Baird Gardens and Dulwich Wood Park Resident's Assocation covers an area of SE19
which consists of the late 1950's development on
The Dulwich Estate
of Baird Gardens and 26-36 Dulwich Wood Park.
Baird Gardens a privately owned road, we do all share a (financial) connection
to each other in a way that people living on a publically maintained road do
not. For instance there is no Southwark or Lambeth to sweep the pavements for
us, any pavement or road cleaning which is found to be necessary we all have to
pay for ourselves, along with the additional 15% management charge to the
Dulwich Estate. If rubbish is dropped in the road or along the path to Dulwich
Wood Park and it is magically gone by the next day it will not have been due to
Southwark Council but will have been a kindly neighbour who picked it up and
disposed of it.
On the positive side, as a community, we have much more control over our
environment since it is privately owned. It is for this reason that the
Residents’ Association has been active in trying not to simply maintain the lawn
and planted common areas but is always trying to improve them.
Whether it is a new spring on the gate, daffodils appearing in patches around
the road, a bluebell wood appearing where once there was just ivy and weeds or
rubbish dumped in the road which disappears, the chances are this was done by
your neighbours, giving their time and energy for free for everybody to benefit.
Without a council to rely on to keep the area free of rubbish and attractive we
are reliant on each other respecting and contributing to the environment around
us.