The Friends of Brockwell Park have spent more than £2,000 developing an alternative to Lambeth Council's mega-road scheme. It meets all Lambeth's own objectives but takes only half the parkland.
It was Lambeth who originally suggested we submitted an alternative - but then spent public money trying to get a barrister to rule that we couldn't submit one after all.     That failed, so Lambeth has now said our application is invalid because it refers to their own scheme. (It was submitted as a variation to Lambeth's own scheme and affects only the part relating to lost parkland.) Lambeth now say they refuse to consider our alternative unless we produce all the other aspects of their scheme - presumably hoping we won't be able to afford to do it. Lambeth refuse to say whether TMS (their so-called 'independent' consultants) were in fact consultants on their own scheme. They won't say how much of the £1.8million to be spent on the scheme will be used on replacement parkland. We've been asking since 27th April. The road engineer told the Council's Chief Executive our plan introduced a new road safety danger - but he won't say what it is: he didn't tell the Chief Executive, and he won't tell us. And they're all paid with public money!
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Evening Standard on Lambeth's land grab