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Six rooftop heat pumps for Dulwich Leisure Centre drew 32 objections and no support. Two noise studies disagree, and the grant behind it must be spent by March.
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Libraries
Dulwich Library Misses Its September Reopening
Dulwich Library was due back in September. Southwark now says 'autumn 2026' and has no date. Where to borrow meanwhile, with the longer hours at three branches.
Events
What's On in Dulwich: Hokusai 20 Oct, Two Fireworks Nights
Hokusai's Great Wave opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery on 20 October, then Halloween fireworks and Day of the Dead on the 31st. Every date to 15 November.
Crime
Peckham Rye Car Crime Hit 33 in July, Up From 6 a Month
Vehicle crime in Peckham Rye ward hit 33 in July against a usual 6, and 195 across 11 local wards. Street-by-street figures and a ward crime table.
Peckham
Peckham Square Plans: Survey Closes Saturday 26 Sept
Southwark's survey on the £7m square closes at 11.59pm on Saturday 26 September. Both drop-in events have gone, and the 91-93 High Street scheme has been scaled back from the one already approved.
Peckham
Rye Lane Traders Offered Rates Relief: Who Qualifies
Southwark will cut business rates for Rye Lane traders hit by the closure, but the automatic reduction only reaches shops already on hardship relief. Letter sent 23 September.
Bins
Dulwich Christmas Bin Collections: Only Two Days Move
Southwark's Christmas 2026 bins: Friday 25 December moves to Sunday 27th, New Year's Day to Saturday 2 January. Free tree collection books from 21 December.
Schools
Dulwich School Term Dates 2026/27: Half Term Splits in Two
Southwark schools break 26 to 30 October, but Kingsdale, Charter East Dulwich and Harris take two weeks and the independents break until 6 November.
Trains
Dulwich Christmas Trains: No Service on 25 December
No trains from any Dulwich station on Christmas Day, almost none on Boxing Day, and a bank holiday on Monday 28 December. What is known so far, and when.
Half Term
Dulwich October Half Term 2026: What's On, Day by Day
Dulwich October half term is 26 to 30 October, or from 19 October at some schools. Owls, origami, a Day of the Dead festival and free options, with prices.
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery This Winter: Hokusai and Mackesy
Hokusai's Great Wave from 20 October and Charlie Mackesy's drawings from 3 November. Prices, opening hours, Christmas events and last year's festive closures.
Southwark Council
Southwark's £102m Budget Gap: Inflation Is £97.5m of It
Inflation adds £97.5m to Southwark's £102m budget gap, government cuts £28.1m. The council's first line-by-line breakdown, and what it means before cuts are set.
Theatre
Twenty Thousand Streets, Southwark Playhouse: to 17 October
A world premiere of Patrick Hamilton's 1929 London trilogy runs at Southwark Playhouse Borough to 17 October. From £35, 2hr 5min, captioned show 30 September.
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.
Every fact is linked to the source it came from.