The council is listening and working with older residents to agree a plan for making Lambeth a better place to age well – an Age Friendly borough.
There is an online survey here – deadline Sunday 10th September :
Or email directly agefriendlyLambeth@kaizen.org.uk or telephone 020 4536 6321
And drop in to the Age Friendly Festival at the Oval Cricket ground on Saturday 30th September 11am to 3pm . Free entry at Alec Stewart Gate . There will be lunch, stalls, activities & entertainments. 
Filed under Community / voluntary, Health, Housing, Lambeth Council, Libraries
Gilbert Clark on Remembrance Sunday, November 12th 2017
This year the Lambeth Local History Fair will be held at West Norwood Library & Picture House SE27 9JX to kick off a month long programme of 40 events looking at Lambeth’s rich history. The Local History Fair is on Saturday 2nd Sept 10am to 4pm with stalls, talks, walks & free films. And a chance to contribute to Their Finest Hour digital family history project.
For details of all events across Lambeth check out the Heritage Festival web pages or see the brochure [pdf]. Some events must be booked to avoid disappointment. Most are free to attend.
Heritage Festival Events in West Norwood include:
Filed under Arts, Community / voluntary, Lambeth Council, Libraries
Sunday 2nd April 10am to 4pm is the return of West Norwood Feast Festival for 2023.
Music, food, shopping, meet up with friends – something for everyone.
Pictured is Helen Hayes MP & Cllr Ibtisam Adem at 2022 April Feast.
Check out all 4 sites where Feast activities are taking place:
Feast Festival is run by local volunteers on first Sunday of each month from April to December.
For more details see: https://westnorwoodfeast.com/
And follow
twitter @WN_FEAST
facebook https://www.facebook.com/wnfeast/
instagram https://www.instagram.com/wn_feast/
The swimming pool at West Norwood Health & Leisure Centre (WNHLC) is due to reopen in July 2023. The men, women and families change areas are due to reopen by early April. Other services at WNHC such as the Knights Hill GP surgery and most leisure activities continue to operate as usual.
The WNHLC and surrounding park is funded via a private finance scheme with the NHS. The structure of the building, and so the repairs, are the responsibility of the private finance company . Last year unfortunately faults were identified in some parts of the building and the swimming pool and change areas had to be closed temporarily.
From 1st April 2023 Lambeth council is running its leisure services “in-house” as “Active Lambeth” and ending its contract with Better GLL. Existing Better memberships and direct debits will be transfered automatically but you should receive a notification email about the transfer. For more details see: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/active-lambeth
Filed under Community / voluntary, Health, Lambeth Council, Leisure, Swimming Pool, West Norwood
The developer, Ecoworld, is running three community workshops on their ambitious plans for new housing in the Knollys Yard triangle also known as site 19. Over the summer, during three walkabouts, local residents told Ecoworld about some of their initial concerns.
The community workshop sessions are
Other sessions will be in the Scout Hut on High Trees road SW2 3PU between the High Trees Community Centre amd Fenstanton primary school
For more information on the proposed development off Knollys Road see our earlier posts on :
The playground in Norwood Park near Salters Hill needs new equipment and repairs. If your family use the park please have a look at the online consultation. Its your chance to help choose what should be the new play ground.
Go to:
Deadline for the survey is Sunday Sept 11th
Norwood Park is well worth a visit .. and has a Friends Group:
Filed under Community / voluntary, Environment, Kids, Lambeth Council, Parks, West Norwood
This summer’s holiday programme has over 50 fun physical activities to choose from – and food is included. Summer of Food & Fun is aimed at local families with children & young people aged 4 to 16 and eligible for free school meals.
For details of all summer activities across Lambeth see: https://beta.lambeth.gov.uk/summer-activities-around-lambeth
Summer of Food & Fun activities in Norwood are:
Filed under Arts, Charity, Community / voluntary, Kids, Lambeth Council, Leisure, Libraries, Parks, West Norwood, Youth
West Norwood’s elected councillors
On May 5th councillors were elected to represent the wards as newly defined by the Boundaries Commission. In West Norwood nine Labour councillors were elected to represent the 4 new wards – with number of the votes as follows:
Gipsy Hill:
Christine Banton 1,457
Rebecca Spencer 1,322
Knights Hill
Ibtisam Adem 2,317
Jackie Meldrum 2,314
Sonia Winifred 2,171
St Martins
Olga Fitzroy 1,261
Saleha Jaffer 1,217
West Dulwich
Judith Cavanagh 1,792
Fred Cowell 1,639
Lambeth now has 58 Labour councillors, 3 Lib Dem councillors and 2 Green councillors.
For full details of the results see:
https://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=46&RPID=60076488
To contact your newly elected councillors see contact details next week at:
https://beta.lambeth.gov.uk/about-council/councillors-and-mayor/lambeth-councillors
Marina Ahmad AM & Cllr Jackie Meldrum at Site 19
The 6 week public consultation on the policy to rebuild the heart of West Norwood town centre (Site 18) and of Knollys Goods Yard ( Site 19) ended on 22nd Feb.
In light of the potential ‘transformative impact’ nature of these site policies your local Labour councillors asked for these two sites to be withdrawn from the policy-making process. Councillors want a more detailed consultation with residents and businesses on the future of these two important sites to ensure the special character of West Norwood is respected.
Local people are not opposed to new buildings. But there was tremendous opposition to the proposal for a tall tower in the town centre and 3 tall towers on Knollys Rd. Many people are angry at the lack of public engagement while the plans were drawn up.
As the policies are part of a statutory process councillors submitted detailed queries and comments for Site 18 (pdf) and for Site 19 (pdf).
After the consultation ended the GLA agreed a large grant to help develop Site 19. It is published here.
The next step is for all the comments to be considered by the council and a revised policy published in winter 2022/23 for a further round of public consultation. The plans then go to the London Mayor to ensure a fit with the London wide plan. The council will formally adopt the site policies in winter 2023/24. For details see Lambeth’s 13/12/21 “Regulation 18 draft Site Allocations Development Plan Document” report.
See our previous posts
A new small local grants scheme up to £5k for projects to improve community health and wellbeing has opened. Only a simple form is needed and the deadline is 9th February.
Projects must aim to benefit one or more of these priority groups:
For more details see attached notes on the application form [word document]
Norwood Forum is managing the scheme: https://www.norwoodforum.org/gipsy-hill-health-wellbeing-small-grants-fund-round-one
They have an online information session 6pm-7pm on Thursday 27 January. To get the zoom link please email info@norwoodforum.org
If your group is not on line please phone 07946 218 501 and we will pass on your contact details.
Filed under Charity, Community / voluntary, Environment, Health, Kids, Leisure, Local Business, West Norwood
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