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Renata Hamvas

Renata Hamvas

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To update, when seeing this thread I contacted South Camberwell Councillor Sarah King. She made enquiries to confirm what we thought.


There are no current planning applications on the DKHAP site.


The site is metropolitan open land and in community use and therefore a housing scheme on the site would be directly contrary to planning policy.


Pre-application advice has been given to DKHAP/Lightbox regarding an improved club house building at the site, although to-date no formal planning application has been made.


There was a proposal for housing on the frontage of the Sainsbury's site some while ago which was refused permission.


The only other housing proposals of note in the immediate area are those for the Dulwich Hamlet site further south, and there is an extant permission for a small residential scheme on the plot of land adjacent to No. 1 DKH further up the hill.


I hope this lays to rest any concerns residents may have

Renata

Johnny Dulwich

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I really hope this doesn't amount to anything as I've heard threats like this before which seemingly went away. Last summer I attended a fundraiser day there to counter a closure threat which disappointingly wasn't that well attended. The playground is an amazing place and without wishing to sound too sentimental it really takes me back to my childhood when things weren't so horribly over regulated. My kids (and everyone else's who go there) love the place and can't get enough of it, they can literally spend a whole day there and not get bored. We must keep a collective eye on this because once things like an Adventure playground go, they're gone. You can't recreate them again later.
James Barber

James Barber

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My hunch is the planning application for Metropolitan Open Land behind the current Dulwich Hamlet football ground plus huge cuts to Youth Services in Southwark have been conflated into this thread.


The adventure playground is exactly the type of service Southwark Labour are saying they do want to keep.


However, it will be revealing if the MOL designation is as a safe from development when planning application affecting Greendale has been submitted.

Equally where Sainsburys is now was originally MOL but Labour approved plans to build on it in 1992.

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