Thanks Dansus, for posting your supportive comment on www.friendsofpiplings.org. You may not see the reply to you there, so I include it here for you. You are right ? no-one should believe that a community has no opinion on a new service opening within it, and care should be taken to keep that community informed and involved. The Nursery has tried hard to do that. Of course what you won?t know is that the owner spoke personally with local neighbours before she opened the Nursery, and everyone told her they were happy with her plans! The owner also tried to present her plans to the local resident?s assocition, but was told they weren?t interested! The ?comments? that have come since then are completely unsubstantiated comments e.g. some neighbours complain the nursery causes traffic congestion ? but there hasn?t been one single complaint to Lewisham Environmental or Planning about the so-called ?traffic congestion? since planning permission was granted ? as evidenced by a local councillor?s direct query to Lewisham Council. The nursery owner did make a number of time-lapse films of the traffic flows at drop-off and pick-up times and these films clearly show congestion claims to be empty and therefore just ever-so-slightly malicious. We hope these films will be uploaded to YouTube shortly. Thanks for your post!
