Traffic build-up in the Norwood Road is unacceptable and shaving a small amount off the boundary at the stricture point at X above will make it easier for traffic coming from right to left down Norwood Road and into Dulwich Road.   Losing any parkland is a very serious business but a few feet near this point will reduce congestion considerably.   Unfortunately the scheme got into the hands of Lambeth's traffic engineers - they want to demolish the public toilets and take 1,070 square metres of parkland for a mega-traffic scheme with a large, paved traffic island in the middle of the junction. Lambeth Council pushed this through at their Planning Committee on a straight political vote.

Lambeth has acted disgracefully - they even tippexed out the date on a letter from the Chairs of the FoBP and the Brockwell Park MAC to make it look as if they supported their scheme! Despite the FoBP alternative scheme which takes only half the parkland, Lambeth is now destroying the Park just to prove they can. The finances of the scheme only stack up because the Councillors in charge value parkland at zero!

We hoped Boris Johnson, Mayor of London would live up to his campaign promise to protect London Parks. He insisted on "proper consideration" of our alternative scheme. Foolishly he left this up to Lambeth. Although nearly 800 people have asked him require an independent evaluation, his advisors tell us they are required to believe what Lambeth tell them - even when it's not true.