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Old Waiting Room
- 1 13th December 2023 OWR as Asset of Community Value
- 2 Public Access
- 3 Staircase restored and extended
- 4 Background upto 2014
- 5 Peckham Vision town centre exhibition August 2012
- 6 Discovery and initial restoration 2006-2010
- 6.1 Celebrating the Old Waiting Room and Peckham's historic buildings 31 March 2011
- 6.2 Local residents campaign for social enterprise multi purpose venue Dec 2010
- 6.3 Two restoration projects completed at the Old Waiting Room July 2010
- 6.4 Student workshop in the Old Waiting Room May 2010
- 6.5 External access to the Old Waiting Room March 2010
- 6.6 Using the Old Waiting Room as a cafe October 2009
- 6.7 Old Billiard Hall comes back to life! April 2009
- 7 uses of the OWR
13th December 2023 OWR as Asset of Community Value
In August 2023 Peckham Vision nominated the Old Waiting Room (OWR) as an Asset of Community Value (ACV) under the Localism Act 2012. See the nomination letter here.
- Extract from the letter: "The nomination letter clearly demonstrates that (a) there is an actual, current and non-ancillary use of the Old Waiting Room that currently furthers the social wellbeing or social interest of the community and (b) it is realistic to think there can continue to be similar use. Therefore, the statutory tests under section 88 of the Localism Act are clearly satisfied, and the Council accordingly seems obliged to list the Old Waiting Room as an asset of community value."
Photos accompanying the nomination letter are shown below. Registration as an ACV would give some protection from the commercial development of land and buildings that have significant community benefit. The Council is required to take a decision within 8 weeks under the Localism Act. See Southwark News report
The red lines on the two exterior images show the location of the Old Waiting Room (OWR) on the floor above the ticket hall, and the restored and extended staircase leading directly and only to the Old Waiting Room. The first of the two images of the OWR interior is facing platform 2, and the second is facing platform 3. There is no exit to platform 2 since the reconstruction of platforms 1 and 2 in the 1960s. The exit to platform 3 is now a fire and emergency exit for the OWR. The final image is of the restored and the extended staircase.
Public Access
4th November 2023 drop-in
The event on 4th November about community action to improve Peckham town centre and described below was very successful. Over 270 people visited and many people signed up to support and take part in the future actions highlighted by the community groups present - Peckham Vision, Friends of the Old Waiting Room (FOWR), Aylesham Community Action (ACA), Peckham Heritage, Peckham Refresh along with the Peckham Business Forum. See the visitors' leaflet for more information about these groups.
This was the publicity for the 4th November drop-in event: -
This is a rare opportunity organised by Peckham Vision to drop in, for a short or longer time between 11am to 3pm, to the enchanting Victorian Old Waiting Room above the ticket office in Peckham Rye station.
- Derelict for many years, it has been rescued by local people since 2007 through Peckham Vision and the Peckham Society, with the support of the Railway Heritage Trust, the rail companies and Southwark Council. Now it is accessible up the restored and extended staircase without going through the station.
- Come and be inspired by the amazing space and meet local people who are actively working together in their local groups and with local businesses to bring out the best in the town centre. This includes - protecting and restoring local heritage, campaigning to get a good result for Peckham in the Aylesham Centre redevelopment, finding ways to deter the tsunami of graffiti, working with local independent businesses to improve the town centre, keeping a watch on the multitude of redevelopment projects in and around the station, and more.
- There will be short talks at 12.30-1pm and discussion of the history and future of the Old Waiting Room and, before and after that, lots of information and informal discussions about many town centre matters.
There are stairs and currently no lifts. Lifts to each platform are included in the plans to redevelop the back of the station. Come to the drop-in and find out more about that as well.
October 2023
- Southwark News 25 October 2023 Peckham Rye Station's Victorian Old Waiting Room is hosting a month of talks, arts fairs and community events. The breathtaking space is the perfect place to hear about the inspirational things taking place in Peckham. This includes Peckham Vision's drop-in event on 4th November with 6 groups of local people organised to take community action on different aspects of the town centre.
August 2023
Peckham Vision led the campaign from 2007 to restore the Old Waiting Room as a community events space. It was restored enough by 2010 for events like Peckham Vision's 3-day exhibition about the town centre during the Olympics in 2012. Over 700 local people visited.
- Since then the work led by local architect Benedict O'Looney focussed on restoring and extending the staircase from the forecourt to create public access independent of the station.
- This enabled even more community organised events in this historic space. Meanwhile the ownership of the 150-year lease was sold by Network Rail to The Arch Company, along with many other parts of the railway network structures not used for the running the railway.
- Recently they let the space to ArtAngel for the Sara Sze installation from last May and still open to 17th September 2023. It is open free to the public Wed–Sat: midday to 8pm, and Sun: midday to 6pm. See a review here.
May 2023
Some of the long saga from 2006 in 3 short videos:
- 2023 Peckham Rye Station gets back its Victorian splendour
- 2016 Peckham Rye station's 'lost' waiting room to re-open after 50 years
- 2013 Businesses may have to relocate under £25m Peckham plan
April 2023
Southwark News 'Hidden gems of the Peckham Rye Station restoration revealed in our sneak video preview – including an abandoned billiard room and secret staircase. When the scaffolding is lifted, commuters will be greeted with rooftop gilded crestings and a repointed facade...'
update April 2022
Plans to create lift access to the Old Waiting Room have finally been appropriately aligned with Network Rail's accessibility project for the station. A lift will be installed designed to go to the Old Waiting Room from the public side of the ticket hall and to go to the platform levels from the platforms side. These works are scheduled to conclude by 2025. Further info on the accessibility project is available on Network Rail's website. In the meantime, the new owner of the long lease on the Old Waiting Room is The Arch Company who own all the commercial properties on Network Rail land in the area. They have said that they are willing to discuss a lease for community use. Discussions in the community have now been revived to develop a proposal.
September 2019
- The Old Waiting Room was used for several ad hoc community events in 2019, facilitated by the informal local residents friends group in liaison with Network Rail. The future of the space is not yet clear following the forced sale of most of Network Rail's commercial spaces to large corporate investors.
September 2018
- On Saturday 15th September, in the Peckham Festival, Eileen Conn from Peckham Vision led a walk of Central Rye Lane telling the story of the buildings and all those whose future had been saved by community action since Peckham Vision started in 2005. On the way from the Bussey Building and Copeland Park across the road in Rye Lane, saved in 2009, the tour walked up the restored and extended staircase from the station forecourt to the Old Waiting Room for a short talk about the history of the room and Peckham Vision's community work to promote and support its restoration since 2006. Then on to the businesses operating in the rest of the buildings around the station and the businesses saved from total clearance for the proposed redevelopment in 2014, including especially the micro economy in Blenheim Court Arches Studios.
- On 22nd & 23rd September the Old Waiting Room will be open from 10am to 5pm in the London Open House weekend.
update August 2018
Now that the staircase is completed and access is possible from the forecourt, the room has been used successfully for some one off public events with Network Rail's agreement. This is to test the uses of the space while Network Rail is preparing to sell all its property not needed for running the railway system. [links to the events to be uploaded.]
Staircase restored and extended
update September 2017
The staircase was completed and the room open to the public for the Open House weekend.
14th June 2017 completion of the stairs
Benny O'Looney, architect and a founder member of Peckham Vision, will give a talk on the restoration of the Old Waiting Room, with a focus on the latest phase – the Stair Project: the restoration techniques; the conservation 'philosophy'; and the local trades involved: steel fabricators, lath and plaster specialists, lime mortar restorers, etc. Wed 14 June 2017 6.30 - 8.15pm; arrivals from 6.15pm via door on left of entrance to Peckham Rye Station.Tickets must be booked through Julie Mallett: email@example.com / 020 7525 3265
13 March 2017 Evening Standard report
- Evening Standard article: Peckham Rye station to be restored to Victorian splendour as long-lost waiting room is reopened.
- Evening Standard video
The community initiated work on the staircase is nearing completion this year. It means people can get into this wonderful space without going through the station. It can be used as it is almost straightway, as an interim use before long term decisions are taken. It is a fantastic space for all kinds of different events celebrating the railways. We are looking forward to talking with Network Rail about this.
update February 2017
The work on restoring and extending the staircase into the Old Waiting Room is proceeding and should be completed during 2017. Peckham Vision has asked Network Rail for a discussion about our proposals for use of the room, once the staircase is useable, to celebrate the railways as a meanwhile use before decisions are taken about the long term restoration and use of the space. If you would like to volunteer to contribute to the management of that project please email firstname.lastname@example.com
4 March 2016 ITV News
- ITV News: Peckham Rye station waiting room to be given new lease of life after 50 years
- BBC June 2016 Peckham Rye station's 'lost' waiting room to re-open after 50 years
3 March 2016 Southwark News
"Up the stairs and through time to the Peckham Rye waiting room we all forgot about" News report on the restoration work to the staircase, which will lead to public accessibility to the Old Waiting Room in the summer 2016.
Latest January-June 2016
The original staircase is now being restored and extended so that it can reach the Old Waiting Room. This work has had strong and welcome support from the Railway Heritage Trust,, in addition to some Network Rail funding and some small neighbourhood grants from Southwark Council. It is expected to be completed by autumn 2016. It coincides with the 150th anniversary of the opening of Peckham Rye station and the railways coming to Peckham. That heralded a dramatic change in the built environment and demographics of Peckham. The areas needed before for food growing to feed central London were given up for housing, much of which remains today. Peckham Vision is asking Network Rail for permission to use the Old Waiting Room to hold a series of informative exhibitions and events to celebrate the railways during this 150th anniversary when the stairs are completed. The events would cover railway history and operations, and events which link to that history in some way. Anyone who would like to contribute to this, or who wishes to join our group to enable this programme to happen, please email email@example.com. Click here for more information
Community Business proposal to Network Rail June 2014
Peckham Vision has developed a viable business case for an interim lease to use the Old Waiting Room as a multi purpose venue for hire once the staircase is restored and extended and before the plans for the final restoration of the Room are developed. We have asked Network Rail for discussions about our proposal and request for an interim lease.
Background upto 2014
The huge magnificent empty space above the ticket hall began to come to light again during the recent years through campaigns by Peckham Vision with Rye Lane & Station Action Group and the Peckham Society. It was referred to as the Old Billiard Hall as it had been used for many decades by the railway staff as a recreation room. In those years access was by a staircase added on the front of the building entering the room through a door in what was and is now again a window space. This can be seen in this 1979 episode(2.20 minutes into this short clip) of the Sweeney TV programme chase at Peckham Rye station. That additional staircase was reached from the forecourt by the original staircase in the SE tower.
initial restoration
But the Billiard Hall was closed and the windows bricked up over 40 years ago and it remained a secret silent place inhabited mainly by pigeons. It was originally the Waiting Room for platforms 2 and 3, so it is also referred to as the Old Waiting Room. Over the last few years, it has been revived and opened to view again. This work has been inspired and led by Benedict O'Looney, local architect and historian, from Benedict O'Looney Architects, with small grant funding from the Nunhead & Peckham Rye Community Council Cleaner, Greener Safer Scheme (CGS).
First the windows at the platform level were unbricked and revealed original Victorian paint. Then the original wooden floor and the electrics were repaired. This was celebrated in the Old Waiting Room with many of those, who had helped and supported in some way, present on 16th July 2010 - see picture.
temporary uses
The room has in this minimally restored state been used temporarily:
- In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Benedict O'Looney arranged the annual design workshop for students from the Canterbury University Architecture School using Peckham town centre as the case study.
- Peckham Vision arranged some celebratory and informative public events - July 2010 marking the first restoration work; March 2011 celebrating the town centre historic architecture with the Peckham Society; and 2nd-4th August 2012 Peckham Vision's exhibition about the town centre past, present and future.
- in 2011 & 2012, Southwark Council arranged two breakfast meetings about development potential in Peckham town Centre.
The Old Waiting Room cannot be used in more than these ad hoc ways, negotiated each time with the two rail companies, until the original staircase is restored and extended to reach into the Old Waiting Room itself. The first step towards this is completed - the windows and door at ground level are restored and the staircase once again is visible from the forecourt. See the latest news above.
The stages of restoration for the Old Waiting Room up to 2014 are described below. For the staircase stages see here.
Developing plans for interim use August 2013
Old Waiting Room: plans are being developed for raising the funds (approx £750,000) for final restoration and also for interim uses for the room as it is, once the staircase is extended to give access from the forecourt. The room cannot be hired until then. Peckham Vision is seeking an interim lease for when the staircase is completed. This is the original Victorian grand staircase which is to be restored and extended to reach into the Old Waiting Room itself. The first step towards this is completed - the windows and door at ground level are restored and the staircase once again is visible from the forecourt. The aim is to raise a further £60k to complete the stair restoration and extension by early 2015. Peckham Vision is developing plans to bring the Room into interim use and to hire it out when the staircase can give access to the Room from outside the station, and is seeking discussions with Network Rail for this. Meanwhile, an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has been partially prepared in case that becomes the route forward for the substantial funds needed, beyond the stair restoration, for the remainder of the Old Waiting Room restoration and to equip it with insulation, heating, lighting and water. There would also need to be a lift installed for disabled access and goods delivery. Peckham Vision made some proposals for the way this could be part of the Network Rail development work to seek funds from the Department for Transport (DfT) for the installation of lifts to all the platforms.
Peckham Vision town centre exhibition August 2012
The Old Waiting Room in use again 2nd to 4th August 2012
We had a non-stop stream of visitors to the 3 day exhibition, about Peckham town centre in the Old Waiting Room, as part of the Peckham Cultural Olympiad. Over 600 visitors all keen to know more about the Old Waiting Room, the station restoration, the new public square and the town centre generally. It is clear that there is great local enthusiasm for the planned changes. Here below are a few photos to give an insight into the magical experience for three days. For more photos: OWR exhibition photos. For all the display panels and a full report on the exhibition see OWR exhibition.
NOTE: This use of the Room was with a special temporary license from Network Rail, and with the agreement of Southern Rail and the station manager, because of the team of volunteers escorting visitors from the ticket barriers. The Room is not available for hiring out, and can not be until there is access to the Room without coming through the station. Peckham Vision is working on making the original staircase useable, and seeking the lease from Network Rail to run the Room as a social enterprise and as a multi purpose venue but this is some way off in the future.
Exhibition 2-4 August in Old Waiting Room June 2012
Peckham Vision is arranging an exhibition about the town centre in the Old Waiting Room in Peckham Rye station on 2nd – 4th August as a Peckham Rye Lane contribution to the Cultural Olympiad. There will be talks and more each day.
Exhibition times: Thurs 2nd Aug 5pm – 9pm. Fri 3rd Aug 1pm – 9pm. Sat 4th Aug 11am – 3pm.
Volunteers are needed for a few hours during the afternoon or evening on Thurs 2nd Aug or Fri 3rd Aug, or morning or afternoon on Sat 4th Aug? To find out more, email: email@example.com. Read more…
Cultural Olympiad Exhibition in the Old Waiting Room: latest news May 2012
Plans to hold the exhibition about Peckham town centre's history, current issues and future developments are well advanced. It is planned as part of the central Rye Lane Cultural Olmpiad contribution to take place during the Olympics. Details soon available.
the Old Waiting Room project October 2011
A small core team of local residents, from Peckham Vision and the Peckham Society, are working on ideas about future uses and the work to get the external staircase restored and extended into the Old Waiting Room so making it accessible to the public without going through the station. Some substantial further repair and restoration work has to be done inside the room before it can be useable permanently by the public,including the installation of lifts. We hope that enough can be completed to enable the Room to be publically accessible for a short exhibition by the summer of 2012. [NOTE: we did not get the staircase renovated in time for this. But we reached agreement with Southern Rail and Network Rail to have a team of volunteers as escorts from the ticket barriers to the OWR on Platform 3 and the exhibition was able to go ahead.]
The exhibition would become a striking and attractive venue in the planned Peckham Cultural Olympiad Festival, along with the many artistic and cultural enterprises operating within walking distance of the station. Peckham Rye station is just 10 to 15 minutes from parts of central London, and just about 25 minutes by rail from the Olympic Stadium.
Discovery and initial restoration 2006-2010
Celebrating the Old Waiting Room and Peckham's historic buildings 31 March 2011
On 31st March 2011, the Peckham Society with Peckham Vision held a meeting in the Old Waiting Room to celebrate Peckham's historic architecture. It was standing room only as over 120 people crowded into the historic room. New research was reported by the Peckham Society and English Heritage about the local landmarks, there was a report on progress with the proposed Conservation Area to help restore and preserve the best local buildings for the future. Exciting ideas on improving the forecourt as it is now, including new lighting, were described. An enthusiastic welcome was given to a major fund raising campaign launched at the meeting, and new volunteers recruited to the growing team. see many more pictures
Local residents campaign for social enterprise multi purpose venue Dec 2010
The Community Council applauded at their 8th December 2010 meeting the latest reports and pictures about the Old Waiting Room, and discussed suitable commercial uses to make the best of the wonderful space. Further funds are being sought to continue the restoration to the external staircase, & to improve the station walkways. This would be the public entrance to the space and make it useable for public activities. Local residents are developing a social enterprise project to bid for the lease for the Old Waiting Room from Network Rail as a multi purpose flexible venue. For more information, see brief here, and and blog here. If you want to get involved in this exciting project email email@example.com
Two restoration projects completed at the Old Waiting Room July 2010
On Friday the 16th of July the latest stage of the restoration was celebrated to mark the completion of two restoration projects which have helped open up and reveal to the Peckham community the grand Victorian waiting room that had become a bricked up and forgotten space. This huge, vaulted, hall was 'lost' in the early 1960s when the station's southern platforms were demolished and re-built further west. At this point British Rail closed the billiard hall that had been using the hall since about 1900, bricked up the windows and essentially forgot about this fantastic room. It became a time capsule with all its original Victorian paintwork and most of its joinery intact. The Peckham Society and the Rye Lane and Station Action Group have campaigned to restore and open up these lost parts of the Peckham Rye Station.
The station was designed by the talented Victorian architect Charles Henry Driver, who specialised in railway stations and civil engineering structures. He designed London's great pumping stations at Abbey Mills and Crossness and detailed Bazalgette's Thames Embankment. He also designed the London and Brighton and South Coast Railway stations at London Bridge, Denmark Hill and Battersea Park amongst many others across the south. He was passionate about the decorative possibilities of cast iron. The Peckham Society first persuaded English Heritage to list the station in 2008, then, with the help of Southwark Council, the Peckham Society architect and conservationist Benedict O'Looney began a programme of restoration.
With two 'Cleaner Greener Safer' grants first the windows were un-bricked and new doors and sash windows were fitted matching the original Victorian designs. The second project was to repair the large timber floor replacing the rotten areas with reclaimed 19th century wood, cleaning, sanding and sealing it. With another Southwark grant in hand, and a pledge of support from the Railway Heritage Trust, the next phase is to un-brick the sealed up windows at the station forecourt to reveal a spectacular stone and cast iron stair that has also laid unused, collecting dust for 50 years.
To celebrate the completion of this first phase of the work we decided to have a gathering in the old waiting room on the evening of Friday the 16th of July. Friends in the Peckham Community, Southwark politicians and council officers, and a strong contingent of enthusiasts for Victorian architecture all gathered to examine this 'lost' historic room. Hannah Parham from English Heritage spoke about why they listed the station, Paul Dobrasczcyk, the expert on the architect Charles Driver, set the Peckham Rye Station in the context of Driver's career, Benedict talked about discoveries during the restoration project, and local activist Eileen Conn celebrated the joy of community led regeneration.
Student workshop in the Old Waiting Room May 2010
Over 40 students from the 2nd year Canterbury School of Architecture came to Peckham on 28th May 2010 to show their designs for the area around the Peckham Rye Station. They met in the Old Waiting Room at the station.
For the last two years the school's spring term design studio has focussed on Peckham's town centre, in particular the open spaces in front of and behind the station. Many of the students come from south London.
The event was held at the enormous former waiting room at the Peckham Rye Station, which has been unused for more than forty years. This remarkable, grand, space is one of the highlights of Peckham's architecture and is being restored by the local architect Benedict O'Looney, with the help of Southwark Council. Benedict is a conservationist active with the Peckham Society and a design and history teacher at the Canterbury School of Architecture.
Southwark Council's community-oriented 'Cleaner Greener and Safer' fund has put forward several grants to unblock the windows and restore the floor to the former waiting room, which was used as a billiard hall from the 1890s to 1960. This room was bricked up and closed off to public use when the station's southern platforms were rearranged in 1962. The Peckham Rye Station was designed by the eminent Victorian architect Charles Henry Driver in 1865, and this large and lofty waiting room was the building's principal interior space. The Peckham Society has been campaigning for the restoration of this prominent local landmark and was successful in getting the station listed grade ll in 2008. It is hoped that the former waiting room will one soon find a new life as a community meeting space, gallery or cafe. The large student gathering on Friday made clear the space's excellent community potential.
Contact: Benedict O'Looney, architect, teacher, Committee, the Peckham Society 07981 - 785 950 Kristina Kolotov, Second Year Coordinator, Canterbury School of Architecture 07977 - 038 105
External access to the Old Waiting Room March 2010
Two more CGS proposals have been accepted by the Community Council to take forward improvements at the station. The Peckham Society's bid for about £6k was successful to restore the 3 lower windows and 2 doors in the tower to the left of the forecourt. This will reveal the beautiful metal staircase leading from the station forecourt almost up to the Old Waiting Room. This adds to the work now completed on restoring the wooden floor, and the opening up of the windows and flooding the huge room with light.
Southwark Rail Users' Group's proposal for clearing up some of the clutter in the front (repositioning the notice board), improving the lighting and the role of the tub plants, was also accepted. This will enable SRUG to add to the money pot being provided by Southern Rail through our energetic Station Manager Barry Jones, and take part in working out the details of the improvements. We are moving slowly but steadily to being able to open up the magnificent old room for public use. This vindicates the plan from the community groups involved of taking it one small step at a time to get there.
Using the Old Waiting Room as a cafe October 2009
extract from Rye Lane & Station Action Group October 2009 minutes:
item 2.2 Use of the Old Billiard Hall/former Waiting Room
Lettice Drake and Paloma Gormley presented some ideas for using this historic space. They were responsible for the initiation, design and building of Frank's Café, the temporary café on the roof Rye Lane's multi story car park from July to September 2009. They worked with Southwark Council and Hannah Barry with a budget of only £4,500. Its success was overwhelming - attracting people from across London to visit it. The success of Frank's Café highlights the role creative thinking can play in Peckham's future. Their proposals included the following:
- Significance of the space: The old waiting room has exciting potential. The space, as with Frank's Cafe, is unusual and offers a unique opportunity to do something spectacular. Right in the heart of Peckham, between two platforms linking it to the rest of London. Peckham Vision's aims for the room to go back into public use as either a restaurant or community facility are encouraging. The proposal is an attempt to marry sustainable regeneration, conservation and a viable business proposal. The significance of the space, as a gateway to Peckham suggests a use that has its roots in, and represents the existing community, serving a simple menu of high quality and affordable food offering a sustainable approach
- Collaboration: The proposal would be to collaborate with a local chef or business. Running as a restaurant in the evenings and a café during the day, serving coffee and snacks to commuters through a hatch to platform 3, the space offers a viable business opportunity. There would also be the potential for the space to function as a venue, for community meetings, live music and events.
- Access: They would propose to work alongside the Peckham Society and Peckham Vision to raise funds to continue the conservation work in order to make the room and external stairway fit for public use, creating street level access to the Waiting room independent from the station.
- Design: The café and kitchen would be designed to be sensitive to the historic importance of the building and celebrate its heritage. The installation of the café and its kitchen would be reversible and non-invasive. Like Franks the design of the cafe would be informal, warm and welcoming. The space is so beautiful and full of character it would require minimal intervention to make it inhabitable. An open kitchen would retain the integrity of the single large space and add theatricality to the preparation and cooking of food. As with Frank's, good design does not require large investment.
- Summary: This proposal would mean this magnificent and forgotten space would open its doors again in a manner that is truly public. It would change people's perception of Peckham. The involvement of local people provides an opportunity for Network Rail and Southern Rail to continue their work with Community Rail Schemes, and to lead the way in supporting innovative, locally rooted development. This space deserves to be used and should play a key and active part in Peckham's future.
Old Billiard Hall comes back to life! April 2009
Daylight now floods, just as it used to, through large Victorian windows into the magnificent huge Old Billiard Hall above the ticket hall at Peckham Rye station. This huge room above the ticket office was originally the old waiting room and then for many decades a billiard room, but has been derelict for many years. The recent restoration is the successful result of collaboration since 2006 between The Peckham Society, Peckham Vision/Rye Lane & Station Action Group, Southwark Council, Southern Rail and Network Rail. The Peckham Society have now secured some funds from the Community Council for the next stage see proposals – to restore the wooden floor and make the room fit for community and public use again. This is a significant contribution to the transformation of central Rye Lane (see here). Read more here and here.
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This story first appeared on the website of the Center for Public Integrity.
In post-Newtown America, those with power say they must act to prevent another massacre of innocents.
The Obama administration wants stiffer gun control, and $150 million to help schools hire up to 1,000 more on-campus police or counselors, or purchase security technology. State legislators are considering shifting millions of dollars around to help schools hire more police. Some locals aren't waiting: The 5,500-resident town of Jordan, Minnesota, has moved its entire eight-officer police force into schools.
"The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun," National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said after a young man shot his way into his former grammar school on December 14 in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 first-graders and 6 educators.
With the new year, the NRA has been flexing its political muscle, lobbying states not just to hire more school police—under the group's National School Shield project—but also to pass laws allowing teachers or other staff to bring licensed guns to school to defend their students and themselves.
Beyond the headlines, though, the push for more cops or other armed security personnel in schools is running headlong into another movement that's been quietly growing in states as diverse as Mississippi, New York, Utah, Texas, and California. It's a push to get police out of schools, or at least to end their involvement in routine discipline matters that principals and parents used to address without involvement from law enforcement officers.
Civil rights groups and juvenile court judges—and even some officials within the Obama administration—argue that because the ranks of police began growing in schools in the late 1990s, the criminal justice system's involvement in student discipline has gotten entirely out of hand in some communities. That has put students, especially ethnic minorities, on a path to failure, they say—the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.
In Los Angeles, for example, scores of students, most Latino or black and many just 11 or 12 years old, have been ticketed by school officers for minor infractions often categorized as disturbing the peace. In Austin, Texas, a 12-year-old was forced to court for spraying on perfume in class. In DeSoto County, Mississippi, officers and a school district were sued after a bus surveillance video—seen in part by a reporter—revealed officers unjustifiably arresting black students, the suit alleged, and threatening others with a "a bullet between the eyes."
Optimists—Education Secretary Arne Duncan among them—say cops in schools are not an either/or proposition: careful training, they say, will ensure that school police deployed in the wake of Newtown protect, rather than intimidate, students.
But many civil rights advocates are worried. They say plenty of cities and states are only beginning to come to grips with allegations that schools, and school-based police, have unjustifiably sent students into the criminal-justice system.
A Push for Security
Police presence in schools has been growing for years. The number of full-time city police officers assigned to schools increased nearly 40 percent from 1997 to 2007, according to the US Justice Department. One infamous incident fueling that rise was the 1999 massacre of 12 students and a teacher by two students at Columbine High School in suburban Denver.
After Newtown, though, an intense new round of calls for more cops in schools has echoed through small towns and big cities nationwide.
The state legislative delegation of Broward County, Florida, for example, quickly approved a proposal in January—it must now be approved by state legislators—that could allow increases in property taxes in Broward to pay for more school police, at an annual cost of up to $130,000 per officer.
The National Conference of State Legislatures, a nonpartisan research group, told the Center for Public Integrity that in February it began tracking a flurry of school-security legislation in more than 20 states.
Since January, two school-security bills in Mississippi, publicly backed by NRA representatives, have been moving fast through the Statehouse. One bill would set up a $7.5 million school-security fund to offer Mississippi schools $10,000 matching grants to hire police. The other bill, which Mississippi's House of Representatives approved February 13, would allow districts to designate teachers or other school staff to act as a secret defense force in the event of an attack. Volunteers would take their own licensed, concealed weapons to school. The House rejected a proposal to require psychological evaluations of those designated by districts.
Alabama legislators are considering creating a lottery to pay for a $20 million plan to put police officers in every school. Indiana lawmakers are weighing a proposal to set aside $10 million to offer grants to schools to hire local police to post in schools. States where legislators have introduced proposals to allow designated teachers or other school staff to be armed include Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Texas and Utah already allow licensed gun owners to take weapons onto campuses under certain circumstances. Legislators in those states are discussing ideas for supporting school staff who want to have weapons at school for defense.
The NRA isn't alone in trying to influence the debate. The Alabama-based National Association of School Resource Officers, or NASRO, is pushing for more law enforcement in schools. NASRO opposes arming teachers. Stung by criticism of resource officers, the nonprofit NASRO vigorously disputes the idea that a school-to-prison pipeline is pervasive. In "To Protect and Educate", a report issued last October, NASRO said: "Attacks against the school resource officer are superficial and polemical." On a Facebook page, NASRO has posted multiple news reports about school resource officers foiling violent acts by students.
Kevin Quinn, president of NASRO, said in an interview that NASRO regards cases of abuses by school police to be isolated. "The No. 1 way to combat that is training," said Quinn, a school resource officer in the Phoenix area. Quinn agreed with civil rights advocates that some school districts have become too reliant on police to enforce discipline. Over the last decade, more schools have adopted "zero tolerance" polices, not just for guns or other weapons or drugs, but for behavior that's seen as disorderly or defiant.
"The problem," Quinn said, "is the school at times says, 'Oh, we've got a cop. Let him take care of things.'"
Out of Hand?
Chief Juvenile Court Judge Steven Teske, of Clayton County, Georgia, is not against police in schools, but firmly believes that a school-to-prison pipeline exists. When Teske took the bench in 1999 in his Atlanta suburb, which is 66 percent black, one-third of the cases in his court were kids referred from schools. By 2004, he said, 92 percent of the 1,400 cases in his court came from schools, mostly for alleged disruption and disorderly conduct.
Lt. Francisco Romero, Clayton's school resource officer at the time, told the Center for Public Integrity that he was disturbed to discover that one year he arrested more people—students—than any other officer in Clayton. Fed up, Teske called together school and police leaders and hammered out a protocol requiring counseling and clear warnings before students were sent to court. Teske credits the protocol with improving relationships between students and police, and driving down juvenile felonies by 51 percent and increasing graduation rates by 24 percent.
"If police are placed on campus without written protocols defining their role, the results will be disastrous—just as removing existing police from campus can have unintended consequences," Teske wrote in the publication Youth Today after the Newtown killings.
Judith Browne Dianis, codirector of the Advancement Project, a national civil rights group urging discipline reforms, said that after the 1999 Columbine shootings, police citations of students in the city of Denver skyrocketed. Student referrals to police increased by 71 percent between 2000 and 2004. Only 7 percent of referrals to law enforcement from Denver's schools, whose students are mostly nonwhite, were for serious offenses such as carrying a weapon.
In February, Denver school and police officials signed an agreement that obliges school police to "de-escalate" conflicts, attend training sessions on child psychology and embrace "restorative justice," which requires students to sit down and resolve problems outside the criminal court system. Dianis, whose group collaborated on the Denver agreement, hopes Denver's decision influences other jurisdictions as they weigh putting more police in schools.
In Los Angeles—home to the country's largest school police force—school leaders, judges, police and civil rights activists have been holding a series of meetings to work toward a protocol for student citations and arrests.
The Center for Public Integrity analyzed Los Angeles Unified School District Police records and found that from 2009 through 2011, officers issued about 10,000 tickets a year to students, mostly in low-income neighborhoods. More than 40 percent of citations, the Center also found, went to students 14 or younger in schools that parents said were more heavily policed. Juvenile court judges complained about a parade of children in court for infractions better dealt with at school.
Reconciling such findings with current security concerns is difficult, concedes Dennis Parker, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Program. Parker said it sounds "callous" to protest placing more police in schools after Newtown, a town that immediately after the December massacre assigned officers to guard schools. But one of the ACLU's high-profile lawsuits involving schools right now accuses New York City police—whose ranks have grown in schools by 73 percent since 1998—of violating students' rights by using excessive force, handcuffing and arrests in response to infractions such as drawing on a desk.
"It's very likely that officers dealing with children in Newtown will deal with them differently than children in Harlem," Parker said. "It is likely to be more of an 'Officer Joe, your friend,' who is there than someone who tells you to stand up against a wall and spread your legs."
New York City police administrators insist that officers have lowered crime in schools and say that the ACLU "talks about arrests in schools but, conveniently, not crimes."
On December 13, the day before the Newtown killings, Parker's Racial Justice Program filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of ethnic-minority students allegedly rounded up by police in December 2010 at West High School in Salt Lake City. The school district and the Salt Lake City police said they could not comment, because of a policy not to discuss pending litigation.
The ACLU suit says that plaintiff Kevin Winston's son, Kaleb, was 14 when two plainclothes officers ushered the student, who is half-black, into a room and falsely accused him of gang membership and graffiti, or "tagging." An officer allegedly grabbed Kaleb's arm, told him, "Quit acting tough," and searched his backpack. The suit says that officers forced Kaleb, who has no juvenile record, to pose for a photo—to put in a gang database—holding a sign with his name and the word "tagger" on it.
After he was released, the suit says, Kaleb was shaken, called his parents and asked to go home. The suit says that when Lisa Winston, his mother, protested what had happened officers told her the sweep was done because of "a problem with the Mexicans."
On March 1, the Salt Lake defendants filed a court document admitting that police had entered the school and questioned students. But in the documents, they deny that they "acted unconstitutionally" and deny that they referred to a problem with Mexicans.
In February, a similar suit filed by the ACLU of Southern California in 2011 was partially settled on behalf of 56 students at Hoover High School in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles. The suit says that school administrators and Glendale police interrogated Latino and other minority students, and made them pose for mock mug shots.
Glendale police Sgt. Thomas Lorenz told the Associated Press that the actions were an attempt to educate students on the peril of gangs. He denied that officers' methods amounted to racial profiling. "I've never been in trouble, and it was confusing, terrifying and humiliating," said Ashley Flores, who was 16 when the incident happened. The settlement requires Glendale police and school officials to notify parents if students are to be questioned on campus. To ensure that officers uphold students' rights, they will be trained to avoid racial profiling.
Walking the Line
Michael Nash, presiding juvenile court judge in Los Angeles County, said in an interview that it's hard to argue against placing police in schools—if they stay out of discipline matters.
As president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Nash sent a strongly worded letter to the Obama administration on January 14, responding to the administration's call for ideas on school safety. "Research shows that aggressive security measures produce alienation and mistrust among students, which, in turn, can disrupt the learning environment," the letter said. "Such restrictive environments may actually lead to violence, thus jeopardizing, instead of promoting, school safety."
A student's odds of dropping out of high school quadruple with a first-time court appearance, Nash wrote. Last summer, the judges' council began a national campaign "to support school engagement and reduce school expulsion." Putting more armed personnel into schools, Nash said, could prove "counterproductive" to this effort.
On January 16, the White House announced it would seek congressional authorization for a $385 million school violence prevention package for fiscal year 2014. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, (R-Ohio) said the president's proposals would go to appropriate committees. A Washington Post poll in January suggested that the recommendation for hiring more school police would face little opposition. The poll found that 55 percent of the public would even support a law to put an armed guard in every school.
A centerpiece of the White House proposal is the request for $150 million to help schools hire up to 1,000 new police. But in nod to concerns like Nash's, schools could also use grants to hire counselors and school psychologists.
The administration also proposes $50 million to help 8,000 schools create safer and more "nurturing" atmospheres at schools. Another $25 million would be used to help schools struggling with "pervasive violence," and $30 million would be for one-time grants for states to help schools develop emergency plans.
A total of $130 million would be for helping schools adopt conflict-resolution programs and improving early detection of student mental health problems.
In a January media call, Education secretary Duncan was asked to respond to concerns that more police would lead to misguided crackdowns on students. "There's no reason why additional school resources have to drive up the schoolhouse-to-jailhouse pipeline," Duncan said. "Execution is really important—taking time train people in a really thoughtful way." The Department of Justice, he said, will be in on that training.
Duncan is no stranger to controversy over school discipline. Between 2009 and 2012, the Department of Education launched more than 20 investigations into allegations in school districts that minority students were punished more harshly than white pupils for the same violations of school rules. Duncan's department aims to amicably reach agreements with districts to change discipline practices. Last year, the department also released an unprecedented analysisof national school data showing that black students, 18 percent of the sample, represented 42 percent of students referred to law enforcement.
These issues have been aired in two Congressional hearings since December. In a February appearance before the House Education and the Workforce Committee, NASRO's executive director Mo Canady said the role of school resource officers is as "a trusted adult that a student can come to for information, for guidance." He also said officers should leave "formal discipline" to educators.
Searching for Balance
In Texas, police involvement in routine school discipline is a hot topic. On February 20, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the National Youth Law Center filed a complaint with the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. The complaint is based on citation records showing that black students in the Bryan Independent School District, 100 miles north of Houston, are given municipal court summonses in numbers far greater than the proportion of school enrollment they represent.
Black students represent almost 22 percent of the 15,500-pupil Bryan district but were given more than half of all Class C misdemeanor tickets issued to students for "disruption of class" and "disorderly conduct," according to the complaint. The complaint also says that staff of Texas Appleseed, a public-interest law group, observed Bryan students in court, including a 13-year-old whose teacher overheard him use profanity before class started and sent him to the principal, who, in turn, asked an officer to issue a ticket.
In a statement, the Bryan district said it would welcome "a dialogue" with federal education investigators. The citation numbers alleged in the complaint "were certainly no surprise to us, and we have been proactive in taking measures to address the issue," the district said. "We hope the measures we are taking to support our minority students will result in a more positive outcome."
Texas state Democratic Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee, says it's time to stop these tickets, which can cost families hundreds of dollars and end up creating a criminal record for the student. He said legislators will have to search for a balance between security and smart use of school police. The Houston Democrat hopes to pass a bill this year to stop ticketing for basic misbehavior, and require alternatives for students before schools send them to court.
It used to be a "comforting" to see a police officer at school, Whitmire said. Then cash-strapped schools shed counselors, police stepped in as enforcers, and Texas courts, he said, began to expect revenue from student tickets. "These police departments have grown and grown, and they have to justify their budgets," Whitmire added. "They've even asked for legislation to be able to go [do enforcement] outside schools."
But in response to Newtown, Whitmire is cosponsoring another proposal with state Sen. Tommy Williams, a Republican from The Woodlands, to allow districts to try to raise taxes or other revenue to hire more school police or buy security technology. He'd prefer adding police to arming teachers, Whitmire said, but he'll "make damn sure," he said, that more police doesn't lead to more tickets.
Mississippi state Democratic Rep. John Hines Sr. is concerned about safety, too. But he's also trying to get fellow legislators more interested in allegations of a school-to-prison pipeline in his state. In January, Hines, who chairs the House Youth and Family Affairs Committee, held a state public hearing to discuss the "Handcuffs on Success" report issued that month by the Advancement Project, the ACLU of Mississippi, the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, and the Mississippi Coalition for the Prevention of Schoolhouse to Jailhouse.
The report notes that the Jackson Public Schools District was sued in 2011 in connection to allegations that its students were handcuffed to railings for dress-code violations or refusing to do their schoolwork. The district settled the suit last May with an agreement to stop handcuffing children younger than 13, and to only handcuff older students when they are accused of a crime. A review of Jackson police records shows, according to "Handcuffs on Success," that 96 percent of student arrests at schools in 2010-11 were for misdemeanors, most for disorderly conduct. Only 4 percent were for suspected felonies.
Hines said he's also troubled by a lawsuit the Department of Justice filed last October against Meridian, Mississippi (PDF), alleging that students there "are regularly and repeatedly handcuffed and arrested in school and incarcerated for days at a time without a probable cause hearing."
"I want kids safe," Hines said. "I don't want people coming off the street or an enraged child shooting people. But I don't want lots of people all strapped up with guns at our schools either."
Republican Lester "Bubba" Carpenter, who also serves in Mississippi's House, is sponsoring the proposal to allow districts to designate teachers or employees as a secret "marshals" with permission to bring their own licensed, concealed weapons to school. Mississippi is a "pretty poor state," Carpenter said, so the idea is cost-effective. He's not worried that teachers will panic and shoot in haste. "I think they're smart enough individuals," Carpenter said. "We trust them with our children every day."
But Carpenter also supports the proposal to set aside $7.5 million so that schools can apply for $10,000 matching grants to hire police officers. "I'll vote for both of them," Carpenter said of the proposals. "You can't get enough security at schools."
Carpenter said he wasn't that familiar with the allegations of police excesses alleged in the ACLU and Justice Department lawsuits, or the "Handcuffs on Success" report. "You're always going to have a bad apple," he said.
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"Every day there are two to three deaths in the community, and with each death we face a hard time with the burial," says Chari Bahadur Gahatraj, a pastor who filed a petition in the high court on March 13 asking it to intervene as authorities of Nepal's oldest Hindu temple had begun demolishing the graves of Christians there.
Gahatraj and Man Bahadur Khatri are both members of the newly formed Christian Burial Ground Prayer and National Struggle Committee that since last month began leading a relay hunger strike in a public area of the capital, asking for a graveyard. They said they were forced to go to court after the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT), which runs Nepal's oldest Hindu shrine, the Pashupatinath temple, said it would no longer allow non-Hindus to use the temple's forested land.
"We don't want to hurt the sentiments of any community," Gahatraj told Compass. "Nor are we trying to grab the land owned by a temple. We are ready to accept any plot given to us. All we are asking for is that the burials be allowed till we get an alternate site."
Judge Awadhesh Kumar Yadav has since ordered the government and PADT not to prevent Christians from using the forest for burials until the dispute is resolved. The legal battle, however, now involves a counter-suit. Hindu activist Bharat Jangam filed a second writ on March 20, saying that since the forest was the property of a Hindu temple, non-Hindus should not be allowed to bury their dead there just as churches do not allow Hindu burials.
Subsequently, the court decided to hear the two petitions together, and on April 18 the hearings began. While two lawyers argued on behalf of Gahatraj and Khatri, a cohort of 15 lawyers spoke against their petition. The next hearing is scheduled for May 3.
Along with the legal battle, Christians have kept up their relay hunger strike. To step up pressure on the government, the protestors also announced they would lead a funeral march to the offices of the prime minister and the culture minister and hand over coffins to them as a symbolic protest. If that too failed, they warned they would have no option but to go on hunger strike in front of the prime minister's office and parliament, this time carrying dead bodies with them.
Alarmed at the rate the issue was snowballing, the government finally responded. On Tuesday Culture Minister Gangalal Tuladhar opened talks with the protestors, agreeing to continue the negotiations after three days. The government also formed a four-member committee to look into the demand. Currently, Christians are asking for cemetery land in all 75 districts of Nepal.
Protestors were wary of the government's intent in the overture.
"This could be a ploy to buy time and bury the issue," says a member of the Christian committee formed to advise parliament on drafting the new constitution, who requested anonymity.
Though the committee formed to look into the Christians' demand for burial land has been asked to present a report within two weeks, Christians suspect the panel is dragging its feet.
"The new constitution has to be promulgated by May 28, but it does not seem likely that the main political parties will be able to accomplish the task," the Christian committee member says. "And if the constitution doesn't materialize in time, there will be a crisis and our problem will be shelved."
Adding to their unease, Christians are now facing a redoubled campaign by Hindu groups for the restoration of Hinduism as the state religion, five years after parliament declared Nepal, the world's only Hindu kingdom, secular.
If the new constitution had been promulgated last year, it would have consolidated secularism in Nepal. But with the country missing the deadline due to protracted power-sharing rows among the major political parties, Christians still feel under threat.
On Thursday (April 14), when the country celebrated the start of the indigenous new year 2068 with a public holiday, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, which seeks the reinstatement of Hinduism as the state religion, kicked off a campaign at the Bhadrakali temple in Kathmandu. As curious onlookers and soldiers patrolling the nearby army headquarters looked on, party members fervently blew into conch shells and rang bells to draw people's attention to their demand.
The party, which is also seeking the restoration of monarchy, took some oblique shots at the Christian community as well.
"There is a deliberate and systematic attempt by organizations to convert Hindus," said Kamal Thapa, party chief and a former minister. "These organizations are guided by foreign powers and foreign funds. If the widespread conversion of Hindus is not stopped immediately, we will have to take stern measures."
Three days later, an umbrella of Hindu groups–the Rastriya Dharma Jagaran Mahasabha (the National Religion Resurrection Conference) held a massive gathering in the capital, declaring Nepal a "Hindu state" and meeting with no official objection. The proclamation came as the climax to a three-day public program calling for the restoration of "the traditional Hindu state." Several Hindu preachers and scholars from neighboring India attended the program, held on the grounds of the Pashupatinath temple, which is also a UNESCO-declared World Heritage Site.
The "Hindu state" proclamation was the brainchild of Shankar Prasad Pandey, a former member of parliament from Nepali Congress, the second largest party in Nepal, now in opposition. Though Pandey was a sitting Member of Parliament in 2006, when the body unanimously declared Nepal secular, he began opposing the move soon afterwards, leading four campaigns against it nationwide.
"I consider the nation and the Hindu religion to be more important than the party," says Pandey, known as the MP who began to go barefoot 32 years ago to show solidarity with Nepalese, who are among the poorest in the world. "Over 90 percent of the Nepalese want Nepal to be a Hindu state. However, the government is led by people whose only concern is power and money."
Pandey's campaign is supported by Hindu groups from India and the West: Narendranath Saraswati, who is the Shankaracharya or religious head of a prominent Hindu shrine in India's Varanasi city; Dr. Tilak Chaitanya, chief of a group in the United Kingdom that propagates the Gita, the holy book of the Hindus; and Tahal Kishore, head of a Hindu organization, Radha Krishna Sevashram, in the United States.
Two weeks before the May 28 deadline for the new constitution, Pandey and his followers plan to step up the campaign for a "Hindu state" in the capital. Though Pandey denies it could stir up animosity between the majority-Hindus and Christians–whose minority population is said to have crossed 2 million but is actually only 850,801, according to Operation World–there are fears of religious tension if not outright violence.
The Hindu rallies continue to grow as a pressure tactic. On Monday members of Nepal Brahman Samaj, an organization of "upper castes" from whose echelons temple priests are appointed, fought with security forces in front of parliament house, demanding their rights be respected and an end to conversions.
More Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) campaigning is scheduled on April 29, when the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal's Thapa has called for a mass gathering in the capital.


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