The consultations on the depot will happen later. But it is important, in these route consultations, to register concerns and questions about the plans for the depot in Peckham. Urge the need for the comprehensive and comparative review of depot locations to start now.

While I agree that the options for a depot do need to be reviewed fairly, I personally believe that the proposed site would be suitable. It is partially derelict, not on the High Street, but behind the shops, and while building flats is all well and good, I know very few people who would be tempted into investing in property next to a busy railway (and tram?) line/station. I personally believe that having a busy depot and station on Rye Lane would improve the safety of the area, just through increased volumes of people passing through.

My objection to Peckham Vision’s campaign is that they are asking people to ’spoil’ their consultation papers with complaints about the depot, which will in turn delay the planning at stage one. There are other places to raise concerns about a depot (and they do state that the depot will have a separate consultation of its own), but these particular papers were not the relevant place to do so.

Over and above your and mine opinions on this, I do hope that everyone has made an effort to make their views known and to submit their consultation documents, whichever way they stand.

: P

I particularly like the third paragraph:

Given the scale of investment and the fact that improved transport is the key to any regeneration it defies believe that the government has decided to ignore the select committee and not invest in a CrossRail stop at Woolwich.

Oh, improved transport helps regeneration does it… Busted…

Is it just me, or would registering a domain name on behalf of a local lobbying group constitute a conflict of interest?

- why can’t you preview and edit your comments on this blog?

Whose blog is it, anyway?

: P

Alex Wilson, registrant of peckhamvision.org, has a WHOIS registered telephone number of 02 8695 1500.

Alexander James Wilson, Conservative Councillor for Greenwich, registers his place of employment as Clarke Wilson Chartered Surveyors (above link to members’ interests).

Clarke Wilson Chartered Surveyors’ contact number?

: P

P.S. Clarke Wilson’s home page notes that they have an “emphasis on service to clients”. How unusual.

The list of all MPs at theyworkforyou.com doesn’t contain his name, but that doesn’t preclude him from being a local councillor.

Oop, hold on a minute, looks like there’s an Alex Wilson on the Greenwich Council website, and according to the register of members’ interests he’s a Surveyor just down the road.

What are the odds…?

: P

I also like the way that Peckham Vision (sic) appear to play the race card several times in their bleating, highlighting the impression that they’re a bunch of white middle-class Bulwagh-ites: you can’t possibly develop site 63P, there are Black and Minority Ethnic (sic) people on it - so what? The racial origin of a proportion (of whatever size) of its users should have no bearing whatsoever in choosing its fate. It sounds like the straw-clutching protestations of a group whose main impetus is “Not in my back yard! Think of the property prices! It won’t be finished until 2016, and by that time our children will be of school age - we’re hoping to move to Esher and we want to get a damn good price on our renovated Edwardian terrace before then!”

: P

You need http://www.tfl.gov.uk/trams/initiatives/crt/consultation.asp

: P