Issues

Supporting the campaign for a cinema in Crystal Palace

Posted by · January 14, 2015 10:59 PM

As many of you will be aware, a planning application for the former bingo hall building at 25 Church Road is due to be considered shortly by Bromley Council. The current planning designation would allow the building to be used as a local cinema for our area. If the planning application is granted, it will give permission to the current owners to use 25 Church Road as a place of worship and the building would lose its current status as a community building.

I've always supported the campaign for a cinema in Crystal Palace, and hundreds of local residents who I've spoken to over the past few years believe that the best possible use for 25 Church Road would be to open it as a cinema which could be used by the whole community. Many people have been in touch over the past few weeks to express their concern that in this instance allowing 25 Church Road to be used as a place of worship would have significant impacts on the amenity of local residents, particularly in relation to traffic and parking with visitors traveling long distances by car; and would further reduce the likelihood of the long-held aspiration to open a cinema in Crystal Palace being realised.

For these reasons, together with my councillor colleagues Cllr Andy Simmons and Cllr Jon Hartley, I've written to Bromley Council to ask that the planning application is refused. Please find below the full text of our objection which was sent to [email protected]:

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Please let me know the issues that matter to you

Posted by · January 11, 2015 12:01 AM

As the Labour Party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood, my top priorities are representing everyone who lives and works in our area, and campaigning hard on the issues which matter to you most. Please let me know your priorities by taking two minutes to fill out the survey in the link below:https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DaWN_Labour_survey

Thank you!

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Tell me your views on proposals for the SG Smith site in Dulwich Village

Posted by · November 16, 2014 10:52 PM

If you live in Dulwich Village, you may be aware that a planning application has been submitted by The Dulwich Estate and the SG Smith Motor Group to Southwark Council for the redevelopment of the workshop site bounded by Gilkes Place, Gilkes Crescent and Calton Avenue. The application is for twelve houses with underground parking.

Full details can be found on Southwark Council’s planning website under reference 14/AP/3104 at http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/485/planning_applications/554/search_the_planning_applications_register

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Campaign for a new secondary school on the Dulwich Hospital site

Posted by · November 07, 2014 3:12 PM

We urgently need firm plans for a new secondary school in the Dulwich area. Existing schools are heavily oversubscribed and local children are increasingly having to travel further afield to get to school. The Council’s figures show that there will be an under-supply of places from 2016, which will increase sharply by 2018.

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Small businesses - let me know your views

Posted by · October 29, 2014 9:11 AM

Small businesses are a vital part of our economy in Dulwich and West Norwood. Of the 3,500 businesses in our local area, 95% employ fewer than ten people. From the wealth of shops and services along our High Streets and local shopping parades which we rely on week by week; to our small industrial estates and markets in Brixton, Crystal Palace, Herne Hill or Norwood, our area has a strong economy of micro-businesses and small and medium enterprises.

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Issues

Posted by · October 28, 2014 11:16 PM

Over the coming months I will be highlighting the issues that matter to our communities in Dulwich and West Norwood some of the ways we can work together for change. Keep visiting this page for updates!

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