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OBVNF

NEIGHBOURHOOD FORUM

20 April 2016
OBVNF Working Groups Pre-meetings 5:30pm
Forum General Meeting 7pm
Venue: Globe House, Jn of Bermondsey St/Crucifix Lane, SE13JW

AGENDA
Take stock of the progress of the various working groups (listed below) and decide which policy
initiatives can be taken forward and included in a local Neighbourhood Plan for adoption by the
Council. Consider the future traffic management plans released to the Forum by the Council
following our meeting of 24 February and circulated in the OBV mailout of 15 March.
Working groups to discuss progress:
Local improvements
Local services
Local views matter
Review Neighbourhood Area Extension
Attendance details:
Attendee

Organisation

Attendance

Ravi Bhaskaran

BVAG

Present

Grinne Turner

Lynton Rd SE1

Present

Andrew Aveling

Trevers Caf SE1

Present

James Tillyard

BVAG

Present

Amy Carruthers

BVAG

Present

Thomas Hoeptwer

New Garden Cities Alliance

Present

Nadia Broccardo

Team London Bridge

Present

Shane Clarke

Team London Bridge

Present

Allan Carruthers

BVAG

Present

10

Dom Garwood

BVAG

Present

11

Rahid Khan

BVAG

Present

12

Harley Gray

BVAG

Present

13

Michael Davis

BSAP

Present

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Clare Birks

BSAP

Present

15

Geoffrey Frosh

87 Lynton Rd, SE1 5QT

Present

16

Mark Bacon

OBVNF

Present

17

Russell Gray

BVAG

Present

18

Nick Marangozov

BSAP

Present

19

Tom Minney

Whites Grounds Estate

Present

Minutes:
Both meetings were Chaired by Amy Carruthers
Lowline project
Implications
Public Realm improvements; Working viaduct; Marketing; extend to Bermondsey and Blue; proper use
of CIL money; Use of arches
Works involved
Cleaning brickwork; restore arches and Tunnels; improve footbaths

Team London Bridge get together invite for Forum, venue - Tanner & Co, 26 April.
Team London Bridge plan for St Thomas St reopening; TFL transport modeling system very complex and
expensive for us to adopt/use; main priority should be to reduce traffic when reopened; Possibility of
traffic increase in long lane in near future.
Policies
Deadline for each group to compile draft policies third week of June; Bankside draft ready and can be
used an example; decent website tool will be useful to coordinate policies of various working groups as
they take shape; consultation responses can be used to write policy of Housing where it is difficult to
find engagement; keep commutation responses as proof for examiner; Policies need to follow evidence
base e.g. Link with Councils document, existing evidence council can help, Southwark Planning Policy
evidence.
Extension of Neighbourhood Area (see map in next page)
Forum to apply to extend area to include Magdalen St, Bermondsey st upto tooley st, shand st, St Olaves
estate, Lewes house; in brief extend the boundary north of the railway viaduct such that it will now be
bounded by Bermondsey st in the north west, tooley st in the north and tower bridge road in the west;
members of BSAP and TLB had left before this agenda; others present voted in favour of the extended
area; reasons being that the character of the proposed extended area is more in sync with the character
and scale of Bermondsey st than the More London type developments on the other side of Tooley st,
also the extension area was originally part of the Forums earlier versions of the proposed neighbourhod

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LONDON

SE1 3JW

T: 02073780707