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Coming Week’’ Diary
News
Local Planning Applications & News
New Events
Job Opportunities
DDisrepair at Lambeth Cemetery,
Editorial/span>..
A change of style. In order to reduce the time spent on producing
the ENews and the size of each week’s edition, the Diary and Art
Galleries Section will now be a separate Forward Events Diary
listing, which will be sent out less frequently. The coming week’s
Diary will continue to be included in the ENews, as will news of new
events, which will then be added into the next edition of the
Forward Events Diary.
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Saturday 26 |
Oval Farmers’ Market.. St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval
Tube),
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TTai Chi.
Organised by Kennington Association. Lambeth Hall,
Brit Oval (entrance Alec Stewart Gate). 2-3pm |
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Animals Count Event in |
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Sunday 27 |
Spring Plant and Garden Fair. £3 (£2.50 concessions).
Master classes throughout the day (free on a first come,
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Sunday Jazz Roast at the Wheatsheaf.
Dee Byrne Quartet. 126 South Lambeth Road.span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
020 7622 3602. |
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St Peter’s Evening Prayer & Recital. Daniel Norman, Tenor & Christopher
Gould (piano). Rev.
Andrew Walker, Director London Centre for Spirituality.
Admission free. St Peter’s, |
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Monday 28 |
Daytime Symposium:
Garden Design Drawings. |
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Tuesday 29 |
Daytime Event:
Unveiling of Auricula Theatre
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INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS'
TALKS.
At the beginning of their residencies, Gasworks' current
visiting artists
Andrew Esiebo,
Mahmoud Khaled and
Pedro Ortuño will each make a short
presentation about their practices. Esiebo and Khaled are on
residency as part of
Africa Beyond, a UK-wide programme of African art
and culture. Though diverse in approach and influences, the
visiting artists' practices overlap in various ways, often
bringing their perspectives to work in lens-based media. The
discussion following the short presentations will explore
the faceted ways in which the artists approach their media:
photojournalism, video installation, project- and
conceptually-led new media practices, and the documentary
form, which are variously embedded and interrogated within
the visiting artists' work. Refreshments provided.
Gasworks, |
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Films by Sophie Clements
and others.. Local
gallery Man&Eve presents an evening of films by Sophie
Clements (winner of the Jerwood Moving Image Award 2008),
Sophy Rickett and Ellie Rees at the Brixton Ritzy. Tickets
available from the Ritzy box office:
www.picturehouses.com. Part of the Picturehouse ArtSpace
project that aims to bring video art into the cinema. The
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JAZZ JAM at Wheatsheaf,
126 South
Lambeth Road.
Marcus Hill (piano), Dee Byrne (alto sax),
Tim Clark (bass), Gabor Dornyei (drums), Plus Guests.
Free Admission. Restaurant food
available until 9.30pm |
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Tuesday 29 & Wednesday 30 |
TThe
One You Love,
By Michael
Twaits. Ancient myth encounters modern day ambiguity,
with a tip of a hat to vaudeville, in an evening exploring
transformations through love. Oval House Theatre, Kennington
Oval. |
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Wednesday 30 |
Community Lunch.
Hyde Southbank Homes’ weekly community lunch in Kennington
Park Community Centre is mainly targeted at all Hyde
residents in Lambeth, but the session is open to all. |
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Yoga Classes. St Aubyns Holistic Centre. |
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Thursday 1 May |
Darts at the Black Prince Pub. |
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Tai Chi. Free class moves back to |
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Thursday 1- Saturday 3 |
Footprints in the Sand. Last Three Days.
Pursued By A Bear Productions in association with Farnham Maltings and
Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre present a new writing
double bill directed by Helena Bell:
‘For One Night Only’
by Oladipo
Agboluaje
and ‘Letting Go’ by Rukhsana Ahmad. Oladipo
Agboluaje was born in Hackney and of Nigerian descent.
Rukhsana Ahmad is the Pakistani former director of Kali
Theatre. The plays launch the company’s three year plan of
work around the theme of immigration and refugees.
For One Night Only:
African slapstick in the Home Counties.
when Bode and Eddie arrive at Gatwick via the same
dodgy passport service.
Letting Go: Abbas
is haunted by a brother he can’t forget and on a cold dark
night in
Tickets: £12/£6 concessions. Box
office: 020 7582 7680.
Online sales:
www.ovalhouse.com
(no fee). Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval |
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Saturday 3 May |
Oval Farmers’ Market.. St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval
Tube). Every Saturday.
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TTai Chi.
Organised by Kennington Association. Lambeth Hall,
Brit Oval (entrance Alec Stewart Gate). Every Saturday. |
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Sunday 4 |
Sunday Jazz Roast at the Wheatsheaf.
Dee Byrne Quartet. 126 South Lambeth Road.
020 7622 3602. Every Sunday. |
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St Peter’s Evening Prayer & Recital.
The Basket Collective (piano trio). Canon Dr Jane Steen (Southwark
Diocese).
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Volley Ball. Fridays - Sundays & Bank Holidays. 3-8pm. Old Lilian Baylis
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Oval Theatre. Running Tuesdays to Saturdays till 3 May. Footprints in
the Sand.
Double
Bill. See 28 March Enews for details.
Tickets: £12/£6
concessions. Box office: 020 7582 7680. Online sales:
www.ovalhouse.com
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BEAUFOY – VIEWS OF CORPORATE COMMITTEE
At its meeting on 2 April the Council’s Corporate Committee agreed:o:p>
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tto note ‘the trustees
commitment to securing the future of the Beaufoy Trust and its
governance arrangements.
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that the officers ‘proceed
with the Scheme as proposed by the Charity Commission … and
delegates to the Director Legal and Democratic Services authority to
continue the discussions with the Charity Commission and finalise
the arrangements.
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that ‘no decisions are
made regarding changes in Trustee arrangements or the power of sale
until the plan to regenerate the Prince’s Ward Investment Strategy
(including the proposal to convert the Beaufoy Building and
associated Council owned buildings into an Artisan studio and arts
and crafts museum) is reported back to Cabinet and Corporate
Committee in September 2008, such report to include a set of fully
developed alternative options for the future trust arrangements.’
(Editorial note: is ‘studio’ an error – should it not be School?)
A member of the Beaufoy family attended the meeting. She expressed
‘her enthusiasm for the recent developments and noted that the
proposals were a welcome opportunity to see the Beaufoy sites
revived. She also questioned whether the original aim of Henry
Beaufoy with regards to keeping the tombs in the
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‘to work with officers and
De Morgan to keep the Beaufoy Charity and Scholarship Funds together
with the Beaufoy buildings, noting that this will allow the new
Beaufoy to continue and improve upon the original aims of the
Beaufoy charities.’
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oon Oval Councillor Andrew Sawdon’s proposal that ‘an assessment of the timescales for the project would need to be added to the recommendations of the report for both Cabinet and Corporate Committee.’
The minutes of the meeting can be seen on the Corporate Committee
section of the Council & Democracy area of www.lambeth.gov.uk.
NNEWS
Vauxhall Primary Schools News span>
(f(from the Headteacher Shirley Wilson)
Looking for Change projectspan>.
Tate Modern/UBS-
funded arts project has seen year 4 pupils develop their visual
literacy and arts appreciation skills. Their work will be exhibited
in June at the Tate Modern.
Happy Puzzle Day.
VPS pupils recently had a fun no-numbers day which involved them
solving a variety of puzzles. Nursery children had a blast balancing
penguins on a moving iceberg while Year 6 children worked in teams
to solve a puzzle involving shapes and space.
Gymnastics Club.
Talented Year 3 members of VPS Gymnastics club came 3rd
of 12 Lambeth primary schools during the recent Gymnastics Festival.
The Gymnastics Team won 4th in the Body Management
category. The school brought back the Fair Play Award, Vauxhall’s
first Gold Cup Trophy, for outstanding sportsmanship!
Site Development. .
Planning application has been made for the development of the school
playground to provide a multi-use games area. Works will commence
during the summer break and should be completed by December 2008.
Dormant at UBOX.
Lynne Brown, UBOX Gallery Director writes. Dormant is the latest
solo exhibition of new work by renowned artist and designer Georg
Meyer-Wiel. Presenting paintings, drawings and carved amber pieces
that have never before been exhibited, Dormant promises to deliver
fresh insight into Georg’s artistic motivations. He says: “In
essence my art is about a violation of constraints that is both
dreaded and desired. A personal mythology of penetration that mixes
the heroic marble and metal bodies of classical sculpture with the
dark, fleshy language of dream and nightmare.” Georg has exhibited
his art worldwide, with major shows in
Man&Eve at
Last week’s issue
discussed the importance of voting in the t1:City w:st="on">
Errata in 18 April issuespan>.
The organisation is Animals Count; ; their candidate is
Jasmijn de Boo. There are 10 candidates.
Carolinepan style="mso-spacerun:yes">&n Pidgeon –
Liberal Democrat
I have been a Kennington Councillor (in Southwark) for 10 years. My priorities if elected as your Assembly Member are::p>
Improved
transport
- I am campaigning to see the Cross River Tram built reaching from
Streatham through Brixton, Kennington and
I I will also work to secure a pier at Vauxhall Cross with a river bus
to take pressure off the tube and rail networks, ensuring we use
river transport more. I will also continue to press TfL to
rezone Kennington Tube Station so it is a boundary 1/2 station and
to be more responsive to local needs.
Post Office
Closuresspan>
- I am fighting to save local Post Offices from Labour's closure
programme, including the Lambeth Walk Post Office on
Development -
with new pressures on development, especially in the Vauxhall area,
it is crucial that the voices of local people and local communities
are heard before any decisions are made by either the council or the
Mayor, including affordable housing.
Protecting our open spaces – I am committed to protecting and
enhancing our open spaces such as Lambeth Walk Open Space,
SaSafer streets - I have worked tirelessly for more police on our
streets and for safe, fun places for young people to go with their
friends. As an Assembly Member I will work hard to ensure that
our area has the police it needs and to stop any plans to close
local police stations.
Katt Young - Left List
I am an African Caribbean single parent of a teenage
son who has sickle cell anaemia.pan style="mso-spacerun:yes">
It was through my fight for him in the health and education
systems that I saw the need to become more political.
I’I’ve recently been campaigning against post office
closures and pledged my support to Offley Works youth centre in
Oval, which has won temporary reprieve from closure. The Left List,
including our candidate for mayor, Lindsey German, is made up of
ordinary Londoners fighting on the vital issues - and we will take
only an average London wage if elected.
The housing crisisspan>:
We need to build new council housing.
Privatization is a disaster and ‘affordable housing’ is out
of reach of most people.
In-house repair teams should be brought back.
I am calling for the compulsory purchase of the 90,000 homes
that now lie empty in
Schools:
Comprehensive schools, the biggest step forward in working-class
education, are being dismantled in favour of expensive academies
where sponsors – carpet dealers, banks, builders and other
profiteers – make the decisions.
We would build new secondary schools and abolish unfair
entrance procedures.
Transport:
Young peoplespan>:
Young people are demonised, yet youth provision has been cut to the
bone. We get ever more
police officers - resources which should be redirected to end social
deprivation. Young
people should know their rights in the face of ‘stop and search’.
This government easily found billions to bail out
Northern Rock and fund its illegal wars.
It’s time that Lambeth and Southwark have the chance to vote
for someone who will stand up and fight.
For our full manifesto go to
www.lindsey4london.org
LOLOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS
Planning Applications
20-26 April
Site of Kerrin Point,
The Dog House, Kennington Cross.. Display of externally illuminated
fascia signage. 08/00999/ADV
St. Peter’s Residence, 2A st1:Street w:st="on">
Details can be seen on:
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcAplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx.
IIf this link
does not work then go to
www.lambeth.gov.uk and
track through to Planning and Public Access database. And to go and
see any plans is easy from the KOV area as the
Town Planning Advice Centre
is at Phoenix House,
Planning Decisions
20-26 April
Citadel Place.
Erection of a new gatehouse security building (ancillary to Class B1
office use of premises) and vehicle enclosure. Permitted.
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19 St Mary's Gdns.
Erection of single storey rear conservatory extension including the
removal of the existing external flank wall. Permitted.
Arches 50 51 52, 7-11 South Lambeth Place/span>.. Change of use and
alterations. Refused.
69 Vauxhall Grove/span>..
Application for a Certificate of Lawful Development (proposed) with
respect to the erection of a single storey ground floor rear
extension involving the formation of a patio and small extension.
Creation of a roof terrace and balcony to first floor level to the
rear. Permitted.
NEW EVENTS
6 May. 7pm. Kennington Association Aspan style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">rt
Auction Working Party.
First meeting. Dog House, Kennington Cross. See new event item blow.
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12 May. 7pm. Friends of Kennington Park AGM/span>. The AGM will be held on
Monday 12 May at
24 May. 10.30am-12.30pm. Start of seven week Morley
College Saturday Morning Family Concerts./span>
Morley welcomes families who love to share their
pleasures, especially music and dance. The Family Concerts are
unique for their relaxed informality where young children can feel
part of the excitement of performance. Babies tend to have a
snooze, very small people are sometimes quite shy, parents soon
settle down and grandparents, aunts and uncles would hate to be left
at home.
Presented by Shirley Anderson.
Tickets can be bought on the door. Family
ticket (2 adults & 2 children) £20 so get together with another
family. Otherwise single tickets £9 for adults & £6 for
children.
Brilliant Brass
- Sparkling music from sparkling instruments.
English Folk - Summer isn't far away now - it's time for
some traditional English Morris dancing.
Location: Emma Cons Hall.
May, June, September. City & Guilds of
27 May – 22 June. Henrietta Simson. Solo
exhibition at Man & Eve gallery. span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&
28 May. 2pm. Art & Compromise (II).
Paul Hobson. /span>
Free, but booking essential. Art & Compromise is a series of
lectures conceived by
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June.
18 september.
Kennington Association Art Auction at the City & Guilds Art School.
Bid for works
local artists and students plus lots of original bargains. Viewing
will take place on Wednesday
17 and Thursday 18
(exact times to be confirmed). Proceeds to the Secret
Santa Christmas scheme and a student crisis fund for the College.
Further information from Catey Hillier, Art Auction Co-ordinator:
cateyhillier@aol.com. A
working party will start meeting at
The Dog House on Tuesday 6
May at st1:time Minute="0" Hour="19" w:st="on">7pm.
JJOB OPPORTUNITIES
The Stockwell Partnership, a community-led regeneration charity, is
expanding its successful bi-lingual advocacy service following the
award of a three year contract by Lambeth’s Community Children
Service.span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> We are
recruiting 4 new advocates to increase our language support to
families of children under 5 in Lambeth.
Somali advocate:
35 hours per week £22,000-£24,840 pa
Portuguese/Spanish advocate:
35 hours per week £22,000-£24,840 pa
French advocate:
14 hours per week £10,432 pa
Polish advocate:
14 hours per week £10,432 pa
All salary figures quoted are inclusive.
You will provide generic advocacy support to refugee & settler
families in Lambeth and encourage them to make full use of services
offered by Lambeth’s Children’s Centres and other support
facilities, including ESOL classes. You are fluent in both written
and oral English and the language of the post you are applying for.
You have experience of working with migrants, refugees or
asylum seekers, are sympathetic to the needs of parents/carers with
young children and have a good knowledge of the welfare issues that
they face.
You will know about the Every Child Matters Agenda and Team Around
the Child. All posts require an enhanced CRB check, 2 written
references and a health statement.
IInterviews will take place on 22/23 May 2008. For an
application pack send a 60p C4 sae to John McCay, Stockwell
Partnership,
DISREPAIR AT LAMBETH CEMETARY
Following Shamus Leonard’s funeral last Friday I emailed the local
Councillors for Bishop’s, Prince’s and Oval Wards about my concerns
about the poor state of repair of the chapel and the perimeter metal
fencing, the poor level of information about the day’s funeral
timetable, and the fact that even very modern gravestones were
staked to prevent them falling down. Councillor Andrew Sawdon got
his enquiry to the relevant Council officers in first and the
following reply has been received from Ken
Dry, Lambeth’s Cemeteries, Crematoria & Coroners Manager.
‘Lambeth Cemetery was first opened in 1852, and of the two original
Cemetery Chapels, one is out of commission and surrounded by 'Heras'
safety fencing, whilst the second which accommodated the funeral
service attended by yourself is some 300m opposite and each within
direct line of site of the other.
On the issue of the location and placement of cemetery information
and each day’s funerals, there is a notice board immediately
adjacent to the public entrance of the cemetery office which itself
is adjacent to the cemetery entrance from
In terms of the cemetery chapel I am aware that it is not to a
suitable standard of décor (certainly not one I would wish) and I
sincerely apologise for this. Having only just received the results
of a structural survey of the Chapel in order to estimate the likely
repair/renovation costs and determine a prioritised action plan for
the same, I hope you will draw some comfort from the fact that this
is a service priority for the current financial though dependent
upon the available expenditure budgets and within the context of
competing corporate priorities. Whilst a ‘quick win’ could be
achieved by redecorating the interior, in my professional opinion it
will be more cost effective in the medium to long term to address
the structural and exterior fabric of which is a 150 year old
building, with no significant foundations and sited on London Clay.
In the same context as above, the cemetery railings are to my
knowledge ‘original’ and surround much of the 40 acre site. These
again need to be replaced at some point in time as opposed to simply
repainting which would deliver only a short-term result. Again
funding and the priority of this issue in the context of other
service provision is central, with 300m of 1.95m high cast iron,
black painted railings costing £130,000 under another lottery funded
project it is clear to see the level of funding required to achieve
this objective.
In reference to your concerns regarding the cemetery memorials, I
can confirm that the Council, as the landowner, is duty bound to
risk-assess memorials under the Health and Safety Executive
regulations, whilst the ownership of the memorials and the
maintenance of the same remains with the registered graveowner until
the expiration of the exclusive rights of burial; not the council.
Thus when an assessment of a memorial (to industry recognised
criteria) has been completed and has been assessed as a ‘failure’ it
has been council policy to stake the memorial in situ in order to
allow the inscription to remain visible whilst showing a greater
sensitivity than laying the memorial flat, which would have had a
more detrimental effect upon the cemetery and the reputation of the
council.
This risk assessment exercise was completed as per a formal
legislative procedure involving advance notice of the assessment
works with each assessment being followed by a letter to the
memorial/grave owner should it have failed, informing them of their
legal responsibilities and the powers available to the council to
take action should remedial action not be taken. In the course of
this work, and at other cemeteries throughout the UK it is apparent
that memorial masonry work has been sub-standard for some
significant time, and is currently being addressed by the National
Association of Memorial Masons and the Institute of Cemetery and
Crematorium Management to prevent further repetition by way of
industry and burial authority regulation.
I hope this answers your queries; and once again please accept my
apologies for any distress and inconvenience caused.’
I responded with the following comments:
Thank you very much for your very prompt reply, which is much
appreciated.br />
I am pleased to see that improvements will be made.
On the issue of the notice I walked in the main entrance and did not
look for a notice at it because I expected to see one on the chapel
door. While the officiating vicar for the funeral I was attending
and I were chatting a woman ran up looking for where the funeral was
that she was trying to attend. That was in another building further
down the site and she went running off to get there. I suspect
that people who arrive in cars drive in without seeing the notice at
the entrance, and I am sure that there is not always someone on the
entrance gate to ask.
I am not sure whether you are hinting that it may be necessary to
demolish the chapel. If that is the case then the loss of a building
with character would be a visual and heritage loss. In terms of the
railings, I would hope that any replacement would be solidly made
and of a design which would be consistent with the age of the
Cemetery. I do not know whether the Cemetery is listed. If it is
would Lambeth have to make a planning application to Wandsworth
Council for the details to be looked at from a conservation
perspective?
On the issue of the poles used to prop up gravestones, they appear
in most cases to be very thick ones, higher than the height of the
gravestones. They are very ugly. Cannot an equally sturdier way be
devised that would have a cross shape stake flush with the back of
the stone and driven down deep into the ground? Leaving aside the
issue of the quality of modern masonry, there still seems to me from
a layman's perspective to be a problem of how firmly bedded the
gravestones are, which raises questions about the installation
workmanship.
While I appreciate that repair and replacement works are expensive I
assume that if remedial action had been taken earlier it would have
been much cheaper. Also I suspect that most Lambeth Council tax
payers would expect the Council to use its money to keep cemeteries
in good condition. Having for a short while in the 1990s been
freelance acting clerk to the
KKen Dry has answered as follows:
‘In answer to your recent reply I can confirm that no decisions have
been made, or action(s) considered in respect to the
demolition or otherwise of either of the cemetery chapels; neither
are they listed structures nor the site to my knowledge within a
conservation area.br />
When referring to memorial risk assessment, the process
concerns the structural integrity of the entire memorial and its
foundations. The latter aspect is the primary reason for the
majority of failures, and it is the issue of subterranean ground
anchorage and dowellage that is central to the initiatives underway
within the industry as previously mentioned. In essence less
scrupulous memorial masons have neglected to use these items and
methodologies in their work, or when they have, the items have
failed for a any number of a range of reasons over time.
The wooden stakes supporting those memorials assessed as having
failed, , together with their tensioned bindings, are of the
required thickness and length to adequately bear both the stationary
and moving loads of the memorial. Whilst they may not be
aesthetically pleasing, they are for a purpose, having been driven
no less than 300mm into the ground to firmly support, and not simply
'prop' the memorial.
To utilise the system you suggest, we know would not provide
adequate support or stability, as various methodologies and products
were tried and tested before using the current format, which in
itself proved to be the strongest and most cost effective for the
purpose at hand.
In closing, I am sure you will agree that hindsight is a wonderful
gift, and that the impact of past decisions and actions by the
council in respect of its cemeteries (particularly West Norwood) and
their effect upon its reputation over the last 15 years, are
now fully understood and appreciated by all concerned.
With regard to the other issues mentioned concerning the priorities
of elected members and the allocation of council financial
resources, these are best referred to Councillor Mark Bennett as
elected member with portfolio for the Cemeteries, Crematoria and
Coroners service.’
ENews/Events Listing
compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT
Unless stated editorial comments do not reflect the views of the
RCDT Board.
RCDT is supported by London Development Agency, and part-funded by Pedlar’s Acre Trust - Lambeth Council