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“It’s a great idea to turn this disused space into something useful and beautiful, I’d bring a sledge hammer and knock down that motorway wall!” Alex Peckham resident
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HOW WILL WE FUND IT? The money will be secured in stages, from a mixture of public and private funding, combined with newer funding approaches such as crowdfunding and community shares. Individual sites will require different approaches.
While developers will push forward the Old Stable Yard site, the first stage of development at Queens Road and Bidwell Street will need funding. The Peckham Coal Line is looking at a range of innovative ways to fund this next stage, and will aim to raise the first £1 million in the next year.
• You can get directly involved in planning what will happen: the Coal Line exists thanks to the generosity and involvement of its supporters, who have contributed their time, skills, expertise and effort to drive the project forward. But it always needs more help, so please be part of the journey.
“The Coal Line will be an amazing local amenity for residents, facilitating access to the high street and encouraging residents to stay in Peckham, keeping business in the area.” Polly Peckham business owner
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“The Peckham Coal Line is an exciting and satisfying counterbalance to other London landmark projects - no less ambitious but with heart.” Ben Sustrans
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“It would be a fantastic route that connects parts of south London and provides a great community space that supports local history and business. I’d bring my bike and cycle from end to end to enjoy the view.” Claire Peckham resident
make the Coal Line community grow, so tell your friends and family. • You can lobby stakeholders (like Network Rail), institutions (like the Greater London Authority or the Mayor of London) and local government to continue their commitment to the project. These organisations respond to people pressure, so make some noise.
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The Peckham Coal Line will only happen with continuing local support – and there are many ways for you to be part of it: • You can keep on supporting the Coal Line. Come along and join in at one of the Friends of the Peckham Coal Line events, where you can find out more. • You can share the story and
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This is an exciting stage for the Peckham Coal Line. For the first time the project will take a tangible form, existing on the ground not just on paper. We will once again need to rally our collective enthusiasm, energy, can-do attitude and community spirit to make this a reality. To ensure the future success of the Peckham Coal Line we will need: • continued community participation at the heart of the way the project operates and functions. • securing resources, including time and skills as well as financial resources, to develop the next phases. • continued institutional support and commitment from key stakeholders including Network Rail, Southwark Council, and the Greater London Authority.
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The Friends of the Peckham Coal Line have a five-year vision to bring three of the eight sites along the route to reality by 2023, as well as having an overarching, detailed plan for the entire route in place. During this time the Coal Line will have to navigate design considerations, planning consultations, landowner and public space agreements, funding strategies and ongoing maintenance agreements.
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The overall benefits of the project will be realised when the Coal Line is completed. But this doesn’t mean that only an all-or-nothing approach will be successful. The nature of the project, and the several sites that make it up, means that it could be delivered in eight stages, as different development sites and the resources they need become available.
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The project offers multiple benefits around health, innovation, connection, education, nature and community – meeting many of the objectives of local and national government.
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The results of the feasibility study are now in. The Peckham Coal Line is an achievable project – technically possible, economically viable and highly desirable both for residents and for local businesses. The study shows how it could become a reality – the Peckham Coal Line has grown into a proven proposal that’s generating not only physical connections, but social and economic ones too.
Along the way, the Friends of the Peckham Coal Line formed to encourage continuous community involvement and help push things forward. Meanwhile, conversations with key stakeholders and decision-makers secured the support of Southwark Council, Network Rail, the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London. In 2018 the project was included in the New Southwark Plan, safeguarding its future in local planning policy. ... ction ya t i un m m
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The next step was to find out whether the project was realistic and achievable, so in 2015 a crowdfunding campaign was launched to fund a feasibility study to determine what the Coal Line should be for, who would use it, who would look after it and how much it would cost. 928 local residents, businesses, councillors, the local MP and the Mayor of London showed their faith in the project, raising £75,757 to fund the study. After a rigorous selection process, a team led by architectural practice Adams & Sutherland won the commission, not least due to their community engagement in previous projects like Stratford’s Olympic Park greenway.
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One of the key drivers of the Peckham Coal Line is the community it will be built by and for, so a vital part of the feasibility study was to incorporate the needs, views and desires of local people. Events were held in 2016 and 2017 for people to learn about the project, explore different options and share what they thought about it. Local schoolchildren, businesses and residents showed high levels of interest and involvement, underlining the credibility of the Coal Line, and making sure that the study had significant community-led input.
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It will transform walking and cycling connections around Peckham, bridging busy roads and creating a direct link between two high streets. It will turn disused and forgotten spaces into a source of civic pride, bringing benefits to health, culture and business to be proud o a rk f ap te
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The unique way the Coal Line is being developed and designed in partnership with the local community means that a major piece of London infrastructure will not be imposed from the top down, but grown from the bottom up.
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The Peckham Coal Line started in 2014 as the idea of some local residents, and soon captured the collective imagination, sparking local interest and national media coverage.
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The Peckham Coal Line is a community-led project to reconnect Peckham’s neighbourhoods with a new linear park linking Queens Road Peckham and Rye Lane, connecting communities, opening up business possibilities and creating new green space.
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Developers will start work on the Old Stable Yard site. Community action influenced this development: pressure from Coal Line supporters led to revised plans including mixed-residential housing, much more commercial space for local businesses with the potential for 17 more new jobs, and the creation of a car-free public Coal Line route through the site. Design and fundraising for the first section of the route from Queens Road to Bidwell Street will start. These sections will be pilots for the whole project, allowing the testing of design concepts and processes.
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The completed Bidwell Street entrance will link Kirkwood Nature Reserve to Queens Road, and include a community common room space with a cafe, classroom and the Peckham Coal Line field office. Further development of the route around Cossall Walk: the section leading to Gordon Road creates the opportunity for local enterprise, as well as better connecting Kirkwood Nature Reserve from the west. Once these sections are completed, it will be possible to walk alongside the Coal Line from Queens Road to Rye Lane along a new direct ground-level route.
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Construction of the elevated walkway structures from Rye Lane to Gordon Road, bridging busy Consort Road and opening up access to the Coal Drops. These walkways are the most complex parts of the project, so they are likely to be the last stages to be delivered, and design proposals for this area are, to some degree, dependent on the development of the old Coal Drops. This will allow access to the the original high line section of the route and it will then be possible to walk along the full length of the Peckham Coal Line.