The headline could be from May 2005 and the place could be just a few hundred yards away but the images and feelings are so similar.
In 2005 a new development, part of the Evolution Quarter of what was formerly the North Peckham Estate was burnt to the ground when a fire started on the site and destroyed the partially built homes that were part of the Berkely Homes new build.
This time around there is a similar event – as before it is thought that gas canisters exploded and from here on Calypso Crescent at 4:30 this morning it did sound like it, with people evacuated and damage to inhabited properties.
Take a look at the pictures below, some from 2005 and some from now, so close together geographically and so similar is their seeming cause. Dies something need to be done in terms of safety inspections when there is so much work going on in such a built up area – have a look at the new Tuke School development that is also going on and then there is also the demolition in progress of the last parts of the North Peckham Estate (these are parts that have been baorded off, and so surreptitiously inhabited, for some time now.)
