The public has overwhelmingly rejected Southwark Council’s plans for burial plots on nature space in the Honor Oak Nature Corridor - again. More than 340 people objected by the deadline to an application for 1,022 sterile burial plots on the Old Plant Nursery. This...
Southwark Council is claiming that there is no religious discrimination in its Burial Service. Cllr Wingfield, Southwark Member for the Environment and Public Realm, has claimed to the press: “We do not discriminate against residents of the Muslim faith or any other...
Today, the Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries has published a list of questions into the operations of Southwark Council’s Burial Service. Southwark’s Burial Service has been mired in secrecy and controversy for over five years, as it relentlessly pursues its 2012...
Last Friday, Council contractors came back to fell all remaining trees in Area Z Underhill Road Wood in Camberwell Old Cemetery - a Grade 1 SINC in East Dulwich. These two acres of woods and memorials are being destroyed in the latest inner city burial land grab in...
Southwark Council is risking disturbing the graves of London’s poorest people in Camberwell Old Cemetery including possibly the graves of First World War soldiers. This is something Southwark has promised they would not do. More than 300 First and Second World War...
Say "NO NEW BURIAL" on Area B Southwark has applied to build 1,022 burial plots on 3 acres of Honor Oak Nature Corridor next to Honor Oak Park Station. 1. OBJECT here on Southwark's Planning Register Essential you must state: I object to Southwark Council's planning...
UPDATE 11AM Lawless Southwark just claimed ‘late’ Church faculty approval forcing them to fell trees in nesting season, in breach of planning consent Southwark just claimed that ‘late’ Church approval and demand for burial plots - a non-statutory service - forced...
Southwark Council has applied to take another three acres of the Honor Oak Nature Corridor next to Honor Oak Park Station for 1,022 burial plots. The Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries, the Save Southwark Woods campaign, are urging people to object by the April 3rd 2017...
Southwark is destroying acres of nature and heritage supposedly to provide burial for local people - but which can be bought by anyone. Southwark is cutting down trees on One Tree Hill, in the Underhill Road Wood and on the Old Nursery Site in the Honor Oak Nature...
The Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries, the Save Southwark Woods campaign, has asked people to write to Southwark Council to stop tree felling immediately – it’s bird nesting season. Southwark Council is refusing to stop cutting down up to 60 trees in The Glade,...
Southwark Council has begun it most abhorrent action - cutting down trees on One Tree Hill in Honor Oak for burial plots. On Friday, the Council began felling up to 60 trees in The Glade in Camberwell New Cemetery on Friday, mutilating one of the last wooded hillsides...
Is the Diocese of Southwark aware of Southwark’s discriminatory burial policy and if so do they condone it? Today, the Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries have written to ask the Diocese of Southwark this question. Southwark Council is subsidising burial for Christians...
We couldn’t believe it ourselves. We didn’t want to believe it. Southwark Council denies publicly that its burial provision is discriminatory but its own 2012 Strategy admits it. Southwark knows that tens of thousands of residents cannot take advantage of its...
It all seemed so easy. Inner city cemeteries are full. Allow cemetery owners to dig up the dead and reuse their graves and the inner city burial shortage would be solved. Just one little problem, or two, or three... Residents don’t want their loved ones dug up....
Southwark Council is spending public money on its burial service like there’s no tomorrow. Southwark Council’s 2017-18 budget will slash social care, children’s services and other services by more than £25M. Southwark is also planning a Council Tax rise of 5%,...
Harriet Harman QC MP is tacitly supporting the religious and racial discrimination of Southwark’s burial service in her constituency. Southwark Council is using taxes to subsidise burial for Christians and other faiths, collected from Muslims and Jewish residents most...
Southwark Council does not provide burial space for its Orthodox Muslim and Jewish residents, while using their taxes to subsidise burial for residents of other faiths. Orthodox Muslims and Jews make up less than ten percent of Southwark residents - but are more than...
The Save Southwark Woods Campaign of the Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries today alerted the Diocese of Southwark’s Consistory Court to the risk of flooding from Camberwell Old Cemetery. Last week, Southwark Council admitted to its cemetery stakeholder group that it...
Today, Save Southwark Woods campaigners, Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries, have asked local residents urgently to object to development on land next to Honor Oak Station in the Honor Oak Nature Corridor. Network Rail are proposing building housing on land in the Honor...
At a Cemetery Stakeholder Group meeting this week, Southwark Councillors admitted they had cut down hundreds of trees without knowing whether the ground could absorb rain and surface water. They also could not guarantee that burial plans as they stand and as approved...
Yesterday, following discussions with the Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries, Southwark Council agreed to assess the monetary value of the natural assets of Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries in East Dulwich and Honor Oak. Southwark Council's tree officer Gary...
Southwark Council is to meet with tree experts and cemetery friends Tuesday to begin an ecosystems services assessment of the Camberwell Cemeteries in East Dulwich and Honor Oak. Southwark agreed to this major step at a cemetery stakeholders’ meeting in October. This...
Any day now, the Diocese of Southwark is to agree or reject Southwark Council’s applications to destroy woods and graves in the Camberwell Cemeteries. Local campaigners are fervently hoping that they will act to protect nature and the graves. Last January, Southwark...
Southwark Council has finally agreed to value the natural assets of the Camberwell Cemeteries – including hundreds of inner city trees being cut down for burial plots. At this month’s Southwark Cemetery Stakeholder meeting, Chair Cllr Ian Wingfield agreed for the...
The Southwark Cemetery Stakeholder Group voted on Saturday to reject Southwark’s plans to destroy the Glade on One Tree Hill in Camberwell New Cemetery. Representatives from the Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries, the Save Southwark Woods campaign, the Camberwell...
Southwark is still proposing burial on the Old Nursery site at Honor Oak Park station - even after 76% of residents surveyed said 'no burial at all' on this site. This is what Southwark are proposing: Option 2 - 1,000 new burial plots, with headstones (standard), to...
Save Southwark Woods campaigners protested yesterday, Sunday, on historic One Tree Hill, ahead of Southwark cutting down dozens of trees for burial plots. Over 30 residents met under the Oaks and the Ashes to be felled, to say “NO!” to cutting down trees and digging...
The people of Southwark have spoken: 76% of local residents surveyed by Southwark said they are against using open space at the base of One Tree Hill for new burial. Over the summer, Southwark asked residents for their views on plans to use a 3-acre brownfield site...
Today, the Save Southwark Woods Campaign of the Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries wrote to Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn urging him to help us stop the sell-off of our cemetery assets. We urged Mr Corbyn, who has spoken out against transfer of community wealth to private...
Mayor Sadiq Khan is very supportive of making London a National Park City. But Khan has also just agreed the felling of many acres of inner city cemetery woods for burial plots. This Wednesday, around 1,000 people attended an excellent event at the Royal Festival Hall...