Update from Save Southwark Woods for those not following on Facebook/Twitter.

At the Public Meeting, the council gave residents until Friday 20th February, a typically short period to make comments on their brutal, destructive and short-term proposals. Here are the people to write to, it can be in one email/letter and you can be as specific or as general as you wish, but has to be with them by Friday 20th.

The people to write to are:

Officers:
simon.bevan@southwark.gov.uk Simon Bevan, Head of Planning
Rebecca.towers@southwark.gov.uk Rebecca Towers, Parks & Open Spaces Manager
Des.Waters@southwark.gov.uk Des Waters, Head of Public Realm

Copy in Councillors:
Darren.merrill@southwark.gov.uk Cllr Darren Merrill
Victoria.Mills@southwark.gov.uk Clly Victoria Mills
Renata.Hamvas@southwark.gov.uk Cllr Renata Hamvas

And please copy us in too!
southwarkwoods@gmail.com

The main points Save Southwark Woods is calling for are:
• For these woodlands, wooded areas and greenspaces to be protected and managed for nature and people - no new burials
• For both cemeteries to be declared the Local Nature Reserves they really are, and managed as Nunhead Cemetery is
• That years of illegal fly tipping under the council’s watch should not be the excuse used for a massive redevelopment not just of Area Z but across the whole of these magical woods, with sanitised landscaping and THOUSANDS of burial plots instead of woodland at the end of it
• A full Public Consultation 2015/2016 on these brutal and destructive proposals, denied to the public with a toothless public information exercise instead
If you wish to express support for the SSW campaign too, that would be great but the main thing is to make your comments known. The council has tried to get this through without anyone realising what was happening. Tell them they can't pull the wool over residents' eyes like this.