Bellenden Residents' Group (BRG)

The 1940s 'prefab', once so reviled, is in danger of becoming extinct and some are even being preserved. This one, on the corner of Choumert Grove looks well looked after and is a pleasing contrast with the recent development on the far side of Mcdermott Road.

If you are going to do it right get it right.  That's the message of this one.  Not the only approach of course but here the existing terrace has been extended by copying it in every detail.  The scale, dimensions and materials all echo the adjoining houses, even down to the stock brickwork with its flemish bond  and coloured mortar giving the illusion of weathering. The gates are not to everyone's taste but so what.  The only real giveaway are the rooflights. Not applicable in every case but this development  works. 

These old, tired, dirty and bent railings are a legacy from the past. All the railings that have been replaced by new ones were like this or worse. This is why I enjoy the new railings so much everywhere, as I know how much better it all feels to have the awful ones removed and replaced by cheerful and pleasant ones.

The car park used to have an awful old broken surface. I always like to see the fresh unbroken and clear surface now, on that mad rush to the station to catch a train. I also really like the wide expanse of sky that that car park lets us enjoy. The Council is intent in its Peckham Area Action Plan (PAAP) of removing this car park and having large buildings there that would block the sky, and lose us that feeling of space. It is also an important car park for town centre visitors, that would be lost. Unlike the multi-storey car park it is very well used.

nice new railings and gates replaced the terrible broken ones, that were hanging off dangerously. But the accumulation of various bits of street furniture clutter up the place, as it does in a number of places locally