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The long-awaiTed Marie Curie House fire safety report has found that some of the post-lakanal works were not done properly and, in some cases, not undertaken at all.
The report was commissioned to establish why, after six people tragically died in the 2009 Lakanal House fire, sister block Marie Curie House, Camberwell, had undetected fire defects for over a decade.
It reveals that incomplete repairs were signed off and that there appeared to be “limited oversight” as to whether contractors had the right qualifications to carry out fire assessments.
As a result, some fire assessments “simply echoed information of previous risk assessments” meaning opportunities were missed to rectify defects that had gone unnoticed.
Darren Merrill, Southwark Council Cabinet Member for Council Homes, apologised for “the anxiety and disruption” the failings had caused residents, many of whom have yet to find new homes.
The independent report, carried out by construction consultancy Frankham, recognised the council had “shown a willingness to rectify and manage fire safety issues at Marie Curie House”.
Mike Edge, Sceaux Gardens Tenants’ and
Residents’ Association Chair, said: “We are obviously glad that this report has finally been released, but it poses some very serious questions to Southwark Council and points to several serious failings on their part.
“Tenants across the borough will require reassurances that the recommendations made are taken on board and that such serious failings in the area of fire safety can never again be repeated. Apologies for failings are all well and good, but meaningless without lessons being learnt and adopted without any further delays.”
In July 2009, immediately after the Lakanal House fire, extensive fire safety works were carried out on Marie Curie House.
But some vital works were not carried out even though they’d initially been earmarked as important parts of the repairs, the report revealed.
For example, bathroom ventilation works were not carried out. Similarly, compartmentation, which prevents fires from spreading across buildings, was either inadequate or simply not done.
These works were then “inadequately scrutinised” meaning they were signed off as complete, leaving residents in unsafe homes for another decade.
Charmain Williams, 53, a Marie Curie House tenant for ten years, told the News last week that residents having to find new homes had been challenging. “It’s very hard because you’re settled at a place and then hearing you have to move - it’s impossible to find somewhere to move that quick.”
Fire risk assessments carried out on Lakanal house in 2013 and 2016 highlighted the specific issue of bathroom ventilation.
The report said it was “disappointing” that no mechanism existed to raise alarm bells that there were similar defects in Marie Curie House. The report made several recommendations. These included ensuring a “suitably competent person” would review the fire risk assessments and compartmentation surveys for Marie Curie.
It also said there should be “adequate oversight” of upcoming remedial works in Marie Curie. Future fire risk assessments should also include inspection of all communal areas of the building, including ceiling voids, it said.
Some questions do however remain. Why did the council hire contractors who apparently lacked all the necessary expertise to carry out fire assessments?
Why were incomplete works signed off as if they had been completed?
And will a mechanism be implemented that allows works across similar buildings to be cross-referenced so key defects aren’t missed?
Councillor Darren Merrill said: “As part of the response to the fire safety issues found at Marie Curie the Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Housing requested that an independent review be undertaken to identify how this situation had arisen and the lessons that need to be learnt.
“A specialist firm was chosen by residents to undertake this work. The independent report from this review is attached as an appendix to this report. Whilst the review recognises the progress Southwark Council has made in improving fire safety across our homes over recent years, it also finds that in 2009/10 some fire safety work at Marie Curie was either incorrect or not done and that this work was inadequately scrutinised at the time.
“I apologise to residents that the council did not get this right in the first place, and for the anxiety and disruption this has caused for them. This report sets out how the council has acted to ensure Marie Curie is safe, working with the fire service. As well as the changes we have already made and that we will make to ensure all fire safety works are done correctly in future.”
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The london Fire Brigade has named one of its new high-speed fire boats after a heroine of the Blitz who worked in dockhead.
The two new boats, which are twice as fast as their predecessors, reaching 40 knots, are named after auxiliary firewoman Gillian Tanner and auxiliary fireman Harry Errington.
Ms Tanner was from Gloucestershire but moved to London in the war to help the war effort. She joined the auxiliary fire service because she had a lorry driving licence and was placed at Dockhead fire station in Bermondsey.
Her greatest moment of heroism came in the Blitz in 1940, when she drove a petrol lorry through a hail of bombs during the blackout. She successfully delivered 150 gallons of petrol to the docks to refuel fire appliances, helping them fight the blazes set off by the bombs.
Ms Tanner was awarded the George Medal for her bravery. A notice in the London Gazette from 1940 said: “Six serious fires were in progress and for three hours Auxiliary Tanner drove a 30-cwt. lorry loaded with 150 gallons of petrol in cans from fire to fire
replenishing petrol supplies, despite intense bombing at the time.
“She showed remarkable coolness and courage throughout.”
Ms Tanner stayed in the fire service until the end of the war, and lived until 2016, when she died aged 96.
She was painted by war artist Alfred Thomson in her fire service uniform.
The portrait is in the Imperial War Museum near Waterloo.
The two new boats have hoses that allow crews to fight fires from the river, a hydraulic crane for carrying
out rescues from the water, and a highdefinition thermal imaging camera.
London Fire Commissioner, Andy Roe, said: “The Brigade is transforming for London and our brand-new fire boats are the latest improvements to the new equipment we are rolling out.
“Our investment of around £40 million on our fleet over the last few years is part of our commitment to do all we can to meet the changing needs of our communities and keep Londoners safe long into the future; the fireboats will be a fantastic new addition to our fleet.”
Harry Errington, after whom the other new boat is named, was also awarded the George Cross for rescuing two men from an air raid shelter that was on fire and whose ceiling had collapsed.
The call signs for the boats are H23A and H23B, a reference to Adam Mere and Billy Faust, two London firefighters who died fighting a fire in 2004.
a CamBerwell record store almost became a takeaway but will continue selling vinyl just as it has for 22 years.
Rat Records on Camberwell New Road next to Camberwell Green, founded in 1988, span its last 12-inch earlier this year.
An application was made to convert it into a “hot food takeaway” but Southwark Council rejected it in June. It said it would lead to there being too many takeaways in the area and would harm efforts to tackle child obesity being just 400 metres from the Sacred Heart Catholic School.
Dash the Henge, an underground south London record label, established in 2020 by Tim Harper, Nathan Saoudi and Rebecca Prochnik, is instead taking over the property.
Co-founder Tim said: “We got the word that Rat Records was closing down and notification that it was turning into a chicken shop meant that we were doubly disappointed.”
But now Dash the Henge, which specialises in artists “outside the mainstream”, is retaining the building as a record store and events space.
Tim said: “Rat Records was going for 22 years and had streams of people
Rats Records was going 22 years and had streams of people coming to the front door
coming to the front door and fingers crossed we can keep that good-will.
“We’re keeping it very minimal and utilitarian. It’s not gonna be a coffee shop it will be a record store and music store. We plan to do smaller events along the line…”
The store’s furniture is all being built by a friend of the business, including customised racks which move aside to make space for events.
Asked about the commercial challenge of opening a record shop in a tough market, Tim said: “It’s the thing we actually generate revenue fromproducing vinyl and producing merch.
“We sell records across the worldthere is an audience out there for it.
There’s a nostalgic element and there’s an audio element.”
Some of the artists being released on the label will be performing at the store including Meatraffle a “Marxist/ Leninist Big Brother house band” and SCUDFM, an indie outfit playing songs about trade unionism and ballistic nuclear missiles.
ExclusivE Portrait of Gillian Turner by Alfred Thomson at the Imperial War MuseumShowed remarkable coolness while delivering 150 gallons of petrol through a hail of bombsThe new high-speed fire boat named after Gillian Turner
a man accused of murdering four people in Bermondsey’s Bonamy estate has pleaded not guilty, claiming he was not in his right mind.
Appearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Joshua Jacques, 28, instead pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter by diminished responsibility for the four killings, which took place on Monday, April 25 on Delaford Road.
Jacques’ plea was not accepted by the court and the case will go to trial. His next appearance will be a plea and preparation hearing on December 19.
Jacques is accused of murdering Guy’s Hospital worker Dolet Hill, 64. her husband Denton Burke, 58, Ms Hill’s daughter Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, and granddaughter Samantha Drummonds, 27.
The family have been described as
“fun-loving”, “caring” and “kind” by a relative. Denton Burke’s sister Juleth Hutchinson said her brother “was a fun-loving and warm-hearted kind man whose laughter would bring joy to anyone in his presence.
The trained chef and Westminster council sanitation worker “showed his love through food”.
Dolet Hill, his wife of fifteen years “was a loving mother, grandmother, wife and friend who never turned anyone away and her smile will truly brighten anyone’s day.” A pharmacy assistant at Guy’s Hospital for twenty years, Ms Hill “was a woman with impeccable strength” who “always welcomed everyone with an open heart.”
Brandon Estate resident Tanysha Okori-Akuffo “was a doting wife, caring mother and a great friend,” Ms Hutchinson said, while her daughter Samantha Drummonds “was an upbeat, fun-loving, bubbly young lady who adored her grandmother Dolet”. “They had a beautiful relationship,” she said.
Sou T hwark CounC il dished out almost 25,000 bus lane fines over the last three years and one expert says many should be overturned.
Bus lane penalty charge notices (PCNs) are given to drivers who illegally use bus lanes, carrying fines as high as £130.
To catch offenders, Southwark Council uses nine cameras and one mobile camera, but one motor fine campaigner says the evidence these cameras collect is not admissible.
Ivan Murray-Smith says, under the London Local Authorities Act 1996 (LLAA 96), all bus lane cameras must be approved by the Secretary of the State. But in an email from the Home Office, Ivan was told that no London cameras had been approved since 2000.
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He says all fines handed out using evidence caught by London bus lane cameras are illegal and should be overturned in court.
Ivan has helped dozens of people, in Lambeth, Bromley and Hammersmith and Fulham councils, overturn fines and is yet to lose a single bus lane case since uncovering the issue.
Speaking on London councils generally, he said: “This is a staggering illustration of incompetence by those purporting to uphold the law. It is worth adding that it’s not most bus lane PCNs that are invalid, it’s all of them, without exception.”
In the periods 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022, the council issued 7,637, 8,374, and 8,826 respectively, totalling 24,837, according to a freedom of information.
It should be noted that this figure does not include fines handed out by TfL, which operates Jamaica Road, Tower Bridge and Queen’s Road among others.
Mr Murray-Smith says PCNs issued by TfL bus lane PCNs have exactly the same issue.
The number of fines being issued by the council appears to have increased dramatically over the last six years.
In 2018, the News reported that between April 2016 and March 2017, Southwark Council gave out 4,328 fines, ranking 21st out of 26 boroughs.
That comparatively low figure was a 156 per cent increase on the previous year. Since then fines issued have increased by another 104 per cent.
A 2022 report by Manifesto Club, a campaign group “against the hyperregulation of everyday life”, said:
“With budget pressures, many councils are becoming dependent on fining as a source of income for funding core services, departmental salaries, or special projects.”
Southwark Council has been approached for comment.
Exclusiv E Joshua Jacques (Facebook)Three PeCkham sixth formers went to Scotland Yard to give the new metropolitan Police Commissioner a list of recommendations on his first day in office.
The letter, delivered to the police headquarters on Monday, September 12, advised Met Police Commisioner Sir Mark Rowley to focus on local communities and make the police more transparent.
The young men, aged sixteen and seventeen, are part of ‘Elevated Aspirations’, a scheme that gives criminal justice work experience to young people from under-represented communities.
Tristan, 17, from Peckham, who recently completed the thirteen-week work experience placement, said he went into it with “an open mind and learned so much”.
Johnson Situ, who is hoping to be the next MP for Camberwell and Peckham, and accompanied the boys, said it was important that young people’s “voices” were heard.
Despite his successful internship, Tristan is still frank about the “fear” young black men have of police.
He said: “These are the people who are employed to protect us. And inherently, we feel fear when we see them. The boys you see here are law-abiding citizens. You’ll never ever find us doing a crime yet when we see a policeman our hearts will drop.”
Joel, 17, also from Peckham and studying A levels, agreed that the work experience placement had been positive: “Having interacted with them on a more human level, off the streets and in the classrooms, there’s definitely a more personal connection when speaking to them.”
But he too said the relationship between police and young people was still “nowhere near where it needs to be”.
That relationship received another blow last Monday, September 5, when an
unarmed black 23-year-old named Chris Kaba was shot dead by police.
Alpha, 16, also from Peckham said: “It doesn’t feel right killing a man that was unarmed. He may have been trying to get away but using that force to end his life…”
Alpha said the police needed to “take responsibility for their own actions” and prosecute the officer who shot Mr Kaba.
Joel said: “He’s a man who looked like me. I’m sure we had similar backgrounds so to see that - I was in shell shock. It could have been anyone. It could have been me, my friend, or my dad. It’s troubling to see.”
As of March 31 2021, just 1.3 per cent of police officers are black, with underrepresentation highest in the most senior ranks.
Asked if he would consider joining the police following his placement, Tristan said: “You have to be the change you want to see - I agree with that.
a 24-Y ear-old unarmed black man named Chris kaba has been shot dead by police in Streatham hill, sparking protests and calls for justice.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct is conducting a homicide investigation into his death.
A Met police officer was suspended from duty on Monday, September 12, but Mr Kaba’s family say that should have happened sooner.
Chris Kaba was shot by an officer in Kirkstall Gardens on Monday, September 5, after his vehicle was flagged by a number plate recognition camera.
At around 10pm, the camera flagged the Audi Mr Kaba was in as linked to a recent firearms incident. A pursuit followed, police boxed in the vehicle, and an officer shot Mr Kaba.
The IOPC said that CPR was “immediately administered” and ambulance service support was quickly requested. Kaba died later that night in hospital.
His death has been met by an outpouring of grief. Speaking outside their Dulwich home, Mr Kaba’s dad told a national paper: “We just don’t understand what happened. Why didn’t they shoot him in the leg, they could’ve done that. Why did they have to kill him?”
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) opened an investigation and quickly concluded that Mr Kaba was unarmed.
“But to put myself in that situation, knowing what the Met has done to people of my demographic and how my demographic feels towards the Met, I’m not sure that’s something I’d want to do
to myself.”
Joel said: “I feel like in order to make a change I have to be there to influence it. So, more so than before, I’d consider it as an option.”
PeCkham FeSTival will return to various venues across the area from this Thursday and this year they are going green.
Members of the community will be showcasing their art, music and lots more.
With lots of different events for people to get stuck into, the majority of the weekend is free to all. Jules Hill, the festival’s director, is excited but explains it hasn’t been easy.
“We got some of the Neighbourhoods Fund, but we didn’t get the council’s community funding this year because the event had to be on council property.”
It’s for this reason that the event is still scheduled to go ahead despite recent events. They are holding a minutes silence at 8pm on Sunday, to collectively pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.
Due to all the art on display, they couldn’t risk an outside venue with the weather - “So we’re relying on funding and sponsors from local businesses who
have all been amazing. It’s been a real community effort.”
The theme of the festival this year is sustainability.
It will all kick off with the launch event on Thursday at 6pm, which will include the opening of a permanent Festival Community Garden ‘Holdrons Green’ in Copeland Park and a human powered film screening of Grease by the Peckhambased company, Electric Pedals.
“We’ve also got an immersive fashion show featuring clothes made from recycled materials and sustainable methods - it’s going be a fully immersive experience!” Jules says.
There will also be a live music stagefeaturing up-and-coming, Peckham and South East London-based artists, such as Morgan Munroe, as well as community performances by the likes of Kinetika Bloco, a group with an exuberant mix of young brass and woodwind players, drummers, steel pan and dancers.
Over 100 local artists will be opening up their homes, studios or workshops to show their art to the community, as part of the “Made in Peckham” open space event. Street food will be supplied
over the festival weekend by all the local favourites and local start ups including Fat Crust and the Vegan Rasta.
“It’s very much a community celebration.”
“There’s two fabulous theatre shows about climate change - ‘St Joan/Greta’ at the Asylum Space and ‘Heavy Weather’ at Theatre Peckham - they’re performed by
Peckham Festival will run from Thursday 15th - Sunday 18th September across several different venues across Peckham, with the main sites being Copeland Park and Peckham Levels.
A full timetable of what’s on offer is on their website www.peckhamfestival.org
Their investigations would lead to the suspension of a police firearms officer. Met Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson said: “This decision has been reached following careful consideration of a number of factors, including the significant impact on public confidence, and in light of the IOPC announcing a homicide investigation.
“Our thoughts and sympathies remain with Mr Kaba’s family and friends. We understand how concerned communities are, particularly black communities, and thank those who are working closely with our local officers.”
On Saturday, September 10, hundreds of protestors gathered outside Scotland Yard with ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Justice for Chris Kaba’ banners.
Award-winning rapper Stormzy joined the crowds saying: “Chris has a mother, he has a family, he has brothers, he has friends, people who knew him in real life, who for them, it’s unbearable.”
Sky News apologised after a reporter mistakenly said that Chris Kaba protesters were there to mourn the Queen’s death.
Chris Kaba’s family have welcomed the decision to suspend the officer but say it should have happened sooner.
Jefferson Bosela, the family’s spokesman, said: “We welcome that decision [suspension] but, to be honest, I think the second a criminal investigation was opened he should have been suspended from there.”
Mr Bosela also said the family wasn’t told Mr Kaba had been killed until 11 hours after he’d died in hospital.
The IOPC investigation is ongoing.
local teenagers.” Tickets to these shows are on a donation basis. From left to right: Joel, Alpha and Tristan Photo by Nicola ReidSouThwark CounCil spent nearly £4 million on nine rooftop homes schemes that have since been abandoned.
The council, which has an ambitious programme to create 11,000 new social rent homes by 2043, indefinitely paused its controversial plans to build on the roofs of existing estates in July, as we exclusively reported.
Southwark said it paused the programme “after listening to residents’ views, and taking into consideration new building regulations and rising construction costs.”Rooftop homes spend
A Freedom of Information request by the borough’s Liberal Democrats shows how much the council spent on architects, designers, consultants and other advisers for each estate, with a total outlay of £3.75 million.
Southwark said the money went on surveys and investigation works on the existing buildings to make any new homes were safe and structurally sound. These were “necessary to get certainty on whether we could build these types of homes”, according to Cllr Darren Merrill, the council’s head of council homes and homelessness.
Preparing a planning application is a complicated task. A look at any application on Southwark’s planning portal shows dozens of documents needed to show the design and scale of a new building, how developers are planning to minimise its impact
on the natural environment and avoid overshadowing or otherwise inconveniencing neighbours. All of this adds up.
But Lib Dem leader Victor Chamberlain criticised the spending, which he called “reckless”.
He added: “We are in the middle of a cost-of-living emergency and Labour must avoid flip-flopping on future plans by ensuring from the start that any undertakings are a responsible use of residents’ money.”
Labour’s Cllr Merrill said: “We may still go on to build rooftop homes in future, the money spent on these works will provide a strong basis to proceed with
building rooftop extensions in future. Additionally, on some of the estates where rooftop homes were proposed, we are going ahead and building other types of new council homes. In these cases, the money spent on ground surveys and investigations will contribute to building new council homes.
“The cost of the Rooftop Homes programme amounts to around 1% of our total new homes building programme of £2.2 billion.
“The sums that are involved in building developments are huge, but we take any expenditure of taxpayers’ money extremely seriously and strive to spend as efficiently as possible.
“Any proposed new build scheme goes through a rigorous validation process to meet the council’s checks and balances.
We always spend to meet the needs of our residents and provide the best possible service we can for them.”
The council is building thousands of new homes to tackle its 16,500-household waiting list. Because of space constraints and the cost of land in central London, many schemes have been on existing estates – either next to or on top of buildings where people already live.
Some residents have been concerned about plans for the rooftop homes after the serious disruption caused
on Roderick House and Anthony House, next to the Abbeyfield Estate on Raymouth Road. This is a Lambeth and Southwark Housing Association development, rather than Southwark Council.
Residents in blocks earmarked for rooftop homes have also previously expressed safety concerns, citing a report by engineers Arup that said rooftop builds on pre-1970s blocks could cause disproportionate collapse.
The council said earlier in response to those concerns that the report makes “blanket comments” and any potential site would be judged on a “case by case” basis.
Residents protesting on the Nunhead Estate
By Herbie Russell herbie@southwarknews.co.uk
a ChamPion hill man went “absolutely mad” when he said he opened his uber eats order to find his mcdonald’s burger wrapped in a scrunchie “with hair on it”.
Forty-two-year-old retail worker Tim Naughton had just finished work and ordered the takeaway for his family from the McDonald’s on Butterfly Walk, Denmark Hill, at 7pm on Friday, September 2.
He claims that not only did it arrive almost two hours late and cold, but his McChicken Sandwich had a hairband with matted brown hair inside it, he says.
Not lovin’ it, Tim said: “It was grim mate, grim. People need to know about this sort of thing to be fair. It’s young people having a laugh but to me it’s not funny - it’s f***ing grim!”
Tim’s partner Karen Fox, 41, said the hairband “looked like a caterpillar” and made their daughter want to vomit. She says Tim was so cross she feared he was going to “smash up McDonald’s”.
Furious, Tim messaged Uber Eats’ customer complaints, saying: “Someone put a hair bobble in it, I’m absolutely lost for words.”
Karen’s mother has considered printing out pictures of the contaminated burger and putting them on the tables in the Denmark Hill restaurant to warn other customers.
Tim says Uber Eats has since offered him a full refund but he hasn’t yet reached a resolution with McDonald’s. Karen, also from Champion Hill, believes an employee may have been sabotaging Mcdonald’s. She said: “Maybe someone was trying to get them in trouble. If you wanted to get any company in trouble you’d have to do something like that so you know they’re gonna put it on social media.”
Asked how McDonald’s can make amends, Tim said: “I don’t want a lifetime membership, I wouldn’t mind a sorry or even just that they acknowledge that someone in that place has done that!”
A McDonald’s spokesperson said: “We are sorry to hear about this customer’s experience. Food safety is of the utmost importance to us and we place great emphasis on quality control, following rigorous standards to avoid any imperfections. We are currently investigating the matter and understand that our customer services team has been in touch with the customer to try to find a resolution.”
a T eenage boy has been ordered to pay compensation to a shop in Canada water after being found guilty of criminal damage.
The thirteen-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is allegedly part of a group of children a similar age who are terrorising local businesses and other community organisations - with offences including assault, harassment, public order offences and burglary.
Sean Baradaran, the owner of a separate business, the GreenZen cafe in Canada Water station, said the problem had been going on for about eight months, and had been getting worse in recent weeks. He said that the boy and his accomplices had caused him so much stress that he had developed alopecia - a condition where your hair falls out.
The harassment is also accompanied by threats, he claimed, with the boy allegedly telling Mr Baradaran that he could “make one phone call and put [him] in the back of a van”.
As well as being ordered to pay compensation, the boy was given a
youth referral order, which means he has to go to a youth offender panel, where he, and his parents or carers, have to commit to addressing the causes of his criminal activity and undoing the damage he has caused.
Officers said that further cases involving the same boy and other young people have been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service so that charges can be brought quickly.
Inspector Tom Cornish from Southwark Police said: “This boy and his associates have caused misery and alarm to the local community in Rotherhithe. However the strength of evidence gathered against him means that not only can he be brought to justice for what he has done but measures can be put into place to prevent further offending such as a Criminal Behaviour Order.
“This enforcement activity runs in parallel with efforts by police and our partners to steer him towards a better lifestyle”.
But Mr Baradaran said he was unconvinced that the youth referral order had made any difference. “It’s just constant, sustained harassment,” he said.
Mr Baradaran added that he had not been compensated for anything.
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“We understand the importance of reducing traffic and vehicle use but realistically some people have to use a car and be able to park it,” Mr North said, arguing that sometimes staff cannot take a bus or cycle because they are carrying heavy equipment. “These measures unfairly penalise our charity and the people we support.”
Ben North, who runs the Docklands Settlements’ centre on Salter Road, called the new Rotherhithe and Surrey Docks controlled parking zone (CPZ), which came into force last Monday (September 5), “very disappointing and damaging.”
Southwark Council has put in yellow lines where you cannot park and parking bays where you can pay to leave your car. That means staff and some people using the services have to pay.
Docklands Settlements staff, which provides social and sporting activities, said the changes would put off many of the elderly and young people who use their services, because they would not be able to pay.
Mr North said: “We have a plethora of activities for elderly people, those with young children, babies or disabilities, who will not be able to use the poor public transport service in the area which is essentially two infrequent bus routes. No additional bus services are being provided as far as I am aware.”
He added that the consultation “felt more like a tick-box exercise by the council” claiming that the staff’s objections and suggestions were not considered. Council officers maintain that the consultation was properly carried out.
Mr North continued: “Parking and traffic was never a major problem in the area anyway so it feels like the Council just see it as opportunity to raise cash but this comes at a cost to our charity and the numerous instructors, teachers and coaches who use our centre to provide sports and other activities to local people, who are set to miss out on opportunities to socialise and take part in sports and other activities.”
Kids football club Ballers Academy is one of the local groups that use the centre. Community director Richard White also spoke out against the plans, saying that “the council clearly aren’t listening to their residents”.
The council said they brought in the parking changes because they wanted to reduce the future congestion that is likely to come as a result of future developments, like British Land’s 3,000home Canada Water Masterplan.
Homes in that development are being marketed as largely without parking spaces, apart from for blue badge holders.
Cllr Ben Hood, a Liberal Democrat councillor, said: “I do support the objectives behind the scheme to reduce car usage and make Southwark a greener borough. But, the CPZ has been implemented atrociously and it is having a huge impact on residents. I am
hearing not only about disruption being caused to churches and local community organisations, but I have also received calls from residents distraught at the prospect of a fine for parking while they attend a funeral.
“Poorly administering an extra charge that residents say is subsequently affecting them unfairly during a cost-ofliving emergency shows that now the election is over Labour have stopped listening to our electorate.”
Contrary to what these community
groups told the News, the council said they do not think the new parking changes will have a negative affect on residents.
A report prepared for Southwark Council’s cabinet about the controlled parking zone said: “The proposals are not considered to have any adverse effect on socioeconomic or health equalities. Safety for pedestrians and in particular vulnerable users such as the elderly and disabled persons will be greatly assisted with clearer locations
where parking is permitted and also see where it is safer to cross the road.”
The new parking zone does not include Cullings Road, a cul-de-sac on the west side of Lower Road that is often used by people visiting Albins’ Memorial Garden.
But Jon Dyer, a director at Albins’ said a council officer had told him parking restrictions could be brought in there, too. That could mean people visiting their loved ones might now have to pay.
Southwark Council did not respond to a request for comment.
roTherhiThe CommuniTY groups have spoken out about a change to parking rules that mean people now have to shell out to use their service.
THe sons of a beloved Bermondsey funeral director have remembered the time when their father met the Queen to be given his oBe
Barry Albin-Dyer, who died in 2015, was given his award in December 2010. His sons Jon and Simon said they remembered “fondly” the occasion, when the Queen and Barry shared “what seemed to be a long conversation.”
Jon and Simon added in a written statement: “Maybe that’s our minds lengthening what was a spectacular and unforgettable moment. He described
gillian wolFe has had the pleasure of meeting the Queen on five separate occasions, her first encounter coming in 2000.
The Queen was visiting the Arts for Unemployed programme at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Here, she spoke to participants, including an Indian man whose work was later displayed at St Thomas’ Hospital.
“She was so interested in the man’s story, listening sympathetically and empathetically. He was beside himself to meet her. He was in heaven,” said Gillian.
Gillian, who received an MBE for her work in art and social activities, was later invited to the Queen’s garden party. Gillian
that moment as ‘surreal and magical’.
“Since losing our Dad in 2015, this memory has been a real comfort to us, and we don’t mind sharing with you that Her Majesty’s passing has caused many of our feelings from that devastating time to come floating back to the surface. We are sure this is the way many people who have lost loved ones feel, whether recently or time ago.
“We now bear witness to the beginning of a new reign as the Queen’s son, now King Charles III, continues her legacy. You can already see how her ways clearly form part of who he is. How proud Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip would be!”
said: “She had an absolutely fabulous smile and she always looked fantastic in beautiful colours.
“She would always stand out among the lines of men in dark suits like some sort of beautiful flower, always wearing wonderful hats.”
Gillian would also meet her at Holyrood, and at St Paul’s Cathedral, where the Queen thanked her for starting an orchestra at a Deptford school.
“She’s the mother of our country and there will never be anyone quite like her. I love her very much,” she said
BermondSe Y and rotherhithe charity fundraiser and Pearly king remembers meeting the Queen to receive an award for his charity work.
Jimmy Jukes, who runs the UK Homes 4 Heroes charity with Michelle Thorpe, said he was very keen to meet Queen Elizabeth to get his MBE rather than any of the other royals who hand out the awards.
An equerry came up to the waiting group, and he said he could not believe his luck when they were told it would be the Queen handing out the gongs
that day.
“She was very interested in the charity - we had about 15 minutes, and she was such a lovely lady. She was smiling, but I was so nervous - my bottle was flapping left right and centre... it’s such a loss.”
Jimmy and Michelle, who is the Pearly Queen, went in costume to Buckingham Palace after the Queen died, to pay their respects.
By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk
Several PeoPle from Bermondsey and rotherhithe were invited to lunch with the Queen for her diamond Jubilee.
Local residents Gary Magold and Barry Duckett were among the SE16 invitees to a lunch in Merton, for the
Queen’s south London stop on her Jubilee tour.
Gary said: “Three things struck me: how tiny she was, how she didn’t take her eyes off you, and her voice was much softer and lower than you might expect.
“It was so nice to have met her. 60 years on the throne and she had to meet me!,” he joked.
“It’s been really strange,” he said of the Queen’s death.
“You kind of did feel that something has happened.”
Barry Duckett, who describes himself as on the left of the Labour party, said it was “extraordinary” to meet her.
“Someone who came for nothing met the Queen. It’s laughable in a way... She was a pleasant lady.”
Meeting the Queen - Jimmy Jukes
liBeral demoCraT councillor for Borough and Bankside irina von wiese told the story of her german mother’s unlikely friendship with the Queen, just two years after the war.
Ossana von Wiese, was born in Cologne in 1926, the same year as the Queen.
After the war, she travelled to Britain to take part in a cultural exchange, an early example of post-war reconcilliation.
Ossana, aged 21, was one of a cohort that flew to Britain to travel around different UK cities meeting academics and students.
But just days into her tour, outside St Paul’s Cathedral, a double-decker bus
ran over her foot, flattening it.
Ossana couldn’t complete her tour because of the injury. Fortunately, her mother, a Russian refugee, had met a British woman from Windsor in Germany in the 1920s and they formed a life-long friendship.
So Ossana stayed at their family home in Windsor. The father of the family happened to be a forester on the Royal Family’s estate.
One morning, Ossana attended a chapel in Windsor. But when she went to rise during prayers she couldn’t because her foot hurt so much.
The Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, 21, the same age as Ossana, asked her why she couldn’t stand and Ossana explained her ordeal outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
Princess Elizabeth sympathised with
Ossana, complimented her English, and they spoke in-depth about healing British-German relations.
“Through that exchange, my mother ended up contributing a lot to reconcilliation, all be it not in the way she had intended,” said Irina.
Forever thankful for the Queen’s kind words, Ossana remained a staunch royalist for the rest of her life. Irina remembers how every Christmas Day she would rise for the Queen’s speech, which was broadcast on German television.
69 years later, aged 90, Irina wrote to the Queen. The Queen replied, saying she remembered Ossana and was happy to hear from her.
“It made my mother so happy”, said Irina.
By Herbie Russell herbie@southwarknews.co.uke ager To ensure her daughter
Princess anne could enjoy the company of girls her own age, the Queen set up a Brownies club at Buckingham Palace. Sue Badman, vice-chair of the dulwich Society was one of its members.
In the late ‘50s, Sue was a member of the Holy Trinity Brompton Brownies in Knightsbridge. Through the club, she met a friend of Princess Anne’s and was invited to the Buckingham Palace Brownies.
Sue remembers how the Queen would regularly attend their nativity plays, meetings and badge ceremonies.
By Isabel Ramirez isabel@southwarknews.co.ukChriS w il Son, who has been Ceo of Blackfriars-based organisation, Southwark Charities since 2012 told the News about the times he met Queen elizabeth ii.
“I first met her in 1982 - I worked for a successful software company and we won a Queen’s award. I was invited to Buckingham palace to collect it, along with two others.”
He has very fond memories of the occasion. “We hired a vintage Rolls Royce, and were given a badge we had to put on the dashboard to be allowed to enter the grounds. We all gathered in the picture gallery, and along with Her Majesty, we also shook hands with the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Kent. We had drinks and canapés and chatted.”
But this wasn’t their only meeting. “In 2008, I was finance director for St Bride Foundation.”
St Bride Foundation, based next to St Brides Church on Bride Lane, is a major hub for the creative arts in London. In
1940, the church was bombed, then rebuilt and reconsecrated in 1958. Fifty years later, in 2008, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh came to commemorate it. “Unfortunately she didn’t recognise me,” Chris jokes.
He said she recognised the work they’d
done as an organisation to rebuild the Church. She was impressed, but the Duke of Edinburgh was distracted by something else - “I wasn’t escorting him around, but I remember someone saying he got very irritated with someone’s tie, as it wasn’t the correct uniform.”
She said: “The Queen was very generous on reflection. We had quite the run of the
palace and you could walk along corridors freely and see the gifts the Queen had received from world monarchs and leaders.
“The Queen and the Duke were always enthusiastic about our activities just like any parents.
“During this time, the Queen gave birth to Prince Andrew and I remember him as a baby sitting in his pram in the gardens.
“Anne was an amenable companion and a very pleasant girl. But she stood her ground, especially to her older brother Charles. She certainly knew who she was!”
Princess Anne went to Benenden School aged thirteen and the guide company came to an end.
Much later in life, Sue went to a Buckingham Palace Garden Party and met the Queen once more.
By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uka waTerloo woman has still got the cake commemorating the day she met the Queen, nearly twenty years on.
Jacquie Gilmartin, from the Dodson and Amigo Estate, was working for Eurostar in Waterloo Station in 2004, when the Queen visited for the tenth anniversary.
Jacquie held the door open for the
Queen and Prince Philip as they came through security, but was so busy she forgot to curtsey.
“She was really nice - she gave me a little smile as she went through,” Jacquie said.
They were given memorial cakes to commemorate the event, and Jacquie still has hers, eighteen years on. “It’s just a nice memory,” she said.
Meeting the Queen - Sue Badman
a roTherhiThe man has recalled the time he worked as a pipe-fitter in Buckingham Palace for two years in the late 1980s.
Steve Cornish, 70, said he never got to meet the Queen during his stint at the palace, but made friends with a lot of the staff who worked there.
Steve, who describes himself as “an absolutely staunch royalist”, recalls seeing the huge Canaletto paintings that are part of the royal collection at Buckingham Palace, as well as the famous Faberge collection, originally acquired by Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century.
Steve and his colleagues also used to watch investitures - when people are given honours like a knighthoodthrough a keyhole.
About five years ago, Steve went back because he was invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace in recognition of
his work in the Rotherhithe community.
He brought his daughter and tried to tell her about his pipe work, but she wasn’t interested, he said.
Steve’s passion for the Queen remained undimmed and this summer he
organised a big party for her Platinum Jubilee in Rotherhithe (pictured above), with thousands of people showing up. He said: “We were so determined because we knew what might be around the corner.”
By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uka BermondSeY man used to feed the Queen’s horses as a boy.
Russell Dryden, who is now a fishmonger and runs the Blue Bermondsey business improvement district (BID), used to go with his father to deliver coal to Buckingham Palace in the early 1960s.
His father worked for Charringtons,
a company that was first set up in the 1730s, and which had the contract to deliver coal to Buckingham Palace.
“It seems strange to think of it now but we used to drive right in through the back entrance,” Russell said. He never got to meet the Queen, but while he was waiting he would feed the horses in their stables.
Unsurprisingly, Buckingham Palace is no longer heated with coal, since 199495 operating on a combined heat and power system that uses natural gas.
By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk
Queen eliza Be T h ii came to rotherhithe in 1977 to mark her Silver Jubilee - 25 years on the throne.
Her visit was immortalised in a video produced by Southwark Council that shows her greeting residents, meeting the borough mayor, watching a local history pageant and unveiling the memorial stone on June 9, 1977.
In the video, the Queen and her husband Prince Philip arrive by boat and are piped ashore by Southwark sea cadets.
The road sides appear thronged with excited people of all ages, watching and cheering - with children even trying to run after the car carrying the Queen and Prince Philip further into Rotherhithe.
The Southwark orchestra played a specially-written silver Jubilee piece for the royal couple as they came past, written by public relations officer George Graves. The orchestra and accompanying choir were conducted by Dennis Coleman.
The Queen and Prince Philip were led on the visit by Southwark Mayor Cllr Harold Young, where they had “a chance to mingle with the people of Southwark,” according to the video narrator.
“There are thousands of people waiting here, and have been for many hours, just to get a glimpse of the Queen on her Jubilee visit to the London Borough of Southwark,” the narrator added.
The Royal Fusiliers formed a guard of honour for the royal couple as they moved to the official reception area to unveil the jubilee stone.
Cllr Young said the stone would serve as “a permanent reminder” of the Queen’s visit. The material for the stone “was part
of” the Surrey Docks, and was reworked and given back by the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.
After the Queen met the various members of the Jubilee committee. local people but on a Southwark history pageant.
This featured Henry V on his horse, with children running to meet the king on his return through Southwark after his victory in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
‘Henry’ doffed his cap to the Queen as he went past.
After that, Shakespearean characters like Hamlet, Titania and Oberon from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lord Falstaff and Romeo and Juliet.
Then Dickensian characters like Fagin from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Scrooge.
After them came street performers like jugglers and circus acts. Then Marc and
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the father and son team behind the Rotherhithe Tunnel.
After that came local children, with the slightly odd sight of “the stiltman”, on an enormous pair of stilts.
Lastly were a steel band playing on top of a van, led by a local schoolteacher.
After the ceremony, Cllr Young gave the Queen a book of prints of Southwark as a present to commemorate the occasion.
Following a fanfare by musicians from
the Royal School of Military Music, the Queen and Prince Philip got back in the car and drove off, with the stilt man in the background, as adoring crowds waved the royal couple off.
Gary Magold, who as we have reported met the Queen in 2012, took part in the festivities as a thirteen year old boy, along with fellow local resident Steve Cornish, whose uncle was a Labour councillor at the time.
‘I used to feed the Queen’s horses as a boy’
a BermondS e Y vicar has spoken about his admiration for the Queen, because he could tell that her Christian faith was genuinely deep.
Gary Jenkins, vicar of St James’ Church on Jamaica Road and St Anne’s in Thorburn Square, said: “The Queen means a lot to us in the C of E because her faith was very real.
“She spoke about her faith with real simplicity and clarity.”
The monarch is the Defender of the Faith - meaning the Church of Englanda title that dates back to Henry VIII. But not every king or queen is devout, despite being the head of the English church.
Gary never met the Queen but was at her last appearance on the balcony, and happened to be very close when she came out. “There was a huge crowd and huge cheers when she came out,” he said.
St James’ and St Anne’s both had services in memory of the Queen on Friday, September 9, the day after she died. There will be another special service of thanksgiving and commendation at both churches next Sunday September 18, the day before her state funeral.
“There’s a sense that we are commending her into God’s hands before the funeral. We’re placing the Queen in God’s hands.”
By Herbie Russell herbie@southwarknews.co.uk
Sou T hwark dioC e S e has paid tribute to the Queen, thanking her for her “courage in adversity, steadfast faith and the duty she rendered devotedly to her country”.
The Queen visited Southwark Cathedral in 1955 and 2013 and, on Sunday, crowds gathered once more to witness the proclamation of King Charles III.
On April 7, 1955, less than three years into her 70-year reign, the Queen attended the church’s Royal Maundy Service with her husband Prince Phillip.
The Maundy Service takes place every Thursday before Easter Sunday and saw the Queen give money to local pensioners.
A devout Christian, she used the service to mark Jesus washing the feet of the Apostles during the last supper. A video
a n elePhan T and Castle primary school has paid tribute to the Queen with a folder of students’ thoughts and prayers, as well as flowers.
Staff at St Jude’s Primary School told students about the death of the Queen in an assembly on Friday morning, and explained what it meant.
Then students wrote prayers, tributes and reflections on the Queen’s death, before acting deputy headteacher Matt Jones took a group of five to Buckingham Palace to place them by the gates along with bouquets of flowers. Students from sister schools Peter Hill and St Peter’s also did the same.
Mr Jones said: “The children took it very seriously - they were quite absorbed. There was quite a solemn and calm atmosphere. I think lots of them were impressed by her sense of duty, that she was working up to her final days.”
of the service is available online at ‘BBC Rewind’.
Southwark Cathedral was chosen in 1955 to celebrate the jubilee anniversary of the Southwark Diocese, founded in 1905. Speaking after her death, Bishop Christopher Chessun said: “Our beloved Queen will be remembered for her devotion to her peoples, to this nation and to the Commonwealth of Nations and there will be opportunities in the coming days and weeks for us all to express our heartfelt thanks for her life and example.”
The Queen would visit Southwark Cathedral again on Thursday, November 21, 2013, this time to view the Cathedral’s Diamond Jubilee window.
The royal couple had driven to the cathedral via Duke Street Hill and Tooley Street to be greeted at the Millennium Courtyard by the Lord Lieutenant who had walked ahead in full uniform.
Pupils from the Cathedral School had
cheered and waved homemade flags as the Queen and her husband entered the north door.
Nine years later, last Sunday, the Cathedral hosted the proclamation of King Charles III.
The Very Revd Andrew Nunn said: “It was an honour to host the Proclamation ceremony for the London Borough of Southwark in the Cathedral on Sunday afternoon.
“Hearing the cry, ‘God save the King’ ringing round the ancient vaults, that have witnessed so many royal events and visits, was deeply moving. Whilst we mourn, we also rejoice. For I am sure the blessings that we experienced during the reign of Her Late Majesty will continue to be felt through our nations and the Commonwealth in this new era.”
Southwark Cathedral is putting on a requiem eucharist for the Queen on Friday, September 16, at 5.30pm.
By Herbie Russell herbie@southwarknews.co.uk
PeoPle walking along Tooley Street on Friday afternoon heard the 96-gun salute echo across the Thames, as the Tower of london saluted her majesty one last time.
Ninety-six shots, one for each year of Queen Elizabeth II’s life, were fired from the historic castle and Hyde Park at 1pm on Friday ,September 9, the day after the Queen’s passing.
Crowds gathered at Potter’s Fields Park, a green space on the south bank
of the Thames, next to Tower Bridge, to witness it.
Gun salutes are traditional for royal celebrations and commiserations. The Royal Family website says: “On special days, such as anniversaries and birthdays, Royal salutes are fired from various locations in London and across the UK.
Churches were also asked to toll their bells, with the Church of England sending out guidance to parishes, chapels and cathedrals across the country encouraging them to open for prayer or special services.
Kirby Estate in Bermondsey flying its Union Flag at half mast Millwall tribute left outside the Buckingham Palaceh undredS oF taxi drivers converged on the mall outside Buckingham Palace to pay their respects following the Queen’s passing.
As the rain poured, roughly 200 cabbies parked facing the royal residence, lights turned on, with many staying for three hours.
Chairman of the Bermondsey-based London Cab Drivers Club, Grant Davis, said: “I was in the cab doing the job and all of a sudden the radio came on saying the Queen has just passed.
“I told the fella in the back of the cab and he got really animated and upset. I
thought he was going to cry. He phoned his wife and I could hear him holding it together.”
The impromptu gathering was organised by cab drivers calling each other over their radios. They performed a similar ovation when Prince Phillip died in 2021.
Police later closed the roads around Buckingham Palace as thousands of mourners flocked to the palace to share their grief.
ITV News tweeted a heart-wrenching video where a taxi driver outside Buckingham Palace chokes up as he explains how she was “the only constant we had in our lives”.
Grant said: “I think her passing for a lot of old people is much more
significant than for the younger generation.
“A lot of people, like my mum of the dad who lived through the war, say she was there for them, holding the country together.”
The Royal Family has a long-running connection with the London taxi trade. For many years, Prince Philip owned a gas-powered eco-friendly Metrocab.
Modelled on the contemporary black cab, it was the only one of its kind in the world and is now on display at the Sandringham Museum.
Members of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, which takes military veterans on outings in black cabs, have been invited to the Royal Garden Party on several occasions.
Sou T hwark ha S several places where you can pay your respects to Queen elizabeth ii in public.
If you would like to sign a book of condolences, you can do so in the following places, at the following times: Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, SE1 9DA. Come on any day between 8am and 10pm.
Southwark Council London Bridge offices, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH. Come on any day between 8am and 6pm.
Southwark Council Peckham offices, 132 Queen’s Road, SE15 2HP. Come on any day between 8am and 6pm.
Dulwich Library, 368 Lordship Lane, SE22 8NB. Come during the library’s normal opening hours.
Canada Water Library, 21 Surrey Quays Road, SE16 7AR. Come during the library’s normal opening hours.
Walworth Road Library, 147 Walworth Rd, SE17 1RW. Come during the library’s normal opening hours.
Camberwell Library, 48 Camberwell Green, SE5 7AL. Come during the library’s normal opening hours.
You can also sign the national online Book of Condolence.
There are three places in Southwark where you can lay flowers:
Southwark Cathedral, at London Bridge, SE1 9DA. Floral tributes may be placed outside in the South Churchyard Dulwich Park, College Lodge, near College Road entrance, SE21 Chumleigh Gardens in Burgess Park, Chumleigh Street, SE5 0RN
Cllr Kieron Williams, leader of Southwark Council, said “This is a very sad day for our country and for the Royal Family, who are very much in Southwark’s thoughts and prayers.
“It was a huge honour for our borough when Her Majesty the Queen visited the Shard in 2013; a short but welcome stop on what has been an incredible seventy-year long service to public life and to our country. I would like to extend our borough’s deepest condolences to the royal family at this difficult time.”
By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uka BermondS e Y woman who turned 100 on Tuesday, September 13, is set to be among the first in the borough to receive a letter of congratulations from the new king, Charles iii.
Applications are closed at the moment, but Bridie Collins and her daughters Mary and Janice said they would be writing to ask for a letter soon.
Bridie was born and raised in Ireland, first in County Louth and then County Meath. Life in the newly independent country could be tough at times - she and her siblings didn’t wear shoes growing up - but she said they were happy. Sadly, her mother died when she was young of blood poisoning after being pricked by a thorn.
She moved to the UK after the Second World War for work as a chambermaid,
which she didn’t like much and did various jobs afterwards including in a hospital. Life in London was also difficult for the Irish at that time. “We used to see these signs - no blacks, no dogs, no Irish”, she said.
Bridie had seven children, five grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Sadly, two of her children have died. Her husband Samuel, or Sid as he was widely known, also died about thirty years ago.
She was first given a council flat in a Victorian terraced house in Camberwell, where her young son Max said he saw the ghost of a young red-haired woman who had recently killed herself there. Bridie said Max came in and asked her to “see the lovely lady”, after seeing a red-haired woman pushing the pram back and forth.
Bridie was later given a new home near Grange Road in Bermondsey, before getting her new place in Emba Street, where she has lived for the past 53 years.
As she got older, she started going to the Blackfriars Settlement club for elderly people. She has now been a regular for about twenty years, and until recently
used to walk two miles to every session.
Asked for the secret of her long life, she said at first that it was “good care on both sides of the water. I’ve got two
wonderful daughters, and wonderful and granddaughters and their fellas.”
She added jokingly: “No drinking, no smoking - and plenty of sex!”
Bridie Collins (centre) with her two daughtersThe ToP half of Southwark Park has closed off as the queue begins for the Queen lying in state.
The queue is expected to run more than four miles from the Bermondsey park on Jamaica Road past Tower Bridge, along the South Bank to Lambeth Bridge, making it eventually to Westminster Hall, where the Queen will be lying in a closed coffin.
The Queen will be lying in state from Wednesday evening until early on Monday morning, the day of her funeral.
Some have predicted queues of about 750,000 to see the Queen, as people from all over the country to pay their respects to the 96-year-old monarch. Signs have already been put up along the route.
Preparation were underway to provide toilets, stewards and water for people in the queue.
The Queen Mother was the last person to lie in state, in 2002, when an estimated 200,000 people visited to pay tribute.
Other notable occasions when famous figures have lain in state include.
• 1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, the former Prime Minister
• 1910 - King Edward VII
• 1936 - King George V
• 1952 - King George VI
• 1953 - Queen Mary
• 1965 - Sir Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister
Advice for people planning to queue:
The queue is expected to be very long. You will need to stand for a long time, possibly overnight.
There will be very little opportunity to sit down, as the queue will keep moving, so think about this before deciding to
bring children with you.
You are only allowed to bring one small bag per person into the Palace of Westminster.
It must be smaller than 40cm x 30cm x 20cm, with one simple opening or zip so you can move quickly through the security check.
If you have to bring a larger bag, you will need to leave it in bag drop, but
By Kit Heren kit@southwarknews.co.uk
BermondS e Y S T ree T Festival planned for next Saturday has been cancelled after Southwark Council said they would not be issuing a licence following the death of Queen elizabeth ii.
Southwark Council told organisers that they would not be issuing a licence for the festival’s scheduled date of September 17 - nine days after the death of the Queen, but still in the official mourning period.
An email from a council events officer said: “I’m sorry to have to let you know that the council will not be issuing an event licence for the Bermondsey Street Festival to take place on 17th September as originally planned.
“If you would like to discuss the possibility of deferring to a postponed date (i.e. in at least two weeks’ time, beyond the period of mourning) then we would be happy to look at that with you early next week, though I understand that this will not be an easy option given the amount of work that has already gone into event preparations and the number of stakeholders involved.”
The annual Bermondsey Street Festival features local arts and crafts, music and even a dog show.
Event organisers said they would now be cancelling the festival altogether, although they would have preferred to go ahead.
“While we would wish to continue with Bermondsey Street Festival in this challenging time as it is an important part of our Community, the Council take a different view and we are unable to proceed,” they
said in a statement.
A concert for Bermondsey and Rotherhithe’s beloved socialist mayor Ada Salter planned for today (Saturday September 10) has been postponed after organisers got a concerned email from the council.
The email said: “We know that this is extremely short notice, so if you are unable to postpone the event, we would ask that you not play any musical instruments or conduct any activities in an overly celebratory way, in respect of the situation we find ourselves in.” Organisers said they were looking for an alternative date.
The government’s official guidance on mourning says: “There is no obligation to cancel or postpone events and sporting fixtures, or close entertainment venues during the National Mourning period. This is at the discretion of individual organisations.
“As a mark of respect, organisations might wish to consider cancelling or postponing events or closing venues on the day of the State Funeral. They are under no obligation to do so and this is entirely at the discretion of individual organisations.”
there is no guarantee there will be space.
Other things you might want to bring:
Suitable clothing for the weather, because it might rain. Please bring sun cream if you think you might need it. Food and drinks for the queue, because there might not be anywhere to buy it along the route.
Clear water bottles are the only food or drink allowed in the palace, but must be
emptied before you get into the security area. Mobile phone charger. You are likely to be in the queue for a long time, so consider bringing a small portable power bank to use.
Essential medication or equipment that you need to keep with you. Please explain this to the security staff or police at the security search point, so they can check the items.
m an Y re Tail chains are set to close for the Queen’s funeral on monday, September 19, while pubs appear likely to stay open.
The government has said that companies do not have to suspend business on the day of the funeral, which is also a bank holiday - but that some may choose to. The decision is “at the discretion of individual businesses”, according to the guidance.
Here’s a breakdown of what is going to stay open on Monday, and what is going to close.
ShoPS
• Sainsbury’s and Argos will close all stores
• Asda will close all its stores from midnight on Sunday to 5pm
• Tesco will close all of its large stores, with its smaller shops to open until 5pm.
• Aldi will close all stores
• Lidl will close all stores
• Co-op will close all stores until 5pm
• Iceland will close all stores
• Poundland will close all stores
• Marks & Spencer will close all stores
• John Lewis and Waitrose will close all stores
• B&Q will close all stores
• Ikea will close all stores
• Curry’s will close all stores
Some food banks, which are usually staffed by volunteers are also expected to be shut on the day. Southwark Food Bank will not open, nor will the Bermondsey Pantry on Southwark Park Road. Kathleen Heather of the Bermondsey Pantry said they would ask everyone who usually comes on Monday to
come in on Friday so they can stock up.
PuBS
Pubs are largely going to stay open to allow people to come together and raise a glass in tribute to the Queen.
Pubs run by chains like Wetherspoons, Greene King and the Stonegate Group will also stay open on the day of the funeral.
For independent pubs it is best to check, but in Bermondsey the Ancient Foresters on Southwark Park Road and the Victoria on Page’s Walk both confirmed they would stay open. The Ancient Foresters will close early, at 7pm, while the Victoria will close at midnight as normal.
The Surrey Quays Odeon, Kino Bermondsey, BFI Southbank and IMAX and Peckhamplex will all shut for the entire day.
The News has asked East Dulwich Picturehouse for their plans.
With hundreds of thousands of people set to descend on London for the funeral, Transport for London (TfL) has asked people not to drive in the centre of the capital if possible.
Extra railways services are running overnight into central London, with services and stations to be packed. Check the rail enquiries website for more information on train times. The Tube is also expected to be extremely busy and people wanting to travel that day have been asked by authorities to allow more time than normal to get around.
we were deeply saddened to hear the news that her majesty Queen elizabeth ii had died last Thursday, 8 September. our deepest sympathies are with her family at this difficult time.
For many years the Queen and other members of the royal Family have had long and close associations with all of our hospitals.
we will always value and appreciate these important connections and the ways in which they have supported our work.
The Queen visited our staff and patients on a number of occasions during her long reign, including the opening of guy’s house in 1961, north wing at St Thomas’ hospital in 1976, and Sydney wing at royal
Brompton hospital in 1991.
Some of the Queen’s visits to our hospitals, which brought joy to so many of our patients and staff, are remembered here.
Chief executive, Professor ian abbs
Queen Elizabeth II speaking to a patient in New Guy’s House on 5 July 1961. Credit: Gordon Museum Queen Elizabeth II visiting Guy’s Tower in 1976 Queen Elizabeth II arriving to officially open New Guy’s House on 5 July 1961. Credit: Gordon Museum Queen Elizabeth II unveiling the plaque at the opening of New Guy’s House on 5 July 1961. Credit: Gordon MuseumLondon waS Queen elizabeth ii’s birth place, her home, and her return to the capital this week felt strangely like a family member returning to be laid to rest. She will be lying-in-state in Westminster Abbey; our island’s historic place for King’s and Queen’s throughout the ages. And Southwark, London’s oldest borough, will be a major part of that. As the nation and indeed the world mourns the loss of Her Majesty – the longest serving and now being proclaimed our greatest monarch by many. Hers was an extraordinary story, of a remarkable 96-year-old woman driven by duty, sustained by faith and kept happy by simple things in life, like the love of her family, her dogs and her horses. She was from a generation that faced a World War like no other, and for many she was the only monarch we knew. In a world where there is so much that is bad and wrong, where the pages of our newspapers including our own and coverage on our screens is so often of death, destruction and difficulties – she has remained a force for good. A decent, discreet woman, a constant in an ever-changing world of celebrities, social media and a hunger for fame. It is said up to a third of the nation at one point or other have met the Queen and in today’s paper, published exactly one week after she died, we hear from the people in Southwark who met her and the many more who were touched by her presence on the throne. As the editor of the paper I have been in her presence on a couple of occasions, but never spoke to her. In my first meeting I was semi naked and yellow, as I was the eldest of twins born prematurely with jaundice at the newly built Guy’s Tower. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh came to open it and took time to visit the unit my sister and I were in - my mother was delighted when she commented about us: “Aren’t they sweet.”
It is in walk-about, visits and at official occasions spanning over 70 years that we as a nation got to know our monarch like never before. It was deeply moving that in the week she died she continued to fulfil her duties, saying goodbye to a Prime Minister and welcoming another and that same afternoon, her horse winning the 3.20 race at Goodwood. It was a wonderful end for a woman who enjoyed the simple things in life and was an exemplar of duty. To see her family, especially our new King, doing as she did all her life - carrying out his duty despite his obvious grief - sends out a message of integrity and consistency at a time when our country needs it.
Of course not everyone is as engaged in her passing, but most people are and over the coming days in Southwark we will witness queues of mourners on a route from Southwark Park, along the Thames, up the South Bank, and across Lambeth Bridge. It will take planning and patience, but we hope that residents will see it as privilege to be part of such a chapter in our history.
The Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan said this week: “We are expecting extremely large queues that could go up to 30 hours. And it won’t be 30 hours for everybody, but I think it’s important that, before people set off, that they know just how long it could take, potentially. So we are supporting people through the queue, working with a number of partners like the Samaritans, the Red Cross - also having stewards there, as well, and working with the Metropolitan Police. So there’ll be over 1,000 people per day who will be on hand to support people, to offer them advice, guidance.”
We hope that it will be a time of bringing people together, as the Queen clearly managed to do throughout her long life and reign.
Clues Across
Plant may suit many an amorous person (6)
Homes for the rocks (7)
9 Be a swindle, and a conspicuous one at that (6)
10 He’s not at home here (9)
11 Two hogsheads to be smoked (4)
13 Periods when to come to agreement (5)
14 The clothing for father to preserve as the answer? (7)
16 A sitting sounds like giving up (7)
18 Spread gradually outwards from 9 across (5)
19 Proceed in strict rotation (4)
21 A pointing finger for example (9)
22 Stole five hundred out of the most senior? (6)
2021 Elections to the Council of GovernorsKing’s College Hospital
At King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, our Council of Governors play a vital role in giving a voice to our patients, members of the public, staff and partner organisations, so that they may help shape the services we deliver and ensure that those services meet the needs of the communities we serve.
Nominations are now open for our 2021 governor elections in the following constituencies:
• Public (Lambeth) 3 vacancies
• Public (Southwark) 3 vacancies
• Patient 4 vacancies
• Staff (Nursing & Midwifery) 1 vacancy
If you are passionate about your local health services, are a Lambeth or Southwark resident, have been a patient of King’s, or are a carer for a King’s patient or are a member of staff in one of the above groups and would like to be the voice of your local community, please consider standing as a governor.
Nomination forms can be downloaded, completed and submitted on our dedicated election portal: www.cesvotes.com/Kings2021. Alternatively, please request a hard copy from our Returning Officer, Ciara Norris, on 020 8889 9203 or email Ciara.Hutchinson@cesvotes. com. The deadline for nominations is 5pm on Monday 8th March, 2021. You can visit our website for more information: https://www.kch.nhs.uk/about/organisation/ council-of-governors/election You may also give us a call on 020 3299 4004 or email kch-tr.FTO@nhsnet.
To be eligible, you must be 16 or over and a member of King’s living in a constituency in which an election is being held. If you are not yet a member of King’s, you can join free by emailing kch-tr.members@nhs.net. To be nominated and to vote in this round of elections you need to be a registered member by 5pm on Monday 8th March, 2021.
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23 Does it stretch from Castile? (7)
24 Fly and get a fitting (6)
1 Is able to open, so why the hesitation at the end? (36)
2 The limit in a speech contest (9)
3 Bound to secure against loss (5)
5 Give a knowing look when the dance is up (4)
6 It’s sacrificed in the new civic timetable (6)
7 Extends to the mountains (6)
9 Started to ask an individual (5)
11 Sounds like a matey but foolish bedfellow! (9)
12 Suitable revolt in charge of supporting one’s own country (9)
15 This blank is very close (5)
16 Headstrong victim of the guillotine (6)
17 Mean to do Sarah initially or did (6)
20 Lily’s become ridiculous (5)
21 The spot perhaps lies in the blue sea (4)
FaShioniSTaS oF all shapes, colours, creeds and ages were out at Southbank Centre’s royal Festival hall to celebrate the launch of edward enninful’s a visible man, a memoir of his life that began on a military base in ghana and finds him now as editor-in-Chief of the British arm of top magazine vogue, writes michael holland.
The Royal Festival Hall and its many bars and grand staircases doubled up as catwalks as grand entrance after grand entrance caught our eye - And this swagger was all before the evening had even begun.
Once we were all in our seats a short trailer for the book was shown, an incredibly stylish black and white affair with top models and actors reading favourite phrases from A Visible Man. Already I couldn’t wait to get home and begin reading my copy.
At the film’s end, Misan Harriman, who is the Chair of the Southbank Centre, came on stage to read his own favourite section from the book and then introduced the man himself. As one, the packed house stood and gave him a long, heartfelt ovation. He was humbled.
Edward, after giving his thanks and returning the love to us, brought on another legend, Michaela Coel, to lead the discussion that took in a potted history of Edward’s life. While already friends, the two discovered they had another bond - their mothers grew up
in the same Ghanaian village.
And so the love-fest continued, with questions from the audience also answered, and with each revelation the more I could not wait to get started on the book.
Edward threw names like Idris,
Naomi, Kate, and Rihanna about like confetti, but there was no hint of a boast at any time. In fact, he remarked more than once how he often wonders how he reached such high positions in his various jobs. He became editor of i-D magazine aged
just 18, more so because the current editor was leaving and gave him the job on the way out of the door!
But through sheer hard work and determination Edward Enninful also became a stylist on two continents and helped changed the fashion industry from the inside; it is now not so elitist or classist, nor white maledominated. He put black models on magazine covers when all around him advised against it; brought the ‘othered’ up instead of holding them back; showed that he was the right person for the job and proved himself constantly over many years in many roles until he became the editor of British Vogue.
This is a great story about a black immigrant finding himself in South London with hardly any family here; a young man with debilitating diseases he has to deal with constantly, plus realising he is gay with a homophobic father. A great story that had to be told and there is no one better placed to tell it than Edward himself.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN: 9781526657015
Number of pages: 304 RRP: £25
The evening began with a minute’s silence after one of the Young vic staff stood on the stage and informed the audience of the Queen dying. You could tell that many of them did not know. The play about a dying man began soon after, writes michael holland.
Ivo van Hove translated, adapted and directed Édouard Louis’ autobiographical Who Killed My Father, with Hans Kesting playing everyone.
Édouard is visiting his sick father, a man he tells everyone who asks that he hates. Even those that don’t ask are told.
He relives his life of a household filled with anger, recalling the smallest detail of those moments that can never be forgotten - A look, a word, a feeling left behind. Édouard boils his life down to the saddest of memories while telling himself he will not repeat the mistakes made by his father, or of his father before him.
At some point he sees that his dad had tried to not be the same as his own father, running off to see the world instead of going straight from school to the factory as everyone else did. But he is drawn back to live that life.
Kesting, alone on the bare stage, interacts with ghosts. We see how he
reaches the conflict between hating and loving his father. He then recalls some of the sweet times; being bought the Titanic Collector’s Edition DVD, drives to the beach with just his father. We hear how his mother tells him to stop acting like a girl as the whole village is calling him names and shaming the family. He gets his revenge on her for those foul and hurtful words.
An accident at work means there is no money coming in and the government change the rules so the unemployed cannot get the medical help they need.
Medication for constant back pain costs money, so the father has to return to back-breaking work or lose the little welfare money they get.
By the end, Édouard is on the side of the father and we discover that he has led his life fighting the injustice he saw metaphorically killing his father: ‘The ruling class broke your back all over again,’ he tells his dad as he screams out the names of the guilty.
Hans Kesting gives a superb performance in this unmissable work.
Young Viv, The Cut, SE1 until 24th Sept. Times: Tues - Sat 7.30pm; Sat matinee 2.30pm.
Admission: £40 - £12.50.
Booking: www.youngvic.org
Photo by Pete WoodheadStart date: September 2022
Salary : Hay Grade 3, Salary Spine point 4 £23,421 pro–rata - Actual salary £4,096pa.
Hours: 7.5 hours a week. Mon-Fri 12.00 - 13:30
Term Time only (38 weeks pa)
Southwark Park is an inclusive primary school with a fantastic team spirit. We have the highest expectations of every child.
We are looking for someone who:
• Has a positive attitude to working with adults and children
• Has experience of working with young children
• Can work as part of a team.
• Can provide a high level of supervision for children in the playground or indoors in wet weather.
• Can organise and lead games.
• Can administer minor First Aid.
To apply, please request an application pack, including the full job description from the School Business Manager.
Closing date: 12pm on 20th September 2022
Interviews: Week beginning 26th September 2022
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicant.
1 The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable various works to be carried out, it intends, to make, an order, the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads
2 Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in:
(a) Braganza Street, between No’s 40 and No’s 46, located between Gaza Street and Doddington Grove
(b) Tabard Street, Cycle route and carriageway located outside and opposite 11 Tabard Street to its junction with Long Lane and Long Lane to Borough High Street
(c) Manor Place northside lane of carriageway at it’s junction of Walworth Road for 35m west (d) Omeara Street, between Southwark Street and Union Street
(e) Union Street, between Southwark Bridge Road and Ayres Street
(f) Union Street, between Redcross Way and Borough High Street
(g) Great Suffolk Street, south bound lane of carriageway, between No’s 59 and Union Street
3 The alternative route for affected traffic (2a) Doddington Street, Harmsworth Street, De Laune Street, Braganza Street (2b) Borough High Street, Great Dover Street, Silvester Street Tabard Street Pilgrimage Street Borough High Street (2c) Manor Place Penton Place Penrose Street, Walworth Road (2d) Southwark Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Union Street Southwark Street, Redcross Way, Union Street, Borough High Street, Southwark Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Union Street (2e) & (2f) Union Street, Southwark Bridge Road, Marshalsea Road, Ayres Street, Redcross Way, Borough High Street, Southwark Street (2g) as
by
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BRAGANZA STREET, TABARD STREET, MANOR PLACE, OMEARA STREET, UNION STREET, GREAT SUFFOLK STREET)1 The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable various works to be carried out, it made, an order, the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads
2 Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs/road markings are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in:
(a) Drummond Road, between No’s 121 (Drummond Christian Centre)
(b) Hatcham Road, between No’s 62
(c) Hatcham Road, between Record Street and No’s 60 Hatcham Road
(d) Overhill Road, at it’s junction with Lordship Lane
(e) Penrose Grove between Penrose Street to No s 36
(f) Surrey Quays Road, at it’s junction with Deal Porters Way
(g) Swan Street, between Harper Road and Trinity Street
(h) Thrale Street, at it’s junction with Southwark Street
3 The alternative route for affected traffic (2a) Drummond Road, Southwark Park Road, Clements Road (2b) Penarth Street, Ormside Street, Record Street (2c) Record Street, Penarth Street (2d) Lordship Lane, Underhill Road, Belvoir Road (2e) Penrose Street, Penrose Grove (2f) Lower Road Brunel Road Salter Road Redriff Road Rotherhithe New Road, Rotherhithe Old Road (2g) as indicated by the signs displayed, access for cyclists maintained (2h) Southwark Street, Southwark Bridge Road
4 The existing ‘one way’ working in Overhill Road, located between No’s 180 and Belvoir Road, will be made ‘two way’ for access and egress purposes for (2d)
5 The existing ‘one way’ working in Thrale Street, located between Southwark Street and Southwark Bridge Road, will be made two way for access and egress purposes for (2h)
6 Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works
7 The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform
8 The works will be in operation for (2a) 27th 30th September (2b) 26th September 1st October (2c) 28th September 22nd October (2d) 26th 28th September (2e) 25th 27th September between 22:00hrs and 05:30hrs (2f) 24th 25th September with back up dates of the 1st 2nd October (2g) 23rd September 8th October (2h) 21st September
9 Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network Management at ttmo@southwark gov uk
Dated this 15th September 2022
Law
Please take notice that I / we SUGANTHINY KIRUBANANDAN & HIRUSSANTH KIRUBANANDAN Have made application to Southwark Council for a new Premises Licence in respect of MORLEYS CHICKEN, 275 SOUTHWARK PARK ROAD, LONDON, SE16 3TP
The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, or on from the premises are
Days Start time Finish time
The provision of late night Monday to Sunday 23:00 03:15 refreshment:
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 11:00 03:15
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH
A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app southwark gov uk/licensing/licenseregister asp
It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above (or by email via licensing@southwark gov uk) and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below
Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale
Date of application:12 August 2022
The London Borough of Southwark (Charged for parking places) (Cooks Road) Order 202*
The London Borough of Southwark (Prescribed routes) (Cooks Road) Traffic Order 202*
The London Borough of Southwark (Waiting restrictions) (Cooks Road) Order 202*
1 Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that it proposes to make the above Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended (‘the 1984 Act’)
2 The effect of the Orders would be, on a permanent basis:
(a) to provide a no motor vehicles restriction in part of COOKS ROAD, between its junction with Fleming Road/Otto Street and a point 27 metres south east of that junction, prohibiting the movement of motor vehicles, which includes certain exceptions and exemptions (listed below);
(b) to remove an existing ‘permit’ parking place 23 metres in length, within CPZ ‘J’ in COOKS ROAD south west side (south east of its junction with Otto Street); and
(c) to amend waiting restrictions (i) add an extended length of new ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions in COOKS ROAD south west side to accommodate the above mentioned parking changes, and (ii) convert existing timed waiting restrictions (single yellow lines) to ‘at any time’ (double yellow lines) in COOKS ROAD south west side (at its junction with Otto Street) and on the south east side of both FLEMING ROAD and in OTTO STREET either side of the junction with Cooks Road
NOTES: (1) These Orders would supersede similar provisions at the above locations implemented by way of experimental Orders made under section 9 of the 1984 Act (which would be revoked) (2) Exemption to the restrictions described in (a) preceding would be provided for emergency services vehicles and for vehicles used for road maintenance, refuse collection or cleansing purposes; exceptions are provided for postal service, taxis and (on a discretionary basis) disabled persons vehicles (registered to Southwark resident blue badge’ holders) rapid response healthcare workers vehicles and SEND vehicles (3) All measurements are in metres and are approximate
3 For more information contact Nazihah Begum of the Council's Highway Development team Highways@southwark gov uk
4 Copies of the supporting documents (this Notice, the proposed Orders, and a statement of Southwark Council's reasons for making the Orders) may be found online at www southwark gov uk/trafficorders; paper or digital copies of plans showing the location and effect of the Orders and the supporting documents may be requested by emailing traffic orders@southwark gov uk, or inspected by appointment only at: Highways, Southwark Council, Environment and Leisure, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH from the date of this Notice until the end of a period of six weeks from the date on which the Orders are made Email traffic orders@southwark gov uk (or call 020 7525 3497) for booking details
5 Anyone wishing to object to or make any other representations regarding the proposals, may use the form labelled Parking Road traffic and highway schemes responding to statutory consultation notices' at www southwark gov uk/statutoryconsultationnotices or send a statement in writing to: the Traffic Orders Officer, Highways, Southwark Council, Environment and Leisure, P O Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or by e mail to traffic orders@southwark gov uk quoting reference ‘TMO2223 017 Cooks Rd permanent’ by 7 October 2022 Please note that if you wish to object to this proposal you must state the grounds on which your objection is made
6 Under requirements of current access to information legislation, any letter or e mail sent to the Councils in response to this Notice may be subject to publication or disclosure or both including communication to other persons affected
Dated 15 September 2022
Dale Foden Head of Service Highways, Environment and Leisure
ROAD, HATCHAM ROAD, OVERHILL ROAD, PENROSE GROVE, SURREY QUAYS ROAD, SWAN STREET, THRALE STREET)The London Borough of Southwark (Charged for parking places) (Cycle hangars) (No 6) Order 2022
The London Borough of Southwark (Free parking places and Waiting restrictions) (Cycle hangars) (No 6) Order 2022
1 Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that on 15 September 2022 it has made 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 are:
(a) to provide cycle hangars on the carriageway, each 2 55 metres in length, 2 05 metres in width and aligned parallel to the kerb, at the following locations:
ALBERTA STREET south east side, opposite No 118 Alberta Street; ALBRIGHTON ROAD north west side side of No 28 Bromar Road;
ALSCOT ROAD north east side, south of its junction with Spa Road;
AMOTT ROAD 2 cycle hangars north west side, side of No 61 Adys Road;
BETHWIN ROAD north west side, o/s Nos 17 to 34 Boundary House;
BONAR ROAD north west side side of Nos 33/35 Bonar Road;
BRANDON STREET south west side, o/s No 60 Brandon Street;
BRUNEL ROAD south east side, o/s No 32 Brunel Road;
CAULFIELD ROAD north east side, opposite No 26 Caulfield Road;
CHAMPION HILL north east side rear of No 4 The Hamlet; CHAPTER ROAD south west side, o/s No 8 Chapter Road;
DARRELL ROAD north west side, opposite No 51 Darrell Road;
DOWLAS STREET north east side, side of No 58 Coleman Road;
DUNSTAN'S GROVE south west side opposite No 1 Dunstan's Grove; ELLAND ROAD north west side, north east of its junction with Peckham Rye; ELM GROVE south east side, opposite No 24 Elm Grove;
FENWICK GROVE south east side, side of No 29 Fenwick Road;
FIELDING STREET south west side north west of its junction with Langdale Close;
GLENGALL ROAD north east side, opposite No 124 Glengall Road;
GOLDSMITH ROAD north west side, opposite vehicular access to Wakefield House; GRACES ROAD north west side, opposite No 55 Graces Road;
HAYLES STREET south east side opposite No 62 Hayles Street;
HOLLYDALE ROAD north east side, opposite No 69 Hollydale Road;
JOHN RUSKIN STREET north west side, opposite Nos 113 and 115 John Ruskin Street next to existing cycle hangar;
LANDELLS ROAD south east side opposite No 113 Landells Road;
LOMOND GROVE south west side, opposite No 105 Lomond Grove;
LORRIMORE ROAD north west side, opposite No 51 Lorrimore Road;
LOWTH ROAD south west side, north west of its junction with Coldharbour Lane;
MARMORA ROAD north west side opposite No 71 Marmora Road;
OVERHILL ROAD north west side, north east of its junction with Lordship Lane;
SCOTT LIDGETT CRESCENT north east side, opposite Tupman House, Llewellyn Street;
TROY TOWN 2 cycle hangars north west side, opposite No 90 Nutbrook Street;
TURQUAND STREET north east side south east of its junction with Charleston Street;
WAVENEY AVENUE south east side, opposite No 1 Waveney Avenue;
WORLINGHAM ROAD 2 cycle hangars north east side, south east of its junction with East Dulwich Road;
WROXTON ROAD south east side south west of its junction with Lanvanor Road;
(b) relocate existing cycle hangars (i) in ALSCOT ROAD north west side, side of No 107 Grange Road south westward by 13m, and (ii) from MONCRIEFF STREET (north east side o/s No 98) to HARDERS ROAD north west side, side of No 29 Consort Road;
(c) to provide a cycle hangars (2 55 metres in length and 2 05 metres in width) on the footway of: (i)
LOWER ROAD north east side o/s No 117 Lower Road and Courthope House aligned parallel to the north eastern edge of the footway area, and (ii) SPA ROAD north west side o/s No 7 Spa Road aligned parallel to the north western edge of the footway area;
NOTES: (1) The measures in 2 (d) (t) are made so as to accommodate the provision of the new cycle hangars and in those locations referred to above (2) ‘permit’ refers to parking places for holders of valid parking permits within the Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) listed, ‘shared use’ refers to parking places in which holders of a valid permit for the CPZ listed or ‘pay’ paid ticket holders are permitted to park within the permitted hours SYLs refer to timed, and DYLs refer to 'at any time' waiting restrictions (3) All measurements are in metres ‘m’ and are approximate (4) Parking charges are listed on www southwark gov uk/parking (d) in CPZ 'B' (i) reduce ‘shared use’ by 4 55m in HARDERS ROAD, and (ii) reduce 'permit' by 4 55m in ELM GROVE and by 1 5m in GOLDSMITH ROAD; (e) in CPZ 'E' reduce 'permit' by 3 55m in CHAPTER ROAD
(f) in CPZ 'EC' reduce 'permit' by 3 55m in DOWLAS STREET and by 3m in LOMOND GROVE; (g) in CPZ 'G' reduce 'permit' by 3 55m in SCOTT LIDGETT CRESCENT;
(h) in CPZ GR' amend (south west of Grange Road) and reduce 'shared use' by 4 55m (south of Spa Road) in ALSCOT ROAD;
(i) in CPZ H' reduce permit' by 3 55m in BRUNEL ROAD;
(j) in CPZ J' reduce permit' by 5 55m in FIELDING STREET and by 4 55m in JOHN RUSKIN STREET;
(k) in CPZ 'K' reduce 'permit' by 3 55m in LOWTH ROAD;
(l) in CPZ 'L' reduce permit' by 3 55m in CHAMPION HILL;
(m) in CPZ 'M1' reduce permit' by 3 55m in BRANDON STREET and 3m in TURQUAND STREET;
(n) in CPZ 'NC' reduce permit' by 2 5m in BETHWIN ROAD;
(o) in CPZ 'PW reduce 'permit' by 7m in AMOTT ROAD, and by 3 55m in FENWICK GROVE;
(p) in CPZ 'Q' reduce ‘shared use’ by 3 55m in ALBRIGHTON ROAD;
(q) in GLENGALL ROAD reduce an existing free 'short stay' parking place by 3 55m;
(r) add new lengths of DYLs (i) 1m in ALBRIGHTON ROAD, ALSCOT ROAD (south of its junction with Spa Road), BETHWIN ROAD, BRANDON STREET, CHAMPION HILL, CHAPTER ROAD, DOWLAS STREET, FENWICK GROVE, GLENGALL ROAD, HAYLES STREET, LOMOND GROVE, LOWTH ROAD, OVERHILL ROAD, SCOTT LIDGETT CRESCENT, TURQUAND STREET, WORLINGHAM ROAD, (ii) 2m in ALSCOT ROAD (south west of its junction with Grange Road), AMOTT ROAD, DARRELL ROAD, DUNSTAN S GROVE, ELLAND ROAD, ELM GROVE, GOLDSMITH ROAD, HARDERS ROAD, HOLLYDALE ROAD, JOHN RUSKIN STREET, LANDELLS ROAD, LORRIMORE ROAD, MARMORA ROAD, TROY TOWN, WAVENEY AVENUE, WROXTON ROAD, and (iii) 3m in FIELDING STREET;
(s) amend existing lengths of (i) SYLs in BETHWIN ROAD, GLENGALL ROAD, GOLDSMITH ROAD, HAYLES STREET, LOMOND GROVE, and LORRIMORE ROAD, (ii) DYLs in BRUNEL ROAD, CAULFIELD ROAD, and TURQUAND STREET; and (t) remove 2 55m existing DYLs in GRACES ROAD
3 Copies of the orders, which will come into force on 20 September 2022, and of all other relevant documents are available for inspection at Highways, Southwark Council, Environment and Leisure, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH, by appointment only E mail traffic orders@southwark gov uk or call 020 7525 3497 for booking details
4 Any person desiring to question the validity of the order/s or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the relevant powers of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or that any of the relevant requirements thereof or of any relevant regulations made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the order/s may, within six weeks of the date on which the order was made, make application for the purpose to the High Court
Dated 15 September 2022
Dale Foden Head of Service Highways, Environment and Leisure
An appeal against the non determination of planning application 21/AP/4297 (for ‘Demolition of existing building and structures and erection of a part 2, part 7, part 14, and part 16 storey plus basement development comprising 1 733sqm (GIA) of space for Class E employment use and/or community health hub and/or Class F1(a) education use and 233 purpose built student residential rooms with associated amenity space and public realm works, car and cycle parking, and ancillary infrastructure’) at Avonmouth House, 6 Avonmouth Street, London, SE1 6NX has made to the Secretary of State It will be open to the Secretary of State to grant planning permission
The appeal will be determined on the basis of an inquiry The procedure to be followed is set out in the Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiry Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 as amended For any group or organisation who wish to take an active part in the Inquiry the opportunity is available to apply for what is known as Rule 6 status Although unusual, there is also scope for interested individuals to take part on the same basis Rule 6 status means that you would be able to present your evidence on a formal basis and cross examine the evidence of others You can find guidance at the following link:
https://www gov uk government/publications/apply for rule 6 status on a planning appeal or called in application
Arrangements for the Inquiry are currently being finalised the Planning Inspectorate These will include a pre Inquiry conference call with the lead parties to deal with procedural and administrative matters, including how evidence would be heard As a Rule 6 party, it is anticipated that you would also be part of that process If having read the above guidance you wish to apply for Rule 6 status and/or have any related questions, you should contact the planning inspectorate immediately If you are interested but are unable to access the guidance electronically, again, you should contact the Planning Inspectorate who will try and assist
If, having read the above guidance, you wish to apply for Rule 6 status it is essential that you contact the Planning Inspectorate immediately
The council has forwarded all representations made to us on the planning application to the planning Inspectorate and the appellant These will be considered by the Inspector when determining the appeal
If you wish to make comments, or modify/withdraw a representation you have previously made, you can do so online at https://acp planninginspectorate gov uk If you do not have access to the internet you can send your comments to:
J Gilbert MA (Hons MTP MRTPI)
The Planning Inspectorate Temple Qual House 2 The Square Bristol BS1 6PN
All representations must be received by 4 October Any representations submitted after the deadline will not usually be considered and will be returned The Planning Inspectorate does not acknowledge representations All representations must quote the appeal reference APP/A5840/W/22/3303205
Please note any representations you submit to the Planning Inspectorate will be copied to the appellant and the Council as the local planning authority and will be considered by the Inspector when determining the appeal
The appeal documents are available for inspection at https://planning southwark gov uk/online applications/APPEAL/APPEAL/22/0055 or by searching the reference code APPEAL/22/0055 using the council’s planning register and specifying ‘APPEALS’ when searching the register Plans and documents submitted as part of the planning application can be found on the council’s planning register by searching the planning application reference number 21/AP/4297
You can get a copy of one of the Planning Inspectorate’s “Guide to taking part in planning appeals” booklets free of charge from GOV UK at https://gov uk/government/collections/taking part in a planning listed building or enforcement appeal for from the Council as the local planning authority
When made, the decision on the appeal will be published online at https://acp planninginspectorate gov uk
The council is required to notify the public of this appeal through this press notice in the absence of a press notice being publicised as part of the statutory consultation on the application
Please take notice that I / we Puff Pizza Limited have made application to Southwark Council to vary the Premises Licence in respect of Puff Pizza 34 Choumert road , London SE15 4SE
The proposed variation is as follows: Premises (Full variation, to add on sales of alcohol 12:00 23:00 Mon Fri and 11:00 23:00 Sat Sun the variation also seeks to alter off sales of alcohol to 12:00 23:00 Mon Fri and 11:00 23:00 Sat Sun Opening hours will also change to 12:00 23:00 Mon Fri and 11:00 23:00 Sat Sun )
Days Start time Finish time
The retail sale of alcohol: Monday to Friday 12:00 23:00 Saturday & Sunday 11:00 23:00
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 12:00 23:00 Saturday & Sunday 11:00 23:00
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app southwark gov uk/licensing/licenseregister asp
It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below http://www southwark gov uk/business/licences/how to lodge a representation
Note: it is an offence to knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale
Date of application: 8th September 2022
The planning applications listed below can be viewed on the planning register at https://planning southwark gov uk/online applications/ You can use facilities at your local library or 'My Southwark Service Points' to access the website
How to comment on this application: You should submit your comments via the above link Comments received will be made available for public viewing on the website All personal information will be removed except your postal address Online comments submitted without an email address will not be acknowledged and those marked confidential will not be considered Written comments can be submitted to;
Southwark Council, Chief executive's department, Planning division, Development Management, PO Box 64529, London SE1 5LX
Reason for publicity The applications are advertised for the reasons identified by the following codes: AFFECT development affecting character or appearance of a nearby conservation area; OR development affecting setting of a nearby listed building(s); DEP departure from the development plan; EIA environmental impact assessment (these applications are accompanied by an environmental statement a copy of which may be obtained from the Council there will be a charge for the copy); MAJ major planning application; STDCA development within a conservation area; STDLB works to or within the site of alisted building;
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S T E P H E N P L A T T S D i r e c t o r o f P l a n n i n g a n d G r o w t h
FOODSTARS BH LIMITED is applying for the GRANT of a new Premises Licence at 107 109 Ormside Street Peckham, London, SE15 1TF
If GRANTED the application will allow:
Sale of Alcohol (for consumption off the premises) Monday Sunday 11:00 05:00 and Provision of Late Night Refreshments (for consumption off the premises) Monday Sunday 23:00 05:00
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by: The Licensing Service, Hub 1, 3rd Floor, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH
A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http:// app southwark gov uk/licensing/licenseregister asp
London, SE1 2QH
A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also available on our website at http://app southwark gov uk/licensing/licenseregister asp
It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above (or by email via licensing@southwark gov uk) and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below
Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale
Date of application: 6th September 2022
It is open to any interested party to make representations about the likely effect of the application on the promotion of the licensing objectives Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above (or by email via licensing@southwark gov uk) and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below (i e by midnight on 12/09/2022)
It is an offence liable on conviction to a fine up to level 5 under section 158 of the Licensing Act 2003 knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application (12/09/2022)
FiSher BoSS ajay ashanike wants to make “the club and my family proud” as history beckons for the rotherhithe club in the Fa Cup this weekend.
The Fish are in the second qualifying round for the first time in their history after already coming through three gruelling stages on the back of three replay wins.
The St Paul’s outfit face a mammoth task to progress in the competition as they travel to Welling United this Saturday. The Wings are in National League South, three tiers above the Fish.
Ashanike decided to run with a small
squad this season but they have already played ten games. Fisher defeated Spelthorne Sports 4-0 away in the last round after a 1-1 draw at home.
Ashanike knows his squad has been stretched. He said: “We’ve picked up a lot of injuries along the way, most of which to starters.” But he added: “The players that are playing at the moment are a credit to themselves and the club for stepping up in the manner they have.”
Reaching this stage was something beyond what Fisher would have expected from the FA Cup and the significance isn’t lost on Ashanike. As well as the obvious prestige of going so far in the oldest cup competition in the world, Fisher have banked £4,819 in prize money. “Winning just one game in the FA Cup changes a lot for a club
dulwiCh hamleT played their first game in thirteen years without manager gavin rose in the dugout as they slumped to a 3-1 defeat against hemel hempstead
Town at Champion hill on Tuesday night.
Dulwich confirmed the departure of Rose in a statement on their website last Sunday, in which chairman Ben Clasper said it was with “enormous personal sadness” that the decision was made.
like ours,” Ashanike said. “To win one game was the target but to win three is something we’d never have dreamed of.”
It’s no secret the money on offer for non-league clubs for FA Cup progression is crucial to offset costs over a season. For Fisher, it can’t be stated enough how much three rounds will help the club. “With Covid, like many other clubs at our level, it put a lot of stress on the club,” Ashanike admitted. “So the money from these matches helps us recoup some of what was lost in the last two years and helps put us back into a stable position again.”
Ashanike’s message to his players this weekend is to “go and enjoy the day”. Ashanike, though, hasn’t exactly managed to take in the excitement of their historic run properly as with all
Playing duo Jack Holland and Danny Mills were in temporary charge of the team this week, and Dulwich said they would confirm an interim head coach within 24 hours of their latest fixture.
The Hamlet went into the game in the relegation zone after four consecutive league defeats.
There was a minute’s silence before kick-off in East Dulwich to remember Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II.
their injuries he says he has been “on the phone 24/7 trying to get bodies in to cover those we’ve lost”.
Although it’s an occasion they will savour, Fisher are determined to continue their run. Ashanike said “in football anything can happen”.
Naturally, one of the biggest days in the history of the club will bring nerves. “I think on the day I’ll be so nervous about the whole occasion,” Ashanike said, “but I’ve got to do my best to enjoy it as these moments don’t come around too often in football.”
“I want to do my family and the club proud.”
Fisher travel to Park View Road this Saturday for a 3pm kick-off. Tickets are available to purchase through the National League South club.
The hosts went behind in the 33rd minute when Josh Castiglione deepened the Hamlet’s misery in a tough week.
Dulwich went close to a leveller in the 41st minute when George Porter hit the post from Ronnie Vint’s header.
Dulwich did get their equaliser in the 61st minute through Ibby Akanbi who was making his debut.
But that was as good as it got for the home side as they went 2-1 down with
T okei J udo Club’s richard kurosawa took over where former team-mate Fred itiose left off by winning the heavyweight masters trophy at the recent uk Police national Judo Championships.
This year, acting detective sergeant
Itiose (pictured, far left) was refereeing rather than competing.
Itiose had consistently won a clean sweep of every category he was eligible for over the last few years the competition ran. He currently coaches and volunteers as a referee to “give back” to the sport.
It meant there was going to be a new name on the heavyweight masters trophy and the chance it was going to
leave the club display cabinet where it has sat on display for several years. Fortunately, Kurosawa returned it to the Bermondsey club but now with a new name on it.
The Met Police Judo Club had had a home in Tokei for over 40 years. The club sent a team of sixteen competitors plus referees, coaches and spectators (both police and nonpolice) up to Liverpool to support the
fighters who were taking part. This was the first event post-Covid there and there was a big turn-out.
There were also medals for Rob Morgan (fourth from left) who won bronze in the veterans open weight, Andrew Barringer (sixth from left) who won bronze in the U90kg masters, Adrian Angelenia (second from left) who won gold in the +100kg (non-black belt category) and Simon
TH e soUTH east Stars thrashed the Central Sparks by 59 runs in the rachael heyhoe Flint Trophy at Beckenham last weekend, limiting them to 159 for nine from 50 overs.
Chloe Brewer and Alice DavidsonRichards were the top scorers with 57 and 50 as the Stars posted 254 for nine.
Liz Russell took three for 44, but it was a total the visitors never looked like getting anywhere near after they lost their top six for 43 runs, despite a late stand between Georgia Davis and Grace Potts who made 52 not out and 30 respectively.
Eva Gray had the Stars’ best bowling figures with 3-28.
Gray said: “I think we had them 56 for six or something and at that stage took our minds of it a little bit and let them away. I thought we bowled well, there were a few too many freebies, but a win with a bonus point is perfect.
“We spoke about it in the changing rooms just now, for the first 70 overs of the game we were completely dominant but yeah, I thought we batted really well and it showed when we had them 50 for six that there was something in the pitch for the seamers, so I thought our two openers went about it really well.
“It was a really good thing for us to build on. You could see ADR was getting frustrated because she kept finish the fielders all the time but she showed her class and we had contributions throughout. I saw the Storm had lost today so we’re in a very good position but it’s going to be a very busy week of cricket if we manage to get that postponed fixture put in, but we’ve put ourselves in a very good position to make that eliminator and once you get there the adrenaline gets you through. We need a big push for the end of the season, but everyone’s really up for it.”
eight minutes left when Ogo Obi gave the visitors the lead and Obi sealed the points with his brace in the 97th minute.
The result dropped Dulwich to 22nd in National League South, with five points from eight games.
Dulwich host Isthmian League Premier Division Margate in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup this Saturday. Kick-off is 3pm.
Rose (fifth from left) who won silver in the U90kg veterans.
Tokei Judo Club train in a purposebuilt dojo off Tooley Street on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with Brazilian Ju Jitsu (BJJ) training on Thursdays and Saturdays. They are a club with a significant proportion of more mature players returning to the sport. New players are always very welcome.
Fisher won 1-0 at Sittingbourne in a preliminary round replay
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Match odds: Millwall 19/20 Draw 12/5 Blackpool 11/4
Last meeting: Championship (January 22, 2022): Blackpool 1-0 Millwall (Lavery 55’)
can hurt anyone. I’m sure that [Josh] Bowler not being there is a big miss for them but they’ve got players that’ll be keen to fill the gap.
“It’s another game. It’ll be slightly different to the QPR game and the Cardiff game, and we’ve got to make sure that we impose our game plan on the opposition, but they’re the sort of team that’ll be up and at us. They’ll be trying to make it really uncomfortable for us to try and win the game, but that’s what we’ve got to try and do.
By Alex Jones alexj@southwarknews.co.ukS ePT emBer ha S been a strange month for clubs in the Championship following the recent postponements due to the death of hm Queen elizabeth ii
It’s left clubs like Millwall with just three matches between the end of the summer transfer window and the start of the international break. After Blackpool’s trip to The Den, the Lions won’t be in action again until October 1.
That could put a bit more importance on Saturday’s match. After all, it’ll be their third consecutive home game and fans will be expecting another positive result at SE16. However, their opponents have punched well above their weight so far this season after being tipped as one of the favourites for relegation.
Perhaps that pre-season prediction was harsh. Under former boss Neil Critchley, Blackpool secured a sixteenth-place finish in their first season back in the second tier. However, Critchley, the man who guided them to
promotion from League One, has since left to join Steven Gerrard’s coaching staff at Aston Villa. Michael Appleton was appointed as his replacement.
It was seen as a controversial move. Appleton’s previous spell at Bloomfield Road was nothing short of a disaster, albeit that it took place under the ownership of Owen Oyston, while his most recent stint at Lincoln City ended with a mutually agreed departure despite guiding them to the play-off final a year earlier.
He’s more than proven his doubters wrong thus far, and Gary Rowett has
been impressed by what he’s seen from the Seasiders so far this season.
“Michael’s took over from Neil Critchley and he’ll want to put his own stamp on how he wants to play,” he told the News
“They always play with good energy, I always think they’re a team that can make games uncomfortable for you because of their work rate. They’ve obviously been in the Championship for a season and they’ll have gained a lot of confidence from that.
“They’ve got good players, like any team in the Championship, players that
Millwall will likely be up against former transfer target Shayne Lavery, with Blackpool rejecting multiple bids from the Lions earlier in the summer. The Tangerines will be without Charlie Patino, Jake Beesley, Keshi Anderson, Kevin Stewart and Lewis Fiorini this weekend, with all ruled out through injury. Appleton has openly admitted that he’s keen to explore the free agent market, but it remains to be seen as to whether anyone will come in ahead of Saturday’s game.
Rowett has fewer injury issues to worry about, but Mason Bennet, Ryan Leonard and Shaun Hutchinson will all remain sidelined until the end of the international break at the earliest.
millwall de F ender S have been left playing catch-up after Charlie Cresswell stormed to the top of the club’s goalscoring charts after just eight games.
Cresswell, 20, is already on three goals, having scored a brace on the opening day of the season against Stoke City and the opener against Cardiff City in the Lions’ last game.
It means that the Leeds United loanee has scored more than the rest of the team’s defence combined, with Jake Cooper the only other centreback to find the back of the net so far this season. In fact, you’d need to add all of Millwall’s goalscorers together in order to overtake Cresswell’s early-season tally.
In a way, it’s no real surprise. The
Lions’ record from set pieces has been nothing short of staggering in recent seasons, while the likes of Murray Wallace have regularly found the back of the net due to their
direct style of play. The Scotsman was Millwall’s tied-third top scorer in all competitions last season, level on goals with star forward Jed Wallace. While Cresswell may joke about his
early season form compared to his teammates, Rowett is confident that the rest of the defenders will soon begin to contribute in the final third as they almost always do.
“I’m sure there’s a little bit of banter from a dressing room perspective. Cressy’s asking ‘is there any chance you lot can help me out here?’” the Millwall boss laughed.
“The likes of Coops, Hutchy, Muzza, they’ve always contributed massively at the other end of the pitch as well. With set pieces, that threat is always something that we feel can add to our goals tally.
“That’s something that we’re good at, so why not maintain it or try to use it to the best of our ability?
“He’s made a very good start in the way that he’s attacked the ball and got on the end of it. I’m sure one or two of the others will start their usual goalscoring run any time soon as well.
“That’s what you need as a team. If one doesn’t step up, then you need the other ones to do it. That goes for the strikers, the midfielders, the defenders, everybody.”
The Lions have one of the best home records in the division Charlie Cresswell may have picked up some skills from Murray Wallace when it comes to scoring goalsmillwall’S F inal summer signing hasn’t had the career path of a typical eFl footballer.
Callum Styles failed to earn a contract at Burnley before joining Bury as a 17-year-old in 2016, becoming the first player born in the new millennium to make an appearance in the Football League, although the Shakers were handed a points deduction for failing to register him properly at the time of his debut.
Nonetheless, he impressed in the early years of his professional career and earned a move to Barnsley, where he starred in the Championship under a number of different managers.
Flash forward to 2022 and Styles, now 22 years old, is lining up against some of the biggest names in world football. He’s still playing in the EFL, however, but he’s also a starting midfielder for the Hungarian national team.
He found out that he was eligible to play for Marco Rossi’s side due to his Hungarian grandmother, something which changed his footballing landscape forever.
“It was basically a conversation between me and the media guy at Barnsley,” he told the News
“I was saying that I could play for Hungary but that I’d never really thought about it too much. Obviously my first goal would be to play for England, but the furthest I got was on the reserves list.
“He told me that it should be an option, so it came to fruition from there.
I had conversations with my agent and the Barnsley media guy put it out in a matchday programme. Next thing you know, the manager of the Hungarian national team is ringing me and we’re signing the paperwork.”
It wasn’t a hard decision for him to make, however. The number of English players outside the Premier League who make it into the national team is slim to say the least. Styles now had the chance to fulfil one of his lifelong dreams while still playing in the second tier.
“Yeah [it was an easy decision], especially when the gaffer rang me. He said he really liked me and he wanted me to play under him. There’s no point in waiting and hoping that I might get called up for England one day when I could go to the Hungarian national team as soon as the papers had been completed.
“I’ve wanted to play at international level since I was a kid, that’s been a dream of mine. For me, to be able to play against the best players in the world is a no-brainer.”
That’s something he certainly has done, as Hungary are currently sat at the top of their Nations League group. With just two games left to play, Styles is optimistic that his team can go all the way despite the odds being stacked firmly in their favour.
While the rest of his teammates will train at Calmont Road during the international break, he’ll join up with the Hungarian team as they travel to Leipzig to face Germany before hosting Italy in Budapest. If they manage to win both games, they’ll progress from the group and compete in the semi-finals.
“You’ve just got to take it in your stride and enjoy the experience,” Styles argues. “You do your best and see where it goes from there. We’ve got a really good squad, a really good
togetherness, and I think we could go all the way to be honest.”
There is, of course, a barrier in terms of language and culture, although he’s trying his best to fit in with his new teammates. When asked whether he’s managed to learn any Hungarian, Styles chuckles and admits “just a couple of words”.
“It’s so hard now because I’ve got so much going on and I don’t have time to think about learning it,” he adds.
“There’s nothing similar [to English] at all.
“It’s meant to be one of the toughest languages, which is a good start for me! The lads all learn English at school, although some are obviously better than others at speaking it, but most of them can speak it really well.”
There are no such barriers at his new club, Millwall, although there were concerns that his loan move from Barnsley would collapse at the last minute. Styles, however, remained calm, even though things looked perilous in the dying seconds of deadline day.
“It was a weird one. It went right down to the wire, the club sent the extension papers through with just over a minute to go but the system had
crashed. It was kind of in limbo until the next day as to whether it’d gone through, but we had all the evidence that we sent it through and it was just the system that crashed.
“I was quite chilled up until the last half hour of the window, and then I was like ‘oh, okay, this might not get done’ when all the guys were in the office trying to talk to Barnsley.”
The club had a much harder job on their hands, as reports from elsewhere indicated that the likes of Sheffield United and Hull City were all vying for his signature on the final day of the transfer window. However, Millwall managed to fight off interest from their Championship rivals to seal the deal.
For the player himself, it was an easy decision. Many of the Lions’ recent signings commended the way that the club persevered in order to bring them to South Bermondsey, and unsurprisingly, Styles was no different.
“They were looking to buy me at the start of the window, but it was difficult for teams to get the funds together for what Barnsley wanted. We’re obviously post-pandemic, so it wasn’t easy.
“There was interest all through the summer, and then at the end of the window, they decided it would have to
be a loan and Millwall were the ones that were the most eager.
“The conversation was about going where you’re the most wanted, and when a team wants you the most then you get a better feeling. That’s why I chose Millwall.”
His debut came just over 24 hours after his signing was announced on social media. Manager Gary Rowett threw him straight into the starting line-up, playing him as a left wingback instead of his preferred role in midfield.
It is, however, a position that he played in for much of his time at Barnsley, with Gerhard Struber being the first manager to use him out wide. “I think it was because he wanted to get me in the team,” he admitted. “He already had a centre-mid from his old club [Marcel Ritzmaier] and the club captain [Alex Mowatt] there, so it was difficult to get consistent game time in that area.
“He just wanted me on the pitch, so he put me at left wing-back and I did well.”
Rowett doesn’t see his long-term future as a defender though, claiming that he’s better suited to playing as a central midfielder. This is something which Styles agrees with, arguing
that his attributes are better suited to playing in the middle of the park.
“I’ve been a midfielder for the majority of my life and I feel like one of my biggest strengths is getting on the ball and making things happen, being creative and keeping the game ticking.
“I feel like I can dictate the game a bit more in the middle, but don’t get me wrong, I do like it out at left wing-back. It’s just about getting that balance, because some games I’d prefer to play as a centre-mid and some games I’d prefer to be a left wing-back - it just depends on how the game goes.”
Maybe it’s strange for Styles to go from playing as a midfielder for Hungary to playing as a wing-back at club level, but the same could be said about playing in the Championship for Millwall one week and then against the likes of Harry Kane, Thomas Müller and Lorenzo Insigne the next.
“Of course, you’ve always got to stay grounded, but I’m not at the calibre of teams that they’re at. I just see myself as a Championship player at the minute and I’m playing against some of the best players in the world.
“I’m enjoying it, I’m playing my game and hopefully doing it well and getting good results.”
Callum Styles has played against some of the biggest names in world football Photo by Brian TonksmurraY wallaC e understands why many millwall fans have been frustrated by their start to the Championship campaign.
The Lions won one, drew one and lost five of their seven matches in all competitions in August, leaving them near the bottom of the table despite their opening-day victory against Stoke City.
Their 2-0 win against Cardiff City eased some of the pressure, but Gary Rowett’s side are winless on the road since the start of March, a run which continued after their trip to Sunderland was postponed.
“It speaks for itself, doesn’t it?”
Wallace told the News.
“We had one of the best home forms in the division last season and we’ve got relatively good home form so far this season, it’s just the away form.
“It’s difficult playing on the road, and with some of the away games we’ve had, like being away to Swansea and away to Norwich in the space of a few days, even away to Burnley, we’ve had quite a few long trips.
“Obviously we’re a bit disappointed, especially when doing these away trips. It’s disappointing that we haven’t really shown the best of ourselves, we haven’t performed great and obviously haven’t picked up results.
“That’s disappointing because, looking at last season, the away form is the one thing that we really need to improve.”
Wallace admits that, to an extent, he has to look at himself. After all, he was part of one of the strongest defences in the entire division last season. So far in 2022-23, they’ve conceded eleven league goals, with only Hull City and Middlesbrough letting in more.
It’s not helped by a concerning run in August where, in five out of six consecutive games, Millwall conceded two goals in each match.
“It was worrying when we were going through a little patch of conceding a couple of goals early, which then gives us a mountain to climb,” the defender explains.
“It’s hard when you put yourself in that position and you’re chasing the game, then it opens you up a little bit more when you’re having to take extra risks to try and get back into the game.
“It’s one of those things. We all understand that, with the individual mistakes, we might not get it right as a team. We just need to stick by it and believe in what we’re doing. If those results were spread out over the course of the season, we’d look back and think it’s not really as much of an issue. It’s the fact that it was a run of a few games in a row which made it frustrating for us.
“We know what we’ve done wrong, both individually and as a team.
Sometimes that’s the best way, to get it out of the way early so you can move on in a better position.”
There are a number of reasons for such a run, although Wallace is keen for them not to be seen as excuses. Nonetheless, Rowett has a big job on his hands when it comes to getting his side to gel after a hectic transfer window. Millwall brought eight new players to the club over the summer, with Zian Flemming and Andreas
injury, then another centre-back would get injured as he was coming back.
“It feels a bit like that in a sense, but it gives a great opportunity to Charlie Cresswell, who’s our top goalscorer. He’s come in and done really well, but obviously we’ll miss the players who’re out injured. Everyone is so important to us.”
It’s no surprise that Wallace highlights Cresswell’s influence. After all, the Scotsman was Millwall’s goal-scoring centre-back last season, finding the back of the net six times in all competitions. However, the Leeds United loanee is already halfway to that tally in the Championship alone with 38 games left to play.
“He’s come out of the traps quickly and put a bit of pressure on us,” Wallace laughs. “I think it’s brilliant for him to score those goals at home. It’s brilliant for the fans to see him and for him to get that sort of reception. It’ll do wonders for his confidence.”
It’s something that’s incredibly important for Millwall, whose centrebacks are usually amongst the top scorers in the team due to their direct approach, something which Wallace openly acknowledges.
“With the way we play and the aerial threat we’ve got, we know that set pieces are going to be key for us, it’s a real area for us to score goals. We don’t exactly set targets but the defenders all know the importance of chipping in with a few goals.
“We just try to score more than the season before!”
If they can keep doing that and keep helping the club turn around their poor start, then there’s no reason why Millwall can’t reach the heights that they’re hoping to hit this season.
While Wallace is adamant that the next step for the Lions is to improve on their ninth-place finish last season, he admits that this will likely be by securing a top-six finish.
Voglsammer having never played a single second of English football before arriving in South Bermondsey.
“It’s obviously a big job when you’ve got a lot of players leaving,” Wallace argues. You’ve got to rebuild the squad and you hope that everything will just click instantly over preseason and you can hit the ground running.
“Sometimes it can take a bit longer to gel. The best way to get to know
your teammates is by playing games, it’s all well and good when you’re training, but when you get out on the pitch together, that’s when you understand each other the most. Getting little injuries disrupts that momentum.”
The injury situation at the club is far from ideal, with three firstteam players sidelined at the time of writing. Fortunately, there isn’t a selection crisis like the one Rowett
faced last season, although Wallace admits that it does feel reminiscent of what the Lions have been through in the past.
“It’s a strange one, because obviously we lost Hutchy recently and Ryan Leonard sustained an injury as well when he was in good form. We were joking about it a little bit last season that any time one of the centre-backs got injured, the other one was coming back from
“The way I look at it is that the club has been progressing every year. It’s obviously going to be hard to replace the likes of Jed [Wallace] because of the big contributions that he’s given to Millwall, but I think the players we’re bringing in have real quality and are improving the squad.
“If we bring in better players each year, you’d like to think that our position in the league will keep getting better too. Hopefully we can improve on that.”
On a personal level, promotion feels like the natural next step for Wallace. The 29-year-old has played in the League One, the Championship and the Scottish second division, and he now feels like his teammates are ready to play at the top level of English football.
“We’re always aspiring, that’s where we want to be. We’ve got that hungry squad, a hungry mentality where we want to improve every day. We look at it as improving, trying to improve on the season before. If that’s making it into the play-offs and seeing what we can do from there, that’s obviously what we want to do.
“It’s easy to go on a good run and get carried away with yourself and think ‘we’ve cracked it, we’re going up, we’re getting into the play-offs’, but it’s not like that at all. We’ve got to remain grounded throughout and focus on getting the best out of ourselves to see where that takes us.”
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By Alex Jones alexj@southwarknews.co.uk
garY rowe TT hopes millwall’s leeds united duo are keepers for the season - though he acknowledges all loan deals contain a degree of uncertainty.
The pair joined on season-long loans but Millwall haven’t disclosed any other details, so it remains to be seen as to whether they could be recalled in January.
They’ve both made big impactsCharlie Cresswell is currently the Lions’ top-scorer while Jamie Shackleton has been a key player in midfield and at wing-back, with the club retaining an option to make the latter’s loan move a permanent one in the summer.
Cresswell has arguably been Millwall’s standout player so far this season, however, and Rowett is optimistic that the centre-back will stay for the entire campaign - despite pleas from Leeds supporters to bring him back to Elland Road as soon as possible.
“Whenever you take a young player from a Premier League side, you understand that, whilst they’re your player for the season or for however long that may be, you’re also trying to develop them to go back and challenge for a place at their parent club,” he told the News.
“Our aim is to do as good a job as we can, and if we do that, then Cressy will be a fantastic player for us this season.
“For the players, they immerse themselves in the team, they feel like they’re part of the team and it’s important for them to be just another
player in the team.
“It’s trying to find that balance really, especially with a young player. You’re trying to help them develop, you’re trying to work with them but they’re also trying to play games and show what they can do.
“At the moment, he’s done really well for us and I hope that he can continue that development. That’s only going to benefit us and it’s only going to benefit Leeds in the long-run.”
Of course, it’s far from a guarantee that Cresswell will remain at the club for the entire season. Should Leeds face an injury crisis in defence, they may opt to terminate the deal in order to bring him back. In fact, Millwall did the same when Tyler Burey was on loan at Hartlepool United, and Rowett admits that there’s always a risk when bringing young players to the club on a temporary basis.
millwall deF ender murray wallace believes that the versatility within millwall’s squad will help them to compete across a 46-game Championship season.
The Lions have one of the smaller squads in the division, with around 23 first-team players available to manager Gary Rowett after the transfer window shut. This doesn’t include the likes of Besart Topalloj and Hayden Muller, who are both yet to play for the club’s senior team.
This came back to bite Millwall last season when they had a number of injuries that left them with few options in the starting lineup. However, Rowett has been left with a selection headache so far this season he has a number of players who can feature in different roles.
Wallace himself is capable of playing as a centre-back and a left wing-back, while both Callum Styles and Jamie Shackleton are also capable of covering that wing-back role despite being natural midfielders. Ryan Leonard’s name will also spring to mind, with the former Sheffield United man able to cover almost anywhere in defence and midfield.
“It’s obviously going to be a massive benefit if you’ve got players who can play in multiple positions,” Wallace told the News.
“With a club like Millwall, we’re not going to have a 30-man squad, we’re not going to have loads of unhappy players who aren’t getting near the team.
“It depends on how the deal’s structured, and without me going into too much detail on individual deals, some deals will have a recall clause for both clubs in January, some deals won’t have that.
“In a lot of loan deals, we’d do it where we leave ourselves that option of bringing them back if we need them or if we do so well that another club wants to come in and take them on at a higher level.
“When you take a loan deal, you’d accept that there are certain breaks in there, but in Cressy’s case I don’t know, in Shacks’ [Shackleton] case I don’t know. As far as I’m concerned, they’re our players until we’re told otherwise and we want them to continue what they’ve done, which is performing and helping the team to win games of football.”
“When you’ve got multiple players who can play in different positions, it obviously provides competition for everyone within the squad and gives us loads of ways to change the personnel and change tactics.”
E xclusiv E Murray Wallace is one of many Millwall players who can cover multiple positions The Lions haven’t revealed whether Charlie Cresswell has a recall clause in his loan deal