Meeting/Exhibition at Honor Oak Church

[fleur]

There is an exhibition of the council?s plans at the Church now until the public meeting tonight with Southwark Council: 7.00pm - 8.30pm There's an opportunity to comment too. It's opposite the Rose pub at 108 Forest Hill Road SE22 0SG -Take some glasses as there's lots of small print!

[Townleygreen]

Sorry, what are these plans about exactly?

[fleur]

Southwark Council is planning to destroy the woods of Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries, including felling over 30 mature trees, to make way for more than 2,000 new burial plots. Woodlands are the lungs of London. We want the cemeteries turned into local Nature Reserves, as with Nunhead Cemetery. Both cemeteries are part of the London Green Chain Walk and Camberwell Old Cemetery is a Grade 1 Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation. These wonderful woodlands are home to protected species, a wild tangle of trees and undergrowth, a haven of habitats and they are valuable to nature, to people and to the future.

These woodlands provide many valuable benefits locally, cleaning the air, absorbing and filtering storm water, keeping the neighbourhood cool in summer, and providing beautiful, natural places for our mental and physical well-being.

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fleur Wrote:

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> Both cemeteries are part of the London

> Green Chain Walk and Camberwell Old Cemetery is a

> Grade 1 Site of Borough Importance for Nature

> Conservation. These wonderful woodlands are home

> to protected species

Which are the protected species?

John K

[kiera]

Bats. On a bat walk last year in Camberwell Old Cemetery, we clearly saw bats. The bat detector device identified three different species.