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I'm rather shocked that everyone thinks it's o.k. to put a terrapin in a pond. It most certainly is not. It's at least irresponsible and probably illegal to release a terrapin into the wild by dumping it in a pond. They are an exotic invasive species which eat our own native wildlife. Depending on the species of terrapin, they may eat ducklings and the young of other waterbirds, such as moorhens. Unwanted terrapins are a problem. The answer is to find someone who will take it and care for it in a sanctuary or as a pet. So if you rescue one which has been dumped in the wild, which is a kind thing to do, you are giving yourself a big problem. There is information and advice on the internet, such as from the RSPCA on how to keep a terrapin as a pet (quite a lot of work and equipment) and other websites which can help with advertising for a home or finding a sanctuary. It's delightful to watch the moorhen parents looking after their baby in the pond in Peckham Rye Park. Please do not jeopardise our wildlife by putting any predatory terrapin in that pond, the pond by Dulwich College or any other of our ponds.

The council do not put on these events to raise money for the parks. The council have said that the purpose of holding these commercial events is to raise the funds to finance more events.

Thank you JohnL for clarifying

So no-one has any evidence that any of the music events are cancelled? Is that right?

Thanks James. I think it may have been quite some time ago that you visited the Recycling centre. 'Help for Heroes' used to have wheelie bin collection points for milk bottle caps in the recycling centre, but when I last took a bagful of milk bottle tops there, the staff took them from me and flung them in the ordinary waste, saying they were no longer collecting them. What I saw on my tours of the centre, was small items like bottle caps, although they are made of recyclable plastic, being sifted out on the conveyor belts and sent for incineration with the ordinary waste. Contaminated recyclables are also wasted - the biggest cause of contamination being food waste left in containers, milk left in milk bottles etc.. They also had to take out by hand and waste all the carrier bags people put in their recycling bins, as they don't recycle carrier bags. I don't think they give residents anywhere near enough information about how the recyclables are used - it's all very vague. You say glass is obvious, but I don't consider it is. Residents used to have to separate the different colours, but now they all go in together, so what is it used for now? - presumably not for new glass containers. And paper - is it made into products which can again be recycled, such as stationery or newspapers, or something which can't, like toilet rolls or cat litter? As China is discontinuing taking other countries' rubbish, do you know what effect that's going to have?

I'm commenting on Alan Medic's question yesterday (above) on what happens to our recycling. I too would like to know. I have twice been on a guided tour of Southwark's Recycling centre and I still don't know. As residents, we used to sort our recycling ourselves into glass, paper etc. but we now have to throw it all in together and it's sorted by a mostly automated system at the Recycling centre. I thought that by visiting the Recycling Centre I would find out where it ends up, but all I saw was it being sorted, using a huge amount of electricity to run conveyor belts, air blowers etc, in order to achieve what we used to do ourselves, manually. It's a sorting centre. They were showing films on how new products can be made from waste products, but nothing at all about how Southwark's is used. All I could find out about precisely where our Southwark recycling ends up and what it's actually used for, is that the cardboard is shipped to China to make new product packaging.

The P13 diversion ended yesterday evening.

The new Dog Control Orders are coming in next Monday, replacing the old byelaws in the parks and cemeteries. The new rules for each Park are here http://www.southwark.gov.uk/assets/attach/2229/Composite_Dog_Ban_Byelaws.pdf

I wish people wouldn't keep saying that this event is going to be on the common - it is going to be in the Park - setting a precedent. The first post in this thread gives the site map, which is of the fields in Peckham Rye Park opposite Harris Boys school. All day events until 11pm with very loud,amplified music. In this week's Southwark News, the council state they have sought and been granted permission to use the park in this way but the council have been unable to prove this - the licence they quoted as proof was only for the common. At tomorrow's Licensing Committee, the council are not allowing objectors to query the choice of siting the event in the park.

The meter reader who came to me recently can genuinely claim not to have ID, as I've found his ID on the floor in my cellar.

Sue, your baby birds will be at their most vulnerable when they first leave the nest. It will take them a week or two to learn to fly and to feed themselves, so they will be staying around their home and carry on needing the protection of your climbers for a while longer following their first flight.

When you can remember the 78 bus going up Barry Rd to The Plough and when you could go from Croydon to Shepherds Bush on a number 12.

This junction is, as stated by Sally Eva above, important for cyclists. There is a current consultation on this cycle route. https://peckhamryedulwich.commonplace.is/

Thank you. Strange that wasn't mentioned at the meeting.

No parking problems at Silvester Rd.were mentioned at the meeting - quite the contrary. At the meeting it was said that being able to park was the main thing the staff were going to miss by moving to Peckham. When James Barber mentioned parking problems in his post of 16th above, I understood him to be referring to the Alleyn Rd sorting office. He was saying that the Alleyn Rd sorting office don't deal with parcels. I don't know whether it follows that Silvester Rd are taking parcels which should be dealt with by Alleyn Rd or other sorting offices, in which case it's not surprising they can't cope.

dbboy Wrote: ---------------------------------- > It is not woods nor has it ever been officially recognised as being woods. Incorrect Southwark council's Tree Management Strategy makes it quite clear that it is officially designated as woodland:- Page 7 footnote > "(2) Southwark has 74 hectares of designated woodland including Dulwich Upper Wood, Sydenham Hill Woods, Russia Dock Woodland, One Tree Hill and parts of Peckham Rye, Nunhead Cemetery and Camberwell Cemetery.".

I feel that the whole area has become darker and quieter with the loss of the police station on Whateley Rd and with many local shops turned into housing. This trend is continuing, with the anticipated loss of the hustle and bustle and familiarity of the friendly sorting office.These changes have an important negative effect. More ED sites earmarked for housing in the Southwark Development Plan.

The council's planning application states very clearly that they will not be removing trees or undergrowth during the bird nesting season:- http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk/documents/?casereference=15/AP/3190&system=DC "Camberwell New Cemetery Area D1? Planning Application Submission? Design and Appearance and Access Statement???????July 2015? This report forms part of the planning submission for a proposed scheme to prepare an area of land within Camberwell New Cemetery to be more suitable for burial comprising tree felling, localized ground modeling and surface water drainage, laying out of access paths, and associated seeding, turfing, planting and nature conservation measures. 2.4.7 General Mitigation Procedures are given in the report to include:  removal of trees and scrub outside of bird nesting season; 3.2.13 No trees are to be felled until bat surveys have been undertaken by the clients ecologist (below).? No felling is to take place in bird nesting season. Bats? 3.2.17 The LWT bat survey reveals bat activity over the site and points to ivy clad trees in and around the site as having moderate potential for bat roosts. These are deemed therefore to include trees at the head of the woodland glade which would be proposed to be removed.??? In accordance with the LWT recommendations:?  vegetation clearance works would only be carried out between mid-September and the 1st November or during April to avoid the bat breeding and hibernation" ?? So that is what the council applied for permission to do & for which permission was granted. ?? As April is within the bird nesting season, the only time they should be undertaking clearance work in the woodland glade is mid-September to the end of October.

The official timeframe for not carrying out work is during the bird nesting season - February to August. The Arboricultural Association website states this - "The ?Bird Nesting Season? is officially from February until August (Natural England) and it is recommended that vegetation works (tree or hedge cutting) or site clearance should be done outside of the nesting season." The council put in their planning application that clearance of trees and scrub would not be carried out during the bird nesting season. That is why all the cemetery and environmental groups who are concerned about the cemeteries are up in arms about what the council is doing - the council obviously consider it's o.k.to not abide by the terms of the planning permission they gave themselves.