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Peckham Vision is a citizens’ action group to enable Peckham town centre to develop organically linki

HISTORY & BACKGROUND
A small core team of local residents, coordinated by resident Eileen Conn, is leading the Peckham Vision work to stimulate and nurture the ideas and to link local people’s enthusiasm into the whole process effectively in new ways. This is supported by an email list of over 2500 local people that has been developed over the last 10 years, and now also Facebook, twitter and blog

. PV works in close liaison with anyone else with interest in Peckham town centre, including especially Peckham enterprises, Peckham voluntary sector, the Council and the railway companies. Peckham Vision began in 2006 during the campaign, with the Peckham Society, to raise awareness of the potential of the Bussey building and the Copeland industrial site before plans to demolish them for a tram depot had gone too far. Before that the Bellenden Residents’ Group, and then the Rye Lane & Station Action Group, through the same residents, had been campaigning to improve the current conditions in Rye Lane and Peckham Rye station. In 2007, the Southwark Rail Users Group (SRUG) was set up to campaign for better local rail services. These campaign streams converged with a vision for an integrated town centre. This produced a draft master plan for the way the large sites on both sides of the central part of Rye Lane could flourish, and complement each other in commerce and function, and transform the nature and experience of that part of the town centre. These ideas were fed into the Council consultations on the PNAAP (Peckham & Nunhead Area Action Plan). In 2008, the work gave rise to the first stages in the resident-led restoration of the Old Waiting Room in the station, and in 2009 to the emergence of the Peckham Town Centre Forum for deeper and continuing discussion to seek improvements and encourage collaboration. In 2011, the Council used the work already done to promote these ideas for the station to secure £5m from the GLA to add to its own £5m funding for improvements including the restoration of the station square. The Council also supported and adapted Peckham Vision’s proposal for seeking Heritage Lottery funding for restoration of key historic town centre buildings, and in 2012 a proposal for Peckham to be a (Government) Portas pilot for Town Team working. Now in 2012 there are signs that the development of the town centre can integrate past, present and future, and that a cross sector town team of all partners to carry it forward for the benefit of wider Peckham may be emerging. The challenge is to devise new ways for tapping into the enthusiasm, energy and good will of local people to make a real contribution to the work, and to find ways to create new and genuine collaboration between the community who live and work here, and the public agencies whose role is to provide public services. More detailed information about two major historic buildings that have been at the heart of the Peckham Vision work in its early years - Peckham Rye station and the Bussey building - can be seen here:
http://www.facebook.com/PeckhamRyeStation
http://www.facebook.com/TheBusseyBuilding

14/08/2026

The National Conversation is a UK-wide listening initiative, inviting people right across the country to share what they value about community life and the kind of communities they want to build together.
For more info & to take the survey https://www.thenationalconversation.org.uk/
* Something has shifted in how people experience community life. Trust feels more fragile. Connections that once held neighbourhoods together – the school gates, the high street, the local pub, the place of worship – are harder to find in many places. And too many people feel that nobody is asking what they think about it.
* We’re faced with generational questions on how we live well together and our vision for the kind of country and kind of communities we are trying to build, which is why the National Conversation gives people across the UK the chance to share their lived experiences and thoughts on what community life feels like and how we can “live well together” in the future.

ABOUT THE WHOLE INITIATIVE
Central to the National Conversation is a national survey, designed and run independently by Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
* The National Conversation sits at the heart of the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion.
* The Commission is developing a vision for how we can live well together, alongside practical recommendations to help make it a reality. But those conclusions can only be credible if they’re grounded in what people across the country actually tell us.

Peckham Only Friends of Peckham Experiment Nunhead rocks!

A UK-wide listening initiative, inviting people to share what they value about community life and the communities they want to build together.

11/08/2026

Please make a donation. All amounts whatever their size are equally important. You can donate here https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/acapeckham/ -
Peckham Vision has just donated and commented:
"The Inspector concluded that the heritage in Rye Lane Peckham Conservation Area has very high value. We fully agree. A decision welcomed by all, especially those who work tirelessly, together, to help it survive for future generations. Thank you ACA for keeping up the strong community voice."
ACA are nearing the £5k needed to oppose in court Berkeley’s attempt to overturn the Inspector’s refusal to give them permission for their Aylesham redevelopment plans. Please donate: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/acapeckham/
Aylesham Community Action

A local resident, who is extremely concerned about the social and economic impacts on Peckham, if this monstrous Berkeley Homes plan gets the go-ahead. Member of Aylesham Community Action.

25/07/2026

Two major London stations will close for 22 days from Sunday, affecting train services across the Southeastern network.
* The stations are: London Charing Cross and Waterloo East.
* Click here for what you need to know -

London Charing Cross and Waterloo East will be closed from Sunday until Monday 17 August.

18/05/2026

SUCCESS! – local people won the Aylesham case. The Inspector dismissed the Berkeley appeal against refusal of planning permission. He cited English Heritage objection that it would be ‘ an enormous wall of development, thus resulting in harm’. See more here including links to the decisions: https://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Aylesham/Morrison_site .21

31/03/2026

Campaigning against over development in your local area because of more unaffordable housing and tall blocks?
* Come to the National Housing Demo
* Saturday 18 April 1pm
* Assemble Soho Sq. Gardens, Central London
Join us at the PLANNING FOR PEOPLE banner

There has to a return to public building programmes. Housing is a basic need like food, and water.
Commercial developers can't' build enough affordable housing.

21/03/2026

Well over 150 at the public meeting. Great community energy and concern relayed to our elected reps and council officers about the unacceptable delay in Government funding for making Peckham Rye station accessible and safe. Council and Peckham MP agreed to support continuing campaign to get the funding brought forward into this Parliament. Council reported good news that work on the the new station square about to start.

15/03/2026

Don't forget PUBLIC MEETING tomorrow organised by Rye Lane ward councillors on Peckham Rye Station & Square:
* MONDAY 16th March 6pm at Rye Lane Chapel - see poster.
* Come and support community voice to prevent more delays.

The well planned redevelopment of the back of the station to remove overcrowding and install lifts to each platform has been delayed by the Government until 2033 at the earliest. Come and support the community voice to say this is unacceptable and needs to be brought forward.

23/01/2026

Dear donors, supporters, & activists for the Aylesham Community Action campaign helping local people to be heard.
We still await the verdict on this heroic struggle!
So in the meantime, thank you once again for your generosity and support during the campaign.
We will be in touch once the decision has been made.

04/12/2025

Please support the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732993
This is to secure 100,000 signatures to secure a debate in Parliament about the decision to close the independent Health Watch which gives a significant statutory role to local people to support and scrutinise the NHS. This provides a significant mechanism for the community to link better with the NHS whose communication systems are notoriously poor. The decision before finalised needs a debate in Parliament.

The Government plans to shut down Healthwatch – your independent voice in health and care.
Healthwatch Southwark listens to your experiences and helps improve local services.
Without it, your voice could be lost.
📣 Speak up now: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732993

16/11/2025

Peckham Levels Auditorium on Wednesday 26th November. 6.45pm-8.30pm.
Do you feel our political system is out of touch with the way we live? Do you care about the survival of democracy?
Come to this event led by ‘Our House’ and enjoy a fun and serious way to discuss this with other local people.
It will be a fun way to reflect on the issues we have campaigned about in the Aylesham action. More info and register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-build-a-new-politics-the-peckham-peoples-charter-tickets-1818785248639
* Our House’ is a growing national movement for people-powered democracy. We know from our battle over the Aylesham Centre redevelopment, and many other aspects of life, that the current political and government system does not and can’t meet local needs.
* Our House are developing an alternative to help bring real democracy through shaping a new People’s Charter.
- They have developed a fun and creative way for structuring the process of writing the People’s Charter from the grassroots.
- Using a card game, those present will discuss the different ways that we can do democracy and come up with demands for the changes we want to see locally and nationally.
- There will be tea, good conversation and hope for a Peckham and a nation that works for everyone.
* Do come and join us for this FREE fun and serious event on 26th November. Book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-build-a-new-politics-the-peckham-peoples-charter-tickets-1818785248639

Address

Peckham Vision Shop, Holdron's Arcade, 135a Rye Lane, Peckham
London
SE154ST

Website

http://www.peckhamvision.org/

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