'What's happening on the building site next to HOP station?

[Iris]

A burial audit has apparently been carried out by Southwark Council and proposals are due to be put to a meeting this month. Friends of HOP Recreation Ground understand that the next place planned for burials is the area on the old Southwark Nursery site behind the big wooden gates guarding all the diggers. This has space for 600 which according to SC will last a year. Then, since they state they acquired the whole area for burial over a century ago, they plan to take the Rec.

This destruction of a popular local green space which is used fully by the community is unacceptable and the Friends group have launched a campaign for the Rec to be protected.

Sign the e-petition here:
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/sa...oakparkrec

and look on the updated HOPAG blog for details of what else you can do:
http://honoroakparkrecreationground.blogspot.com/

[mummycat]

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[Iris]

I think this is the link to the petition, as the link above does not exist:

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/s ... oakparkrec

Can't believe councils are still encouraging burials in this age, it's so selfish for us to take up precious land once we've departed, just for a few family members who survive us....

Thanks Mummycat

Everyone?
If you agree with me that this open space should be left for our children and children's children to enjoy see here. Cemeteries don't make for great adventure playgrounds. Please sign our petition.

[Tim Lund]

Now that I've signed the petition, can I make the entirely frivolous observation that "our children and children's children" might grow up to be goths, and quite like the idea of a burial ground? Are any goths or ex-goths able to comment?

[Seifer]

Now that I've signed the petition, can I make the entirely frivolous observation that "our children and children's children" might grow up to be goths, and quite like the idea of a burial ground? Are any goths or ex-goths able to comment?

Some of us just like graveyards and have a thing for all flavours of melancholy...


Although, not the fringes....

[Hill Dweller]

Quite so, our gang's initiation ceremony was to be left all alone, lying on the plinth-y thing at dead of night ....