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Letter signed by over EIGHTY headteachers says level of school funding cuts can ‘only result in job losses’
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By Chiara Giordano
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HEADTEACHERS AT primary, nursery, and special schools across the borough fear cuts to their budgets will result in job losses, stressed-out teachers, and pupils’ education suffering. Schools in Southwark are predicted to be the worst hit by the Government’s
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Save our schools as they face ‘£1,024 cut per pupil per year’
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OUTHWARK HEAD teachers are clearly despairing of a Prime Minister who has said that she has made it her “personal mission” to build “a school system that works for everyone”, when they are predicted to be the worst hit by the Government’s national funding formula.
For 80 heads across the borough to write in protest to stop it from being implemented shows the real danger an estimated cut of £1,024 per pupil per year will have on our children. Studies have shown that all schools with the highest number of poor pupils are likely to see the biggest cuts to funding in coming years. How ironic is Thersea May’s claim to want to end the post code lottery of schools and introduce grammar schools - in her words to end the “brutal and unacceptable” truth of selection by income. Unions and organisations like Child Poverty Action Group have looked at 997 state schools with more than 40 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals (a key measure of poverty) to show that disadvantaged primary students will lose £473 per pupil in real terms, £140 more than the average for primary schools generally. In secondaries it is £803, so £326 more than the average - and Southwark’s figures are even worse. Poverty at home has always been the clearest marker of how a child will do at school. A good, well-resourced school can help weaken that link and give those children a better future. But by cutting the budgets of those schools doing the most work to help disadvantaged pupils, Mrs May is setting many of those children up to fail. What a hopeless situation the head teachers find themselves in. What and from where do they make the cuts? Staff? Educational trips? GCSE courses? Mental health support? Nationally since Sunday, head teachers and their staff have taken to Twitter to stress the predicament they face with the hashtag #whatwouldyoucut It has been reported that a number of influential Conservative MPs are preparing not to vote for the formula in its current form. Let’s hope they are true to their word. The public consultation ends on March 22 at 5pm. As we are the hardest hit borough it’s important that we support our head teachers. Contact your school to see how you can help and have your say on the consultation, by visiting: https://consult.education.gov.uk/fundingpolicy-unit/schools-national-fundingformula2/
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By Owen Sheppard
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ROMAN COINS and pottery and a human leg believed to be over 1,600 years old have been discovered at a building site in SE1.
The haul of pottery fragments and over 70 coins were picked up at an archaeological site in Swan Street, where a former court building and Royal Mail office are being converted into flats. Members of the public were given a tour of the excavation and a showcase of the ancient finds on Friday. On-site archaeologist Richard Meager said he believed the site had been a small Roman road that connected the Old Kent Road with Stainer Street, where there were also once Roman shops and markets in the Borough High Street area. Evidence of the old road came from the layers of gravel and pieces of wood that once acted as shoring for the road. Richard said he believed a ditch – running parallel with the old road – might have explained how a femur leg bone was found. “From examining the femur you can tell all sorts of things about how they may have died, their gender and how long it’s been there. In this case it was well preserved in the ditch and it was quite large, so we think it belonged to a male.” The coins were discovered by running a metal detector over the layers of soil, with varying densities of precious silver and gold. It was explained that during the latter stages of the Empire – and the Roman occupation of England between 43AD and late fourth century – their empire’s currency contained less precious metal as the resources became less scarce, but more money needed to be created to afford its armies. The coins and pottery, as well as fragments of Saxon pottery, have been taken to the Museum of London archive.
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Over a third of pupils did not get first school choice despite record year for preferred places By Chiara Giordano
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MORE THAN a third of children will not be going to their first choice secondary school in September – despite this year seeing the highest percentage offered their preferred choice.
Senior school allocations were sent out on Wednesday, March 1, and 64.1 per cent of Southwark children received an offer at their first preference school. This was an increase of five per cent compared to last year – and the highest percentage offered since records began in 2009. Southwark Council received 2,790 on-time secondary applications for the September 2017 intake. Every on-time applicant was offered a place at a secondary school in Southwark. Figures released by the council show; 2,614 (93.7 per cent) applicants received a place at a secondary school of their first to sixth preference 2,453 (87.9 per cent) received a place at a secondary school of their first to third preference 1,789 (64.1 per cent) received a first preference school. 176 (6.3 per cent) without a preference were offered an alternative school. 2,777 (99.5 per cent) of Southwark applicants applied online this year. Cllr Victoria Mills, cabinet member
for children and schools, said: “It’s good news that more young people in Southwark have gained a place at their preferred secondary school this year. “However, I know there are still many disappointed families who didn’t get their first choice, and we are working with schools to offer advice about next steps. “In an ideal world all our secondary schools would offer the same exceptional standard of education, but we know there are differences, which is why the council continues to work with schools where possible to drive up standards.” Around a third of children in London – where there has been a two per cent increase in applications – missed out on their first choice secondary school this year, while local authorities in larger cities also had to deliver bad news to disappointed parents. Statistics from the Pan London Admissions Board show that across the capital only 68 per cent of 11year-olds got their first choice of school – leaving 32 per cent disappointed. However, 89 per cent of pupils were offered a place at one of their top three preferences. In the past two years there has been a five per cent increase in families applying for school places in London; in 2017 there were 88,601 applications, a two per cent rise on 2016.
‘Biggest losers will be the children’ say heads in funds letter
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By Chiara Giordano
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HEADTEACHERS AT primary, nursery, and special schools across the borough fear cuts to their budgets will result in job losses, stressed-out teachers, and pupils’ education suffering.
Schools in Southwark are predicted to be the worst hit by the Government’s national funding formula, with estimates of cuts of £1,024 per pupil per year. Southwark Heads, a body representing primary, nursery and special schools, said it had been “viewing with increasing alarm the impact that Government policy is having on school budgets”. In a letter sent to the News, signed by more than 80 headteachers, the body said: “The biggest losers in this will be the children. This level of cuts can only result in job losses and this will have a direct impact on children’s outcomes. “Simply put, there will not be the appropriate numbers of staff to meet the needs of the children. The quality of children’s education will suffer as a result.” The letter went on to say that funding in other areas of the country should be raised to match the levels received in London. “We agree that children in all schools should be adequately funded,” Southwark Heads wrote. “Evidence has shown that increased funding improves outcomes – the London Challenge and City Challenge initiatives proved that. “Reducing funding in London will only have a deleterious effect on the
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ability of schools and teachers to prepare our children to be the citizens and workforce of tomorrow. “In a time of crisis in recruitment and retention, it is key that those teachers who remain feel that their job is achievable. “Who will want to work in school environments that are stretched beyond their means? “Funding cuts will only continue to increase workloads and the levels of pressure on teachers, who are already leaving the profession in droves.” “Cuts in funding jeopardise the education system as a whole,” they wrote. “It is time that the Government
recognised the hugely negative impact that its policies are having on children’s education. “Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not the answer. Sufficient funding for children in all schools has to be the goal.” A public consultation on the national funding formula, which the Government says will end the historic ‘postcode lottery’ and ensure that similar schools in different areas are treated in the same way, ends on March 22. The News approached the Department for Education for comment, but received no response at the time of going to press.
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Police ‘follow trail of blood’ to find stabbing victim on the ground By Chiara Giordano
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POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses after a man in his 20s was stabbed in Bermondsey.
Officers were called to Jamaica Road at 9.14pm on Wednesday, March 1. On arrival they found “a trail of blood” on the ground, but could not find the victim. A Met spokesman said: “Police then located a man, aged in his 20s, nearby with a stab injury.
“He was taken to an east London hospital. His injuries are not life threatening or life changing.” A local resident in Mayflower Street told the News that police tape was still cordoning off the crime scene on the following morning. The man continued to receive treatment for his injuries in hospital as the paper went to press. No arrests have yet been made and police inquiries continue. Anyone with information that could help the police should call 101.
Police appeal to find person who allegedly ‘defecated in Dulwich street’ Southwark News, March 9 2017
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By Owen Sheppard
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POLICE ARE hunting a man who allegedly defecated in a Dulwich street in broad daylight.
Officers are appealing to find the man pictured, whom they would like to question about the incident that took place in Eastlands Crescent on February 16, at 5.15pm. Police have also said they are believe there have been other similar cases. The suspect was described to police as a white male; aged around mid50s, around 5ft 8ins tall with a medium build. At the time of the incident he was wearing jeans and a grey jumper. A statement from the Met Police said: “Police believe that this is not the first time the suspect may have done this; and believe there are other similar cases which have not been reported to police. “Detectives investigating the
Police confirmed they were called shortly after 11am to reports of a stabbing, and a nineteen-year-old was found by London Ambulance Service paramedics. Detective constable Rebecca Whiteley said: "This attack happened in a busy park when people were around exercising and
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Day centre users reveal their fears as leases about to end on venues in Bermondsey and Peckham
Council says cost could be in the millions to bring one centre up to required standard EXCLUSIVE
By Chiara Giordano
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SERVICE users have reacted to news two Southwark day centres could close – with many saying they would be stuck at home with nothing to do.
The Camden Society-run Riverside day centre, in Bermondsey, and Queen’s Road day centre, in Peckham, could close after the council served notice on both leases, the News revealed last week. Both centres have been a lifeline for adults with learning disabilities for many years, providing activities and vital social interaction for some users who would otherwise sit at home alone each day. The council says the Queen’s Road centre, built in the 1970s, is not fit for purpose – and could cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of pounds to bring it up to a good standard. The future of the building has not yet been decided, but it is unlikely to be rented out again in its current condition. Speaking to the News, a number of service users described what the centres meant to them – with many saying they would no longer be able to see their friends and would lose their freedom. “It [Riverside centre] means an awful lot
Lorraine Farrelly (from left to right), Molly Cumberbatch, Paul Boyle Peter Phelps and The Riverside Centre
“It really upsets me because I won’t have anywhere to go and I don’t want us to be separated, because I love everyone here; it’s like a family and the staff are wonderful. We would be lost without this place”
to me because I can’t go out on my own, I have to have support, and my brother, who looks after me, works seven days a week,” said Lorraine Farrelly, who lives in Bermondsey. “I like to go clothes shopping and food
shopping and I couldn’t do that on my own. “I get massage therapy every Monday at the Queen’s Road centre because I suffer from lupus and arthritis and I’ve got pain everywhere.
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“It really upsets me because I won’t have anywhere to go and I don’t want us to be separated because I love everyone here; it’s like a family and the staff are wonderful. We would be lost without this place.” Peter Phelps, 62, said the closure of Riverside would “take away [his] freedom”. “I would be at home all the time and I don’t want that,” said Peter, who lives in Camberwell. “It’s sickening, shutting all the centres down, what’s going to happen to all of the people?” Paul Boyle, 49, has been gathering signatures from businesses and residents in Bermondsey for a petition. “What is the point in having a personal budget if we haven’t got a day centre to come to,” he said. “I get to do all kinds of things here [Riverside] like walking group, golf, and going to the library and the pub,” said Stephen Smith, who lives in Peckham. “I think it’s unfair to close it. I feel upset. Where are we going to go?” “I do nothing at home, I just look out the window,” Molly Cumberbatch, who also lives in Peckham, added.
The lease on the Queen’s Road centre ended on January 31. The council has allowed the charity to continue to operate rent-free until June to allow for the assessments of its 48 users. The charity’s lease on the Riverside centre will end in June and they will have until November to leave. Cllr Richard Livingstone, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for adult care and financial inclusion, told the News it would cost £60,000 a year to rent the Queen’s Road site and £105,000 to rent the Riverside site. A spokesperson for the Camden Society said the charity was still hoping their leases would be extended. “We'd very much like them [the council] to do that and we've written to the council to ask them for talks on how we can carry on working in Southwark with the people we've been supporting so far," a spokesperson told the News. The council is expected to meet with the Camden Society next week to discuss all of the options for the services the charity provides. It will also meet with users of both day centres to explain the situation and will keep them up to date with developments.
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Council brings in ‘extra protection’ to save pubs
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By Owen Sheppard
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TREASURED BOOZERS across the borough have been given extra protection from developers by a new policy that will be introduced by Southwark Council.
Sew happy to be marking 100th year of tailor’s shop By Owen Sheppard
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A RENOWNED tailor in Walworth Road is celebrating the 100th anniversary since suits were first being struck and fitted at his premises.
It is 23 years since George Dyer – who has worked for the likes of singer Paul Weller and actor Martin Freeman – first took over The Threadneedleman unit at 187A. But upon arrival, the Peckham-born man was told that the tailors started there in 1917. The 61-year-old from Peckham said he was “the fourth owner of this shop to have been tailors” in that time. “The first guy who started a tailor business here was John Newton,” George said. “He later sold it to Ron Martin, who had his name put in letters above the shop’s door, and had the shop for 25 years. “The guy who had it before me 23 years ago was a Greek man, Archie Constantinou, who I used to drink coffee with.” George was recently given a map of early twentieth-century Walworth, which shows a section of the Walworth Road, just north of his shop, labelled as Savile Row. “People used to like to change the names of the streets,” George said, saying that the area had a “flavour and
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a taste for bespoke suits”. George was the son of a Jamaican immigrant, Oscar Dyer, a trouser maker and a builder. He went to school at Peckham Manor – now Harris Academy, and the first pair of school trousers he wore were stitched on his dad’s old Singer treadle machine. He added: “I left school before my seventeenth birthday, and my dad told me I had to learn a trade. He didn’t say to get a job, he said ‘learn a trade’.” He followed on his father’s footsteps and worked for tailors called Dombey and Son, and ended up greeting customers in Fleet Street. “It was when all the newspaper were still there, and all the customers would be barristers and reporters,” George said. “In that place you had to be immaculately turned out. The men still wore bowler hats and black rolled up umbrellas and black crombies, and everyone addressed each other as Mr.” He said he owed his career, in part, to the generosity of his old boss, Mr Dennis, who paid for George to go to the London College of Fashion. George was awarded a custom-made Southwark Heritage blue plaque in 2015, given by Walworth residents after he came a close second in a public vote for the plaque to Bermondsey funeral directors FA Albin & Sons.
The “extra layer of protection” will be placed on Southwark’s remaining 188 pubs by the new Article 4 Direction, regulated by the council’s Planning Department. The policy will require developers to gain permission from the council before changing a pub into any other type of business, or into residential homes. Any property owner wanting to convert a building designated as a pub will have to apply for a change to its ‘planning use class’. The council will
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have the authority to reject applications it does not agree with. The new policy was approved on Tuesday by councillors on Southwark’s Planning Committee. Councillor Mark Williams, cabinet member for regeneration and new homes, said: "We value the role local pubs play for our residents, and we know that many of them in the borough are well used and much loved by local people. As well as supporting local businesses and jobs our pubs play a vital role in the heart of the communities they serve. “This is why we felt it was important to make sure that the council and local community have a say when pubs are put forward for development, to help ensure that changing the use of pubs only happens in the right circumstances and in the right areas.” Southwark will become only the
second borough after Wandsworth to introduce the policy. The borough has lost approximately one-third of its pubs in ten years, according to a council planning officer who gave a presentation about the Article 4 policy at last week’s Walworth Society meeting. The News recently reported on the threats faced by a number of local pubs. The Nag’s Head in Camberwell Road looks set to close in April due its landlord dramatically increasing rent charges. A planning application was also submitted to demolish The Clipper Rotherhithe. The managers of another Rotherhithe pub, the China Hall, have been told by their new landlord that their lease will not be renewed at the end of May, despite it being listed as an Asset of Community Value.
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WALWORTH: A local councillor is holding a charity collection at St Peter’s Church in Walworth for victims of domestic abuse.
The women’s refuge based in Southwark is seeking supplies such as women’s and children’s toiletries, as well as nappies, toys and books. Faraday ward councillor Samantha Jury-Dada said the deadline for making donations will be this evening, Thursday, March 9, and that supplies should be given in at the Inspire centre – in the church’s crypt in Liverpool Grove. Labour Cllr Jury-Dada said: “I suggested in January that our ward councillor surgeries could be combined into a collection for a local charity, and it’s quite fitting as March 8 is International Women’s Day.” She said that the subject is one that’s close to her heart. “I completely sympathise with people that go into refuge. It’s a complete last resort for people having to flee their homes,” Cllr Jury-Dada said. “Most people that go to the refuge won’t be from Southwark, they could be from anywhere in the country in order to protect them. “Domestic abuse tends to start during pregnancy and soon after a baby is born. Abuse is more likely to happen in the case of unwanted pregnancies and young pregnancies. “It ranges from the threat of violence, to violent abuse and murder.”
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Ken Loach (centre, front) at the screening
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BAFTA-winning director Ken Loach appeared at an Aylesbury Estate community hall last week for a screening of his film I, Daniel Blake.
The Thurlow Lodge Community Hall in Thurlow Street was filled with 120 guests to watch the 2016 film, which won Outstanding Film of the Year at the BAFTAs on February 19. Eighty-year-old Ken stayed until late for an exclusive Q&A with the guests. Speaking afterwards about his visit, Ken told the News: “It should be perfectly normal for directors to do things like this, it should be part of what we do. “I was very impressed by people who were there and their commitment to fighting for their community and for sustainable and secure housing, as well as the specific issues they are dealing with.” The director said local councils needed to ensure that regeneration of 1960s estates is done “in the interests of local people, and for the long-term sustainability of local communities”. He said that housing and welfare
had been important issues to him ever since he told the story of a family who were split up after becoming homeless, in his 1966 film Cathy Come Home. Tanya Murat of Defend Council Housing, who helped organise the screening, said: “It was an excellent discussion. “People were talking about local campaigns they have been involved with, and there were questions for Ken about how do we fight austerity and benefit cuts and how we can stop social cleansing in our areas. It was a wide-ranging political debate.” Defend Council Housing has also been supporting the newly-formed Wendover Community TRA and the Divine Rescue foodbank charity based at the hall. The Wendover Community TRA is lobbying Southwark Council to give it a lease on the building. The News has previously reported how Divine Rescue were occupying the hall after the council asked the charity to leave. Southwark made the request as the hall’s managing committee decided to close the venue. Following talks with the council, plans are now being drawn up to allow the foodbank re-main tenants for longer. Ticket money will partly be used to support leaseholders affected by Southwark Council’s pending compulsory purchase order.
Man charged with alleged firearm offence ROTHERHITHE: A man will appear in court charged with possession of a firearm and an offensive weapon following an alleged incident in Rotherhithe.
Marcus Cook, 44, of Bell Barn Road, Birmingham, was charged on Monday, March 6, with possession
of a section 5 firearm and possession of an offensive weapon. He was bailed to appear at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on March 22. This followed an alleged incident in Lower Road, Rotherhithe, on Saturday, August 27, last year.
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Residents celebrate as new penthouse plan is rejected BERMONDSEY
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RESIDENTS LIVING in a Bermondsey development are celebrating after plans to build three penthouses on top of their homes were rejected by councillors.
Grange Gardens residents say they have been plagued with “no end of problems” since moving into the development, off Grange Walk, in January 2012. Hazelwood Properties Limited had already converted what were originally intended to be commercial units into fifteen new flats after residents moved in – before applying to build three more. The developer submitted plans to build three three-bedroom flats as a seventh storey on top of the existing privately-owned flats in ‘block A’, or 1 Haven Way. Residents opposed the plans, as the penthouses would have blocked out the skylights of residents currently living on the top floor of the building, and would have overlooked an adjacent block of flats. Resident Susanne Soliman said about 30
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residents attended a planning subcommittee on Tuesday, February 28, and three residents spoke at the meeting. “We are really happy with the outcome but we are certain that they are going to
appeal to the planning inspectorate,” she added. Brenden Mielke, whose topfloor flat would have been built on if the plans went ahead, said he hoped it was the last he would hear of the penthouses. “I’m very pleased that the committee listened to the arguments and decided that the effect of the application on the residents was going to be too detrimental,” said Mr Mielke. “I would have been overlooked from above on to my balcony and I would have lost out on a considerable amount of natural light.” Ben Johnson, councillor for Grange Ward, said: “I am delighted that the planning committee overwhelmingly rejected this application. “We need more homes in Southwark, but they must be affordable and not built at the expense of existing residents who fought hard to oppose this extra storey on top of their homes. “I hope the developer will now work with residents to improve Haven Way, which has many outstanding defects.” The News contacted Hazelwood Properties for comment, but did not receive a response at the time of going to press.
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Youngsters get chance to train at Millwall before celebrity match Youngsters training at a previous Big Match (main); former Tottenham player and Argentinian World Cup winner Ossie Ardiles (below)
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YOUNGSTERS WILL get the chance to train like a pro with coaches at Millwall’s football ground - before watching a match between celebrities.
The Big Match is heading to London for the first time this year and children aged between five and fifteen have the chance to get involved. The charity event, which raises money for the Brain Tumour Charity and Action for Children, will be held at Millwall’s stadium, the Den, on May 20. The day will kick off with youngsters taking part in a fun, non-pressured training session with Millwall Community Trust’s professional coaches on the pitch. After this, former professional footballers, celebrities, and public fundraisers will take to the pitch for a 90-minute match. “Each child gets a goody bag and a medal and the opportunity to take part in something fantastic and educational while raising money for charity,” said Neil Humphries, founder of The Big Match charity event. “They just need to raise a minimum of £50 to take part, which will go to the two charities. “After the children’s session, there will be a 90-minute match which will feature Ossie Ardiles, Neil ‘Razor’ Ruddock, TOWIE’s Dan Edgar, Celebrity Big Brother’s Nicola McLean, and X Factor star Jay James this year.” Neil founded the event, which is in its sixth year, after losing his father to a brain tumour. “In 2012 I lost my dad to a brain tumour and I already supported Action for Children before that so
I wanted to put on an event to raise money for both charities,” he said. “The first event raised £10,000 and last year we raised £55,000. We’ve raised just over £300,000 since it started.” All spectators will have to buy a ticket to watch the match – but any children taking part in the event won’t need a ticket. On the day there will also be bouncy castles, penalty shoot-outs, give aways and raffles. Any child wishing to take part is urged to register as soon as possible as spaces are limited. To register, visit www.thebigmatch.co.uk and fill out an application form or email kidz@thebigmatch.co.uk
Mum fears boiler left running for 17 months could ‘kill’ her ill son
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THE DEVOTED mother of a terminally ill five-year-old says a boiler – which has left her heating permanently on for seventeen months – could “kill” her son.
Jeanene Fraser, 30, says her boiler has never worked from the day she moved into a Wandle Housing Association property in Spring Way, Camberwell, in January 2015. The mum-of-four said she had no heating or hot water when she first moved into the property, and that this was eventually fixed after the News covered her plight. But she has now been left with her heating constantly on since October 2015. Jeanene said the heat was unbearable and claimed her son J’ssiah, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in 2013, had been hospitalised with pneumonia a number of times because of it. “Even if I turn the thermostat off, it’s still emitting heat – and even when I turn the radiators down it still has so much heat coming out it’s ridiculous,” said Jeanene, who is also mum to Kyerell, nine, Ashiya, eight, and Micah, eleven months. “When we are getting ready they
[the children] are literally sweating even with the windows open, so when I was taking them out during the winter months the cold was hitting J’ssiah so badly that he ended up with pneumonia and in hospital for three weeks. “He can’t manage those little things because of his immune system. When we are leaving the house it’s like coming out of the Caribbean into England when I step through the front door. “I had a baby in April and my youngest child actually got bronchitis because of this boiler situation.” Jeanene said she was spending £300 on heating and hot water some months because she couldn’t turn it off. After complaining to Wandle, the housing association began to pay the excess each month, but they are yet to reimburse Jeanene for the money she spent prior to this, she said. “I haven’t been able to do anything nice with my children because I’m spending so much money on this heating and hot water,” she said. “I was trying to explain to Wandle that it could kill him because it is causing him to have pneumonia and because he doesn’t have an immune system he could end up on life support and it could kill him. “I just want a house that’s normal that my son can live in in peace. The
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Twelve evacuated as blaze hits five storey block By Chiara Giordano
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TWELVE PEOPLE were evacuated from a five-storey block of flats following a fire in Blackfriars Road.
Four fire engines and 21 firefighters and officers were called to the fire at a block of flats in Peabody Square at 5.17am on Monday, March 6. A dozen people evacuated the building before the brigade arrived after a fire broke out on the first floor. Half of a first-floor maisonette was damaged by the fire and the incident was over by 6.17am. Watch manager John Broadfield, who was at the scene, said: “When the brigade arrived there was a visible fire coming from the first floor of the building. "The crews worked hard to put out the fire. They managed to contain it to the first floor and avoided it spreading to
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other properties.” Fire crews from Dowgate, Lambeth and Dockhead fire stations were at the scene. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
little boy has been through enough; none of my children should have to go through this.” A spokesperson for Wandle said: “J’ssiah’s wellbeing is, and always will be, our priority. We are doing everything we can to support Jeanene’s family and resolve the problem with the heating as quickly as possible. “We have repaired the boiler several times but unfortunately these fixes have not worked in the long-term. Following further investigation, the boiler will be completely replaced in the coming weeks. “We have reassured Jeanene that she will not be left out of pocket, including compensation for the additional heating costs prior to us becoming aware of the fault. “As agreed last week, we will pay Jeanene the additional money she is owed quickly to ensure she and J’ssiah do not suffer any financial hardship.”
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J’ssiah dressed as Peter Pan for World Book Day
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World Book Day, we have you covered! By Chiara Giordano
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CHILDREN ACROSS Southwark dressed up as their favourite book characters to celebrate World Book Day.
The literary celebration marked its 20th anniversary on Thursday, March 2. World Book Day, in partnership with schools all over the UK, distributed more than 15 million £1 book tokens to children (that’s almost one for every child/young person under eighteen in the UK and Ireland). Children could take their token to a local bookshop and swap it for one of ten exclusive and completely free World Book Day books.
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Date given for Aylesbury CPO decision
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THE LONG-awaited court decision on whether Southwark Council can legally buy-out leaseholders from Phase 1 of the Aylesbury Estate will take place on May 9.
Since September, Southwark has been engaged in a legal battle with the secretary of state for communities and local government, Sajid Javid, on whether it can use compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) to force out the last few leaseholders. His Honour Judge Collins gave Southwark the right to its judicial review after an oral hearing in January, in which the judge said the council had an “arguable” case to appeal Mr Javid’s decision. Mr Javid first rejected the council’s CPO because of human rights concerns: that the small compensation offered to leaseholders leaves them unable to find new homes in the borough. The News understands that some leaseholders were offered £180,000 for their flats in Phase 1, which contains Chartridge, Chiltern, Arklow and Bradenham. The four blocks have already been emptied of 442 tenants and 35 other leaseholders. If Southwark wins the May 9 judicial review, the CPOs will go ahead and the leaseholders could be forced to accept the valuations, or equity-share schemes in new homes. If Southwark loses, it
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will be forced to negotiate new deals for the leaseholders’ homes. The council’s contractor Erith has already begun demolishing parts of the estate that have been cleared of tenants in Phase 1 and 2. The overall budget for where the two western sections of the estate stood was stated as being £49.1m. Following the delays caused by the CPO process, Southwark also made public its plans to budget more money to spend on leaseholder buy-backs in Phases 3 and 4. In a cabinet meeting report published in September last year, the council said it anticipates having to spend an “additional investment of £3.4m” to
“assist with early buy-back for leaseholders in phases 3 and 4, avoiding long delays for leaseholders who wish to move on”. The council aims eventually to redevelop the entire 1960s estate with 3,500 homes (a net increase of 1,200). 50 per cent of which will be a mixture of social-rent and shared-equity. The other half will be sold privately. Leaseholders and the 35% Campaign will also have a barrister to represent them at the May 9 hearing, which has been crowdfunded from over £7,350 of donations. Visit www.gofundme.com and search “Aylesbury right to a community” to see their crowdfunding page.
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‘Eyesore’ site may not be finished until 2019 CAMBERWELL
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A HUGE “eyesore” building site in Camberwell where work appeared to have come to a halt in July 2015 may not be finished until 2019, a housing association has said.
A song and dance for Dame Vera’s 100th! Photo: John Greaves
By Chiara Giordano
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A ROTHERHITHE actor, regularly seen on QVC, is to take part in a special dance show to mark the 100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn.
Taryn Kay will be among a troupe of dancers performing at London Palladium on March 18 to celebrate the occasion for Dame Vera, known as the ‘Forces’ sweetheart’ during WWII. The spectacular will feature a line-
up of stage, TV and musical stars, including Wayne Sleep, and is being staged by choreographer Dougie Squires, OBE. Taryn, who has appeared in the recent Jamie T video for Power over Men and also in A Touch of Frost, will help raise money for Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity. Dame Vera is renowned as the entertainer that kept troops’ spirits up during the Second World War, with songs like I’ll Be Seeing You, and The White Cliffs of Dover. Her latest accolade came in the Queen’s 2016
birthday honours when she was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour. Born in East Ham on March 20, 1917, Dame Vera will become the oldest person to release an album when she releases a new compilation of her orchestrated hits to mark her birthday.“I am honoured to have been asked to be part of this amazing celebration for Dame Vera Lynn's 100th birthday,” said Taryn. “It is going to be so exciting to perform at The London Palladium with such a wonderful line up.”
Work started in 2014 to build three huge blocks of 76 flats on land between Wyndham Road, Crown Street and Camberwell Road. Local resident Stephen Bourne told the News last summer that he wanted answers after thirteen months had passed since builders cleared off on July 5, 2015. “All the workers just downed tools and left,” said Stephen “It’s just so strange and such an eyesore. “It’s also a terrible waste, not least because there’s private security and lighting there at night time.” The News learnt in August 2016 that the site now belongs to housing association A2Dominion, who bought the site off Parritt Leng Construction & Management Ltd. Steven Waite, technical director at A2Dominion, has given an update, and confirmed that extra homes will be added to the original plans. “An amendment to the planning application has been submitted to Southwark Council and is awaiting approval,” Steven said.
“If approved, A2Dominion hopes to recommence the work on the Camberwell site in autumn 2017. “The site will be redeveloped to deliver 84 new homes for private sale, affordable rent and shared ownership, as well as commercial space. We are expecting to complete the development in spring 2019.” Cllr Mark Williams, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for regeneration and new homes, had previously called it “unacceptable” that work has stopped when more homes are so needed.
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‘Don’t shaft our park!’ Residents calling on TfL not to create ventilation unit for Bakerloo Line in Gardens
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WALWORTH RESIDENTS are lobbying Transport for London (TfL) not to plonk a giant ventilation shaft for the Bakerloo Line in Faraday Gardens.
TfL took the highly-anticipated Bakerloo Line extension a step closer on February 9, when it unveiled proposals for two new stations in Old Kent Road. But it also included plans for a ventilation and emergency-exit shaft in one of two locations: on top of the Faraday Gardens football pitch, or the Bricklayers Arms roundabout. The area’s ward councillors and residents have now started campaign “Don’t Let Faraday Get Shafted” to protect the historic gardens, first commissioned by Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill. Labour councillor Paul Fleming said: “In Faraday Gardens it would be right by dense areas of houses, by the Walworth Road conservation area, and it would mean bringing construction vehicles on to the Quietway cycle path to be built in Portland Street. “It would perhaps be tolerable if Walworth was getting its own Bakerloo Line station, which it isn’t. “Whereas I don’t think anyone would cry any tears if it was built in the middle of the Bricklayers Arms.” TfL’s consultation papers, published on February 9, said the shafts would “provide ventilation, cooling and emergency access to tunnels”. “At the surface, a structure known as a head-house would be built that contains the equipment for the shaft to function,” it said. It adds that ventilation shafts need to be positioned at an equal distance between stations, in order “to access trains parked in tunnels underground”.
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A map showing TfL’s ‘option B’ for a ventilation shaft in Faraday Gardens
Meanwhile there was also disquiet from residents living close to the Bricklayers Arms roundabout. Peter Wight of the Bricklayers Arms TRA told the News he worried that years of disruption would follow, with heavy machinery being brought to the site and dust being put into the area during the construction. Peter said: “the roundabout is also a green space in itself that has been worked on by the local community.” TfL consultation papers say that most of the shaft would be underground with an above-ground structure known as a ‘headhouse’ of approximately 25 metres by 25 metres and to be at least two storeys high. The News asked TfL for a response but did not receive a comment at the time of going to press. Two more shafts would be built between New Cross Gate and Lewisham station, and at the end of the line in Lewisham. TfL has said it hopes to complete the Bakerloo extension project by 2029. Visit www.change.org/p/transportfor-london-don-t-let-faraday-getshafted to sign the petition. Visit www.tfl.gov.uk/bakerlooextension to take part in the public consultation and fill out a questionnaire, the deadline for which is April 21.
SOUTHWARK COUNCIL is consulting with the public on plans to make changes to two Bermondsey roads to ‘improve safety’.
The council has received a number of requests from the public to address safety concerns in Old Jamaica Road and Thurland Road. Officers are now looking to improve safety in the two roads, particularly the main pedestrian
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route to and from the school and the main route towards Bermondsey underground station. Changes proposed are aimed at enhancing Old Jamaica Road and Thurland Road, and reducing traffic flows and traffic speeds in order to improve the safety of road users. The council is seeking the views of the public on the two following options: Option 1: To make Thurland Road and Old Jamaica Road one-way northbound (Dockley Road to Marine Street).
Option 2: To close Thurland Road to all traffic between Spa Road and Dockley Road. A drop in session be held at the St James’ Church, in Thurland Road, on Thursday, March 16, from 3pm to 7pm. Council officers will be available to discuss the proposed changes in detail. To give your view by Friday, March 24. Visit: www.consultations.southwark.gov. uk/environment-leisure/thurlandroad-improvement-scheme/
Diocese gives council go-ahead to create hundreds of new burial plots
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Thousands of people had signed petition to turn site into nature reserve
Scheme ‘will never go ahead’
Save Southwark Woods (SSW) campaigner Lewis Schaffer has told the News he believes the burials strategy “will never go ahead” due to its indirect discrimination towards people of Muslim faith.
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SOUTHWARK COUNCIL has been given permission to march ahead with its strategy to relandscape Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries and create hundreds of burial plots.
The council applied eighteen months ago to the Diocese of Southwark, whose official response came on March 1, despite a long-fought campaign by Save Southwark Woods (SSW). The affected area of Camberwell Old Cemetery (Area Z) is a two-acre site in its north-west corner, beside Underhill Road. It is roughly 66 per cent consecrated ground, while the rest has been cleared of scrubland after it was contaminated in an illegal dumping incident in 2003. The council plans to create 700 new burial plots in Area Z. The site would also see a net gain of 50 trees once scrub and saplings have been cleared, and the creation of “habitat features for amphibians, reptiles, mammals and insects”. Camberwell New Cemetery (Area D1) will get 145 burial plots on a site of 24 young trees that will be felled. But “at least” 25 trees would be planted in their place. Councillor Ian Wingfield, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for environment and public realm, said: “We are delighted that the Diocese has approved our plans to create more burial spaces in Southwark. “Local people will now continue to have the choice to be buried locally, rather than being forced to pay higher costs for burials outside of the borough.” The Diocese’ written response, penned by Diocesan Chancellor Philip Petchey, addressed criticisms levelled at the council by SSW relating to fears of flooding and loss of habitat. Mr Petchey said: “No expert evidence has been supplied to me by any of those who are objecting. “For my part, I have not identified any sufficient reason for objecting the judgements of the [Southwark Council] planning authority.” He added: “I hope that with greater knowledge of what is proposed and the background to it, some of those who have objected may change their minds. I expect that some will still disagree, as they are entitled to do. Nonetheless I hope that these objectors will recognise the considerable care that has gone into the design of the two schemes before, both from the landscape point of view and more generally.
“The proposals will help to ensure that in the future those living in Southwark who wish to be buried in consecrated ground will continue to be able to do so. “I am confident that despite the controversy, these proposals will be seen in time to have been both sensible and well-thought-out and to have improved both cemeteries.” The SSW campaign was formed in 2015 reaction to Southwark Council’s
planning application to the cemeteries being submitted. Their online petition – which sought to have the cemeteries given protection as a nature reserve – received 12,000 signatures from locals and people from outside the borough. Over 800 people wrote to the Diocese objecting to council’s proposals, described by SSW as plans to “fell acres of woods and mound over thousands of people’s graves to sell as ‘new’ burial
plots over the dead”. In October last year, Southwark Council published findings of a survey used gauge public opinion towards its plans for another area of its cemeteries strategy, in Honor Oak Park. The survey findings showed that 82 per cent of 445 respondents (296 of whom were Southwark residents) said they disliked “all elements” of the Honor Oak Park proposals.
A SENIOR councillor has told the News that campaigners have “thrown the kitchen sink” at Southwark by claiming its cemeteries strategy discriminates against Muslim residents.
“The Muslim faith is as varied as the Christian faith. It could be that there is provision for them elsewhere in London. It’s not for us to second guess their needs. We will respond as it represents itself. “SSW can’t bring forward an example. If they were able to evidence their critique I would take it forward. They are throwing the kitchen sink in to get the decision they want without it being based on evidence.” He also accused SSW of exaggerating the number of trees that would need to be felled. “If you looked at their literature you would think we had chopped down Sherwood Forest,” he said. He argues that the creation of new burial plots is “essential” to meet a forecasted increase in demand with the borough’s population expected to hit 4,000 people by 2040. “We have to take that longer-term view,” Cllr Wingfield said. “We’ve not been hard and fast over this. It hasn’t been a talking shop or window
dressing. We’ve listened very genuinely to concerns expressed, and we have amended the existing plans. We’ve not done what everyone wanted to do, but it’s a compromise.” The News asked Cllr Wingfield if the council had a motive to refurbish the cemeteries as a way to make money from also providing burial space for residents from outside of the borough. The council currently charges £630 for non-residents, compared to £210 for residents. Cllr Wingfield did not deny this as a possible revenue source, but said the council’s interment charges “are in line with other councils’” and “are not exorbitant prices”. He added: “If someone has lived their whole life here, it must be the case that we put Southwark residents first. Most people want to be buried in their community... I imagine people from other boroughs would say the same. People want to stay local”.
“Southwark Council has not asked the people of Southwark what their burial needs are. They are not providing enough burial space for people of Muslim faith who have to be buried, and who cannot be buried over existing burial ground. “We are not saying that we are speaking on behalf of Muslims, we are just pointing out that Southwark is being indirectly discriminatory, which is illegal.” SSW pointed to data received from Freedom of Information requests to the council, which showed that 48 Muslims have been buried in Southwark in the last seven years, out of total of 2,995 burial, equalling 1.6 per cent. SSW claim it “speaks for itself”, that only 1.6 per cent of burials in Southwark have been for Muslims, despite data showing that Muslims make up ten per cent of Southwark’s population, and that Muslim burials make up over 30 per cent of all faith-based burials in the cemeteries.
‘They are throwing the kitchen sink in to get the decision they want’
Cllr Ian Wingfield, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for environment and the public realm, said the council stood by its consultations taken in 2012, which he said “showed that the majority of the public wanted the continued provision of burial space for local people”. He addressed repeated allegations by SSW that Southwark’s strategy discriminated against Muslims who could not be buried over other people’s graves. The council argues that Nunhead Cemetery currently contained enough space to last until 2025 (based current levels of demands). Cllr Wingfield said: “It’s a working brief. If the demand for Muslim burials increases we would have to make that provision for them.
Woman given pioneering treatment by doctor who saved her life as a baby Southwark News, March 9 2017
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A YOUNG woman has had a pioneering heart procedure carried out at St Thomas’ hospital by the same doctor who saved her life as a baby.
Samantha Blake, 27, from Hayward’s Heath in West Sussex, was one of the first people in the UK to have the new minimally invasive treatment, which prevents the need for open heart surgery. The procedure was carried out by Professor Shakeel Qureshi, the same doctor who operated on her at Guy’s Hospital when she was seventeenmonths-old. Samantha, a barrister’s clerk, was born with Tetralogy of Fallot, one of the most common heart defects for newborns. The condition causes the heart to form abnormally and affects around one in 3,000 babies born in the UK. Patients with Tetralogy of Fallot require major corrective surgery as a baby as the condition leaves patients with a heart valve which does not close properly, causing blood to leak. An operation is usually needed to mend the leaking valve in early adulthood. Last autumn Samantha had a new
replacement, known as the Venus Pvalve, fitted through a minimally invasive procedure by Professor Qureshi. Samantha said: “I felt in very safe hands with Professor Qureshi – he is like an old friend because he has looked after me since I was a newborn. It was a big relief having the new procedure because there was a chance I would have needed open heart surgery again without it. I’d always felt fortunate that I had no memories of my operation as a baby so it had been scary to think it might happen again as an adult.” Until recently, other replacement valves available to fix the leakage were too small to fit 80% of patients, meaning the rest needed open heart surgery for a second time. The Venus P-valve, which is made of animal heart tissue, is available in much larger sizes so is expected to be suitable for most patients born with Tetralogy of Fallot. Professor Qureshi is the lead investigator in a clinical study assessing the new device. He said: “It is preferable for patients to avoid having open heart surgery more than once. They can be left with scarring inside the heart from the surgery they had as babies which may make it more challenging for surgeons to open the chest
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NEWS 17 Samantha Blake and Prof Shakeel Qureshi (main); Samantha aged 18 months (below)
safely again, and there are higher risks of bleeding and infection compared with less invasive procedures.” In 2015 Samantha noticed she was experiencing breathlessness when climbing stairs on walking up hills. “I had regular scans to keep an eye on the leaking valve and last year it had got a lot worse. Leaving it wasn’t an option because it would have continued to deteriorate and eventually my heart wouldn’t have worked properly. “My breathing returned to normal immediately after the procedure. I feel lucky to be one of the first people to have the new replacement valve, it’s like a weight has been lifted knowing that the leakage has been stopped now.” Professor Qureshi said: “Around 100 people have had the valve implanted in the world so far and the majority have had good results. This is a very exciting development which could prevent many people across the world having major surgery.”
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Why not quit smoking with NHS support? R
osemary McLynn is one of 300 people who quit smoking last year with the support of Guy’s and St Thomas’ stop smoking specialists.
They are reminding smokers that they are four times more likely to give up for good if they do so with NHS support. Rosemary, 47, from Elephant and Castle, was admitted to the Emergency Department (A&E) at St Thomas’ in October 2016 with severe breathing problems after years of smoking 60 cigarettes a day. Rosemary, who started smoking when she was just 14, says: “I had a cold virus but literally couldn’t breathe. I came to hospital and thought, ‘I’ll be home in three or four days’, but I was still in 10 days later. I just couldn’t fight it off. “The doctor said to me: ‘You
won’t last very long if you carry on smoking like this. I give you 10 years.’ That was my wake-up call and I haven’t put another cigarette in my mouth since.” Since being diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in 1998, Rosemary has experienced other serious health problems including a heart attack, osteoporosis (fragile bones that break easily), and numerous visits to A&E. She has Type 1 diabetes. Rosemary has quit with the help of Toyin Sarayi, a stop smoking specialist at Guy’s and St Thomas’. She was offered various treatment options including Nicotine Replacement Therapy. She chose to quit smoking using a range of products including patches and oral strips. She says: “I’m breathing much better now and I don’t need to use my nebuliser as much. I can’t
reverse the damage but I’m not prepared to smoke anymore.” A nebuliser is a device that enables you to breathe in medicine as a mist through a mask or mouthpiece. Guy's and St Thomas' stop
New centre for rare diseases A NEW Rare Disease Centre will be a ‘one-stop shop’ for adults and children living with a number of lifethreatening conditions.
The centre at St Thomas’ Hospital will mean patients with harmful genetic and skin conditions that affect many organs in the body can be seen in one place by several specialists, saving time and improving patient care. Currently adults and children are seen in separate clinics and patients, who have travelled from all over the
country, have appointments with specialists on both the Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital sites, which can waste time. The rare conditions include epidermolysis bullosa (EB), which causes fragile skin prone to recurrent painful blisters and sores, xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a genetic skin disorder which means patients are not able to repair the damage ultraviolet light does to their skin therefore making them likely to develop skin cancer, and
A nurse from Guy's and St Thomas' treating a dermatology patient
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), which can cause blindness and kidney disease. Thanks to £1.8 million from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, £250,000 from the charity DEBRA, £100,000 from the Four Acres Foundation, and £20,000 from the Photodermatology Charitable Trust, a designated space for this service is expected to open later this year. Dr Robert Sarkany, Consultant Dermatologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’, says: “Patients with these conditions typically need to see up to six different specialists and a clinical psychologist. “Having all appointments in one place will make the clinics more efficient and mean we can see more patients.” Sandra Webb is the Trust’s patient representative in the XP team. Her 22year-old son Alex has the condition. She says: “I think the new centre will be the most wonderful thing to happen to patients. The new space will have a more relaxed, sociable atmosphere and having all specialists in one area for the clinics will be a major benefit. “Patients can feel stigmatised due to their conditions so it will make a big difference to them knowing that the Trust is introducing something special to improve their care.”
Rosemary McLynn (left) and Toyin Sarayi, stop smoking specialist
smoking support service offers free intensive treatment and support in a range of locations, including in hospital and at home. Toyin Sarayi says: “We know smokers face many challenges but they are four times more likely
to quit with NHS support. So we explore issues like managing stressful situations at work and home. I say to patients: ‘The craving doesn’t last long, so hang in there and don’t give in to smoking.’”
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The Government is failing businesses, schools and police
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E HAVE had seven years of Budgets from Tories and their Lib Dem Treasury
Budgets that have seen Southwark lose out considerably: in funding for adequate, genuinely affordable housing; in police numbers; in resourcing our council; and in a wasteful reorganisation of our NHS that has caused the crisis we now see writ large. GP, ambulance, A&E and hospital discharge waiting times are all rocketing. I am nervous that Southwark stands to be hit again by an uncaring and incompetent administration. I have asked the Chancellor to stop Southwark businesses being hit with an average jump of 40% in business rates – with some in SE1 seeing an 80% hike. Businesses are already experiencing uncertainty over Brexit and have seen the Government increase charges like the apprenticeship levy and national insurance contributions. The latest nationally controlled cost should not put Southwark businesses at risk. The Federation of Small Businesses have warned that London is in ‘serious danger of losing its vital support system of micro and small businesses’. Businesses have also been hit by a failure to ensure adequate policing. Southwark police work hard but have been undermined by the loss of 200 officers and PCSOs since 2010. Commercial burglaries and a rise in crimes targeting some business customers have been a result of the police being overstretched. It is an outrage and a condemnation of seven years of Tory/Lib Dem policing measures that officers are now left to choose between crimes to investigate rather than trying to tackle all incidents as the HMIC reported last week. I’ve also asked the Education Secretary to stop Southwark schools losing £5 million in Government funding. My petition to oppose Government cuts to our school budgets is online, please sign up at: www.boslabour.org.uk/stop_tory_educa tion_cuts. In more positive news, congratulations to London South Bank University on its 125th anniversary! LSBU has helped transform thousands of lives and makes a huge contribution locally and well beyond Southwark – with strong partnership work recognised as far afield as China. I introduced an Early Day Motion in Parliament to commend and recognise their fantastic achievement: here’s to another 125 years!
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We Heads are alarmed
HEAD TEACHERS in Southwark are viewing with increasing alarm the impact that government policy is having on school budgets.
The National Association of Head Teachers has estimated that schools nationally will lose 8% of their budgets in real terms by 2019. Schools in Southwark are predicted to be worst hit, with estimates of a cut of £1,024 per pupil per year in Southwark. The biggest losers in this will be the children. This level of cuts can only result in job losses and this will have a direct impact on children’s outcomes. Simply put, there will not be the appropriate numbers of staff to meet the needs of the children. The quality of children’s education will suffer as a result. We agree that children in all schools should be adequately funded. Evidence has shown that increased funding improves outcomes – the London Challenge and City Challenge initiatives proved that. This is why funding in other areas of the country should be raised to match the levels received in London. Reducing funding in London will only have a deleterious effect on the ability of schools and teachers to prepare our children to be the citizens and workforce of tomorrow. In a time of crisis in recruitment and retention, it is key that those teachers who remain feel that their job is achievable. Who will want to work in school environments that are stretched beyond their means? Funding cuts will only continue to increase workloads and the levels of pressure on teachers, who are already leaving the profession in droves. The sustainability of the school system is at stake. Schools are being asked to do much more than teach children in this shift to a school-led system – teacher training, school to school support, professional development, school improvement and more. Cuts in funding jeopardise the education system as a whole.
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Call for flight ban
SLEEP DISRUPTION is a major detriment to health, and a substantial loss of residential amenity.
Aircraft noise at night is accentuated by lower ambient noise levels, with westerly landings I am woken at 5am, even with secondary double glazing . My home is 18 miles due west of Heathrow. Millions are adversely affected. Traditional noise measurement techniques are inadequate. There is no good reason for approaching aircraft to fly so low for so long. The aviation industry is treating residents with contempt. The government must protect citizens from such externalities. There must be no flights between 11pm and 7am until flight patterns are changed and aircraft engine noise is massively reduced. Toby Eckersley, Walworth
The good old days at Millwall
IN 1966, I was a 24 year old, and went to Spurs with my late father, for the FA cup replay, after a 0-0 draw at Cold Blow Lane.
It never entered our head there could be crowd trouble. I first went to Millwall with my dad and his friends at the age of six. Millwall were in division 3 South, and it was common to have 30,00 gates. Supporters were not segregated in those days. I am sure not many would know what that meant, and even less be able to spell it! There were lots of tough dockers, etc, but there was a cockney code of conduct in those days, meaning no swearing if children or women were
around! There would be lots of friendly banter with away supporters, but at the end of the game, whatever the score, shaking of hands and wishing them a safe journey home. Oh for the good old days! Tom White, Southwark Pensioners Action Group
Harriet hypocritical at best, cynical at worst
I COULD not believe my eyes upon reading Harriet Harman’s column “View from Westminster”.
She painted a harrowing picture of the anxieties faced by the very many citizens of the other EU countries and the uncertainties they face after the referendum last year. Yet she cynically marched with the Tories into the lobby to vote for the Bill which would trigger Article 50, further exacerbating the insecurities that so many people feel. Shortly before the Second Reading I wrote to Ms Harman to ask her to vote against the Bill. She replied stating that she would vote in support of Article 50 because the Labour Party needed to acknowledge the strength of feeling of those Labour-supporting constituencies which voted to leave the EU. Apparently it did not occur to her that her job as MP is to represent her constituents and also to use her judgement in Parliament. It is not to take refuge behind some mythical “will of the people”. I replied to Ms Harman and pointed out that the referendum was advisory only and had a consultative status. I also informed her that the Prime Minister has no intention of remaining in the Single Market and, indeed, is on record as wishing to sever all ties with the EU. I did not receive a reply. Nor did I receive any reply to a third letter to her on the same subject. Ms Harman appears to think that the Opposition can, somehow, mitigate the effects of our departure from the EU. She does not enlighten us as to how that will occur. If Ms Harman is really concerned about all those EU citizens currently working in Britain and contributing to the economy and the cultural life of the community she has one last chance
open to her. That is to vote against the Bill when it returns to the House of Commons. If she does not then one will be entitled to conclude that all her protestations are hypocritical at best, cynical at worst. Dermot McInerney, Camberwell
Double jeopardy
SO, SOUTHWARK Council has put its hands up and pleaded guilty to failing to install proper safety measures in Lakanal House and six people died. ‘Council fined £270,000 for safety breaches over fatal Lakanal fire’, Southwark News, march 2, 2017.
Sometime next week a judge, in his or her high castle, will impose a fine on Southwark which the media will say can be expected to be substantial. Maybe it should be; but who will pay the penalty? The Council Officials, by their incompetence or negligence contributed to the death of six of our people and we the rent and rate payers will pay their fine. In the meantime no one who was responsible for this massive and fatal oversight will be called to account. The last four years have been littered with expensive mistakes and oversights costing millions of pounds. Draper House (estimated outturn cost £5millions), housing allocations fraud (estimated at £2.5millions), overcharging for water resale (compensation of £28.4millions) to highlight some of the biggest. Tenant activists warned the Council that there were problems with the water resale. They assured us that all was well – well that reassurance was £28 million wrong. So, we, the people of Southwark, will stand in the dock and pay for the incompetence or negligence of the Council. So far no one has stood accountable for these tragic and expensive errors and I don’t suppose anyone will. Someone will apologise and say things will change and it must never happen again. Don’t hold your breath in anticipation. Ian Ritchie, Nunhead
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The Long Lane exorcist Sex in the circus VISIBLE THEATRE has the aim of working with older, professional actors, and that is exactly what Sonja Linden’s new production Roundelay offers, writes Rosie O’Connell...
COLAB THEATRE’S immersive work in recent times has been of the highest order, but their latest offering, Splutter’s The Harrowing, sadly fails to live up to its promise of leaving me ‘terrified’, writes Michael Holland...
Yes, we chanted around a table where a young girl was tortured and killed. Yes, we listened intently while the ex-priest explained the story of the strange, dank, walled up basement we were now in. Yes, we were keen to help the deceased girl pass on to a better place. And yes, we held hands for comfort in the dark when told to, but we wanted more; we had signed up for more. Perhaps I should not have compared this production with those Colab productions that went before, but when it is put on in the same building - though now with a completely different dark history - it’s hard not to. I wanted it all to be true, with poltergeists and demons making their presence very felt, but my cynical skepticism would not allow me to suspend that much belief and take it seriously. Although, one or two of our group did. Or made out they did. Even so, for those of us that ridicule a belief in ghosts, spirits or anything else of that nature, it is fun. Fun watching others get a little anxious and tightening their grip on their partners as we crept slowly through the unlit basement passages. Even
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GX GALLERY 43 Denmark Hill, Camberwell, SE5 8RS (020 7703 8396) That Feeling of Space In his first solo show with GX Gallery, British artist Alex Morton has captured the powerfully meditative quality of the vast, uninterrupted ocean horizon. Taking inspiration from the rugged Cornish coastline, the artist finds the sea and the energy it brings though waves and wind both compelling and relaxing. With That Feeling of Space, Alex aims to replicate the powerful feelings he experiences when standing at the edge of the ocean with a seemingly neverending expanse of space before him. As a keen surfer, he is able to paint seascapes as someone who both recognises the beauty of the sea and comprehends its might. GX Gallery, Tuesday 7th – 31st March, 09.30am6pm, free.
those with a little fear of the dark can get something from The Harrowing. There are some half decent sound effects and our exorcist guide puts thoughts in your mind that someone, or something is going to drag you away, especially when we were blindfolded. And that is what is lacking. The suggestions of horror never manifested into reality. No one dragged anyone away. The séance table never shook or left the floor; it is all suggestion without substance. The only scream came from my partner as I touched her neck when the lights went out. We really wanted to come out of there feeling like we had had a real adrenaline rush, but we didn’t. Her first words as we walked to the car when we should still have been trembling were, ‘Shall we go to Aldi’s?’ So our night of ‘spine-tingling, heart stopping horror’ ended with shopping in the Old Kent Road.
Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 play La Ronde, the concept of which revolves around experiencing each character either before or after a sexual encounter was, as you can imagine, utterly scandalous. It is interesting then, that flash forward 100+ years and while sex sells, sex alone simply isn’t as shocking, we as an audience need something else. It doesn’t pack as much of a punch as say the somewhat taboo topic of frank discussion regarding sex and love among the older generation. Roundelay copes very well with challenging the idea that the older we get the more reserved and settled we need to become. Set within a circus tent and welcomed, and sometimes scolded, by our whip-bearing ringmistress (Clare Perkins), we are led through seven vignettes with each character overlapping into each other’s stories. While Perkins was fantastic as the sassy ringmistress, the circus concept fell a little flat. I felt that each story simultaneously managed to be so poignant and moving, whether discussing dementia, death or new
Triple Fun
found liberation, as well as subtly weaving the interconnectedness of each character, that being dragged out of those moments and back into the big top was distracting. Essentially, while the ringmistress is certainly enjoyable to watch as she threads each narrative together, it is not particularly necessary. The ensemble cast are excellent. The men mostly full of bravado and confidence, given the opportunity to explore their vulnerability, and the women on journeys of realisation, release and liberation. From sad stories to happy endings, quite literally; Annie Firbank is an absolute delight as widowed Evelyn discovering that it is okay to be happy after your partner has passed. While the show as a whole is a little
rough around the edges, its strong performances from each of the cast keep the production feeling raw and intimate. In a world where almost every taboo is broken for entertainment’s sake, Roundelay takes a much appreciated risk in telling the stories of a generally unheard part of the population, highlighting just how lonely, scary and at times fun it can be growing old. Southwark Playhouse, 77-85 Newington Causeway, SE1 6BD Until Sat 18th March Box Office www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk 020 7407 0234 £20 (£16 concessions) Mon – Sat 7.30pm, Tue & Sat matinees 3pm Concessions - Mon to Wed
Colab, 74 Long Lane, London, SE1 4AU. Strictly 16+ Running every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night until 18th March Shows start times at 18:45, 19:45, 20:45, 21:45, running at 60 mins each. £15 tickets, £13 concessions, group offers available on request. Tel: 07910 139 055 http://www.colabtheatre.co.uk/theharrowing/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o oZtry6D-g.
THREESOME RETURNS to The Union Theatre, but this time it is full-length. Literally.
In an attempt to spice up their relationship Sam and Kate meet Lucy. Young, attractive and with unconventional ideas about life and sex, she convinces them that having a threesome will put them back on track. The play follows the trio as they negotiate the unorthodox protocol of what happens next. As the title suggests, this hilarious comedy is just for adults!
Threesome is the debut play from Brighton-based Laboratory Theatre Company. Written by award-winning filmmaker Jamie Patterson. Starring April Pearson, Gemma Rook and Chris Willoughby. The Union Theatre, Old Union
Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR Date: 14th - 25th March Time: 19:30 Plus late shows 16th/23rd: 21:00 Box Office: 020 7261 9876 - www.uniontheatre.biz Ticket Price: £20/£15 www.laboratorytc.com
GALLERY@OXO Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, SE1 9PH, (020 7021 1600) The F Word This is the first opportunity to view the new interactive F Word exhibition from The Forgiveness Project, a compelling and challenging exploration of forgiveness through real-life stories. The exhibition’s launch will be accompanied by a series of thought-provoking events, including film premieres and the chance to meet some of the storytellers. Gallery@Oxo, Wednesday 8th – Sunday 12th March, 11am, free. SOUTHBANK CENTRE Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX (020 7960 4200) Women of the World: Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel Join Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel launch their new book, WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere. more information Imagine a sisterhood spanning all creeds and cultures – an unspoken agreement that women will support and
encourage one another. So begins WE, an inspiring, empowering and provocative manifesto for change. Change which provides a crucial and timely antidote to the have-it-all Superwoman culture, and instead focuses on what will make each woman happier and more free. Change which we can all effect, one woman at a time. Southbank Centre, Friday 10th March, 8pm, £15-£25. DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY Gallery Road, SE21 7AD, (020 8693 5254) Composition Workshop Beneath the surface of every picture lies a carefully thought out structure that gives a work power and character. This one day workshop will explore the practical tasks it takes to establish a strong composition, including movement, diction, depth, volume and light and dark. Visit the Gallery and work in the studio to create your own composition structures. This
course is ideal for those interested in making pictures and art lovers who wish to deepen their appreciation of art. Dulwich Picture Gallery, Saturday 11th March, 10am-3pm, £70-£75. MENIER GALLERY 51 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU (020 7407 3222) Perfect Match This exhibition is the culmination of the 2016/17 program in partnership with Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU), a University that offers comprehensive fine arts degrees. In 2015 SUP and VNSGU began their collaboration by developing a program that would support UK artists in Gujarat during a three month residency program alongside 1st and 2nd year students. The commissioning brief of the program focused on cross-cultural experiences through the ubiquity of visual arts in cultures around the world; but the product became much more, both in the
relationships formed and the visual dialogue that ensued. Menier Gallery, Monday 13th – Saturday 18th March, 11am-6pm, free. UNDERDOG GALLERY 6 Crucifix Lane, SE1 3JW (020 7403 7837) Italian Surrealist Debaucheries Life Drawing For this life drawing session inspired by Surrealist Italian cinema, expect amazing costumes based on fierce-out-of this-planet female characters! Three models – Maya, Manko and Carla – will steal Fellini’s and Garrone’s visual references to create three impossible women looking amazingly neurotic and disturbingly erotic. Art Model Collective have invited Maya Petrovna as a guest of honour and a designer of this exclusive event. Prepare for a colourful tableaux vivant filled with dreams and nightmares inspired by Maya Petrovna’s creative existence! Underdog Gallery, Tuesday 14th March, 7pm, £15.
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Tortoise talks evolution HUMANKIND IS the last step of evolution. Two hundred years of European history interpreted by Harriet, a tortoise – yes, tortoise. Harriet is part of a cast of four characters in Juan Mayorga’s Darwin’s Tortoise (La Tortuga de Darwin), that also includes an historian, his frustrated housewife, and a doctor. Their arrogance and selfishness will not allow them to discover the unbearable truth of human beings, writes Alexandra Seijas...
Who are we?
The professor is sceptical until Harriet asks him to touch her back. Convinced, he sees this as an opportunity, a real firsthand witness to history. Harriet has a different motive: She simply wants to go back to the
Galápagos Islands and thinks the professor can help her. Later, the professor takes Harriet to see a doctor, who is naturally intrigued. Meanwhile, the professor’s wife, Beti, also sees Harriet as someone to be exploited. Will Harriet realise that, far from getting help, she is actually in danger? The play will bring you on a surreal journey to the answer. Gledys Ibarra, acclaimed Venezuelan actress, stars as Harriet who has lived through the First and Second World Wars. Harriet has evolved, according to Mayorga, until she was “almost a person, or perhaps more than a person”. Ibarra interprets with absolute expertise a creature of nature, transforming the play into an almost philosophic experience. Lara Grube is Beti, this neglected woman who is married to Álvaro Ramos, a professor of Universal History who would give anything to impress his historian competitors. Jaime Menéndez is a doctor who has been waiting
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OVALHOUSE 52-54 Kennington Oval, SE11 5SW (020 7582 7680) Milky Peaks A bad man is murdered in a niceish hotel, an arts administrator hides a terrible Mafia-based secret (she was in the Mafia), an evil councillor makes a land grab, and - at the centre of it all - a ropey drag queen fights for survival in a changing world. Totally normal town. Total powder keg. Under Milk Wood meets Twin Peaks in a glossy, synthy, gorgeous musical about community: what we'll do to ourselves to create it, and what we'll do to someone else to protect it. Ovalhouse, Thursday 9th – Saturday 11th March, 7.30pm, £5-£8. DRAPER TENANT’S HALL Hampton Street, SE1 6TL The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven Written and performed by legendary
Inspirational walks ROTHERHITHE ARTIST Pam Miller takes her creative inspiration from that which surrounds her, telling me ‘nature and natural forms have always inspired me, and my reconnection with my own creativity began with walks along the shore of the River Thames around Rotherhithe, where I have lived for over twenty years.
IN THE nightmare of the dark/All the dogs of Europe bark, / And the living nations wait, / Each sequestered in its hate — W.H. Auden ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’ (1940)
Who are we? is a free 6-day crossplatform event, spanning the visual arts, film, photography, design, architecture, the spoken and written word and live art which asks, Who Are We? Guided by Auden's quote, and inspired by the open dialogue of the Tate Exchange initiative looking at art and its importance to society, Who Are We? reflects on identity, belonging, migration and citizenship through arts and audience participation. The week of activity has been specifically designed and focuses around an ethos of collaboration, innovation, conversation, exchange and learning. Auden’s homage to Yeats conjures an uncannily resonant image of contemporary Europe, a Europe increasingly divided, fending and fastening its borders against real and imagined ‘others’.
all his life for a part of evolution in his hands. That mix is not going to play out well for everyone... The Cervantes Spanish Theatre opened its doors in November 2016 to bring the best Spanish and Latin American drama to London in both Spanish and English. As a Venezuelan I was privileged to encounter this space where the Spanish language is honoured with such great international talent. The Cervantes Spanish Theatre, Arch 26, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR Until March 18th Box office: 020 3633 4406 www.cervantestheatre.com ticketsource.co.uk/spanish-theatrecompany. £20, £15 concs Spanish performance: Monday - Wednesday 7.30pm English Performance: Thursday Saturday 7.30pm (2.30 Matinee)
Artists and practitioners from numerous countries contribute to the debate through a programme of activities, installations and events to which the public are invited to engage and participate. The work centres on these questions: What is becoming of Europe and the UK? What are we forgetting, and with what consequences? How does our colonial past connect to today's migratory movements? Can the creative uses of media, technologies, logistics, visual art and performances show us a glimpse of another Europe, another ‘We’? Award winning architecture and interior
and award-winning trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford and directed by Susan Worsfold, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual. A tale of all-encompassing love and acceptance, moving and witty, warm and profound and whose message is made all the more urgent in view of recent world events It is impossible not to be affected by the text and the performance. Join Queen Jesus for a revolutionary queer ritual in which bread is shared, wine is drunk and familiar stories are reimagined by a transgender Jesus. Draper Tenant’s Hall, Thursday 9th – Saturday 11th March, 7.30pm, £8-£12. OMNIBUS 1 Clapham Common North Side, SW4 0QW, (020 7498 4699) Elephant and Castle Do you tell the truth when you talk in your sleep? Does your sleep talk even make sense? And could it
design practice, Universal Design Studio, form part of the collaborative team of Who are we? They are working with the artists to produce niche installation and site-specific objects, plus designing the aesthetic flow and overarching identity of the programme. For full details: www.whoareweproject.com tate.org.uk/tateexchange Tate Exchange, Switch House, Level 5, Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG 14-19 March 2017 Free Drop-in daily 14 – 16 March 2017 at 12.00–18.00 17 – 18 March 2017 at 12.00–20.00 19 March 2017 at 12.00–16.00
just be that you analyse your relationships in a way that’s more honest than you do when you’re awake? One of the first things the author said to his partner Lillian in his sleep was, “I want to get in a cupboard and take you to Elephant and Castle.” From there, it becomes tender, funny, uncomfortable and dark too, as the mutterings never quite take the form of honest coherence. But does the incoherence conceal the truth? Is there something struggling to be said? Something perhaps that is painful and potentially disastrous for this relationship? Omnibus, Friday 10th March, 7.30pm, £10-£12. THE ALBANY Douglas Way, SE8 4AG (020 8692 4446) Chester Tuffnut Chester Tuffnut isn’t your ordinary treemole – in fact he is one of a kind! Chester likes wearing jumpers and sitting in his armchair, but most of all he loves
Pam has spent most of her working life teaching art in secondary schools in London and the North East, and although she left teaching some years ago to concentrate on her own artwork she continues to moderate GCSE Art for the AQA examining board. ‘In my recent work,’ she says, ‘I continue to be inspired by nature. I am also continuing my exploration and experimentation with the medium of watercolours and oils.’ She still takes her local walks but the catalyst for her latest exhibition was much closer to home: ‘For over a year I have had an Oxalis Triangularis plant on my kitchen windowsill. I have studied my Oxalis at various times of the day, and this lovely delicate plant has been the inspiration for my latest work. I have been
adventure! The curious creatures in Woodland have gone so long without excitement they’ve forgotten how to have fun. Luckily, Chester is on hand to bring happiness and laughter back to his friends. Told with puppets, original music and imaginative antics, this show is full of humour, thrills, spills, near misses and great escapes. The Albany, Saturday 11th March, 1pm, £7-£24. WHITE BEAR THEATRE 138 Kennington Park Road, SE11 4DJ (020 7735 8664) The Masks of Aphra Behn It’s 1677 and an audience getting ready to watch Aphra Behn’s The Rover are in for a surprise. For the show has been cancelled and in its place Aphra herself recounts the extraordinary tale of her time as a spy for King Charles II in the Dutch Wars, and how she became the first professional female writer. Complete with excerpts from Behn’s letters, poetry and
fascinated with the rich, intense colour and shape of the leaves and how at times they seem to take on the appearance of a butterfly’s wings. This metamorphosis is especially noticeable as the leaves begin to close up in the evening.’ Brunel Museum Cafe, Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe. SE16 4LF 020 7231 3840 info@brunel-museum.org.uk Until March 31st Free Admission plays, this vivid and thought-provoking onewoman show brings one of theatre’s most brilliant raconteurs back to life. White Bear Theatre, Monday 13th March, 7.30pm £8£10. GREENWICH THEATRE Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES (020 8858 4447) Raffles: The Mystery of the Murdered Thief A sparkling mystery adventure based on the thrilling classics by E W Hornung. Harry “Bunny” Manders is convinced that his erstwhile partner in crime, the gentleman cracksman A J Raffles, drowned while escaping a daring theft aboard a transatlantic liner. But a chance reply to a newspaper advertisement reveals an entirely different scenario, and at once Bunny is embroiled again in his old life of burglary, mayhem, adventure and murder! Greenwich Theatre, Wednesday 15th – Saturday 18th March, 2.30pm / 7.30pm, £13.50 - £16.
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“To us it stands, not for a group of trophies won from a beaten enemy, not for a symbol of the pride of victory, but as an embodiment and a lasting memorial of common effort and common sacrifice,” – King George V.
Sunday March 5 marked one hundred years to the day since Parliament rubber stamped the creation of one our leading authorities on British conflict and its impact - the Imperial War Museum (IWM). Established while the First World War was still being fought, the IWM was instigated by a letter written by MP Sir Alfred Mond to The Times in early 1917. In it, he called for a national museum to recognise the struggles of people right across society – from soldiers to factory workers to the grieving wife and mother on the home front – during the Great War. Parliament responded. On March 5 1917, the War Cabinet officially endorsed the creation of a National War Museum. Shortly afterwards, it was renamed the Imperial War Museum, as governments of dominion countries called for the contributions of their countries to be recognised in the war effort. “By 1917, it had become so apparent that this was war on an epic scale,” said IWM First World War Historian, Laura Clouting. “The entire nation was involved in it. The Museum was intended to help people make sense of what had happened.” The IWM’s purpose was threefold; to act as a memorial, to record publicly the events that had taken place and to provide a place where the history of the war could be studied. Efforts to gather materials began under the museum’s first DirectorGeneral, Sir Martin Conway and the remarkable first collecting began at the coalface – on the Western Front. The staff were sent among soldiers, on the battlefield and in the trenches, to look for items of value such as knives, guns, uniforms, diaries and lucky charms. At home, the museum worked with Government departments and manufacturing companies to source war items, as well as setting up subcommittees dedicated to recording specific aspects of the war, such as the women’s effort. However, the backbone of the collection IWM’s were the stories of everyday, ordinary people. The museum established a strong and clear interest in recording the impact of war on everyone in society, not just the “sharp end” of it on the battlefield. A call was issued for members of the public, whatever their role had been, to send in items which would represent what the war had been for then. “Everyone’s experience of the conflict would have been different. Nobody’s war was the same. There were so many perspectives,” said
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Imperial War Museum turns 100 An 18 inch naval gun arriving at the Imperial War Museum, Crystal Palace.
HM King George V performing the opening ceremony of the Imperial War Museum, Crystal Palace, 9 June 1920.
Moving French tank into place in the Imperial War Museum at Crystal Palace
The staff were sent among soldiers, on the battlefield and in the trenches, to look for items of value such as knives, guns, uniforms, diaries and lucky charms Laura. “There was a diversity of experiences and those on the home front and civilians were just as important, too,” said Laura. “We’re all about stories. There were so many stories.” Over the following three years, the museum amassed over 136,000 items. On June 9 1920, it was opened up in its first home, Crystal Palace, by King George V. “I think people’s reaction would have been incredibly positive. Postwar, people were trying to find ways to remember what had happened. The museum would have been one of their ways of doing it,” said
Laura. In 1924, the museum was moved to South Kensington but the venue was too small and the conditions weren’t satisfactory to take good care of the items. In 1935, the museum shut its doors at South Kensington and began moving its collections and exhibits to its current home on Lambeth Road on Southwark. The new venue was officially opened on July 7 1936 by the Duke of York. However, peace time wasn’t to last. In 1939 the Second World War broke out. The IWM was quick to respond and extended its remit to cover the
then-conflict. Once again, the museum began collecting items, while its most vulnerable items were evacuated out of London. Air raids began increasing in frequency and with Southwark as a prime target, the museum building was closed to the public from 194046. In 1941, it sustained a direct hit from a German bomb. “The museum was still trying to help visitors understand how it was to live through war and then it happened again. When the bomb hit the museum, it was almost like things came full circle. It was like a tangible connection to the museum’s
subject matter.” In 1953, following the end of the Korean War, the museum further extended its remit. Since then, it has included all major conflicts involving Great Britain and the Commonwealth forces since August 1914. The museum has since established four other branches across the UK and has over 800,000 items in its collections – from First World War trench knives to multimedia submitted by present day servicemen in Afghanistan. “Today, we have online resources, books, exhibitions, events – but what we do fundamentally remains the same. Our collections allow people to understand the different perspectives of war,” said Laura. “Since the beginning, the museum has been a place where people know they can entrust their story. The museum will always be there to share those experiences with future generations.”
Images: © IWM
By Kirsty Purnell
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Modern history lesson
THE BLACKSMITHS ARMS
257 Rotherhithe Street, SE16 5EJ 020 7231 8838 THEBLACKSMITHSSE16.COM
I LOVE a bit of history and Rotherhithe’s Blacksmiths Arms has it in abundance. That connection with the past is continued through the current landlord whose family have been lightermen on the Thames since the 19th century, with photos of those ancestors spruced up for a beano by a charabanc outside the legendary lighterage company, Braithwaite & Dean, writes Michael Holland
But all that history does not mean the Blacksmiths is stuck in the past, and a menu mix of classic and modern shows they are keeping on top of the game. The Ballerina and I visited on a rainy Sunday evening after the mad rush on the Roasts had ended and the friendly staff ready for the evening wave of customers. My wine-loving partner had chosen the Tempranillo Rioja from a short but carefully selected list of mainly
European wines. It was smooth and dark, fruity with a nice aftertaste that worked well through our starters, two red meat dishes and dessert. We shared Salt & Pepper Squid and Vegetarian Spring Rolls with sweet chilli sauce to begin. Nina noticed immediately from the ingredients inside that the spring rolls were handmade: ‘Usually it’s big strips of carrot,’ she explained. The balance of the crispy outer and the tasty inner was spot on. The squid had just the right amount of a chilli kick in the accompanying salad for me, although the chilli wimp opposite nearly went over at one point and was only saved by a good glug of wine. She then concentrated on the crispy garlic bits, leaving me to enjoy the chilli.
Our host introduced himself and gave us a bit of his and his family’s background. Their connection with Rotherhithe hasn’t just been through the river as his grandfather had the legendary Downtown Restaurant, a place of wonder for us young men in the mid 70s who deemed it a special night out if we had saved up enough to pay it a visit. Our main courses arrived. I had the Grilled Lamb Cutlets with Basil Mash and Rosemary Jus: an excellent plate of food, nicely presented. There’s not a lot of meat on lamb cutlets but what is there is choice meat. I so wanted to pick up the bones to gnaw on but I was threatened with death if I did. Nina, the fish-eating vegetarian, ordered the Rib-eye Steak that she
set about like she hadn’t eaten for three days. Between each mouthful she gave me a running commentary about how much she loves steak, how perfect it was cooked, how nice it tasted, etc, all with her eyes closed like she was in a transcendental trance. While she was distracted I purloined half of her chips. I only meant to nick one or two but they were so nice I couldn’t stop! There is absolutely nothing to complain about here. The meat is sourced down The Blue, the food is all cooked from scratch; ’the only thing we don’t do is grow our own veg and bake our own bread,’ we were told. The pub itself has hardly changed over the years, with the same wood panelling I recall in the 70s, and it can still proudly call itself a ‘local’. And being so close to the Hilton it provides a real English experience for the numerous visiting tourists with the decor, beer and food. After a decent interval we shared the Special of the Day Dessert: Chocolate and Pecan Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream. Once again Nina was in raptures: ‘What an amazing combination,’ she declared while trying to take the lion’s share. ‘Who thought of putting pecan with chocolate?’ she asked while beating me away from the pie with her spoon. We were quite literally done in after such wonderful feasting and plan to return soon. If we lived nearer we
would be partaking in their new delivery service from their extensive Thai menu, but that little luxury is just for the locals for now. The Blacksmiths Arms, 257 Rotherhithe Street, SE16 5EJ E: downtownbsa@gmail.com T: 02072318838 W: theblacksmithsse16.com @blacksmithsse16 Monday-Friday:12:0016:00/17:00-22:00 Saturday:12:00-22:00 Sunday: 12:00-21:00
THE DAMAGE
Salt & Pepper Squid £6.95 Vegetarian Spring Rolls £5.95 Grilled Lamb Cutlet £13.95 Rib-eye Steak £15.95 Chocolate & Pecan Pie £6.50 Tempranillo Rioja £25.45
TOTAL
FOOD (1-5) VALUE (1-5) AMBIENCE (1-5) DISABLED ACCESS DISABLED TOILET BOOKING
£ 74.75
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 NO NO RECOMMENDED
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Dual crossword
CRYPTIC PUZZLE Clues Across
1 Undressed, so hurried about the journey (8) 4 Part of Burma, Siam and more (4) 8 Eastern Europe elegance? (6) 10 Sounds as if the enemy intended to incite rebellion (6) 11 Act it wrong - it's not spoken aloud (5) 12 Discount illusions. up to the time when hidden (5) 14 Was the giraffe designed for loveplay? (6) 17 Sporting dances that should go with a swing? (4,5) 18 Raging of the elements? (6,3) 22 Pet's out of bed - what a sauce! (6) 23 Shirked less quietly - that was annoying (5) 24 Ruby, for example, whose throw is not far (5) 26 Number nearly needing water (6) 27 Making no mess - dwarfs are hiding there (6) 28 Reversible action (4) 29 Takes shelter after return of war with untanned skins (8)
QUICK PUZZLE Clues Across
1 Army division (8) 4 Hurried (4) 8 Glance leisurely (6) 10 Massacre (6) 11 Attempts (5) 12 Different (5) 14 Finishes (6) 17 Era of outstanding men (6,3) 18 Pierce (9) 22 Island of the East Indies (6) 23 Perfect (5) 24 Extra large (5) 26 Drives back (6) 27 Female relative (6) 28 Dirt (4) 29 Ulcerated (8)
Clues Down
1 Slips and loses fifty drinks (4) 2 Deciding to draw the line (6) 3 Part of a flower I split in pieces (6) 5 Pieces of meat used in gambling, we hear (6) 6 Remedy for love-sickness? (8) 7 Where one is accommodated inside a shot elephant (5) 9 Pessimist's view of a pint in a quart pot? (4-5) 10 Supplying money - can broken in imposing penalty (9) 13 They are wrong in law, but right in little children (5) 15 What Chinese frogs do? Hide (5) 16 Pate clad absurdly - pacified (8) 18 Wear at wear out (6) 19 Forces out, found in what Proust said (5) 20 Sudden twist - wench is about right (6) 21 Dreamed of losing head, enlarged the bore (6) 25 Requests casks, less a hundred (4)
Clues Down
1 Steals (4) 2 Development (6) 3 0vercome (6) 5 Group of words (6) 6 Tame (8) 7 Book of the Old Testament (5) 9 Mistaken (9) 10 South American pigs (9) 13 Wife of Menelaus (5) 15 Semi-precious stone (5) 16 Cluttered up (8) 18 Investigates (6) 19 Breeding places (5) 20 Floating without direction (6) 21 Christian festival (6) 25 Poke (4)
Solutions to last week’s crossword
CRYPTIC ACROSS: 1 Copperheads 9 Ice 10 Combative 11 Hides 13 Asunder 14 Novice 16 Depict 18 Wastrel 19 Radar 20 Leavening 21 Woe 22 Destination DOWN: 2 Ode 3 Picks 4 Rumbas 5 Erasure 6 Drip dried 7 Wishing well 8 Secretaries 12 Devastate 15 Correct 17 Albion 19 Right 21 Who QUICK ACROSS: 1 Consolation 9 Ale 10 Announcer 11 Enrol 13 Linseed 14 Invade 16 Mystic 18 Torture 19 Realm 20 Ornaments 21 Tin 22 Reading room DOWN: 2 Owe 3 Shawl 4 Lonely 5 Truancy 6 Orchestra 7 Malediction 7 Predicament 12 Reverence 15 Drummed 17 Pennon 19 Riser 21 Two
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VICEROY’S HOUSE (12A) Daily: 15:50 20:45 Extra Perf Sat-Sun: 13:45 TONI ERDMANN (12A) (German Comedy) Daily: 17:50 LOGAN (15) Daily: 14:30 17:30 20:30 MOONLIGHT (15) Daily: 16:00 18:15 21:10 HIDDEN FIGURES (PG) Daily: 15:15 20:35 THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (U) 2D Weekdays: 15:45 Sat-Sun: 11:45 13:50 SING (U) Sat-Sun: 12:00 LION (PG) Daily: 18:00 LA LA LAND (12A) Daily: 18:10 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (15) Sat/Sun: 12:30 MOANA (PG) Sat/Sun: 11:30 FENCES (12A) Sat/Sun: 12:15 SUBTITLED FOR THE HARD OF HEARING MOONLIGHT (15) Tue 16:00 LOGAN (15) Mon 14:30 LA LA LAND (12A) Wed 18:10 WATCH WITH BABY THU 11.30am Screening for Parents with Babies – No Unaccompanied Adults HIDDEN FIGURES (PG) KONG: SKULL ISLAND (12A) VICEROY’S HOUSE (12A)
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Sun-thur 12:00 13:00 15:00 16:00 18:00 19:00 21:00 21:45 KONG: SKULL ISLAND 3D (12A) 118 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri 14:00 17:00 20:00 22:40 Sat 11:00 14:00 17:00 20:00 22:40 Sun-mon 14:00 17:00 20:00 Tue 17:00 20:00 Wed 14:00 17:00 20:00 Thu 17:00 20:00 LION (PG) 118 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri-sat 12:45 Mon-thur12:45 LOGAN (15) 137 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri 12:15 14:15 15:15 17:15 18:15 19:20 20:20 21:20 22:30 23:20 Sat 11:00 12:15 14:15 15:15 17:15 18:15 19:20 20:20 21:20 22:30 23:20 Sun 12:15 14:15 15:15 17:15 18:15 19:20 20:20 21:20 Mon 12:15 14:15 15:15 17:15 19:20 20:20 21:20 Tue 11:00 12:15 14:15 15:15 17:15 18:15 19:20 20:20 21:20 Wed 12:15 14:15 15:15 17:15 18:15 19:20 20:20 21:20 Thu 11:00 12:15 14:15 15:15 17:15 18:15 19:20 20:20 21:20 LOGAN (15) 137 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Subtitle, Mon 18:15 MONSTER TRUCKS 2D (PG) 105 Mins Kids Club, Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Sat-sun 10:30 MOONLIGHT (15) 111 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri 12:45 20:45 Sat-sun 20:45 Mon-thur 12:45 20:45 SING 2D (U) 108 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri 16:30 Sat-sun 10:30 13:45 16:30 Mon-thur 16:30 STORKS 2D (U) 92 Mins Kids Club, Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Sat-sun 10:00 SULLY: MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON (12A) 96 Mins Silver Screen, Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Tue 14:00 Thu 11:00 THE GREAT WALL 2D (12A) 103 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri-thur 15:30 THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE 2D (U) 104 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri 16:15 Sat-sun 11:00 13:30 16:15 Mon-thur 16:15 VICEROY’S HOUSE (12A) 106 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Fri 11:00 13:30 Mon 13:30 Tue 11:00 13:30 Wed 13:30 Thu 11:00 13:30
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (DANECROFT ROAD, GAMBIA STREET,MONNOW ROAD, SANDGATE STREET, TALFOURD ROAD, TANNER STREET, WESTON STREET)
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (COMMERCIAL WAY, CRONIN STREET) 1. 2.
3. 4. 5. 6.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works by Plowman Craven, it made, 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) Commercial Way, between Kelly Avenue and Moody Road. (b) Cronin Street at it’s junction with Commercial Way.
1. 2.
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 alternative route for affected vehicles will be via: Commercial Way, Southampton Way, Peckham Road, Peckham Hill Street, as applicable. Works will take place on the 20th – 21st March between the hours of 21:00hrs - 06:00hrs
7. Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014. Dated this 9th March 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX
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3.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable highway works, it made 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: (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g)
Danecroft Road, between Herne Hill and Elmwood Road. Gambia Street, at its junction with Union Street. Monnow Road, at its junction with Southwark Park Road Sandgate Street, Old Kent Road to blocked end Talfourd Road, at its junction with Peckham Road. Tanner Street, between Tower Bridge Road and Maltby Street Weston Street, between St Thomas Street and Melior Street (NR)
The alternative route would be via: (a) Herne Hill, Frankfurt Road, Elmwood Road. Emwood Road Red Post Hill, Casino Avenue, Herne Hill. (b) Blackfriars Road, Union Street. Meymott Street, Hatfields, The Cut, Union Street. Union Street, Great Suffolk Street, Southwark Street, Blackfriars Road. (c) Reverdy Road, Lynton Road, Monnow Road. (d) access will be maintained. (e) Lyndhurst Way, Lyndhurst Grove, Lyndhurst Grove, Bushey Hill Road, Peckham Road. (f) Tower Bridge Road, Abbey Street, Druid Street. (g) Not applicable. 4. The existing one way working in Monnow Road, between Southwark Park Road and Trothy Road will be made two way for access and egress purposes for item (c) 5. 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. 6. 7. 8.
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 on the (a) 16th – 20th March. (b) 16th – 17th March. (c) 16th March. (d) 16th – 20th March. (e) 13th – 14th March. (f) 18th – 19th March (g) 13th – 19th March. Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 9th March 2017 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1972 SECTION 122(2A) NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPROPRIATE LAND AT 1-3 ODESSA STREET LONDON SE16 7LU PART OF WHICH IS OPEN SPACE
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council, Regulatory Services,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Southwark (hereinafter called “the Council”) intends to exercise powers pursuant to Section 122(2A) of the Local Government Act 1972 to appropriate for planning purposes land designated as open space being approximately 1,606 square metres in extent at 1-3 Odessa Street London SE16 7LX.
A copy of the map showing the location and area of the land to which this Notice relates can be inspected during the hours of 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday at the offices of the Council in the Chief Executive’s Department, 5th Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH (Reference: Patrick McGreal). Anyone wishing to make objections to the intended disposal of the land should make them in writing no later than 4:00pm on 20 March 2017 at the address above (quoting the reference), stating the grounds of the objections. Alternatively, objections can be sent by email to: patrick.mcgreal@southwark.gov.uk
Dated this 9th day of March 2017 Doreen Forrester-Brown Director of Law & Democracy
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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (MELFORD ROAD) 1. 2. 3.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable resurfacing works on Lordship Lane by Ringway Jacobs, it made, 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 Melford Road at it’s junction with Lordship Lane. The existing one way working in Melford Road, between Lordship Lane and Underhill Road will be made two way for access and egress purposes.
4. Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works. 5. The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.
6. The alternative route for affected vehicles will be via: Underhill Road, Barry Road as applicable. 7. 8.
Works will take place on the 13th – 15th March between the hours of 21:00hrs - 05:00hrs
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 9th March 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BETHWIN ROAD) 1. 2. 3.
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (SUMNER AVENUE)
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable a crane operation by Nationwide Traffic Solutions, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.
1.
An alternative route will be via, Thompson Avenue, Sultan Street. Camberwell New Road, Wyndham Road, Camberwell Road as applicable.
3.
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 Bethwin Road, between Sultan Street and Camberwell Road.
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works by Thames Water, it intends, to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.
2.
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 Sumner Avenue, between Peckham High Street and blocked end. An alternative route will not be required.
4. Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
4. Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
6.
TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
5. The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.
5. The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.
6.
The restriction will come into operation between the 20th – 24th March, 27th March – 7th April 2017.
The restriction will come into operation between the 27th – 31st March 2017.
7.
7. Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 9th March 2017
Dated this 9th March 2017
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management,
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services,
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTIONS 35C AND 46A: VARIATION OF CHARGES FOR 'PAY BY PHONE' PARKING VARIATION OF CHARGES FOR PARKING PLACE SUSPENSIONS AND WAITING RESTRICTION DISPENSATIONS
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the council of the London Borough of Southwark will vary the parking charge for visitors’ parking permits under the powers conferred by section 46A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended, and in accordance with regulation 25 of the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996. 2. Commencing 01 April 2017, the parking charge for 'pay by phone' parking will be varied as follows:Parking place type: Controlled parking zone, Current New parking zone or off-street charge parking parking car park: period: charge: charge:
On-street parking meter, 'pay and display', 'pay by phone' and 'shared-use' parking places
Off-street parking places
Zones 'C1', 'C2' and 'F'
per hour
£5.80
Parking
£6.00
Zones 'D', 'G' and 'GR'
per hour
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£3.00
Zones 'B', 'E', 'EC', 'H', 'HH', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'LG', 'M1', 'M2', 'N', 'NC', 'P', 'SB' and 'T'
per hour
£2.50
£2.70
per day
£6.30
£6.90 inclusive of VAT
up to 3 hours
£2.40
£2.60 inclusive of VAT
per hour
£0.90
£1.00 inclusive of VAT
Cerise Road Multi-storey car park
Copeland Road car park
Choumert Grove car park
up to 2 hours per hour
£1.40 £0.90
£1.50 inclusive of VAT
3. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, commencing 01 April 2017, the council of the London Borough of Southwark will vary the charge for parking place suspensions and waiting restriction dispensations as follows:-
Parking place suspension
Waiting restriction dispensation
Area or vehicle to which the suspension or dispensation will apply:
Suspension or dispensation period:
Current charge:
New charge:
per day
£25.00
£27.50
One vehicle
full day
£25.00
£27.50
One car space within a parking place
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Any person may inspect the application and the plan accompanying it at all reasonable hours during the working day until such time as the application has been finally determined or withdrawn, at the address below. Anyone wishing to oppose the application must do so in writing by 30th March 2017 SPECIFYING THE GROUNDS OF OPPOSITION TO: Community Safety, Licensing Team, 3rd Floor Hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, PO Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX Or E-mail: licensing@southwark.gov.uk
£1.00 inclusive of VAT
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Type:
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4. Further information may be obtained by contacting Mr. David Sole of the council's Parking and traffic enforcement team by telephone on 020 7525 2037 or e-mail: parking@southwark.gov.uk
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK PEDAL CYCLE 'QUIETWAY' ROUTE Q7: NEW CHURCH ROAD TO GRACE'S ROAD RODNEY PLACE BANNED TURN INTO HEYGATE STREET The London Borough of Southwark (Prescribed routes) (Pedal cycle quietways) (No. *) Traffic Order 201*, the London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'EC') (No. *) Order 201*, the London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'LG') (No. *) Order 201*, the London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ 'NC') (No. *) Order 201*, the London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (Car club) (No. *) Order 201*, and the London Borough of Southwark (Waiting and loading restrictions) (Amendment No. *) Order 201* 1. Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that it proposes to make the above orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended. 2. The effect of the orders would be:(a) to prohibit all southbound vehicles except pedal cycles in RODNEY PLACE from turning right into Heygate Street; (b) to introduce new or extend existing lengths of ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions in:- (1) BENHILL ROAD: (i) on the east side at its junction with Owgan Close, (i) on both sides at its junction with Elmington Road, (iii) on both sides at its junctions with Vicarage Grove and Brunswick Park; (2) BRUNSWICK PARK, on both sides at its junction with Benhill Road; (3) ELMINGTON ROAD, on both sides at its junction with Benhill Road; (4) GRACE'S ROAD: (i) on the north-west side at its junction with Wilson Road and (ii) on both sides at its junction with Grace's Mews; (5) VICARAGE GROVE, on both sides at its junction with Benhill Road; (6) WILSON ROAD: (i) on the north-east side at its junction with Maude Road, (ii) on the north-east side outside Nos. 26-29 Wilson Road, (iii) on both sides at its junction with Grace's Road; (c) to reduce in length existing permit holders' parking places in:- (1) BENHILL ROAD: (i) on the east side at the rear of Nos. 1-35 Owgan Close, (ii) on the east side at the flank wall of No. 32 Elmington Road, (iii) on the east side at the flank wall of No. 22 Brunswick Park, (iv) on the east side at the flank wall of No. 21 Brunswick Park, (v) on the west side outside Nos. 108-112 Benhill Road, (vi) on the west side at the flank wall of No. 42 Vicarage Grove, and (vii) on the west side at the rear of Nos. 4352 Vicarage Grove; (2) ELMINGTON ROAD, on the south-east side outside No. 130 Elmington Road; (3) GRACE'S ROAD: (i) on the north-west side at the flank wall of No. 29 Wilson Road, and (ii) on the south-east side outside No. 77 Grace's Road; (4) VICARAGE GROVE: (i) on the north side outside No. 42 Vicarage Grove, and (ii) on the south side at the flank wall of No. 43 Vicarage Grove; (5) WILSON ROAD: (i) on the north-east side outside Nos. 16-17 Wilson Road, (ii) on the north-east side outside Nos. 18-19 Wilson Road, and (iii) on the south-west side outside No. 30 Wilson Road; (d) to remove an existing permit holders' parking place in WILSON ROAD on the north-east side outside Nos. 26-29 Wilson Road; (e) to reduce in length an existing 'shared use' parking place in GRACE'S ROAD on the north-west side at the flank wall of No. 30 Wilson Road; (f) to relocate northward by 4.6 metres an existing car club parking place in BENHILL ROAD, on the west side at the flank wall of No. 42 Vicarage Grove; and (g) to amend the designation of existing permit holders' parking places in ADDINGTON SQUARE, BENHILL ROAD and BRUNSWICK PARK - so as to allow for the new footway and carriageway layout in the 'quietway' route. 3. Southwark Council hereby GIVES FURTHER NOTICE that it has approved under section 23 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the provision of a raised ‘zebra’ pedestrian crossing with a parallel cycle crossing facility at the following location:- NEW CHURCH ROAD, the centre of which would be located 9.5 metres north-east of the north-eastern kerb-line of Addington Square (the south-eastern arm). Zig-zag markings, on which vehicles would be prohibited from stopping at all times, would be laid on both sides of the road for a distance of 21.5 metres northeast of and 9 metres south-west of the crossing. 4. Southwark Council hereby GIVES FURTHER NOTICE under sections 90A to 90I of the Highways Act 1980 and in accordance with the provisions of the Highways (Road humps) Regulations 1999 and the Highways (Traffic calming) Regulations 1999, propose to construct:(a) a speed table of flat-top construction having a maximum height of 100 millimetres and covering the entire width of the carriageway, in NEW CHURCH ROAD, at the 'zebra' pedestrian crossing location referred to in item 3 above, extending from a point 6.1 metres north-east of the north-eastern kerb-line of Addington Square (the south-eastern arm) north-eastward for a distance of 6.7 metres. (b) road humps of sinusoidal cross-section construction, 3.7 metres in length, having a maximum height of 100 millimetres and covering the greater width of the carriageway, centred upon the following locations:- (i) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 29 metres south-east of the south-eastern kerb-line build-out of Picton Street; (ii) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 19.5 metres north of the northern kerb-line of Owgan Close; (iii) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 25 metres north of the northern kerb-line of Elmington Road; (iv) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 13.5 metres south of the southern kerb-line of Elmington Road; (v) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 0.5 metres south of the common boundary of Nos. 117 and 119 Benhill Road; (vi) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 1 metre south of the common boundary of Nos. 137 and 139 Benhill Road; (vii) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 2 metres south of the southern wall of No. 151 Benhill Road; (viii) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 31.5 metres south of the southern kerb-line of Brunswick Park; (ix) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 5 metres south of the southern wall of No. 161 Benhill Road; (x) BENHILL ROAD, at a point 22 metres north of the northern kerb-line of Peckham Road; (xi) EDMUND STREET, at a point 23.5 metres north-west of the north-western kerb-line build-out of Picton Street; (xii) WILSON ROAD, at a point 25 metres south-east of the southern kerb-line of Peckham Road; (xiii) WILSON ROAD, at a point 12 metres north-west of the north-western wall of No. 4 Wilson Road; (xiv) WILSON ROAD, at a point 2 metres south-east of the common boundary of Nos. 13 and 14 Wilson Road; and (xv) WILSON ROAD, at a point 1.5 metres south-east of the common boundary of Nos. 22 and 23 Wilson Road. Existing speed cushions at these locations would be removed. 5. For more information contact Clement A-Frempong of the council's Highways – transport projects team by telephone on 020 7525 2305 or e-mail clement.agyei-frempong@southwark.gov.uk . 6. Copies of this notice, the proposed orders, a statement of the council's reasons for making the orders and a plan of the proposal may be found online at http://www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders or paper copies may be obtained from or viewed at Highways, Environment, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 for details. 7. Anyone wishing to object to or make any other representations regarding the proposal, may use the form labelled 'Parking - Road traffic and highway schemes - responding to statutory consultation notices' at https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ or send a statement in writing to: the Traffic orders officer, Highways, Southwark council, Environment, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or by e-mail to traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference H/ND/TMO1617-028 by 30 March 2017. Please note that if you wish to object to this proposal you must state the grounds on which your objection is made. 8. When making an objection or representation, please be aware that this may be communicated to other people who may be affected. Information provided in response to this consultation, including in some circumstances personal information, may also be subject to publication or disclosure under the requirements of current access to information legislation.
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK RODNEY ROAD – BUS STOP EXTENSION The London Borough of Southwark (Parking places) (CPZ ‘M1’) (No. *) Order 201* 1. Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that it proposes to make the above order under the powers of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. 2. The effect of the order would be to reduce in length by 8.6 metres an existing permit holders' parking place on the south-west side of RODNEY ROAD outside Blocks B and C, Peabody Estate, Rodney Road so as to accommodate the bus stop extension referred to below. 3. Southwark Council hereby GIVES FURTHER NOTICE that it has approved, in accordance with Part 6 of Schedule 7 to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016, the extension of a bus stop on the south-west side of RODNEY ROAD outside Blocks A and B, Peabody Estate, Rodney Road by 8.6 metres to give a total length of 31 metres. 4. For more information contact Matthew Donaldson of the council's Highways transport projects team by telephone on 020 7525 4611 or e-mail matthew.donaldson@southwark.gov.uk . 5. Copies of this notice, the proposed order, a statement of the council's reasons for making the order and a plan may be found online at http://www.southwark.gov.uk/trafficorders or paper copies may be obtained from or viewed at Highways, Environment, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2005 for details. 6. Anyone wishing to object to or make any other representations regarding the proposal, may use the form labelled 'Parking - Road traffic and highway schemes - responding to statutory consultation notices' at https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ or send a statement in writing to: the Traffic orders officer, Highways, Southwark council, Environment, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or by e-mail to traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference H/HD/TMO1617-021 by 30 March 2017. Please note that if you wish to object to this proposal you must state the grounds on which your objection is made. 7. When making an objection or representation, please be aware that this may be communicated to other people who may be affected. Information provided in response to this consultation, including in some circumstances personal information, may also be subject to publication or disclosure under the LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (PIERMONT ROAD) TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
1.
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable works by Cappagh Contractors, it intends, to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road.
2. 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 Piermont Road, between No’s 14 to blocked end. 3.
An alternative route will not be required.
5.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform.
4. Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
6.
The restriction will come into operation between the 27th March - 7th April 2017.
7.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 9th March 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council, Regulatory Services,
Notice of Application to Vary a Premises Licence made under Section 34 of the Licensing Act 2003
Please take notice that I Mr Alhati Turay Have made application to the local licensing authority to vary the Premises Licence in respect of Albany Store, 5A Westmoreland Road, London, SE17 2AX The proposed variation is as follows: time
Finish time
Days
Start
The retail sale of alcohol: to be consumed on the premises Opening hours: 23:30 23:30 21:00
Monday - Friday
06:00
Sunday
08:00
Saturday
07:30
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by The Licensing Service, c/o Southwark Environmental Health and Trading Standards, 3RD Floor Hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 5LX 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.
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)
PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended) The planning applications listed below can be viewed on the planning register at 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). MAYDEW HOUSE ABBEYFIELD ESTATE, ABBEYFIELD ROAD, LONDON SE16 (Ref. 17/AP/0527 ) Refurbishment of the existing 144 residential units and erection of a 5 storey extension providing 24 additional residential units (Class C3). Landscape improvements to the front of Maydew House, with a new residential entrance at ground floor and residents amenities at first floor together with a new community facility (Class D1) at ground floor. New pedestrian route and gates into Southwark Park and other associated works incidental to the development. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Helen Goulden 020-7525-5349) 49 ALMA GROVE, LONDON, SE1 5QB (Ref. 17/AP/0767 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a first floor rear extension and a ground floor single storey side extension (within Thorburn Square C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Yvonne Sampoh 0207 525 4929) BT KIOSK, OUTSIDE ST GEORGE THE MARTYR CHURCH, BOROUGH HIGH STREET (Ref. 17/AP/0635 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Troy Davies 0207 525 0783) 19 BOROUGH HIGH STREET, LONDON SE1 9SE (Ref. 17/AP/0777 ) Replacement of the single glazed timber frame front and rear windows at first, second and third floors to double glazed aluminium frame (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Troy Davies 0207 525 0783) TULIP HOUSE, 66-70 BOROUGH HIGH STREET, LONDON SE1 1XF (Ref. 17/AP/0749 ) Change of use of part ground and basement levels from office (use class B1a) to flexible A1/A2/A3/A4 use, and the erection of an in-fill mansard roof extension at fourth floor level and creation of an additional third floor at the rear of the site to provide additional office accommodation (use class B1a), internal alterations and a new shopfront.RESUBMISSION (within Borough High Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Mumtaz Shaikh 0207 525 0585) TULIP HOUSE, 66-70 BOROUGH HIGH STREET, LONDON SE1 1XF (Ref. 17/AP/0750 ) Change of use of part ground and basement levels from office (use class B1a) to flexible A1/A2/A3/A4 use, and the erection of an in-fill mansard roof extension at fourth floor level and creation of an additional third floor at the rear of the site to provide additional office accommodation (use class B1a), internal alterations and a new shopfront. RESUBMISSION (within Borough High Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Mumtaz Shaikh 0207 525 0585) THE HEYGATE ESTATE AND SURROUNDING LAND BOUND BY NEW KENT ROAD (A201) TO THE NORTH, RODNEY PLACE AND RODNEY ROAD TO THE EAST, WANSEY STREET TO THE SOUTH AND WALWORTH ROAD (A215) AND ELEPHANT ROAD TO THE WEST. LONDON SE17 (Ref. 17/AP/0827 ) Application for the approval of reserved matters (landscaping) for new public realm and associated works within for Plot H4 within Elephant Park (previously referred to as the Heygate Masterplan), submitted pursuant to the outline planning permission ref 12-AP-1092 Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Robin Sedgwick 020 7525 3920) THE HEYGATE ESTATE AND SURROUNDING LAND BOUND BY NEW KENT ROAD (A201) TO THE NORTH, RODNEY PLACE AND
RODNEY ROAD TO THE EAST, WANSEY STREET TO THE SOUTH AND WALWORTH ROAD (A215) AND ELEPHANT ROAD TO THE WEST. LONDON SE17 (Ref. 17/AP/0693 ) Application for the approval of reserved matters (access, scale, appearance, layout and landscaping) for Plot H4 within Elephant Park (previously referred to as the Heygate Masterplan), submitted pursuant to the Outline Planning Permission (ref: 12/AP/1092).The proposals comprise the construction of a development plot ranging between 8 and 25 storeys in height (maximum building height 85.57 m AOD), comprising 445 residential units, 1,765 sqm (GEA) of flexible retail (A1 ¿ A5) uses, 335 sqm (GEA) of flexible retail and leisure uses (A1A5/D2), 220 sqm (GEA) office uses (B1) car parking, cycle storage, servicing, plant areas, new landscaping, and other associated works. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Robin Sedgwick 020 7525 3920) 17-21 CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET, LONDON, SE5 8TR (Ref. 17/AP/0713 ) Construction of a two-storey rear extension (basement to ground-floor mezzanine level) to facilitate access and change of use of upper floors (first, second and third) from a library (Class D1) to 3no. 1-bed flats (Class C3). (within Camberwell Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Ciaran Regan 020 7525 4877) BT KIOSK OUTSIDE 15-21 CAMBERWELL ROAD, LONDON, SE5 0EZ (Ref. 17/AP/0799 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) HOREB HALL, 111 CONSORT ROAD, LONDON, SE15 3RU (Ref. 17/AP/0773 ) Conversion of existing church hall (Use Class D1) to form 9 residential flats (Use Class C3), 2 x one bed, 5 x two beds and 2 x three beds, including partial demolition and erection of extension and alterations to the facades and roof. (within Nunhead Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) BT KIOSK / LINK UNIT OUTSIDE 19 DENMARK HILL, LONDON, SE5 8RZ (Ref. 17/AP/0802 ) Removal of existing advertising kiosk outside 16 Denmark Hill, to be replaced by x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels outside 19 Denmark Hill (within Camberwell Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) 125 EVELINA ROAD, LONDON, SE15 3HB (Ref. 17/AP/0650 ) Construction of single storey rear/side extension; Alterations to shop front and alteration to upper floor access. (within Nunhead Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Yvonne Sampoh 0207 525 4929) LAND AT EWER STREET, LONDON, SE1 (Ref. 17/AP/0682 ) Variation of Condition 17 Delivery and Service management plan pursuant to appeal decision APP/A5840/A/11/215370/NWF (10/AP/3316) for: (Erection of an eight storey building (maximum height of 26.6m to lift over-run), plus basement, comprising 150 self-contained single occupancy studio units for student accommodation together with bicycle storage, access road and landscaped areas.) Variation is To comply with the proposed variation of deed to allow student accommodation to be let to general public outside of term time. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Robin Sedgwick 020 7525 3920) 10 FAIR STREET, LONDON, SE1 2XA (Ref. 17/AP/0652 ) Improvements to St Johns Churchyard Park: 1) Restore the Grade II listed railings is being developed by Potters Fields Parks Management
Trust. (16AP5191) 2) Opening up the park entrances, 3) Renovations and upgrading of areas to park and the playground (within Tooley Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay ) TELEPHONE KIOSK, JUNCTION ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS, LONDON ROAD, SE1 (Ref. 17/AP/0637 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within St Georges Circus C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Troy Davies 0207 525 0783) 428 LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8NE (Ref. 17/AP/0689 ) Erection of a rear dormer roof extension to main rear roof slope; and x1 replacement rear roof light (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Abrar Sharif 020 7525 3992) BT KIOSK / LINK UNIT OUTSIDE 28 MARSHALSEA ROAD, LONDON SE1 1 HF (Ref. 17/AP/0806 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Union Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Yvonne Sampoh 0207 525 4929) GROUND FLOOR REAR, 40 NUNHEAD GREEN, LONDON, SE15 3QF (Ref. 17/AP/0688 ) Change of use of existing music studio (Sui Generis) and ancillary external yard to A4 use (Drinking Establishments) to extend the existing Class A4 front unit and use of the yard as ancillary outdoor garden space (to also host pop up street food kitchens at weekends and for special events). (within Nunhead Green C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Alex Cameron 020 7525 5416) BT KIOSK OUTSIDE 388 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON SE1 5AA (Ref. 17/AP/0844 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels Reason(s) for publicity: (Contact: Patrick Cronin 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) 19 ORIENT STREET, LONDON, SE11 4SR (Ref. 17/AP/0752 ) Variation of Condition 1, approved plans, of planning permission 14-AP-0603 for 'Refurbishment of and external alterations to a residential care home to create an additional bedroom, including additional rooflights and enlarged bin store access to street facing elevation, plus construction of external canopies' to allow for: Addition of 2no approximately 400x300mm attenuated louvre panels at high level on the east elevation; Addition of attenuated louvred double doors to a passageway within the site. (within Elliot's Row C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Rosie Nolan ) 6 PARIS GARDENS & 20-21 HATFIELDS, LONDON, SE1 8DJ (Ref. 17/AP/0684 ) Variation of condition 12 Service management plan pursuant to planning permission 08/AP/2809 for: (Erection of a part 9, part 13 storey (maximum height approximately 41.3 metres above ground level) building plus basement levels to provide for a mixed use development comprising a ballet school (Class D1 use) and 162 units (253 bed spaces) of student accommodation (Class C1 use) including bicycle and refuse storage and communal open space.) Variation is to comply with the proposed variation of deed to allow student accommodation to be let to general public outside of term time. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Robin Sedgwick 020 7525 3920) 121-125 PECKHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SE15 5SF (Ref. 17/AP/0495 ) Demolition of existing two storey retail building and construction of new five storey building comprising ground floor retail with 56 bedroom
hotel above, roof top plant, creation of rear service yard, and ancillary works. (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, MPA (Contact: Neil Loubser 020 7525 5451) GREYHOUND, 109 PECKHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SE15 5SE (Ref. 17/AP/0069 ) Erection of a side extension to the existing building and a new mansard roof to provide a total of 6 two-bedroom residential units (5x 2b3p and 1x 2b4p). (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) EAST DULWICH ESTATE SITE BOUNDED BY DOG KENNEL HILL QUORN ROAD PYTCHELEY ROAD AND ALBRIGHTON ROAD SE22 (Ref. 17/AP/0668 ) Minor material amendment to planning permission dated 22/4/2014 [LBS ref 12-AP3563] for: 'Erection of two blocks of flats accommodating 27 flats (comprised of 'Gatebeck' a three storey building located to south west side of Pytchley Road, between Felbridge and Gatcombe House with 9 flats, being 3 x 2-bed, 6 x 3-bed, and 'Southdown' on north east side of Pytchley Road to east of Melbreak House, of four storeys with 18 flats, being 8 x 1-bed, 2 x 2-bed, 8 x 3-bed); and conversion of existing drying rooms across the Estate into 18 flats (12 x studio flats, 3 x 1-bed, 3 x 2-bed); (TOTAL 45 new flats in new build/conversion) and external landscaping work across the Estate as part of an overall regeneration programme; alterations to existing car parking areas in the proximity of the proposed new flats, and additional car parking to land adjacent to Wilton House and altered access and parking provision to Wheatland House' to account for altered building height and landscape updates following design detail development. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) BT KIOSK OUTSIDE 61-63 RYE LANE SE15 (Ref. 17/AP/0797 ) Removal of existing advertising kiosk outside 65 Rye Lane, to be replaced by x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels outside 61-63 Rye Lane (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) GUILD OF FINE FOOD, GROUND FLOOR, 42 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 1UN (Ref. 17/AP/0841 ) Display of a non-illuminated vinyl sign panel to the front of ground and lower first floor (within Thrale Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Neil Loubser 020 7525 5451) ADVERTISING RIGHT BT KIOSK O/S 25-33 SOUTHWARK STREET (Ref. 17/AP/0642 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Thrale Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Andre Verster 020 7525 5457) 128 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 0SW (Ref. 17/AP/0685 ) Installation of an outside seating area to the A3 unit which will include no. 12 seats at both sides of entrance no. 2 'A' boards and no. 3 canopies above window's level. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Mumtaz Shaikh 0207 525 0585) 128 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 0SW (Ref. 17/AP/0686 ) Listed Building Consent for an outside seating area to the A3 unit which will include no. 12 seats at both sides of entrance no. 2 'A' boards and no. 3 canopies above window's level. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Mumtaz Shaikh 0207 525 0585) TELEPHONE KIOSK OUTSIDE 24, (JCT HATFIELDS) STAMFORD STREET (Ref. 17/AP/0644 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels
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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)
Reason(s) for publicity: DDP, MPA (Contact: Andre Verster 020 7525 5457) 30 STRADELLA ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HA (Ref. 17/AP/0850 ) (Householder Application) Demolitation of garage and construction of new single storey extension. (within Stradella Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) TELEPHONE KIOSK, TOOLEY STREET (JUNCTION OF WEAVERS LANE), SE1 (Ref. 17/AP/0647 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with 1 Link Unit with two internally illuminated digital advertisement panels (within Tooley Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Michele Sterry 020 7525 5453) LINK UNIT OUTSIDE 62 TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, SE1 4TR (Ref. 17/AP/0815 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with 1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Michele Sterry 020 7525 5453) LINK UNIT OUTSIDE 349-351 WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON, SE17 2AL (Ref. 17/AP/0812 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) LINK UNIT OUTSIDE 307-319 WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON, SE17 2TG (Ref. 17/AP/0813 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) LINK UNIT OUTSIDE 182-202 WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON, SE17 1JJ (Ref. 17/AP/0814 ) Removal of existing advertising kiosk outside 187 Rye Lane, to be replaced by x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels outside 182-202 Rye Lane (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) BT KIOSK OUTSIDE, 264-276 WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON, SE17 2TE (Ref. 17/AP/0649 ) Replacement of existing advertising kiosk with x1 Link Unit with two digital advertisement panels (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535)
PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended)
27A WESTMORELAND ROAD, LONDON, SE17 2AX (Ref. 16/AP/4482 ) Construction of a roof extension to the existing building at third floor level to provide additional accommodation to the existing flat (within Walworth Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) 16A WYNDHAM ROAD AND 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176 AND 176A CAMBERWELL ROAD, LONDON, SE5 (Ref. 17/AP/0528 ) Variations to Condition 1 (Approved Plans) of planning permission 14/AP/0175 for: Redevelopment of the site including demolition of existing buildings and erection of a residential-led mixed use scheme comprising five new buildings (Block 07: 9 storey, Block 08: 6 storey, Block 9: 4 storey, Block 10: 4 storey, Block 11: 5 storey) containing 82 flats, 222sqm new retail floorspace (class A1 use) and 616sqm of artists studios and associated gallery space (Class B1/D1 use), provision of 7 disabled parking spaces, cycle storage, refuse storage and associated landscaping. Variations to include:
*Minor increases to the height and massing of individual blocks; *Amended internal layouts for residential units and associated ancillary areas with corresponding changes to the fenestration, windows and balconies; *Amended unit mix and increase in total number of units from 82 to 84; *Provision of 223sqm retail floorspace (Class A1) and 470sqm of flexible business/community space (Class B1/Class D1); *Expansion of basement area; *Amendments to the extent of communal amenity space at roof and ground levels.
Further amendments to a number of conditions to allow for the submission of further details "prior to the recommencement of works". Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Michael Glasgow 020 7525 1249) Dated 09 March 2017 comments to be received within 21 days of this date SIMON BEVAN Director of Planning
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (MILL STREET, BERMONDSEY WALL WEST, STERNHALL LANE, STUDHOLME STREET, WALWORTH PLACE, YORK GROVE,) 1. 2.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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 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: (a) Mill Street, between, Jacob Street and Bermondsey Wall West. (b) Bermondsey Wall West, between Mill Street and No’s 1 (c) Sternhall Lane, between Alpha Street and blocked end (d) Studholme Street, between Naylor Road and Asylum Road (e) Walworth Place, between Cadiz Street and East Street (f) York Grove, between Queen Road and blocked end
The alternative route would be via: (a & b) Jacob Street, George Row, Wolseley Street, Mill Street. (c) not applicable. (d) Asylum Road, Old Kent Road, Commercial Way, Naylor Road, Meeting House Lane. (e) Cadiz Street, Walworth Road, Browning Street, Morecambe Street. Cadiz Street, Date Street, Blackwood Street. East Street. (f) not applicable
The existing one way working in Mill Street, between Jacob Street and Bermondsey Wall West and Bermondsey Wall West, between Mill Street and No’s 1 will be made two way for access and egress purposes, for No’s 2 (a) & (b) 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 & b) 23rd March – 27th April. (c) 29th – 30th March. (d) 20th – 21st March. (e) 20th – 27th March. (f) 22nd – 23rd March. Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 9th March 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX. Ref: (a&b) 3519/201636 (c) 3515/1474474 (d) 3516/1474475. (e) 3517/LBS-SC1473640 (f) 3518/1474504
Haye may not have met his Maker
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DAVID HAYE has no intention of retiring – according to his friend Carl Froch.
Bermondsey’s Haye had surgery on Sunday on the Achilles tendon he ruptured in the sixth round of his shock defeat to Tony Bellew at the O2 Arena last Saturday night. In the ring immediately after the fight ‘The Hayemaker’ called on Bellew to grant him a rematch. Haye will be out for at least six months while he recovers, which will bring him close to his 37th birthday. He has fought just five times in almost six years after first announcing his retirement in 2011. Haye still commands lucrative deals, however, with reports that he picked up £4.2million for his bout with Bellew. Former two-weight world champion Haye was ahead on points before suffering his injury, and though he fought on for five more rounds he was struggling badly before his corner threw in the towel to confirm just the third defeat of his 31-fight professional career. But Haye fans may not have seen the last of him. “I don't think it's the end of him,” four-time super-middleweight world champion Froch said this week. “The Achilles heel is fixed and he's adamant he will be coming back and he wants to fight again.
First and foremost for David Haye, he wants the rematch with Bellew. “It’s quite a debilitating injury as we know, but you can make a full recovery. While you’re injured you're in bits, you can’t even walk, your leg is in plaster. But I think from operation to actually competing, it can be as short as six or seven months.
Hamlet’s historic run ends By John Kelly
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DULWICH HAMLET’S superb Buildbase FA Trophy came to an end on Tuesday night after a 2-0 defeat at National League Macclesfield Town.
Hamlet were trying to reach the last four for the first time and their 2-2 draw with a side two divisions above them had given them the belief they could match their opponents. But two first-half goals in two minutes from Rhys Browne sent the Silkmen into the last four to the disappointment of 144 travelling fans. At the weekend, meanwhile, Dipo Akinyemi struck the only goal of the game to give Hamlet a crucial 1-0 win at Worthing. Akinyemi returned to Gavin Rose’s side with Kenny Beaney suspended, and he fired home in the 46th minute
to keep Hmalet’s play-off challenge on track. Worthing were set up to defend, but had the ball in the net in the first half through Louis Clark, only for the linesman’s flag to rule it out. Hamlet’s Ibra Sekajja saw an effort cleared off the line as the away side began to dominate. Having missed a host of chances before the break, it took just a minute of the second half for Hamlet to take the lead, Ashley Carew crossing from the left before Gavin Tomlin sent the ball into the path Akinyemi who finished. Hamlet goalkeeper Preston Edwards was tested late on, but he easily held on to a free-kick as Rose’s side comfortably claimed three points. The result leaves Hamlet eighth in the Isthmian League Premier Division table, but they have games in hand on six of the seven sides above them.
“David Haye at 36, this isn’t the end of his career, I think he’s going to come again. He’s told me he wants to come again, 100 per cent. He said to me and I quote, ‘I will win a heavyweight world title, but I want the rematch with Bellew first’.” There have been mixed messages from Bellew since the fight. The
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FISHER’S MISERY deepened as they lost 2-1 at Cray Valley PM at the weekend.
David Haye tries to catch Tony Bellew before he lost for just the third time in his career
34-year-old Liverpudlian seemed to have his sights set much higher than renewing a bitter rivalry with Haye immediately after his win, calling out American WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. But later he claimed that he could consider retirement after the biggest payday of his career.
Two off as Stans drop
Phoenix Spor ts Reser ves 3 Stansfeld/Eltham Palace 2 NINE-MAN Stansfeld/Eltham Palace dropped down to thirteenth place in the SCEFL Division One table after a controversial defeat at the weekend.
Illness weakened Stansfeld’s starting XI, with local rivals Phoenix able to call on several firstteam players after their match had been postponed. Stansfeld survived some early pressure before breaking away to take the lead, Frankie Beale and Freddie Sansom combing and Harry Gamble finishing. Five minutes after the break Phoenix were level but Stansfeld rallied again to go back in front when Gamble won possession and crossed for Billy Shinners. His shot
was saved but Mark McKenna followed up to score. The lead was short-lived as the home side equalised for the second time, before, for the third time this season, Stansfeld conceded a penalty and had a man sent off at the same time. Stansfeld were then reduced to nine men when George Martin received a second yellow card. Stansfeld/Eltham Palace’s next league game is at home to Orpington on Tuesday March 14. Kick-off is 7.45pm. The 1st Team gained the bragging rights over ground-share rivals Metrogas after a Nathan Flaher double gave them a 2-1 win. A depleted Reserves suffered a 71 defeat away to South Darenth in the semi-final of the Hospital Charity Cup, Pat Harvey with the Stansfeld goal
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MILLWALL LIONESSES captain Ashlee Hincks was “disappointed” with the result despite seeing her side recover from conceding within a minute against Aston Villa last weekend to claim their first point of the FA Women’s Super League Two Spring Series. The Lionesses fell behind when Elisha N’Dow scored her first goal in four
years, before goalkeeper Sarah Quantrill kept her side in the game with a couple of superb second-half saves. That proved crucial, as substitute Ellie Mason grabbed an equaliser with just nine minutes left after her shot found the back of the net via a post and N’Dow. The Lionesses held on despite some late Villa pressure, but Hincks still wasn’t satisfied.
Hincks said: “At least we’ve got a point today but we’re still disappointed not to get all three given that we were the better side. “To go a goal down so early on was appalling, to be honest. There’s no way we should be conceding a goal inside the first minute. We knew that they are very dangerous from corners but still conceded.
“I thought we were much the better side and dominated for most of the match. We had a lot of possession and in the end made it count. “The game became open after we changed formation and they counterattacked us.” Lee Burch’s side face Brighton & Hove Albion at St Paul’s this Sunday at 2pm.
Enoch Adjei and Aaron Rhule put Cray Valley two goals up before Juan David Devia Pineda’s consolation for Fisher. The result leaves Dean Harrison’s side bottom of the Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division table after they suffered their second successive defeat. Next up in the battle to beat the drop is a trip to Corinthian next Saturday.
Cheeseman makes his point
TED CHEESEMAN beat the previously undefeated Jack Sellars on Saturday night to extend his record to 8-0.
Twenty-one-year Bermondsey super-welterweight Cheeseman claimed a 78-74 points win against Halifax’s Sellars on the David HayeTony Bellew undercard. Sellars did well to make it to a points decision, after Cheeseman dropped him in the second round with a vicious overhand right. Sellars recovered and went the full eight rounds, but it was another eyecatching display from Cheeseman.
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SO, THE long run without conceding a goal is over, but no one in the Millwall camp will care after Lee Gregory’s injurytime penalty gave Neil Harris’ side three points against MK Dons at The Den on Saturday.
When Ben Reeves’ shot swerved past Tom King in the 30th minute it was the first time in 14-and-a-half hours of football that the ball had hit the back of Millwall’s net. That’s the best record since 192526 when they went eleven games without letting in a goal. But it’s been at the other end of the pitch recently where Millwall have struggled. Gregory’s first goal, a header from Shane Ferguson’s cross to give Millwall the lead in the 24th minute, was their first from open play in four games. Part of that is down to the absence of Steve Morison for the previous three outings, and maybe it was no coincidence that it was he who
significantly contributed to Gregory’s late winner when he hooked the ball into the box and his strike partner was fouled. MK Dons boss Robbie Neilson wasn’t happy with referee Ross Joyce’s decision. “This is a phenomenal place to come,” he said. “I really enjoyed it. The atmosphere was great, you need strong players with good characters and a referee who can handle the pressure. We had two out of the three. That’s why it wasn’t a great game.” Harris disagreed that the referee had got it wrong, saying Gregory was clearly fouled, and replays backed him up. There was really no need for Paul Downing to make any contact with Gregory when the ball was in the air. Even had the Millwall striker collected possession he would still have had a lot to do. Besides, the MK Dons defence had handled Lions attackers well for most of the afternoon, apart for allowing Gregory space to nod in that first goal. As Harris pointed out, Downing gave Joyce a decision to make, and the referee gave Gregory the chance to win the game. Whatever about the bottle Gregory showed to score the winner from the spot against Peterborough last week when he had missed two penalties in the previous game against Oldham, there was just as much pressure on him, if not more, on Saturday. Millwall dropped points against
Walsall, Oldham and Chesterfield in February, all teams they would have expected to beat. Scunthorpe finally look like they have hit the wall, but it is Fleetwood that are flying and their 2-0 win at the Iron on Saturday was their eighteenth league game unbeaten. Uwe Rosler’s side are on a Barnsley-like surge that has taken them into the top two. Millwall and Fleetwood meet in the third-last game of the season for what is building up to be a decisive clash. Those two clubs, and Sheffield United, are the form sides in League One but with the Blades showing few signs they are about to tail off it looks like a battle for that last automatic promotion spot. Millwall have plenty of tricky games to negotiate between now and April 17 when they travel to Highbury, and this was one of them. So Gregory’s spot-kick was vital, and he emphatically drilled a low shot past David Martin to give his side the win. That was Gregory’s 50th goal for Millwall in 128 games since his move from non-league Halifax Town in 2014. No one will ever claim Ian Holloway left a positive lasting legacy at the club, but that was certainly one piece of business that he can’t be questioned for.
It also meant that, since the beginning of Harris’ first season in charge, Gregory, Morison and Aiden O’Brien have scored 100 goals between them. Earlier, Millwall were unusually slack in their defensive organisation to allow Reeves a free hit, and maybe King will feel he should have got closer to the ball, though it did appear to move out of his reach at the last moment. In the second half MK Dons gave an insight into their ambitions when Martin was booked for time-wasting over a free-kick. That increased Millwall’s frustration, which was also indicated when Ben Thompson went in heavily on Ed Upson. Former Lions midfielder Upson made little of it, but the yellow card brings Thompson one booking closer to a ban. Four minutes from time Millwall almost saw their long unbeaten run threatened to be brought to an end. It was substitutes Nicky Maynard and Den Bowditch who combined and the latter, from a similar position from which Gregory scored, headed over King’s crossbar. There was one last rally for Millwall, and one more big contribution from Gregory as the promotion charge gathers pace.
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AIDEN O’BRIEN doesn’t need any extra motivation to beat Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday – but his Arsenal-supporting family and friends will make sure he gets it anyway.
O’Brien was born in Islington, a stone’s throw from Arsenal’s old Highbury ground and their current home at the Emirates Stadium. Despite the fact that Arsenal fans would relish a last-four FA Cup clash with Spurs at Wembley, the O’Brien clan will be roaring on Millwall to what would be one of the great upsets in the competition’s history.
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To do that, Neil Harris’ side will have to defy odds not far off 20/1, and O’Brien admits they are up against an “unbelievable” team. “It’s going to be a great experience for all of us and we’re going to go out there and enjoy it and hopefully get the win,” O’Brien said this week. “They’re unbelievable, Harry Kane is on fire. But we don’t need to worry about all that, we’ve just got to keep a smile on our faces during training, work hard and hopefully on the day it goes right for us. “As a professional footballer, no matter what division you’re in, you’ve got to be as professional as the opposition. We have to train hard, listen, learn and take on board what the manager and the coaching staff say. “We prepare right for every game, it’s not different because it’s Tottenham.
It’s the same procedure and we’ll go out and give it our all. “There are loads of different ways a goal can go in. We can be on it on the day and they can be off the pedal. Anything can happen. We’ll listen to what we’re told, keep our bodies in shape and go there and hope for the best. “It’s going to be a big game for me because I live around there, all my family are on the north London side. It’s going to be the biggest game I’ve played in in my life. I can’t wait. “Arsenal is the closest club to me and the biggest rivals are Tottenham. My family will all be there, and my mates. They are all Arsenal fans but we won’t talk too much about that! “We’re all going to go there and give it our best, from the manager to the coaching staff, the players and the fans.
I just hope that we can push on to Wembley.” O’Brien made his debut for Millwall in the same season – 2011-12 – that Kane joined on loan from Spurs. Kane scored in four of the final six games in the Championship to save the Lions from the drop. “I remember him coming here,” O’Brien said. “Obviously he’s a great player now and he scored a lot of goals for us then as well. “At the time I was still in the youth team so didn’t see much of him. You could see he was a good player and you can see how he’s blossomed into one of the best strikers in the word. “But we have to concentrate on what we’re doing, we haven’t lost in seventeen games. We’re the ones going into the game with confidence, we’re flying at the moment.
“We have to shuffle as a unit, press as a unit, communicate and do what we usually do. If we get all that right we can counterattack and hopefully put the ball in the back of the net. “When we haven’t scored recently we don’t concede and haven’t lost.” Sunday’s game is live on BBC One, but O’Brien says the presence of the cameras and the greater media attention around the club this week won’t affect the players. “Once the whistle goes you just focus on what you’ve got to do. Before the game you see the cameras but when the whistle goes it’s game time and you’ve got to make something happen. “I’m always chilled, no matter what the situation is. I find it exciting that I’m going out to play football. This is what I’ve worked for all my life, there’s no need to be nervous.”
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HARRY KANE believes his loan spell at Millwall “made me who I am today”.
Kane joined Millwall in January 2012 and scored nine goals in 27 games, including four in the last six to help lift the club to safety in the Championship.
Kane made two more loan moves, to Norwich and Leicester, before becoming a regular in the Spurs side under Mauricio Pochettino in 2014-15. In this campaign England international Kane became the first player since Jimmy Greaves to score more than 20 goals in three consecutive seasons for Spurs. Kane says the groundwork was laid
at Millwall. “It was a great experience for me and there is no doubt it was a big stepping stone to where I am now,” Kane explained after the quarter-final draw last month. “Everyone knows it can be a tough place to play but I learned so much in a short space of time and it definitely helped me grow up.
“To be thrown into that at eighteen (years old) was really good and it’s one of the things that made me who I am today.” Millwall, who had struggled to replace Steve Morison, sold to Norwich the previous summer, were 20th in the table when Kane joined. Kane didn’t score his first league goal until late February but then got seven
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in fourteen games to help the Lions beat the drop to the third tier. “People were playing for their livelihoods,” he said. “I’ll never forget the relief on everyone’s face when we stayed up. “It showed me how much the game could mean and that you have to do your job, otherwise you won’t be in the game for long,”
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HARRY KANE scored nine goals in 27 games for Millwall on loan from Spurs in the second half of 2011-12. Kane only became a regular in the Spurs team during 2014-15 and went on to score 31 goals that season. Neil Harris came back to coach at Millwall the year after Kane’s spell at the club. “The messages I received were that he was a top boy, he fit in really well with the lads and was a really good professional,” Harris said. “He knew and appreciated that he was a late developer and worked really hard on his game. He came here for the purpose of getting fitter and stronger and finding that aggression. “It’s fine having all the opportunities at a big club like Spurs and people being patient with you, but you’ve still got to deliver. And he’s certainly delivered. “He had a brilliant season a
couple of years ago and the question was would he do it again. He had a slow start to the season but he’s like a runaway train. “A modern-day centre-forward, number nine, he’s got all the attributes.”
NEIL HARRIS got the better of the man who denied Mauricio Pochettino the title last season.
Leicester’s Claudio Ranieri has since been sacked, but Pochettino looks like he is building for the long term and Harris is full of praise for the Argentine. He said: “He’s done a brilliant job, absolutely brilliant job. Yes of course he has spent some money but the philosophy is sticking with the English players coming through and adding a nucleus of foreign players. “They play really attractive football, a real free-flowing open
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DURING TOTTENHAM Hotspur’s 3-2 win over Everton last Sunday, the Sky Sports cameras showed Millwall boss Neil Harris and Dave Livermore in the stands.
One wondered what they were thinking as they watched a Spurs side register a ninth successive home win in the Premier League. Everton had only conceded in two of their previous seven league games this year, and set up with three defensive midfielders to try to deny their opponents space in front of their defence. Although they hadn’t seen much of the ball their tactics were working until the 20th minute. Then there didn’t appear to be much on when former Lions loanee Harry Kane gathered possession with his back to goal 40 yards out. Kane’s first touch took him ever further away from goal before he turned and lined up what seemed an ambitious effort, but the ball flew past Joel Robles. Kane added his 24th goal of the season in the second half and Mauricio Pochettino’s side were coasting at 2-0 up before Romelu Lukaku pulled a goal back. Dele
Alli restored the two-goal lead in the 92nd minute but Enner Valencia make a nervy finish when he scored moments later. Harris spoke about “fine details” after Millwall’s 2-1 win over MK Dons last Saturday, referring to an incorrect set-up before Ben Reeves became the first player to find the back of the Lions’ net in ten games. If not allowing Kane to shoot, even from over 35 yards out, is one of those fine details Millwall will have to keep in mind on Sunday afternoon, then they are going to be in for a busy 90 minutes during which they will have to be at maximum concentration. “They’re not bad,” Harris wryly said when asked to assess Sunday’s opponents. “They’ve got some excellent individual players, they’re a well-oiled team, and a real force at home. “Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, they’re really talented players. They’re a powerful side and have a lot of pace. It’s the toughest fixture we could have got in the quarter-final, Spurs away. “That brings challenges in itself but we have to embrace that challenge. We have to compete, we have to expect the unpredictable. We have to also impose ourselves on the game at vital times. “It’s challenging for all of us but it’s
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Cooper Kane live with the best SUNDAY’S FXTURE could be a tale of strikers – and Jake Cooper has already faced one of the best and come out on top. In last season’s League Cup third round Cooper started for Reading against Everton and though his side lost 2-1 he managed to keep Romelu Lukaku quiet and scoreless. Lukaku is currently the second top scorer in this season’s Premier League, one goal behind the top flight’s leading marksman, Harry Kane, whom Cooper must try to shackle at White Hart Lane. Cooper, 22, says Lukaku is the best centre-forward he has faced in his short career, but he isn’t overwhelmed by the challenge he faces against Kane. “There’s no reason not to be confident, these aren’t super-human people,” Cooper said. “I think I’ve a good chance against any striker on any day. There are top players out there who are going to do magical things sometimes but you have to try to do your best to stop them.” Millwall have their own in-form front man. Lee Gregory has scored three goals in his last two games to bring to 50 his total for Millwall. Steve Morison will start up front with Gregory against Tottenham, with the pair aiming to add to their 29 goals between them this season. “Gregs is great in front of goal, he’s a typical poaching striker,” Cooper said. “We believe if we get the ball into the box to him he’s got a very
good chance of scoring every time. “He’s very dangerous for defenders. “Moro is so experienced. He just always knows where to be. He’s a top striker and a real asset for our team.” Cooper could also be a goal threat. He has scored twice in ten game for the Lions but given Spurs gave away just two corners in their 3-2 win against Lukaku’s Everton last weekend, increasing his tally may be easier said than done. “We’ve got to first of all get a setpiece!” he joked. “And then of course we feel we can score from set-pieces against any team, so why not Tottenham on Sunday.” The Millwall squad have been consistent this week in repeating that the league is where their main focus lies. Last weekend’s 2-1 win over MK Dons leaves them just six points off the top two and Cooper says automatic promotion is a realistic aim. “The gaffer said at half-time that conceding one goal in ten games wasn’t going to bother him, it’s the results we need,” Cooper said. “We are going to concede a goal now and then, we can’t go forever without conceding. “We’ve said the league is our main ambition, this is just another game to keep our run going. We want to keep our confidence high. “We fully feel we can get there. We want to win every game and with the run we’ve been on there’s no reason why not.”
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JAKE COOPER says he is “loving every moment” at Millwall – but refuses to speculate on where he will be playing next season.
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NEIL HARRIS says Jordan Archer is “touch and go” to be fit to face his former club Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup quarter-final on Sunday.
Archer has missed the last four games after injuring his quad in the 1-0 fifth-round win over Leicester City. The ex-Spurs stopper is back in training and in contention to line up against former team-mate Harry
Kane, whom he played with in an FA Youth Cup first-round defeat to Barnsley just over six years ago. Archer was doing extra fitness work with Lions physio Bobby Bacic on the training ground at Calmont Road on Monday morning. The 23-year-old goalkeeper was also available for interviews during a much busier media week for the club, and that’s usually an indicator a player is confident of his fitness. “Hopefully he’ll be available and fit for squad selection,” Harris said. “It’s going to be really touch and go. We have to balance off the fact that you want everyone fit and
available but you don’t want to take any unnecessary risks that could jeopardise the squad fitness-wise for a really important six weeks afterwards.” Meanwhile, Byron Webster, Ben Thompson and Shaun Williams are all one booking away from suspension. Millwall play Bury and Rochdale in their next two League One fixtures, and if any of that trio pick up a yellow card they will miss both games. The cut-off for accumulated bookings leading to suspension comes after Sunday’s game. Harris admitted the threat of
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losing one or all of those players for crucial league games could influence his team selection. He said: “We’ve got three players on nine yellows. I have to consider do we risk them in one game and risk losing them for two or do we just crack on with it. “Me, as a player, I’d want to play. I’d want to be considered and manage myself through the game or play normally. If it comes it comes. “Suspension and injuries are part of the game. But does it come into my thinking? Yes it does, but ideally I want to pick the team that’s right to play against Spurs.”
Cooper is on loan from Reading until the end of the season and has another year to run on his contract with the Championship club. Cooper featured 30 times for Reading in 2015-16 but appeared just seven times under Jaap Stam before joining the Lions. His form since his debut at Bradford has been outstanding, with Millwall conceding just two goals in the ten games he has played. Those performances will have caught the eye of a number of clubs and it also remains to be seen if the division Millwall are in next season will influence his decision. Cooper, though, is determined to concentrate on his form on the pitch in the remaining two months of this campaign. “I’m not too sure, to be honest,” he said. “I’ve got another year on my contract at Reading. I’m just hoping to do really well here for the rest of the season and see where that takes me going into next season. “It’s difficult for me to say too much before then. “I want to get promoted with this club, I want to do well in the cup with this club and see where that takes me from a personal point of view. “At the moment I’m loving every moment at this club, it’s a good time for me.”
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