Absolutely right re the old cemetery. Southwark council prefer the sterile clearance and strimmed type burial option. There was a consultation on the works planned for the Old Nursery area - 82% were against the plans and yet of the options considered, assuming the burial extension proceeded anyway, the meadow burial option was the preferrred one. However, the funeral directors have told the council that not enough people want meadow burial so local opinion has been ignored and sterile burial it is. See here for planning application:
http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk:8190/o...PR_9571538

There is only a limited time to comment. The consultation I refer to is in the related documents list.

Meanwhile tree clearance work on One Tree Hill is imminent it seems even though it is the start of the bird nesting season. This is contrary to the planning application for this.

As for the land next to the station, this is more complex. The housing proposal comes from an unverified neighbourhood plan which excludes half of Honor Oak and actually doesn't seem to take any account of the cemetery works, nor Lewisham borough policy which is not to build on Metropolitan Open Land. This land, apart from being in a different borough, is also owned by Network Rail so is unlikely to feature in Southwark's burial strategy. They also have no current intention of releasing this for housing and in fact do use it for maintenance access - major track works on 27th March for example.

It would be lovely to see some joined up thinking re the local green space. Sadly this seems in short supply!