22 September 2016 - Pre-Conference Site Visits

The Peckham Coal Line walking tour

The Coal Line: A new linear link park between Queens Road Peckham & Rye Lane, using the disused Rickett coal sidings which were decommissioned in the 1950s. The 1 km elevated urban park would cut through a heavily built up ex-industrial area providing a precious green open space for all to enjoy.

Details from the organisers:

Meet In front of Peckham Rye station at 16.00

Welcome to ‘Walk the Peckham Coal Line’

This is our urban garden, the graffiti is our wild flowers and the clattering of the trains our birdsong. The Peckham Coal line is a community-initiated project to turn the disused Rickett coal sidings into a high-level urban linear park that would connect Queens Road with Rye Lane, creating the missing link in a network of greenways that runs from Brixton to the Thames; while beyond the physical project the idea is also activating a community. Turn the page for written instructions and the young at heart can try and spot the points of interest, shown in bold. For any budding botanists or wildlife spotters, help us identify the most interesting trees, plants and animals you discover along the route, by annotating the map with what you’ve seen. We hope you enjoy your walk and if you feel inspired please bring the map back and share your experience. The Coal Line Team.

Download the route map.

Contact Juliana O'Rourke for more information : 07901 664058

Walking tour of Low Line: Elephant to Blackfriars & Southwark Tube to London Bridge

The Low Line is an ambitious long-term project to open up the pedestrian walkway that runs along the base of the rail viaduct in Bankside, Borough and Elephant and Castle and beyond. 

The Low Line was conceived by a local Bankside Resident.  Better Bankside have since started to coordinate plans to help open up stretches of the east/west and north/south Low Line in Bankside and Borough in partnership with Network Rail, Southwark Council, Bankside Neighbourhood Forum and local community groups and landowners. 

Further afield stretches of the Low Line are being planned and realised in Walworth, London Bridge and beyond. 

Join this tour to learn about projects that are delivering new stretches of the Low Line with new uses and new public spaces.

• Start: Elephant and Castle (northern line) tube station – in front of the Faraday Memorial on Elephant Square 

• Stop 1:  Spare Street – new stretch of Low Line linked to artists workspace

• Stop 2:  Eagle Wharf – lively stretch of Low Line linked with South American community

• Stop 3:  Borough Triangle – opportunities for new stretch of Low Line through Peabody triangle development

• Stop 4:  Old Union Yard, Bankside – a new stretch of the Low Line anchored by theatre tenants including Union Theatre, Spanish Theatre and more

• Stop 5:  Grand Vitesse Goods Yard – a hidden stretch of the Low Line in Bankside seeped in history

• Stop 6:  America Street – a clean air mini neighbourhood

• Stop 7:  Flat Iron Square Project – a new stretch of the Low Line anchored by live music venues

• Stop 8:  Vinopolis redevelopment – a soon to be re-vamped stretch of the Low Line anchored by retail

Contact Juliana O'Rourke for more information : 07901 664058