Dbboy - that's the definition of NIMBY-ism, surely? So you're saying all is fine as the nursery can move down the road, out of the area, no longer disturbing anyone in the neighbourhood.

What about the effect the move will have on the children that are settled at the existing nursery, the parents who now have to add more time onto their day (and potentially off their working hours) to work a different route for the drop off/pick up, and the local residents of that area, who because of the extra cars taking children from their local nursery (where they walked) to one further afield, will see an increase of traffic on Forest Hill Road, and more difficult parking in streets where it is already much much worse than we have on the hill?

Not to mention the effect on East Dulwich parents who thought they would have a 24 space nursery to use, when in fact now it may have to be used by Forest Hill children.

On balance, the threatened closure (as Pipling said, its not over yet) of this resource affects the community to a much greater degree than the level of perceived nuisance to the one household which is complaining essentially about the noise of small children playing in the back garden (seriously!?)