I agree, Orange! This is a unique area of London. It's pin-drop quiet and seems quite out of the city, which is why opening a business like a nursery has caused such a furore (although notably planning permission was refused due to protests by local residents when the nursery on the much noisier Upland Rd in E Dulwich tried to expand). TLRA appear to me to work constructively and fairly to try to maintain the area's special character - why would they otherwise be objecting - because of a hysterical dislike of children?! And don't demonize the area's many very nice, gentle elderly residents!

And I speak as the parent of 3 very noisy kids!