Southwark Council has said it's carrying out a borough-wide public consultation into whether residents want a long term policy that will mean the parks get turned into burial grounds - or not. Understand that a quesionnaire was supposed to be sent to households in the borough. Has anyone had one? The Council gets a lot of short term income from turning parks into cemeteries. And a huge long term maintenance bill. But it doesn't have to offer land for burial plots at all. It could save the parks. The only duty is to provide cremation. They've been eating away at Honor Oak Rec since 1991 - the last time they took a chunk they said it would last for 50 years, but they've come back again after just 9 years to take what's left of the park. When they took the last chunk, they were asked if they were thinking about taking other parks, and one of the senior managers said that Peckham Rye could be used. First they came for Honor Oak Rec....
