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July 25, 2025 · 10:55 pm

Major Roadworks on Streatham Hill (A23)

Transport for London (TfL) has begun a 2-year roadworks project to improve safety along Streatham Hill and the top of Brixton Hill.

Key works

  • Removal of the central reservation on Streatham Hill (Aug to Oct 2025).
  • Installation of a 2-way protected cycle lane from Sternhold Avenue to Holmewood Road.
  • Upgrades to pedestrian crossings, junctions, and continuous bus lanes.
  • New street trees for added shade.

The aim is to reduce accidents and make the area safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

Travel impact:

  • The A23 (London to Brighton road) will remain open to road traffic but with lane closures.
  • Nights of 3rd  & 4th August, Sunday  & Monday,   A23 closed 10pm to 5am.
  • Expect longer journey times through Streatham Hill  for next two years to 2027.

More info & travel advice:
 tfl.gov.uk/streatham-hill

Day to day contacts:

niamh.hughes@fmconway.co.uk

Tel: 07542 941 337

Public consultation report in 2020 is here:

https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/access-our-older-consultations/widgets/34074/documents  }

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April 28, 2025 · 2:59 pm

Permit parking in West Norwood town centre

The proposal

Lambeth council is consulting on a new controlled parking zone (CPZ) in West Norwood town centre. The proposed CPZ lies between Norwood Road, Auckland Hill, Thurlby Road and Knollys Road  (area outlined on the map) and is expected to be implemented by the end of 2025.

This informal stage consultation is asking for views and suggestions from local residents & organisations. It ends on Sunday 25th May.  For details of the proposed CPZ see here

Most parts of Lambeth are already in a CPZ. The West Norwood town centre CPZ is one of the last new parking zones in Lambeth. CPZs reduce commuter parking and remove abandoned & illegal vehicles from the road. Over time a CPZ encourages many people to use their cars less and make our air cleaner. Some London boroughs are already entirely within CPZs -for example Camden, Tower Hamlets. Kensington & Chelsea

Options to consider

A local CPZ needs to get the right balance. That is between reducing parking by commuters, taking up spaces in side streets all day to use the stations or buses for their onward journey, enabling short term parking by shoppers, workers in local organisations, visitors to homes, schools & care homes, and tradespeople carrying out work in homes.

Lambeth’s CPZs have variable operating or enforcement hours usually limited to Mondays to Fridays. These can be a two hour zone 10am to 12noon, as in many other Lambeth CPZs. This  is preferred by many local people over the longer hours of 10am to 4pm or 8.30am to 6.30pm.

Have your say

For residents and organisations inside the proposed West Norwood town centre CPZ please use the online survey. It has two “other boxes” to use for comments.  Alternatively please write to the email address:  CPZconsultation@lambeth.gov.uk saying its about the West Norwood town centre CPZ.

People not online can phone 020 7926 6799 for a paper copy of the survey & documents. You can also look at  paper copies of the documents in the  West Norwood Library SE27 9JU .

Cllr Rezina Chowdhury, the councillor leading on Clean Air, will take all the responses into account before deciding on the next steps.

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April 10, 2025 · 1:24 pm

A new parking zone starting in Streatham

 

A new parking zone is now operating on week days 10am to 4pm. This zone is between  Leigham Court Rd, Valley Road,  Oakdale Rd and Streatham High Road.

 

 

This new zone is called Streatham Wells or SW.

If you have not got a SW Residents Permit there are lots of Pay by Phone spaces. Set up your Pay by Phone account in advance  – it needs your email, a password, car registration  and credit card. Phone 020 7005 0005  or go online.  https://www.paybyphone.co.uk/

  • In Streatham (April 2025)  the CPZ zones are:
  • Streatham Hill West (G )- Mon to Fri 10am to 12noon
  • Streatham Hill East (M )- Mon to Fri 10am to 12noon
  • Streatham Wells (SW) -Mon to Fri 10am to 4pm
  • St Leonards North (I) – Mon to Fri  12noon to 2pm
  • St Leonards Central  (O)  – Mon to Fri  8.30am to 6.30pm
  • Stanthorpe Triangle  (U) – Mon to Fri 12noon to  2pm

When parking in Streatham on weekdays its best to always first check the local signs in the parking bay . Parking on red routes are managed by Transport for London  (TfL)

To see more details of existing Lambeth Parking schemes go to:

https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/parking/parking-restrictions/where-you-can-park

and for proposed Lambeth CPZs go to

https://haveyoursay.lambeth.gov.uk/en-GB/folders/parking-design

 

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January 17, 2025 · 12:57 pm

West Dulwich controlled parking hours

Lambeth council is consulting on a new controlled parking zone in West Dulwich (area outlined in blue on the map) .  The earlier August 2024 proposals were for controlled parking hours between 10am and 4pm on weekdays.

The new proposals, in response to concerns  from local people, have reduced the parking zone hours to between 12noon and 2pm weekdays. These changes are now out for statutory consultation ending on 9tH February 2025. This consultation is only on the changes to the scheme that went for statutory consultation last autumn.

See details of the new consultation here

To respond to consultation online use the  Appyway portal:

Open this link: https://consultation.appyway.com/Lambeth

  • Scroll down on left of screen under Active Consultations to “West Dulwich CPZ” heading and click
  • Click blue “Accept “ button on bottom of screen
  • At the bottom right of the screen click the a blue button  ”Respond to Consultation’”
  • Fill in your response and contact details
  • Click “Submit feedback” button

If you need a paper version of the consultation please call 020 7926 6799 and quote  West Dulwich CPZ.

For a summary of the overall parking scheme in August 2024 see our previous post here.

 

 

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July 14, 2024 · 12:09 pm

Leigham Vale temporary road closure

Thames Water plan sewer replacement works during the school summer holidays between Thursday 25 July 2024 and Tuesday 3 September 2024. The works means Leigham Vale will be closed to traffic near its junction with Knollys Road for 6 weeks.  Traffic diversions will follow the 315 bus route between Leigham Court Road and Norwood Road.

Knollys Road will be closed at the same junction between Friday 26th July and Monday 29th July for Thames Water to fix a leak.

For any queries please speak to the contractors on site.  Or telephone Thames Water at 0800 316 9800 , select option one and quote reference BB409776

Here is a copy of the letter Thames Water sent to homes across the neighbourhood [pdf or word]

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March 24, 2024 · 2:15 pm

The heart of West Norwood town centre

site 18 mapFollowing over a thousand objections from local people and businesses in 2022 Lambeth council has altered its policy plans to rebuild the heart of West Norwood’s town centre – known as Site 18.

The revised plan is now out for the next stage of consultation alongside policy plans for 12 other sites in the borough  known as  the Site Allocations Development Plan Document Proposed Submitted Version (SADPD PSV) – for details see here.

Site 18 is now a smaller area  ( see map) and proposes 150 to 170 new homes and new business spaces. The policy includes a block up to 9 storeys  (31m) high and a new open space. Full details of the Site 18  policy –are  here [pdf].

This stage of Planning Policy consultation is called Regulation 19 and comments must be under one or more of the four headings of “soundness”. The policy plan must 1) positively meets the area assessed needs;  2) be justified –based on evidence; 3) be effective – deliverable over the plan period and   4) be in line with national policy . The independent Planning Inspector will then look at all the comments, evidence and proposals in the SADPD PSV .

There is an online survey or  you can email comments to sadpd@lambeth.gov.uk . The deadline is 5pm Friday 3rd May 2024.

Knollys Goods Yard (Site 19) has been taken out of this Planning Policy process. Of course, all actual plans by developers will go through the usual planning application process and public consultation.

See our earlier posts:

5/4/22

26/1/22

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February 1, 2024 · 10:13 am

Streatham Wells LTN

Valley Rd -Leigham Ct Rd junction

The neighbourhood of Streatham Wells has been transformed by stopping up Valley Road as a through road and closing off other through routes.

This new Low Traffic Neighbourhood ( LTN) lies between Leigham Court Road, Streatham Common and Streatham High Road. The LTN started  on 13th October 2023 . Unfortunately there was a series of signficant utility road works at the same time & these created a lot of extra traffic congestion. The A23 is nearly always congested between Pendennis Road and Streatham Common where the road narrows through the heart of old Streatham. The council is discussing improvement options with Transport for London.

The LTN scheme is still at an experimental stage. Details can be seen on CommonPlace:  https://streathamwells.commonplace.is/news

A 6 month statutory consultation started at the same time as the LTN and is published here:  https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4463437 .  Any comments on the statutory consultation can be submitted before 23 April 2024 direct to RWilliams@lambeth.gov.uk

The LTN is a result of the Lambeth Climate Action Plan based on recommendations drawn up by a Lambeth Citizens Assembly in 2021.  LTNs are expected to lead to a change in drivers behaviour over time and help reduce traffic in Lambeth by 27%.

See our earlier post:

23/11/22

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June 21, 2023 · 2:35 pm

New parking plans for Leigham Court  Road area

Two new controlled parking areas (CPZ) are proposed for the Streatham High Road end of Leigham Court Road. The deadline for comments is midday Monday 26/6/23

Firstly there is a plan to extend the existing Streatham Hill CPZ  up to Leigham Vale ( yellow area on the map).  To see details and comment go to:   https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/consultations/streatham-wells-area-proposed-cpz-stage-1-consultation

Secondly  a new CPZ is proposed for Streatham Wells  between Leigham Ct Rd , Valley Rd , Crown Lane and Streatham High Rd ( pink area on the map). The controlled parking times are likely to be Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm.

Most of the bays will be shared with residents who buy a permit and visitors. Visitors can either buy a full day permit or pay by the hour using their smart phone. To see details and comment go to: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/consultations/streatham-wells-area-proposed-cpz-stage-1-consultation  Or telephone  020 7926 6799 for a paper survey &  mention Streatham Wells CPZ.

The proposed Streatham Wells Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) covers much of the same area as the CPZ. The results of the LTN consultation are published online in 118 page report (linked at bottom of this webpage).

The LTN proposal has been updated following the public consultation. See “Summary of recommendations” on page 37 of the above report.

See also our previous post 23/11/22

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June 2, 2023 · 11:59 am

Fortnightly bin collection

Have your say on Lambeth’s plans to collect residual waste wheelie bin once a fortnight from next year. Recycling bins, food waste and gardening bags will continue to be collected weekly.

To have your say please fill in the online survey here:

https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/consultations/have-your-say-lambeths-proposals-fortnightly-non-recyclable-waste-collections

The consultation will close at midday on Friday June 30th. The Waste team will be in West Norwood on Sunday 4th June to speak to residents – drop by the Norwood Cemetery gates SE27 9JU between 10am and 4pm.

Paper copies of the survey form can be requested on 020 7926 9000

As households recycle more & more nearly half of London’s boroughs (including Southwark) already collect residual waste fortnightly from street properties. Councils see more households increase their recycling when they change to fortnightly collection.

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April 13, 2023 · 6:20 pm

West Dulwich streets consultation

Proposals for a Controlled parking zone ( CPZ) and some no-through roads in the area between Norwood Rd & Rosendale Road and South Circular & Robson Road are out for an informal public consultation.

On Saturday 22nd April 10am to 4pm engineers will be at the West Norwood Library SE27 9JU to discuss the plans,  hear your views and answer questions. The plans can also be seen on request at West Norwood Library.

To see full details of the plans & comment go online: https://westdulwich.commonplace.is/

The free 1 hour parking bays off West Norwood shopping street remain. Pay by phone parking is proposed throughout the area. Passing places on Robson Road are proposed to make the 322 bus route easier. The days of the week and the hours of parking enforcement are still at discussion stage.

There are eight road closures planned including: Chatsworth Way by the church; Chestnut Road by Barston Road junction and Carston Road by the south circular. A parklet by Eastmearn Road junction with Rosendale Road is one of the other street improvements in the plans.

The deadline for comments is Sunday 7th May

See our earlier posts:

27/12/22

31/1/22

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