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Peckham Vision is facilitating the emerging new Peckham Town Centre Forum and encouraging informed discussion about the future of Peckham Town Centre, particularly ideas on transforming the central area of Rye Lane around Peckham Rye station, Copeland Industrial Park and the Bussey building. See also alternative vision.
Recent blog
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Celebrating the restoration of the Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station 28th July 2010 | | By Roger Williams | In Dulwich on View Photo: Benedict O'Looney
The Peckham Society and Southwark Council recently celebrated the beginning of the restoration of the Grand Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station. Peckham Rye's handsome Victorian station has been struggling to be seen since buildings were thrown up in the square in front of it in the 1930s. Stand and look at the station now, and you will see two extruding blocks, one on each side of the main entrance. The one on the south side contains a stone and iron spiral staircase, the timbers of its floors rotten, the plaster walls crumbling in chunks, and an arrow poin... More... |
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| Radio broadcast from the Bussey Building
Saturday 19th July 2008 saw the first ever South City Radio broadcast from the Bussey Building. The broadcast programme, with a panel and a participating public audience had a lively debate on Peckham’s contribution to London’s cultural life, and the natural organic growth of the cultural life in that part of the town centre in and around the Bussey building. The event took place on the third floor in the international exhibition featuring potential alternative architectural visions of ‘Future Peckham’, in particular for the central Rye Lane area of Peckham town centre. Read more...
Highlights of the broadcast were available to in the South City Radio programme Primer Public Forum: The Future for Peckham.
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