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RCDT News and Diary
RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 16 MARCH 2007
From Riverside Community Development Trust, 20 Newburn St, SE11 5PJ. 020 7820
0555.
info@rcdt.org.
www.rcdt.org
For standard information in past issues see the 16 February listing
These are under the headings:
Lambeth Voluntary Sector News; School News and
Extended Services Activities; Community/Policing News; Business, Employment &
Jobs; Councillors’ Surgeries; Regular Activities; Faith Groups; Local Area
Websites; Useful Local Contacts; Events Elsewhere in Lambeth; Papers Available
on Request.
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THIS SATURSAY 17 MARCH |
| 7.45pm. Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey.
Play at Oval House Theatre.
www.ovalhouse.com.
See also Slavery & Abolition section of 9 March Enews on
www.rcdt.org. Play continues to Saturday
24 March. |
|
THIS SUNDAY 18 MARCH |
| 11am-4pm. Roots and Shoots Annual Spring Fair. 'Sounds of
Spring'. A celebration of the Sounds of Spring recorded by the
children at Walnut Tree Walk School and Ethelred Nursery with the help
of local musicians and artists. Includes exhibition and sound
installation in the Wildlife Gdn, storytelling shirt drama pieces with
R&S trainees and a theatre group, organic fruit and veg, bakeries, local
crafts, etc. Adults £1. Children free. Walnut Tree Walk entrance. |
|
2.4pm. Friends of Kennington Park Gardening Club
Spring Clean. Flower Garden, Kennington Park |
|
Deadline for comments on Council’s Draft Conservation
Area on Renfrew St. See 26 February ENews listing on www.rcdt.org.uk |
THIS COMING WEEK
| Monday 19 |
Mountaineering - Tunbridge Wells to
the Andes. Back by popular request, local expert Ian Smith gives an
illustrated
tour of 30 years of rock-climbing and mountaineering – Kent to
Kyrgystan, Jordan to the Alps to South America, taking in
sandstone outcrops, sea cliffs, desert rocks, snowy peaks and more... At
Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane. Friends
of the Durning Library. Free entry. Drinks & nibbles. Suggested
donation £2. |
6.45-7.15pm |
| Monday 19 |
Section 106 Scrutiny Commission
meeting. Council Chamber at the Town Hall, Brixton Hill/Acre Lane,
SW2. See Council News Story below. |
7pm |
| Wednesday 21 |
North Lambeth Area Committee.
Pedlar's Acre Community Centre, 1 Opal St (behind North Lambeth Housing
Office at 91 Kennington Lane). Agenda: Library Service - Fundamental
Review; Youth Service in North Lambeth - an overview; Prince's Ward
Investment Strategy; Crime update; Recycling Service developments.
Deadline for Public Notice Questions: 5.00 pm on 6 March to Democratic
Services. Disarmed Swainson. E:
dswainson@lambeth.gov.uk.
Room 113, Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, SW2. See also ‘Council moves to decisions on Lilian
Baylis, Beaufoy and other sites’ stories in Enews 9 March on
www.rcdt.org. |
7.30pm |
| Wednesday 21 – Saturday 24 |
‘RAGGED CHILD’ WITH THE INNER CITY
PLAYERS. Adults £6, concessions £3. Several children from Archbishop
Sumner Primary School Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 are in the play, as well as
some staff. It’s set in the Victorian era but has much relevance for
today. Lots of good catchy songs and dancing and a powerful story!!
Lambeth Mission, 3/5 Lambeth Rd. |
7.30pm |
| Friday 25 |
Communities First Conference.
Communities First is the new approach of Lambeth Council to community
involvement and engagement. A Conference is being held by Lambeth
Council with the support of Lambeth First and Lambeth Voluntary Action
Council, to enable the community and voluntary sector to discuss what it
means and how they can get involved. Conference Centre, Oval Cricket
Ground, Kennington. If you want to go please contact Andrew Fernandez at
Lambeth Voluntary Action Council on 020 7737 9462. email:
icm@lvac.org.uk Although people were asked
to book by 16 March, why not contact to see if there is still room for
you. |
2-5pm |
REST OF MARCH DIARY
| Saturday 24 |
Closing Date for Applications for
Director of Vauxhall City Farm. See 26 February Enews edition on
www.rcdt.org.uk for details. |
|
| Saturday 24 |
‘RAGGED CHILD’ WITH THE INNER CITY
PLAYERS – see above |
2.30pm |
| Saturday 24 |
Last Chance to see Moj of the
Antarctic: An African Odyssey. Play Oval House Theatre.
www.ovalhouse.com.
See also Slavery & Abolition section of 9 March Enews on www.rcdt.org |
3pm & 7.45pm |
| Sunday 25 |
Last chance to see Metropolitan. First
solo photographic exhibition by Anup Mathew Thomas at Gasworks
gallery – see Art Galleries & Exhibitions section below. |
|
APRIL DIARY
| 1 |
Bach’s St John Passion. St Peter’s
Singers & Handmade Opera directed by Colin Baldy. St John’s
Peckam, 10a Meeting House Lane, Peckham. See also April 6. St Peter’s
Singers are the group attached to St Peter’s in Kennington Lane.
Admission Free |
6.30pm |
| 5-18 |
Easter School Holidays Fortnight.
See School News and Extended School Activities section below for details
of primary school play scheme at Archbishop Sumner. |
|
| 6 |
Bach’s St John Passion. St Peter’s
Singers & Handmade Opera directed by Colin Baldy. St Peter’s
Vauxhall, 310 Kennington Lane. Preacher: Rev’d Angus Aagaard. Admission
Free |
7.30pm |
| 17 |
The Kennington Oval and Vauxhall Forum
Meeting. this meeting will discuss various issues regarding the
Kennington Oval and Vauxhall area including feedback form the
Communities First Consultation. Time & venue to be confirmed. Contact
Jacqueline Christie, Area Project Officer, North Lambeth Centre Office,
for further details. Tel - 020 7926 8295, Email -
jchristie@lambeth.gov.uk mailto:jchristie@lambeth.gov.uk |
|
| 18 April – 5 May |
Twisted. by David Dandridge.
Directed by Tim Stark. Design by Jeremy Daker. A drug-fuelled Bank
Holiday weekend in a house in Manchester. Five men’s lust, lies and
loyalties spiral out of control with devastating consequences. Seduced
by the promise of sex and hedonistic kicks, they embark on a journey
where self-discovery comes too late… Iron Hoof Productions presentation.
Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval. TICKETS: £12/£6 concessions. BOX
OFFICE: 020 7582 7680 ONLINE SALES:
www.ovalhouse.com (no fee) |
7.45pm |
| 25 April – 12 May |
bOOk Of little things. Written and
directed by Ishwar Maharaj. Designed by Marie Antikainen. Company O
presentation. Mixing Absurd Theatre with live singing, slapstick and
very black humour, bOOk Of little things tells 3 stories about 3 women
from different periods in history, all called Scarlet Billows. As the
heroines rampage through time, they find themselves embroiled in the
atrocities of war, a war with an inexhaustible plethora of disguises and
an unquenchable thirst for blood. Friday 11 May: Audience Q & A with the
production team and cast. Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval. TICKETS:
£12/£6 concessions BOX OFFICE: 020 7582 7680. ONLINE SALES:
www.ovalhouse.com (no fee). |
8pm |
POST APRIL EVENTS
| MAY |
|
|
| 18-19 |
CONFLICTZONE THEATRE. Presented as
a part of FiRST BiTES, Oval House Theatre's ongoing series of
Works-In-Progress. Conflict Zone is a unique and innovative
social-multi-cultural theatre group formed by Michael Ronen and based in
London. While considering that the world is becoming more and more
inter-connected and that the problems of the underdeveloped world are
being brought to streets of Britain through terrorism and emigration
problems, Conflict Zone believe that UK audiences are growing hungrier
for stories that try to understand the sources, causes and effects of
conflicts from foreign countries. In this presentation they will be
concentrating on themes of discrimination, political conflict in their
home countries and its implications on life here in Britain. TICKETS:
£4.BOX OFFICE: 020 7582 7680. ONLINE SALES:
www.ovalhouse.com (no fee). |
8pm |
| 22-26 |
Streets Paved with Gold. The
reminiscences of a Black British Citizen. Written and performed by
Victor Richards. Jay Theatre Productions presentation. The play is set
in the present, but explores recent history from the 1950’s onwards. In
his one man show, Victor Richards explores African-Caribbean migration,
and themes of hope, identity and change. The story line of “Streets
Paved with Gold” weaves together a thrilling and informative picture of
the collective experiences of Black British Citizens resulting from
their new surroundings. The play is based on the reality of people bold
enough to plunge themselves into the unknown. Victor Richards introduces
you to the character of Augustus Cleveland Johnson, who arrives on a
cold grey and wet November morning in London at Tilbury docks in 1948 –
share his dreams, hopes and aspirations. Oval House Theatre. TICKETS:
£12/£6 concessions. BOX OFFICE: 020 7582 7680 ONLINE SALES:
www.ovalhouse.com (no fee). |
8pm
Matinees 1.3pm Thursday 24 &
Saturday 26 |
| 29 May – 16 June |
Yellow Lines. by Steve King.
Directed by Mervyn Millar. Human Resources Theatre Company presentation.
Colin hates crowds - but he's got a brilliant solution. His boss thinks
it will transform London. But Colin's met a woman who thinks he is
making a dangerous mistake... Mervyn Millar has directed for the
National Theatre, BAC & international touring. His play Evidence for
the Existence of Borrowers was awarded both Herald Angel and Total
Theatre Awards in 2005. TICKETS: £12/£6 concessions. BOX OFFICE: 020
7582 7680. ONLINE SALES:
www.ovalhouse.com
(no fee). |
7.45pm;
Previews 29 & 30 May All
tickets £6 |
| JUNE |
|
|
| 6-23 |
Ya’akobi and Leidental. By Hanoch
Levin. Translated by Shir Freibach. Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company
Presentation. Ya’akobi and Leidental was written in
1972 by Hanoch Levin, one of Israel’s most established playwrights. In a
cabaret style, the play takes a comic and at times grotesque look at the
love triangle between two men and one woman, desperately trying to add
meaning and excitement to their lives. Tik-sho-ret’s physical production
of this absurd piece accentuates the grotesque with comic playfulness.
The show returns after a short successful tour earlier this
autumn.TICKETS: £12/£6 concessions. BOX OFFICE: 020 7582 7680. ONLINE
SALES:
www.ovalhouse.com
(no fee). |
8pm |
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS: 11-17 March
The Council website did not show any planning applications for this week.
This may be due to a glitch in the way the site operates.
Further details and for the ability to comment on applications go to:
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcApplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx
COUNCIL NEWS
Section 106 Scrutiny Commission meeting. Monday 19 March 2007
at 7pm. in the Council Chamber at the Town Hall. This meeting will look at the
Council’s section 106 agreements. Scrutiny members will review priority policies
and procedures of the Council and partners to improve services. Members of the
Commission are Councillor Diana Braithwaite, David Malley and Roger Giess.
Councillor McGlone (Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Enterprise) will also be
in attendance. Please note that Diana Braithwaite, Bishop’s Ward (N. Lambeth
Councillor), was active in the very successful Friends of Lambeth Walk Open
Space.
Dave Burn, Head of Scrutiny explains: ‘In terms of how the Commission came
about, Members of all parties have stated that they feel the Lambeth does not
receive/achieve maximum benefit from our section 106 agreements. In view of
those concerns, Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered the matter on 2
November 2006, with Councillor McGlone (Cabinet Member for Regeneration &
Enterprise), representatives from DCLG, the Audit Commission and local
interested groups and individuals.
Overview and Scrutiny Committee made a series of suggestions and officers in
the Council’s planning department are currently looking at our section 106
arrangements. Scrutiny members decided that in view of the activity and the
interest of Cabinet, it would not have been sensible to replicate current
activities by setting up a full blown Scrutiny Commission. However, what was
agreed, was that Members should receive an interim report on progress in
February /March, with a view to submitting a final report to Overview and
scrutiny Committee on 17 May, prior to submission to Cabinet. Hence the meeting
on 19 March. ‘
Please see link for further information about scrutiny.
http://intranet.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/8D01AD5B-7237-4026-8E2F-21DE6D6F85E0/0/NotesForWitnessesInScrutiny.pdf.
Contact: Dave Burn, Head of Scrutiny, Scrutiny, Strategy and Corporate Services,
London Borough of Lambeth, phone: 020 7926 2186, mobile: 07852 141787, fax: 020
7926 2755, email:
dburn@lambeth.gov.uk
website:
www.lambeth.gov.uk
SCHOOL NEWS AND EXTENDED SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Spring Half Term Play scheme for primary children: 5-18 April (excluding
bank holidays) at Archbishop Sumner School, Reedworth Street. Core day:
10am to 4pm ONLY £5. Extended day: 8 am -10am £2; 4pm – 6pm £2. (Only
available when booking core day). Children must be resident in Lambeth or NHS
employees of St. Thomas’ hospital. Book direct with Schoolfriend on 0870 442
2287 or show up on day for available places. Or for any queries/forms speak with
Babs Wright on 0795 192 1655
ART GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
| Dates |
Gallery |
Exhibition |
Times |
| Everyday |
Museum of Garden History
Lambeth Palace
Rd
020 7401 8865
www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh
Open every day. Closed Saturday 23 December to Monday 1 January
(inclusive) |
Permanent Garden History & Local
History Displays |
10.30am-5pm |
| Thursdays – Sundays 15 March – 29 April |
Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
Tel: 020 7582 6465
info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk |
Hibernator: Prince of the Petrified
Forest, by London Fieldworks
An ambitious new exhibition project by London Fieldworks, commissioned
by Beaconsfield. Working with the legacy and personal myth of Walt
Disney, the commission embraces the latest developments in animatronics,
primal hibernation patterns and the practice of cryonics in its
exploration of fantasy and death.
Free entry |
12-6pm |
| Tuesdays – Saturdays to 7 April |
Corvi-Mora
1a Kempsford Road
020 7840 9111
www.corvi-mora.com |
LIAM GILLICK
‘The Commune Itself Becomes A Super State’ |
11am-6pm |
| Fridays – Saturdays to 15 April |
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road
020 7735 8292
danielle@daniellearnaud.com
www.daniellearnaud.com |
Annie Whiles – CUCKOO. Line
drawings of furniture and artifact.
|
6-9pm |
| Tuesdays to Saturdays to 25 March |
Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street,
020 7582 6848.
press@gasworks.org.uk
www.gasworks.org.uk |
Metropolitan. First solo photographic
exhibition by Anup Mathew Thomas examining the rule-makers,
law enforcers and bastions of ethics and morality within society through
a series of fourteen individual portraits of the heads of Episcopalian
churches from Kerala. The exhibition also includes a digital slide show
Light Life depicting the empty interiors of Mumbai ‘ladies bars’
where men go to watch women dancing, which was closed by the authorities
alleging that they encouraged crime and prostitution. Light Life
questions this decision as many ex-dancers were obliged to seek the very
employment the censure sought to discourage. |
6.30-9pm |
| Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays from 16
March to 8 April |
Man&Eve,131 Kennington Park Rd.
020
7582 7861.
info@manandeve.co.uk.
www.manandeve.co.uk |
Eames Demetriois. Reflections in the
Umbrasphere. Guided tour of Kyamerican-Era sites in London
|
12-6pm |
| Tuesdays – Saturdays 6 – 31 March |
Oval House Theatre Café/Gallery,
52-54 Kennington Oval. Box Office: 020 7582 7680.
www.ovalhouse.com |
PUNKTURE-2. Think/tank exhibition
of new abstract paintings on canvas, paper, board and drum skins by
Philip Barker, aka philphuture: artist,
composer and anarcho-punk drummer (Lack of Knowledge, The Stratford
Mercenaries, Buzzcocks).
This invigorating and energetic exhibition demonstrates a sumptuous
use of colour and texture, inspired by punk ideology, football
fanaticism and a gritty urban-London upbringing.
Exhibition includes ‘scratch’ action-painting video by Roy Wallace,
maverick Belfast filmmaker, whose latest DVD is a companion to the
‘The Day the Country Died’ , a book by Ian Glasper all about the
anarcho punk scene in ‘80s Britain, published by Cherry Red 2006.
ADMISSION FREE: includes a complimentary copy of PUNKTURE-1, limited
edition think/tank CD (subject to availability) |
3-10pm |
RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 9 MARCH 2007
From Riverside Community Development Trust, 20 Newburn St, SE11 5PJ. 020
7820 0555.
info@rcdt.org.
www.rcdt.org
Feedback: ‘your newsletter is great’
For standard information in past issues see the 16 February listing on:
http://www.rcdt.org/newslinks.htm
These are under the headings:
Lambeth Voluntary Sector News; School News and
Extended Services Activities; Community/Policing News; Business, Employment
& Jobs; Councillors’ Surgeries; Regular Activities; Faith Groups; Local Area
Websites; Useful Local Contacts; Events Elsewhere in Lambeth; Papers
Available on Request.
LMHS TO LAUNCH KENNINGTON QUARTER
PROPOSAL ON WEDNESDAY
Lady Margaret Hall Settlement will be launching its Kennington Quarter
proposal on Wednesday 14 March. See details in story below.
FUTURE OF FORMER LILIAN BAYLIS SCHOOL,
BEAUFOY INSTITUTE, ETC
- MAJOR DECISIONS TO BE REACHED ON THURSDAY
BY LAMBETH COUNCIL CABINET
- see story below
|
THIS SATURDAY 10 MARCH |
| 1st Full Day Start of
LIAM GILLICK: ‘The
Commune Itself Becomes A Super State’. Exhibition at Corvi-Mura –
see Art Galleries & Exhibitions section below |
|
1st Full Day of ANNIE WHILES – CUCKOO.
Line drawings of furniture and artefacts. at Danielle Arnaud Gallery
- see Art Galleries & Exhibitions section below |
THIS COMING WEEK
| Tuesday 13 |
Operation Freshview in
Prince’s Ward. See separate story below.
|
|
| Wednesday 14 |
Preview of Hibernator: Prince
of the Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks.
Exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery. See Art Galleries & Exhibitions
section below. |
6-9pm |
| Thursday 15 |
Prince’s Ward Investment
Strategy. Report for approval at Lambeth Council
Cabinet meeting. Room 8, Lambeth Town Hall, Acre Lane,
Brixton. It will also discuss the revised Economic Development
Strategy, and Events Strategy for Parks and Open Spaces, For paper
see Lambeth website
www.gov.uk
go to Council & Democracy, Go to Committee Reports, Minutes &
Agendas, Go to Cabinet. See story below |
2.30pm |
| Thursday 15 |
Start of Hibernator: Prince
of the Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks.
Exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery. See Art Galleries & Exhibitions
section below. |
6-9pm |
| Friday 16 |
1st day start of Eames
Demetriois. Reflections in the Umbrasphere at Man&Eve
Gallery. See Art Galleries and Exhibitions section below. |
12-6pm |
| Daily to 24 March |
Moj of the Antarctic: An
African Odyssey. Play about former black American
slave Ellen Craft at Oval House Theatre. See Slavery & Abolition
2007 story below. |
7.45pm |
LOCAL NEWS
Four Car Parking Spaces in Kennington outside Charge
Zone!!! St Mary’s Newington Church on Kennington Park
Rd has four parking spaces available for rent seven days a week behind the
Church. £260 per quarter payable in advance (i.e. £20 per week). Yes -
outside the Central Charging Zone area on the Southwark side of Kennington
Park Rd! If you are interested please email: Rev’d Andrew Dodd on
rector@stmarynewington.org.uk
Petition re-Founder’s Place Development Appeal .
The appeal is set to start on 19 April. You are asked to consider signing on
on-line petition by 18 March - see story below.
Operation Freshview wants your views – see story below.
Kennington Association Tai Chi moves to Centenary Hall.
Cathy Preece (Kennington Association) writes : The
regular Tai Chi class held on Thursday afternoons at 4pm has now moved to
Centenary Hall, Cottington St, SE11 4RZ. This is due to
refurbishment works taking place at St Anselm's to accommodate the new
nursery opening there in late spring. As usual, the classes are free and all
ages and abilities are welcome - just turn up in comfortable clothing.
Council Holds Communities First Conference at Brit Oval
on 23 March. Deadline to book place 16 March. See story below.
LMHS’S KENNINGTON QUARTER PROPOSAL
Jeffe Jeffers, Director of Lady Margaret Hall Settlement,
writes: The Council’s paper called the Prince’s Ward Strategy published
today (ed. see story below), does not offer much to the area. The sale of
the entire Beaufoy site and a long uncertain future of temporary use for the
Lilian Baylis old school site do not add up to an exciting strategic vision.
It ignores entirely the impact of the Damien Hirst
development of restaurants, galleries and studios in Newport Street, which
will be a new Central London visitor attraction and has no proposals to
build on it.
Our proposals hinge on this important development and
show how by using the two key sites in Council ownership a new economy can
be created for Kennington and further enhance Lambeth’s visitor attraction
appeal along the river.
The Hirst proposal will trigger
Redevelopment of the railway arches in Newport
Street and in time will spill over into improving the Lambeth Walk
shopping parade.
We propose
1. The creation of another major visitor attraction
in the Beaufoy Institute – a National Museum for the arts and crafts
movement. Already several serious collectors have expressed strong
interest.
2. The opening up of the old school site to house,
managed workspace for craft related business, ground floor retail,
the Cinema Museum and related Arts Cinema, the SAZ sports academy
facilities, and use the main hall as a major arts venue, all within
a strongly supported business environment to maximise business
growth and linked by a through route to the Beaufoy site.
3. The creation of a new ‘studio’ academy school for
up to 200 students specialising in Craft, and creative industry
skills, business studies and core curriculum. Set in an environment
of businesses offering work skills placement and apprenticeship, to
the students and local community.
In effect creating a new long-term economic engine for
the area and enabling the Council to make a strong new proposal for its LEGI
bid later this year.
We are proposing that the Council create a new
organisation out of the Beaufoy Institute Trust in which it can invest these
two sites and which can be the driver of the process, able to draw in a
wider range of partners and investment than currently available to the
Council. This approach fits centrally with the Council’s desire to move to
being a strategic body with strong local partners and fits within the
government’s policy of using assets more dynamically in a community
framework.
The proposal has been prepared at the request of KOV
following a public meeting last year and published by Lady Margaret Hall
Settlement. It will be presented to the next KOV meeting for discussion.
COUNCIL MOVES TO DECISIONS ON
LILIAN BAYLIS, BEAUFOY AND OTHER SITES
Lambeth Council’s Cabinet Committee on Thursday 15 March
is considering the future of the former Lilian Baylis School, Beaufoy
Institute and other sites in a paper ‘Prince’s Ward Investment Strategy’. It
will then be considered by the North Lambeth Area Committee on 21 March.
Lilia Baylis Proposals: part community use for health,
sports and recreation, relocation of Ethelred Nursery and Children Centre,
young people’s provision, decant for Charles Edward Brooke School to support
implementation of Lambeth’s Building School for the Future 2009-2013, sale
of part of site for housing.
Beaufoy Institute and land proposals: sale of whole site
on open market with buyers having to demonstrate their proposals meet the
Institute covenant, and address local housing needs .
Lollard St Adventure Playground and Ethelred Youth Club.
Re-provision of facilities to meet modern day needs on the former Lilian
Baylis site.
Consultation. Para 2.8 states: ‘The above recommendations
are indirect response to consultation and research of community needs.’ The
consultation schedule lists Council officers and Councillors. A Community
Reference Group is to be established led by Ward Councillors ‘with the key
intention that the local community are positively involved and fairly
represented’. (para 2.12)
Healthy Living Centre. Investigation under way at
potential to relocate resources form Stockwell YMCA Healthy Living Centre.
Key Dates: March: start of design, financial and risk
assessments. April: community safety tests in designs, formation of
Community Reference Group, exploration of sustainable management models for
site and service provisions. May: completion of financial assessment,
completion of recommendation options fort sites’ redevelopment/disposal.
June complete site and service management options; identify delivery models
for next stage of works. July proposals to Cabinet for decision.
Preliminary Comment (by Sean Creighton): It appears that the proposals
mean that:
· the temporary use by
Charles Brooke School will prevent a comprehensive redevelopment
strategy for the Lilian Baylis site being acted upon with speed;
leaving continuing uncertainty for several years
· that additional sites
(Adventure Playground, Ethelred Youth Club and Ethelred
Nursery/Children’s Centre) would become available for
redevelopment
The paper does not address other asset investment issues
such as:
· the future of 100
Vauxhall Walk and Vauxhall Gdns Community Centre – which appears
to be in limbo again
· the regeneration
strategy for the Council owned shopping parades at Lambeth Walk
and Vauxhall St/Jonathan St
The paper can be seen on the Cabinet page of the
Committee Minutes. Reports and Agenda page through the Community & Democracy
section of the Council website:
www.lambeth.gov.uk.
VAUXHALL TO BE KEY AREA IN REVISED
COUNCIL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STARTEGY
The Vauxhall part of Prince’s Ward is to be a key area in
the Council’s revised Economic Development Strategy being considered by the
Cabinet on Thursday 15 March. The paper ‘Lambeth Economic Development
Strategy 2004-2008 Revision’ seeks among others things to ‘tackle decline in
Brixton, exploit growth in Clapham, Vauxhall and Waterloo to reflect growth
opportunities’. The strategic aims are: growth in enterprise, growth in
employability, opportunity through diversity. The second strategic aim
includes ‘working with planners to ensure that planning policy in new
development growth areas i.e. Waterloo, Vauxhall and Brixton reflect
sectoral growth areas i.e. finance and business, service and creative and
cultural industries’.
The third strategic aim includes ‘providing enterprise
support services, to sustain investment into local community and voluntary
organisations’. The paper can be seen on the Cabinet page of the Committee
Minutes. Reports and Agenda page through the Community & Democracy section
of the Council website:
www.lambeth.gov.uk.
OPERATION FRESHVIEW IN PRINCE’S WARD – 13 MARCH
Liz
Cloud, Senior Market Research and Consultation Officer, Environment, Culture
and Community Safety (Lambeth Council) has sent round the following
information about this coming Tuesday’s Operation Freshview in Prince’s
Ward.
Operation Freshview last came to Princes ward in October last year where the
council and its partner organisations worked on cleaning up the area. In the
course of the day, the following actions were taken:
Ten on the spot
littering fines
One arrest for possession of controlled drugs with
intent to supply
Old School site cleaned and renovated up by the youth
offender volunteers
Twelve shops inspected
Two unregistered food premises inspected, resulting in
twelve contraventions being found
Sixteen dangerous structures follow-up inspections and
thirty temporary structures inspected by Building Control.
One hundred twenty four syringes picked up from public
areas in the ward,
One hundred and thirty six square meters of Graffiti
painted
Four hundred and seventy four square
meters of flyposts removed
We would really like your feedback on where to focus our
efforts this time round. Please see enclosed map for the area to be covered.
If you have time to return the email and answer the
following questions, we would be very grateful. Please also come and see us
on the day on Lambeth Walk (between Black Prince Road and Lollard Street).
between 8am and 4pm. We will be giving out ‘stubbie’ pouches for collecting
cigarette butts as well as information about our different services. We will
also be collecting any bulky items of rubbish left out for collection in
front of dwellings as well as carrying out several other cleaning, tidying
and improvement activities.
Are there any particular areas where rubbish or abandoned
cars have built up that you think need removing? (Please state whether this
is on an estate or a public area)
Are there any premises where you think that Trading
Standards or Environmental Health Officers should investigate (Trading
Standards enforce a wide range of laws, including product safety, weights
and measures, food labelling, credit, product counterfeiting and fair
trading.)
Are there any areas of parking related problems that Parking Attendants
should look into?
Are there any areas where there is graffiti or fly posting that needs
removing?
Are there any areas where you have noticed anti-social behaviour which
needs tackling?
Finally, do you or anyone you know want a free home fire safety visit
from the London Fire Brigade? This could involve them fitting a free smoke
alarm if needed. Please call the Fire Service on 08000 28 24 28 to arrange a
visit or respond to this email’
‘We may not be able to action all your ideas on Tuesday but we will make
a note of your issues and include them in the Capital Cleanup campaign which
has been instigated by the Mayor. See http://www.capitalcleanup.co.uk/ for
further details.
All your personal details will be kept private and confidential and will
not be used for any other purpose than identifying issues in your local
area.’
Liz Cloud can be contacted on: 020 7926 0145,
fax: 020 7926 2486, e-mail: lcloud@lambeth.gov.uk
website: http://www.lambeth.gov.uk
FOUNDERS PLACE DEVELOPMENT APPEAL
Sarah O’Connell (local resident) writes :
The developers behind an application, Founders Place,
to build on the land to the north of Archbishops Park have appealed against
Lambeth's refusal of their planning application, The Secretary of State,
Ruth Kelly will now make a decision on the basis of advice from her Planning
Inspector, and following a public inquiry due to start on 19 April and which
will last around three weeks. Much of the local concern has focussed on the
impact the development will have on the Lambeth Palace Conservation area.
Buildings and trees within the development site will be removed, including
the former Holy Trinity School building to the north of Archbishops Park.
Instead five storeys of private flats will face directly into the foliage of
trees in Archbishops Park to the extent that a regular cycle of pruning will
be required. The main concern is that the design of the buildings, with the
main living room windows facing directly south into the trees,
will cause new residents to seek pressure to have the trees pruned back
further or even felled, so that they can enjoy sunlight and park views.
There is no objection to development per se on this site, but a belief
that proposals should be in accordance with Lambeth's planning and
conservation policies, and not impact adversely on the park
If Lambeth lose this appeal, they may, as they did when
they lost the appeal for a 40+ storey building by Vauxhall Bridge, have to
pay the developers costs. So there are important issues, not only in the
context of the Lambeth Palace Conservation area, but possibly in terms of
Lambeth's future willingness to defend its conservation and green space
policies robustly elsewhere in Kennington or indeed across the borough.
If you share this concern could you add your name to an online
petition at
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/rclens1/
In the first instance we will use this petition to
provide evidence of public concern about the impact of the development
proposals on the conservation area. The deadline is 18 March. However the
final decision will not be made until autumn, and so if you know of others
who may be interested please could you let them know.
As the petition will be submitted as evidence to a public
inquiry, we need to ask for your address. However if you are
reluctant to give a full address I would hope a shortened form would be
accepted.
We will also be collecting signatures on paper for those
who do not have access to email. If you would like to sign or are willing to
collect signatures - say if you plan to attend an event with people who are
likely to be supportive - if you would be interested in attending a day or
two of the inquiry or if you would like further details, please contact
me at
sarah@fergalh.fsnet.co.uk or
07951 587 870. .
COMMUNITIES FIRST CONFERENCE FRIDAY 23 MARCH
Communities First is the new approach of Lambeth Council
to community involvement and engagement. A Conference is being held by
Lambeth Council with the support of Lambeth First and Lambeth Voluntary
Action Council, to enable the community and voluntary sector to discuss what
it means and how they can get involved. Conference Centre, Oval Cricket
Ground, Kennington SE11 at 2 - 5pm on Friday 25 March. If you want to go
please contact Andrew Fernandez at Lambeth Voluntary Action Council on 020
7737 9462. email:
icm@lvac.org.uk
by 16 March.
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS: 4-10 March
289-299 Kennington Lane. Approval of details pursuant to
Condition 5 (Sustainable drainage) of Planning Permission 06/02732/FUL
(Demolition of existing buildings and erection of a 3 storey warehouse
building with 2 storey basement and 3 internal demountable mezzanine floors
for self storage use (Use Class B8) and 'flexi offices' (Use Class B1),
together with 9 car parking spaces, cycle stands, boundary treatment,
landscaping, lighting and a cctv camera (Amended description), granted on
22/12/2006. Applicant Big Yellow Self Storage Co. Ref: 07/00907/DET. Is this
the former Vauxhall Car dealer’s showroom?
63 Palfrey Place. Demolition of existing two-storey
building and the erection of a two-storey plus non-habitable celler,
3-bedroom single-family dwelling house (Amendment to planning permission
06/02237/FUL with respect to the omission of habitable basement and
alterations to elevations). Ref: 07/00803/FUL
36 Cleaver Street. External and internal alterations
including replacement of existing kitchen with a bathroom at basement level,
erection of a side extension with the creation of a courtyard and
installation of a window to existing wc at garden floor level, installation
of fitted cupboards to 1st floor and alterations to stairs, removal of
internal wall, installation of fitted cupboards and installation of a new
bathroom at 2nd floor level (Town Planning and Listed Building
Applications). Ref: 07/00796/FUL
321-323 Kennington Road. Change of use of two adjoining
units from a launderette (Use Class sui generis) and B1 use class
respectively, to a dry-cleaning and laundry service with delivery and
collection of items (Use Class sui generis). Ref: 07/00786/FUL
19 Claylands Rd. Erection of ground floor rear extension,
replacement of existing kitchen window with french doors, removal of
existing first floor rear conservatory and erection of first floor rear
extension and raising of part of existing rear roof. Ref: 07/00698/FUL
Further details and for the ability to comment on applications go to:
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcApplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx
SCHOOL NEWS AND EXTENDED SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Spring Half Term Play scheme for primary children: 5-18
April (excluding bank holidays) at Archbishop Sumner School, Reedworth
Street. Core day: 10am to 4pm ONLY £5. Extended day: 8 am
-10am £2; 4pm – 6pm £2. (Only available when booking core day). Children
must be resident in Lambeth or NHS employees of St. Thomas’ hospital. Book
direct with Schoolfriend on 0870 442 2287 or show up on day for available
places. Or for any queries/forms speak with Babs Wright on 0795 192 1655
SLAVERY & ABOLITION 2007
March sees the 200th Anniversary of the Act of Parliament
banning British ships from involvement in the slave trade. Although a year
later the United States also made it illegal for American ships to be
involved, the British Navy’s anti-slavery patrol off West Africa intercepted
illegal American slave trading ships often flying flags of other countries.
It was not until 1834 that Parliament passed the Act emancipating the slaves
in British colonies. However an apprenticehsip scheme was introduced, to be
ended in 1838 following abuses. Parliament also compensated the slave owners
with £20m. This year sees an enormous number of projects around the theme of
slavery and abolition, plus ongoing forms of slavery today.
Ellen Craft: MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC: An African Odyssey
Oval House Theatre’s contribution is about Ellen Craft,
who with her husband William, was a popular black American abolitionist
campainer when they visited Britain. The play MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC: An
African Odyssey by Mojisola Adebayo, directed by Sheron Wray, is a piece
‘inspired by the wonderful true life story of Ellen Craft, a 19th century
African-American slave woman who escaped to freedom by disguising herself as
a white man. Ellen’s amazing story of race and gender cross-dressing is one
of the forgotten gem’s of Black history, and the history of drag! Moj of the
Antarctic extends Ellen’s amazing biography into a flight of theatrical
fantasy where upon arrival in Victorian London, she finds work as a sailor
on a whaling ship bound for the Southern Seas. Life on the ship is tough and
even stranger is the men’s obsession with Black face minstrelsy. Eventually
the ship arrives in Antarctic waters ripe for gruesome whaling, and Moj
becomes the first Black woman to step foot Antarctica. This innovative total
theatre piece incorporates video, text, dance, music, storytelling, song and
stunning original photography created for the piece on location in
Antarctica by …. visual artist Del LaGrace Volcano. Moj of the Antarctic is
not only an allegorical historical show; it is an important ecological
creative exploration. The performance highlights important connections
between Antarctica, global warming, rising sea-levels, desertification,
drought, famine and the coastal erosion of historical slave sites in
Africa.’ Wednesday 7 - Saturday 24 March at Oval House Theatre, 52-54
Kennington Oval. Box Office: 020 7582 7680.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Free Post-show discussions on Wednesday 9, Tuesday 13 and Tuesday 20 March.
Details about Ellen and William Craft can be seen on the New Georgia
Encyclopedia website: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-622
MARCH DIARY
| Sunday 18 |
Friends of Kennington Park
Gardening Club Spring Clean. Flower Garden,
Kennington Park |
2-4pm |
| Sunday 18 |
Roots and Shoots Annual
Spring Fair. 'Sounds of Spring'. A celebration of the
Sounds of Spring recorded by the children at Walnut Tree Walk School
and Ethelred Nursery with the help of local musicians and artists.
Includes exhibition and sound installation in the Wildlife Gdn,
storytelling shirt drama pieces with R&S trainees and a theatre
group, organic fruit and veg, bakeries, local crafts, ,etc. Adults
£1. Children free. Walnut Tree Walk entrance. |
11am-4pm |
| Sunday 18 |
Deadline for comments on
Council’s Draft Conservation Area on Renfrew St. See
26 February ENews listing on www.rcdt.org.uk |
|
| Monday 19 |
Mountaineering - Tunbridge
Wells to the Andes. Back by popular request, local
expert Ian Smith gives an illustrated
tour of 30 years of rock-climbing and mountaineering – Kent to
Kyrgystan, Jordan to the Alps to South America, taking in
sandstone outcrops, sea cliffs, desert rocks, snowy peaks and
more... At Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane. Friends
of the Durning Library. Free entry. Drinks & nibbles. Suggested
donation £2. |
6.45-7.15pm |
| Wednesday 21 |
North Lambeth Area Committee.
Pedlar's Acre Community Centre, 1 Opal St (behind North Lambeth
Housing Office at 91 Kennington Lane). Agenda: Library Service -
Fundamental Review; Youth Service in North Lambeth - an overview;
Prince's Ward Investment Strategy; Crime update; Recycling Service
developments. Deadline for Public Notice Questions: 5.00 pm on 6
March to Democratic Services..Diarmid Swainson. E:
dswainson@lambeth.gov.uk.
Room 113, Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, SW2. See also ‘Council moves to decisions on Lilian
Baylis, Beaufoy and other sites’ story above. |
7.30pm |
| Wednesday 21 – Saturday 24 |
‘RAGGED CHILD’ WITH THE INNER
CITY PLAYERS. Adults £6, concessions £3. Several
children from Archbishop Sumner Primary School Years 3, 4, 5 and 6
are in the play, as well as some staff. It’s set in the Victorian
era but has much relevance for today. Lots of good catchy songs and
dancing and a powerful story!! Lambeth Mission, 3/5 Lambeth Rd. |
7.30pm |
| Saturday 24 |
Closing Date for Applications
for Director of Vauxhall City Farm. See 26 February
Enews edition on
www.rcdt.org.uk
for details. |
|
| Saturday 24 |
‘RAGGED CHILD’ WITH THE INNER
CITY PLAYERS – see above |
2.30pm |
| Saturday 24 |
Last Chance to see Moj of the
Antarctic: An African Odyssey. Play Oval House
Theatre. See Slavery & Abolition 2007 story above |
3pm & 7.45pm |
| Sunday 25 |
Last chance to see
Metropolitan. First solo photographic exhibition by Anup Mathew
Thomas at Gasworks gallery – see Art Galleries &
Exhibitions section below. |
|
ART GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
| Dates |
Gallery |
Exhibition |
Times |
| Everyday |
Museum of Garden History
Lambeth Palace Rd
020 7401 8865
www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh
Open every day. Closed Saturday 23 December to Monday 1 January
(inclusive) |
Permanent Garden History &
Local History Displays |
10.30am-5pm |
| Thursdays – Sundays 15 March –
29 April |
Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
Tel: 020 7582 6465 info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk |
Hibernator: Prince of the
Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks
An ambitious new exhibition project by London Fieldworks,
commissioned by Beaconsfield. Working with the legacy and personal
myth of Walt Disney, the commission embraces the latest developments
in animatronics, primal hibernation patterns and the practice of
cryonics in its exploration of fantasy and death.
Free entry |
12-6pm |
| Tuesdays – Saturdays to7 April |
Corvi-Mora
1a Kempsford Road
020 7840 9111
www.corvi-mora.com |
LIAM GILLICK
‘The Commune Itself Becomes A Super State’ |
11am-6pm |
| Fridays – Saturdays to 15 April |
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road
020 7735 8292
danielle@daniellearnaud.com
www.daniellearnaud.com |
Annie Whiles – CUCKOO.
Line drawings of furniture and artifact.
|
6-9pm |
| Tuesdays to Saturdays to 25
March |
Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street,
020 7582 6848.
press@gasworks.org.uk
www.gasworks.org.uk |
Metropolitan. First solo
photographic exhibition by Anup Mathew Thomas
examining the rule-makers, law enforcers and bastions of
ethics and morality within society through a series of fourteen
individual portraits of the heads of Episcopalian churches from
Kerala. The exhibition also includes a digital slide show Light
Life depicting the empty interiors of Mumbai ‘ladies bars’ where
men go to watch women dancing, which was closed by the authorities
alleging that they encouraged crime and prostitution. Light Life
questions this decision as many ex-dancers were obliged to seek the
very employment the censure sought to discourage. |
6.30-9pm |
| Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays
from 16 March to 8 April |
Man&Eve,131 Kennington Park Rd.
020 7582 7861.
info@manandeve.co.uk.
www.manandeve.co.uk |
Eames Demetriois. Reflections
in the Umbrasphere. Guided tour of Kyamerican-Era
sites in London |
12-6pm |
| Tuesdays – Saturdays 6 – 31
March |
Oval House Theatre Café/Gallery,
52-54 Kennington Oval. Box Office: 020 7582 7680.
www.ovalhouse.com |
PUNKTURE-2.
Think/tank exhibition of new abstract paintings on
canvas, paper, board and drum skins by Philip Barker, aka
philphuture: artist, composer and anarcho-punk
drummer (Lack of Knowledge, The Stratford Mercenaries, Buzzcocks).
This invigorating and energetic exhibition demonstrates a
sumptuous use of colour and texture, inspired by punk ideology,
football fanaticism and a gritty urban-London upbringing.
Exhibition includes ‘scratch’ action-painting video by Roy
Wallace, maverick Belfast filmmaker, whose latest DVD is a
companion to the ‘The Day the Country Died’ , a book by Ian
Glasper all about the anarcho punk scene in ‘80s Britain, published
by Cherry Red 2006. ADMISSION FREE: includes a complimentary copy
of PUNKTURE-1, limited edition think/tank CD
(subject to availability) |
3-10pm |
RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 2 MARCH 2007
From Riverside Community Development Trust, 20 Newburn
St, SE11 5PJ. 020 7820 0555.
info@rcdt.org.
www.rcdt.org
For standard information in past issues see the 16
February listing on: http://www.rcdt.org/newslinks.htm
These are under the headings:
Lambeth Voluntary Sector
News; School News and Extended Services Activities; Community/Policing News;
Business, Employment & Jobs; Councillors’ Surgeries; Regular Activities;
Faith Groups; Local Area Websites; Useful Local Contacts; Events Elsewhere
in Lambeth; Papers Available on Request.
|
THIS SATURDAY 3 MARCH |
| Last chance to see
Pierpaolo Campanini – exhibition at
Corvi-Mora Gallery
1a Kempsford Road. 020 7840 9111.
www.corvi-mora.com.
11am-6pm |
| Last chance to see
Layout. by So-Ha Au exhbition at
Oval Theatre Café
Gallery, Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval.
www.ovalhouse.com |
|
THIS COMING WEEK 5-10 MARCH |
| Monday 5. Friends of
Kennington Park Public Meeting. St
Agnes Church Hall, St Agnes Place. FoKP, Prince Consort
Lodge, Kennington Park, Kennington Park Place, SE11 4AS; Tel: 020
7820 4423. Email:
friendsofkenningtonpark@treesforcities.org;
www.fkop.co.uk |
| Tuesday 6. Start of PUNKTURE-2.
Think/tank exhibition of new abstract paintings on canvas,
paper, board and drum skins by Philip Barker, aka
philphuture:at Oval House Theatre Café/Gallery. See Art
Galleries & Exhibitions section below. |
| Tuesday 6. 6pm. Keepin’ it Real…
Lambeth Youth telling it how it is…. See Community/Policing
News section below. |
| Wednesday 7 March. Start of MOJ
OF THE ANTARCTIC: An African Odyssey, a play about the
black American escaped slave Ellen Craft at Oval House Theatre. See
Slavery & Abolition 2007 section below. |
| Thursday 8. Deadline for Public
Notice Questions to North Lambeth Area Committee meeting on 21 March
see March Diary below |
| All Week: International
Women’s Day Events – week 5 march see
:
www.lambeth.gov.uk/arts.
|
LOCAL NEWS
Din Associates. Din Associates, the local architects’
practice based in St Oswald’s P{lace closed at the end of February due to
the retirement of the senior partner. DA was a local business member of
RCDT.
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS: 25
February - 3 March: None
COMMUNITY/POLICING NEWS
Keepin’ it Real… Lambeth Youth telling
it how it is… Community-Police Consultative Group for Lambeth, Tuesday, 6
March (Assembly Hall, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton). The best part of the
meeting will be given over to Lambeth Youth to speak about the reality, for
them, of living, working, studying and playing in the borough: Crime… Fear
of Crime…Youth Provision…Education… Jobs… Environment… Health…Flyers for the
meeting have been distributed and contact made with youth groups and
organisations to try to attract the broadest viewpoints on the various
quality of life issues that affect the lives of Lambeth’s young people.
Please try to attend - to both listen and contribute to the event.
Furthermore, if you know a young person, whether it be a relative or
neighbour, invite them along… they may have something to say, or hear
something they would wish to support, but never knew they had the
opportunity. CPCG for Lambeth -Your Shout in local policing
admin@lambethcpcg.org.uk
020 7733 0878.
www.lambethcpcg.org.uk
for details of future events and information resources.
LAMBETH COUNCIL NEWS
Council Sets Budget with Emphasis on
Young People and Community Safety. The Council states: ‘Lambeth Council is
to make major investments in youth provision and community safety next year,
after agreeing its 2007/8 budget and council tax rate on Wednesday 28
February. The council agreed that Lambeth's part of the council tax would
increase by 4.99%, and with an increase of 5.3% from the Greater London
Authority, this means that the Lambeth Council tax rate will increase by
5.07% overall..……. This year’s budget includes the biggest investment in
youth provision in the borough’s history with an extra £1.7m being invested
in services for young people by 2009.’ The full story is on the Lambeth
Council website:
www.lambeth.gov.uk/News/CouncilTax2007.htm
CROSS RIVER TRAM NEWS
Oval Ward Councillor Rob Banks has
circulated the following news of the London Assembly Transport
Committee's views on the Cross River Tram proposal, as he was ‘aware this
was mentioned at the KOV meeting this week but nobody was certain about what
had actually been proposed by the Committee.’ The sections below come from a
letter from Geoff Pope, Chair, London Assembly Transport Committee dated 2
March.
Waterloo – Oval
2.7
The Committee supports Option 2 on this route, which runs down the
Kennington Road and past the Imperial War Museum. This would
increase tourist and visitor numbers, boosting the local economy.
This route would also serve St Thomas Hospital, providing easier
access for patients and visitors. The Committee would note that
Option 1 serves the Elephant and Castle, which is already served by
the Waterloo to Peckham route.
Oval to Brixton
2.8
The Committee supports Option 2. Both options on this route would
benefit from transport priority measures and the regenerative
effects the tram would bring. Option 1, via Stockwell, would best
relieve congestion on the Northern Line and assist in regeneration
of the Stockwell Park Estate. However, extensive traffic management
measures would be required, particularly at congested junctions, to
allow the tram to run down Stockwell Road.
2.9
Option 2 is a more direct route and would better serve the poorest
areas in Lambeth, including Myatt’s Fields.
Brixton Town Centre
2.10
The Committee supports Option 1, via Brixton Hill and Effra Road on
this route. Although Option 2 offers an interchange with the
overground station, the Committee believes it does not offer as many
regenerative possibilities. Option 1 would take the tram to the
centre of Brixton, serving an area to be redeveloped as Brixton
Central Square. Furthermore, this option allows the possibility of
the tram being extended down to Streatham, which would relieve the
pressure on the bus and tube interchange, providing better public
transport for a badly underserved area.
2.11 The
Committee would however like to see the possibility of terminating at
Brixton tube station investigated.
Potential extensions
1.6
The Cross River Tram provides many interchange points, and will assist in
the integration of London’s public transport. We would also like TfL to
ensure that the tram is capable of being extended north to the Holloway Road
and the Arsenal Emirates Stadium, and south to Streatham and New Cross.
Furthermore, provision should be made to enable the CRT to link at Holborn
with the proposed Oxford Street Tram.
SCHOOL NEWS AND EXTENDED SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Spring Half Term Play scheme for primary children: 5-18
April (excluding bank holidays) at Archbishop Sumner School, Reedworth
Street. Core day: 10am to 4pm ONLY £5. Extended day: 8 am
-10am £2; 4pm – 6pm £2. (Only available when booking core day). Children
must be resident in Lambeth or NHS employees of St. Thomas’ hospital. Book
direct with Schoolfriend on 0870 442 2287 or show up on day for available
places. Or for any queries/forms speak with Babs Wright on 0795 192 1655
SLAVERY & ABOLITION 2007
March sees the 200th
Anniversary of the Act of Parliament banning British ships form invoplvement
in the slave trade. Although a year later the United States also made it
illegal for American ships to be involved, the British Navy’s anti-slavery
patrol off West Africa intercepted illegal Americna slave trading ships
often flying flags of other countries. It was not until 1834 that Parliament
passed the Act emancipating the slaves in British colonies. However an
apprenticehsip scheme was introduced, to be ended in 1838 following abuses.
Parliament also compesnated the slave owners with £20m. This year sees an
enormous number of projects arouind the them of slavery and abolition, plus
ongoing forms of slavery today.
Ellen Craft: MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC: An
African Odyssey
Oval House Theatre’s contribution is
about Ellen Craft, who with her husband William, was a popular black
American abolitionist campainer when they visited Britain. The play MOJ OF
THE ANTARCTIC: An African Odyssey by Mojisola Adebayo, directed by Sheron
Wray, is a piece ‘inspired by the wonderful true life story of Ellen Craft,
a 19th century African-American slave woman who escaped to freedom by
disguising herself as a white man. Ellen’s amazing story of race and gender
cross-dressing is one of the forgotten gem’s of Black history, and the
history of drag! Moj of the Antarctic extends Ellen’s amazing biography into
a flight of theatrical fantasy where upon arrival in Victorian London, she
finds work as a sailor on a whaling ship bound for the Southern Seas. Life
on the ship is tough and even stranger is the men’s obsession with Black
face minstrelsy. Eventually the ship arrives in Antarctic waters ripe for
gruesome whaling, and Moj becomes the first Black woman to step foot
Antarctica. This innovative total theatre piece incorporates video, text,
dance, music, storytelling, song and stunning original photography created
for the piece on location in Antarctica by …. visual artist Del LaGrace
Volcano. Moj of the Antarctic is not only an allegorical historical show; it
is an important ecological creative exploration. The performance highlights
important connections between Antarctica, global warming, rising sea-levels,
desertification, drought, famine and the coastal erosion of historical slave
sites in Africa.’ Wednesday 7 - Saturday 24 March at Oval House Theatre,
52-54 Kennington Oval. Box Office: 020 7582 7680.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Free Post-show discussions on Wednesday 9, Tuesday 13 and Tuesday 20 March.
Details about Ellen and William Craft
can be seen on the New Georgia Encyclopedia website:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-622
MARCH DIARY
| Tuesday 13
|
Operation
Freshview in Prince’s Ward.
Operation Freshview is an opportunity
for a range of agencies to work together, to deliver initiatives
that improve the local environment, promote community safety and
reduce the fear of crime, and improve the quality of life for a
significant number of Lambeth residents. The Operation
educates residents about their local services and also allows them
to voice their own opinions. The name Freshview has been chosen as
it encompasses our fresh approach to delivering services in
partnership as well as encouraging residents and businesses to take
a fresh view of their area. A wide range of activities are covered
on the day, for example:
Graffiti Removal, Bulky
waste items removed, Abandoned and untaxed vehicle removal, Hedges
cut back, Street lighting repairs, etc. For more information, or
wish to get involved, please contact the Streetcare Service Centre
on 020 7926 9000 or email -
freshview@lambeth.gov.uk |
|
| Wednesday 14 |
Preview of
Hibernator: Prince of the Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks.
Exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery. See Art Galleries
& Exhibitions section below. |
6-9pm |
| Thursday 15 |
Start of Preview
of Hibernator: Prince of the Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks.
Exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery. See Art Galleries
& Exhibitions section below. |
6-9pm |
| Sunday 18 |
Friends of
Kennington Park Gardening Club Spring Clean. Flower
Garden, Kennington Park |
2-4pm |
| Sunday 18 |
Roots and Shoots
Annual Spring Fair. 'Sounds of Spring'. A celebration
of the Sounds of Spring recorded by the children at Walnut Tree Walk
School and Ethelred Nursery with the help of local musicians and
artists. Includes exhibition and sound installation in the Wildlife
Gdn, storytelling shirt drama pieces with R&S trainees and a theatre
group, organic fruit and veg, bakeries, local crafts, ,etc. Adults
£1. Children free. Walnut Tree Walk entrance. |
11am-4pm |
| Monday 19
|
Mountaineering -
Tunbridge Wells to the Andes. Back by popular
request, local expert Ian Smith gives an illustrated
tour of 30 years of rock-climbing and mountaineering – Kent to
Kyrgystan, Jordan to the Alps to South America, taking in
sandstone outcrops, sea cliffs, desert rocks, snowy peaks and
more... At Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane. Friends
of the Durning Library. Free entry. Drinks & nibbles. Suggested
donation £2. |
6.45-7.15pm |
| Wednesday 21 March |
North
Lambeth Area Committee.
Pedlar's Acre Community Centre, 1 Opal St (behind North Lambeth
Housing Office at 91 Kennington Lane). Agenda: Library Service -
Fundamental Review; Youth Service in North Lambeth - an overview;
Prince's Ward Investment Strategy; Crime update; Recycling Service
developments. Deadline for Public Notice Questions: 5.00 pm on 6
March to Democratic Services..Diarmid Swainson. E:
dswainson@lambeth.gov.uk.
Room 113, Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, SW2 |
7.30pm |
| Sunday 25 March |
Last chance to
see Metropolitan. First solo photographic exhibition by Anup Mathew
Thomas at Gasworks gallery – see Art Galleries &
Exhibitions section below. |
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ART GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
| Dates |
Gallery |
Exhibition |
Times
|
| Everyday |
Museum of
Garden History Lambeth Palace Rd
020 7401 8865
www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh
Open every day. Closed Saturday 23 December to Monday 1 January
(inclusive) |
Permanent Garden
History & Local History Displays |
10.30am-5pm |
| Thursdays – Sundays
15 March – 29 April |
Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
Tel: 020 7582 6465
info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk |
Hibernator:
Prince of the Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks
An ambitious new exhibition project by London Fieldworks,
commissioned by Beaconsfield. Working with the legacy and personal
myth of Walt Disney, the commission embraces the latest developments
in animatronics, primal hibernation patterns and the practice of
cryonics in its exploration of fantasy and death.
Free entry |
12-6pm |
| Tuesdays to
Saturdays to 25 March |
Gasworks, 155
Vauxhall Street, SE11
020 7582 6848.
press@gasworks.org.uk
www.gasworks.org.uk |
Metropolitan.
First solo photographic exhibition by Anup Mathew Thomas
examining the rule-makers, law enforcers and bastions of
ethics and morality within society through a series of fourteen
individual portraits of the heads of Episcopalian churches from
Kerala. The exhibition also includes a digital slide show Light
Life depicting the empty interiors of Mumbai ‘ladies bars’ where
men go to watch women dancing, which was closed by the authorities
alleging that they encouraged crime and prostitution. Light Life
questions this decision as many ex-dancers were obliged to seek the
very employment the censure sought to discourage. |
6.30-9pm |
| Tuesdays –
Saturdays 6 – 31 March |
Oval House
Theatre Café/Gallery,
52-54 Kennington Oval. Box Office: 020 7582 7680.
www.ovalhouse.com |
PUNKTURE-2.
Think/tank exhibition of new abstract paintings on canvas, paper,
board and drum skins by Philip Barker, aka philphuture:
artist, composer and anarcho-punk drummer (Lack of Knowledge,
The Stratford Mercenaries, Buzzcocks).
This invigorating and energetic exhibition
demonstrates a sumptuous use of colour and texture, inspired by punk
ideology, football fanaticism and a gritty urban-London upbringing.
Exhibition includes ‘scratch’ action-painting
video by Roy Wallace, maverick Belfast filmmaker, whose
latest DVD is a companion to the ‘The Day the Country Died’ ,
a book by Ian Glasper all about the anarcho punk scene in ‘80s
Britain, published by Cherry Red 2006. ADMISSION FREE: includes a
complimentary copy of PUNKTURE-1, limited edition think/tank CD
(subject to availability) |
3-10pm |
RCDT LOCAL EVENTS INFORMATION & NEWS LISTING – 26
February 2007
From Riverside Community
Development Trust, 20 Newburn St, SE11 5PJ. 020 7820 0555.
info@rcdt.org.
www.rcdt.org
THE ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING
One off change of format. New items
listed. For March Diary etc. see the 16 February listing on:
News and Links
110TH
ANNIVERSARY OF LADY MARGARET HALL SETTLEMENT
Tuesday 27 February, sees the 110th
Anniversary of Lady Margaret Hall Settlement working in Lambeth, and
particularly in the Kennington & Vauxhall area. Details of the launch of its
Kennington Quarter initiative will be publicised over the next two weeks.
|
THIS WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY |
| 7pm. Lambeth Council Meeting. Town Hall.
Acre Lane, SW2. For agenda papers see:
www.lambeth.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.asp?CId=142&MId=265&Ver=4&J=5 |
| A Short History of Tractors in
Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. Friends
of Durning Library Reading Group discussion in an informal
atmosphere. Refreshments will be provided. For further details,
please contact Michael Townsey at the library, Tel: 020 7926 0717.
Free entry; suggested donation £1.50 |
NEWS
Vauxhall City Farm Seeks New Director.
The Farm is seeking a new full-time Director following the amazing rescue
work undertaken by John Roberts as interim part-time Director. The Farm
began as Jubilee City Farm in 1977 on two thirds of an acre of derelict
land. The site was planned by local people and continues to rely on
volunteers and donations to keep running. Entrance is free and the farm has
become a thriving community project providing a green oasis for people of
all ages and backgrounds living in the heart of inner city London. Vauxhall
City Farm is the only city farm in central London that provides contact with
animals for people who live in a highly urban environment. But are you
what we are looking for? We don’t want a good director we want an
exceptionally talented director who doesn’t mind mucking out (literally)
when the going gets tough. We want someone who like us has vision to see
beyond, not where we are now but where we want to be. We expect someone to
have great interpersonal and leadership skills. Who can motivate and inspire
others towards our shared vision for the future sustainability of the farm
and all its projects. If this you? Then in return you will receive a
salary of 31-33k plus 10% performance related pay. A dedicated management
committee committed to supporting you and the staff team. Weekly support
from the management committee and monthly supervision from the chair. A
training budget and oodles of lunch time breaks listening to the sounds of
animals and not traffic oh and air conditioned offices (that is actually
real air). If so, for an information and application pack send an A4 SAE
addressed to the directors post, Vauxhall City Farm, 165 Tyers Street,
London SE11 5HS or email
vcf@btconnect.com.
With the “directors post” as the title or pop in anytime from 1030-4pm
Wednesday to Sunday. Please note the closing date for applications is 24th
March 2007. Interview date 31st March 2007
Morley students fight to save drama courses.
Read more at:
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/2564
Draft Conservation Area statement
consultation on Renfrew St. Lambeth Council
has prepared draft statements for the following Conservation Areas: Lower
Marsh, Mitre Road and Ufford Street, Renfrew Road, Roupell Street, South
Bank, and Waterloo. It would like to hear your views on the draft Statements
before they are finalised. The consultation period runs to 18 March 2007.
You can comment by email to
lambethplanning@lambeth.gov.uk or by writing
to: Planning Division, Phoenix House, 10 Wandsworth Road, London SE1 2LL.
The draft statements can be accessed on
www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/HousingPlanning/Planning/PlanningPolicy/DraftConservationAreaStatements.htm
Lambeth Adults’ and Community Services
consultation on proposed changes to the way it
decides on who is eligible for adult social care services and how it charges
for these services. This consultation runs up until 16 April 2007.For
further details see
www.lambeth.gov.uk .
Petition Against Social Services Cuts.
Lambeth Voluntary Sector's on-line petition against the Council’s proposed
cuts to Services for vulnerable people in Lambeth in case you want to sign
it:
http://lambethsos.org.uk/Petition
Annie Whiles – Cuckoo.
New Exhibition starts Friday 9 March at
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 123 Kennington Road. Fridays to Sundays to
15 April, 6-9pm. 020 7735 8292.
www.daniellearnaud.com .
Maths and English update for local
people. Thursdays 15, 22 & 26 March. 9.15-10.15am at Archbishop Sumner
School, Reedworth Street. Improve your skills and get a qualification.
Everything is free – you pay nothing! Have a go at a quiz… Friendly and
relaxed atmosphere…Practice on-line with tutor support…Flexible learning to
fit in with a busy life! Fast track route to a qualification…
To book call Babs Wright on 020 7735
2781 school times only.
Computer taster-course for local people. Tuesdays
starting 24 April – free at Archbishop Sumner Primary School, Reedworth
Street. Are you thinking about returning to work or study? Improve your
confidence and get a qualification. Then sign up for a 5-week taster course
at the school during the spring term! Friendly adult trainers will show you
how to use a computer for the internet and word processing. The course is 2
hours every Tuesday. 9:15 – 11:15am for 5 weeks. You can then continue for
FREE at King’s College! Places are limited, so please contact Babs Wright
(Tel 020 7735 2781) at Archbishop Sumner School. Places are given on a
first-come, first-served basis. Phone bookings recommended.
Spring Half Term Play scheme for
primary children: 5-18 April (excluding bank
holidays) at Archbishop Sumner School, Reedworth Street. Core day:
10am to 4pm ONLY £5. Extended day: 8 am -10am £2; 4pm – 6pm £2. (Only
available when booking core day). Children must be resident in Lambeth or
NHS employees of St. Thomas’ hospital. Book direct with Schoolfriend on 0870
442 2287 or show up on day for available places. Or for any queries/forms
speak with Babs Wright on 0795 192 1655
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS:18-24
February
10 Chester Way. Internal alterations
including removal of partition between kitchen and reception, relocation of
bathroom door opening, installation of new fireplace to reception room,
removal of existing cupboards and shelves to reception, replacement of door
and window fittings with brass fittings and installation of skirting boxing.
Listed Building Consent. 07/00604/LB
5 Harleyford Road. Demolition of the
existing rear extension and the erection of a part single and part three
storey rear extension, together with the formation of additional window
openings to front and side elevations, removal of existing advertisement
hoarding and erection of a new boundary wall to north east elevation.
06/04064/FUL
Further details and for the ability to
comment on applications go to:
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcApplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx
LAMBETH CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S DAY 2007
International Women’s Day is a
universally celebrated day that connects women around the world. The day
brings together women on all continents – often divided by national
boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political
differences to come together both to celebrate and to look back to a
tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality,
justice, peace and development. International Women’s Day 2007 represents a
real opportunity for us to celebrate women in Lambeth. This year, from 6th –
9th March 2007, there will be a series of events across the Borough. These
include:
Anne Ward from Lambeth Archives
gives a talk at Carnegie Library on Tuesday 6th March, from 7.30pm,
titled 'Educating Ethel: education of girls in Lambeth'. Lambeth
Archives will also have a web blog titled 'Celebrating the lives of
Lambeth Women' that will commemorate the contribution Lambeth women have
made to education, politics, World War II, sport and health. Free event.
‘Food for thought’ hosted by Clapham
Park Project and Lambeth Libraries at the
Threshold Centre, Helby Road (off King’s Avenue) on Thursday 8th March
from 5 – 7.30pm. Feel good, get pampered, with talks, poetry and music.
For more information contact Stephanie on 020 8678 5900. Free event.
You are invited to The North
Street Potters on Thursday 8th March at 6.00pm, have a glass of wine
or a cup of tea and create a ceramic mural to celebrate International
Women’s Day. All women welcome and no experience required! For more
information call 020 7622 0681. Free event.
Women in Film event at the Ritzy
Cinema on Thursday 8th March, from 10.30am
to 3pm. This event questions the scarcity of film material focusing on
and recognising the complexity of older women, their lives, concerns and
aspirations. The day will include a discussion panel of industry
professionals, including Tony Carr from Matcine, a presentation on the
history of women in film and a screening of the film Bread & Tulips
(2000), directed by
Silvio Soldini and starring
Licia Maglietta and
Bruno Ganz. Tickets:
£2.50 senior citizens / £5 everyone else. For tickets please visit the
Ritzy booking office or telephone: 08707 550 062.
International Women's Day Night at
the Dogstar on Thursday 8th March, from
8pm to 11pm. Pretty Petty Thieves will be hosting a celebratory evening
of Live Music, Poetry, spoken word and Live DJs, so come along for some
fun and informative discussions. Entry is £2.
A celebratory event at Brixton
Library on the evening of Friday 9th
March, from 7pm to 9pm, hosted by Councillor Lib Peck, with a women’s
choir from Accapella, singer songwriter Bianca Rose, 'The Stylinquents'
Bgirl group from Independance, Uzoamaka Okafor-Obi will be performing
her poems and speaker Sonia Brown from the National Black Womens
Network. Free event.
For information on all these events,
please contact Lambeth Arts on 020 7926 0760, email:
Artsweb@lambeth.gov.uk
or visit:
www.lambeth.gov.uk/arts.
These events are supported by: Lambeth Libraries, Archives and Arts, the
Brixton Town Centre, Norwood Town Centre, North Lambeth Town Centre, Clapham
and Stockwell Town Centre and Streatham Town Centre Offices and the Lambeth
Equalities and Diversities Unit.
RCDT LOCAL EVENTS INFORMATION &
NEWS LISTING – 16 February 2007
From Riverside Community
Development Trust, 20 Newburn St, SE11 5PJ. 020 7820 0555.
info@rcdt.org.
www.rcdt.org
THE ENEWS/EVENTS
LISTING
The next
listing will be Friday 23 February
TUESDAY IS
KENNINGTON, OVAL & VAUXHALL FORUM
YOUR KIDS BORED
THIS COMING WEEK?
SEE HALF-TERM
ACTIVITIES SECTION
NEW EVENTS ADDED
16 February . Little Sisters of the
Poor. Cheese and Wine Quiz Night see This Saturday section
19-23 February. Tennis Workshop at
Kennington Park. See Half-Term Activities – see February Diary
21 February. Older Persons Group,
Friends of Durning Library – Quadrille Dancing and gentle exercise – see
February Diary
28 February. A Short History of
Tractors in Ukranian – Friends of Durning Library Reading Group – see
February Diary
13 March. Operation Freshview in
Prince’s Ward – see March Diary
Wednesday 14/15 Preview and opening of
Hibenerator exhibition at Beaconsfield. See March Diary and Art Galleries &
Exhibition section
18 March. Roots & Shoots annual
science day - see March Diary
21 March. North Lambeth Area Committee
- see March Diary
CONTENTS
(Those in bold
have new information)
This Saturday,
Tuesday & Hal-Term Activities Sections
Local News:
Drones Jazz Jam –
Speaking of John Bunyan; Friends of Kennington Park; Kennington Parking
Permits.
Local Planning
Applications & News:
Council News:
Lambeth Confernece on Climate
Change, 27 February; Lambeth Civic Awards
Lambeth First
News:
Lambeth Voluntary
Sector News:
School News and
Extended Services Activities:
Health News:
Community
Policing News:
Business,
Employment & Jobs:
Ethelred TMP Seeks Repairs & Maintenance Contracts Manager
February Diary
March Diary
Councillors’
Surgeries
Regular
Activities
Faith Groups:
Arts Galleries
& Exhibitions:
Beaconsfield – Hibernator; Oval Theatre Café Gallery – Punkture -2
Local Area
Websites
Useful Local
Contacts
Events Elsewhere
in Lambeth
Papers
Available on Request
|
THIS
SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY
See
also Regular Activities on
www.rcdt.org & Art Galleries & Exhibitions Section below |
|
Cheese and Wine Quiz Night.
7pm £5.00 entry. Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Peter's Residence.
Why not join in the fun at a cheese and night quiz night. Test your
knowledge and sample what’s on offer. St. Peter's Residence, 2a
Meadow Road, SW8. Buses: 36, 436, 185, 159. Tube: Oval (where the
155 bus stops) or Vauxhall. For further information please phone:
020 7735 0788 |
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THIS
TUESDAY 2O FEBRUARY |
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Kennington, Vauxhall & Oval
(KOV) Forum. The Redfearn Centre, 329
Kennington Lane, 6.30pm networking & social; meeting 7-9pm.
The agenda will include Sports Action Zone and the 'Kennington
Project', Community News, Planning, Business Travel Plans,
Attendance Allowance Project for North Lambeth - Age Concern, A
Vision for Health. |
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HALF-TERM
ACTIVITIES (19-23 February) |
|
Schoolfriend Half-Term
Holiday project for primary school children at Archbishop Sumner
School.
Core day: 10am to 4pm - ONLY £5.
Extended day: 8-10am £2; 4pm – 6pm £2 (only available when
booking core day. Children must be resident in Lambeth.
Book direct with Schoolfriend on 0870 442
2287. For any queries/forms speak with Babs Wright at the school or
email babsiewabsie@hotmail.com or phone the school on 020 7735 2781.
Archbishop Sumner School, Reedworth Street |
|
Opening the Doors. Family Arts Workshops at
Gasworks. 2-5pm. The
workshops are aimed at families participating together, to give them
quality time doing something creative. and learning and practicing
skills in art and communication, and building confidence along the
way. Families need not have any previous experience in art to join
in. Each day offers a different activity, and some of the works
produced will be displayed in Gasworks' education room from 28th
February - 4th March for anyone to see. Group attendances to the
workshops are welcome so if you would like to tie this in with your
own activities do get in touch. If parents are unable to attend,
Gasworks require that children attend with an adult who can be
responsible for them. The recommended age is 5 - 15 but children of
all ages can come along if they want to. Where possible we would
like to take bookings to get a rough idea of how many people will be
attending each session. If you would like to book a place for
yourself or your group, or discuss the project further, please get
in touch at this email address or on 020 7587 5202. |
|
Half Term Tennis Workshop, Kennington Park.
Details from Fusion: 0845 130 8998 |
LOCAL NEWS
DRONES JAZZ JAM - Speaking of John
Bunyan. Tim Clark, organiser of DJJ, writes:
There are some strong parallels between the life of a pilgrim, and the life
of an aspiring jazz musician. The hours spent slogging away, with no sense
of progress. The absolute need for faith if the traveller is to have any
chance of persevering. The loneliness - we meet others on the way, share
experiences, maybe resources - but always end up alone again in the end.
The encounters with Doubt and Despair, juxtaposed to, and contrasting with
the glimpses of Paradise ... Not to mention the austerity and even poverty
(... okay, a little overstatement may be starting to creep in now). The
hours spent on our knees on a stone floor. The fasting, the hair shirts,
the self-denial, the flagellation (... I guess my own lack of skill is ample
evidence that these are pure fiction in my case.) We are all pursuing some
dream, some vision of something, and it certainly isn't material wealth.
Nevertheless, please feel free to pin (financial) notes of large or small
denominations to any of the pilgrims when you visit us this Tuesday
evening. And don't forget that every journey starts with a single step.
Start (or continue) your journey by winding your merry ways to the Pilgrim
Bar, and then stop and fortify yourself on Jays Spiritual Nectar before
offering your own personal prayers, ably (?) backed by Ned and his band, to
the great music god who lives down Kennington Lane... John B will be
rejoicing in Heaven !’ DJJ - DRONES JAZZ JAM Every Tuesday at the Pilgrim
Bar and Kitchen, 247 Kennington Lane (the
corner of Kennington Lane and Montford Place). Hosted by the Ned Flanders
Quartet (Marcus Hill, Tim Clark, Andrew Sweeney and Dougie Neillands), with
the very special Dee Byrne on alto sax. London's friendliest jazz jam, in
one of London's friendliest pubs. House band 8.15 - 9.15pm. Jam 9.30 - 11pm.
Friends of Kennington Park.
The Winter/Spring issue of the Friends Newsletter ‘Parklife’ includes
details of the event to erect the memorial to civilian war dead when a air
raid shelter was bombed during the Second World War, plans for the future,
the proposals for the new children’s play area. Friends have also produced a
pamphlet ‘Kennington’s Forgotten Tragedy’ about the incident, written by Rob
Pateman. The Playground project consultation ends on Tuesday 20 February.
The Friends is holding a public meeting on Monday 5 March, and its AGM on
Monday 14 May. The AGM will be held on 14 May. For further details of FoKP
write to: FoKP, Prince Consort Lodge, Kennington Park, Kennington Park
Place, SE11 4AS; Tel: 020 7820 4423. Email: friendsof
kenningtonpark@treesforcities.org.
www.fkop.co.uk
Kennington Parking Permits. The Kennington Parking ‘KS’ sub-zone will
be enforced from 5 March. Only those permit holders with Kennington ‘KS’
permits will be allowed to park in the sub-zone from that date. Those that
are eligible for the ‘KS’ permit are those who are resident within the
sub-zone which comprises: Aulton Place, Bowden St, Cleaver Square, Cleaver
St, Cottington St, Kennings Way, Kennington Lane (south west side from
Kennington Rd to Cottington St), Kennington Rd (both sides from Kennington
Park Rd to Kennington Lane, Methley St, Milverton St, Montford Place (the
section of Kennington Rd), Radcot St, Ravendson St, Stannary Place,
Stannary St, White Hart St, Tavy Close, Seaton Close, Wigton Place and
Windmill Row. If you hold a resident or business parking permit for a
address in these streets then Lambeth Council’s Parking Services will be
sending out a new Kennington sub-zone permit prior to 5 March. Residents and
businesses that have parking permits for the other areas of the Kennington
Controlled Parking Zone will not be able to park within the sub-zone from 5
March. Permits for residents and business outside the sub-zone will not
change.
LOCAL PLANNING
APPLICATIONS & NEWS
List Week: 11-17 February:
202 - 204 Kennington Park
Road.
Installation of roof with rooflight to enclose of the internal courtyard of
Apartment 3 at first floor level to create a dressing area. 07/00622/FUL
19 Harleyford Road.
To crown reduce 1 x
Crab Apple tree to rear of property by 25%, prune to re-shape and thin
remaining crown by 15%. 07/00665/TCA
19 Cleaver Square.
Erection of a shed in
the rear garden (Town Planning and Listed Building Consent). 07/00593/LB
2 Cleaver Square.
Replacement of
existing basement front door and windows to match existing, replacement of
rear ground floor doors with full width and height fully glazed folding
doors, replacement of existing ground floor garden room rooflights.
Internal alterations include the relocation of the kitchen from ground to
basement level, removal of existing basement stairs and the relocation of
the stairs within the garden room at ground floor level together with the
installation of a new timber balustrade, removal of all partitions and walls
within basement, erection of wall between reception room and hallway at
ground floor level, creation of new doorway between music room and hallway
at ground floor, installation of new fireplace within reception room at
ground floor level and formation of opening in existing wall at second floor
level. (Town Planning and Listed Building Applications). 07/00312/LB &
07/00311/FUL.
Further details and for
the ability to comment on applications go to:
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcApplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx
51 Rita Rd at Council
Planning Applications Committee.
The next meeting is on 20 February includes consideration of an application
to convert 51 Rita Rd from a single dwelling house to 3 flats. The local
residents association has objected but the planners are recommending
approval. The papers can be seen on
www.lambeth.gov.uk/moderngov/Published/C00000101/M00000294/$$ADocPackPublic.pdf
Planning Issues In Kennington &
Vauxhall. Background paper prepared for the
RCDT Planning Event on 3 February – available shortly on
www.rcdt.org
COUNCIL NEWS
Lambeth
Conference on Climate Change, Assembly Hall, Brixton Town Hall,
27th
February, 11.15 am - 6.30pm, Free entry
If you would
like to know more about the climate change and how you can play a part in
preventing it come and share your piece at the Lambeth conference. The
public fair will offer information, giveaways and demonstrations of
sustainable transport forms. The day will also include:
8.00am-9am:
The climate change Business Breakfast.
11.30am-1pm:
Climate change conference, including guest speakers Councillor Lib Peck and
Val Shawcross form the London Assembly amongst others.
12pm, 2pm,
4pm, and 6pm:
Screenings of
AL Gore’s ‘An convenient Truth’
viewing of
this critically acclaimed film will last 96 minutes.
2pm, 3pm,
4pm, 6pm, 6.30pm:
Workshops
held at the aforementioned times will show how to prevent the climate change
at home, work, in the community and for travel and transport. Each workshop
will last 45 minutes.
Please
pre-book the sessions, due to limited spaces. To obtain a booking form
contact 020 7 926 9400 or go to
www.lambeth.gov.uk/climate
Lambeth Civic Awards.
Would you like
to thank someone special for their contribution to the Community? The
Lambeth Civic awards chooses to reward those who freely give of themselves
to others. If you would like to nominate someone within your community,
please contact: The Mayor’s Office, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, SW2
1RW, Tel: 020 7926 2120. Alternatively, contact Ms Jacqueline Christie, Area
Project Officer, North Lambeth Town Centre Office, London Borough of
Lambeth, and Tel: 020 7926 8295 for a nomination form. All forms must be
returned to the Mayor’s Office before the 9 of March.
GLA
NEWS
LAMBETH FIRST NEWS
LAMBETH VOLUNTARY SECTOR
NEWS
LVAC Website.
To keep up-to-date with news from Lambeth Voluntary
Action Council visit its website
www.lambethvac.org.uk/s-LVAC_Homepage.
LVAC Training Courses – February
Tuesday 27th February -
Becoming a Social Enterprise
Commercial business, social
enterprises, earned income and trading activities can help your organization
become less reliant on donations, government grants and corporate funding,
and improve the quality of your services. But how do you determine and
evaluate opportunities and avoid pitfalls? Using case studies and best
practices this course will provide a framework to help you develop earned
income strategies for your organization.
For more information on
these and other courses, contact LVAC on 020 7737 9471 or see the training
programme on
http://www.lambethvac.org.uk/Documents/Training/TrainingBrochureJan-Mar07.pdf
Courses cost from £25 per
delegate (this is the LVAC members’ fee) and priority booking goes to LVAC
members. To register for a space, fill out the registration form
downloadable from our website and return to LVAC with payment.
http://www.lambethvac.org.uk/PDFs/LVACtrainingRegistrationForm.pdf
SCHOOL NEWS AND
EXTENDED SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
HEALTH NEWS
COMMUNITY/POLICING
NEWS
Oval Safer Neighbourhood Team.
Sgt Alf Sacre. Frank O'Neil House, Clapham Road, London, SW9 0JZ. 020 8721
2761
Prince’s Safer Neighbourhood Team.
PC Sean Hannon 762LX. Tel: 0207 3217570
BUSINESS,
EMPLOYMENT AND JOBS
Business Advice:
available from OneLondon, 53 Brixton Station Rd, SW9. To discuss your
business advice needs and to make an appointment ring 020 7737 6487.
Job Support. Contact Tomorrow’s
People’s GAIN Project. Are you looking for a
job? Are you fed up being on benefits? Do you need advice on improving your
skills? Do you want support with job applications, interviews and starting
work? If you answer yes to any of these questions and you have been
unemployed for 6 months or more contact Tomorrow’s People’s Gain Project:
0800 652 3938.
FEBRUARY DIARY
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Monday 19
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Lambeth Wildlife: Dr Iain Boulton, of
Lambeth's Biodiversity Action Plan, leads an imaginary – and
revealing – local walk. Friends of the Durning Library. At Durning
Library, 167 Kennington Lane. Refreshments. Free entry. Suggested
donation £2. |
6.45pm for 7.15pm |
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Tuesday 20 |
Kennington, Vauxhall & Oval
(KOV) Forum. Venue and agenda to be
confirmed shortly. Contact Jacqueline Christie, Area Project
Officer, North Lambeth Centre Office, for further details. Tel - 020
7926 8295, Email -
jchristie@lambeth.gov.uk. The
agenda will include Sports Action Zone and the 'Kennington Project',
Community News, Planning, Business Travel Plans
Attendance Allowance Project for North Lambeth - Age Concern
A Vision for Health. |
6.30pm arrival for 7-9pm |
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Wednesday 21 |
Older Persons Group.
Friends of Durning Library.
Come and enjoy Quadrille classes and gentle exercises demonstrated
by Lullyn. Please contact Betty Severn for further details, Tel: 020
7587 1391. |
3pm. Free entry |
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Friday 23 |
Winter Jazz at Museum of
Garden History. Double Bill. Sarah Bennett Quintet / Rosabella Trio.
The Trio features
the Rosabella Gregory whose
vocal style is a cross between Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Ella
Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. Tickets £5 to £17. Box Office: Ticketweb
- 08700 600 100 /
www.ticketweb.co.uk. See Tickets - 0870 264 3333 /
www.seetickets.com. Full details on the Museum's website -
www.museumgardenhistory.org/jazz2 |
7pm Doors open. 7.30pm start. Café will be open |
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Saturday 24 |
Kennington Association Bazaar, for City Farm.
Monies raised at this Bazaar
will go directly to Vauxhall City Farm’s Riding for the Disabled
project. The Farm boasts to having 5 horses that are suited to
providing riding for disabled adults and children at reduced cost.
Following the funding crisis last year, the farm is now open again
after raising over £60,000! Now a little under £10,000 is needed to
balance the books and secure the longer-term future of the Farm. If
you would like to donate items for the bazaar. Drop off any unwanted
clothes. books, toys, household goods etc to St Anselm’s Church Hall
on Friday 23 February 5.30-8pm or Saturday 24 February 9-10am |
11am -
2pm |
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Sunday 25 |
Belmoth. Last
chance to see the exhibition at the Danielle Arnaud Gallery. See
Local Galleries & Exhibitions section below |
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Wednesday 28 |
A Short History of
Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka.
Friends of Durning Library Reading Group discussion in an informal
atmosphere. Refreshments will be provided. For further details,
please contact Michael Townsey at the library, Tel: 020 7926 0717
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7-8.30pm.
Free entry; suggested donation £1.50 |
MARCH DIARY
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Monday 5 |
Friends of Kennington Park
Public Meeting. St Agnes Church Hall,
St Agnes Place. |
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Tuesday 6 |
Deadline for Public Notice
Questions to North Lambeth Area Committee
– see Wednesday 21 March below. |
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Tuesday 13 |
Operation
Freshview in Prince’s Ward.
Operation
Freshview is an opportunity for a range of agencies to work
together, to deliver initiatives that improve the local environment,
promote community safety and reduce the fear of crime, and improve
the quality of life for a significant number of Lambeth residents.
The Operation educates residents about their local services and also
allows them to voice their own opinions. The name Freshview has been
chosen as it encompasses our fresh approach to delivering services
in partnership as well as encouraging residents and businesses to
take a fresh view of their area. A
wide range of activities are covered on the day, for example:
Graffiti Removal, Bulky waste items removed, Abandoned and untaxed
vehicle removal, Hedges cut back, Street lighting repairs, etc.
For more information, or wish to get involved, please contact the
Streetcare Service Centre on 020 7926 9000 or email -
freshview@lambeth.gov.uk |
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Wednesday 14 |
Preview of Hibernator:
Prince of the Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks.
Exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery. See Art
Galleries & Exhibitions section below. |
6-9pm |
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Thursday 15 |
Start of Preview of
Hibernator: Prince of the Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks.
Exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery.
See Art Galleries & Exhibitions section below. |
6-9pm |
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Sunday 18 |
Friends of Kennington Park
Gardening Club Spring Clean. Flower
Garden, Kennington Park |
2-4pm |
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Sunday 18 |
Roots and Shoots annual
Science day. 'Sounds of Spring' |
11am-4pm |
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Monday 19 |
Mountaineering - Tunbridge
Wells to the Andes. Back by popular
request, local expert Ian Smith gives an illustrated
tour of 30 years of rock-climbing and mountaineering – Kent to
Kyrgystan, Jordan to the Alps to South America, taking in
sandstone outcrops, sea cliffs, desert rocks, snowy peaks and
more... At Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane. Friends
of the Durning Library. Free entry. Drinks & nibbles. Suggested
donation £2. |
6.45-7.15pm |
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Wednesday 21 March |
North Lambeth Area
Committee. Pedlar's Acre Community
Centre, 1 Opal St (behind North Lambeth Housing Office at 91
Kennington Lane). Agenda: Library Service - Fundamental Review;
Youth Service in North Lambeth - an overview; Prince's Ward
Investment Strategy; Crime update; Recycling Service developments.
Deadline for Public Notice Questions: 5.00 pm on 6 March to
Democratic Services..Diarmid Swainson. E:
dswainson@lambeth.gov.uk. Room 113, Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, SW2 |
7.30pm |
COUNCILLORS’
SURGERIES
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Bishop’s Ward |
Second Wednesday 6.30pm-7pm:
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Waterloo Action Centre, Baylis
Road |
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Fourth Wednesday 6.30 pm-7pm
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New Briant TA Room, Ground Floor,
Briant House, Hercules Road |
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Oval Ward |
Every Wednesday 6.30pm to 7.15pm
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Ashmole Tenants' Hall, 2 Meadow
Road, SW8 |
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Prince’s Ward |
First Saturday of the month,
10am-11am |
Durning Library, Kennington
Lane
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Third Saturday of the month,
10am-11am |
Durning Library, Kennington
Lane |
REGULAR ACTIVITIES
These are now listed on the RCDT
website by clicking on
www.rcdt.org/regular_activities.htm
FAITH GROUPS
North Lambeth Anglican and
Methodist Churches: St Anselm’s. St. Peter’s,
Lambeth Mission & St. Mary’s, Vauxhall Methodist Mission, See
www.crossoverlambeth.com/index.html
Latin American “Tabernacle” Church:
Friday 7:30-9:30pm, Saturday 7:30‑9:30pm and Sunday 8:00am to 10:00am which
includes a Sunday School.
Afro-Caribbean “God is the Word
Ministry” Church: Sunday 10:30am-12:00pm
Franco-African Vine Redemption
Ministries Church: Sunday 3:30‑6.30pm
Services.
All three meet at Ethelred
Estate Community Youth Club, Lollard St (Kenn Rd end)
ART GALLERIES &
EXHIBITIONS
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Dates |
Gallery |
Exhibition |
Times
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The
Camera Club
Bowden St |
For details of specialist
groups and short exhibitions see:
www.thecameraclub.co.uk/curprog.html |
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Everyday |
Museum of
Garden History
Lambeth
Palace Rd
020 7401 8865
www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh
Open
every day. Closed Saturday 23 December to Monday 1 January
(inclusive) |
Permanent Garden
History & Local History Displays |
10.30am-5pm |
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Aristao Gallery
34 Clapham Road,
SW9
T: 0207 735 8608
www.aristao.co.uk |
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Thursdays
– Sundays 15 March – 29 April |
Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
Tel: 020 7582 6465
info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk |
Hibernator: Prince of the
Petrified Forest, by London Fieldworks
An ambitious new exhibition project by London Fieldworks,
commissioned by Beaconsfield. Working with the legacy and personal
myth of Walt Disney, the commission embraces the latest developments
in animatronics, primal hibernation patterns and the practice of
cryonics in its exploration of fantasy and death.
Free entry |
12-6pm |
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Tuesdays to Saturdays until 3
March
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Corvi-Mora Gallery
1a Kempsford Road
SE11
020 7840 9111
www.corvi-mora.com |
Pierpaolo Campanini
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11am-6pm |
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Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 19
January – 25 February |
Danielle Arnaud
contemporary art
123 Kennington
Road, London SE11 020 7735 8292.
www.daniellearnaud.com |
Behmoth.
Abigail
Reynolds Andy Harper Bernd Behr + Gail Pickering Caroline
Achaintre Neil Hamon Sophie Newell
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6-9pm |
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2 February to 25 March |
Gasworks, 155
Vauxhall Street, SE11
020 7582 6848.
press@gasworks.org.uk
www.gasworks.org.uk |
Metropolitan. First solo photographic
exhibition by Anup Mathew Thomas examining the
rule-makers, law enforcers and bastions of ethics and morality
within society through a series of fourteen individual portraits of
the heads of Episcopalian churches from Kerala. The exhibition also
includes a digital slide show Light Life depicting the empty
interiors of Mumbai ‘ladies bars’ where men go to watch women
dancing, which was closed by the authorities alleging that they
encouraged crime and prostitution. Light Life questions this
decision as many ex-dancers were obliged to seek the very employment
the censure sought to discourage. |
6.30-9pm |
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Man&Eve, 131
Kennington Park Rd. 020 7582 4581;
info@manandeve.co.uk. www.manandeve.co. |
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Tuesdays – Saturdays 30
January to 3 March |
Oval Theatre Café
Gallery, Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval.
www.ovalhouse.com
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Layout. by So-Ha Au.
So-Ha Au researches the themes of mapping memories and the layering
of time. She has previously used diagrams or symbols such as
floor-plans, mazes and genealogy trees to look at the context of
time and to suggest another voice within the telling of ‘his-story’.
Currently she is using diagrams of dressmaking patterns and
markings; to look at the interior space occupied by the clothed
body. |
3-10pm |
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Tuesdays – Saturdays 6 – 31
March |
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PUNKTURE-2. Tthink/tank
exhibition of new abstract paintings on canvas, paper, board and
drum skins by Philip Barker, aka philphuture:
artist, composer and anarcho-punk drummer (Lack of Knowledge,
The Stratford Mercenaries,
Buzzcocks).
This invigorating and
energetic exhibition demonstrates a sumptuous use of colour and
texture, inspired by punk ideology, football fanaticism and a gritty
urban-London upbringing.
Exhibition includes ‘scratch’
action-painting video by Roy Wallace, maverick Belfast
filmmaker, whose latest DVD is a companion to the ‘The Day the
Country Died’ , a book by Ian Glasper all about the anarcho punk
scene in ‘80s Britain, published by Cherry Red 2006.
ADMISSION FREE: includes a
complimentary copy of PUNKTURE-1,
limited edition think/tank CD
(subject to availability) |
3-10pm |
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Mondays, Wednesdays –
Saturdays till end of February |
Tate South Lambeth
Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, SW8. |
Blooming front gardens?
A photographic exhibition by Elaine
Kramer. From planning policy to
parking spaces, garden space is under pressure like never before.
Hundreds of thousands of front gardens lie smothered beneath a tide
of asphalt laid to create spaces to park Britain's 32 million cars.
Blooming Front Gardens is a chance to view some local
examples....before its too late. |
Mon -1-6pm; Wed & Fri 10am-6pm; Thurs 10am-8pm; Sat 9am-5pm |
LOCAL AREA WEBSITES
Archbishop Sumner
School:
www.archbishop-sumners-primary.lambeth.sch.uk/
Community
Support:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/communitysupport/index.htm
Dryden Court:
www.drydencourt.co.uk/
Friends of
Kennington Park:
www.fokp.co.uk/
Kennington Association
*
http://journals.aol.co.uk/kenningtonassn/KenningtonAssociation/
*
http://journals.aol.co.uk/kenningtonnews/KenningtonNews/
*
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/kenningtontrades/myhomepage/england.html
*
http://journals.aol.co.uk/kenningtongarden/KenningtonGarden/
Kennington Park:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennington_Park
Local On-Line
Project:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/localonline/index.htm
London My
Kennington Forum:
www.movethat.com/London/My/Kennington/
Museum of Garden
History:
www.museumgardenhistory.org/
North Lambeth
Churches: St Anselm’s, St Peter’s, Lambeth Mission & St. Mary’s and Vauxhall
Methodist l Mission: http://www.crossoverlambeth.com/index.html
RCDT:
www.rcdt.org.uk
Roots & Shoots:
www.rootsandshoots.org.uk/home.html
Vauxhall City
Farm:
www.vauxhallcityfarm.org.uk
Vauxhall,
Kennington, Oval area:
www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk/
Vauxhall Society:
www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk
EVENTS ELSEWHERE
IN LAMBETH (and around it)
Coin St:
www.coinstreet.org
Brixton:
www.urban75.org/brixton
Hayward Gallery
(South Bank): www.hayward.org.uk/
Old Vic:
www.oldvictheatre.co.uk
Lambeth Council
events diary:
http://213.130.50.58/clients/lbl/cediary/cgi-bin/cediaryeve.exe
Old Vic:
www.oldvictheatre.co.uk
Oxo Tower:
www.oxotower.co.uk/
South Bank venues:
www.southbanklondon.com
Stockwell: see
Homeground magazine on Stockwell Partnership website:
www.stockwell.org.uk/partnerspages.html
Waterloo and SE1
area daily local news & features:
www.London-SE1.co.uk; &
www.inSE1.co.uk
Plus:
Laura Bartlett
Gallery, Leathermarket, SE1.
www.laurabartlettgallery.com
Imperial War
Museum (just over the border in Southwark):
www.iwm.org.uk
PAPERS AVAILABLE ON
REQUEST FROM
info@rcdt.org
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Planning Our Future
- the report of the public meeting with newly
elected Councillors for the Kennington, Oval and Vauxhall area, held at
St Anselm’s Church Hall, Kennington Rd, 28 June. Also on
www.rcdt.org
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RCDT paper ‘Priorities for the
Riverside Area’
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‘Young people as part of our
community. Developing a strategy for youth work by the community and
voluntary sector in the Kennington, Oval and Vauxhall area. A Discussion
Paper’ written by Tim Saunders (Alford House youth centre) and Sean
Creighton (RCDT). Also on
www.rcdt.org
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Towards a Community Plan.
Discussion Paper. Written by Sean Creighton (RCDT). Also on
www.rcdt.org
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2007 Slavery Remembrance
discussion paper for KOV Local History/Heritage Forum. Written by Sean
Creighton (RCDT)
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The Community and Voluntary Sector
and Economic Renewal. Discussion notes written by Sean Creighton
(personal)
NEW
·
Planning Issues in
Kennington & Vauxhall. Background paper
prepared for the RCDT Planning Event on 3 February – available shortly on
www.rcdt.org
Past Events
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8 - 22
July 2006 |
Lambeth Riverside Festival |
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9 - 23
July 2005 |
Lambeth Riverside Festival |
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8 July
2005 |
2005 Lambeth Riverside
Launch Event at Archbishop's Sumner School |
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24 May
2005 |
Kate Hoey MP spoke to students at
Riverside IT and handing out
certificates 5-7pm |
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25 May
2005 |
UK Black History on the
Web. RCDT sponsored session at Riverside IT. 4-6pm. |
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4
November 2004 |
RCDT's AGM
was held at Alford House on 4 November.
To see Annual
Report click here
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November 2004
- March 2005 |
Student on Placement
A local student and resident worked with
the Trust from 23 November to the end of March 2005 |
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8
December 2004 |
WINTER WARMER
PARTY FOR ALL
Winter Warmer Party community event
at St. Anslems Church. Jointly organised with
Kennington, Oval & Vauxhall Forum, Lighthouse
Education and Kennington SureStart. Over 350 adults
and children attended at various times between 3pm
and 8pm. Music, dance, stalls, chat, refreshments.
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Local Issues
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Beaufoy
Institute |
Lambeth Council has been consulting a number of
organisations on the future of the Beaufoy
Institute. It still wants to re-locate Michael
Tippett School onto the site, which RCDT’s Board
considers inappropriate.
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KX
Toilets |
RCDT
is working with Friends of Kennington Cross
to develop its arts and heritage centre proposal for
the Kennington Cross Toilets. |
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Dryden Court |
A web site that has been
designed to help advise residents, neighbours and
potential residents about Dryden Court |
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Adventure Play |
RCDT
was pleased to be able to give some financial
support to the Lollard St Adventure Playground group
for its 50th Anniversary held in August. |
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Lilian
Baylis School |
Lambeth Council is considering what to do with the old Lilian
Balyis School site. The Trust is stressing the need
for community facilities and consultation. |
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20
Newburn Street |
RCDT is developing 20
Newburn St into a community hub. This includes
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offices used by
Lambeth Council’s North Lambeth Town Centre
Management Team led by Frances Forrest – see
www…….. for details of its work
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Desk for
use by local groups or other self-employed
individuals
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a photocopying
service for local groups
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display boards on
the outside for advertising local events
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a meeting space for hire
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Riverside IT |
The
Riverside IT project set up by RCDT at 125 Lambeth
Walk to gives local people the opportunity to attain
IT skills and experience is now being run in
partnership with Lambeth Council.
Click here for further information |
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Support
to RCDT |
Sean Creighton of
Agenda Services
(
www.seancreighton.co.uk ) supported RCDT from
May to October 2004 funded by a grant from Lady
Margaret Hall Settlement. Sean has continued to
work with the Trust and from May 2005 has been fulltime Development and Management
worker thanks to a grant from Lloyds TSB Foundation
and then the money received from the former Vauxhall
Regeneration Company and Lambeth Endowed Charities. |
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