Bellenden Residents' Group (BRG)

I am retired and have lived in Bellenden Rd for ten years, I am endlessly fascinated by Choumert Sq, having seen it over the years and seasons. Its an Oasis of calm with some really nice residents and many mad Cats. In any season, Choumert Sq is an unfailing antidote to our mad PC ridden world.

Friends of Warwick Gardens host an annual Dog Show and Fete which is great fun and involves all the local community.

I love these sheep. They always make me smile. This little garden is lovely. Go and say hello to the sheep.

This small green is the northern edge of Peckham Rye Common, just where Nigel Road joins Peckham Rye and Rye Lane. As part of the Common, it has the same protection as the Common from development. Until a year or so ago, there was an ugly broken metal railing around it, and the same kind of railing around the next part of the Common just further south. Then the Council took the railings away and it transformed the look and feel of the whole place, literally over night! It was wonderful. In summer the trees in this part of the Common from here to East Dulwich Road are magnificent, and my most favourite tree place in the area.

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.

More new railings, these at the entrance to the community garden. This is a lovely place to stop by if there is time on the way to and from the station. The glimpse through these gates and the path beyond are an uplifting view in the rush to catch a train!

The Wildlife Garden is tucked away in the space behind Grove Vale and Ondine Road, where the old Council refuse depot used to be. The entrance is in Marsden Road with lovely gates installed by the Bellenden Renewal Scheme. This picture is of the 2006 BRG Summer Garden Party, an enjoyable day for people of all ages, in such a lovely setting.

Rye Passage as it was after first temporary improvement in early 2008, paid for by CGS funds. Work now stalled, waiting impatiently for completion with new and realigned fencing to open up the passage and to remove blind spots.

I love the Open Space at Goose Green - the trees, the grass and the feeling of openness.