Southwark is OBLITERATING Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood

No matter what they are telling residents – 12th May 2018

Above: Aerial view of the ten remaining acres of Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood, with Area Z, already felled.

Southwark Council is clearing the 12 acres of woods in Council-owned Camberwell Old Cemetery in East Dulwich.

BUT Southwark Council is denying this to the press and their residents. FAQ from Southwark

How do we know this is happening?

Southwark has told us it will happen.

Here is what Southwark Council’s own Cemetery Strategy 2012 agreed. Here is their scheme overlaid on a Google Earth photographs.

This is what Southwark shows in its Cemetery Strategy

cemetry plans

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THE DESTRUCTION HAS BEGUN

Here is an aerial photograph of work the have already done – stage one – so called Area Z complete. Over two acres stripped clear of trees and scrub. Trees and scrub are what make a wood a wood.

Area Z

Area Z already felled

Contact for more information on the Save Southwark Woods Campaign by the Friends of the Camberwell Cemeteries:

savesouthwarkwoods@gmail.com

www.savesouthwarkwoods.org.uk

Or by phone:

Blanche Cameron – 07731304966

Lewis Schaffer – 07886504221

Southwark has destroyed other natural assets in their cemeteries – this is Area B Camberwell New Cemetery

Here they have stripped almost three acres of meadow and wood in the Honor Oak Nature Corridor, just metres from Honor Oak Park station. Photos 2016 and 2017 toward One Tree Hill.