved one step closer to becoming a reality after Southwark Council signed off the next stage of the development last week.

A drawing showing what the new football ground will look like

Cabinet members were asked to approve a report which will see an old astro turf pitch located in playing fields next to the existing stadium in Champion Hill redeveloped as part of the new venue.

Members agreed to transfer this part of Greendale Playing Fields so the club can move along its development to build a new, all-weather pitch which will ultimately help to build the new stadium and secure the club’s long-term future.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) understands the wider playing fields will remain with the council and will continue to be used by the public.

The club’s Chairman, Ben Clasper said approval from Cabinet will mean the “final obstacles are removed” so the club can begin building its new stadium.

Mr Clasper said: “Since the planning application was approved the club has demonstrated that it is a responsible and committed pair of hands when entrusted with open land in the area and delivers on the expectation that we will increase sporting provision and community use.

“We look to grow that responsible stewardship with a new stadium that the community and council can be proud of.”

Dulwich Hamlet Football Club has played football in the borough for the last 123 years, and has used the Champion Hill stadium since the early 1990s, which has pulled in crowds of local supporters for decades.

During the meeting on Tuesday, June 17, Mr Clasper told Cabinet members how the current ground has “rapidly” become unfit for purpose and has become increasingly difficult to maintain in line with new stadium regulations.

Mr Clasper said 70,000 people visited the ground during the 2024/25 season for the third year in a row however, there have been a number of occasions

where the club has had to stop selling tickets and at times the gates have been locked due to over-capacity.

Mr Clasper said: “These repeated sellouts are starting to cause negativity in our community, they drive people away from the game and actually drive people away from SE22 on the weekends who would rather go elsewhere than risk the disappointment of being turned away.”

Under the plans, the current stadium will be demolished to make way for a new ground which will have capacity for 4,000 fans. The plans, which were approved in February 2022, will also see a multi-functional ‘kick-about’ recreational space as well as the creation of 219 new homes.

Cabinet members proceeded to agree the recommendations set out in the report meaning the next stages of the development can begin.

Portia Mwangangye, Cabinet Member for Parks, Leisure and Young People, ssaid the club is a “well-loved” part of Southwark with a rich history and has thousands of local fans.

By Kevin Quinn PAPERS BELONGING to World War Two codebreaker Sir Alan Turing that were discovered over a decade ago in a Bermondsey loft and saved from the shredder sold for a record sum of £465,400 at auction last week.

Alan Turing was a genius who shortened the Second World War by several years, but tragically killed himself after being prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts

£110,500.

The collection also included The Chemical Basis Of Morphogenesis, which sold for £19,500. Dating from 1952, it is Turing’s lesser-known masterpiece of mathematical biology and his last major published work.

Meanwhile, a single piece of paper which was Turing’s first published paper in 1935, called Equivalence Of Left And Right Almost Periodicity, sold for £7,800. It was also gifted to

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Alan Turing cracked the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War Two, shortening the war by several years and saving countless lives.

The collection, which dates to the 1930s, was discovered in a house in Bermondsey belonging to a friend of Turing’s, fellow mathematician Norman Routledge, after he died in 2013. One of Routledge’s sisters removed the papers from the house, but they remained untouched for several more years until she moved into a care home.

Her daughter came across the papers and initially, not realising their true value, was about to cast them aside to be shredded. But when she ran the decision past Routledge’s other nieces and nephews, they were shocked to discover the true historical importance of the collection.

The papers include a copy of Turing’s pHD dissertation, and were expected to sell for tens of thousands of pounds.

The niece said the family were “bowled over by the valuations and level of enthusiasm” after the collection was inspected by Rare Book Auctions.

The value of Turing’s PhD dissertation was put at between £40,000 to £60,000. Another paper containing early ideas of a computer was also valued at £40,000 to £60,000.

But they were sold for much more than that on Tuesday last week, at Hansons Auctioneers in Staffordshire.

One part of his pHD dissertation On Computable Numbers alone sold for £208,000 and the other part Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals sold for

CODEBREAKER’S PAPERS FOUND IN LOFT SELL FOR A RECORD AMOUNT

Turing aged 16

Routledge by Turing’s mother and her handwritten letter dated May 16 1956 was included.

The letter reads: “I have to-day sent by registered post 13 of Alan’s offprints … I have had some requests to write a biography of Alan … I have masses of material because from the time he was about 6 I spotted a winner – despite many detractors at school – and kept many papers about him.”

Jim Spencer, director of Rare Book

Auctions, described the collection as “the most important archive” he had ever handled.

“These seemingly plain papers perfectly preserved in the muted colours of their unadorned, academic wrappers - represent the foundations of computer science and modern digital computing,” he said.

Turing invented one of the first electronic computers, creating a machine that was able to translate

and decode any symbols.

Despite his critical role in Britain’s war effort, he was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts and was chemically castrated. He died two years later aged just 41 from cyanide poisoning, which an inquest later concluded had been suicide.

He was eventually pardoned in 2013, co-incidentally the same year as his friend in Bermondsey Norman Routledge died.

reflective practice review process to learn from the matter based on various aspects of their behaviour during the incident.

The Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards made a voluntary referral to the IOPC on May 18 following the incident and the IOPC launched an independent investigation.

In July 2023, the IOPC informed six PCs they were under criminal investigation.

They were also served with gross misconduct notices.

The Crown Prosecution Service later confirmed the matter did not meet the evidential threshold for charges to be

brought.

IOPC director Amanda Rowe said: “This was a concerning incident particularly given the woman’s vulnerabilities.

“It was important that we investigated the full circumstances surrounding this incident to determine exactly what occurred.

“As a result we have decided that three officers who attended the incident should face a police disciplinary hearing which will ultimately determine whether the gross misconduct allegations are proven.”

All parties have been informed of IOPC’s decision and it will now be for the Met to organise proceedings.

Cllr Natasha Ennin, Southwark Council’s Cabinet Member for Community Safety & Neighbourhoods, said: “This appalling incident should never have happened, and we welcome the IOPC findings.

“There are very serious and legitimate concerns about the police conduct in this case. The public rightly expect the highest standards of conduct from police officers who have additional powers to use force in our society.

“But these powers must be justified and proportionate. Using them against a vulnerable elderly woman in her nineties suffering from dementia is neither of

these things.

“It is vital that the police grow public confidence, and this case further damages that work. Transparency and accountability are at the heart of improving trust in the Met Police locally.

“We are in communications with the Met about how best to provide reassurance to Southwark carers, patient groups and local voluntary and community sector groups who support our elderly.”

Detective Chief Superintendent Emma Bond, who leads policing in Southwark, said: “While the misconduct hearing will carefully consider all the facts to determine whether the allegations are proven, I want to again acknowledge the distress caused to the woman involved and very real widespread concerns that followed.

“Officers know we expect them to show compassion and to adjust their approach according to the circumstances they are faced with. Over the coming days we will work closely with those communities most affected to ensure they feel heard and supported.

“We have provided every assistance to the IOPC throughout its investigation and will now arrange for the hearing to be held as soon as possible.”

Three officers to face misconduct hearing over ‘using excessive force’ against an elderly woman in Peckham

By Issy Clarke

THREE POLICE officers will undergo a gross misconduct hearing relating to an incident two years ago when an elderly black woman in Peckham suffering from dementia was handcuffed and ‘threatened’ with a taser in her own home.

Officers were called to the woman’s house by her carer on 9 May 2023, and arrived to find her in the kitchen holding cooking utensils.

She refused to drop the utensils when asked to do so by the police, who proceeded to ‘red-dot’ her with the taser but did not actually use it – meaning they projected the laser onto the woman to act as a warning and to give the officer a view for potential firing.

More police arrived and the woman was handcuffed to the front. The woman had a spit hood placed over her head after she spat in the direction of officers.

She was then taken to hospital where the handcuffs and spit hood were removed.

Following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), a police constable (PC) will answer an allegation they used excessive force through their use of the Taser. They also

face allegations about their treatment of the woman during the incident.

In addition, this officer will face allegations they used their Taser inappropriately during an unrelated incident on 10 May 2023. This matter was also subject to an IOPC investigation.

A second PC and a third former PC, who left the Met in August 2024, will face allegations they used excessive force during the original incident and then later provided false statements.

Both serving officers are currently on restricted duties.

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NEW BURGESS PARK SPORTS CENTRE OPENS TO THE PUBLIC AFTER MAJOR REFURBISHMENT

By Issy Clarke A NEW sports centre in Burgess Park has opened its doors after a major refurbishment.

The upgraded centre boasts two fullsize artificial grass pitches, doubling the previous capacity, a brand new pavilion and a fully accessible basketball court which has been funded by Southwark Council.

The improvements have been partly

funded by a £2.4 million grant awarded by the Football Foundation, the UK’s largest sports charity, as part of its commitment to making football more accessible.

Cllr Portia Mwangangye, Cabinet Member for Leisure, Parks and Young People, said: “We know how powerful football can be in bringing communities together, improving physical and mental health, and creating opportunities for young people.

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Canada Water Leisure Centre opening faces further delays

As well as the upgrade to Burgess Park Sports Centre, the council also has plans for a new 5-a-side football centre at Brimmington Park as part of its commitment to improving football provision.

The design of the new centre was designed in collaboration with local sports clubs community groups to ensure it addresses the needs of the community.

The new pavilion includes improved

sightlines from the community room to the pitches, storage space for equipment, touchdown areas for club officials, and flexible community spaces.

The investment comes at a time of rapid growth in grassroots football, particularly following the success of the Lionesses and the surge of interest in women’s and girls’ football. Burgess Park Sports Centre has already embraced this growth, with programmes supporting the local Latin American women’s

football league, a weekend grassroots girls’ league, and new sessions for female and LGBTQ+ players.

Burgess Park is also home to the BMX Track London, one of the largest BMX tracks in the UK. Cllr Portia Mwangangye, Cabinet Member for Leisure, Parks and Young People, said: “This project is a fantastic example of what can be achieved when councils work in partnership with organisations like the Football Foundation to invest in grassroots sport.

“We know how powerful football can be in bringing communities together, improving physical and mental health, and creating opportunities for young people.

“By delivering high-quality, accessible facilities right here in Southwark, we are investing in our residents, helping nurture local talent, and creating safe, inclusive spaces for everyone to enjoy the game.

“The Football Foundation’s backing has been instrumental in making this vision a reality, and we’re grateful for their support in opening this new space.”

Robert Sullivan, Chief Executive of the Football Foundation, said: “The Football Foundation is working closely with our partners – the Premier League, The FA and Government – to transform the quality of grassroots facilities in England by delivering projects like this across the country.

“Good quality playing facilities have a transformative impact on physical and mental health and play an important role in bringing people together and strengthening local communities.

“We’re delighted that the local community in Southeast London will now be able to enjoy all these benefits thanks to the new facilities at Burgess Park.”

Seven formally in the running to become Southwark's next leader EXCLUSIVE

By Issy Clarke

The Canada Water Leisure Centre will be housed in the basement of the Dock Shed building

EXCLUSIVE

By Liv Facey THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED Canada Water Leisure Centre has missed its planned spring opening, with the council remaining tight-lipped about when the it will open.

The new centre, which will replace the nearly 60-year-old Seven Islands Leisure Centre, promises state-of-the-art facilities including a learner pool with a movable floor, an 8-lane 25-metre swimming pool, a 4-court sports hall, a gym with 150 stations, and three group exercise studios.

While advertisements in Surrey Quays Shopping Centre still display the passed spring opening date, the council’s leisure website now simply states “opening soon.”

It is believed the delay is due to to getting everything working with outside contractors. When approached for comment, a council spokesperson said: “We’re looking forward to opening the

doors to Canada Water Leisure Centre and sharing an opening date soon.

“The centre is taking shape as we work on the fit out with contractors, install equipment and prepare for a safe and exciting opening. We look forward to welcoming our first visitors soon.”

Earlier this year, the council confirmed that the facility would not include a sauna or steam room due to environmental concerns. Councillor Portia Mwangangye, Cabinet Member for Leisure, Parks and Young People, explained this decision was part of the council’s broader decarbonisation strategy and necessary to achieve an ‘excellent’ BREEAM sustainability rating.

While the council has addressed previous concerns about pool-related issues—including a leak that was resolved last year— they have yet to provide a revised opening timeline for the facility.

Local residents continue to await further updates on when they can access these new amenities.

SEVEN COUNCILLORS have formally filled in their nomination papers to become the next leader of the council, as the race for Southwark’s top job heats up.

Cllrs James McAsh (Cabinet Member for Clean Air, Streets & Waste), Evelyn Akoto (Cabinet Member for Health & Wellbeing), and Sarah King (Cabinet Member for Council Homes) have emerged as favourites in the contest to replace former leader Cllr Kieron Williams, who announced his resignation earlier this month.

As predicted by the News last week, the three frontrunners were joined by Deputy Leader Jasmine Ali, finance lead Stephanie Cryan and Cllr Victoria Mills in putting themselves forward for the position.

However, there was also an unexpected last minute application from Suzanne Abachor, councillor for Camberwell Green.

The Labour Group will decide on its new leader during a closed-door meeting on 30 June. Their choice will then be put to Southwark’s Council Assembly on Wednesday, 9 July for a vote.

Cllr Kieron Williams announced earlier this month his intention to resign as leader of the council. In his statement, which came as a shock to many in the council, Cllr Williams said: “Now is the right moment for me to step back and hand over the reins to a new leader who can bring renewed energy.”

McAsh previously challenged Williams last summer, losing out by only a handful of votes, so may feel he can secure the votes this time, although there will also be

consideration given to the fact that there hasn’t been a woman in the top job for 23 years, since Stephanie Elsy was Council Leader. Akoto and King are both thought to be well regarded in the group and will also feel confident about their chances.

It is understood that Labour councillors will be asked to vote by selecting their preferences from one to seven, which could open the doors to a candidate securing the position, even if they aren’t the majority first choice candidate.

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ELEPHANT AND CASTLE SERIAL RAPIST GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE

By Issy Clarke A STUDENT living in Elephant and Castle who drugged and raped 10 women has been handed down a life sentence, meaning he will spend the next 24 years at a minimum behind bars.

Zhenhao Zou, 28, of Churchyard Row, Elephant and Castle, was convicted of drugging and raping women both in the UK and China in March 2025.

Police are still appealing to anyone who believes they may have been a victim of Zou to come forward.

A jury found him guilty of 28 offences in total, including counts of voyeurism, possession of an extreme pornographic image, possession of a drug to commit a sexual offence and false imprisonment.

On Thursday, 19 June, he was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court to a life sentence. He will have to serve a minimum of 24 years.

Commander Kevin Southworth, of the Metropolitan Police Service, said: “First and foremost, our thoughts have always been with the courageous victimsurvivors of Zou’s heinous and predatory crimes.

“Thanks to the remarkable efforts of our officers and prosecutors, a dangerous and cowardly offender has been handed a life sentence. I hope the fact Zou can no longer harm others serves as a small amount of comfort to the women who have suffered immeasurably.

“I would also like to take this opportunity

to stress that our investigation remains open and we continue to appeal to anyone who may think they have been a victim of Zou. Please come forward and speak with our team – we will treat you with empathy, kindness and respect.”

THE INVESTIGATION

Before his arrest in January 2024, Zou was a student at University College London (UCL) since 2019 and prior to that studied at Queen’s University Belfast.

Zou used social media platforms and dating websites to target victim-survivors – all of which are believed to be of Chinese heritage. He lured women to his accommodation under the pretence of having a drink or studying and then plied them with drinks laced with drugs.

He filmed himself as he raped the woman as they lost consciousness.

Met investigators watched hundreds of these disturbing videos as they built a case of evidence against Zou. It was after analysis of this graphic and disturbing material that it became apparent that he had not only committed offences in London, but also in his home country of China too.

The prosecution team were unable to identify all of the victim-survivors captured, so relied on this video evidence to present a compelling case during the trial. Officers also meticulously pulled together over 4000 documents to leave no doubt in the jury’s mind about Zou’s guilt.

Alongside this, they downloaded around six and a half terabytes worth of data from

Zou’s phones and laptops, which included around nine million messages. This is the equivalent to 1,664 hours of footage and is one of the biggest cases the Met’s digital forensics lab has ever dealt with.

Met officers spent months trawling through messages to understand Zou’s pattern of offending, scrupulously translating them into English from Simplified Chinese.

THE APPEAL

Following Zou’s conviction, investigators shared that they believed Zou’s offending was much wider than the eleven rapes he was convicted of. They made a direct appeal to unidentified victim-survivors to come forward and seek specialist support.

Securing justice for the victim-survivors of Zou and putting him behind bars has been at the forefront of detective’s minds since the start of the investigation.

To secure a conviction through a fair trial, officers made the decision not to appeal for further victim-survivors ahead of conviction. Sharing specific information relating to his offending may have caused the case to collapse, leaving Zou to offend again. By appealing post-conviction, the Met was able to share the fullest details to support potential victim-survivors coming forward.

Since the appeal in March 2025, 24 women have made reports to the police.

These continue to be investigated thoroughly by a dedicated team of officers. Following the sentencing hearing, the team will continue to liaise with the

Crown Prosecution Services around potential future charges.

Detectives continue to keep an open mind about the identities of unidentified victim-survivors but have been keen to speak to women from the Chinese student community – they may have been living in London between 2019-2024 or met Zou while he was living in China.

So far, investigators have not received any reports from women who met Zou while he was living in Belfast but remain in contact with Police Service Northern Ireland. They continue to encourage any current or former Northern Ireland residents who have concerns to come forward and speak to officers.

Saira Pike, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Zou is a serial rapist and a danger to women. His life sentence reflects the heinous acts and harm he caused to women and the danger he posed to society.

“We have always been determined to seek justice for both the unidentified and identified victims in this case. We used an evidence-led approach that relied on the video recordings of Zou to ensure this dangerous predator faced justice.

“The prosecution team worked with the police for over a year to pick apart an unprecedented amount of footage and web chats showing his meticulous planning and the horrifying execution of his crimes.

“Following the police appeal, we will continue to review and consider any further charges to ensure that he is

held accountable and seek justice for all victims.

“I’d like to take this opportunity to once again express my heartfelt thanks to the courageous women who came forward to report Zou’s horrific crimes. They have been incredibly strong and brave – there is no doubt that their evidence helped us to secure his conviction, and the life sentence handed to him today.”

HOW TO CONTACT THE POLICE AND INDEPENDENT SUPPORT AGENCIES:

Reports relating to Zhenhao Zou can be made online via the Major Incident Public Portal (MIPP): https://mipp. police.uk/operation/01MPS25X38-PO1 . The MIPP is also available in Simplified Chinese https://mipp.police.uk/ operation/01MPS25X38-PO2, so it is as accessible as possible for potential victimsurvivors.

If you wish to speak to Met detectives or make a report relating to Zou, you can also contact police via email on survivors@ met.police.uk You can also make a report to police by calling 101 from within the UK, quoting reference 2904/04FEB25.

If you live in England or Wales and have been affected by this case and would like to seek support from specialist agencies, please contact the independent charity Rape Crisis via their 24/7 Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Line or call them on 0808 500 2222. Specially trained staff are there to listen, answer questions and offer emotional support.

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By Ruby Gregory Local Democracy Reporter

Former pupils, teachers and parents recently protested against the closure of Charlotte Sharman

SOUTHWARK COUNCIL’S Cabinet has confirmed the “difficult” closures of two primary schools at the end of August amid a declining birth rate and a growing number of families choosing to move outside of London.

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH PRIMARIES TO CLOSE IN SOUTHWARK IN JUST 3 YEAR PERIOD St Mary Magdalene and Charlotte Sharman are closing during the summer break

back of the merger process with St Jude’s which took 18 months to kind of come to [a conclusion] followed by entering into a licensed deficit programme – so two fairly hefty programmes we’ve gone through which have taken governors and staff a lot of time and focus.”

He went on to say: “There are alternative options we have put forward and to not give us the time to act more decisively and creatively after those two lengthy processes which have taken our bandwidth as it were, is to possibly

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neglect what might be possible in terms of preserving the school community.”

Mr Workman read out a statement on behalf of a Year 3 pupil, which said: “I’m feeling very sad the school is closing, it’s unfair people have just started and now they have to leave and they can’t play with their new friends – how would you feel if you couldn’t play with your friends?

Charlotte Sharman is like a family to us, the teachers are like our mum and dad and our friends are like our brothers and sisters to us. Please keep our school open.”

Charlotte Sharman

After Cabinet Members finished asking their questions, they proceeded to move onto the recommendations of the report and agreed to close the school. Cllr Ali then moved onto the second school closure which concerned St Mary Magdalene.

She said: “Colleagues, again I am very upset to bring yet another school which we’re proposing for closure and this time is the much-loved St Mary Magdalene.

Over the last five years the Reception numbers have been at or below 20 pupils.

“Again we know the issues here [are]

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Charlotte Sharman Primary School in Elephant and Castle and St Mary Magdalene Church of England Primary School in Peckham will both close on August 31, 2025 despite efforts to keep them open. They become the seventh and eighth schools in Southwark to close since 2022.

During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, June 17, members approved of the two school closures after agreeing recommendations set out in reports. As he introduced the first report relating to the closure of Charlotte Sharman, Southwark Council Leader, Kieron Williams, said the overall process had been “really difficult”.

Cllr Williams said: “The two decisions that we have got to contemplate this morning as Cabinet I know are very difficult ones for people who are very attached to their schools as I am to my children’s schools, so we understand they are very sensitive decisions and difficult ones to work through.”

Cllr Williams said there is a dedicated admissions officer who has been allocated to work closely with families and school staff to ensure affected children have a school place for September 2025.

He said there is also extra support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to move to a school that is right for them.

Jasmine Ali, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Children, Education and Refugees, said it was with “a heavy heart” he agreed to close the “muchloved” school. In June 2023, a report was presented to Cabinet with a list of schools including Charlotte Sharman for pupil place reduction, amalgamation or closure.

There were talks to merge Charlotte Sharman and another school called St Jude’s Primary however this plan fell through and Charlotte Sharman continued to struggle financially. A change. org petition to save the school from closure which has received more than 1,000 signatures has accused Southwark Council of not fully exploring other options such as merging with another school, securing additional funding or increasing enrolment outreach.

David Workman, Chair of Governors, told Cabinet Members on Tuesday: “Since last year we have been engaging willingly and effectively with the local authority to look at our financial situation and try and put mitigations in place. This comes on the

falling birth rates and 35per cent of children leaving London. In my own ward, it’s been a hot spot of regeneration yet… families are not staying so that’s a massive issue. As is the case with Charlotte Sharman, the decision to close St Mary Magdalene has not been taken lightly.”

Sonia Phippard, Chair of Governors at the school, said it had served the community for 170 years and said Tuesday marked a “very, very sad day”. Ms Phippard said: “We do continue to believe that with more imaginative engagement with the council, not in the most recent months but before, there were solutions that would have preserved some of what is very, very special about this school.

“It has been noticeable how many different vulnerabilities and needs it meets within our community and those numbers and that proportion have only increased even as numbers have been small.”

She went on to say governors along with senior leadership had worked “extremely effectively” to keep the deficit down.

She said the school had worked very hard with council officers and the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education (SDBE) to try and find solutions and to ensure if the closure was going to happen, it would happen in the “best possible way” for staff.

After approving both agendas, Cllr Williams made an additional recommendation that a report be produced on the “lessons learned” from school closures in Southwark over recent years which will be presented to Cabinet later in autumn.

Cllr Williams told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) the council will be working “intensively” with families and school staff to support them through the closures.

Cllr Williams said: “Our priority is making sure all children in Southwark schools can have a great education and childhood. Having a full school is vital for that as schools are funded per a pupil.

This means schools with half-empty classrooms don’t have the money to pay for all the extras needed to provide a great education.

“So with the number of children reducing significantly across London and Southwark we have had to make the difficult decision to reduce the number of primary schools in our borough.”

He added: “We have worked hard with Charlotte Sharman and St Mary Magdalene to find a way to keep them open, including looking at merging with nearby schools, a change in governance, and different budget and recovery plans.

“Despite this, it is clear that with such low pupil numbers, neither of these schools would be able to balance their books and afford all the things needed to offer a good education.”

13 primary schools in Southwark will get an upgrade this summer Is your child’s school going to be one of them?

By Issy Clarke THIRTEEN PRIMARY schools in the borough will have their facilities upgraded this summer, as Southwark Council invests £2 million on improving its school buildings as part of its 2025–26 schools maintenance programme.

L-R: Bird in Bush, Dulwich Wood, Ilderton, Southwark Park

Improvement works will begin this summer and may continue into early 2026 if needed to create safe, warm, and well maintained learning spaces for pupils across the borough.

THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS ARE SET TO BENEFIT FROM THE INVESTMENT FUND: • Roof, and drainage improvements at Southwark Park, Tuke, and Crampton primary schools.

• Roof and lighting upgrades at Phoenix and Ilderton primaries.

• Drainage, and glazing improvements at Dulwich Wood.

• Timber works at Bird in Bush.

• Roof, shutter, and fire improvements at Haymerle and Nell Gwynn.

• Emergency lighting and associated works at Riverside.

• Drainage and lighting upgrades at

Victory and Keyworth.

Work is scheduled to begin in July 2025, with completion expected by March 2026.

Cllr Kieron Williams, Leader of Southwark Council, said: “Not long ago, Southwark’s schools were some of the lowest rated in the country. Now, we’re proud that 97% are rated good or outstanding by Ofsted.

“We’re building on this success by improving our school buildings, working with contractors so that all pupils can learn and grow in safe, secure places. We look forward to finishing this work next year.”

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South London primary school with 'thriving pupil roll' announces shock August closure

By Issy Clarke

A PRIMARY school in south London described as ‘thriving with a healthy pupil roll’ has announced its plans to close at the end of August, to the shock of parents and children who claim they didn’t see it coming.

Goldfinch Primary School in Streatham, part of the Dunraven Educational Trust with five schools in south London, will shut its doors at the end of August, with the final confirmation of the school’s closure expected imminently.

The decision has been slammed by the National Education Union, describing the Trust as being in “overall good financial health and [which] pays its CEO £176,000 a year”.

Primary school closures have become endemic across inner London in recent years, as a declining birth rate has left many schools struggling to fill their places – but the NEU claim Goldfinch has a healthy pupil roll, with average class sizes of 23. Most primary school closures occur when classes are less than half full.

But a spokesperson for the Dunraven Trust said the decision to close the school was taken due concerns over its financial sustainability, stating: “Despite the best efforts of the school leaders and

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Trust team working together over the last few years, it has not been possible to get the school to a position where it is financially viable.

“The school budget has required a sizeable subsidy from reducing Trust reserves to set a balanced budget for

a number of years. This situation is unsustainable.

“The falling birthrate in London, declining school roll, increased costs of running a school and reducing ‘real terms’ funding have all contributed to the situation leaving the school in an

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impossible situation.”

One Goldfinch teacher said: “We’ve put our hearts into this school. It’s a real community and the children are at the centre of everything we do. Goldfinch isn’t just where we work; it’s where we’ve seen children grow, thrive and

find their voices.

“We’re still turning up every day, doing our best for the children, but the truth is we haven’t even had time to process what’s happening and we are still waiting for answers weeks later. We’re heartbroken, and the children are the ones who will lose the most.”

The spokesperson for the Dunraven Trust continued: “We are very proud of all that has been achieved at Goldfinch and very grateful to the dedicated staff team for all of their hard work. It is very sad that a school as positive as this and with such a history cannot be sustained into the future.

“However, there is no additional funding from the Department for Education for schools in this position.

A number of primary and secondary schools have closed in this part of London already and more closures are planned. This is true of both local authority schools as well as academies.

This is, sadly, not a situation that is unique to us.

“We are very grateful to colleagues from Wandsworth and other local authorities who have helped to ensure that all children at Goldfinch have a place in a new school ready for September 2025. We’re grateful too for the support of colleagues during the formal consultation process.”

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By Michael Holland DAVE ALLEN spent most of his life in a dark room developing photographs that brought light and joy to the world.

Growing up with a grandfather who was a keen photographer and a father who founded the first ever private photography school, gave the young David a good start. He was aged only seven when he began taking photos and then, with seven years of experience already behind him, began teaching at his dad’s school when he was 14!

His skills were later sharpened at the Polytechnic of Central London before he began working as a commercial and fine art photographer. He was hired to take photos for British Rail and then Lewisham Council.

Like many young graduate artists in the 70s and 80s, Dave gravitated to Bermondsey where the main industry - the docks - had closed down and left many warehouses and wharves along the Rotherhithe riverside empty, and a lot of vacant housing as people moved away to find work. And like birds of a feather they flocked together in local pubs, eventually forming the Bermondsey Artists’ Group (BAG ) in 1983. Dave became involved in 1984 and was a member for the rest of his life.

The early days of BAG were haphazard to say the least as they took turns to have exhibitions, invigilate during the gallery’s open hours, plus earn a living. These young artists had to learn on the job how to run a gallery but slowly and surely they did.

At some point in the beginning Dave says he ‘got dragged onto the management committee’. BAG cofounder Tony Fleming said, “We started as enthusiastic amateurs trying to pitch in, and then roles started to be defined.”

Over time Dave became Secretary and wrote the Group’s Constitution.

After that he was the Strategic Director, a role he played right up until his passing.

His death evoked shock and pain throughout the BAG membership and beyond.

Ron Henocq, co-founder of BAG and former Director of Café Gallery Projects (CGP), who worked alongside David for many years, said, “David played a major role in forming the identity of The Bermondsey Artists’ Group and CGP - now Southwark Park Galleries.

“He fully embraced the concept of an artist-led space in a public park being part of its local community.

“Helping at first with photographs and catalogue design he soon became involved in creating exhibitions that included local people as well as new and established artists... Without him there would be no galleries today in Southwark Park. His tremendous energy, tenacity and attention to detail played a tremendous part in securing Lottery funding to rebuild the original gallery with a fit for purpose new space, and later Cabinet Office funding to take over and renovate Dilston Grove, a grade 2 listed building lying neglected and derelict in the corner of Southwark Park” “Dave was the most generous artist, so brilliant and supportive to work with and such great humour and company,’ remembers Shona Illingworth. ‘I loved working with him... I have so many fond and wonderful memories of working, talking and enjoying life with Dave.”

Frances Coleman, BAG co-founder

David Allen 28 March 1961 - 7 June 2025

FAREWELL TO SOUTHWARK PARK GALLERY STALWART At the meeting at Lower Road

Dave with fellow members of the Bermondsey Artist Group

and Director of Coleman Project Space: “I find it hard to get it down in words... David was super, strong, calm and kind - a real rock. He always had time for everyone and was so supportive of Coleman Projects, using his designer hat to provide letterheads and graphics... And Dave could tell a great story.”

“It seems like David was always part of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group and the Gallery,’ recalls BAG co-founder Louise Sheridan. “We’d regularly all meet up in the Ship in Rotherhithe and he became a good friend. He loved to dance and sometimes we’d

go Downtown to the Ship and Whale for a late-night boogie.”

One of the projects close to David’s heart was an artist exchange programme with East Berlin that ran through the early 1990s. Through this he fell in love with Berlin and by 2010 had relocated there where he met his partner and future wife, the East German artist Mideele Schade. Dave embraced his new home and, perhaps, did some of his best work there.

His continuing work as an artphotographer now focused on the urban Berlin borough of Pankow with a particular emphasis on the former

boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee.

One of his last exhibitions was Mapping My Manor, a series of photos from Dave’s long walks around his part of Berlin that highlight his style: strong black and white contrasts, shapes, surfaces and interesting composition. His pictures were never about place, they were much more than that, and they rarely told a story but posed questions.

He continued to use film throughout his career, never went digital and rarely shot in colour. He said he works The Newington Library that way so that he can have complete

control of the process, from getting the shot and taking that right through the developing stage, tweaking certain details in the processing if he needed: ‘I know what I can do with film and I want to be sure I can produce the results that I want.’

Frances Coleman adds, ‘He was an amazing photographer and loved the Berlin Urban Landscape; it’s been a great privilege to socialise and work with him over the years. I can’t quite believe he has gone.’

David’s funeral will be at 12pm, on Monday July 7th at Parochial-Friedhof, Friedrichshain, Berlin.

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Short term thinking on primary schools

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his week Southwark Council rubber-stamped the closure of St Mary Magdalene and Charlotte Sharman primary schools - the latter the subject of a drawn-out campaign launched by parents and teachers in a desperate attempt to keep it alive. The death knell was also sounded this week on Goldfinch, a 180-year old primary school in Streatham.

The admirable efforts of Charlotte Sharman’s community to keep the school going ultimately proved futile, with its fate at the whim of the forces which have toppled dozens of primaries across the capital in recent years. A lack of affordable housing has triggered an exodus of families from inner London - a trend most pronounced in Southwark, where the decline in the birth rate has outstripped most other boroughs.

We’re already beginning to see the knock-on effects on secondary schools. The Harris Federation, the largest Academy Trust in South London, was forced to cut staff earlier this year, citing financial pressures generated by a shrinking pupil base.

Councillors say they don’t want to see schools shut in the borough, but that consistently low pupil numbers has left them with little choice. However, it does seem to be the case that these decisions are being taken without much long-term strategic planning.

London’s birth rate is thought to be tightly indexed to house prices. The government’s commitment to building more homes could mean that in a few years local authorities in London could soon regret closing their schools.

To its credit, Southwark Council has committed to keeping its closed schools within educational use, which it says will offer it the flexibility to repurpose them as primary schools if the demand arises.

Above all, it seems the model used to calculate primary school budgets - which allocates funding on a per-pupil basis - is at fault, leaving them overly-vulnerable to demographic fluctuations.

Islington Council, which has also struggled with keeping schools open, previously said it was looking into working with other local authorities to encourage the government and Mayor Sadiq Khan to reform the current mode of granting funding for schools.

One solution could involve the Mayor keeping a portion of the dedicated school’s grant aside specifically for investment in single-form entry schools - those with only one class for each year group, which are disproportionately impacted financially by falling pupil numbers.

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When the magic happens the theatre throbs

The whole play is set in a California studio and starts with sound checks as the band drift in and demand a pick-me-up of either coffee or drugs.

The stereo sound in the title is what goes on between the two engineers at the mixing desk, and the ups and down of the five-piece band, comprised of English and American musicians, two of whom are women and in relationships with other band members. Drummer Simon (Chris Stack), the leader, has his family in the UK so keeps out of the problems that various partners have with each other.

There seems to be an easy, loving relationship within the group but with creative differences and the constant, 24/7 togetherness between home and studio, faults begin to show.

Compromise is key with so many creatives wanting input, but finding a happy medium gets harder and harder and lengthens the recording process, leading to arguments and relationship problems.

As the musicians debate the lyrics or a riff behind the glass, the engineers, Glover (Eli Gelb) and Charlie (Andrew

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IT WAS noteworthy that in the week he died, Brian Wilson featured heavily in the programme notes for Stereophonic, David Adjmi and Will Butler’s musical about a band putting an album together as the group falls apart, writes Michael Holland...

(L-R) Eli Gelb and Andrew R. Butler - Stereophonic West End R. Butler) talk about nothing much.

They do sometimes lurk in the vicinity of old Cheech & Chong skits but when it gives us a wonderful piece about the Doobie Brothers I don’t mind the resemblance - Or is it a homage? It is in these times while they wait for the band to sort themselves out that we discover that Glover has actually lied

about his experience to get this job; the tension of whether he gets found out is hovering in the air along with the cannabis smoke throughout the play.

Over twelve months of recording we watch Diane (Lucy Karczewski) and Peter (Jack Riddiford) fall in and out of love over songs and egos through seen or private conversations overheard on

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One Georgie Orwell going for nothing

L-R Bill Crow, Carl Picton, Hugh Barnett, Chris Knott, Alex Mugnaioni

the many microphones in the studio; Holly (Mia Towle) and Reg (Zachary Hart) to and fro as he gets stoned or gets clean or goes vegan in equal measure, and all the while Grover and Charlie are trying their utmost to get an album made. We watch them all shrink with low self-confidence or soar with self-belief when they know

A CATFORD Boy who played alongside Harry Cripps at Millwall, then First Division football in Finland has now written a musical about George Orwell that he is willing to give away to any impresario or theatre company who wants to put it on the stage, writes Michael Holland...

Peter Cardwell, who gave up the game for a career in journalism told us: 'The only cost to them will be £8.99 for the book of the show – script, songs and lyrics - just published on Amazon.'

The journalist, who once wrote for several local publications in SE London, explained that he has no experience of writing musicals but does have a great love of Orwell and the man's political beliefs that aligned nicely with his own. Orwell was a writer who spent a lot of time in SE London while writing his hard-hitting novels that resonated with the bottom layers of society.

It was while interviewing Greenwich Theatre's Artistic Director James Haddrell for the Labour Council's weekly newspaper that he decided to tell him about his idea for the George Orwell musical, which at that time was exactly that - an idea, with precisely nothing written, neither a note nor a syllable.

The theatre's director told Peter to have a go, so he set about getting some words on paper and finding a local singer-songwriter musician to help

they created something beautiful in a song.

And when the magic in the music does happen, the theatre throbs with drum and bass and guitar and beautiful voices as these actors play live. Audience heads nod in rhythm beneath the glow emanating from the stage.

Stereophonic could easily have an hour lopped off its 3 hour 15 minute length. But would it have been better?

No, it only would have meant the audience got an earlier train home.

That extra 60 minutes took us deep into the recording process and down with the mundane minutiae of musicmaking that would have been lost to us.

The set is perfect (David Zinn), as is the directing (Daniel Aukin) and anyone who lived through the 70s will know it was an awful decade for fashion - They get that dead right too.

For me, though, Eli Gelb’s Grover is the best thing. He is one of the three actors who transferred from New York so can play that stoner role in his sleep.

Stereophonic is a beautiful thing to be part of. It has broken records on Broadway and could do the same now it has opened in the West End. Duke of York’s Theatre, St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4BG. Booking and full details: https://www. thedukeofyorks.com/stereophonic

with the music. A chance meeting in Lee Green Sainsbury's car park turned into teacher and Charlton fan Carl Picton climbing on board: 'We knocked out eight songs in about eight months,' Peter says satisfyingly. 'It was only the music that Carl needed to provide as the lyrics all come from Orwell's own words.'

So, with the musical finished, a cast was put together and in 2012 'One Georgie Orwell' played for four nights at the Greenwich Theatre, and after creating a bit of interest there the show had a week in New York's Lower East Side's Teatro Latea where Dione Venables, founder of the Orwell Society, went along and wrote a lovely review.

Now, eleven years on, I asked Peter about this latest move: 'It’s pretty obvious that George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four are more relevant than ever, Trump IS Napoleon and it could be argued that Nigel Farage is a natural for Squealer.’

And the title One Georgie Orwell?

'I chose the football chant style as a working-class tribute to the great man.'

And now Peter Cordwell hopes that someone with good Socialist blood in their veins will take up the baton and run with it. All he asks is that he and Carl Picton get a mention.

The book can be purchased here with a foreword by Orwell expert Professor Tim Crook. All you need then is a cast, crew and a stage.

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Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations at St Alfege Church: An immersive performance at St Alfege Graveyard and Church of Charles Dickens’ classic, Great Expectations. Theatre group A Drunken Sailor will be presenting their unique version, with new music and songs, set amongst the gravestones of the historic Church of St Alfege in Greenwich.

Tickets include a glass of wine, beer or juice.

Dates: Tuesday 1st July, Wednesday 2nd July, Friday 4th July, Saturday 5th July Time: All performances start at 7pm Location: St Alfege Church, Greenwich Church St, London SE10 8NA Tickets: £17 standard, £14 concessions.

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Free coding session for young people in Kidbrooke

CoderDojo at The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre is a free coding session for young people ages 7 to 17 who are interested in coding. The club will take place monthly, with the first session on 5th July. You can expect 90 minutes of programming, in which you can take part in specially designed coding activities inspired by the museums vast collections. Knowledgeable mentors will show you how to create projects in Python, Scratch, HTML and more. Everyone and all levels are welcome. Just bring a laptop, notepad and pen.

Date: First session is Saturday 5th July. Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm Location: Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre (Learning Space), Nelson Mandela Road, Kidbrooke, London, SE3 9QS Tickets: Free, book here: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/prince-philip-maritimecollectionscentre/coder-dojo

Local author Talks at Blackheath Halls

Discover how South London serves as a powerful backdrop for thrilling and compelling fiction in this engaging author talk, chaired by journalist and critic Suzi Feay. Katherine Faulkner, author of Greenwich Park, discusses her new psychological thriller, The Break In, which is a twisting tale of secrets and survival. Lisa Smith is introducing her new debut novel, Jamaica Road, a transformative love story set in 1980s South London.

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Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair are celebrating their 10th year, bringing their ‘Summer Edition’ to London’s Historic Royal Arsenal. The fair is a festival-feel art experience bringing together leading exhibiting galleries and artists. Purchase the best in contemporary print to take home on the day, directly from the artists. Enjoy live music, food and beverage stands, interactive and familyfriendly demonstrations and workshops throughout a curated exhibition of stands.

Date: Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June.

Time: 10am-5pm Location: Woolwich Works, The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6HD Tickets: One day tickets are £13.20 standard or £11 adult. Children under the age of 16 are free.

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Byron Wallen is a recognised figure in world jazz, constantly travelling the world recording, teaching and performing. He has played the trumpet in various contexts, both live and on record, with legendary artists such as Chaka Khan, George Benson, Andrew Hill, Red Snapper and Style Council. He will be bringing two bands to the Woolwich Jazz series, with an appearance from Woolwich Singers.

Date: Wednesday 2nd July Time: Doors will open at 7:30pm with an 8pm start time Location: Tramshed, 51-53 Woolwich New Road, London, SE18 6ES Tickets: £10 standard, £5 concession. Book here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/tramshed/1510740

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (KING EDWARD WALK, PELLATT ROAD, MCNEIL ROAD, PRICES STREET, OAKDALE ROAD)

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (SPURLING ROAD, WORLINGHAM ROAD)

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)

1.

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

1.

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

2.

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

2.

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

(2a) Kind Edward Walk, outside No’s 17, located between Lambeth Road and St Georges Road (2b) Mcneil Road, between No’s 26 and No’s 34 (2c) Prices Street, at it’s junction with Bear Lane to it’s blocked end (2d) Oakdale Road, between Linden Grove and Gibbon Road 3.

The alternative routes for affected traffic will be (2a) as indicated by the signs displayed (2b) McNeil Road, Camberwell Grove, Peckham Road, Lyndhurst Way, Lyndhurst Grove McNeil Road (2c) not applicable (2d) Gibbon Road, Kimberley Avenue, Evelina Road, Linden Grove, Oakdale Road.

(2a) Spurling Road, at it’s junction with East Dulwich Road.

(2b) Worlingham Road, at it’s junction with East Dulwich Road.

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The alternative routes for affected traffic will be (2a) & (2b) Crawthew Grove, Frogley Road, Lordship Lane.

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The existing ‘one-way’ working in Spurling Road, will be made ‘two-way for access and egress purposes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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The closure will be in operation on the following dates (2a) & (2b) 28th July – 24th August

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The closure will be in operation on the following dates (2a) 5th July (2b) 6th July (2c) 8th, 10th, 29th July, with a backup date of the 31st July (2d) 9th July

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

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

Dated this 26th June 2025

Dated this 26th June 2025 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) LBSCR14037/SIS (2b) CAT-4-2-60725/ORP/INDU (2d) LBSCR13145-35/LBSCR1314536LIFTASSIST (2e) 00717512-001/Thames

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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark PUBLIC NOTICE: ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 29 THE (RESTRICTION OF TRAFFIC) SPECIAL EVENTS ORDER 2025 1. The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Traffic Order under section 29 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.

2. The purpose of the Order is to facilitate special events, as indicated in the schedule to this notice.

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

The provision of late night refreshment:

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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.

3. The effect of the Order is to prohibit any vehicle or cyclist from:(a) entering or proceeding in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice on the date and between the hours specified in that schedule;. (b) waiting (including waiting for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods or loading or unloading a vehicle) in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice.

4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of: (a) any vehicle being used for the purposes of that event or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes; (b) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark.

5. The alternative route will be adjacent roads as applicable.

For information regarding this notice, please contact Network & Parking at ttmo@southwark.gov.uk Dated this 26th June 2025 Ian Law, Traffic Manager, London Borough of Southwark, Network Management, Environment & Growth, 60 Tooley Street, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: specialevents/28 – 29 June

Date of application: 16th June 2025

Marriage/Civil Partnerships approval/renewal of venue Notice is given that Christie Cox Has applied to the London Borough of Southwark for approval/renewal (delete as applicable) of premises for marriage/civil partnership ceremonies at OXO Tower Restaurant, Bar and Brasserie, OXO Tower Wharf, barge House Street, SE19PH, London.

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 https://app.southwark.gov.uk/ 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 21 days starting the day after the date shown below.

Date of application: 24/06/2025

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24 PUBLIC NOTICES

Thursday, June 26th 2025

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, 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; PIP - application is for Permission in Principle; S106 - ; STDCA - development within a conservation area; STDLB - works to or within the site of a listed building; 117A DULWICH VILLAGE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7BL (Ref: 25/AP/1700) Listed building consent for replacement of all existing single-glazed timber sash windows on the first and second floors with slimline double-glazed timber sash units, along with a series of internal alterations. (Within: Dulwich Village Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Rosie Poser 020 7525 7924) 1 DUKE STREET HILL LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 2SW (Ref: 25/AP/1725) Installation of a 20m monopole which will support 4no. antennas and 1 no GPS module Reason(s) for publicity: AFFECT (Contact: Susherrie Suki 020 7525 0646)

FLAT 3 17 ADDINGTON SQUARE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE5 7JZ (Ref: 25/AP/1748) Listed building consent for a single storey rear extension (Within: Addington Square Addington Square Addington Square CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Adeleh Haghgoo 020 7525 0474) 145 COURT LANE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE21 7EE (Ref: 25/AP/1657) Proposed roof dormer and roof-light to the front elevation, and replacement roof-light to the rear.

(Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Agneta Kabele 020 7525 3148)

BUS SHELTER OUTSIDE NO 86 BLACKFRIARS ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK (Ref: 25/AP/1703) Advertisement for internally illuminated sequential advertisement capable of static and dynamic content display with automatic rotation of images.

Reason(s) for publicity: AFFECT (Contact: James Holmes 020 7525 0803)

RAILWAY ARCHES 6 CRUCIFIX LANE LONDON SOUTHWARK SE1 3JW (Ref: 25/AP/1760) Listed building consent for the change of use of 1no. vacant railway arch to flexible Use Class E (a-d and g(i)) and/or bar (Sui Generis) and associated internal and external alteration works Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Sandy Ng 020 7525 3244)

235C QUEENS ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE15 2NG (Ref: 25/AP/1662) Installation of new casement sash windows to the ground floor rear elevation and basement front elevation. Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Sandy Ng 020 7525 3244)

93 BURBAGE ROAD LONDON SOUTHWARK SE24 9HD (Ref: 25/AP/1774) Replacement of single-storey additions with a new conjoined single-storey and two-storey extension to the rear, alongside loft conversion works proposing a dormer to rear roof slope. Rooflights are proposed

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (ANN MOSS WAY, DOCKLEY ROAD, LOMAN STREET, SOUTHWARK BRIDGE ROAD) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC/CYCLE LANE CLOSURE) 1.

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.

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: (2a) Ann Moss Way, between No’s 32 and No’s 6 (2b) Dockley Road, between Thurland Road and Lucey Way (2c) Loman Street, at the side of No’s 53 – No’s 55 Great Suffolk Street (2d) Southwark Bridge Road, cycle lane outside No’s 209

within the rear and side-facing roof slopes. (Within: Dulwich Village CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Ibrahim Azam 020 7525 2876) 5 EAST STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE17 2DJ (Ref: 25/AP/1198) retrospective application for the insertion of a refrigerator room and temporary timber-construction room for storage (which is temporary and will be removed in under 12 months) (Within: Walworth Road CA) Reason(s) for publicity: STDCA (Contact: Glenn Ruane 020 7525 5840) GREENLAND DOCK ROPE STREET LONDON SOUTHWARK SE16 (Ref: 25/AP/1250) Variation of Condition 1 (Approved Plans) pursuant to planning permission ref: 23/AP/2853 dated 11/04/2024 for 'Erection of a single storey electricity substation and LV room.' The amendments include the following: 1. Relocation of the substation away from the dock wall. 2. Relocation of the approved bollard location. Reason(s) for publicity: STDLB (Contact: Lara Davison 020 7525 7595) Dated: 24 Jun 2025 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date (or 14 days for Permission in Principle, 30 days for EIA development).

STEPHEN PLATTS - Director of Planning and Growth

Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 Please take notice that I / we Gokhan Yurdakul Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of Castle Fish Bar, 11 London Road, SE1 6JZ The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are

The retail sale of alcohol: Opening hours:

Days

Start time

Finish time

Monday to Sunday Monday to Sunday

11:00 11:00

23:00 23:00

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.

3.

The alternative routes for affected traffic will be (2a) not applicable (2b) Dockley Road, Rouel Road, Lucey Way, Yalding Road, Southwark Park Road, St James's Road, Dockley Road (2c) Pocock Street, Sawyer Street, Copperfield Street (2d) not applicable

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 closure will be in operation on the following dates (2a) 12th – 13th July, with a backup date of the 19th – 20th July (2b) 17th – 18th July (2c) 14th – 15th July (2d) 21st July

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

7.

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

Please take notice that I / we Belinda Richardson Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of Glue Wine Bar, 16 West Lane, London, SE16 4NY The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are

Dated this 26th June 2025 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) LBSCR14100/ LBSCR14100-1ThomasS (2b) LBSCR14044/centurion (2c) -CB-CIV-23278/hyperoptic (2d) OCU/DEF0442/OCUGroup

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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: 20th June 2025

The retail sale of alcohol: The provision of regulated entertainment: Opening hours:

Days

Start time

Finish time

Monday to Sunday Monday to Sunday Monday to Sunday

12:00 12:00 12:00

22:00 22:00 22:00

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: 20th June 2025

PUBLIC NOTICE London Borough of Lambeth

Thursday, June 26th 2025

PUBLIC NOTICES 25

Transport for London Public Notice

NOTICE OF DESIGNATION OF AREAS FOR SELECTIVE LICENSING

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

Section 80, Housing Act 2004 1. The London Borough of Lambeth (“The Council”) in exercise of its powers under section 80 of the Housing Act 2004 ("the Act") hereby designates for selective licensing the areas described in paragraph 5 CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND DURATION 2. This Designation shall be known as the London Borough of Lambeth Phase 2 Designations for Areas for Selective Licensing 2025. All privately rented residential accommodation situated within the designated areas must be licensed with the Council unless subject to statutory exemption as set out in paragraph 6.

THE A3 GLA ROAD (BOROUGH HIGH STREET) AND A3200 GLA ROAD (SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC AND STOPPING) ORDER (NO.2) 2025 1. Transport for London in consultation with the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Trafc Order under section 14(1) of the Road Trafc Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specied in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.

3. The Designation was confirmed on 23rd May 2025. The Designation fall within a description of designations for which confirmation is not required by Secretary of State, and come into force on 1st September 2025

2. The purpose of the Order is to enable railway works to take place on the A3200 Southwark Street and A3 Borough High Street in London Borough of Southwark.

4. The Designations shall cease to have effect on 31st August 2030 (not more than 5 years) or earlier if the Council revokes the scheme under section 84 of the Act.

3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle from: (1) entering or proceeding on Railway Approach between its junctions with Borough High Street/ Duke Street Hill and Guildable Manor Street;

AREA TO WHICH THE DESIGNATION APPLIES 5. These designations apply to the following areas of the London Borough of Lambeth. The Designation is delineated in blue with the area itself coloured purple on the map in annex A below. The following wards are included: Wards included in Designation Brixton Acre Lane Brixton North Ward Clapham Common & Abbeville Clapham East Gipsy Hill Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction Oval St Martins Streatham Hill West & Thornton Streatham Wells

Brixton Rush Common Clapham Park Kennington Stockwell East West Dulwich

Brixton Windrush Clapham Town Myatts Field Stockwell West & Larkhall

APPLICATION OF THE DESIGNATION 6. This designation applies to any house(1) which is let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the area described in paragraph 5 unless: a. the house is a house in multiple occupation [HMO] that falls within the nationally prescribed category of HMO that is required to be licensed as a ‘mandatory HMO’ under section 55(2)(a) Part 2 of the Act2(2). b. the house is a house in multiple occupation that falls within the prescribed category of HMO that is required to be licensed under the London Borough of Lambeth Designation of an Area for Additional Licensing of Houses of Multiple Occupation made on 9th December 2021 under Section 56 of the Housing Act 2004(3). c. the tenancy or licence of the house has been granted by a registered social landlord(4). d. the house is subject to an Interim or Final Management Order under Part 4 of the Act; e. the house is subject to a temporary exemption under section 86 of the Act; or f. the house is occupied under a tenancy or licence which is exempt under the Act or the occupation is of a building or part of a building so exempt as defined in Paragraph 5(f): Exempted tenancies or licences, Selective Licensing of Houses (Specified Exemptions) (England) Order 2006 SI 370/2006.

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

7. The London Borough of Lambeth will comply with the notification requirements contained in section 83 of the Act and shall maintain a register of all houses registered under this designation, as required under section 232 of the Act(6).

If you are a landlord, managing agent or a tenant, or if you require information regarding this designation, or to apply for a licence, further information and assistance is available from the Council’s Private Rented Property Licensing Team by telephone on 020 7926 8591 or by email to PRSlicensing@lambeth.gov.uk, or by writing to Private Sector Enforcement and Regulation Service, PO Box 80771, London, SW2 9QQ. The Designation may be inspected at the above address during office hours. All landlords, managing agents or tenants within the designated area should obtain advice to ascertain whether their property is affected by the Designation by contacting the Council’s Private Rented Property Licensing Team.

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

Signed by Cabinet Member for Safer Communities: Councillor Dr Mahamed Hashi for and on behalf of the London Borough of Lambeth 1 For the definition of "house" see sections 79 and 99 of the Act 2 Section 55 of the Act defines which Houses in Multiple Occupation are required to be licensed under the Act. See also The Licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (Prescribed Descriptions) (England) Order 2005 (SI 2006/371) 3 Additional Licensing covers HMOs that are not within the scope of Mandatory HMO Licensing where tenants share one or more ‘basic amenities’ i.e. a WC, personal washing facilities or cooking facilities.

4 Section 79 (3) of the Act. For the definition of a Registered Social Landlord see Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996 5 See the Selective Licensing of Houses (Specified Exemptions) (England) Order 2006 SI 370/2006 6 Section 232 of the Act and paragraph 11 of SI 373/2006

Annex A: “Map showing selective licensing designations with the designation boundaries marked in blue and the designation areas”

(2) entering Guildable Manor Street at its junction with London Bridge Street; (3) stopping in the Parking Bay opposite Nos. 25 to 33 Southwark Street, except buses; (4) stopping in the Electric Vehicle Charging Bay opposite Nos. 25 to 33 Southwark Street, except buses.

Works will be phased such that some restrictions will apply only at certain times.

The Order will be effective at certain times on the following dates, 28th June 2025 – 30th June 2025, 12th September 2025 – 15th September 2025, 2nd November 2025 – 4th November 2025, 13th December 2025 – 15th December 2025. Every Saturday at 10.00 PM until Monday at 4.00 AM or when the works have been completed whichever is the sooner. The prohibitions will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to time be indicated by trafc signs.

4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of: (1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for re brigade, ambulance or police purposes; (2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for London.

Dated this 26th day of June 2025 Andrew Ulph Co-ordination Manager Transport for London, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ

Transport for London Public Notice ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 THE A3 GLA ROAD (BOROUGH HIGH STREET, LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF STOPPING) ORDER 2025 1. Transport for London hereby gives notice that it intends to make the above named Trafc Order under section 14(1) of the Road Trafc Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specied in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3.

2. The purpose of the Order is to enable mobile apparatus works to take place at the A3 Borough High Street.

3. The effect of the Order will be to prohibit any vehicle from stopping on the eastern arm of Borough High Street between its junctions with the western arm of Borough High Street and Southwark Street.

The Order will be effective at certain times from 9.00 PM on the 6th July 2025 until 6.00 AM on the 7th July 2025 or when the works have been completed whichever is the sooner. The prohibition will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to time be indicated by trafc signs.

4. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of: (1) any vehicle being used for the purposes of those works or for re brigade, ambulance or police purposes; (2) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by Transport for London.

Dated this 26th day of June 2025 Alan Davidson Area Manager Central, Transport for London Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ

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SCINTILLATING JACKS BLASTS LONDON RIVALS

Surrey win fifth game in a row

By Jon Batham at the Kia Oval

WILL JACKS’ scintillating 97 led Surrey to a fifth win in a row as they thrashed London neighbours Middlesex by 75 runs at the Kia Oval last weekend.

By ECB Reporters’ Network RYANA MACDONALD-GAY and Phoebe Franklin shared seven wickets to spark a Lancashire collapse and lead Surrey to a 53-run victory at the Oval last weekend – their seventh win in eight Vitality games.

Franklin (3-19) and MacDonald-Gay (4-14) wrestled back control for the league leaders as the visitors crumbled from 102-3 to 118 all out chasing 172 for victory. Their heroics followed a 70-

run stand between Emma Lamb, (64 from 46), and Ellie Threlkeld 32 which threatened to snatch an unlikely win for the Red Rose county.

All this drama came after Grace Harris (57 from 31) and Paige Schofield (37) shared a fifth-wicket stand of 69 to help the hosts recover from 17-3 to 171-9.

“I just wanted to keep mixing it up and not let the batters settle or attack me too much,’ Surrey all-rounder Franklin said.

“As seamers we always communicate about when slower balls are working and that was a pitch towards the end where cutters were gripping, so that made it a bit harder for the batters and forced them to take a chance somewhere else.

Will Jacks reminds England selectors of batting prowess

Camberwell King returns to Hamlet

By John Kelly

NYREN CLUNIS was the headline signing after a slew of new recruits at Dulwich Hamlet over the last week.

Phoebe Franklin “We know the outfield is quick here, so I wanted to make sure it didn’t go over the rope. I was tumbling over the boundary when I heard everyone cheer, so Mac obviously cleaned up pretty well.

“We probably thought 171 was under par as 180-200 was the goal when I went in. We believed we could defend it.

“We really care for each other. Fielders are putting in the effort in the field to help the bowlers perform.

“We’ve been telling Ryana to back her strengths and keep it as simple as possible and getting that ball to nip back in.

Surrey’s next Vitality Blast fixture is against Essex on July 6 (4pm).

Clunis , the ‘King of Camberwell’, has retuned to Champion Hill after two seasons with Cray Wanderers to become boss Mark Dacey’s first signing of the summer following the retentions of Luke Wanadio and Michael Chambers from last season’s squad.

Clunis has scored 117 goals in 486 appearances for the Hamlet after coming through their youth system and helping them to two promotions, from the Isthmian League South and Premier Divisions.

Clunis’ arrival was followed by Jordan Wynter and Anthony Jeffrey agreeing new terms for the 2025-26 season.

Goalkeeper Tony Bull, 21, has joined after spending last season at Lewes.

“Toby gained a lot of plaudits last season,” Dacey said. “He is a modernday goalkeeper with the ability to be able to play out from the back and go long when necessary. It’s a big part of our new identity that our keeper is brave when playing from the back.

Toby ticked all the boxes to become our

new number one.”

Anthony Cook, 35, has re-signed for a second stint after initially joining in 2018.

Cook spent the 24-25 season with Dacey at Rayners Lane of the Southern League Division One Central, winning the Middlesex Senior Cup.

Photo by Duncan Palmer Photography

Surrey 171-9 beat Lancashire 118 all out by 53 runs

Photo by Keith Gillard

Surrey duo spark Lancashire collapse in 53-run victory

but left without scoring in the next trying to go over extra cover.

Eskinazi’s torturous innings of less than a run a ball ended when he was bowled

by Santner and Joe Cracknell in his first game in the tournament this season quickly came and went.

With the rate required now 14 an over Santner then bowled the dangerous Hollman to claim his third wicket as Middlesex folded.

“I enjoy playing against Middlesex. I think they have got an attack that suits me. Over the years it is always a good game to step up in,” Jacks said.

“I played a nice back foot punch off the young guy Sharma which I was really pleased with and overall I was very happy with the tempo of my innings today. I played the conditions pretty well where I played the long game rather than just continuing to bash it after the powerplay.

“I was happy with our score. It was a beautiful wicket the other day and it was still very good if a touch on the dry side.

We saw Zafar Gohar get a bit of spin, so I was very pleased with 194.

“It seems like Mitchell bowls beautifully every day. He’s very skilled, very canny, doesn’t overdo it, but watches the batsman and uses his mind to get people out.”

Surrey are next in Vitality Blast action against Essex at the Kia Oval on Sunday, July 6 (4pm).

Photo by Alan Coomes

The England all-rounder, not required for Test duty against India, nevertheless reminded the selectors of his batting prowess, pummelling five sixes and ten fours in a 56-ball masterclass. Noah Cornwell and Ryan Higgins were the pick of the Middlesex attack with two wickets apiece.

Middlesex were never in it in reply, subsiding to 119 all out, New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner taking 3-25.

It was a sobering watch for new Seaxes head coach Dane Vilas, who will officially take charge ahead of the County Championship clash with Northamptonshire on Sunday.

The one concern for the hosts was the loss of Chris Jordan, who left the field apparently concussed after a heavy fall attempting a catch.

Jacks sent the opening ball of the match to the fence before the first of his five sixes came from a clip over long leg.

That was the prelude to 22 off the last over of the powerplay bowled by youngster Naavya Sharma which took Jacks to 50 in only 24 balls.

There was a brief pause for breath

before an audacious golf-swing shot into the crowd at long-off and after being given a life when dropped by Cornwell at deep fine leg, another vicious pull over square leg off Helm took him into the 90s.

There would be no hundred as he holed out going for the century in the grand manner, one of three wickets in four balls for Helm (3-48), but this was scintillating stuff.

To Middlesex’s credit others came and went as the hosts didn’t make the most of being 66-0 after the powerplay and 95-2 at halfway.

Dom Sibley, dropped on eight by Shah reached 27 and Sam Curran 26 before both being caught and bowled by Cornwell, as the visitors chipped away, Ryan Higgins hitting the stumps twice in the final over.

Kane Williamson, fresh from his 50 against Essex 24 hours earlier, ramped, paddled drove and cut Reece Topley for four boundaries in his second over to launch the chase, but the former New Zealand Test skipper fell in the next over, slapping Tom Curran straight to Jason Roy at cover.

Max Holden picked up the baton with fours to long leg and third, but perished attempting to sweep Mitchell Santner over the long boundary, while Ben Geddes, returning to face his former county, survived two vehement appeals for catches behind later in the same over,

Nyren Clunis

28 SPORT EXCLUSIVE

By Will Scott THE FIRST time Kamarl Grant walked into Wembley Stadium was four days before the biggest match of his career.

Loaned out by Millwall in January 2024, the defender quickly became a regular for Andy Woodman’s Bromley side and helped them storm into the National League playoffs, starting at the back in their 3-1 semifinal win over Altrincham that set up a final against Solihull Moors.

Woodman was keen to avoid his side getting overawed by the occasion, and brought them to the stadium the Wednesday before the match to ensure they were not star-struck as they first strode out onto the famous turf.

One thing stood out to the now 22-yearold as he stepped onto the pitch for the first time.

“I didn’t realize how huge the stadium was,” Grant told our paper. “Especially when you walk out, they have the biggest stand in front of you. I don’t know how to explain how they’ve done the entrance when you’re walking out of the tunnel. You can’t really see the whole of the stand, but you can just see it growing in front of you the more you walk out.”

Woodman’s plan worked - Grant was accustomed to the scale of the occasion by the time the final came around, and the defender is naturally composed regardless of the game.

“When you’re playing the game, it’s always business at the end of the day,” Grant said. “I don’t know how to explain it. You’re so focused on the game more than what the occasion is. So you never really take in all the cameras and all that type of stuff, and where it is you’re playing.”

Still, the stakes were high. In 132 years of existence, Bromley had yet to play in the Football League.

The Ravens started well, taking the lead twice, but both times they were pegged back by the Moors, who took the game into extra time and then a penalty shootout, with Grant playing all 120 minutes.

Luck then started to go Bromley’s way.

Solihull Moors missed their first two penalties, while Bromley netted three out of their first four to give the Ravens a decisive advantage.

Ex-Millwall defender Byron Webster stood over Bromley’s fifth penalty, knowing that a miss would send the shootout into sudden death. Grant would be up next if he failed to convert.

Webster made it academic by calmly passing the ball into the net, but was Grant ready to take the decisive spot-kick?

“I’m not really scared to take the responsibility of doing it. The win was the most important part. I didn’t really care about any of the glory.”

Promotion to League Two has been the standout moment of a young career that is already full of highlights, the first of which came via the unconventional non-academy path to professional football that many of Millwall’s under-21s have also trodden.

Grant came through Crystal Palace’s academy before being released aged

Kamarl Grant made 62 appearances for Bromley across two seasons

‘I WANT TO PLAY FOR MILLWALL’ Kamarl Grant on his next step after Bromley success

thirteen, then spent time at non-league with Lambeth Tigers, before joining Kinetic Academy aged fifteen - which he described as: “The closest thing that I could get outside of an academy to an academy.

There were great coaches there.”

He captained Kinetic to the FA Youth Cup Third Round for the first time in the foundation’s history, and was soon snapped up by a professional side in December 2019.

“I drew a lot of attention during my youth cup run,” Grant said. “I was playing really well. Obviously, being a boy that’s playing in non-league, you attract loads of different clubs. So I ended up going up to Sheffield United, and I decided to sign for them.”

Moving north necessitated leaving his family behind, which he found tricky.

“I went up and stayed there,” Grant said.

“It’s a completely different environment, staying away from your family and stuff, you see more lows than highs of football.

But I enjoyed it. There were good people there, good teammates that I still get on with now and still speak to.”

Grant left Sheffield United in January 2022, and took his time in deciding where he wanted to go next. He had several options, but chose Millwall to be closer to where he grew up in south London.

“With Millwall, it was always about staying at home. I wasn’t enjoying my football at the time, so I just wanted to stay at home. I’m grateful that Millwall came through and I was able to sign then.”

Shortly after joining Millwall, he was sent on a month-long loan to National League side Dagenham & Redbridge, aged nineteen.

His first senior match? A trip to the

Hollywood glitz and glamour of AFC Wrexham.

Grant may not have spotted any celebrities in the stands, but the fans certainly were a spectacle as Wrexham ran out 4-1 winners, powered by braces from Ollie Palmer and Paul Mullin.

“I think there could have been just under 10,000 people there,” Grant said. “It was mad, I went from playing under-21s football, where you hardly even see 50 fans or whatever, to playing in front of just 10,000 in my first game. The atmosphere was crazy there, they were just singing the whole night, which was kind of frustrating a bit.”

How quickly did he notice the jump up from academy football to the professional game?

“From the first game I played, I noticed it straight away,” Grant said. “Wrexham have Ollie Palmer, a huge striker, a target man.

Just being able to see the difference. You’re not going to win everything as a young defender, especially.

“I think playing physically, it’s never really been a problem for me, but it’s just trying to not be too naive because sometimes maybe you go too strong in a tackle or you try to win everything, then you end up getting rolled because they understand and they know how to use their body much more than playing someone that’s younger or around your age.”

Grant was recalled from the Daggers after making four appearances, and unfortunately suffered an injury that ruled him out of most of the rest of the season.

He rejoined the under-21s ahead of the 2023-24 season, and built up fitness before Bromley made a move for him in January

2024.

“They were interested for quite a while,” Grant said. “It was just more for me, the six months before January was just building up the games I needed to play because I missed so much of the prior season due to the injuries that I had. It was definitely to gain experience. At the time when I went in there, they were second in the league, so they were flying.”

His first season there culminated in promotion to League Two via the play-offs, with Grant stating he was delighted “to be a part of a little bit of their history”, and he rejoined them on loan ahead of their first season in the Football League.

“The connection was obviously there with how the season finished,” Grant said. “I just thought it always made the most sense going back there and not going anywhere else, because of the connection I’ve got with the manager, the teammates I had there, and everything just felt right.

“Especially the owner, I get along with the owner as well. It’s just a family club that I definitely have a special place in my heart for now. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. It was an easy decision to make.”

Grant made 43 appearances in all competitions as the Ravens finished eleventh - more than double his previous number of senior appearances.

The game time he received last season was invaluable for his development.

“The more you play, the more you learn,” Grant said. “You have to make mistakes to learn. I think it’s just taking everything with a pinch of salt at the end of the day.

“So not being too high and not too low.

Having a good game, but not being too excited about it, because football has so

many highs and lows.

“Playing as many games as I did helped me a lot, because I was able to learn. The experience was good. The more games you play, obviously, the more experience that you rack up.”

Grant’s performances at Bromley clearly impressed Millwall’s hierarchy, who triggered an extension in his contract earlier this season.

“I was over the moon that they were happy to extend my contract,” Grant said. “I can’t remember what point I kind of knew, maybe January I kind of knew, because I had been playing well when I had the decision whether I was gonna stay with Bromley in January or to move on up a league or whatever. But, I kind of knew pretty early. I’m always grateful and always happy to hear that they’re happy with what I’m doing as well.”

Grant returns to a club that is light on defenders now that Shaun Hutchinson and Murray Wallace have left the club.

Is Grant aiming to stake his place in the first team this pre-season, or is another loan on the cards?

“To be honest, I haven’t thought about anything other than just trying to get back and be the best player I possibly can be,” Grant said. “I’m a Millwall player at the end of the day, so I want to play for Millwall.

“I’m not going to say I’m thinking about going out on loan or thinking what to do at this moment of time. I’m a young person, I want to be playing games. That’s the most important thing to me at the end of the day.

But at the same time, you have to kind of see where it is that this game kinda takes you. I just have to bring myself back in a good condition and just see what happens.”

Safe standing allows fans to stand in designated areas while still having access to a seat behind them if they choose to sit. A rail is installed in front of the seat, and fans in those areas will be required to stay in their allocated place.

The plans will not affect ticket prices or increase the capacity of The Den. Safe standing is set to be installed in these areas first: Dockers Upper: Blocks 20, 19 and 18, Rows A-T (seats 156-168 in Block 18 only) - rails allowing 1,007 to stand

North Stand Upper: Blocks 21-26, Rows A-H - rails allowing 1,086 to stand The club added: “Supporters with season tickets in the Safe Standing area who wish to relocate due to these changes will be offered the opportunity to move to alternative seating areas,

subject to availability. Likewise, fans interested in moving into the new Safe Standing sections can register their interest and the club will endeavour to accommodate as many requests as possible (on a first come, first serve basis).”

Millwall to introduce safe standing

By Will Scott MILLWALL HAVE announced they will introduce ‘safe standing’ at The Den, with installation scheduled to begin during the October international break.

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Zak Sturge started the final three games of the season for Millwall

By Will Scott PRE-SEASON IS fast approaching, and Millwall already have one new face in the door, and another should not be long behind him.

The Lions have announced the signing of Max Crocombe, and have agreed a deal in principle to bring Chelsea left-back Zak Sturge back to the club permanently after a successful loan spell last season Both address real needs - Joe Bryan needs a younger understudy/fellow left-back who can push him for minutes and provide competition at the position, while Millwall are short on keepers.

How will the duo fit in at the club?

MAX CROCOMBE

The 31-year-old is an experienced shot-stopper who has received rave reviews from Burton Albion fans, and will fill a much-needed role.

Back-up or third goalkeepers play a valuable role - both on the pitch and in the training ground.

Injuries do happen to goalkeepers as well - and clubs do not want to have to rely on unknown quantities in those situations.

Roberts was called into action when Jensen went down injured at the end of the win against Luton Town in January and impressed, particularly against Portsmouth and away at Leeds United in the FA Cup. Investing in a quality back-up is relatively cheap and they can be the difference between dropping points to a cheap goal or holding on for a clean sheet - margins that matter across the season.

Moreover, ‘starting’ keepers and managers have spoken at length about the impact the rest of the goalkeeping department have during training sessions, in terms of helping them improve and maintaining morale.

Even if he does not play the majority of games, expect Crocombe to be an important voice behind the scenes for whoever starts between the sticks for the Lions in the upcoming season.

In the games he does start, expect an excellent shot-stopper, who some Burton fans claim single-handedly kept them in League One in the past two seasons.

He is a player who has only improved as he has gotten older - going from National League with Grimsby Town in the 202122 campaign, to winning Burton’s player of the season in League One two seasons

later.

Crocombe is also an international with fifteen caps for New Zealand. While they are not an international juggernaut, he has played with the likes of Chris Wood, Empoli’s Liberato Cacace (74 appearances in Serie A aged 24), and Nottingham Forest’s Marko Stamenic (on loan at Olympiacos last season).

Given that several experienced players have left this summer, it is helpful to have veterans in the building, and he’s proven to be an effective shot-stopper in the past. He will also provide competition for any potential additional goalkeeper signings.

Sturge’s qualities are a bit more obvious to Millwall fans.

Over three league starts, the 21-yearold proved to be a direct full-back who linked up well with Femi Azeez, and provided energy and athleticism at the position. He has the intent to get forward and overlap, while also being a capable defender.

He is a different profile of left-back to Bryan, which is immensely useful for Alex Neil, who can deploy either based on the situation.

While it is hard to draw any substantial statistical conclusions from his five appearances for the Lions (he has only played 303 minutes of Championship football) - one stat did stand out that will likely please Millwall fans.

Per Football Reference, of the players who have played more than 300 minutes for Millwall, he is second in loose ball recoveries per 90 with 5.29, only behind Bangura-Williams (Dan Kelly leads the stat, but played 20 league minutes last season).

His work ethic and intent have already endeared him to the fans, and that was one of the reasons why he favoured Millwall over other potential suitors (including a few in Europe). He’s close with former Lions youth player Mark Beard from his time with Brighton, and he’s fully aware of the ‘Millwall way’ there is no extra buy-in needed.

He has only just turned 21, and he has

little experience of playing first-team football. Players improve by playing games and learning from their mistakes - what works and what does not. His athleticism and work ethic give him a high ceiling, and he has already been the beneficiary of excellent coaching at Brighton and Chelsea - a coach like Neil could take him to the next level.

He will also give Bryan a chance to rest - the 31-year-old racked up the fourthmost minutes of any outfield player and was ruled out of the last three games with a groin injury.

All in all, he could prove to be a very useful signing.

This is only the start of Millwall’s business. They are not looking to rest on their laurels and, as per Neil, are keen to improve the starting eleven.

It has already been a good start to the summer, and they have two more months to add more players to a squad that nearly made the play-offs last season.

It will be interesting to see who they bring in the door next.

having made 226 appearances and scored thirteen goals across seven seasons.

Huddersfield manager Lee Grant told the club’s website: “We’re really pleased to have Murray join our evolving defensive unit, and it’s especially pleasing that he’s another new face that will be alongside us from day one of pre-season later this week.

“A committed defender who clearly knows what it means to represent

the Club already, the experience and leadership qualities he possesses are also going to be an asset for us. Having introduced a number of younger defenders into the side already this summer as we continue to maximise potential and invest in the future of our squad, Murray’s voice will be key both at the back and in the dressing room.

“Another versatile player who’s comfortable in multiple roles across the back, Murray continues to allow us to be

tactically flexible and adaptable, which is important ahead of a long season to come and different styles of opponent to face.”

Huddersfield Town defender Murray Wallace added: “It’s a brilliant feeling to be back at the Club, and it was an easy decision to return once I became aware of the interest.

“It feels a like a bit of a full circle moment having left almost a decade ago, and there’s a real excitement around

ZAK STURGE

George Honeyman to join Blackpool

By Will Scott MILLWALL HAVE announced that George Honeyman will leave the club after his contract expires at the end of the month, with the midfielder set to join League One outfit Blackpool.

The 30-year-old finishes his Lions career having made 117 appearances across three seasons after joining from Hull City - 45 of which were in the past season.

Millwall engaged in contract talks with the midfielder, but the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.

He joins George Saville, Liam Roberts, Shaun Hutchinson, Murray Wallace, Duncan Watmore, and Aaron Connolly in leaving The Den this summer.

Millwall director of football, Steve Gallen, told the club’s website: “George has been a tremendous servant to the football club over the last three seasons.

“His dedication and professionalism have been exemplary and he has consistently proven to be a reliable and versatile member of the squad.

“Throughout his time here, George has played in several positions and has always given everything for the team - a level of effort and commitment we’ve greatly appreciated.

“He has chosen to accept a longer-term offer elsewhere, which we fully understand and respect.

George leaves with our sincere thanks and very best wishes for the future.”

Born near Newcastle, Honeyman came through Sunderland’s academy, becoming a regular firstteam player in the 2017-18 season as the Black Cats suffered back-toback relegations.

He signed with Hull City in the summer of 2019 and helped them return to the Championship at the first time of asking in the 2020-21 campaign. He was nominated for League One player of the season and was named to the League One Team of the Season.

He spent an additional season with the Tigers before signing for Millwall.

Murray Wallace signs for Huddersfield Town

By Will Scott HUDDERSFIELD TOWN have announced that they will permanently sign Murray Wallace once his Millwall contract expires at the end of the month.

The 32-year-old defender has signed a two-year contract with the Terriers where he previously spent four seasons between 2012 and 2016.

Wallace finishes his Millwall career

the Club this summer for the season to come and that’s something I wanted to contribute to and be part of.

“Every discussion I had with Manager Lee Grant was incredibly positive, and the clarity and confidence he had about the way he wanted us to play was a huge appeal.

“I know how important and passionate the supporters are here, and I’m looking forward to being back out there playing for them again soon.”

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Danny Mac signs new contract

Max Crocombe

By Will Scott DANNY MCNAMARA has signed a new contract with Millwall.

LIONS MAKE FIRST SUMMER MOVE

Millwall kick off transfer business by signing goalkeeper Max Crocombe on a free

By Will Scott

MILLWALL HAVE signed goalkeeper Max Crocombe.

Crocombe joins as a free agent following the expiration of his contract with Burton Albion and becomes the Lions’ first signing of the transfer window.

The club is also close to a permanent deal for Chelsea leftback Zak Sturge, who spent the latter half of last season on loan at The Den. The 31-year-old joins a goalkeeping room that needed reinforcing, with back-up keeper Liam Roberts joining Mansfield Town and Lukas Jensen out for a

“fair chunk of next season” with an Achilles injury.

Crocombe spent the last two seasons plying his trade in League One for the Brewers, winning their player of the season award in the 2023-24 campaign.

He has also made fifteen appearances for the New Zealand national team, winning the Golden Glove award at the 2024 OFC Men’s Nations Cup. “I’m pleased we’ve been able to sign Max,” Millwall’s director of football Steve Gallen told the club’s website. “Max played a big part in keeping Burton Albion up last year and they were very keen to keep him.

“Max is New Zealand’s number one and they have already book their place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. We hope he will make our goalkeeping department more competitive.”

The shot-stopper began his career at Buckingham Town, making 33 appearances in the United Counties League One as a sixteen-year-old, before joining Oxford United’s academy in 2010.

He signed his first professional contract in April 2012 and made his League Two debut the following January, featuring four times that season. After serving as understudy to first-choice keeper Ryan Clarke, he had loan spells at Nuneaton

Town, Barnet, and Southport.

Crocombe left Oxford in 2016 and had stints at Carlisle United, Salford City, Brisbane Roar, and Melbourne Victory before joining Grimsby Town in 2021.

He established himself as Grimsby’s first-choice keeper and started between the sticks as the Mariners won the 2022 National League play-off final.

Crocombe started every single league game the following season and helped the club make the FA Cup quarter-finals, a run which included a win in the Fifth Round over then Premier League side Southampton, before joining Burton Albion in the summer of 2023.

The 26-year-old full-back was due to be a free agent at the end of the month with his contract expiring, but he has agreed terms with the club to extend his stay.

McNamara made fifteen appearances in all competitions in the past campaign.

His season was cut short when he suffered a serious knee injury after coming on as a second-half substitute in the Lions’ 2-2 draw with Cardiff City on January 21.

Shortly after McNamara was ruled out for the season, Millwall boss Alex Neil told our paper: “As a club we’ve got a duty of care to all our players.

Particularly if they’ve been injured after representing the club like Danny has.

“I think we’ve got a responsibility as a club to make sure that obviously we don’t leave him in a lurch. I think that’s vitally important.

“We want to be known as the type of club and the type of staff that looks after the players. Like I said, Danny has been a great servant, he’s come through the youth system here. He’s unfortunately got a bad injury, but we’ll certainly support him in that time.”

McNamara will join up with his teammates on the first day of pre-season on Thursday, June 26, to continue his rehab.

The former Ireland under-21s international came through Millwall’s academy and made his first-team debut on January 9, 2021, in an FA Cup clash with Boreham Wood.

McNamara has made 149 appearances for the club in total.

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