Amoeba

Twice the price of Franca Manca - half as good, and that's being generous.

"In all cases the proposals show examples of designs that have been approved by Southwark Council in areas where no residential building previously existed" - You continue to conveniently ignore the fact that these are examples where although not residential buildings, prior development did exist on these sites in the form of garages, industrial premises etc. This is a fundamental difference and one that is at the heart of my concerns, which makes your repeated claims to this proposal being similar (or even very similar) to others, all the more inaccurate and irritating. Furthermore as to your 'no car development', rather than this being some considered and well intentioned design feature, in reality this is just a case of - stick a load more people on a small site, we don't care where they will park their cars, that will be their and the exisiting residents problem.

As the neighbour with the garden directly adjacent to the full length of the proposed development, firstly thank you SL Architects for making yourselves available for discussion. This is appreciated as are the evident attempts, within your brief, to limit the impact on ourselves and the broader Hindmans Road community. My fundamental objections are therefore very much with the brief itself and in particular the garden development rather than yourselves. For the lack of a better way of describing it, you have merely polished the turd. Yes this indeed is an emotive subject for some, of course it is, for me it directly affects my home and my young family. That said, we will be endeavour to remain constructive (albeit not in the actual building on the garden sense). The reality is that I have serious concerns over the impact of demolishing 1 x 2 bed property and replacing it with 4 x 2 bed properties. These concerns include, but are not limited to the negative impact on what you currently describe as a 'quiet residential street' but would be less so given your plans; the precedent such a development would set for the area; the inevitable disruption; contravention of the Dulwich SPD; the fundamental change to the environment provided by the gardens along Hindmans Road and those they back onto from Crystal Palace Road (it was for this reason we purchased our home over 10 years ago); the loss of the pear tree; the fact that I see no positive benefit to the immediate community; the prospect of further 'permitted development' etc etc. Where I do agree however is that the existing building would benefit from modernisation, although perhaps not necessarily demolition and I would be very keen to discuss this in more detail. Many thanks (redpencil, MarkT, intexas etc) for your suggestions, much appreciated, all further suggestions also welcomed as would be further engagement by SL and/or the developer.

Thanks - sadly missed the game in the end. And by all accounts, what a great game!

Anyone know if this is being shown anywhere locally?

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Not a word from the council yet. Renata is this something you can do anything about - or do you know who can?

Thanks ianr - much appreciated.

Hi Renata Are you the Peckham Rye ward representative who should have been informed about this in the first place? Am keen to hear anything you get back from the Southwark Officers. Thanks

No idea and can't for the life of me think why this is necessary on a quiet residential road. Not happy at no longer being able to park outside my home - for no apparent reason and without having been consulted in any way. Have sent the council an email hoping to find out more - suggest that others do too. Hoping this is just some ham fisted council mistake!

Just to provide a little perspective - I cycled home last night from Waterloo (as I do every night) and counted 42 other cyclists on my side of the road. Of these only 2 were without lights (on Walworth Road). This is pretty typical in my experience so on the plus side the message does seem to be getting through to the vast majority of cyclists.

Sophiescarlett89 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > So, if foxes are wiped out, what will be next- > squirrels, pigeons..... The list will be never > ending! Good question, I vote for squirrels.

Had an almost identical experience to Jollybaby - car absolutely fine - all in all assuming you can switch off when they give the hard sell on insurance and some or other cleaning product, it can be a pretty painless experience. Would recommend sticking to the cars with full service history which the ex motability ones should have.

Changing the tack somewhat, I wonder how other religions would react to a group of protesters obstructing access to worship?