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Woods & Nature
Acres of inner London woods are being cut down
Heritage
Graves and memorials destroyed
War Graves
Families
Families say 'No' to digging up their dead
Religious Discrimination
Excludes most Muslim residents and many others for whom burial is the only option
Politics
Southwark's shameful burial cover-up, misleading the public, denying its own plans
SAVE CAMBERWELL OLD CEMETERY WOOD
12 ACRES OF WOODS BEING CUT DOWN AND HEADSTONES DESTROYED
MEDIA COVERAGE
"I went to scatter my mum's ashes at my grandparents' graves... but it was missing."
"War graves lost as court gives council permission to bury civilians on top of WW1 soldiers."
"London Councils Are Selling Private Burial Plots On Paupers' Graves."
But we super-imposed Southwark's own plans on a Google Earth image. (Pages 53 and 61 of Southwark Council's Cemetery Strategy 2012. ) Destined to go: Areas H1, H2, H3, J, K,and L. Area Z, gone. And we have acres cut down. Southwark must now know what it are doing is wrong.
Above: Two acres of Honor Oak Nature Corridor land cleared for four year's of burial plots. June 2018.
Southwark is turning a Victorian-era cemetery into sterile, commercial burial fields - as if no one were already buried there. These 'new' graves are unsuitable for up to half of residents for whom burial is the only option.
READ: WW1 Graves Buried Over -Britain at War article
Still 10 ACRES to save in Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood. We can!
The Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries are not in Camberwell - they're in East Dulwich and Honor Oak:
Camberwell Old Cemetery
Forest Hill Road London SE22 0RU
Camberwell New Cemetery
Brenchley Gardens London SE23 3RD
OUTRAGE AND TRAGEDY. ACRES OF CAMBERWELL OLD CEMETERY WOOD DESTROYED - ACRES TO SAVE.
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE. Southwark Council felling 100s of TREES and scraping away 1000s of HEADSTONES to bury the dead in used graves.
Photo of 'new' burial areas on Woodvale, above graves. Many, if not most, of the families that purchase plots don't know there are already graves below.
Destruction of nature and heritage in the New Cemetery, too.
Above photos: Some of the 100s of trees cut down in Area Z of Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood in 2016. Southwark is going after the remaining 10 acres. Southwark are providing local burial - but at what cost?
Is it worth clearing 12 acres of trees and meadows in our hot, polluted city? Is it worth stripping thousands of family gravestones? Is it worth digging up the dead? Do people want to be buried in someone else’s grave? And all this for just a few years of burial plots.
Above: Memorials from WW2 era, destroyed in Camberwell New Cemetery, on the side of One Tree Hill. October 2017.
Beyond the hoarding, another 2 acres of meadow and wood in the Honor Oak Nature Corridor have been cleared for burial. Beauty and habitat destroyed for inner London burial.
Camberwell Old Cemetery
Forest Hill Road London SE22 0RU
By bus: 63 and 363 both stop at main entrance on Forest Hill Road
P13 stops near rear entrance on corner of Wood Vale and Langton Rise
By train: Honor Oak Park station then 15 minute walk or
P12 bus outside the station
Camberwell New Cemetery
Brenchley Gardens London SE23 3RD
By bus: P12 to either the main Brenchley Gardens entrance or rear entrance by Honor Oak Park station.
By train: Honor Oak Park or Crofton Park.
Bike and car parking available at both cemeteries just inside the gates
Dozens of trees cut down on One Tree Hill, next to the Nature Reserve, to create burial plots. March 2016.
MORE PROOF OF SCALE OF LOSS
MORE PROOF, IF YOU STILL NEED IT
Southwark Council has run out of burial space. What does it do?
Instead of buying burial land outside the city, Southwark buries over graves, including war graves, and as soon as 2022 be burying in used graves.
To do this they have to cut down acres of woods and remove (or destroy) memorials and headstones. When they reuse a grave they will dig up the remains, dig deeper, put the remains back and bury someone new on top - bought by a family who may not know what is below.
They call this ‘reclamation’ and ‘reuse’.
We call it desecration of graves and nature.
Protect our valuable, beautiful, inner-city woods and heritage.
LATEST: Monday 13 January 2020
Waiting on Southwark Council to begin deforestation of remaining 10 acres of cemetery woods in Camberwell Old Cemetery. They have been cutting trees around the cemetery without notifying us. Warning!
Below: One of the few photos of Area Z, Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood, July 2015.
And after Southwark began.
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DESTRUCTION OF 12 ACRES OF WOODS
BURIAL IN USED GRAVES OF STRANGERS
BUILDING AND BURIAL ABOVE WAR GRAVES
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MUSLIMS
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VIDEO: The big picture:
Video: Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood in 2015 - BEFORE -
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VIDEO: The Old Cemetery Wood in November 2018:
VIDEO: How grave reuse affects families: