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POLICE HUNT AFTER MAN INJURED IN ‘HAMMER ATTACK’ NEAR PARK
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By Chiara Giordano
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SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS could lose three police station front counters as part of costcutting measures to pump £10million back into frontline policing.
Front counters could be closed at Peckham, Southwark and Kennington police stations if draft plans, announced by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, go ahead.
In addition, Camberwell (which is used by officers as a base rather than a working station) and Kennington could be sold off, along with other buildings used by the police in Southwark. The front counter at Walworth police station, which had 3.2 crimes reported on average each day for the month of May, will remain open. Peckham police station had, on average, 2.1 crimes reported each day, while Southwark had 1.5, and Kennington 0.8. Full story page 4
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Big changes for borough policing
BIG CHANGES are planned for Southwark's police and how the public interacts with them.
Proposals to close front counters at Southwark, Peckham and Kennington police stations - and to sell off Kennington and Camberwell nicks - have been revealed, but they seem based largely on cash saving. Officers would also no longer be present at Seven Islands Leisure Centre, Bellenden Road Retail Park, Dulwich Library, Canada Water Library, and Butterfly Walk shopping centre. Figures have been produced that show the numbers of people using front counters isn't high.The front counter at Walworth had 3.2 crimes reported on average each day in May. Peckham had, on average, 2.1 reports, Southwark had 1.5 and Kennington 0.8. But the cross-London measures are being proposed by the Mayor of London in an attempt to save £10m a year, and invest those savings in to frontline policing. How and when this is to be achieved is not clear. Neither has whether that investment would just simply plug a gap, or be new money that will create more police officers. Mayor Sadiq Khan has sought to reassure Londoners thet the number of dedicated ward officers will be increased, with two in place in every ward across the capital by the end of the year, alongside one PCSO But he has also said government cuts to the Metropolitan Police services had left him with “no choice” but to take drastic action. “The Government urgently needs to properly fund the Met police so that they can do their job and keep Londoners safe,” he said. So it seems he is not happy introducing such measures. Let's remember that this report comes on top of plans to merge Southwark and Lambeth's 'police command', with one top officer possibly over-seeing both boroughs and perhaps even being based in Brixton. This is a far cry from the days when the Met saw it fit to have working stations with front counters in Borough High Street (Southwark police station), Rotherhithe, Walworth, Peckham, Camberwell and Dulwich. If these proposals get given the go ahead, what will Southwark's police presence map look like? There will be one working front counter, at Walworth, and the only police stations left will be Southwark, Walworth and Peckham. It's hard to predict what effect these measures will have, and it's important not to go for the knee jerk reaction that all such cost-saving proposals are bad. These proposals are just that - proposals at the moment. If you want to keep your police station front counter, then it's important to have your say. The public consultation will last three months. To take part, visit: www.london.gov.uk/public-access
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‘Peckham, I’m ready to ball’ Brazilian football legend
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Ronaldinho mobbed by fans as he turns up for a kick-around in a Peckham park
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BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL legend Ronaldinho was mobbed by shocked fans last week when he turned up for a kick-about in Peckham.
The ambassador for Barcelona FC, who helped bring the 2002 World Cup home for Brazil, turned up dressed head-to-toe in black in Brimmington Park, near Asylum Road. His appearance in SE15 appeared to be connected with a promotion with Nike and Pro Direct Soccer. A video published on Twitter was posted at 11:18pm by a PR agent who worked for the latter. But the footage shows the 37-yearold (full name is Ronaldo de Assis Moreira) quickly being surrounded by dozens of buzzing fans.
At 8:53pm he had sparked excitement by tweeting a picture of himself overlooking the Thames, saying "Peckham, I'm ready to ball".
Ronaldinho in London (main); and being mobbed by fans in Peckham (left)
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Three police station front counters could be closed
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Camberwell and Kennington could also be sold off under Mayor’s plans By Chiara Giordano
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SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS could lose three police station front counters as part of costcutting measures to pump £10million back into frontline policing.
Front counters could be closed at Peckham, Southwark and Kennington police stations if draft plans, announced by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, go ahead. In addition, Camberwell (which is used by officers as a base, rather than a working station) and Kennington could be sold off, along with other buildings used by the police in Southwark. The front counter at Walworth police station, which had 3.2 crimes reported on average each day for the month of May, will remain open. Peckham police station had, on average, 2.1 crimes reported each day, while Southwark had 1.5, and Kennington 0.8. The front counter at Rotherhithe station was already closed in 2013. The Mayor has launched a full public consultation on the draft plans to reduce the number of police front counters in London to put an additional £10 million equivalent to the cost of 170 police constables - into frontline policing in the Capital. He said Government cuts to the Metropolitan Police services had left him with “no choice” but to take drastic action. Closing front counters across the
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Two arrested over fatal stabbing
CAMBERWELL: Two men have been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of Mohamed Kakay outside St Giles’ Church last year.
The Met confirmed two men from south-east London, aged 20 and sixteen, were arrested on Tuesday, July 11, on suspicion of murder. They were the sixth and seventh suspects to be arrested in the investigation, and have been released on bail until mid-August while the investigation continues. The attack happened on November 19 last year, at about 9:15am, in the grounds of the church in Camberwell Church Street. Officers attended and found a man, later identified as Mr Kakay, 33, suffering from stab injuries. He was taken by ambulance to hospital but he died later that afternoon. Mr Kakay was originally from Sierra Leone and came to the UK as an asylum seeker. It is believed that he had entered the grounds at the back of St Giles' Church at about 9am. Anyone with any information is urged to call the incident room on 020 8721 4961. To give information anonymously call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Officer dismissed SOUTHWARK: A police officer
city is expected to raise £170million capital and deliver £10million savings each year, which could be used to free up officers to spend more time in their communities. The leasehold on an industrial building in Mandela Way, Bermondsey, used as a storage facility by the police, would also be released as part of the measures. And officers will no longer be present at Seven Islands Leisure Centre, Bellenden Road Retail Park, Dulwich Library, Canada Water Library, and Butterfly Walk shopping centre. However, the number of dedicated
ward officers will be increased, with two in place in every ward across the capital by the end of the year, alongside one PCSO. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “The huge Government cuts to the Metropolitan Police Service have left us with no choice but to take drastic action to protect the frontline of policing. “My top priority is keeping Londoners safe, and every pound saved by closing a front counter is a pound of savings that we do not have to find by reducing the frontline. “By freeing up officers and moving them closer to their communities,
has been dismissed after testing positive for using cannabis, the Met has said.
they will be able to spend more time on the beat to tackle the issues that matter most to Londoners, such as knife crime, anti-social behaviour, hate crime and extremism, and domestic abuse. “We will still be able to maintain a 24/7 front counter service in every borough and are improving the telephone and online services that Londoners value so highly. “The Government urgently needs to properly fund the Met police so that they can do their job and keep Londoners safe.” The public consultation will last three months. To take part, visit: www.london.gov.uk/public-access
PC Donna Blackwood was dismissed following a three-day misconduct hearing, which ended on Wednesday, July 5. It was alleged that on November 16, 2015, PC Blackwood tested positive for cannabis following a substance-misuse test. The hearing found that the officer had a case to answer in respect of the standards of professional behaviour, in relation to 'discreditable conduct' and 'fitness for duty'. The panel found the allegations proven and that PC Blackwood had breached the Met's standards of professional behaviour in such a serious way that this amounted to gross misconduct. The panel determined that the only appropriate sanction was dismissal without notice.
demonstrate this isn’t just a market, this is a provider to restaurants across London, so the loss to local businesses is about £1.4million – people don’t realise that.” Mr Coyle added that the 21-day process of officially declaring a terror attack as “terrorism” was too drawn out
and needed to be brought up-to-date. Despite the incident on June 3 being labelled a “brutal terrorist attack” by Prime Minister Theresa May within hours, traders and businesses in the area were left in limbo for weeks because insurance providers were unable to pay out until the Chancellor officially classified it as terrorism. “That process of certification is too slow,” said Mr Coyle. “The minister has committed to look at renewing how terror attacks are set out in Government terms and to put more pressure on the insurance sector to bring its policies and procedures up to date. “So hopefully, not only will the traders here get support soon, but in the event of any other attack anywhere in the country people can expect quicker support and more support which would be a silver lining of what was a horrific incident.”
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THE BUSINESS minister has vowed to “call in” any insurance providers yet to pay out to traders who suffered losses after the Borough Market terror attack.
Margot James MP did not make a “direct offer” to help businesses and traders affected by the attack when she met with them at the market on Thursday, July 13. However she did commit to “calling in” insurance providers who have yet to pay out on some of the business interruption clauses and terror insurance. The Conservative MP met with the market’s senior team before hearing first-hand accounts about how businesses were affected by the market being closed for eleven days during the
police investigation. She was joined by Bermondsey & Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle, who called on the Government to step in and help. “There are jobs on the line here,” he told the News. “If we don’t want the terrorists to win, we need the Government and others to step in and do
more now. “There hasn’t been a direct offer today, which is a shame. Lots of people are stepping in, but sadly the Government is yet to do so. “It [the meeting] was a good chance for the individual businesses and traders to raise their concerns with the minister and
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Extremely rare Man hurt in ‘hammer attack’ Roman coffin is ‘find of lifetime’ ROTHERHITHE
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Ancient grave may have been robbed in past say experts By Alex Lambe
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AN EXTREMELY rare Roman sarcophagus has been found at an ancient burial site in Borough.
The stone coffin, has been described as ‘the find of a lifetime’ as only two other similar sarcophagi have been discovered in their original burial places. The excavation at Harper Road began in January this year, and revealed a large trench around the coffin and found the lid had been moved – suggesting the grave had been discovered and robbed in the past. It is possible that only valuable items were taken and the body left, a council spokesperson has said. The coffin is being carefully moved to the Museum of London, where its contents, which are not yet known, will be exhumed. The Harper Road excavation is one of many archaeological projects running across Southwark. Recent archaeological research has shown that Roman Southwark was the focus of ritual activity. Experts now know that the area formed a ‘complex ritual landscape’ containing various religious monuments and a vast Roman cemetery on sites such as Dickens Square, Lant Street and Trinity Street, where a range of burial practices were used, with graves often revealing exotic goods from across the Roman Empire. Other Roman finds in Southwark include the burial of a fourteen-year-old girl in nearby Lant Street - one of the greatest finds in Britain, the council has said. Her 4th century burial site included
a bone inlay box, and ivory clasp knife depicting a leopard and glassware. Only two other sarcophagi have been found in their original burial place in recent years, one from St Martin-in-the Fields near Trafalgar Square in 2006 and one from Spitalfields in 1999. Gillian King, Senior Planner: Archaeology, at Southwark Council, said: “In my long archaeological career I have excavated many hundreds of burials, but this is the first Roman sarcophagus I have ever discovered, still surviving in its original place of deposition. I have seen them in museums, but I think part of me believed that they had probably all been found by now! “It really is a very special discovery. Personally, I find it really fascinating to contemplate that this area - which we are now so familiar with - was once, during the Roman period, so completely different. It really does make me feel very honoured that my role at Southwark Council contributes to protecting amazing archaeological treasures like this, and our work means that we can ensure that the historic environment is championed and preserved for the enjoyment of us and future generations.” Cllr Peter John, the leader of Southwark Council, said: “This is a remarkable and exciting find. In Southwark we take our duty as custodians of the borough’s rich, varied and important archaeological heritage very seriously. “This Roman sarcophagus is the find of a lifetime and a credit to the council’s commitment to ensuring that the borough’s history is properly conserved.”
SOUTHWARK PARK was cordoned off after a man suffered a head wound in what police believed to be a hammer attack.
Officers were called to Surrey Quays Station, in Lower Road, Rotherhithe, at about 7.45am on Tuesday, July 18, following reports of a man suffering a
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head wound. Police believe the man, thought to be in his 40s, was attacked by another man with a hammer in Lower Road, by Southwark Park. He was taken to hospital to be treated but his injuries were not thought to be life threatening. Officers from the British Transport Police also attended, along with London Ambulance Service.
A spokesman for the Met Police told the News: “It is believed that the victim was attacked by another man with a hammer by Southwark Park.” There have been no arrests and police enquiries continue. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call police on 101, Tweet @MetCC or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Container plan for Camberwell
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By Owen Sheppard
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CAMBERWELL : A property firm is looking for feedback from residents on proposals to create a “communal area” of fourteen refitted shipping containers near Denmark Hill.
A PROPERTY FIRM hoping to redevelop the Aylesham Shopping Centre in Peckham has showcased new plans for its high-rise housing scheme to include a ground-floor shopping complex.
Public consultation events have recently been hosted by Tiger Developments, who last year unveiled proposals for 400 new homes on the site, in a building up to 20 storeys tall. But the firm has since released artist’s impressions of what could become the ground floor of the development. Tiger has described the designs as “pedestrian-friendly” and would “open up this large site and help stitch it back into the surrounding streets”. Before the consultation, the company said: “We would like to explore with local people how we get the right mix of daytime and night time activities, shops and businesses, community activities and open spaces, to make this a place that celebrates the best of Peckham. “The ground-level will be how 95 per cent of people experience the Aylesham Centre site on a day-to-day basis, so it’s very important.” A spokesman for the company also told the News: “We know that the 20storey aspect will take up a lot of attention, so we want to get the first step right.” The spokesman added that another consultation, with details of the residential aspect of the scheme, will likely be shown to the public “before Christmas”. In April, community group Peckham Citizens worked with Tiger Developments’ development director, Graham Haydon-White, who said publicly “Our intent is to comply with [Southwark Council’s] policy, which is for 35 per cent of new homes to be affordable to local people”. Peckham Citizens have also lobbied the company to ensure that the new homes will be priced in-line with local average incomes, and that one-third of all jobs created, including managerial roles, will go to local people.
Leaflets distributed by Spot Property said: “Similar to the successful concepts already established at Shoreditch and Croydon, the proposal for Camberwell will provide opportunities for independent businesses to provide food and drink and local enterprise/commercial facilities to the local area.” A suggested location for the new attraction is a section of the car park beside Morrisons, bordered by Danville Road, Orpheus Street and Wren Road. The proposed venture would be just down the road from the Artworks, the ‘box park’ in Elephant and Castle. Spot Property hope to hear from local residents and local businesses before looking to submit a planning application to Southwark Council. A public consultation event will take place today (July 20) between 3pm and 8pm at the former HSBC Bank in 23 Denmark Hill.
20-storey development will also feature a new shopping complex
Plans and artist impression of the proposed new Aylesham Shopping Centre
Fair is back in SE5
CAMBERWEL: This year’s Camberwell Fair will return to Camberwell Green on Saturday, with a host of music, performances and exotic food from local traders.
Music will begin from 12pm and continue to 9pm on two stages, the Wormfood Stage and the Camberwell Stage. A Village Green area will also have activities for families between 1pm and 6pm, including field games and a kids’ and parents’ Sports Day. Camberwell Fair was reborn in 2015 with help from Southwark Council, as a historical event which previously existed for nearly 600 between 1279 until 1855.
Top Aussie paralympians set up home in Bermondsey By Alex Lambe
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AUSTRALIA’S TOP Paralympic athletes have set up home in Bermondsey, using Southwark Park as their training ground.
The park’s recently refurbished athletics track, Southwark Athletics Centre, is being used by the Aussie Paralympics team as their base while the World Para-Championships takes place in Stratford. The team includes Todd Hodgetts, who won gold in shot put at London 2012 as well as Isis Holt who was double silver medalist at Rio last year and won gold in the T35 200m last night. Her 100m race was on Tuesday. The Southwark Athletics Centre, which is run by Everyone Active on behalf of Southwark Council, last week hosted athletes from other
countries around the globe in preparation for the World ParaChampionships which is taking place July 14 to 23. Competitors from Europe, Asia, North and South America were out in force at the track to practice ahead of the event. The Australian team will be using the track as a base camp for their training and preparation throughout the duration of the ten-day competition, which is taking place at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. “This is the biggest global sporting event of the year and we were excited to welcome athletes to our centre,” says Everyone Active general manager, Paul Bew. “We hope that by Southwark Athletics Centre acting as a training facility to Australian Paralympians, that we might attract more members of the community
who live with disabilities but want to engage in athletic pursuits.” Cllr Barrie Hargrove, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for communities and safety, said: “Southwark is committed to the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics and we are very proud of our new athletics track, which we use to help inspire young and potential athletes in the borough. “The Southwark Park Athletics Track is for the whole community but it speaks volumes that so many professional athletes are also training here and we have been very pleased to welcome the Australian team. The public are free to go to the Southwark Athletics Centre, located in Southwark Park, to watch the Australian Paralympian team train. They will be training at the Centre for the duration of the Championships, which concludes on July 23.
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A GROUP of Buddhists are opposing plans for a six-storey student block beside their home.
Developers are preparing to submit proposals for a “high-quality student accommodation” block next-door to the Kagyu Samye Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Centre, in Spa Road, Bermondsey. A two-storey building used as commercial and office space would be demolished to make way for the tower containing 206 studio bedrooms, a communal lounge, study, gym, games room, and a cinema if plans go ahead. The building would tower over the Grade-II listed centre, built as Southwark’s first public library in 1892, and the Buddhists fear it would block out their light and destroy the peacefulness needed for meditation. Lama Zangmo said the building would block out light coming through the windows in the meditation room, which is used daily, and that light has already been lessened by a housing development built on the other side. “We are concerned the development would block out light, about the noise because of what we do in here, and about losing the peace and tranquillity that is necessary for having a Buddhist centre in the heart of a busy community,” said Lama Zangmo,
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Buddhists oppose student homes proposal (L-R) Lama Zangmo, Cllr Ben Johnson, Damcho. The Meditation room where light could be blocked (inset)
who has been at the centre since the Buddhists bought it in 2009. “I think what’s important is that we are not against development – but it is the actual size and scale of it that we are against and we really worry about the closeness to the building and the density and overdevelopment.” “I think for people that live in London, a place like this is very important because there are huge pressures on people; a lot of people
come here and seek refuge because of the peace.” The Buddhist centre also has 60 solar panels on its roof, which it uses to produce green electricity, and Lama Zangmo fears they will produce less if the development goes ahead. Student Urban Living Bermondsey Ltd and CKC Properties’ plan to submit their proposals to the council in August 2017. If planning permission is granted, they expect to begin building in spring 2018 and complete the development by summer 2019.
Ben Johnson, Liberal Democrat councillor for Grange Ward, told the News: “This proposed development of more than 200 luxury flats for wealthy overseas students does nothing to help the housing crisis, will be totally unaffordable for local residents, and will tower over the neighbouring Grade II-listed old library. “This site should be used for affordable homes for local residents and should be on a much smaller scale so as not to harm the important work of the Buddhist centre, a unique local amenity that is well used and
much loved by residents.” A spokesperson for CKC Properties and Student Urban Living Bermondsey Ltd said: “Unfortunately, there is a lack of purpose-built student accommodation in a city that boasts some of the best universities in the world, of which six are located within a five-mile radius of Bermondsey. “It is only right and proper for developers to fund affordable housing through the provision of new developments – that’s why we are working with Southwark Council to agree an appropriate affordable housing package. “Along with our discussions over several months with Southwark on the design detail of the project, we have also been in consultation with the local community. “The feedback received has been used positively to reduce the scale, massing and position of the proposals, to better respond to the views of our neighbours, and reduce the height of the building. “Providing purpose-built student accommodation enables the effective management of students and also releases homes of multiple occupancy (HMOs) for local families. “Our student management plan will contain strict clauses on behaviour and the proposals have been designed to prevent noise escaping the proposed building “To minimise disruption during construction, the Considerate Constructors Scheme will also be adhered to.”
Redriff students take bronze in Olympic Park competition! ROTHERHITHE
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CHILDREN FROM a Rotherhithe primary school battled it out in a sports competition at the Olympic Park.
Key Stage 2 pupils from Redriff Primary School’s special education needs unit, the Boathouse, took part in the London & South East Primary
Finals of the Panathlon Competition. The children battled it out against 21 other schools at the Copper Box Arena to be crowned third after winning the Southwark Borough competition earlier this year. A spokesperson for the school said the children showed “great determination, mental strength and support to each other” to come away with bronze medals, a certificate, and a trophy.
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Lib Dem councillors urge locals to support boozers
Riverside councillors Anood Al-Samerai, Eliza Mann and Hamish McCallum
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A BERMONDSEY pub could be turned into flats if plans are given the go ahead.
Two separate planning applications have been submitted to the council for The Winnicott – formerly known as the Old Justice. The three-storey building in Bermondsey Wall East currently houses the pub, which is no longer in use, on the ground and basement floors, with flats on the floors above. One set of plans proposes to change the use of the ground floor and
basement to residential to accommodate two self-contained flats at ground level, but leave the basement untouched. Another plan, put forward by the same applicant, proposed to build a two-storey extension for a twobedroom flat. Both proposals have been drawn up by Milan Babic Architects, on behalf of Hamna Wakaf Ltd – the same developer that bought the China Hall, in Lower Road. Southwark’s Liberal Democrat Council Group have drawn up a petition to apply for asset of community value (ACV) status for the pub. Councillor Anood Al-Samerai,
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leader of Southwark Liberal Democrat Group, said: “Too many pubs are being converted into luxury flats and the worry is that there will be nowhere left for Lib Dem councillors to have a drink. We hope residents will join us in calling for the pub to be saved from closure and made into a community asset.” To sign the petition, visit: www.southwarklibdems.org.uk/save_the_winnicott_pub To view and comment on the plans, search for planning reference numbers 17/AP/2646 and 17/AP/2645 on Southwark Council’s online planning register.
The Little Crown plan for ‘flats and retail space’
A FORMER Rotherhithe pub could be turned into flats and retail space if plans are given the go ahead.
The Little Crown, which stands empty on the corner of Albion Street and Renforth Street, could be demolished to make way for a fourstorey building. The development would see a retail unit across the basement and ground floor, and four one-bedroom and three two-bedroom flats on the upper floors, if plans are approved by the council. A pair of the two-bedroom flats would be split across three floors, with private outdoor patio areas at basement floor level. Two of the one-bedroom flats and one of the two-bedroom flats would have private balconies, and the two one-bedroom flats on the top floor would have private roof terraces. The entrance to the flats would be
from Renforth Street “to maintain full retail frontage on Albion Street,” Proun Architects said in a design and access statement. Earlier this year, plans were submitted to demolish the vacant Albion pub and replace it with eight self-contained flats and a commercial space. Two separate plans were also submitted on behalf of the council to include the former civic centre and some land belonging to Albion Primary School, both in Albion Street. At the time, Southwark Liberal Democrats called on chief executive Eleanor Kelly to halt the planning applications and consider the future of the street and Rotherhithe community as a whole. To comment on the plans, search for planning reference number 17/AP/2582 on Southwark Council’s online planning register.
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STUDENTS, STAFF and parents of The Charter School East Dulwich, are celebrating receiving a grant of over £9,000 to improve their temporary home.
The grant came after a decision was made that it was a necessity to improve the school’s facilities, with the school playground highlighted as a particular area for refurbishment, due to an uninviting and barren image. The Charter School East Dulwich is a new secondary school that serves the communities of South Camberwell and East Dulwich. The school received the grant from the Big Lottery Awards for All Scheme. The school opened its temporary premises at Southampton Way in September 2016. With the help of the newly formed school fundraising committee,
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committed parents Beth Follini and Natasha Soares worked together to draft the bid to Big Lottery supported by the school. It took several months of writing and re-writing, but the bid was submitted and the news came that the bid had been successful and the grant was awarded to the school. The grant will fund a range of sports equipment, a container garden and an outdoor mural that can all be moved to the school’s permanent site on East Dulwich Grove. Parent and local gardener Ed Davies is helping lead the design of the new container garden alongside students in the newly formed Gardening Club who will work to maintain the garden year-
round. A local artist will work with the children over six days on the design of the mural which will brighten up the whole playground. The school is due to move to its permanent on the grounds of the current Dulwich Community Hospital in December 2018 with the products of the
grant moving with them. The school’s headteacher, Alex Crossman, explained how beneficial the grant would be to the school: “In these times of ever-restrictive school funding it is increasingly important for us to be able to access additional funds for areas deemed to be outside the core
curriculum.” He went on to say: “We are instilling in our students an appreciation for their environment, their communities and an understanding that taking responsibility for their own healthy, active lifestyle is vital. We are grateful to the Big Lottery Fund for supporting us in this cause.”
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Resident fear as cladding on new developments failed fire safety tests
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By Chiara Giordano
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CLADDING COVERING 20 per cent of a Bermondsey housing development has failed fire safety tests.
It has been revealed that a sample of cladding from Notting Hill Housing’s Exchange development – also known as Grange Walk – was sent to be checked by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) but failed tests. There are five buildings in the development – Costermonger, Whitmore, Ockham, Parchment, and Hepburn – all of which have a “limited amount” of the cladding. The housing association has contacted London Fire Brigade to arrange an inspection and a 24-hour fire watch by trained security officers is in place at the buildings. “A core sample of cladding from Grange Walk in Southwark was sent to the Building Research Establishment (BRE) for testing and they confirmed on Monday [July 10] that the sample failed the test,” a Notting Hill Housing spokesman told the News. “This cladding makes up a minimal part of Grange Walk’s frontage, around 20 per cent, but nevertheless we are taking measures to ensure the safety and peace of mind of our residents. “We have notified the London Fire Brigade to arrange an inspection, we are checking the current Fire Risk Assessment is valid and any recommendations arising from it have been completed and that all fire-stopping measures are intact and working correctly. “In addition, we have arranged a 24-hour fire watch by trained security officers, which will complement our existing on-site concierge services. “Grange Walk was our only development within Southwark where BRE testing was required.” Hyde Housing Group’s Bolanachi
Building, in Spa Road/Enid Street, also failed fire safety tests, the News revealed last week. Tests revealed cladding contained aluminium composite material – which was called into question following the fatal Grenfell Tower fire, in Kensington. Hyde also awaited results of cladding tests for five other buildings in Southwark. Samples of cladding on Eyott House, Artesian House, Davoll House, Hicks House and Prospect House, all in Bermondsey Spa, were also been sent for testing. Anood Al-Samerai, leader of Southwark Liberal Democrat Council Group, said: “Last week, I attended a meeting of residents of Bermondsey Spa, including the Bolanachi Building, which is managed by Hyde Housing. “Residents were very worried about the tests which have shown that their cladding contains the same material (ACM) as Grenfell. “Hyde Housing were at the meeting and committed to taking urgent action, but residents had a number of questions around timescales, alarms, 'stay put advice', escape lighting and fire doors. “We agreed that Hyde would share the fire risk assessments with residents and that we would continue to meet until all the questions were resolved. “Residents were, understandably, anxious and Liberal Democrat councillors will continue to fight their corner.” Ben Johnson, Liberal Democrat councillor for Grange ward, added: “I share the shock and distress of local residents that their cladding has failed fire safety tests. “The Government should pay for this fire safety work, which has affected blocks across the country, but in the absence of any national funding Hyde and Notting Hill must cover the costs of these essential works – and not pass them on to leaseholders.”
Council looking for residents to join fire group
SOUTHWARK COUNCIL is looking for residents to join a Fire Safety Advisory Group, to offer feedback on potential reforms of its fire safety policies.
The decision to create the group was made following the Grenfell tower fire last month, and as the
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Low-rise council block will get further testing
FIRE SAFETY tests have revealed cladding on a council low-rise block would set alight under “intense fire situations”.
Tests carried out on cladding panels from Medina House, in Peckham Rye, have revealed that it would withstand a “single-flame heat source” – but would rapidly ignite or spread if exposed to “intense radiant heat”. Bureau Vistas, who carried out the tests, said in a report that the cladding panels “had the potential to ignite and sustain spread of burning under intense fire situations that might be expected to occur from a fully-developed compartment fire venting through a window”. The insulation foam from the cladding also ignited when directly exposed to a flame during tests – but rapidly self-extinguished once the flame source was removed. The foam did not ignite when contained within the panel and the panel was exposed to a single-flame heat source. Cladding from Canute Gardens, in Rotherhithe, did not ignite or spread flame under both applied singleflame source and intense radiant heat conditions. Bureau Vistas advised that cladding from Medina House “might not be considered compliant with the council announced an independent review of all its fire safety policies, and how it conducts fire risk assessments. Cllr Stephanie Cryan, (pictured) cabinet member for housing and deputy leader of the council, said: “The Fire Safety Advisory Group
‘material of limited combustibility’ requirements of Approved Document B for external cladding” and should undergo further testing. Councillor Stephanie Cryan, cabinet member for housing, said: “As the results explained, the is no concern over the cladding at Canute Gardens and further testing will take place at Medina House – please note this is not a high-rise building. We work closely with London Fire Brigade and specialist surveyors and contractors – should they advise that any remedial works are required, we will talk to residents about this immediately.” Anood Al-Samerai, leader of the Southwark Liberal Democrat Council Group, added: "Liberal Democrat councillors are concerned that there are questions over a number of blocks in the borough and the council must act urgently and transparently. “Residents need to see all the fire risk assessments for their blocks and enquiries about cladding, cracks, gas pipes or anything else need to be investigated immediately." The council also sent cladding samples from its Rotherhithe Old Road and Jarman House buildings. When asked by the News whether they had received results of tests for the two buildings, the council did not respond.
is currently being set up with residents, which will help collate how fire safety is promoted to them and what information residents should be given – such as the importance of keeping fire exits clear, prevention and detection of fire, for example. The
plan is in its early stages and we’re looking at how this might work.” To express an interest in becoming a member of the group, email the council on community.safety@southwark.go v.uk.
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Actor to join run for Unicorn Theatre
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BERMONDSEY: Actor Julian Rhind-Tutt is joining in a charity run to help the Unicorn Theatre raise £30k to help pay for its charitable work for children, writes Alex Lambe...
Kingsdale is outstanding!
Ofsted gives Dulwich school top marks across all areas By Chiara Giordano
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A DULWICH secondary school has been rated ‘outstanding’ in all areas – after a visit from nine Ofsted inspectors.
Kingsdale Foundation School, a mixed secondary school in Alleyn Park, was rated ‘good’ during a previous inspection in 2012 but impressed inspectors to be rated ‘outstanding’ across the board this month. The school was praised for its “culture of high ambition and expectation that forms the backbone for successes” and its “harmonious environment”. “Pupils’ personal development and welfare is outstanding because of the care and attention that staff pay to making pupils’ time in school productive and safe,” inspectors said in their report. “Pupils’ behaviour is outstanding because their day-to-day conduct usually matches staff’s high expectations. “The most able and disadvantaged pupils make strong progress because teachers’ planning anticipates their needs.” The only area inspectors said could be improved on was to ensure that “low-prior-attaining pupils make the same strong progress as their peers consistently across the curriculum”.
Headteacher Steve Morrison said the Kingsdale community had worked with “dedication and passion” to achieve the “rare tribute” from Ofsted. “It is not every day a school is visited by nine Ofsted Inspectors including four of Her Majesty’s Inspectors,” he said. “Since our previous inspection we had become the highest attaining school in Southwark according to the Government’s tough new more rigorous Attainment 8 measure and one of the top achieving non-selective schools in the country. “At the same time, we maintained our status as one of the most popular and oversubscribed schools in south London. “We believe in our students, staff and parents but we also realised this was no guarantee of success under the increasingly challenging Ofsted framework. “Therefore, it was with great pleasure we received Ofsted’s perfect six ‘outstanding’ judgements across all Key Stages. “We believe it is a confirmation that we are on the right path and that there is still a place in our secondary education system for individuality, creativity, choice, imagination and innovation.” The full inspection report is available on Ofsted’s website.
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The project is called Run Unicorn and the theatre is aiming to raise £30,000 by sponsoring a team of runners. The Green WIng star will join a team that will include six runners from Unicorn sponsors PwC, Unicorn Parent Ambassador Georgette Purdey, Usher DJ Hassan and General Manager Luisa Hinchliff. They are all taking part in the Great City Race on July 24. The Bermondsey children’s theatre runs workshops and programmes that have benefited many children. The theatre has worked with groups recently including unaccompanied refugee children, children who have to care for their parents or family children with physical or mental illness, and isolated young mothers. Their fundraising also makes it possible for the theatre to give away free tickets, which go out to every borough in London and go out to children whose families or schools can’t afford to take them to the theatre. If you would like to donate to the campaign, you can do so by visiting the theatre’s JustGiving page at www.unicorntheatre.com/rununicorn
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EAST DULWICH: A fortnightly social event for people aged over 50 has been launched by the Bangladeshi Welfare Association.
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A SHAKEUP of acute dementia care in south east London’s hospitals could see all services moved out to Bromley.
Sprinklers put out blaze at Bussey
PECKHAM: Firefighters have said a small blaze at the Bussey Building on Tuesday night was easily controlled thanks to its sprinkler system.
The London Fire Brigade were called to an “accidental” fire in an artist’s studio on the fourth floor at 1:46am. Four people evacuated the block when its alarm and sprinkler system became live. A Brigade spokesperson said: “This incident highlights the clear benefits of sprinklers to businesses and we would urge all companies and business owners to install them. “In this case the sprinklers successfully contained the fire until crews arrived. “As well as limiting fire damage and being potentially lifesaving devices, sprinklers and other fire suppression systems help with business continuity by minimising disruption and allowing businesses to get back to normal as soon as possible.” Fire crews from Peckham, New Cross, Old Kent Road, Greenwich, Deptford and Brixton fire stations attended.
Maudsley Hospital bosses have suggested moving all acute dementia care to a new “specialist” ward in Chelsham House – part of Bethlem Royal Hospital – whose closest train station is West Wickham. All care for “functional” disorders (such as psychotic, mood and anxiety) would instead be focused in Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, and the Hayworth Ward of University Hospital Lewisham in Ladywell. The proposals were explained in an agenda published for Southwark Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s most recent meeting, on July 13. It said the change was needed because: “A mix of patients with different disorders… can be distressing for patients (e.g. a patient with severe anxiety/depression may be distressed by being on a ward with people with severe dementia and agitation).” It also said splitting up the two types of mental health care would enable staff to “specialise and become highly skilled in either dementia or functional illness care”. The total number of beds available in each of the three hospitals would remain at 54, the report said. But the proposals were rounded on by Tom White, health spokesman for Southwark Pensioners Action Group, called the proposals “an excuse to cut services”. “It is important for these patients to have family support, so it would be
Acute dementia care could be shipped out to Bromley distressing, for instance, for family members in Bermondsey to have to travel to West Wickham,” Tom said. Tom has long campaigned for Maudsley Hospital bosses to reopen its mental health A&E. He said the decision to close it caused “distress” to mental-health patients by forcing them to use the King’s College Hospital A&E, designed for people with physical health problems. A spokesman for South London Maudlsey NHS Foundation Trust told the News: “The proposal means people can be admitted to a dementia or mental
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Emergency services were called to the scene on Rotherhithe New Road at about 3.18pm on Monday, July 17, following reports of a two-vehicle collision. A black Hyundai was flipped onto its roof during the collision with a white
Squatters kicked out CAMBERWELL: Squatters were evicted from an industrial building on Tuesday morning.
Police and bailiffs raided a small warehouse, next door to the Best Way International Christian Centre in Grace’s Mews, after 7am. Local resident Oliver Hargrove, who walked past at 8am, told the News: “There were two police officers and a group of bailiffs, and about half a dozen squatters being hoofed out. “I saw a load of bikes and trollies loaded with stuff, including a Santander bike which they presumably borrowed. “They had moved in a few weeks ago. They had set up a table and chairs outside and they were giving haircuts.” She added: “I live nearby and I can’t say I’d seen much litter or heard them making a noise. They seemed like they were okay, not a***holes.”
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A WOMAN has been arrested after a collision which caused one car to flip onto its roof.
health ward which best meets their specific clinical need. “Patient and carer preferences will continue to be accommodated by staff and there is a hospital bus between the Maudsley Hospital and the Bethlem Royal Hospital that carers can use at no cost.” The spokesman said that King’s A&E is equipped specialist psychiatric liaison teams and that “a joined-up, preventative approach for physical and mental health, helps to ensure the needs of those experiencing mental distress are met”.
The socials will offer free transport, with a free lunch and film screening for all guests. The first will be held on July 27 from 12pm-3pm, at the East Dulwich Community Centre in Darrell Road. Anyone who would like to find out more can call Abdul Quddus on 07877 903523 or email him on qudduslon@aol.com.
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Volkswagen Polo. A fire spokesman told the News nobody had to be cut from the car, but paramedics were at the scene. “A car that failed to stop for police collided with another car flipping it on its roof,” said a police spokesman.
“Neither driver was seriously injured and treated at the scene by London Ambulance Service. “The driver of the car that failed to stop for police – a woman in her 20s – was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, no insurance and driving not in accordance with a licence.” The person was bailed until early August.
SE16 fest a success By Chiara Giordano
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THE COMMUNITY enjoyed a day of live music, stalls and free children’s rides at this year’s Rotherhithe Festival.
Barry Duckett, who helped organise Saturday’s event, said it had a “really good turnout”. “People said it was the best festival that they had been to this year,” said the Canada Estate tenants’ and residents’ association chair. “The free children's rides were packed all day and all our feedback was positive. “The working model depicting the
new bridge from Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf attracted a lot of attention.” Mr Duckett thanked Frank Statesboro, the Steve Morrison Band, Robin Bibi, and Bill n Rickey for performing on the day, and the Bermondsey Community Kitchen for feeding the crowd. He also thanked British Land, Rotherhithe Community Council, Southwark Events, St Olave and Bermondsey United Charities, Rotherhithe Consolidated Charities, North Southwark Environmental Trust, and Keepmoat for their sponsorship of the festival this year. And he expressed his gratitude for the Mayor of Southwark’s Common Good Trust and everyone who turned up on the day.
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‘Jenga Tower’ decision due BLACKFRIARS
53-storey skyscraper would have 227 homes By Chiara Giordano
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A DECISION on whether to give the go-ahead to proposals to build a 53-storey skyscraper in Blackfriars was set to be made yesterday.
A planning committee was expected to vote on whether to wave through plans for a 183.5-metre high residential block – dubbed the ‘Jenga Tower’ – at the meeting on Wednesday, July 19. Concerns were raised by Historic England, which claimed the giant tower, expected to be built in Stamford Street, could affect views of St James’s Park. In a letter to the council, Michael Dunn, Historic England’s principal inspector of historic buildings and areas, said they should “consider very carefully the extent of this harm, and whether it is necessary to deliver the potential public benefits”. “The increased height of the residential tower, however, means that this building will have a
significant impact on London’s historic environment including the Grade I-registered St James’s Park when viewed from the bridge,” he wrote. The planning committee was set to decide on proposals put forward by Black Pearl Ltd and Wilkinson Eyre for the six-building development which would include both private and affordable housing, a hotel, office space, and a music venue. A total of 227 private homes would be provided within the Jenga Tower building, which would also house retail units at ground and mezzanine level. Level one to eight of the tower would provide bedrooms for the neighbouring hotel building, with the main residential accommodation starting from level nine onward. A hotel building would provide 548 rooms and a fifteen-storey block would contain 61 affordable homes, if plans go ahead. The proposed music venue/office building would adjoin the Mad Hatter Hotel.
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Events mark Ada’s 150th anniversary
BERMONDSEY: Events are taking place at St James Church in Bermondsey to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ada Salter.
A community fun day is being held at the church on Saturday, July 22 to raise funds for a new ‘joyslide’ for children and is being run by the United Saviours Charity, as part of the events. The fun day will raise funds for the new slide; the previous one existed in the church for fifty years before it became unusable. The fun day will run from 12 noon until 4pm. Ada Salter, who with her MP husband Alfred campaigned to improve Bermondsey, was a local councillor and one of the original people to raise funds for the slide. The slide was the brainchild of Arthur Carr, chairman and managing director of the Peek Frean Biscuit Factory. The weekend will be celebrated with events on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday there will be the opening of an exhibition of photographs and memorabilia at noon, which will showcase some of Ada’s work on beatification, especially parks flowers and playgrounds. A talk will also be held by Gary Magold at 12:30pm, founder of the Peek Frean Museum. The Bermondsey & Rotherhithe History Society Event will take place at 6:30pm and will include a talk about the ministry of Revd G R Balleine, ‘The Vicar of Mirth’ and friend of the Salters. There will also be a commemorative church service held on Sunday, July 23 at 10:30am.
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ELEPHANT AND CASTLE
Left to right: Teacher Eliezer Koramoa; Halil Es; Shekeem O’Connor; James Nicos; Aaron Frederick O’Neill; Tatiana Walker; Brenda Irabor; Barbara Oluokun
Pu p ils je t ou t to S an F r an c isco for poe tr y com petition
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EIGHT ASPIRING poets from a school in Elephant and Castle have flown to San Francisco, California, to take part in a weeklong series of Slam Poetry events.
The team from Globe Academy is one of two groups from England who
will compete in the international event, and put their rhymes to the test against young wordsmiths from schools around the world. Once they arrive, the excited fifteen and sixteen-year-olds will find themselves performing to crowds in venues as varied as churches, to theatres, to basketball stadiums. Slam poetry was described by one of
the youngsters, Halil Es, as being “theatrical” and with “emphasis on performance”. Halil said that Slam poetry happens competitively, and each individual or team is judged by a panel of judges. Aaron O’Neil said that for him and his peers, their poetry was a way of delving into subjects that are otherwise difficult to express, such as
“family issues” “relationships” and issues within the community such as “gang violence” and “inequality”. Shekeem O’Connor said it “releases your creativity” and was an important was to relieve stress. Their teacher Eliezer Koramoa credits the teenagers’ interest in poetry with a new-found awareness of local politics and societal issues, both in the
UK and abroad. Another of Globe’s slam poets, Tatiana Walker, said: “We also going to be doing a lot of community work. We’re going to be helping at a homeless shelter, and doing some community gardening.” The team will return to London after seven days in the west coast state, having left on Monday.
Walworth post office to stay open as franchisee found WALWORTH
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THE POST Office has confirmed that a franchise partner has been found for its Walworth Road branch.
Locals have waited since January 2016 to learn what would happen to their Crown branch, which the company previously said could close if a franchisee wasn’t found. But the Post Office released a statement last week saying that a company named OM SAI Enterprises (London) Ltd will operate the branch. It hopes to refurbish the unit at 234 Walworth Road and have it reopen in November. A Post Office spokeswoman was unable to give any further detail about the new franchisee, but described them as an “independent” who will sell “gifts and stationery alongside the Post Office”. The company’s statement said the change was needed to “ensure the branch is commercially viable into the future and therefore protect Post Office services”. It added: “The same, wide range of
...as Royal Mail confirms East Dulwich sorting office will move to SE15 in January
THE ROYAL Mail has confirmed its East Dulwich sorting office will close in January, and operations will be moved to Highshore Road in Peckham.
The decision to close the Silvester Road branch, and the building to be sold, came after months of campaigning from locals, Labour Party members and the Communication Workers Union (CWU). The company has sought to assure residents that their door-to-door postal services will not be affected, and no jobs will be lost. But Steve Beadle, CWU rep for south east London, told the News it was a
products and services will be available with the exception of the biometric enrolment service for the Home Office.” But the announcement was criticised by a local Communication Workers Union representative, Mole Meade, who said: “The biometric services includes Border
“complicated” scenario. “The conditions of the Silvester Road branch really aren’t fit of purpose, the building is very antiquated,” he said. “The move would be good for my members. But the one massive issue we’ve got is that this area would lose its enquiry office. What we say as a union and to the local community is they still need to provide an independent enquiry office within SE22. Otherwise elderly and disabled people, as well as everyone else, will have to collect their packages from Peckham. We have suggested that a unit in a local industrial park might be good, or even to have this service at the Lordship Lane Post Office.”
Agency, DVLA, passports and ID services, which are all important for people from overseas to be able to get a job, and you can only get these services from Crown Post Offices, because providers have to be vetted by the Home Office.”
A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: “Royal Mail can now leave many mail items with a neighbour if customers are not at home when we attempt delivery. Customers can nominate a dedicated neighbour to take in their parcels by filling in a form at their delivery office. “Customers can also arrange a redelivery free of charge on a day that is convenient for them (including Saturdays), or Royal Mail can deliver the item to a different address within the same postcode area.” Southwark mayor and East Dulwich councillor Charlie Smith said: “All my local residents will have to go to Peckham. It’s not ideal if you rely on
Mole said the nearest Crown Post Office to Walworth will now be in New Cross, which is also announced by the company as facing closure. The new branch will retain seven service positions, and stay open until 5:30pm on Saturdays.
public transport, or you need to find somewhere to park. And the problem with having to have things redelivered to your home is you can’t be expected to always be at home to accept it.” Royal Mail also said its Peckham branch will be refurbished to accommodate the East Dulwich delivery operations. The News also asked why no consultations were held with local residents before the closure was announced. The company replied: “We are not obliged to consult publicly on changes to the way Royal Mail operates, however we always welcome feedback on our services.”
The Post Office has also opened a public consultation to seek residents’ feedback on its plans. The consultation will end in August 23, and you take part by visiting postofficeviews.co.uk or writing to comments@postoffice.co.uk.
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Goose Green’s head of music wins Classic FM award
Myleene Klass and Robert Parton
By Owen Sheppard
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By Chiara Giordano
AN EAST Dulwich primary school teacher felt “humbled” after winning Classic FM’s Primary School Music Teacher Award.
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A £30MILLION experimental medicine centre – where experts will hope to make breakthroughs against diseases such as cancer – is to open at Guy’s Hospital.
Robert Parton, who teaches at Goose Green Primary School in East Dulwich, was shortlisted for the award after being nominated by a parent. The award was presented to him on July 11 by Classic FM presenter Myleene Klass, after he was picked by a panel of expert judges. Parton joined the school ten years ago, and has spent the last eight years as its head of music. He said: “I felt very humbled when the parents of Goose Green Primary School nominated me for this award. “I have been fortunate to be able to work in a school that values the arts so highly and support the weird and wacky ideas I have put to them over the years. A huge thanks to all who have made it possible.”
HERNE HILL
Colourful tale - Herne Hill mums create kids’ book about animals that live in Brockwell Park By Owen Sheppard
Jenna Herman and Lucy Reynolds
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TWO HERNE Hill mums have published their first children’s book, which tells little ones all about the curious creatures and wildlife to be found Brockwell Park.
Lucy Reynolds (writer) and Jenna Herman (illustrator) have released Parrots Don’t Live in the City under their newly-created publishing company, Doodles and Scribbles. Lucy, 38, said it was inspired by the number of parrots you see all over London, and her surprise at the first time she ever saw one in Brockwell Park. “Brockwell is full of surprises,” she said. “My husband wouldn’t even look into the trees when I told him I had seen one. He didn’t believe me.” Lucy then started a theme of writing about animals that are invasive species, which you wouldn’t expect to find in London. “I started to think,
£30m medical centre to open at Guy’s
even in the really dirty parts of the city you find all sorts of really beautiful animals. “We want to encourage children to appreciate this too. So our hide-andseek books are about searching for animals that wouldn’t usually live in the city, whilst stopping to notice
nature in local nooks and crannies.” She said Parrots Don’t Live in the City is written in rhyming couples, which are ideal for the linguistic development of children aged about six. For the next three seasons, from
autumn to spring, Lucy and Jenna plan on publishing three more rhyming books: one on hedgehogs; foxes; and another invasive species, the Mitten Crab, which are found in the Thames, despite being native to China. “Jenna and I have been friends for 20 years and have always had this pipedream,” Lucy added. “But when you’re selfpublishing you’ve got to do everything: the paper, the printing, the promotion. It’s been a bit of a learning curve.” Parrots Don’t Live in the City is available from local bookshops, including Kennington Waterstones, Herne Hill Books, Clapham Books, Village Books and Dulwich Books. The two pals are also accepting manuscripts, and are looking at publishing other authors’ work. Visit www.doodlesandscribbles.co.uk to find out more.
World-leading academics and clinicians will use the advanced therapies centre to develop experimental treatments in the fight against diseases such as cancer and diabetes. The centre, which will be based on floors ten and fourteen of Guy’s Tower, will give experts access to experimental medicine research facilities and the ability to manufacture drugs. It will be developed by King’s College London in partnership with the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre – based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College – and is expected to open in 2018. The centre has been made possible by £10,164,789 worth of funding from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund, and £20million from private sector and non-profit organisations. Professor Sir Robert Lechler, senior vice president and provost (health) of King’s College London and executive director of King's Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre, said: “Advanced therapies offer enormous promise for patients suffering from severe and incurable conditions. “This new centre will provide our world-leading scientists with the facilities they need to make breakthroughs in the global fight against a wide range of diseases.” Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, added: “The new advanced therapies centre, along with the facilities and expertise of our NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, will enable our clinical teams and their academic colleagues to lead the search for new and better personalised treatments for patients with conditions such as cancer and diabetes.” In addition to the UKRPIF funding, the centre also received £20million of support from GSK, Cellectis, the Innovate UK Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult, and the Charité Research Organisation.
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Flower power
from Westminster
HARRIET HARMAN
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MP for Camberwell & Peckham
OLLOWING THE tragic fire in Grenfell Tower, in which at least 80 people have lost their lives, families who live in other high-rise blocks want to know that they are safe in their homes.
There are 174 tower blocks in Southwark – 54 of which are in my constituency Camberwell and Peckham. I was very concerned by the BBC London report on 11 July which raised issues of cracks between flats and fire defects in the 4 blocks on the Ledbury Estate and I am in regular contact with Ledbury tenants’ association and Southwark Council. The council have assured me that they have taken expert advice and both they and the Fire Brigade are confident it is safe for residents to remain in their flats but it is clear urgent safety inspections must continue across the borough. Since the Lakanal House fire in 2009 in which 6 people tragically lost their lives Southwark Council has prioritised fire safety and spent £62 million on fire risk assessment and fire safety works for council homes. But following the Grenfell Tower fire it is imperative that the council carries out further fire safety checks and improvements, assesses all cladding on buildings and fits sprinklers in tower blocks. These works could cost about £100 million. Southwark Council has two key legal duties: one is ensuring people are safe, the other is balancing the books financially. They must be able to do the first without jeopardising the second. But since the Tories took over in 2010 Southwark Council’s budget has been cut by almost half. The cost of additional fire safety work should not be done at the expense of muchneeded improvement works to kitchens and bathrooms, which are eagerly awaited by tenants. As Southwark MPs Helen Hayes, Neil Coyle and I have written to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid to seek confirmation from the government that they will: • Cover the costs of any additional fire safety works in Southwark, including fitting sprinklers in tower blocks. • Not charge leaseholders for fire safety work - approximately 20% of people in Southwark Council blocks are leaseholders. Most leaseholders already face considerable charges for planned improvement works. • Carry out an urgent review of fire safety regulations, as proposed by the coroner in the 2013 Lakanal House fire inquest. • While the immediate concern is homes, other tall buildings including schools and hospitals in Southwark need to have urgent fire safety inspections too. The government must provide resources for their inspections and set out a specific timeframe. I will continue to work with my Southwark Labour colleagues Helen Hayes MP and Neil Coyle MP to press the government to commit to providing Southwark Council with the money it needs to carry out all necessary inspections and do the work to ensure residents are safe.
POLICE FRONT COUNTERS COULD CLOSE page 4 Canada Water is an embarrassing tip
JUST GONE for an evening walk to the area outside Canada Water Library and area and it is an embarrassing tip.
What a shame that so much money has been spent on the area yet it's been treated like a rubbish dump. Is there anything we can do to catch and fine the litter bugs? Name and address supplied
The Blue is like a race track
IT IS not my imagination - the centre of Bermondsey, the Blue and surrounding streets, has become a race track during the recent warm weather.
I fear for the life of pedestrians, cyclists, bystanders and especially the young and the old crossing any road. Quad bikes, scramble bikes and high powered cars are all using the streets as race tracks, all breaking the law either helmetless or exceeding the speed limit. I cannot remember the last time I saw a Bobby on the beat and have completely lost a sense that anything can be done about these flagrant law breakers. It is only a matter of time before someone gets killed. If it is a perpretator I, personally, will not shed a tear. Name and address supplied
Cycle hire should extend even further
IT IS fantastic news that the cycle hire scheme has been extended south into Brixton. We want to work with Transport for London and the South London Boroughs to make this a success and push the scheme even further south. This will be a big help towards achieving the Mayor’s aim for 80% sustainable transport, i.e public transport, walking and cycling, and will go some way towards improving
our air quality and people’s health. The scheme should not stop at Brixton. South London has always been poorly served by transport options. The cycle hire scheme and supporting infrastructure such as quietways and cycle lanes should, where appropriate, spread south across the whole of both Lambeth and Southwark, giving people healthier opportunities to travel and reducing the pressure on our polluted roads. Florence Eshalomi , London Assembly Member for Southwark and Lambeth
Friends of Green Dale stand firm
YOUR REPORT last week (Hamlet’s future ‘put in danger’ by council not deciding on on new stadium, Southwark News 13 July) contained a few errors which I’d like to put right.
It states that ‘the planning application remains unanswered’, but Meadow Residential’s appeal immediately put the decision into the hands of the planning inspector and out of the hands of the council. Ironically, there might have been less delay if Meadow Residential had not appealed and let the process at council level take its course. One reason this didn’t happen, I suspect, is that the developers were pretty sure that the council would refuse the application. Indeed, the council have recently submitted their view to the planning inspector that they would have refused the application on five separate grounds: impact on Metropolitan Open Land; development on other open space; reduction in sports facilities; height, scale and massing of the residential development; and insufficient affordable housing. The Friends of Green Dale stands by these reasons for rejecting the planning appeal. Your report also states, ‘Dulwich Hamlet Supporters’ Trust has also raised concerns that the council may not renew its lease on the site, which is due to expire in November.’ I believe the lease in question is for the Green Dale site and not the current Champion Hill Stadium site. Moreover it has already expired and the council and the club are currently involved in legal discussions over the future of Green Dale. Finally, club chairman Liam Hickey
states, ‘Our rent bill is very high on the site.’ That is nothing to do with the council but is a matter between the club and Meadow Residential who, along with their partner company Greendale Property Co. Ltd, own the Champion Hill Stadium site. If Meadow Residential truly want a sustainable future for the club, it would be odd for them to do the club harm financially. Guy Haslam, The Friends of Green Dale
Join us for the Big Wild Sleepout
JOIN THE RSPB’s annual Big Wild Sleepout this July, and discover the nightlife in your own garden or on your favourite RSPB reserve.
Thousands of people will be pitching tents in gardens between 28th and 30th July as the RSPB’s Big Wild Sleepout returns for a fifth fabulous year. Big Wild Sleepout is free to take part in; all you need to do is register online at www.rspb.org.uk/sleepout, to find lots of fun ideas, activities and tips to help you and your family have a really wild night out! In South East England, the recent Big Garden Birdwatch survey results also revealed some of the nocturnal wildlife you can expect to see in your garden. Almost half of South East residents have spotted a hedgehog in the last year and 89 per cent have been visited by a fox! New for 2017, campers can now get even closer to nature by taking the first step towards their Wild Challenge, the RSPB’s new free online award scheme, which encourages families to go out and get closer to the nature. By completing activities ranging from minibeast safaris and habitat exploring, to making a compost heap and planting for wildlife, participants can log their achievements on the RSPB Wild Challenge website and collect bronze, silver and gold awards. For an extra special sleepout experience, you can even book an overnight stay on one of the RSPB’s participating reserves! Pitches are filling fast, and some events are already full for 2017, but there are still places available at RSPB Pagham Harbour, RSPB Pulborough Brooks in Sussex, and RSPB Rainham Marshes near London. Visit www.rspb.org.uk/sleepout to book your place now!
JACKIE POWER
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ULY IS usually humid with localized thunderstorms and periods of heavy rain. However, summer has so far been unseasonably dry – following a dry spring with lower than average rainfall.
A brief spell of torrential rain at the end of June and again in mid July headed off near drought conditions. The workload in the garden settles into a predictable routine for the next few weeks - focussing on weeding, dead-heading, cutting grass, watering and checking for pests and diseases. In the vegetable garden successional sowing of salad leaves, beetroot and peas continues through the month. Houseplants need more attention through July and August; move pots away from the window out of direct sun, water two to three times a week depending on the size and type of plant. Remove dead foliage and mist leaves with water occasionally, to increase humidity around the plant. African violets and other plants with downy leaves can be stood in a shallow tray and watered from beneath. Cacti and succulents require watering once or twice a week, but do not let the soil become waterlogged. Summer borders are full of vibrant perennials and annuals as growth reaches its peak. The traditional cottage garden plants are in bloom including Delphiniums, Dianthus, Stocks, Foxgloves plus the giant Hollyhocks. Delphiniums come in two types – either quick growing annuals or the elegant perennials; both with deep blue or mauve flowers (sometimes pink or white). They are not easy to grow, need fertile soil and support with canes to prevent stems falling over and snapping off at the base. Dianthus (Pinks) have different varieties making them a versatile and attractive addition to the window box or garden. They flower from June through to August and sometimes come back in early autumn. Pinks have a sweet, clove-like fragrance, thrive in town gardens, are tolerant of a range of soil conditions and cope with polluted air. There are all sorts to choose from - try the sturdier modern hybrids with a colour range of pink, white and scarlet. Summer berries are ready to harvest; the first blackberries of the season ripened in late June - the earliest I have ever seen them around the borough; blackcurrants and blueberries join raspberries to add to the fruitful and flowery abundance of the July garden.
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in Southwark
Rochester to Waterloo
Mind the traffic
“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know!”
William Wilberforce
RAH RAH Community Theatre Company has teamed up with The Salvation Army and antitrafficking charity, Hope For Justice, to bring its production of My Mind is Free by Sam Hall to the Waterloo East Theatre and will include a guest speaker, Major Anne Read, Director of antitrafficking for The Salvation Army, writes Michael Holland...
Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing global crime. The 2015 Global Slavery Index estimates that there are 35.8 million people enslaved in the world. There are 1.1 million new, trafficked victims a year, 3,000 new victims a day, or a shocking 125 people per hour
The season launches in July with a series of participatory events and installations at various venues around London Bridge. Concluding with an exhibition in September and October at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham, it heralds the opening of Science Gallery London in 2018.
Jordan Eagles: Blood Equality Thursday 27 July – Sunday 30 July, 4 – 10pm, Admission: Free entry The Guy’s Chapel & Heamotel, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London Blood Equality, by New York artist Jordan Eagles, is a series of light installations that illuminate blood donated by gay men. In the UK and the USA, gay men are prohibited from donating blood unless they have been celibate for a year. There is an ongoing
DO YOU think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you, and full as much heart!
Jane Eyre is a classic tale of defiance, determination, and the unbroken spirit of a young woman fighting for her place in the world. An orphaned girl raised by a cruel aunt, Jane is forced to grow up amidst abuse and bullying from all
sides. Eventually taking a job as a governess at Gothic mansion Thornfield Hall, she almost immediately falls for her employer, the enigmatic Mr. Rochester. But with the sneering eyes of society upon her, and Rochester’s dark secrets threatening to engulf the pair of them, it will take all of Jane’s wit and intelligence to survive and determine her own fate. In this new adaptation by Ali
Blood everywhere
Photo: Jordan Eagles
SCIENCE GALLERY at King’s College London presents Blood: Life Uncut, an exhibition and event series that reveals the captivating, visceral power of blood to expose, shock and save lives. The season highlights the scientific and symbolic nature of blood by telling personal and provocative stories of this vital, life-affirming fluid that connects us all.
forced into slavery. The Metropolitan Police estimate that in the UK alone over 20,000 people are trafficked every year. My Mind is Free is a powerful interpretation of the degradations of human trafficking. It tells the interlinked stories of four people trafficked to and within the UK and their horrifying tales of abuse, exploitation and enslavement. The production uses a mixture of physical theatre and multi–role playing to portray the epic journey and terrible risks that desperate people will go to in the pursuit of what they believe to be a better life, only to find that they are then exploited, ending up in a far worse position than when they started. My Mind is Free is on at Waterloo East Theatre, Brad Street, SE1 8TN on July 27th at 7.30pm. Admission £10/£12 (concessions) Phone: 0207 928 0060 www.waterlooeast.co.uk
Morgan, Jane Eyre previews in York on July 27 before touring London, Windermere, Durham and Hitchin; concluding in Haworth, home of the Brontë sisters. Jane Eyre is on at London’s Network Theatre, 246A Lower Road, Waterloo SE1 8SF on July 28th - 29th at 7.30pm. Admission £12/ £9 on the door. www.ticketsource.co.uk/baronproductions A workshop about the bloody work of leeches from medieval times up until the modern age. Providing an insight into the questionable use of leeches to cure everything from fever to bad humour, the event also reveals what brought about their resurgence in the 20th century that sees them used by surgeons today. The workshop will also feature some very important ghoulish guests!
Blood in the Operating Theatre
global discussion about whether this policy is supported by medical science.
Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy: The Body is a Big Place Thursday 27 July – Thursday 17 August, 10.30am - 5pm, daily, Admission: £2.50 Old Operating Theatre, 9a St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY, The Body is a Big Place is an installation that explores the ambiguous thresholds between life and death. The human-sized heart perfusion device that stands at the centre of the work has previously been used to reanimate a pair
of pig hearts in a live performance, shown here on video as part of the installation. The Body is a Big Place evokes medicine’s machine-like characterisation of the body, and invites you to consider the limits of life.
The Body is a Big Place – In Conversation
Monday 31 July, 7pm, Admission: Free entry, booking essential Old Operating Theatre, 9a St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY In conversation between artist Helen Pynor and Professor Mike Shattock, hosted by Science Gallery London’s
Director, Daniel Glaser. Hear about how the installation The Body is a Big Place has evolved through previous collaborations with scientists and surgeons from Dublin, Slovenia and Sydney. The work looks at themes such as life affirmation and health, as we come to understand more about the mechanics of the human body, surgery and the ideas around life and death.
The Leech Workshop
Tuesday, 8 August, 7.00pm, Admission: Free entry, booking essential Old Operating Theatre, 9a St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY
Wednesday, 9 August, 2 – 4pm, Admission: Free entry, booking essential Old Operating Theatre, 9a St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY This workshop asks: Do you have what it takes to be a surgeon? No matter what the prognosis, procedure or problem, blood is omnipresent in surgery. How do medical professionals keep it flowing, keep it working hard throughout your body, and finally allow it to return to be hidden in your arteries and veins? Hayley Kruger, from the Royal College of Surgeons, and Julie Mathias, Acting Director, will guide you through history’s surgical toys. More information on all events can be found here: London.sciencegallery.com/blood
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JAMES JARCHÉ is often considered one of the foremost British photojournalists of the twentieth century. But the man himself and his upbringing in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe have largely been forgotten.
His most iconic images include the first image of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson together, pilot Louis Blériot’s landing in Dover in 1909 after completing the first aeroplane flight over the English Channel and the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, a gunfight in the East End. One of his most reproduced images is that of a policeman chasing naked boys at the Serpentine. Jarché was born in Bermondsey in 1891 and spent his childhood immersed in what was at the time, a gritty and sometimes violent world around the docks and Thameside. His parents, both photographers, had emigrated from France to make their way in England – settling in Union Road, now Jamaica Road. It couldn’t have been a more perfect setting and education for the makings of a great photojournalist. An Independent story on Jarché from 1999 writes of his pluck: ‘throwing himself with great gusto into life in this tough, volatile environment. Encouraged by the local stevedores, he eventually became a talented wrestler. At the age of 18 he was World Amateur Middleweight Champion.’ His father, Arnold Jarché, ran a portrait studio, but was also hired by Scotland Yard to document crime scenes. So Jimmy, as he came to be known, was exposed to the grim reality of life and death from an early age. In his 1934 autobiography, People I Have Shot, he recounted how, as a nine-yearold, a man knocked at the door of the family home late one night. The man wanted Arnold Jarché to take a photo of his mother, who had just died, for posterity. Into the night they went – with Jimmy carrying the tripod for his father. Fittingly gothic, Jarché recalled stepping into foggy gloom and hearing ‘the scream of the sirens of boats feeling their way to dock’. In the man’s house, Jarché saw the dead woman lying on a table – a sheet drawn up to her chin. He was, of course, terrified, but said this first experience of photographing the dead had stood him in good stead for becoming a press photographer: ‘To begin with, it took away from me forever the fear of the sight of death, and in the second place, it put a stiffening into me..’ After this initiation, it’s no surprise Jarché began assisting his father in his photography for the police – snapping anything from a trail of footprints to corpses dragged out of the Thames. As well as a strong stomach, the work probably gave him the knack for being in the right place at the right time, which would come to serve him so well in his career. The studio in Union Road did a roaring trade, and the family would open a total of five studios in the area between 1892 and 1908, mainly around Tower Bridge Road and Tooley Street. Locals queued to have their portrait done: local tradesmen, factory workers from Peek Frean’s biscuits and Mazawattee Tea and ladies from the Star Music Hall in Bermondsey. As a result Jimmy’s father acquired his own celebrity status, and Jarché recalls that he didn’t need to do any marketing: ‘he
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Press photographer and his underexposed dockside childhood
James Jarche above and right as a boy plus some of his photographic work
was a living advertisement’. Jarché was accepted into St Olave’s Grammar school in Queen Elizabeth Street, Bermondsey (the school, now in Kent, had existed in the area since 1561), but was soon expelled for truancy, and sent on to a boarding school in Ramsgate. Arnold Jarché was to die soon after Jimmy’s first foray into photography, in 1901, and the studios were left to his mother to run. It would not be long before Jarché was to be snapped up by Fleet Street, and leave Bermondsey and Rotherhithe far behind, travelling the world as a photojournalist skilled at being ‘everywhere’. James Jarché died in 1965.
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16 Elephant and Castle, SE1 6TH 020 3602 9898 www.mamuska.net 9am - 11.30pm (Midnight Fri - Sat)
KATE BUSH will be singing ‘Mamuśka, Mamuśka, Mamuśka yi aye’, if she ever has the good fortune to find herself in this Polish kitchen and bar, writes Michael Holland...
Admittedly the system whereby you order at the bar and collect your food from the open kitchen on the other side of the restaurant can be a little confusing, but the lovely serving staff are aware and ready to help. The menu, in Polish with English translations, are full of dishes that you’ve never heard of, as well as some that you can see similarities with our own food. But, again, the staff are very willing to help and advise. Mamuśka (what you call your mother-in-law if she feeds you well) serves authentic Polish food so you will find ex-pats in there getting a decent version of their mums’ cooking, but on my visits there I have seen a good mix of English and Asian customers all enjoying the offerings. And quite rightly so. It is simple food. Hearty and filling. Mamuśka provides a good example of real Polish fare, plus Polish beer and vodka. We were determined to try dishes that were traditional to Poland rather than going for any safe options. There are main meals to be had but we chose lots of small sharing plates in order to taste as much as possible, and this worked out very well because as they all came at the same time the three of us dived in to whatever plate was nearest. Pierogi (Dumplings) seems to be a real favourite, so we had portions of the Goats Cheese and Spinach, and the Minced Beef. The cheese ones were extremely cheesy, and the beef variety were nicely spiced. We had a sour cream, dill and cucumber salad, that was creamy as well as tasty; a vegetable and mayonnaise salad, chicken wings that were sticky and lovely, Placki Zemniaczane (Potato pancakes) that you could add different
THE DAMAGE
It is simple food. Hearty and filling. Mamuśka provides a good example of real Polish fare, plus Polish beer and vodka fillings, and Ryba w Occie (Pickled Fish). And all these delicacies were washed down with Zywiec, a delicious lager that seemed perfect for that role. Between us we almost demolished everything, except all the chicken wings and pancakes, which were boxed up for us to take home, and couldn’t finish the pickled fish because it had a very strong flavour, one which I feel
Pierogi (Cheese & Spinach) £4.00
£4.75
Pierogi (Beef)
6.50
Pickled Fish
3.95
Salatka Jarzynowa
Placki Zemniaczane
£7.50
Coke
£1.40
£1.50
Mizeria (Salad)
£7.50
Beers x 2
£6.50
Chicken Wings
Plum Vodka (dbl) Cherry Vodka
you have to be led into slowly over time. Our waitress agreed it is not for the faint of heart. It is noisy in Mamuśka, it is busy in Mamuśka, it is a place where you can sit anywhere at almost any time as it is huge and opens in the morning for breakfast. We loved it. We couldn’t leave without sampling the flavoured vodkas. Nina had the cherry, a sweet little
36% proof, while I had the 50% plum, a distillation that could send rockets to the moon, but oh so nice. The Boy had a Coke. Mamuśka is a place that is fun, different and I think many people trying it for the first time will make return trips. There is the added bonus of 2-for1 Happy Hour on a range of Polish beers, Vodka Slush and even wine, from 5 to 7 pm, Monday - Friday!
TOTAL
FOOD (1-5) VALUE (1-5) AMBIENCE (1-5)
DISABLED ACCESS DISABLED TOILET BOOKING
dbl)
£11.80
£8.40
£63.80
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1)
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (PARK STREET) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Whilst works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in Park Street, between, No’s 62 – 76.
An alternative route for affected traffic will be via Emerson Street, Sumner Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Southwark Street, Great Guildford Street as applicable. Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said work and for works vehicles, any vehicle being used in connection with police, fire or ambulance purposes and anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restriction will be in operation on the 22nd – 23rd July 2017.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 20th July 2017
Application has been made to Southwark City Council for the following: Name of applicant: Pilango Limited Address of premises: Arch 758 (71) Enid Street, London, SE16 3RA It is proposed to license these premises for: Days Start time Mon - Sun
Tues - Thur Friday Saturday Sunday
10:00 17:30 13:00 09:00 10:00
Finish time 22:30 22:00 22:30 22:30 18:00
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (RODNEY PLACE)
3. 4. 5. 6.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark and in consultation with Transport for London hereby gives notice that because of works by London Power Connections,, it made an Order the effect of which will prohibit vehicular traffic from making certain movements in the above named road. Whilst works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in Rodney Place, northbound lane of carriageway between New Kent Road and Heygate Street/Rodney Road. An alternative route for affected traffic will be via: Heygate Street, Walworth Road, Newington Butts, Elephant & Castle, New Kent Road.
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said work and for works vehicles, any vehicle being used in connection with police, fire or ambulance purposes and anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restriction will come into force between the 24th July – 4th August 2017.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 20th July 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council
(b) (c)
(d) (e)
Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management P O Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3728/10727291
6. 7.
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of works by Southern Gas Networks, it made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from making certain movements in the above named road. Whilst the works are in progress and the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in the roads indicated below.
Hollydale Road, between Evelina Road and Gibbon Road, will be closed eastbound, imposing a westbound, temporary one way traffic flow system. Gibbon Road, between Kimberley Avenue and Hollydale Road, will be closed southbound, imposing a northbound, temporary one way system. Kimberley Avenue, between Evelina Road and Gibbon Road, will be closed westbound, imposing an eastbound, temporary one way traffic flow system. The order would also ban vehicles from turning left into Machell Road and Buchan Road at it’s junction with Kimberley Avenue and also Oakdale Road at it’s junction with Gibbon Road. Vehicles will be prohibited from waiting, including waiting for the purpose of loading and unloading at any time in Gibbon Road, on the southern kerb line between No’s 46 for 49m in a southerly direction. An alternative route for affected traffic will be via Evelina Road, Kimberley Avenue, Gibbon Road, Hollydale Road.
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.
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 works will be carried out between the 24th July – 1st September 2017.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 20th July 2017
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by Southwark Licensing Team, Regulatory Services, 3rd Floor Hub 1, PO Box 64529, London, SE1P 5LX - E-mail: licensing@southwark.gov.uk 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 on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above 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: 13th July 2017
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Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003
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Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3597/ LBSCR9539-1
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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC, AND TEMPORARY WAITING AND LOADING RESTRICTIONS HOLLYDALE ROAD, GIBBON ROAD, KIMBERLEY AVENUE, BUCHAN ROAD,MACHELL ROAD, OAKDALE ROAD)
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of works by Mechanical Movements & Enabling Services Ltd, it made an Order the effect of which will prohibit vehicular traffic in part of the above named road.
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Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council
Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management P O Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3745/(a) W114377176-01269 (b)W114378154-01043 (c) W114360979-01403 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BADSWORTH ROAD, CRESCENT WOOD ROAD, VICARAGE GROVE 1. 2.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable Highway 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. Whilst the works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Badsworth Road, between Medlar Street and Comber Grove (b) Crescent Wood Road, between Sydenham Hill and Peckarmans Wood. (c) Vicarage Grove, between Benhill Road and Mary Datchelor Close.
The alternative route would be via: (a) Medlar Street, Camberwell Road, Wyndham Road, Redcar Street. Comber Grove, Camberwell New Road, Medlar Street. (b) Sydenham Hill, Peckarmans Wood. (c) not applicable.
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.
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 works will be in place for (a) 3rd – 4th August. (b) 7th – 8th August. (c) 1st – 2nd August.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 20th July 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (a) 3783/ 1474509 (b) 3784/1474627 (c) 3782/ LBS-SC1473930
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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 http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk You can use facilities at your local library or ‘My Southwark Service Points’ to access the website. How to comment on this application: You should submit your comments via the above link. Comments received will be made available for public viewing on the website. All personal information will be removed except your postal address. Online comments submitted without an email address will not be acknowledged and those marked ‘confidential’ will not be considered. Written comments can be submitted to; Southwark Council, Chief executive's department, Planning division, Development management, PO Box 64529, London SE1 5LX. Reason for publicity. The applications are advertised for the reasons identified by the following codes: ACA-development affecting character or appearance of a nearby conservation area; ALB-development affecting setting of a nearby listed building(s); CNA-development within a conservation area; DDP-departure from the development plan; LBA-works to or within the site of a listed building; MPA-major planning application; 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).
93 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AA (Ref. 17/AP/2658 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a single storey rear extension. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) 76 BERMONDSEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 3UD (Ref. 17/AP/2610 ) Installation of a roof lantern and internal partition alterations to the existing ground floor rear extension. (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) THE HIDE BAR, 39-45 BERMONDSEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 3XF (Ref. 17/AP/2696 ) Display of new externally illuminated fascia signage on brickwork to the side of the arch forming the entrance to the bar and new internally illuminated hanging sign over the arch forming the entrance to the bar. (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) OLD JUSTICE, 94 BERMONDSEY WALL EAST, LONDON, SE16 4TY (Ref. 17/AP/2645 ) Change of use from A4 to C3 to accommodate 2 no. self-contained, residential units. (within Edward III's Rotherhithe C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Craig Newton 020 7525 4004) OLD JUSTICE, 94 BERMONDSEY WALL EAST, LONDON, SE16 4TY (Ref. 17/AP/2646 ) Construction of a second floor extension to create a 2 bedroom flat (within Edward III's Rotherhithe C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) 240 AND 252 CAMBERWELL ROAD, LONDON, SE5 0DP (Ref. 17/AP/2466 ) Variation of conditions 32 (BREEAM) and 36 (Code for Sustainable Homes) of planning permission reference 14-AP-2948 dated 25/03/2015 (for 'demolition of existing buildings and the partial retention and conversion of the existing warehouse in association with the redevelopment of the site to provide buildings ranging from 2 to 9 storeys in height comprising 164 residential units (Use Class C3), 1,775 sqm of flexible commercial / community floorspace (Classes A1/B1/D) together with associated car parking, cycle parking, open space, landscaping and infrastructure works') to enable the final BREEAM and Code for Sustainable Homes certificates to be submitted within three months of occupation, rather than at occupation. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Victoria Lewis 020 7525 5410) 75A COBOURG ROAD, LONDON, SE5 0HU (Ref. 17/AP/2699 ) Construction of a rear dormer extension with x2 rooflights to front roofslope (within Cobourg Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Troy Davies 0207 525 0783) 27 CROSBY ROW, LONDON, SE1 3YD (Ref. 17/AP/2626 ) (Householder Application) Construction of of two new dormer windows to the front elevation , and the replacement of two existing dormer window to the rear elevation with a larger single dormer of three bays. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 27 CROSBY ROW, LONDON, SE1 3YD (Ref. 17/AP/2627 ) Construction of of two new dormer windows to the front elevation , and the replacement of two existing dormer window to the rear elevation with a larger single dormer of three bays. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 60A DENMAN ROAD, LONDON SE15 5NR (Ref. 17/AP/2655 ) Demolition of existing ground floor extension
and construction of new side/rear extension including a new outbuilding in the rear of garden. (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Christopher Kirby 0207 525 0952) DENMARK HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSING OFFICE, 161 DENMARK HILL, LONDON, SE5 8EF (Ref. 17/AP/2580 ) Demolition of existing 2-storey office building (Class B1a) and construction of a 4-storey residential building comprised of 24 duplex units (Class C3). Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877) 17 BUTTERFLY WALK, DENMARK HILL, LONDON, SE5 8RW (Ref. 17/AP/2603 ) Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) for: the relocation of a BT public telephone box from its existing location outside Butterfly Walk to a new location approximately 10 metres to the southeast on the pavement immediately adjacent to the northern corner of McDonalds. (within Camberwell Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) 33 DULWICH VILLAGE, LONDON, SE21 7BN (Ref. 17/AP/2553 ) Single storey rear extension and alterations to the shopfront (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Shanali Counsell 0207 525 1770) GARAGES TO THE REAR OF 112 FORT ROAD, LONDON, SE1 5PT (Ref. 17/AP/2664 ) Demolition of existing garage and erection of a split level 2 bedroom house (within Thorburn Square C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Rosie Nolan 0207 525 1335) 133 KENNINGTON PARK ROAD, LONDON, SE11 4JJ (Ref. 17/AP/2633 ) Conversion of the existing single family dwelling into x4 self contained residential units, entailing: the restoration of historic features; the re-instatement of timber sash windows; rear extension to the entrance 'side wing' at basement, ground and first floor levels; roof extension to the entrance 'side wing'. (within Kennington Park Road C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) 133 KENNINGTON PARK ROAD, LONDON, SE11 4JJ (Ref. 17/AP/2632 ) Conversion of the existing single family dwelling into x4 self contained residential units, entailing: the restoration of historic features; the re-instatement of timber sash windows; rear extension to the entrance 'side wing' at basement, ground and first floor levels; roof extension to the entrance 'side wing'. (within Kennington Park Road C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) 4-6 LONDON BRIDGE STREET, LONDON SE1 9SG (Ref. 17/AP/2743 ) Conversion of 2 flats at 3rd floor level into a single 5 bedroom flat of multiple occupation (HMO) (retrospective). (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Rosie Nolan 0207 525 1335) THE LODGE, LOWER ROAD, LONDON, SE16 2UB (Ref. 17/AP/2659 ) Application to remove condition 16a - 'BREEM Report' as required by LBS Planning Application 12AP1121 granted 16/10/2012 (Demolition of existing two storey dwelling and construction of a new mixed use building on basement, ground and three upper floors consisting of commercial unit for D2 (assembly and leisure) use at ground and lower ground levels with 8 flats at first, second and third floors. Landscaping of surrounding external spaces and one off-street disabled
car parking space.) Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Andre Verster 020 7525 5457) GLAZIERS HALL, 9 MONTAGUE CLOSE, LONDON, SE1 9DD (Ref. 17/AP/2648 ) Installation of a cavity drained wall and floor liner system with sump to damp proof a section of the cellar for use for wine storage. Extension of existing agreed archaeological watching brief by condition to include these works. Installation of a chiller unit within existing below pavement/steps void fronting London. Installation of a timber ceiling raft to carry lighting and speakers in the basement. Change of basement stair lobby floor materials to oak board. (within Borough High Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 2 QUEENS ROAD, LONDON, SE15 2PT (Ref. 17/AP/2624 ) Demolition of existing garden wall to the rear of the Hotel at 2 Queens Road and relocation of service/drop off access to the Hotel. Erection of a three storey apartment building comprising five dwellings set around a landscaped courtyard. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Alex Cameron 020 7525 5416)
2 QUEENS ROAD, LONDON, SE15 2PT (Ref. 17/AP/2625 ) Demolition of existing garden wall to the rear of the Hotel at 2 Queens Road and relocation of service/drop off access to the Hotel. Erection of a three storey apartment building comprising five dwellings set around a landscaped courtyard. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Alex Cameron 020 7525 5416) 58 SOUTHWARK BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, SE1 0AS (Ref. 17/AP/2704 ) Variation of condition 1 'Approved plans' of planning permission 16/AP/5102 dated 28/02/2017 for the 'Variation of Conditions 1 'Approved plans' and 4 'Internal Noise Levels' of planning permission 14/AP/4414 dated 03/03/2015 for the 'Construction of a single storey roof extension to create a self contained 2 bedroom residential unit with front and rear roof terraces and a rooftop terrace' to account for the following proposed changes: relocation of fixed rooflights on roof terrace, amendments Continued on next page....
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)
to balustrade on fourth floor and roof terrace, and amendments to fenestration and materials; and increasing the internal noise level threshold for living rooms from 30dB LAeq T**' to 35 LAeq, T**' to account for the following proposed changes: amend the material of the balustrades from metal mesh to glass (within Union Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) 44A THE GARDENS, LONDON, SE22 9QQ (Ref. 17/AP/2688 ) Creation of an external amenity space on the roof (i.e. at second floor level) of the existing
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building, together with the installation of boundary screening, an access hatch and sedum roof overlay (within The Gardens C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) 42 TRINITY STREET, LONDON, SE1 4JG (Ref. 17/AP/2665 ) Replacement of existing Trellis on 1st Floor terrace boundary wall. (within Trinity Church Square C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 161 TURNEY ROAD, LONDON, SE21 7JU
(Ref. 17/AP/2684 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a single storey side and rear extension with flat roof. Proposed pitched roof section (including 2no. sun tunnels) to replicate the existing garage and new adjoining external store to be accessed from the front garden. Existing slate tiles to be replaced with new to match existing. New fence to front and rear garden & new gate to rear garden. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458)
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (SYLVAN GROVE)
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of works by Agility Alliance, Clancy Docwra, Centurion Site Services, it intends, to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in: (a) Browning Street, between Walworth Road and Colworth Street. (Agility Alliance) (b) Rodney Place, between New Kent Road and Heygate Street (Clancy Docwra) (c) Bedale Street, at it’s junction with Borough High Street.
The alternative route for affected traffic will be via: (a) Walworth Road, Heygate Street, Rodney Road, Wadding Street, Brandon Street. Walworth Road, Albany Road, Portland Street, Brandon Street. (b) Heygate Street, Walworth Road, Elephant & Castle, Newington Butts, New Kent Road. (c) as indicated by the signs displayed.
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.
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 prohibition will be in place on the (a) 1st -3rd August 2017. (b) 4th – 5th August. 1st – 2nd August.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 20th July 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (a) 3841/000805216560045-001 (b)3728/1072729 (c)3824/ CBM-00-34-010817
Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003
Please take notice that I Oliveology Have made application to the local licensing authority for a new Premises Licence in respect of Unit 43, Three Crown Square, Borough Market, SE1 1TL The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, on from the premises are The supply of alcohol: Opening hours:
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A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by Southwark Licensing Team, Regulatory Services, 3rd Floor Hub 1, PO Box 64529, London, SE1P 5LX - E-mail: licensing@southwark.gov.uk 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 on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above 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: 12th July 2017
Deadline for public n o t i c e s i s Tu e s d a y a t 5 p m
SIMON BEVAN - Director of Planning
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BROWNING STREET, RODNEY PLACE, BEDALE STREET) 1.
Dated 20 July 2017 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark and in consultation with Transport For London hereby gives notice that because of a crane operation by Metro Traffic Services, it intends, to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.
Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in Sylvan Grove from it’s junction with Old Kent Road to the blocked end. No alternative route will be required.
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.
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 prohibition will be in place on the 5th – 6th August if due to adverse weather conditions then the works will be in place on the 12th – 13th August 2017. Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 20th July 2017
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref:3641/LBSCR9579 LICENCE FOR THE PROVISION OF SPECIAL TREATMENTS NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT
Within seven days of applying for a licence a public notice advertising the application must be published in a local newspaper that circulates in the locality in which the premises are situated and which is on sale local newsagents. Within fourteen days of the application being made one copy of the complete newspaper must be sent to: Licensing Unit, Environmental Health & Trading Standards 3rd Floor Hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, P O Box 64529, London SE1 5LX The advertisement must be in the following form:
SPECIAL TREATMENTS LICENCES
Notice is given that: NGA VU has applied to the London Borough of Southwark for a Special Treatments Licence for the premises known as: GlAMOROUS NAILS, 56 GROVE VALE, SE22 8DT
Anyone wishing to oppose the application must give notice in writing to the Licensing Unit, Chaplin Centre, Thurlow Street, London, SE17 2DG or e-mail to licensing@southwark.gov.uk within 28 days of the date of application specifying the grounds of opposition. Persons objecting to the grant of licences must be prepared to attend in person at a public hearing before a committee of the Council. Date of application: 18.7.17
Notice is hereby given pursuant to s. 27 of the Trustee Act 1925, that any person having a claim against or an interest in the estate is hereby required to send particulars of his/her claim or interest in writing to FLK Solicitors, 304 High Road, Leyton, E10 5PW and to send such particulars before 30th September 2017 after which date the personal representatives will distribute the estate among the persons entitled thereto having regard only to the claims and interests of which they have had notice and will not, as respects the property so distributed, be liable to any person of whose claim they shall not then have had notice.
Onomijega, Christopher Obrikogho (D.O.B 17/11/1936), Cleaner (retired), of 11 Meeting House Lane, London, SE15 2UN, died on 14th March 2014.
Bermondsey’s Chris gets Eubank approval
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By John Kelly
Chris Kongo lands a blow on William Warburton
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DULWICH HAMLET came from two goals down before losing 4-2 to Crawley Town on Tuesday night.
Ex-Hamlet player Panutche Camará scored twice for the League Two side, who had gone ahead after just three minutes through Enzio Boldewijn. Camará doubled the lead on 30 minutes, before Dulwich pulled a goal back when Crawley goalkeeper Glenn Morris missed a cross and Dumebi Dumaka headed into an empty net. Just before the break Dulwich equalised, with Dumaka grabbing his second of the game, the winger evading challenges before firing home past Morris. Despite a gutsy effort from the hosts, Crawley proved too strong and added second-half goals through Camará and Matthew Harold.
and I should keep it up. “That gives me a lot of confidence, as does sparring with Chris Eubank Jr. The main thing was me sparring Chris, it was a learning experience.
It was good to experience what kind of level I’m at and what I need to work on.” Kongo had to wait almost six hours to step into the ring at Wembley
Records tumble for Southwark Aquatics OFF THE back of the London Regionals in May, Southwark Aquatics enjoyed more success at the London Aquatic Centre, BWFSC Meet earlier this month.
Out of 21 clubs taking part, Southwark Aquatics – the smallest competitive swimming club in London – finished sixth in the medals table. Twenty-one swimmers from the club took home three gold medals, nine silvers, ten bronze, as well as thirteen fourth-place finishes. There were also seven new club records. Jessie Kullman finished second in the Top Girl Trophy, which was based on individual points. Two of the swimmers, Sophia Hipple and Mateusz Kubica, made the next round of regional qualifying times. After a successful season the club is setting its sights on getting swimmers to national level. The club is urging people to get involved. A spokesperson said: “The new season starts September 1. Southwark Aquatics is a local, inclusive competitive
Dulwich were put in to bat, but got off to a rousing start as Nick Hudson dominated both the strike and the scoring to score 25 out of an opening stand of 35 in nine overs with Matt Balch. He then scored a further 22 in a second wicket stand of 24 in three overs with Henry Hazlewood. Both fell in successive balls with the score on 59, with Hudson having made 47 of those runs off 48 balls. Assan
Crawford-Khan fell sixteen runs later, to bring in Waqar to join Kristian Williman. The pair had taken the score to 107-4 off 22 overs when a heavy shower drove the players from the field. Ten overs were lost, reducing the Dulwich innings to a maximum of 50. After the resumption the pair took their partnership to 68 off 20 overs when Williman was caught behind for 32 with the score on 143. This brought in keeper Will Bancroft, who went on the attack, scoring 41 off 34 balls in a stand of 67 in nine overs for the sixth wicket to take the total to 210 after 44.2 overs. Waqar fell two overs later, having faced 91 balls for his 69. This was his fourth half-century of the season, and his second against these opponents. Skipper Alex
“It was quite a long day but we got the win and that’s the main thing,” Kongo told the News. “There weren’t really nerves, but I had to wait and everyone went the distance. I was ready from five o’clock but I didn’t end up boxing until 11.30. “I was warming up and then I had to stop, and I had to warm up again. I took my boxing kit off, then got ready to go again. I ended up warming up about three or four times. “It was my second fight that went the distance and it was the same opponent, who has had about 150 fights. “I went there and everything I had learned in the gym I just put it together in the ring. “I’m used to boxing anywhere now, big or small arenas, it doesn’t bother me. I’m going to have a couple of days off and then back in the gym. I’m hoping to be out again early September. “It’s all up to my coach to see how much I have improved. It’s his call [on a potential future title fight].”
Haye snaps up heavyweight prospect
DAVID HAYE has signed Olympic super-heavyweight silver medallist Joe Joyce to his promotion company.
swimming club and happy to welcome new children and masters to the team. If you are between stages 8-10 or above and think you have the drive and enthusiasm to be part of a great team,
please do get in touch for a trial.” Those interested can contact: sasctrials@gmail.com or visit www.southwarkaquatics.co.uk for more information.
Haye has also added Commonwealth bantamweight silver medallist Qais Ashfaq, middleweight Willy Hutchinson and MMA fighter Michael Page to the Hayemaker Ringstar stable. “I’m giving these guys the opportunities I've been fortunate to have,” Bermondsey’s former two-weight world champion Haye said. “I’ve done it all in boxing and I believe I have a wealth of knowledge that can guide this young talent to the top.” Meanwhile, despite making plans for his career outside the ring, Haye, 36, intends to return to action later this year. He is still recovering from the achilles tear he suffered in his defeat to Tony Bellew in March, but split from trainer Shane McGuigan last month.
Gledhill and Kamran Munawar then added 36 for the eighth wicket before Gledhill became the fifth victim for keeper Alex Martin in the final over. Matt Quaife was run out off the penultimate ball, and the innings closed on 249-9 after 50 overs. Esher had 40 overs to try and score the runs, or at least reach 200 for the winning draw. The bowling was opened by second team captain James Bridgland, making a rare first-team appearance, and he got off to an ideal start when he removed the visiting skipper with the second ball of the innings. He dismissed the other opener with the last ball of his third over, and Munawar followed up three balls later by bowling the dangerous Martin, who had made a century in the first
match between the sides. The fourth wicket pair came together with the score on 27, and had added 31 when Waqar, having conceded two fours off his first four balls, dismissed prolific overseas player Shoaib Khan with his fifth. This initiated a collapse in which six wickets fell for 35 runs in fourteen overs, with three more to Waqar and two to Quaife. The last wicket pair thus came together with the score on 93 and 12.2 overs of the innings remaining. Gledhill used four different bowlers to try and break the stand, but the pair resisted for ten overs as number 8 Ben Collins took a single off the last ball of four consecutive overs to keep last man Tom Brown away from the strike. A maiden by the skipper in the 38th over left Brown facing the 39th.
Waqar was recalled, and he bowled Brown with his second ball to dismiss Esher for 102. Waqar rounded off an inspired performance with 5-23 off 11.2 overs. Dulwich have lost to the bottom side and beaten the top side in successive weeks. Unfortunately, the three sides above them in the table all also won this week, so Dulwich remain in ninth place. They are five points behind Epsom and fourteen behind seventh-placed Dorking, who are their visitors next week in the return match between the sides. Dulwich won the first match, and would overtake their opponents if they can repeat the feat next week. Result: Dulwich 249-9 (50) beat Esher 102 (38.2) by 147 runs
Photo (left to right): Megan Ferguson-Smith, Teddy Kinsler, Maria Amoah, Molly Easter, Shania Hylton, Zivile Dirmeikyte, Tim Beletski (Head Coach), Mateusz Kubica, Finn Ashworth, Boris Spasovski, Jessie Kullman, Freya D Fox, Alex Ung, Sophia Hipple
Dulwich hammer table toppers Esher
A FINE all-round performance by Salaar Waqar, who hit 69 and took five wickets, led Dulwich to a stunning victory by the emphatic margin of 147 runs over table leaders Esher in Division 2 of the Travelbag Surrey Championship last weekend.
Arena, with no slot opening up between bouts due to no knockouts on the undercard. That meant he went on after the Eubank Jr-Abraham main event.
Photo: Southwark Aquatics
Ex-star back to haunt Hamlet
Photo: Natalie Mayhew, ButterflyBoxing
CHRIS ‘2Slick’ Kongo felt his experience in the ring with Chris Eubank Jr was crucial as he won his fifth successive professional fight at the weekend.
Bermondsey’s Kongo went the distance against Lancashire’s William Warburton, who also took him all the way in his second fight as a professional. Kongo, 24, had the benefit of sparring with Eubank Jr, who defended his IBO supermiddleweight title with a points win over veteran Arthur Abraham on Saturday night. Chris Eubank Sr was in the ring overseeing the recent sparring session, and Kongo revealed the former middleweight and supermiddleweight world champion was impressed with what he saw. “Getting the benefit of that experience is priceless,” Kongo said. “He gave me some good advice and things to work on. Apart from that he said my boxing skills were beautiful
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MORO MILLWALL’S PETER PAN
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Rhead all about it Millwall 0-1 Lincoln C Vilamoura, Portugal
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MILLWALL LOST 1-0 to Lincoln City in a pre-season friendly in Portugal last weekend.
The Lions went down to a Matt Rhead strike for the League Two new boys at their training camp in Vilamoura in central Algarve. Lincoln grabbed the national sporting headlines last season when, like Millwall, they reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup before they lost to Arsenal at the Emirates. Millwall upped their workload in Portugal as they fine-tune preparations before their return to the Championship. Lions boss Neil Harris again gave most of the first-team squad minutes on the pitch against an Imps side that had lost 3-1 against Benfica B a few days earlier. Harris and Lincoln boss Danny Cowley are good friends, and the latter was pleased with his side’s performance. “It was a significant improvement from Wednesday’s game, which we expected,” Cowley said. “The Millwall test was very different to the Benfica game. It was more of a physical test and more realistic to what we will face once the season starts. “Millwall are a Championship club now and have done superbly over the last two seasons under Neil Harris. “We did really well defensively. We were organised and kept a good shape. “We used the ball well as well. It was undoubtedly our best performance so far in pre-season. And it’s always nice to win 1-0 away from home!”
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preparations ahead of the new season, with a trip to Barnet on Saturday followed by a fixture away at Stevenage the following Tuesday evening. Morison is in the seventeenth preseason of his senior professional career, after starting out with
Northampton Town in 2001. But he has shown no signs of slowing down and made more appearances (107) in the last two seasons than any other Millwall player. It was Morison who was there in the 85th minute of Millwall’s 61st game of the 2016-17 season when he prodded home to secure promotion to the Championship at Wembley in May. Morison believes the modern scientific approach to fitness has helped him as he has got older, and he will be pushing himself at The Hive Stadium this weekend to ensure he is ready for Championship match action. “You want to try to get as close to competitive match tempo as possible and put your body through those stresses and strains that you have to deal with week-in, week-out,” he said. “I’m as fit as ever. The training is a lot different to what I’ve been used to over the years. Pre-season is easier now, it’s more scientific and managed a lot better. You feel better for it. “I look back at when I started and the fundamental thing was run as far as you could until someone was ill or sick. That’s why you saw so many injuries. “But football has changed, that’s why it’s quicker and everyone is a better athlete nowadays. “For me it’s made it easier to survive. I’m in the mix with the rest of them out there, I do exactly the same as everyone else. People are at different levels, everyone does running at different times and some are better than it than others. Kris Twardek should be an Olympic athlete.” Morison was speaking just before the squad departed for the Algarve in Portugal, and he was looking forward to a different training environment. “It’ll be tough, but it’ll be nice to get away,” he said. “We’ll have had nearly three weeks [at Calmont Road] by the time we go. It’s a change of scenery, we’ll be here for the next ten months so it’ll be nice to train with the sun on our backs. “That makes the training a little bit harder and we’ve got a couple of good games out there as well. We’ll get some more minutes in us and get ready for when we come back for Barnet.”
League Welling later that season, before returning to Millwall and making two appearances in the Football League Trophy in 2016-17. A number of Millwall players on the fringes of the first-team squad are available for loan, with Harris aware that under-23 football will not aid the development of players who have already experienced firstteam action. Meanwhile, Harry Smith has made a flying start to his career with
Swindon Town. Centre-forward Smith, 22, joined David Flitcroft’s League Two side last week on a season-long loan. Smith made his debut for Swindon in their friendly against Oldham last week and provided an assist for the equaliser in a 1-1 draw. And Smith opened his account for the Robins on Monday night when he put his side in front against Salisbury after earlier missing a penalty in another 1-1 stalemate.
Steve Morison fires over the bar in Millwall's pre-season friendly against Dartford
Vice-captain approaching 34th birthday – but says he is as fit as ever By John Kelly
Johnk@southwarknews.co.uk
STEVE MORISON may be just over a month shy of his 34th birthday – but he claims he finds pre-season easier now than when
he started out.
Millwall have just returned to London from a gruelling six-day training camp in Portugal that involved two to three physical sessions per day as well as two friendly fixtures. There will be little let-up in
Defender Chezza could join Lions loan exodus By John Kelly
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NOAH CHESMAIN could be the next Millwall player exiting the club on loan.
Chesmain is currently on trial with Lincoln City and could follow Harry Smith in moving away from SE16 to secure first-team football next season. Chesmain, 19, is likely to see his opportunities with Millwall limited
in the Championship, with Neil Harris able to call on club captain Tony Craig as well as internationals James Meredith and Shane Ferguson to fill the left-back position. Chesmain made his senior competitive debut for Millwall as a seventeen-year-old when he came on as an 81st-minute substitute in a 1-0 League One win over Bury in November 2015. He went out on loan to National
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By John Kelly
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MILLWALL TOUCHED down in London on Wednesday after six days in the Algarve sunshine, and are back at Calmont Road preparing for the trip to Barnet on Saturday.
The squad was put through its paces in heat touching 40 degrees Celsius in Portugal, in between facing Lincoln City and a Portuguese side in friendlies. Lions supporters who travel to The Hive Stadium this weekend could get to see another new signing in action for the club for the first time, with Conor McLaughlin in line to make an appearance. Millwall boss Neil Harris will likely pick a strong side for the clash against the Bees, whom they defeated 4-0 in the first round of the League Cup last August. McLaughlin’s Northern Ireland international team-mate Shane Ferguson should also make his first appearance of the summer, after he started pre-season late following his involvement in World Cup qualification in early June. Lions CEO Steve Kavanagh joined Harris and the squad for a couple of days during their training camp, and believes the trip was a success. “The camaraderie was good and they were working hard. It was
EACH MONTH, EXCLUSIVELY in Southwark News, FOTB Micky Simpson will provide an update on club issues concerning Lions fans...
Firstly, I would again like to say a huge ‘thank you’ to Pete Garston, our first Fan on the Board, who has stepped down from the role after eleven successful years. He has put in a tremendous amount of hard work and the knowledge he has passed on to me in recent months has been invaluable. We’re all looking forward to the start of a new season – our first one back in
Lions enter the Bees Hive
very hot out there, which made it difficult for them,” Kavanagh said. “It’s a great set-up, they went there last year and wanted to go
back. They were away from everything and completely focused on training.” Barnet, meanwhile, finished
Fred Onyedinma scored from the spot when Millwall beat Barnet in last season’s League Cup
fifteenth in League Two last season and their manager, Rossi Eames, who is just 32, is an ex-gymnast and started off as a video analyst
A message from n a F s ’ l l a w l l i M on the Board
the Championship after that memorable promotion-winning day at Wembley in May. This coming campaign marks the start of the first full season under CEO Steve Kavanagh, and if his first nine or so months are anything to go by then the future looks very bright for the club. It still feels like everyone remains on a bit of a high after Wembley. There were plenty of people writing the team off halfway through the season, but Neil Harris and his squad did brilliantly well to secure Championship football once again. Aston Villa, Sunderland, Fulham and Leeds United are amongst a long list of great away days to look forward to in the coming months. Unfortunately, this summer hasn’t
been all positive, however. Four of our supporters were caught up in the atrocious attacks on London Bridge and Borough Market in early June and two of them have had to recover from multiple serious stab wounds. Since that horrendous night I’ve been in regular contact with all four fans in order to make sure their every need is attended to. John Berylson, our chairman, insisted from the off that the club would do everything in its power to support them and that is what has happened. This is the Millwall family. I’m looking forward to the upcoming Fans’ Forum, which is taking place in the Executive Lounge at The Den between 7-9pm on Tuesday, August 1. These events are crucial as we look to continue improving communication
between the club and the fan base so I hope to see as many of you as possible there. During the past few months I’ve had plenty of ideas which I have put to different members of club staff and to the board and I hope to be able to reveal some of them that night. On a final note, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome five new committee members to the MSC and of course Paul (Ted) Robinson, your new chairman, and his new deputy, Ayse Smith. Both are Millwall through and through and I’m sure they will each do a terrific job. Thank you to everyone who has emailed me or tweeted me kind words. I am continuing to do my best for you. Micky.
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The Hive Stadium with the club’s under-13s. One of Eames’ players, Michael Nelson, is five years older than him, but age isn’t a worry as he sets out his ambitious plans for the club. “Everyone keeps saying to me that I am the youngest Football League coach but to me it is just a number,” he said. “I am a very privileged person to be one of the 92 and I know there are millions of people in this country who would love to be in my seat. “But I have not really thought about the age thing, it’s just about me doing my job as well as possible. “I know that we are on the right track and we are in a good place. We have a great philosophy from the under-9s upwards and we have the ambitions to match. I am embedding the principles, the culture of high standards and ensuring every detail is followed. “The young players are stepping up and you will see more emerge this season. “What I will say is that these players are hungrier than ever. We know the ambitions and where we can go. We will build on what we have done already and we will be working harder than ever.” Possible Millwall starting XI: Archer; McLaughlin, Webster, Hutchinson, Meredith; Wallace, Williams, Saville, Ferguson; Elliott, Gregory.
Lions track young Gunner Mavididi
MILLWALL ARE keeping tabs on young Arsenal striker Stephy Mavididi.
Mavididi, 19, hasn’t made a senior firstteam appearance for the Gunners, but impressed on a short loan spell with Charlton Athletic last season. Mavididi played five times for Karl Robinson’s Addicks before he suffered a hamstring injury that ended his season. Robinson admitted he would be interested in signing the attacker again this season, but Millwall’s promotion to the Championship gives them a better bargaining position. However, Mavididi would need to weigh up his chances of gaining a regular firstteam spot with Millwall, given Lions boss Neil Harris has Steve Morison and Lee Gregory as his established first-choice pair. Harris also signed Tom Elliott this summer from AFC Wimbledon, while Fred Onyedinma and Aiden O’Brien are options to play in a front two. Mavididi’s talent is not in doubt, and last season he almost scored what would have been the goal of the season after running the length of the pitch and beating five players against Rochdale before seeing his shot saved. Millwall are likely to wait until further into pre-season before deciding if they need to add another forward to their squad.
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Lions still in for transfer pair EXCLUSIVE
By John Kelly
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MILLWALL HAVE not given up hope of signing two of their main transfer targets this summer.
Millwall are ‘keeping an eye’ on safe standing moves EXCLUSIVE
By John Kelly
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MILLWALL ARE “monitoring” developments in safe standing – but it’s not something the club expects to trial in the near future.
Under current legislation, clubs in the top two tiers of English football are required to have all-seater stadiums, based on recommendations from the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster. Last season, Celtic in the Scottish
Premier League modified an area of Parkhead and installed rail seats – seats that flip up when not being used, with waist-high rails in front of supporters to prevent potential crowd surges. Safe standing is particularly associated with German football, with Borussia Dortmund’s ‘yellow wall’ – the 25,000capacity terrace at the Westfalenstadion – an iconic success story. Last month, League One Shrewsbury Town applied for safe standing at Greenhous Meadow and are hoping to raise over £50,000 to install rail seats before the end of next season. And this week, a Liverpool supporters’ group, Spirit of Shankly, announced
they would have an online vote to gauge fans’ views on the issue. Safe standing has significant supporter backing in the UK, with the Football Supporters’ Federation campaigning for its reintroduction for a number of years. Millwall chief executive Steve Kavanagh revealed the club are “keeping an eye” on the latest moves elsewhere. “I looked into the safe standing situation when I was at Southend and it’s not as straightforward as just putting some new seats in,” Kavanagh said. “It’s more complex doing the break in the stand, etc. “It requires a change in legislation, as
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I understand it, even for the units that are being trialled in Scotland to be put into the stand. “I’m aware of the issue and I am monitoring it. Obviously at the right time, if it became viable, then we would look at whether it would be viable for us. “I don’t think that it’s something that we would look to trial, and I don’t think the authorities would be overly happy with us trialling it either. “We will stand behind others and we are keeping an eye on it as we would do with anything that adds atmosphere in the ground and is welcomed and requested by the fans.”
The Lions want to add a centre-back and midfielder to their squad in addition to the five players that have joined on permanent deals already in the closed season. Millwall have had a bid accepted for Jake Cooper, but have been frustrated in their attempts to progress any potential deal. Cooper has been involved in Reading’s preparations ahead of the new season but the Royals want to sell him to raise transfer funds as boss Japp Stam plots a promotion push after reaching the play-offs last season. Millwall could also bid again for Southend United’s Ryan Leonard. The Lions had an offer of £350,000 turned down earlier in the summer, and Southend also recently rebuffed a bid of half a million pounds from Sheffield United for the midfielder. Millwall could have an advantage over the Blades in the battle to land the player, with former Southend CEO Steve Kavanagh and Leonard’s ex-team-mate Adam Barrett now with the Lions. And Kavanagh revealed they are pressing ahead with attempts to sign Cooper. “We’re still hopeful of getting a deal done but because it’s taking so long we’re also exploring other options to make sure that we get the player that we want. “Jake was one on the list. Yes, we’d like to get it done, but if that’s not possible we’ll have to move on.” THE RECYCLED PAPER CONTENT OF UK NEWSPAPERS IN 2014 WAS 83.5%