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Housing Southwark Housing Register: 22,000 Get a New Band Southwark's Executive decides on 15 September whether to scrap priority stars, drop working in the borough and re-band every one of 22,000 applicants. · 6 min read Peckham Rye Lane Shut 7 to 10 Days: 11 Bus Routes Diverted Rye Lane is closed to traffic and pedestrians at 114-116 while a scaffold props up the old cinema. Eleven bus routes are on diversion and residents are in hotels. · 4 min read Bermondsey Bermondsey Street Festival: Sat 19 Sept, Road Shut at 4am The festival's 20th year runs 11am to 8pm on Saturday 19 September, free and unticketed. Bermondsey Street closes to all traffic from 4am and parking bays go the night before. · 5 min read Dulwich Dulwich Fireworks: Sat 7 Nov, No Tickets on the Night Dulwich Sports Club's display is on Saturday 7 November, gates 5pm, fireworks about 7pm. Tickets are £13, £8 and £1, and none are sold at the gate. · 6 min read Peckham Peckham's Bold Tendencies Closes 12 Sept, Free Until Then The 20th anniversary season ends on Saturday 12 September with Mozart's Great Mass, from £20. Until then the car park roof is free, Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 11pm. · 4 min read Dulwich Dulwich Christmas Lights: the Switch-On Is in West Dulwich Dulwich Village has no switch-on ceremony. The one tree lighting is West Dulwich's, on Park Hall Road, and the Village's festive day is the traders' Christmas Stocking. · 6 min read Peckham Brimmington Park: £2.6m Sports Rebuild Decided 9 Sept Southwark planners vote on 9 September on releasing £442,947.75 from an Old Kent Road flats deal, taking the Brimmington Park sports budget to £2.63m. · 6 min read Free Film Festival Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival: 17 Free Events Seventeen free screenings and workshops run from 4 to 13 September at Peckhamplex, Nunhead Cemetery and 13 other venues. Only one event needs booking. · 4 min read Southwark Council Southwark Works Overhaul: Council Takes Control in 2027 Southwark Works moves to a mixed model in July 2027, with triage and employer contacts run by the council. 39% of clients who finish a plan get a job. · 6 min read Peckham Peckham Wetherspoons Could Become a Bingo Hall, No Alcohol The Kentish Drovers on Peckham High Street would open 9am to 1am with no alcohol served at all. Southwark is taking comments until 17 September. · 7 min read Camberwell Southwark Energy Grants: £415k to 20, None in Dulwich Twenty projects are in line for £414,944, led by £60,000 for St Giles Camberwell. Dulwich Picture Gallery and Herne Hill Velodrome missed out. · 7 min read Open House Open House 2026: 15 Dulwich and Peckham Buildings Open Fifteen buildings and walks in Dulwich, Peckham and Camberwell open free from 12 to 20 September. The Pioneer Centre needs booking, Nunhead's crypt does not. · 9 min read

Southwark runs about five miles inland from the river. Borough, London Bridge, Bermondsey and Rotherhithe are at the top, Walworth and Elephant behind them, then Camberwell and Peckham, then Nunhead, Herne Hill, East Dulwich and Dulwich Village on the higher ground at the southern end. The borough’s name belongs to the riverside strip, and hardly anyone in Dulwich uses it about themselves.

Dulwich Today covers the whole of it. Southwark Council decides the planning applications, the licences, the parking zones and the bin rounds from one end to the other, and it publishes the evidence for those decisions where almost nobody reads it. We read it and write down what it says, with a link to the document every time.

Around the site

  • House prices: the middle SE21 sale was £1,370,000 and the middle SE5 sale £445,000, from 2,535 Land Registry sales.
  • Trains to London: six stations, no Underground, and £1,788 to £2,100 a year depending on which side of Dulwich you live.
  • Roadworks and parking: what is dug up now, the £1.20 College Road toll, and the controlled parking hours street by street.
  • Things to do: eleven places that cost nothing, and what the rest charge.
  • Planning: the borough built 1,004 homes last year against a target of 2,355.

Every fact is linked to the source it came from.