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You can also check out the users group which deals with them both: https://www.facebook.com/peckhampulseusers, https://www.instagram.com/pulsedulwichusers

Just had a great treatment with reflexologist Kaylaa Sandwell situated in Bellenden Road. Front room treatment with a calming view of trees! The session began with a brief assessment and conversation over a cup of herbal tea,followed by an hour-long treatment which nearly put me to sleep on several occasions. That's relaxing! Lots of good grounding work, explanation given when asked for, dietary and other healthy recommendations provided. Kaylaa doesn't seem to have a website but she's on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KaylaaSandwell/ where you can pick up on alternative health ideas. Just in case you don't use Facebook, her listed contact number there is 07505 662312

Herne Hill Music Festival opens its 7th Music Festival tonight the 6th with two events - a recital from award-winning harpist Alexander Thomas at Herne Hill School (behind St Paul's on Herne Hill) at 7:30pm, and a cabaret produced by Sixteenfeet Productions featuring West End performers (and including a 3 course meal) at The Half Moon Pub at 7pm. Tonight launches a run of 19 events in 10 days! More details about tonight's performances and many others - from a student body musical based on a children's book and scored by Simon Speare at St Jude' School, to the debut of dance in Herne Hill with 7 originally choreographed dance pieces performed by dynamic new dance talent - from our programme at http://hernehillfestival.org/programme#content

Opportunity for GCSE Music Students! One of the set works on your syllabus is Mozart?s Symphony number 40 in G Minor. You have a unique opportunity to hear this work played live by a symphony orchestra this week end in a concert in the Herne Hill Music Festival. In a live performance you get additional insight into how the themes get passed between the sections of the orchestra. As well as just listening, you get to SEE how this piece fits together. You can see at first hand the instruments of the orchestra that are involved. In this concert you will also hear a symphony by Mozart?s older friend and mentor Joseph Haydn. There will be similarities and differences between them in this key period in the development of the classical symphony which was happening in Vienna at this time. Also on the programme is a piano concerto by Mozart. Again you can listen for common characteristics across the three works. As a special opportunity for music students, the conductor Rupert Bond, an experienced music educator, invites you to attend a rehearsal of this work before the concert, so you can observe how he works with the orchestra on the final finishing touches for a concert performance. He will provide an informal talk to students on this piece. We have established a special student rate for this concert, which includes attendance at the rehearsal. Here are the details. The concert is on the afternoon of Sunday 16 October at St Faiths Church, Red Post Hill North Dulwich SE24 9JQ starting at 3:45. This is the final concert in the Herne Hill Festival hernehillfestival.org. Tickets are ?12 and ?8 ? the special student discount is ?5. This option is not available online but will be offered at the door. The rehearsal of the symphony starts at 2pm in the church hall adjacent to St Faiths church. If you would like to attend this please let us know in advance by contacting Roger, the orchestra manager [email protected] Event details and tickets: http://www.hernehillfestival.org/programme/124-Chamber+Orchestra+Concert -- Roger Mundy, Orchestra Manager for the Southwark Sinfonietta & Sinfonietta viola player

The Get Well Clinic in Camberwell offers "Community Acupuncture" or "multi-bed" treatment for Camberwell, Herne Hill, Dulwich, and Peckham every Tuesday at Zen Yoga in Camberwell Grove from 3:30-5:30pm. Community acupuncture means numerous patients share the same space which lowers cost. Community acupuncture is becoming a popular form of care for many people. It is seen as a health movement by many. Multi-bed treatment dramatically reduces cost by pricing on a sliding scale, which makes it possible for patients to afford more regular or frequent courses of treatment. Local practitioners George Monkhouse and Marion offer full body treatment from ?20-40 (booking required) and ?5 for ear acupuncture on a drop-in basis. Acupuncture treatment is followed by Qi Gong from 6pm priced at ?10 (concessions ?8). ZenYoga, 2D Camberwell Grove (opposite no.43) Camberwell London SE5 8RE Get Well Clinic website: http://camberwellacupuncture.co.uk Get Well Clinic on Facebook: www.facebook.com/camberwellacupuncture For more information about Community Acupuncture in general see the film "Community Acupuncture: The Calmest Revolution Ever Staged" at

The Herne Hill Music Festival has had its warmup Bandstand in Herne Hill Market and now gets fully underway on October 9th at the Prince Regent in Dulwich Road with folk music evening 'The Singers and the Songs' featuring Liz Simcock, Bob Wood and Nigel of Bermondsey. This kicks off 9 days of events. Listings at www.hernehillfestival.org

The HHMF is working with schools, and also amateur and pro musicians to put on its 2nd community opera The Peasant's Opera (based on the 1381 Peasant's Revolt) after a successful Noyes Fludde (Britten) last year. This opera is an original written locally for the occasion and will be performed at the Charter School in Red Post Hill on October 14th. Dulwich Community Council has provided partial funding and the Festival is down to a final 4 days with its crowdfunder to try and make up shortfall and is well off target. Some of the high cost is due to need for the few professionals to assist - but this will also help make for a wonderful performance while pupils get a lot of great experience working with them. Please help if you can, even if just to spread the word? Read more about opera's goals and the funder at: http://gogetfunding.com/the-peasant-s-opera/ More about the festival and the schedule at: http://www.hernehillfestival.org/

The Herne Hill Music Festival is working to establish a tradition of Community Operas in the Festival. In 2014 the Fest performed Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten at St Faiths in Red Post Hill, with the help of local musicians and Rosendale School. In 2015 it plans to perform The Peasant's Opera (based on the story of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381) at The Charter School, Red Post Hill, on Wednesday October 14th. The Charter School are also providing the majority of the performers and the orchestra. This is a new opera written locally especially for performance by secondary schools and amateur musicians. There will also be four professional singers as soloists, along with a professional opera director and conductor. This means pupils get tremendous experience while working with professionals in the development of the opera, however, it does drive up the cost. The Festival received a partial grant for this community project via Dulwich Community Council but needs to make up some of the shortfall. It is currently running a crowdfunder in an effort to raise ?500 but is currently falling well short with 4 days to go. If you can spare some loose change to help with the effort, anything and everything goes a long way. The funder welcomes donations down to one pound. Just 4 days left! Spread the word! Read more about the crowdfunder and donate at: http://gogetfunding.com/the-peasant-s-opera/

Better Lib Dem page for Yahaya Kiingi standing in Camberwell & Peckham and now scheduled for the Albrighton Hustings. Includes wider links. http://www.markpack.org.uk/107121/yahaya-kiyingi-selected-camberwell-peckham/

LATE BREAKING UPDATE: Word from C&P Lib Dems HQ is that their candidate Yahaya Kiingi will be attending the Albrighton Community Centre Hustings Meeting set for 7:15pm tonight April 13th. His profile has been added to http://ivanhoeresidents.tumblr.com/post/116075052371/hustings-monday-is-april-13th-at-the-albrighton. http://www.libdems.org.uk/yahaya_kiyingi

UPDATE Rashid Nix, who is standing in West Norwood & Dulwich for the Green Party, will represent Amelia Womack, who is the Green candidate in Camberwell & Peckham as she is currently campaigning in the West Country for Young Greens. Stephen Govier will represent Prem Goyal who is the C&P candidate for the All People's Party. We're told by C&P Lib Dems Chair Jonathan Hunt that there will be a rep for C&P candidate Yahaya Kiyingi, who is committed elsewhere

Hustings Monday at the Albrighton Community Centre - April 13th from 7:15pm. Not many hustings meetings yet (Herne Hill's comes later in the week) but here's one which will be intimate and well-represented. Organised by the Ivanhoe Residents Association with the Albrighton Centre and East Dulwich Estate. Candidates or their agents will chiefly represent Camberwell and Peckham but there will be a candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood. So East Dulwich residents and those of you from other surrounding areas are also enthusiastically invited to attend! We've waited this long to announce because we've just had word on Friday that all parties invited have accepted and have named their representatives for this Hustings meeting - with the exception of the Lib Dems (someone is expected but this remains a TBA). On the table there will be: All People's Party - Stephen Govier Conservative Party - Naomi Newstead Green Party - Rashid Nix Labour Party - Harriet Harman Left Unity & TUSC - Nick Wrack Liberal Democrat Party - TBA National Health Action - Rebecca Fox UKIP - David Kurten Topics will range from Electoral Reform, the NHS and housing to the 20MPH zone, schools, Green Spaces and Dulwich Hamlet FC for more hyper-local discussion. We hope to take questions and complete within 90-120 minutes Smaller party candidates have an earlier candidates meeting at Southwark Town Hall on Monday, so one or two may join in progress. The Albrighton Community Centre is located at 37 Albrighton Road SE22 8AH - on the east side of Dog Kennel Hill, almost opposite Sainsburys, within the East Dulwich Estate. You can read more, including brief profiles of representatives confirmed for the night and greater topic detail, as well as see a map to help you find the Albrighton Centre at: http://ivanhoeresidents.tumblr.com/post/116075052371/hustings-monday-is-april-13th-at-the-albrighton ? Any updates here or on the Ivanhoe Residents Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392 or Twitter @IvanhoeResAssoc (not necessarily in that order. We're all hoping to learn more about how the political system can better work for all of us in the community ... hope you can make it, even at this short notice.

Same guy, same sum, same spiel last night in Grove Hill Road SE5. He followed and pressed a housemate down the road to the front door. Fairly late, around 10.30pm so no one about in cul-de-sac land. Same frantic pace and switched on the tears expertly as well. At this stage it felt risky as the church name didn't stack up but the front door was open, so gave him money basically to be rid of him on the odd chance it might be genuine, esp as eviction is a regular reality these days. Also had a recent experience of giving money to someone who actually returned it. Clearly he is not one of that ilk. But be warned that he is getting about and moving into residential. Wish I'd seen this post earlier. We'll get this reported in.

Southwark Libraries Community Web Resources says EDS is based at 105 Wood Vale SE23 3DT, Executive meets x5/yr + AGM and at different venues. 020 8693 1511. Email: [email protected] http://bit.ly/1JbxKUj. No website and no idea how current.

Fusion raking it in. One way that's accomplished is by delaying new works and maintenance. Another is by using cheap tenders on new build. It's not just ED, been to Peckham Pulse lately? Spa suite is in a shambles, doors rotting, therapy pool shut for years now (due to floor leaks we were told), sauna currently on the blink. Mass migration to Glass Mill, a new build in Lewisham, which not long after opening was shut so that the entire floor space could be dug out to repair structural faults. At Brockwell Lido the pool needed to be repaired twice recently as it wasn't done properly the first time round. In the spa suite the hydrotherapy pool seems to work as often as it doesn't - an operations manager said the actual fibreglass basin should never have been approved in the first place, designed for far lighter duty. Nonetheless users pay full whack. Inaccessible electrical boxes because water pipes were later laid in front of them so interminable delay on electronic shower repair. And, most of the time, musical chairs on facility management so that good managers are moved on to prized startups. Which makes customer delivery agreement responsibilties hard to force adherence to. What's more important for Fusion is expansion (anyone been to their Barbican centre yet?). New centres everywhere. If Peckham ever gets to resurrect their Lido, I think I know who will be running it. ED should get a strong user group going, if Brockwell Lido didn't have BLU, it would be in a real state. However it does take time and dedication to set up and follow through on user group physical meetings and for the most part people are passive: leisure centres not social centres. One of the reasons the Lido users have push is because a passionate group saved the place from being bulldozed several years ago and are not about to allow their legacy to go down the pan.

cactus' comment hits it on the head: FUSION. Now more interested in taking on cash-strapped council-run facilities for the one-time makeover (then moving on elsewhere) than good maintenance of what they already run. Staff morale isn't brilliant either. Apparently very heavy middle management.

@HerneHillFest Herne Hill Music Festival's community opera matchfunding appeal is down to less than a week - it expires on July 31st! It remains short of target, please see the campaign page at http://gogetfunding....t/noye-s-fludde and make a donation or spread the word if you can! The page also includes a more detailed cost breakdown. Based on a Mystery Play, Britten wrote this opera to be performed mostly by children and by amateur musicians. The Festival hopes to perform this amazing opera on the last day of its 2014 Festival, Sunday 19th October. It's an ambitious undertaking - the performance will involve pupils from local schools as well as a large number of local musicians, the Calton Quartet, and two professional singers. The Festival hopes to stage it at St Faith's Church in Red Post Hill. It's also topical given the recent flood in Herne Hill! HHMF has been granted ?1,000 by Dulwich Community Council towards the cost of the performance, but the Festival needs to match this through a crowd-source funding appeal. The remaining costs will be covered by ticket sales. http://www.hernehillfestival.org/

The Herne Hill Music Festival is holding an open house discussion on November 14th to welcome new people interested in the Festival, and to discuss how the 2012 Festival went - quality of the concerts, the venues, prices, publicity, and anything else you want to contribute. Wine and cakes as refreshments. If interested in attending, please send an email to [email protected]

If you go down the bottom of the aforementioned FB wall, you'll see developer plans for that parcel. As far back as June 12. You'll also read about attempts to develop 123 Grove Park and mention of the convent project at 18 GP which was approved with little consultation which everyone regrets as work and noise drag on. In that case the land was left by nuns in a covenant for the homeless and the result has been luxury flats. We understand nuns were buried around the chapel and no archaelogy was undertaken. If you walk across Avondale Rise you'll see the crane which has been a fixture for nearly a year as another greenbelt parcel next to the rail line gets developed. Residents in the area have been fighting off development of the back gardens of 20 and 21 off and on for about 12 years. Southwark News ran a story about the attempt 5 years ago, which is the closest it came to fruition for a developer. Some development plans get through and some don't - depends on level of fatigue or apathy on the part of the public, since the developers keep on returning with new attempts for planning permission. Even when unsuccessful the taxpayer foots the bill for consultations. It has gotten to the point where residents feel such frequently repeated attempts constitutes "vexatious behaviour". In every case it has been about developing in conservation areas for either new builds or expansion of existing buildings. In the case of 123 Grove Park, plans for which were rejected by Inspector Rodgers for the Sec of State for Communities and Local Government earlier this month (links for the docs can be found in a timeline item on Aug 12), one reason given was additional cutting down of trees. It was impressed upon the Inspector at developer appeal that while a common sycamore may not be anything special, a grove of them makes for woodland, including bat habitat. It appeared to be chiefly denied on grounds of being contrary to policies 3.16 and 7.21 of the Southwark Plan (2007). The first because the plan doesn't preserve the Conservation Area as it stands (reading between the lines this invites a new proposal in due course) and the second because it does not, in broad terms, protect trees within a conservation area. 20/21 is also in a conservation area, in a greenbelt which runs between the back gardens of Grove Hill Road and Grove Park, from Lettsom Gardens down to Warwick Gardens past the rail line. Perhaps the only reason the development was stopped 5 years ago is because developers got a junior tree officer to sign off on clearing the land of sycamore trees when his senior was on holiday. This was also during summer holiday when fewer residents were around to monitor events. By the time the press came in, all the trees were down. This caused an uproar as planning approval had actually not yet been given - the leader of the council stepped in and demanded the trees be replanted. Although developers jumped the gun the replacement was paltry and of course this was not like for like because you can't replace 40 year old mature trees. Since that time each proposal has weighed in for even larger development. The Ivanhoe Residents Assoc opposes this development in part due to violations in the past, the 123 GP decision, and the fallout at 18 GP. Access to proposed works would be from Ivanhoe Road as well, adding insult to injury by impacting residents in the mews - from congestion, noise and pollution, not to mention light and sightlines later. Families mainly live in the road, so this would also mean the end of kids playing in the road and so on ... and no one can really know for how long. You can see the current plans on the FB timeline for June 12th. If you click on the drawing and then click on arrow right, you can see the sketches. FB timeline mode is not the most easily navigable social media view. but it's all the association has for now ... and the data has been posted.

Yes it always seems to hot up during summer school break when people are busy or away on hols ... Not much time left to sign this petition to get Southwark to refuse planning permission for application number 12/AP/2214, at the back of 20 and 21 Grove Park. Please sign the petition! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-garden-grabbing/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392

about the term Chair - at times it was such a bizarre meeting we wondered if there was a chair! re decisionmaking, this remains to be seen. Rodgers finally showed up at 123 Grove Park around 5 with a battalion of folk surrounding - including Southwark's questionable (moderately cast aspersion) tree officer and oddly enough, a member of the Camberwell Society who'd featured in the recently-aired BBC production The Secret History of Our Streets, Camberwell Grove. Who'd been relatively quiet at the hearing. Plus the architect minions. Inspector Lloyd Rodgers is a mixed bag who has been at this kind of adjudication for a long time. He has agreed with greenbelt developers, making no bones about "pragmatic" development requirements, but he's also opposed them. What we're?talking about at 123 is an ex-probation office and before that, a soldier's hospital. The Ivanhoe Residents Assoc holds that being an ex hospital, the building in question is already quite large and there should be no need for tree felling to accomodate expansion, let alone collateral damage (83 + 40 trees). Yet given the fairly recent Grove Park Sui Generis convent raffle off and its convent development (with insufficient archaelogy re buried nuns around the lower chapel and scant consideration of the covent's order bequeath to Southwark for the poor and destitute), all bets are WAY off. See recent web post: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Appeal-build-homes-greenbelt-rejected-inspector/story-16421200-detail/story.html

The Public Hearing for the appeal of previously denied planning permission for development at 123 Grove Park continues this afternoon at the Learning and Business Centre, Cator Street at Commercial Way, in Peckham, Room 26, with ecology on the agenda after the lunch break. The hearing is being "chaired" by Government Inspector Lloyd Rodgers, who has a mixed history in similar cases. He is due to go to the site after the hearing for a personal look at the physical environment. We expect he'll be there sometime after 4pm. To his chagrin, developers hadn't give all documentation to the Council and so local residents hadn't had a look at some revisions. No idea how this will impact the appeal. We also learned that the bat population will be affected and that besides 83 trees slated for felling within the development, 40 more would be expected to be removed due to hazards of construction. You can look at numerous case files at: http://planningonline.southwark.gov.uk/AcolNetCGI.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=9538576

On Wednesday there will be a Public Enquiry at the Learning Centre of Southwark Council, which is located at Cator Street, just off Southampton Way. Numerous issues will be raised from 10AM until 3:30PM, amongst these an objector has been told, will be the cutting down of 80 trees in Grove Park, which appears to be further eradication of the local conservation area. This seems to happening a lot lately in different places, to clear room for planning, development and architects. If you feel strongly about holding onto green spaces we've still got, regardless of where in the local area you live, please attend if you can. We try to keep abreast of these kinds of developments on the Ivanhoe Residents Association Facebook page, as well as other events of interest. The item above is online at: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=402671429774907&set=a.357273064314744.75397.316393255069392&type=1&theater

If you are, check out - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392 And give us a like then come on and join us and write something!

You can read some detail about the Hooper's Tooley Street music licence review session on the Ivanhoe Residents Assoc facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392. The verdict is in - some time curtailment and new restriction on allowing people out to smoke in Malfort Road.