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It's awful, recycled tat from a temporary structure in Dulwich Picture Gallery,


3 years or so ago (in the summer) it was part of a highly colourful summer pavilion outside the picture gallery - with (fully assembled, and in original position) a strong narrative - it had its detractors, even then, but it was generally welcomed. It is now a disassembled and much faded relic of a summer folly out of storage - just right for permanent installation in what had once been quite a fine cross roads in a village.

No need to imagine the cost over the last 5 years put in an FOI request.

I'm not sure about the design or look...but I don't really care, much more bothered about the polluting traffic on Croxted, EDG, LL and the flawed data and lies used to put in useless LTNs the have not made any impact whatsoever on pollution levels and traffic miles in London at all.

I did so over a week ago. Southwark are quite good on FOI requests.

 

No need to imagine the cost over the last 5 years put in an FOI request.

I'm not sure about the design or look...but I don't really care, much more bothered about the polluting traffic on Croxted, EDG, LL and the flawed data and lies used to put in useless LTNs the have not made any impact whatsoever on pollution levels and traffic miles in London at all.

I thought I saw something going on a week or so ago at the junction with more tat being added.


This is a disgrace! Why are Southwark allowed to do this to this junction which was a perfectly functioning junction before the pandemic and now they are putting in this ridiculous amount of stupid rainbow coloured seating.


Southwark are now planning to close the road opposite this junction (Turney Road) which has been a normal transport road for many many years and have given residents/businesses only a few weeks to lodge any complaints/disagreements!


If Turney Road is closed off, this will be a disaster for Dulwich Village and areas around it, with displaced traffic and residents/carers cut off like they already are and having to travel through more gridlocked areas.


Shame on Labour Southwark Council!

The new seating is great - colourful, functional, sustainable! Brilliant that the legacy of the Colour Pavilion by BAME artist Yinka Ilori continues in Dulwich https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/about/news-blog/2020/february/the-colour-palace-planters/

I thought I saw something going on a week or so ago at the junction with more tat being added.


This is a disgrace! Why are Southwark allowed to do this to this junction which was a perfectly functioning junction before the pandemic and now they are putting in this ridiculous amount of stupid rainbow coloured seating.


Southwark are now planning to close the road opposite this junction (Turney Road) which has been a normal transport road for many many years and have given residents/businesses only a few weeks to lodge any complaints/disagreements!


If Turney Road is closed off, this will be a disaster for Dulwich Village and areas around it, with displaced traffic and residents/carers cut off like they already are and having to travel through more gridlocked areas.


Shame on Labour Southwark Council!

i think it's great nice and bright and somewhere to sit or would you send it to landfill ?? as for road closures what about all the roads in E Dulwich Grove ??

I thought I saw something going on a week or so ago at the junction with more tat being added.


This is a disgrace! Why are Southwark allowed to do this to this junction which was a perfectly functioning junction before the pandemic and now they are putting in this ridiculous amount of stupid rainbow coloured seating.


Southwark are now planning to close the road opposite this junction (Turney Road) which has been a normal transport road for many many years and have given residents/businesses only a few weeks to lodge any complaints/disagreements!


If Turney Road is closed off, this will be a disaster for Dulwich Village and areas around it, with displaced traffic and residents/carers cut off like they already are and having to travel through more gridlocked areas.


Shame on Labour Southwark Council!

i think it's great nice and bright and somewhere to sit or would you send it to landfill ?? as for road closures what about all the roads in E Dulwich Grove ??

 


It may be nice and bright and somewhere to sit, but that doesn't make it appropriate for putting in that particular place.

I wonder whether anyone has asked either Yinka Ilori (the artist and creator of the pavilion, now dismantled) whether he is happy for his artwork to be treated in this way or the Dulwich Picture Gallery, who commissioned a pavilion and now see it as occasional furniture in a location for which it wasn't designed, and a purpose for which it was not intended if they are happy for this somewhat cavalier re-use?


Or doesn't Southwark really care?

I thought the pavilion was an amazing piece, it would have looked great in Dulwich Park as a permanent feature. I thought the furniture was a bit ‘meh’, but my partner liked them. I’m really sad to now hear that this amazing piece has been broken up and now sits as ‘furniture’ in the square of southwark’s shame.


It’s all a diversion from actually dealing with pollution and traffic on residential & school roads which is impacting the health of residents and school children, living, walking and cycling on these roads.

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I'm not sure this is really about street furniture – it's how we grapple with the issue of using cars less. As a cyclist, walker and occasional motorist (and local resident and parent of local school children) I welcome the attempts to make driving not the best option.

This junction was always a nightmare for parents and children, Dulwich Village had horrendous traffic and encouraging the kids to use bikes felt like the dangerous option. I have seen many more parents and kids doing the school run on bikes which is better for everyone.

I think this is a great place for kids and parents to catch up after school, and it's now a lot more colurful! I don't think they have made the best job of road marking etc but it's going in the right direction IMHO.

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