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[editor]

Lovely pics!

In photos: the plentiful cobwebs of Brockwell Park

While out in the fog last weekend, occasional Brixton Buzz snapper Martha Loves noticed that Brockwell Park was literally dripping in cobwebs. They could be seem from the entrance on Brixton Water…

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[jimbarkanoodle]

Silly question no doubt, but are there any fireworks this year?

 

[editor]

Silly question no doubt, but are there any fireworks this year?

Nope.

 

[editor]

Some pics from the Community Greenhouses

In photos: A look around the Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses in winter

 

[editor]

Lovely stuff

In photos: Brockwell Park immersed in a winter fog, Jan 2022

A thick morning fog descended over Brockwell Park for a few days last week. Rambling ace snapper Martha Loves captured these scenes for Brixton Buzz:

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[editor]

Lambeth want to pimp out Brockwell Park FOREVER! Met Police and local Councillors object to Event Lambeth application for all year round licence for Brockwell Park

 

[Cat Fan]

Lambeth want to pimp out Brockwell Park FOREVER! Met Police and local Councillors object to Event Lambeth application for all year round licence for Brockwell Park

Is there any precedent for that kind of thing in other London parks?

Between this and the new wedding venue being built onto Brockwell hall, big chunks of the park are going to end up privatised and inaccessible to the public

 

[edcraw]

Details of the raffle for tickets for the events for locals.



Seems to be free events on the Monday-Weds - anyone any ideas what they involve?

 

[edcraw]

Never seems a particularly good campaigning tactic to personally attack someone that mildly disagrees with you!

 

[ehg]

Just got an email saying that I’ve been unsuccessful in applying for local residents’ tickets, despite living right next to the park. I’ve applied every year since they started doing these big events, and this is the first time I’ve been unsuccessful. Everyone else I know who applied has also been turned down this year.

Any idea how many local tickets were available this year compared to previously? There’s clearly been a spike in demand, but you’d think that with twice as many events going on there’d be an increase in supply too.

 

[nagapie]

I've also been turned down and live very close.

 

[Jimbeau]

I've also been turned down and live very close.

We got turned down too. Only one street back from the park.

 

[nagapie]

We got turned down too. Only one street back from the park.

I'm one street back and applied for the Friday, which I imagine is the least popular day.

 

[edcraw]

Conservatives phrasing money spent on organising the Lambeth Country Show as losing money.

 

[Rushy]

Why it loses quite so much money is not a new question and has been asked by all political persuasions. How much it costs the council to put it on is critical to whether it continues to be put on at all.

In 2018 Lambeth published figures from their own research finding that 150,000 attended spending on average something like £30-40/head. That's well over £5,000,000 spent at the show. Yet they received little over £300,000 - significantly less than 10% - in concessions and sponsorship deals. I don't think anyone is arguing that it must be profit making. But based on that kind of data it is fair to question why it cannot be self-sustaining. Afterall, the more it costs, and the less it brings in, the more likely it is to get canned for being unaffordable.

There was an article on the Herne Hill Forum setting out lots of figures but it seems to have gone.

 

[edcraw]

Point is it’s not a loss it’s how much has been spent. It shows what the Tories priorities are - they’d presumably scrap it or charge.

 

[editor]

This rather splendid print is on half price sale for £15

Brockwell Park

Ruth is an award-winning freelance illustrator and painter. Her illustration combines vibrant colour with dynamic form and is executed using the traditional medium of gouache often with a handwritten element. Originally from Manchester, she studied Graphic Design at Birmingham and North...

www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk

 

[snowy_again]

The water play area is closed tomorrow. Lovely timing for a bit of planned maintenance!

 

[editor]

Brockwell park prepares for the Country Show

https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2022/07...-hottest-days-of-the-year-mon-11th-july-2022/
https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2022/07...-hottest-days-of-the-year-mon-11th-july-2022/
A walk around Brockwell park on one of the hottest days of the year – Mon 11th July 2022

 

[editor]

Who remembers the aviaries?

 

[editor]

And there used to be a lot more model houses too...

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

And there used to be a lot more model houses too...

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oh good. my memory wasn't lying to me.
kinda remember the bird cages too.

 

[Epona]

I don't remember either of the above (not been in London long enough, not spent enough time around Brockwell Park) but they are great images

 

[RoyReed]

I remember all this. We used to walk past them most days going to infants school before Holy Trinity in Upper Tulse Hill opened in the Winter of 1956 (IIRC) and we no longer had to walk across Brockwell Park to get to school.

I've got one photo of me and my friend Margaret on a day out with a goat and our mums in 1954, but I think this might be at Crystal Palace Park and not Brockwell.

 

[RoyReed]

 

[Cat Fan]

I remember all this. We used to walk past them most days going to infants school before Holy Trinity in Upper Tulse Hill opened in the Winter of 1956 (IIRC) and we no longer had to walk across Brockwell Park to get to school.

I've got one photo of me and my friend Margaret on a day out with a goat and our mums in 1954, but I think this might be at Crystal Palace Park and not Brockwell.

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Yes that looks like the fencing in Crystal Palace park to me. Lovely photo

 

[editor]

So the proposed 3G pitch is going to be on the site of the wildflower meadow and come with 12-metre high light-towers and a 4.5-metre-high fence.





Planning application here 22/02374/RG3 | Creation of a community Football Turf Pitch including 4.5m high fencing enclosure and entrance gates and internal barriers with entrance gates within the pitch area, and a barrier along pedestrian access. Maintenance equipment storage container. 6 x 12m high floodlights masts with LED luminaires around FTP perimeter and 6 x 4m high amenity lights. Hardstanding areas for pedestrian access and circulation, and portable goals storage, and landscaping around the pitch. | Brockwell Park Dulwich Road London SE24

 

[snowy_again]

That link doesn’t work - is that just the rubbish Lambeth portal?

 

[snowy_again]

This one seems to work: https://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/online-applications/simpleSearchResults.do?action=firstPage

But planning portal links seem to be unshareable.

Ecological survey points out that it’s damaging to the environment and to bat habitats (conclusion in section 27).

https://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/online-applications/files/C57C520C86A77EC49D2D9EE9189C478A/pdf/22_02374_RG3-PRELIMINARY_ECOLOGICAL_APPRAISAL-2886127.pdf#page29

 

[snowy_again]

Also it’s a fucking stupid idea