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hammerman Wrote:

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> It's the time of year when grass suddenly starts

> growing wildly if not kept under control. Maybe

> their greenkeeper hasn't got round to it yet.


It?s a school playing field for christ?s sake, at this time of year it?s normally marked out for a running track.

It?s such a shame that a school miles away has that land and busses kids in for about an hour a week and the rest of the time it?s empty. Meanwhile charter east have to go past it to head to the Griffin Sports ground in Dulwich Village. Feels a missed opportunity to share!
Yes maybe Southwark buys that land and gifts it to the residents of East Dulwich to replace Greendale land that we currently use to play football, volleyball etc. play with the kids and use for recreation...which will disappear soon. Or half for recreation and half a wildlife area. I?m bored of private schools in this area - creating traffic mayhem and owning huge swathes of green space. The residents get a raw deal.

I have heard that the charitable trust that owns the field is in the process of exploring options to make more / better use of it for youth education/ sports etc. in some capacity as it doesn't really work for the school given its location. From a quick google the St Olaves and St Saviours Foundation is linked to the Dulwich Estate https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/about-us/who-we-support/st-saviour-s-and-st-olave-s-schools-foundation. The school that uses it is a local authority maintained, voluntary aided school according to this?



What I would say is that leasing and maintaining a sports ground is expensive and trying to bring in sufficient income to cover costs is no mean feat. While specialist grounds maintenance contractors are paid, pretty much everything else at the charities that operate the grounds in DV that I am familiar with, is done by volunteers.


If anyone has brilliant ideas for the ground and a burning desire to set something up there, I'd suggest contacting the trust and finding out more!

St Saviours and St Olaves CofE secondary school uses the field and has refused attempts to buy the lease.

There is also a St Olaves https://www.saintolaves.net/# in Orpington. The history of the school https://www.saintolaves.net/21/history-of-the-school page sets out the relationship between the two schools

northernmonkey Wrote:

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> Which local primary uses it? Bessemer use JAGS,

> goose green use Alleyns. Not sure about Heber and

> Goodrich but it?s starting to get a bit far away!



Dog Kennel Hill and St John's and St Clements both use these fields and I think the Charter Schools use the fields for PE too

It would make sense for Charter to use them but they don?t- they walk all the way over to the Griffin. Meanwhile DKH don?t use it any more and I?d be surprised if SKSC did either.


Sounds like it?s pretty much unused most of the time which is just ridiculous (as is budding the kids from St Olaves to it)

northernmonkey Wrote:

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> It?s such a shame that a school miles away has

> that land and busses kids in for about an hour a

> week and the rest of the time it?s empty.

> Meanwhile charter east have to go past it to head

> to the Griffin Sports ground in Dulwich Village.

> Feels a missed opportunity to share!


Definitely would make sense for Charter ED to share it.

The question still comes as to where the ??? comes from. I'm pretty sure that the cost of upkeep would be beyond the budget of state schools alone. So some sort of alternative (commercial?) funding source needed. Which, given it's MoL and there can't be additional buildings, means finding a way to make money out of the green space. Challenging, but not impossible (probably) - but again - likely to require a fair amount of volunteer input to make it fly...

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