Camberwell Cemeteries news as it happens...
• Residents put financial value on doomed ten acres of woods
• Event - Earth Day 2018 Make Our Trees Count - Count Our Trees
• Labour-Led Southwark resumes destroying memorials to the poor as massive cemetery reuse project continues
• Southwark has been burying over WW1 soldiers’ war graves for years – and maybe even re-using their graves. CGWC not informed.
• Southwark raises plaque for Nunhead WW2 rocket victims - while preparing to dig up their graves
• Families to Protest Cemetery Digging Up Loved Ones to Resell Burial Plots - Survey shows 91% of respondents are against
• What would happen if the Grenfell disaster happened in Southwark? Despite claims, Southwark does not provide burial for all
Southwark burial on Metropolitan Open Land ‘inappropriate and undemocratic’
• Southwark Council claims archaeologists not needed for redevelopment of Victorian Cemetery
• Last chance to save three acres of Honor Oak Nature Corridor
• Are First World War graves at risk of development in the UK? FOCC appeals to CWGC for help
• Names of missing 131 WW1 soldiers released by cemetery campaigners
• More than 700 in one day call Southwark to make the Camberwell Cemeteries nature reserves. Will they listen?
• Meet us at Nunhead Cemetery Open Day
• Church of England suggests CWGC need not erect headstones for Southwark's First World War soldiers
• Southwark didn't check for First World War soldiers' graves before starting massive cemetery redevelopment, FOI reveals
• Fury as families not consulted on having their loved ones dug up for new burial plots
• Southwark refuses to act on religious discrimination - FOCC demands inquiry
• Southwark burial Councillor accuses community stakeholder group of lying - group files formal complaint
• Buzzfeed reports: “London Councils Are Selling Private Burial Plots On Paupers' Graves”
• SCANDAL: Southwark sold burial plots over the dead without telling buyers - and are still trying to hide it from Cemetery users
• Multifaith leaders confirm religious discrimination in burial service - yet Southwark to do nothing
• Labour-led Southwark disrespecting the poor in death, building roads over their graves and destroying their memorials
• Cemetery Groups Unite to Demand No Further Tree Felling in Camberwell Old Cemetery
• Southwark Council trying to dodge planning again, felling more cemetery woods without permission
• Southwark claims no medium-sized trees were cut down in two acres of cemetery woods
• Southwark continues religious discrimination cover-up in Burial Service
• Southwark Council hid 42 soldiers’ War Graves from public planning application
• Public again rejects plans to take nature space for burial plots – will Southwark listen?
• Southwark Muslim and Jewish residents must change burial rites or be buried out of the borough
• Questions into the Burial Service Southwark Council won’t answer
• Who is stealing London’s cemeteries? Robbing graves and nature for innercity burial
• Southwark cutting down trees directly over graves - risking the remains of 48,000 poor dead and WW1 soldiers
• Object again to burial in Area B Honor Oak Nature Corridor (even though Southwark will ignore it)
• Southwark Council breaches planning consent by felling on One Tree Hill in bird nesting season
• FOCC SSW urges residents to object to development in the Honor Oak Nature Corridor. Deadline: Midnight April 3rd
• Southwark is cutting down trees on One Tree Hill for ‘local burial plots’ - to be bought by anyone who can pay
• Tell Southwark Council to stop tree felling immediately – it’s bird nesting season!
• Southwark begins cutting trees on One Tree Hill and resumes cutting in Camberwell Old Cemetery.
• Does the Church condone Southwark’s discriminatory burial policy?
• Southwark Council denies the burial discrimination confirmed by its own 2012 strategy
• Residents fight Southwark digging up the dead
• Austerity-Strapped Southwark Blowing Millions on Burial Plots
• Harriet Harman tacitly supports religious discrimination against Muslims in Southwark Cemeteries
• Orthodox Muslims and Jews excluded from burial in Southwark Cemeteries
• Campaign alerts Church Court to flood risk from cemetery project
• Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries speak out to stop Honor Oak Park Station land development
• Southwark cannot say current burial design won’t flood homes
• How much is a tree worth? Pioneering economic valuation of nature moves ahead in Southwark
• The revolution starts Tuesday: Southwark to start valuation of cemetery woods and trees
• Will new year see Church agree or reject Southwark's destruction of cemetery woods and graves?
• Finally – Southwark agrees to value natural assets of the Camberwell Cemeteries
• Cemetery Stakeholder Group votes to save the Glade on One Tree Hill - will Southwark listen?
• Protest on One Tree Hill - Southwark to start cutting down trees on One Tree Hill ‘within weeks’
• Sadiq Khan to London's Cemeteries: Drop Dead
• Private Eye exposes Southwark burial scandal. Cemeteries no longer to Rest In Peace
• Deforestation is happening now in inner London. Sadiq Khan please meet with us – it’s urgent!
• Cllr Wingfield announces out-of-borough burial is on cards
• Appalling Southwark Labour Councillor behaviour at Community Council - formal complaints filed
• Area B worth more than burial - Friends Group launches Public Ideas Competition
• Southwark: ANOTHER 4 ACRES of inner city public Open Land grab for burial and car park
• Southwark Council ADMIT to not telling burial plot buyers that ‘new’ plots are over the dead
• SSW leaves Church process when told “Don’t mention the trees”
• New York Times values Southwark's disappearing woods
• WTF? No Feasibility Study on Southwark’s obscene multi-million pound project to dig up the dead??
• Lucky Shakespeare wasn't buried in Southwark
• Southwark Council Misses Deadline - Fails to Defend Desecration of Graves and Felling of Woods
• Labour-run Southwark desecrating the graves of the poor. Where have the headstones gone?
• Southwark Council denies it is committed to reusing graves - while reusing graves
• ‘New’ Southwark burial plots are in fact over thousands of London’s dead poor
• Heritage, Nature and Beauty of all Britain's Cemeteries at risk: New video from Save Southwark Woods
• A year constituted as Save Southwark Woods
• Life After Death at the Camberwell Cemeteries
• 'Trees: Our Cities' Lungs' – a child’s story
• Southwark’s One Tree Hill burial project to cost the earth
• “The Slow and Tragic Death of a Beautiful Victorian Cemetery” - new video shows destruction
• Save Southwark Woods joins Church legal process to represent 800 objectors in Court hearing
• SSW asks Church of England: What are you doing to stop Southwark destroying woods without your permission?
• Southwark working ‘without permission’ says Church of England
• Southwark’s ‘Super Cemeteries’: Camberwell Cemeteries to become London’s inner city burial ground
• SSW files formal complaint against Parks Manager Rebecca Towers
• Campaigners demand site inspection of cemetery woods destruction
• Huge tree felled in Area Z on consecrated ground?
• Harriet Harman and Zac Goldsmith back Save Southwark Woods protestors
• Funeral for first trees felled at Southwark Woods
• Funeral for the trees tomorrow
• Save Southwark Woods asks Archbishop of Canterbury to stop unlawful destruction
• Southwark Council misleads the public over Church Faculty Permission
• Emergency Vigil for the trees
• Council burial plans are Southwark’s ‘Third Runway’
• Southwark Council has started work! On consecrated ground without Church permission!
• Southwark buries plans on Christmas Eve - again!
• Campaign to call cops on Council at One Tree Hill
• In Southwark the dead have no name
• Council denies plans for largest excavation of graves in British history
• How will Southwark dig up its dead?
• Southwark to Evict its Dead to Sell Burial to Other Boroughs
• Southwark Council calls us liars, denies grave excavation plans
• Grave Destruction: Thousands of remains to be dug up at the Camberwell Cemeteries
• A year of saving Southwark Woods
• Save Southwark Woods calls for first ever deliberate “rewilding” of cemeteries
• The Church can save Southwark Woods. SSW calls for urgent action from the Diocese of Southwark
• Southwark Council to fell trees on One Tree Hill? This Sunday: Southwark Woods Festival of Lights
• Is the Diocese of Southwark aware that Southwark Council plans to start felling trees next week?
• Politicians object to the Church of England over Southwark's destructive plans for Cemeteries
• Councillors Rubber Stamp Southwark's Worst Burial Plans Ever
• Southwark Council's burial provision discriminates against Muslim and Jewish residents
• Save Southwark Woods asks Thames Water to carry out water quality testing at Camberwell Cemeteries
• Is Southwark Council burying bodies illegally?
• Is Southwark Council misleading the Environment Agency?
• Save Southwark Woods Calls for Public Inquiry
• Southwark Cllr Gavin Edwards 'unfit for public office'
• Guide to Southwark Doublespeak
• Southwark’s Camberwell Cemeteries planning applications a ‘sham’
• Community volunteers map 150 trees to save Southwark Woods
• Eight London Mayoral hopefuls would save Southwark Woods
• Woodland Trust to help map Ancient and Veteran Trees at Southwark Woods
• "What did you know, when did you know it?"
• Council burial debate a sham - Southwark had already applied for planning permission
• SSW Demands Removal of Cllr Darren Merrill From Burial Policy
• Southwark Removes Historic Burial Monuments and Memorials Without Notice
• Southwark Ignores Petition by over 8,500 to Save Southwark Woods
• Southwark: Cutting Down Woods Makes People's Blood Boil
• Southwark Burial Strategy has No Public Mandate
• Southwark Burial Strategy is a Southwark-Wide issue
• Richard Reynolds on the fight for Elephant & Castle Urban Forest and Southwark Woods
• Liberal Democrats call for full Public Consultation on council plans for Southwark Woods
• AM Jenny Jones meets to discuss action with Save Southwark Woods
• Southwark Woods – just a worthless piece of old scrub?
• Southwark Council burial plans could cost three times as much as the £5.2M quoted – possibly more
• Dear Peter John: Will your £5M+ plan create graves accessible to Southwark residents of all faiths seeking burial?
• Southwark Head of Public Realm Des Waters forced to retract allegations to community and apologise
• Petition reaches 6,000 - here's why
• Dear Harriet Harman: Please listen to thousands of residents and save Southwark Woods
• Southwark Council "finds" the plans to cut down Southwark Woods
• Community campaigners to present vision of 100 Acre Wood to Council Assembly
• Southwark Woods nominated as Asset of Community Value
• Save Southwark Woods invited to present case to full Council Assembly
• Southwark want to turn cemetery woodlands into a construction waste reprocessing plant
• Southwark council may not receive necessary Church permission for grave plan
• Tower Hamlets buys multi-faith burial ground at Kemnal Park Cemetery
• Southwark council calls woodland campaigners 'liars'
• Save Southwark Woods presses for wildness
• Protecting woodland is an election issue
• 34 questions for Southwark council
• Support from left and right of politics
• Council Leader accuses campaigners of disrespect for the dead - whose disrespect?
• Save Southwark Woods invites council to meet
• 'Phone tree' to defend Southwark Woods
• 300 march to save Southwark Woods today
• Teddy Bears' 100 Acre Wood Walk tomorrow
• London, bring out your dead, says Southwark Council Leader Peter John
• Where will the children play?
• Residents to March For The Woods - 100 Acre Wood Walk
• What's an inner-city woodland worth?
• It’s fine to chop down the woods – they’re ugly!
• “Astroturf more bio-diverse than tended cemeteries” jokes top bug man
• Save Southwark Woods campaign gains momentum, thousands sign petition
• iTree survey? Don't bother say Southwark residents
• Southwark Council asked the public to respond to their burial plans - but don't like their response
• Leading environmentalist joins Save Southwark Woods campaign
• Save Southwark Woods campaign garners cross-party support
• Save our magical woodland - and make a 100 Acre Wood in Southwark
• Southwark knows where the bodies are buried
• Southwark can't see the woods for the trees
• Save Southwark Woods!