it gets worse. These benches were outside of the barrier last year. This year they are not. It would have done no harm to have done the same again. But no. These are memorial benches.
@LambethLabour
@EventBrockwell
This
@lambeth_council
@LambethLabour
is why trees should not be felled in Brockwell Park during nesting. This tree is to be felled next week. It shreds any biodiversity/environmental credibility you have. This is the third tree with nesting holes.
@BrockwellParkCP
@PeterIntheswim
this post box stands on St Martins Le Grand within the boundary of The City of London.
#postboxsaturday
. Not far from the site of The General Post Office for London 1829-1910 before it was demolished in 1912.
Valley Road parklets. Close look shows that they are both not looking great after just a few months. Poor construction. Poor finish. Gaps, splinters, flaky paint, sitting in water. These won’t last well. Waste of money.
@LambethLabour
The Cedar on Tulse Hill is due to be felled in 9 days time. Here are some of the last pictures of it. It will be a sad day when it finally vanishes from the Tulse Hill landscape after 200 years.
@brixtonbuzz
Brockwell Park. The state of it.
@EventLambeth
. Not good enough saying they will repair the damage. This will take the rest of 2024 to recover, if not into next year. This will still remain off limits till new grass bedded in. Appalling mismanagement.
@lambeth_council
rediscovered this old Edwardian postcard, had it years, never posted but image c.1910. Peabody’s Estate, Rosendale Road, Herne Hill. Same spot February 2023.😁
On Sunday we both got punctures on way from Battersea through Clapham. Today on cycle route through Clapham Common nails laid as bait. Collected plenty. Someone has it in for 🚴♀️ around here probably got a massive car >£100,000.
@lambeth_council
@clphmcommonMAC
@MPSClaphamCom
using that image from Brockwell Park with the lovely green grass. Taken years ago. Here is what it looks like currently.
@lambethlabour
sure like to put a spin on it to suit their narrative. Why not use a more recent image of Green Brockwell Park or could you not find one?
🌳💨Two new Green Flag award-winning parks mean
#Lambeth
is now home to 25 public open spaces entitled to fly the flag that proves they meet international standards for quality parks & green spaces.
#KeepBritainTidy
Read more 👉
this post box is on external wall, Herne Hill Rail Station. Station opened 1862, box likely from that decade? Cypher VR. In a mess. Needs faded paint stripping, so many coats over the years. Treat the rust. Apply new coat of shiny red paint. 😁
#postboxsaturday
@RoyalMailHelp
Hi
@ChrisGPackham
Lambeth Council plan to fell 22 trees and partially fell another 22 over the next 2 weeks. They are doing this during nesting season. Some have nests. I have been around some of them and I have put signs up but will they help? This should be done in Autumn.
not what you would expect in Brockwell Park. Where
@lambeth_council
has the green agenda, biodiversity and climate change as core targets. A park that has the
@GreenFlagAward
now with a sizeable chunk of it covered in either wood chip or plastic. On your watch Lambeth Labour.
Barrier back again in Brockwell Park. Only removed a few weeks ago. Never had it at Lambeth Country Show until 2019, the last time the event was held. Unnecessary to have this barrier plus the haulage of it back and forth spews out 💨 💨 💨
@LambethLabour
@EventBrockwell
two planters on Brixton Road, near tube, had Silver Birch in them last year. They died. Now other trees in them and they are virtually dead. Why are you planting trees in flower tubs
@LambethLabour
? Just to hit a target? Never mind if some don’t survive, they were still planted🤪
make the most of Brockwell Park, views and space. A month today, handed over to HGV’s, plant machinery, generators and a 10ft high metal barrier spanning this perimeter ⬇️. All signed off by
@LambethLabour
. You know, them that go on about net zero and clean air🤪
@EventBrockwell
in time for Christmas. This postbox has the initials SC. Can’t think who that is😲. They only collect for the North Pole. Inside High Legh garden centre in Knutsford. Lovely and shiny red paint.
#postboxsaturday
@clairekholland
“cleaning up toxic air”
visited Brockwell Park over the last 2 weeks?
HGV’s spewing diesel fumes in the park.
Plant machinery spewing fumes in the park.
Generators spewing fumes in the park on 24/7 for last 12 days and counting.
Vehicles all in the park.
Greenwashing.
No mess or damage left behind after the camp site vacated yesterday. Not like after gatherings given
@lambeth_council
permission. No festivals this year has given Brockwell Park a chance to recover properly.
@EventBrockwell
too late now. Brockwell Park trashed. They were told. Soil compaction makes it like a swamp. Water logged. No drainage. They do not listen. Like over the tree felling.
@lambethlabour
- with your deactivated account. Now we know why.
@EventLambeth
It’s getting ridiculous.
@EventLambeth
. All paths in event site remain closed in Brockwell Park. Including path that opened yesterday evening. Closed again. Nothing in there. Just a barrier/dust cart/piles of railings. Why are we having to still walk round. Completely useless.
Brockwell Park, Tulse Hill side. Near to walled garden. 😮 anything to say
@LambethLabour
? This wasn’t even used by people it was where vehicles and coaches were left and where they entered the event site after driving through the park.
This rare Edward VIII cypher Royal Mail box is on Brixton Hill, South London. Dates it nicely to around 1936 before he went off with Mrs Simpson😳 could do with a spruce up
@RoyalMail
#postboxsaturday
the platforms in Brockwell Park rip up the grass and top soil and destroy the ecosystem. They damage the ground and reduce it to a fine soil. It seems against the climate emergency
@LambethLabour
@lambeth_council
declared and the green flag award.
@BrockwellParkCP
@EventBrockwell
only one path open from Herne Hill to Tulse Hill. Have to walk all the way around the park. Never has it been like this. Path many have been using since others closed, alongside Norwood Rd. Just closed.
when will this end? Everyday for months over the summer HGV’s trawling in Brockwell Park. This evening more of the same. Been going on since 15th May. When can we walk or use the park without encountering tonnes of metal?
@LambethLabour
whatever crashed into the post box to actually heave it out of the ground like that took a massive force. Yet another smash on Tulse Hill. It’s what we expect around here. Not that far from the bus stop, that is the frightening thing. 1/2.
@LambethLabour
@BellRibeiroAddy
the Museum of London closes this weekend till 2026, moving to new premises. Here is a rescued postbox from amongst its exhibits on Victorian Britain. Plate details six daily collections and one on Sunday at 7pm, plus another reminder not to post 💎 💴 or 🪙.
#postboxsaturday
Over 16 trees for felling in Brockwell Park. All within that barrier or just outside it. Mainly Herne Hill side of park. Not Tulse Hill. When will
@LambethLabour
decide that soil compaction is playing a part. HGV’s/plant machinery/cranes do not belong in a park.
@BrockwellParkCP
disappointing, only 1
@lambethlabour
Councillor at the 2-4pm ‘feedback’ session on Brockwell Park events this year. Another solitary backbench Councillor facing residents, like over the LTN’s. No Cabinet member was there, those who sign off these decisions and influence change.
The grass in Brockwell Park ripped up or destroyed due to HGV’s, massive plant machinery, loads of cars and over 250,000 feet. Every year like this. This is only like this where that barrier sealed a massive chunk of the park off limits to park users.
@LambethLabour
this one is just outside Altrincham. VR cypher. Still standing on the corner of the pavement yet so close to the edge. If the yellow lines were not there you could drive right up to it, lean out of window and post your letters. No need to get out of the car 😮
#postboxsaturday
does
@lambeth_council
own a few of those vehicles that clear out street drains? Never seen one in Tulse Hill or anywhere else in Lambeth for that matter. Might explain why flooding is so bad on the roads, drains are blocked. Loads on Tulse Hill ⬇️ yesterday.
@BrixtonRush
this Victorian post box is at the site of the former postal sorting office in Herne Hill. The building has changed use but the stone doorcase inscribed “Postmens Office” remains.
#postboxsaturday
Flooding and ground damage mentioned to
@lambeth_council
and Lambeth Labour many times before. As far back as 2018. Lambeth Labour do not listen. Councillors block/mute for raising valid concerns such as in Brockwell Park. Now it has happened.
@BrockwellParkCP
@helenhayes_
why is it that some
@LambethLabour
councillors tweeted about the damage to Streatham Common by the circus and how unacceptable it was. This in Brockwell Park is repeatedly met with a wall of silence. Whether it’s noise, damage, pollution, the barrier or safety. Complete 🤐
Just gets better 🙄More roadworks and an ambulance
@Ldn_Ambulance
stuck in traffic for over 5 minutes due to there not being no alternative route to minimise the gridlocks! Thanks
@lambeth_council
@tfl
greenwashing in full speed.
“we are committed to maintaining Brockwell Park to the highest standards and ensuring that it remains a beautiful and safe space”
Clearly, can see that. 🤪🤪🤪
@LambethLabour
and allowing sales of drinks in glass. Loads of broken glass in the grass. Extremely difficult to get all shards out. Not good for children in bare feet once park reopens and dogs.
@LambethLabour
@lambeth_council
@BrockwellParkCP
not a word from any Cabinet Member in
@lambethlabour
or Senior Officer in
@lambeth_council
about the damage to Brockwell Park.
still no formal reply to a letter sent 6 weeks ago on the felling of trees during nesting season in Brockwell Park signed by 4,000 residents. Appalling.
still clearing out the infrastructure three days after meant to have handed the park back to the community. Path still closed. Rows of HGVs in Brockwell Park again today. Fences now going up. Mixture of diesel fumes and the stench of sewage. Cleaner air
@lambethlabour
😂😂😂😂😂
@rob_king
@LambethLabour
@EventBrockwell
@kinggizzard
you miss the point here. There was upset when this was done in 2018. These are memorial benches paid for by bereaved families. They are often laid with flowers. This was pointed out 6 years ago. Last year not done like this⬇️. Is that extra 2 metres really that important?
mirror image of Brockwell Park.
Festivals finally vacated 10th June. Nearly 3 months on and it is still an unusable mess. All summer out of use. Ground full of wood chippings along with metal and plastic crap. Trees cut. Birds gone. Ground compacted. Dying/dead trees. Fumes.
what happened to the memorial bench in Brockwell Park that has been within the barrier for the last 5 weeks? It is on the path down from house to Herne Hill gate. Stones damaged as well.
@Brockwell_Hall
St Fagans Museum of History. Blaen-waun Post Office built 1936. GR postbox must have been left over stock. Would have been Edward VIII. The one who married Wallis 😉. Post office dismantled & rebuilt on this site in 1992. Even had sheets of George VI stamps😲.
#postboxsaturday
That is revolting. Goes some way to explain why the park whiffs of sewage. Leaking chemicals near to a tree and the children’s play area. Get them off site
@eventlambeth
@lambeth_council
. “we want Brockwell Park to be the best.”
Has the council lost control of the park?
@EventLambeth
why are the footpaths still closed and the event site still enclosed in Brockwell Park? When will they be open?
Also these portable toilets seem to have been forgotten about and are now leaking into the soil.
the burning smell and smoke from that Herne Hill waste depot is now in the air and homes in Tulse Hill. The air is thick with it. What is going on. Silence from
@lambeth_council
or
@LambethLabour
on this and whether there are health implications. 1/2
Flooding and ground compaction worse on Herne Hill side of Brockwell Park. A decade of 1000’s HGV’s and millions of feet have compacted the ground so rainwater runs off. Give the park a break from festivals and the flooding wouldn’t be as bad.
@lambethlabour
will not be told.
this one is in Dunwich, Suffolk. Next to it was this lovely bench, expertly carved for the Platinum Jubilee of Her Late Majesty. Matching cyphers. You can sit here and write your letters 😁
#postboxsaturday
This
@EventLambeth
@lambeth_council
@LambethLabour
is not what we were told. Trees with nests in Brockwell Park would be zoned off until late 2024. This tree had an active nest and still branches sawn from it.
Bird in nest 11th May.
Same tree and bird a week later, branch gone.
Tulse Hill bus stop in Brixton still closed for 2, 415, 432 despite earlier assurances. Another mess created by
@LondonAssembly
@TfL
. At least it will be fresh in our memories on polling day
@LambethLabour
email sent over weekend implied works in Brockwell Park start Monday 1st July. Over 3 weeks since events ended and the ground not been touched. It looks like this month will be the same as May and June. Fenced off.
@lambeth_council
@BrockwellParkCP
Today⬇️. Same as on June 10th.
lots of tiny frogs in the undergrowth in Tulse Hill side of Brockwell Park. The part that wasn’t recently flattened by HGV’s and plant machinery. Good job it wasn’t.
@BrockwellParkCP
here is another, this one standing on Holborn Viaduct just within the boundary of the City of London. Sign denotes ⬅️ Post Office, not anymore.
#postboxsaturday
@clairemaccy
Tulse Hill gyratory is dangerous for pedestrians/cyclists. Traffic from all directions and too fast especially down Tulse Hill A204 onto A205 then goes under low rail bridge. Layout never changed or made safer after another fatality in 2017 where pedestrian hit numerous times.
£30 per day per van residents have to pay for any works they need doing. To combat pollution. £420 I forked out for vans. Not in Brockwell Park. It’s free. One rule for our workers. Another for those working on behalf of the council😉
@LambethLabour
@lambeth_council
@pete556
the petitioners speaking were very professional and articulate in their passionate commitment to Brockwell Park. What a contrast to the pre-prepared and defensive response. Blaming the Government and not addressing one single point raised.
@lambethlabour
@lambeth_council
there you have it. This is new. Brockwell Park is of “low biodiversity value.” Trash it as it’s low value.
The grounds and trees in this area was home to a family of crows, starlings, woodpeckers, nesting birds, pollinators, beetles, insects.
@LambethLabour
@lambeth_council
1/2
schools back soon, the events site in Brockwell Park still no grass. Hard ground. Dust in areas. Still has wood chunks, plastic and metal strewn about. No evidence of grass seed or germination. Not that different from early June. Well💩stink gone.
@LambethLabour
@lambeth_council
these large blocks of concrete over the tree roots in Brockwell Park for a month. Compacting the roots. This can’t be helping the tree. No wonder so many trees are dying or dead. HGV's now concrete blocks. Soil compaction kills trees. These must weight tonnes.
@lambeth_council
Did those 44 notices go up on Brockwell Park trees on polling day as it was too late to influence the vote. Had they gone up a week earlier
@LambethLabour
might not have been as lucky at the ballot box. This whole episode in Brockwell Park is shameful.
@lambeth_council
the sheer volume of HGV’s navigating Herne Hill gate to get into Brockwell Park. When they return to remove the infrastructure, must be high 100’s of vehicles in the park over the month. Yet
@LambethLabour
have dealing with the climate emergency as a priority. Really?
Look at the state of Effra Road near the Town Hall. Cannot cycle there you’ll be off your bike or damage your wheels even car tyres will not fair well over this. It is a mess. Why is it left like this.
@LambethLabour
@lambeth_council
Hi
@LambethLabour
why is Brockwell Park exempt from your climate emergency plan and cleaner air ambitions? Suspect not the only one asking why it doesn’t apply to this area of Lambeth. Full of fumes, generators, HGV’s, cars, lorries, vans, plant machinery since 15th May. 💨 💨
comments off again. Don’t blame just the rain. The same rain and amount also fell on this part of the park outside of the barrier. Yesterday⬇️. Look at soil compaction and years of sheer weight and repeated destruction of the ground inside the barrier over a decade as a starter.
Sadly Brockwell Bounce the free children’s festival tomorrow in Brockwell Park has to be cancelled because of the heavy rain
Due to the rain the site is currently unsafe for children - but a free event is planned for the school summer holidays instead
This is terrible news for Tulse Hill. This tree is a landmark. Another large tree about to be felled in Tulse Hill. Still haven’t replaced the ones felled on this road over the last decade.
@LambethLabour
dismayed, this does not seem the right way to in a climate emergency. Replacement trees will take many decades to achieve the size of these trees. More carbon chucked out.
@LambethLabour
@Lambethgp
@brixtonbuzz
biodiversity claims of Lambeth Labour and
@lambeth_council
were tested during the tree felling proposals during nesting only a few weeks ago. Claims now shredded especially when it comes to Brockwell Park. A whole area of habitat destroyed⬇️. Appalling.
@BrockwellParkCP
LTN roads fume free. Meanwhile in Tulse Hill we have plenty of 💨 💨from traffic at a standstill and slow pace. Even two schools this road makes no difference. Rush hour this otherwise it’s 35-50 mph. It is a joke
@LambethLabour
@RushCommonLab