PLANE HELL: TOO EARLY, TOO LATE, TOO NOISY, TOO LOW… TOO MANY!
Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/minister-for-aviation-plane-hell-too-early-too-late-too-noisy-too-low-too-many
More information available here:http://www.southwarkcan.org/planehell
Plane Hell: Too Early, Too Late, Too Noisy, Too Low… Too Many!
Anyone living under a flight path will tell you one thing: it’s plane hell. For residents of Camberwell and other parts of South London it’s fast becoming a nightmare.
The Plane Hell Campaign was born in response to local residents noticing an increase in the number of planes flying over a particular area of Camberwell, almost without a break, and starting as early as 4.30am.
The main issue for Southwark is noise from overflying aircraft on approach to land at Heathrow and London City Airports.
The Petition will go live shortly – keep watching the Campaign page on the Southwark CAN website.
Bridget Bell for John Ruskin Street residents and others also affected
jrsresidents@gmail.com / planehell@outlook.com
Click HERE to read the letter.
Campaign to reopen Camberwell Station – Act Now!
It’s time for the Department of Transport to support TfL and Network Rail, in re-opening Camberwell Railway Station, on behalf of Camberwell residents, and all Londoners.
Online Petition
Sign the online petition here – don’t forget to share it as well!
Physical Petition
You can download petition here. Please note bellow.
The key thing to remember when collecting signatures is that we can only use originals, no photocopies are permissible, and only sheets with ‘the petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to re-open Camberwell Station, London’ at the top of the page, to prove that the signatories knew what they were signing. Full home addresses must be collected with each name.
Once you have collected signatures you can drop off the petition at SE5 Forum’s market stall (every Saturday at Camberwell Green between 10am-2pm) or drop it into Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square, SE5 0HF (FAO Robert Jamieson).
Camberwell SE5 is an area of London that is badly served for public transport. When TfL consulted in 2014 about extending the Bakerloo line through Camberwell, a big majority of responses favoured this option, but the tube route went elsewhere.
• The lack of access is holding back our local economy and businesses.
• Compared to other major hospitals in London, getting to Kings College Hospital and the Maudsley, is challenging for staff, patients and families
• One of our principal routes to and from Central London is the Walworth Rd, which is so congested with traffic that people who can walk find it faster than taking the bus.
Priority Action for Camberwell (PACT) is a grass roots community organisation campaigning for better transport. Join us in calling on the Secretary of State for Transport, to provide public and practical support for the Camberwell Station project, working with the London Borough of Southwark and other stakeholders.
Stay in touch via Community Southwark: http://www.southwarkcan.org/camberwellstation
Save Southwark Woods
Save the beautiful wild woods of Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries for people, for nature and for the future!
Why is this important?
Southwark Council is destroying the woods and graves of the Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries to make Super Cemeteries.
This is the largest grave mounding and excavation project in UK history. Southwark Council is destroying 12 acres of woodland, mounding over tens of thousands of public graves then excavating every grave over 75 years old for ‘new’ inner city burial.
These woods are the lungs of London.
These graves are our history and our heritage.
We the undersigned want the Camberwell Cemeteries saved and declared Local Nature Reserves, as Nunhead, Highgate, and Tower Hamlets Cemeteries now are, with the graves and monuments protected with respect for the dead, and woods for the living.
How it will be delivered
The petition is ongoing. Please sign and share it, then visit our website for all information on the campaign.
Petition: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-southwark-woods
For more information: http://www.savesouthwarkwoods.org.uk
Get involved – before the Night Flight Consultation Results are buried
‘Take action over flights and send your comments to jrsresidents@gmail.com; please your full name and post code for the message to be forwarded to your MP’.
We are 20 miles from Heathrow but there are already noise impacts on residents long before the proposed 3rd runway is built. Please write to your MP and emphasise the increased plane activity in recent months, using bigger aircraft, flying lower, flying more noisily, using new flight paths, with aircraft arriving more noticeably from 4.30am and continuing until 11.30pm.
We are 20 miles from Heathrow but there are already noise impacts on residents long before the proposed 3rd runway is built. Please write to your MP and emphasise the increased plane activity in recent months, using bigger aircraft, flying lower, flying more noisily, using new flight paths, with aircraft arriving more noticeably from 4.30am and continuing until 11.30pm.
Ask him or her to bring a debate in Parliament to
· ensure residents achieve at least 7 hours sleep, the minimum recommended by WHO (World Health Organisation) for good health, and ban flights between 11pm – 6am.
· ensure any remaining night routes avoid populated areas to mitigate the impact of aircraft noise
· keep aircraft higher for longer by utilising Continuous Descent Approaches which reduce noise because they require less engine thrust
· stop aircraft concentrating over SE5
· stop the impact on mental and physical health caused by aircraft noise and aircraft pollution flying low over SE5
· take the whine out of arriving aircraft
It is important he or she knows how aircraft arriving in to Heathrow impact on residents in London SE5 and more widely across Southwark, 20 miles from Heathrow. Even before the proposed 3rd runway is implemented.
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR MP – before the Night Flight Consultation Results are buried
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark: neil.coyle.mp@pariiament.uk
Harriet Harman, MP for Camberwell & Peckham: harriet.harman.mp@parliament.uk
Helen Hayes, MP for Dulwich & West Norwood: helen.hayes.mp@parliament.uk
by email, or write to them: House of Commons, London SW1A OAA
and/or write directly to:
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister for Aviation, Department for Transport, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
with a copy to
The Rt. Hon. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, c/o Caroline Pidgeon, City Hall, Queens Walk, London SE1 2AA
Alternatively, you could send your comments to Bridget Bell jrsresidents@gmail.com
Further reading, Southwark News: http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/heathrow-flight-path-camberwell-homes-depriving-residents-sleep/
Save our parks
Britain’s parks are at risk. There’s no legal responsibility to look after them and squeezed budgets mean our local green spaces – from playgrounds, to the park you relax in on your lunch break – don’t have the money they need. We could end up being forced to pay to use our parks – or lose them altogether.
A group of MPs are looking into the crisis right now. They’re thinking of making protecting parks a legal requirement, and they’ll advise the government on what to do. A huge petition, signed by all of us, will prove how much we love our parks. It could convince the MPs to come up with a water-tight plan for protecting them.
Can you sign the petition now and demand that looking after our parks is made a legal requirement by the government? It only takes 30 seconds to add your name: