More shoppers parking

Residents, businesses, councillors  and The Norwood Forum have asked the council for more free shoppers’ parking in West Norwood town centre. Lambeth’s Highways engineers are now working on a scheme to introduce more than 30 additional one-hour free parking  spaces around West Norwood town centre. These spaces  will  help people how are shopping in the town centre rather than commuters using the station.

Following the necessary statutory consultations the new one-hour free bays should be in place by the end of the calendar year 2012.

Greener & calmer traffic zone

Work is due to start in the autumn to create a new green 20 mph calming zone west of  Knight’s Hill and Norwood Road. This scheme is a unique approach to traffic calming and will include 85 new street trees. Some of the trees will be planted in tree pits in the road and others in the pavement.

Tree in a road tree pit

The scheme has been developed following a campaign by local residents to expand the existing 20mph zone around Cheviot Road and tackle rat running and speeding to and from Leigham Court Road. A series of consultation activities followed an initial resident’s workshop in 2010. The necessary statutory notices have already gone out and fuller details of the scheme will be available soon with more opportunities to comment.

A group of residents are talking to Lambeth council’s tree experts about the types of street trees that would best suit the area. To get involved in these discussions please email the group at:   trees4westnorwood@yahoo.co.uk

Linton Grove neighbourhood

Linton Grove neighbourhood residents

Residents in the area around Linton Grove are coming together to improve their neighbourhood. So far people have talked about parking, the abandoned day nursery, play area, council homes improvements and recycling.

If you would like to have a say  please contact Cllr Jackie Meldrum jmeldrum@lambeth.gov.uk   tel 020 8671 5595

What a feast!

New Sunday markets in West Norwood .

Congratulations to all who made the first Norwood “Feast” on Sunday 3rd April  a fantastic success, bringing more than 2,000 people pouring into 4 markets in the centre of West Norwood . Brilliant planning & marketing by local residents working with Space Makers and support from Big Yellow Storage & the council  combined with good weather resulted in a great market day.

Norwood Feast is a set of markets dotted through the town centre on the first Sunday of every month,

There is a second-hand goods/retro clothing market outside Rosebery’s auctioneers on Knight’s Hill, food stalls and children’s entertainment in St Luke’s Church garden, an arts and crafts fair at the end of Chatsworth Way and plants, fruit and vegetables on the corner of York Hill and Norwood Road. Local shops joined in: Beamish and McGlue served hog roast outside their shop on the corner of Lancaster Avenue and Kahvah welcomed a record number of customers in its Norwood Road café. O Girasol was also doing a roaring trade and  B&Q staff reported a large increase in business.

Fringe events included guerrilla gardeners who planted around trees in Norwood Road ,  trampolining for children and  cemetery tours for adults..

Shoppers came from a wide area of south London – Lewisham, Balham and Mitcham as well as Streatham, Dulwich and Crystal Palace. Jane Pickard, local councillor for Knight’s Hill, said: “The markets are  a huge success and I look forward to the next events in May & June.”

The next feast event will be Sunday 1st May 10-4pm. Get there early as some stalls sold out by lunchtime!

Prospective stall holders should look up FAQs on   http://westnorwood.spacemakers.org.uk/

Tennis Club Planning Application

Cllr Jane Pickard at the Tennis Club gates

Many residents were opposed to  plans to build 58 flats on the site of the West Norwood Tennis Club. Cllr Jane Pickard took up these  concerns  and in December 2010 the council rejected  plans.

The developers are now appealing to the independent Planning Inspectorate to take a fresh look at the council’s decision. If you want to comment on the appeal or the council’s decision you can do this online at  http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/appeals/ . After  finding  details of case 2144277 online you can submit your comments  – but please note the deadline is Wednesday 20th April 2011 .

To see details of the original planning application  look at the Public Access database on Lambeth ‘s web site http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/ and quote ref 10/01836 . The council’s reasons for refusing this planning application are given in the decision notice below.

tennis club refusal dec10

Find out what’s going on in West Norwood

Community groups and teams from the council will all be at the special community event on Saturday 5th March. Drop in between 11am and 4pm to meet the people making things happen in West Norwood.

• Do you want to see the plans for our new swimming pool and health centre?
• Are you interested in the new Julian’s primary school in Wolfington Road?
• Would you like to speak to the engineers who design our parking and traffic calming schemes?
• How about a tour around the fantastic new Elmgreen secondary school building?
• Do you want to know about local activities for children and teenagers?
• Have you an hour to spare  on 5th March?

Drop in to Elmgreen School in Elmcourt Road SE27 9BZ  between 11am & 4pm  to the see what’s happening in your neighbourhood.  There will be 50 stalls ,workshops and music performances on the day. Refreshments will be on sale.

For details contact  Charlotte Fletcher cfletcher@cpcdt.org.uk .

Download NORWOOD EXPO POSTER 2011

Cutting council budgets

Lambeth Council must make £42 million in savings by April 2012 and £79 million by April 2014. This means that for every pound the council currently spends there will be only 87p next year and 75p in three years time. To contribute to the discussion on the budget setting for the next 3 years why not have have a go at the budget simulator on the council web site:

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/CouncilDemocracy/Consultations/BudgetConsultation.htm

Tulse Hill Station Parking zone is expanding

Tulse Hill station controlled parking zone

Residents in the streets close to Tulse Hill station have asked for the controlled parking zone to be extended into 3 new areas.

After much local consultation the proposals can be summarised as :

1. Resident only parking and pay & display bays  between 12 noon and  2 pm Mondays to Fridays in the area  around Guernsey Grove, Hawarden Grove & a small part of Croxted Road at the Brockwell Park end. For a detailed map see (Download Map pdf)
2. Resident only parking and pay & display bays  between 8.30 am – 6.30 pm Mondays to Fridays in the Harpenden Road, Ullswater Road &  Ulverstone Road and Elmcourt Road & part of Maley Avenue . For a detailed map see (Download Map pdf)
3. Resident only parking and pay & display bays  between 8.30 am – 6.30 pm Mondays to Fridays in St Faiths Road. For a detailed map see (Download Map pdf)
4. To support shopping and other short stay parking there will be free 30 minute parking places 7am to 7pm on Mondays to Saturdays in  Croxted Road, Harpenden Road, Norwood Road and Rosendale Road

The proposals were published in the press on 27th November and 1st December as a formal Notice of Orders. (Download pdf)

Any objections to the Orders must be made in writing and sent to Barbara Poulter, Transport and Highways Group, London Borough of Lambeth, 3rd Floor, Blue Star House, 234-244 Stockwell Road, London SW9 9SP, by 22nd December 2009.

For more information call Lambeth Highways team on 020 7926 9000.