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Protest camp set up in Burgess Park south London

Camberwell resident | 05.10.2005 08:24 | Ecology | London

There is a new protest camp which has been set up in Burgess Park Camberwell South London just off Church Road on the south side of the park. They need our help now.

Things needed at the camp are blankets, tarps and people etc. The camp is easy to find it is near the corner of Church Road and Wells Way. At the moment there are nine people there. Made up mostly of local squatters. Any help given will be greatly appreciated.

Camberwell resident

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why the protest camp

05.10.2005 12:24

To make the public a little more giving, you should tell us why the protest camp was set up, without that you wont get much support.

donald

do what mate?

05.10.2005 12:31

what is the protest about?
sorry but come on, this is meant to be a news service so how about the very very basics of facts rather than simply info that squatters in a park might want blankets??
????

wondering

protesting about?

05.10.2005 12:40

can you provide a bit more info as to what they are protesting about please

kev

why?

05.10.2005 17:10

Even though I'm not a Londoner I know Burgess park- specially love the little international/multicultural garden bit... so would be interested to know why youse is protesting???

Herby Spiral

Hmm, well

05.10.2005 17:51

I wondered down there and found the camp - the guy who was there says that its just a place to kip and didn't know about any protest - there certainly aren't any banners, leaflets or anything else to suggest that there is a protest going on.

local yokel

err, yes of course

05.10.2005 18:04

Surprised you don't just ask straight out for ketamine, smack etc instead of disguising your den as some kind of mysterious protest.

fed up with hippies

The protest is against the planned tram route across the park

06.10.2005 08:49

The Mayor of London announced on 29 May 2002 that the Cross River Tram, from Peckham to Camden via Burgess Park will go ahead, with a planned completion. date of 2011. The possible routes of this tram across the park are shown as purple lines on the master plan below.

The planed cross river tram, which will run from Peckham and Brixton in South London via Waterloo to Camden and King's Cross in North London will cross Burgess Park. The Friends of Burgess Park support a tram for South London, but are extremely concerned that the chosen route will do huge damage to the park by bisecting it at its widest point, with ballasted track that looks like a railway line. This will greatly reduce the amenity value of the park. We are campaigning for the tram route to make use of existing transport infrastructure through the park, just as it does elsewhere on the route.

 http://home.btconnect.com/dacosta-jb/burgesspark/tram/index.html

 http://home.btconnect.com/dacosta-jb/burgesspark/index.html


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