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Crystal Palace Campaign
[new location]
- Updated: Friday 13 JUNE
2008
Added: link to Chris Evans of Bromley for comments on Master Plan - their website isn't functioning right now!!!
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to PARKLIFE where you can find out about the Master Plan,
the Park its history and its future.
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Sir Joseph Paxton
(1803-1865), gardener & architect, creator of the
original Crystal Palace in Hyde Park in 1851.
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Two
important documents associated with the Master
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- Moved to MasterPlan link page(red box)
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MASTER
PLAN - Exciting Moment
Copper roof covering |
National Sports Centre - refurbishment.
Where is all that time and money going?
Take a look at a short picture report on the progress being made in refurbishing the NSC building.
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The Crystal
Palace Campaign is a popular movement which has successfully
prevented a 20-cinema multiplex from being built on the
historic, Grade II* listed site in Crystal Palace Park where
the rebuilt (Sydenham) Crystal Palace used to
stand.
We are now
engaged in a dialogue process, which we initiated, to see
the results through to a successful conclusion i.e. an
arrangement in place to allow full and proper
consultation.
Included is news,
history, anecdotes, forthcoming events; including the
material from the first phase of the
campaign.
In view of the
changing circumstances and Campaign successes we have
updated the items Who
We Are
and our Core
Principles
- the original versions are archived in A18,
the links above go to the updated pages.
(6/11/2004) |
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EXCITING
MOMENT |
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On behalf of the London
Development Agency Robin Buckle delivers the Master Plan
to Bromley Council. The deed was done on the 1st
November, and acknowledged by Bromley Council on 2nd
November. This is the first of three elements of the
planning application - the other two concern 'listed
buildings' and the 'conservation area'.
Bromley will shortly
formally register the document and will then begin the
normal consultation/comment process. Because of the size of
the application (count the boxes!), special arrangements are
being made to view it at Bromley Headquarters and the
process will extend longer than usual simply to give
everyone a chance to read and comment on the huge amount of
material.
As soon as more detail
about the planning registration number, viewing etc. becomes
available it will appear here!
Exciting Moment... This is
the culmination of the Master Planning phase of the move to
regenerate the Park and the result of a vast amount of work
commissioned by the LDA. This phase was one of the most
expansive consultation process of any planning application
of this type. The consultation kept the Master Planners
informed about community aspirations and directly influenced
many of the choices they made. It gave many thousands of
people a chance directly to have their say.
The Crystal Palace
Campaign have always promoted consultation. We initiated the
Dialogue Process more than five years ago and have supported
it since. We will continue to do so in the phases to follow.
Our supporters can be proud of the achievements so far and
look forward to the new future for Crystal Palace
Park. |
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Grouped items see Themes page...or
try our SEARCH page for site searching.
Baffled by ACRONYMS? Try our Glossary page. |
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"There is no city like
London. It is a wonderfully diverse and open city
providing a home to hundreds of different
nationalities from all over the world. I can't
think of a better place than London to hold an
event that unites the world." - Nelson
Mandela...
see....London
2012 Olympic bid website  |
STAKEHOLDERS'
DIALOGUE PROCESS
Short report
& update:
Recent meetings have pointed to some interesting
developments in the Master-planning-consultation process
which is rapidly moving forward:Capel Manor College
- planning application was made to Bromley Council on 20
February 2007 and is due to be heard in April.The case number is: 07/00665/FULL1
Crystal Palace Park
Thicket Road
London Access to details is is via the Bromley
website, Planning section.The main campus of the College at Enfield
was visited by members of the Park Working Group in January
to take a look at their facilities*. The overall impression
was very good and virtually everyone agreed that Capel Manor
College, including the animals, would be a welcome addition
to the Park. They symbolise excellence in their education
activities with students who, as demonstrated at Enfield,
are responsible and more than capable of fulfilling a
complex set of requirements. The LDA will be providing a funding
package which enables Capel manor to
(1) open the farm to the public,
without charge, for a minimum of 3 to 4 hours on weekends
and 2 to 3 hours on weekdays for an average of 5 to 6
days a week. Visting times will vary according to
season.
(2) provide day visits for up to 3,000 schoolchildren a
year to the farm (at no charge to the schools).
(3) provide enhanced facilities for visitors to the farm
and a wider range of animals than that originally planned
i.e. Kune Kune pigs, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs,
chickens, hamsters, gerbils, degus, chinchillas,
parakeets, finches, snakes, small lizards, amphibians,
alpacas, Shetland ponies.
Capel Manor will be running an
afternoon exhibition and Q&A session at the old
farm site in the park:DATE: 17 March 2007
TIME: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
VENUE: Old farm siteMuseum - a full time Museum
Development Officer has been appointed and has started work
with the museum trustees and other interested parties in
developing a plan for the future of the Museum. Naturally,
this work will be closely tied to the overall Park
plan.Crystal Palace Station -
Turnstiles - Bromley Council have approved plans by the
LDA and work is expected to begin shortly after the Easter
holidays. The ugly concrete turnstiles will be demolished
and replaced by a "simple functional landscaped area" which
will provide an attractive and friendly entrance to the Park
- no longer hidden behind steel bars and concrete. This
scheme will be one of the first of a series of initial
improvements to the park ahead of the formal
masterplan.Public Workshop - the second
public workshop on the future of Crystal Palace Park
will be held as follows:DATE: Saturday 17th March 2007
TIME: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (lunch provided)
VENUE: Sydenham High School, 19 Westwood Hill, Sydenham SE26
6BLNew Park Website - a new website
which will take over much of the function of the old LDA
website for Crystal Place Park can be found at: http://www.crystalpalacepark.net/
"Welcome to Crystal Palace
Park's new dedicated home on the internet.
The park has an amazing history. It has something for
almost everyone.
The park's 200 acres are home to a wide range of
activities, from people simply walking their dogs, to
others enjoying the traditional English wooded landscape,
or attending major music events while others use the
National Sports Centre and Stadium.
This is the new site which will be growing and evolving
over the coming weeks, we would welcome your comments on
what information you would like us to provide.
Feel free to explore this site and find out more about
the Park, its history, what's going on today and the
plans for its future."
Park News - the third edition of
Park News has been distributed widely around the park
neighbourhood. It contains all the latest news concerning
the progress of plans for the park, park events and much
else.-----*This was reported at the Main Group
Meeting of 10th March 2007. The full minutes of this meeting
are not yet completed but will be found on the LDA
website. As well as the Main
Dialogue Group Minutes, you will also find there minutes of
the Park Working Group, the Sports Working Group and the
Museum Task Group.
WHAT'S
BEEN ADDED....
In the course of looking through the Master Plan material it became clear that there were other items of use in assessing the scheme So various plans (including the tree schedule) have been added to the one-stop-shop page. GO TO THE ONE_STOP_SHOP!
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- INAUGURATION of the Crystal Palace Corner - picture report by Ray Sacks 13 June 2008
- Crystal Palace Corner Project - picture report 1 June 2008 - by Ray Sacks
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Park hosts Crystal Palace replica - BBC news 31 May 2008
- Letters to journals
- Link to Master Plan page updated: includes FAQ page and a descritpion of the planning process
- Link to Sydenham Town Website: one of the better local sites with lots of history content.
- Governance: the Park Working Group is now beginning to tackle the question of park governance. Governance models abound and each park has differences which might lead to different governance methods. Nevertheless, one important feature is to ensure that the community has a say in park affairs - this is the last remaining formal item (No. 4) in the Crystal Palace Campaign's "Core Principles".
- Olympic Training Grounds Named
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Capel
Manor College - Crystal Palace
Park - a
visit by the Park Working Group, 9 February
2008: A very impressive set-up run by people who
are experts and care for the animals from
centipede to llama size! I spoke to several
people walking in the park who were disappointed
by the delayed opening and would have loved to
take their children into the
compound....
Come on
DEFRA. only a licence stands between the new
College, its animals and the public!
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a picture record of the visit... |
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- Crystal Palace Corner
Project - notes from John Greatrex 22/1/08
- The Victorians - what they did
for us: exhibition 22 July, Peterborough Museum
- Capel Manor - Steve Dowbiggin Receives OBE
- Environmental
Impact Assessment
(EIA) -
Waterman Environmental 10 December 2007; summary
presented to the Park Working Group by Elin Thomas and
Emily Low [.pdf file 29 pages,
3Mb]
- Masterplan
Interpretation
Strategy -
produced on behalf of the LDA by Laura Samuels - Brent
Design Unit September 2007 [.pdf file 87 pages,
1.25 Mb]
- List of
Consultants - a huge amount of work has gone into
investigating the current state of Crystal Palace Park
and providing important background material for
developing a regeneration strategy - this list of
consultants indicates (more or less) who did what.
- eBulletin December 2007 -
where to find the planning application - Bromley Planning case
numbers.
- NSC - catchup item:
Press release LDA Setember 2007 - NSC
closed
- Some useful web links have been added - go to WEBSITES. Note that in
providing these links, the Campaign does not necessarily
endorse the website contents.
- Crystal Palace Park - London Development
Association link
- Crystal Palace Park - Local Dialogue and Master
Planners link
- NEW Crystal Palace Project - link to "rebuild the
Crystal Palace group"
- John Logie Baird - Walkabout
Crystal Palace Park and Exhibition - last chance
- Some notes on the
MASTERPLAN
EXHIBITION
- includes link to Video - voices from the
exhibition.
- Where are they now? - hardly worth tracking the old
enemy. Nevertheless, here's what one of them got up to...
Private Eye
- The
Park TALKS - video
- PARK NEWS 5: section - summary of what's planned for
the Park. An astonishing array of items which constitute
most of the Master Plan for
the Park.
- Statement
of Accounts to May 2007
- link to Themes.
- Transport for London's
SURVEY on possible routes for
the proposed tramlink has been completed and the results
published.
- Beckenham
History Website - link: Beckenham
History
"Today's memories and photographs will become the
history of tomorrow." Great pictures and super
display.
- A NEW
START(2) - added plan of the area; go to A
New Start - Link to Plan (bottom of that page).
- Renovation of the
NSC: recently ,
last week, the pool equipment (I believe) suffered
another breakdown indicative of the parlous state of the
infrastructure of the building. The LDA announced that
they had decided on a course of action. This followed
extensive discussions with the Dialogue Process, Park
Working Group (PWG) - this press release (which had been
available on the LDA website) has now been put in easy
reach - another example of how 'things are moving' in the
Park: read
more...
- Since environmental issues are of special interest to
park visitors, the Planning Policy Guideline for
NOISE (PPG-24) has been
added here with a link to parliament sites.
- A NEW START
- May 2007 - changes in the Park - removal of
concrete begins...
- CAPEL MANOR
COLLEGE - PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED!
Congratulations to this specialist educational charity.
Soon the animals will be back in the park.
Read
more...
- also - the
"Fortress Entrance" - just behind Crystal Palace
Station is on the way out - another great planning
approval! Read
more...
- "Sale of the Century" - sale catalogue of the Crystal
Palace dating from 1911 acquired by the RHS - article and
additional comments from this editor
- Items in the what's
been added section archived
(A27)
- Collected various
statements on EIA
issue (newly collated)
- The
seasons' greetings (2006_2007) page, as with former
greetings pages, is now in the Archive
section.....
- We
are currently updating our email lists - please let us
know if you or your friends want to receive bulletins
from the Campaign from time to time - send us your email
address (we are registered under the Data Protection
Act).
- The House of Lords judgement in
the "Barker Case" has been given this morning - no
comments just yet, but here is the whole
ruling...
- Mayor
of London meets PWG 11 October
2006 - notes on
meeting with Ken Livingstone at the City Hall. Following
the postponement of the building of a new NSC until after
the Olympic Games - this came as a surprise to members of
the Park Working Group - an exchange of correspondence
with the Mayor followed which ended in a meeting at the
City Hall on 11th Octonber 2006. The notes report the
main points of the meeting after which participants were
satisfied with the dialogue but realised that the delay
moved into a timing where gurantees couldn't be
'water-tight'...
- A
Whiff of Archaeology in the
Air - notes and
a proposal for an Archaeological study of the site of the
Crystal Palace - by Ray Sacks (Webmaster: the article
contains a number of pictures which may be a bit slow to
download for dial-up internet users; apologies for that,
it is sometimes difficult to balance between download
time and fuzzy pictures....)
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European Commission Acts
Anerley Road Tunnel
Village Green Registration
UDP
etc.
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Sir Joseph Paxton - the
leading photograph above is of a sculpture by W.F.Woodington,
1869: it now stands facing the sports stadium, his back towards the
old Palace site! In 1823 Paxton moved to the Horticultural Society in
Chiswick and entered the date of his birth as 1801 - an action which
mislead many an historian. In fact he was born on 3rd August 1803 in
a small village called Milton Bryan a few miles south-east of Milton
Keynes in Bedfordshire. He died on the 8th June 1865 at Rockhills in
Sydenham, south London, having seen his great building, Crystal
Palace, for the last time in May of that year. He was wheeled in a
chair through a flower show and, although surrounded by the plants he
had always loved, he was unable to complete the journey.
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