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Tenders for the building work were returned this week and a start on site is likely to be made in the late summer - with the pub closing for at least twelve months. Staff have been told that they are to be relocated to the company’s other pubs in the London area.
In conjunction with the Herne Hill Society, the Dulwich Society has put together an interactive map showing WW1 memorials, and other sites, in the area. If you click on ‘WW1 interactive map’ on the left hand column of the website it will take you to it. Click on the tokens on the map and you will see a picture and a short description.
The Society understands that work is likely to start on 4 August for 10 days
http://streetworks.southwark.gov.uk/...
These works have been programmed to take place between 28 July and 12 September. During this period, works will be carried out intensively throughout the day and night. There will be considerable traffic disruption in the area as a result. Members of the public are invited to a meeting to discuss the impact of the works on: Thursday 26 June 2014 at 19:00, St Paul’s Church Hall, Herne Hill
Dulwich residents who attended the Dulwich Community Council meeting last night were very unhappy to hear about the slow progress on the redevelopment of the Dulwich Community Hospital site. The Regional Disposal lead for the NHS Property Company, who are the current owners of the site, told the meeting that his organisation had now gone out to consultation to a GLA panel of developers for advice on the best location on the site for the proposed health facility - with regard to maximising the development potential for the remainder of the site. The meeting was extremely unhappy and reminded him, and officers from the Southwark CCG who were also there, that the site was seen as an asset to the community, and should be used to provide local facilities such as a new school, and not just as a cash cow for housing developers. Both councillors and members of the audience repeatedly asked to see a copy of the brief given to the developers' panel - the response was less than helpful.
Further discussion confirmed that the time scale had still not been determined and that wide public consultation on the future of the site did not appear to feature in the NHS Property Company's programme.
The attitude of the NHS contrasted badly with the following presentation on the proposed Crystal Palace development where extensive public consultation was seen as an important part of the development process.
There is clearly a potential danger that there will be no new community facilities on the site other than the health facility - is this acceptable to residents? Surely not.
One good thing that came out of the Dulwich community Council meeting last night was further confirmation from officers from the Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group that there was definitely no foundation to the rumour circulating locally that the surgery would be moved from Burbage Road to the East Dulwich Hospital site.
The Dulwich community Council meeting on 19 March gave the go-ahead for the reinstatement of the pedestrian island at the junction of Burbage Road, Dulwich Village and Gallery Road. The Dulwich Society had obtained a Cleaner Greener Safer (CGS) grant of £15,000 from the Council in 2013 to pay for the project and, following considerable lobbying and extensive consultation with local residents, the scheme will now be implemented.
The first Dulwich guerrilla garden is underway. Members of the Society's wildlife group assisted by volunteers from the London Wildlife Trust, started work on the neglected patch of land at the entrance to the Edward Alleyn Club on Burbage Road.
DULWICH SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – April 2014
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS for 2013
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
2013 was the Society’s fiftieth anniversary. The ‘Dulwich 63’ exhibition in the Dulwich College Library started the year’s celebratory events and this was followed by a series of talks and walks on Dulwich’s development history held in conjunction with the Picture Gallery. Through the year the Local History group organised a series of 12 World War II memorial plaque installations –commemorating the multiple deaths of civilians by enemy action in the Second World War. A well-attended Autumn event in the St Barnabas Village Hall rounded off the year.
MINUTES OF THE 50th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
held on Tuesday 9th April 2013 at The Crown & Greyhound, Dulwich Village.
Present: approximately 70 members. Apologies: Marion Gibbs, David Roberts.
Introduction and welcome by the President (in the chair): Dr Colin Niven OBE
Minutes of the AGM held on 26th April 2012 were approved and signed. There were no matters arising.
Reports on the activities of the Sub-Committees in 2012 were previously available on the Society’s website. The main points were highlighted by the chairman or member of each committee:
The contentious planning applications by the Southwark Community Sports Trust for Council approval of a new nursery on their ground, and to use the former caretaker’s flat for rent on the open market, were passed by Southwark Council’s Planning Sub-Committee B on 11 February. An addendum report circulated before the hearing is now available online on the planning register.
Work on the Village Way bridge was postponed this week following concerns over the impact of potential high winds on the works.