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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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August 13, 2024 · 11:26 pm

A new CPZ for West Norwood

A new Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) between Norwood Road, Lancaster Avenue, Rosendale Road and Robson Road is now out for statutory consultation. This CPZ will be the West Dulwich CPZ.

The proposed hours for controlled parking are 10am – 4pm Monday to Friday. The existing 30 min or 1 hour free parking bays in West Norwood town centre will be unchanged. Free bays (2 hours)  will be found near Chatsworth Baptist Church . There will be free parking bays and a loading bay  near the shops on Rosendale Road for 1 hour Mon-Sat 7am- 7pm.

See full details of the new West Dulwich CPZ.

Residents who buy a permit can park their vehicle in any resident bay in the same zone free of extra charges.   For details of residents vehicle permits here.

Most of the parking  bays will be shared between residents with permits and drivers paying-by-phone. The phone app used by Lambeth council to collect charges for pay-by-phone parking is Paybyphone.   Parking charges depend on your vehicle. See here for more details.

The statutory consultation deadline is Friday 20th September. To have your say please go online to take part in the consultation. Click the “accept” button and use the” submit feedback” button to make your comments. Or write to Parking and Enforcement Group (Resident Services), Lambeth council, PO Box 80771, SW2 9QQ quoting reference West Dulwich CPZ .

Cllr Rezina Chowdhury, the councillor leading on Clean Air, will take the final decision on the CPZ after the responses to the statutory consultation are considered.

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May 6, 2024 · 4:34 pm

May 2nd election results

Emma Nye and Marina Ahmad

Labour’s Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London Mayor on Thursday 2nd May 2024 and Labour’s Marina Ahmed was re-elected as our representative for Lambeth & Southwark on the London Assembly.

On the same day Emma Nye, the Labour candidate,   was elected in a by-election in Knights Hill ward.  She gained 2,677 votes.  For full details of the results see: https://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=230&RPID=76214078

The London wide turnout for this election on 2/5/24 was 40.5%.

Details of the full London election results are at:  https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/results-2024-0

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October 12, 2023 · 7:50 pm

Future of housing in Lambeth?

Cllr Maria Kay responsible for housing

Lambeth council has drafted two new important Housing policies out for consultation now – deadline Monday 20th Nov.

Have your say about the future of housing In Lambeth by completing an online survey: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/consultations/have-your-say-lambeths-new-housing-strategy-2023-2030

There are drop in sessions at the Civic Centre in Brixton SW2 RW on Tuesday afternoons 2pm to 4pm from 17th Oct to 14th November. And interactive workshops. To book a workshop or drop in please email housingpolicy@lambeth.gov.uk

The council is also consulting on its banding policy for allocating permanent council homes. Background here: [pdf] Complete this online survey: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/consultations/have-your-say-housing-allocation-policy-review

Cllr Maria Kay explains the thinking behind these proposals: https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-launches-consultation-into-new-housing-strategy/

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March 31, 2023 · 8:02 pm

West Norwood Feast is back!

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:

  • St Lukes Church Gardens SE27 0DT
  • West Norwood Health & Leisure Centre gardens SE27 0DF
  • Outside Library -Picture House SE27 9JU
  • Chatsworth Way SE27 9DJ

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/

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February 13, 2023 · 1:13 pm

Update on tall towers in West Norwood

The local West Norwood community objected strongly to 3 tall towers 12-20 storeys high in Knollys Goods Yard ( site 19) pictured right when the council proposed new development policy plans for 14 sites across Lambeth. Last week  Cllr Danny Adilypour decided to drop Knollys Goods Yard from  the next stages of the formal policy process.

Cllr Adilypour’s letter to the local community can be read here.

Danny Adilypour visiting Waylett Place in Site 18

Hundreds of local people and businesses also objected to the demolition of the heart of West Norwood’s town centre ( Site 18) and its replacement with 12 storey tower. In his letter Cllr Adilypour says he has asked for the Site 18  boundaries to be redrawn and to exclude housing at the Lansdowne Hill and York Hill ends of the site .

Cllr Adilypour took on responsibility for regeneration and town planning in May 2022. Since then he has been listening to the West Norwood community who want improvements and more new homes but not tall towers. The next consultation stage of the development policy plans will be published in summer 2023.

The council has delayed plans to 2024 to improve buildings on Norwood High Street -from St Luke’s church  to Gipsy Road.

See our previous posts:

5/4/22

12/2/22

26/1/22

10/1/22

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December 24, 2022 · 2:05 pm

Knights Hill reopen today

Traffic running normally today

Traffic is flowing northwards along Knights Hill again today. Shops in West Norwood are open for business – just in time for last-minute Christmas shopping in our local shops.

Previous closure

Due to a burst watermain last Sunday the road was closed causing massive disruption to residents and businesses.  Northbound buses were diverted by Streatham Common and Streatham High Road as Leigham Court Road was also closed due to a burst water main!  Homes had no water supply for several days.

To apply for compensation from Thames Water see: https://stationtostation.london/claim-your-road-works-compensation/

Please let us know how the watermain burst and / or the road closure affected you or your business – email jmeldrum@lambeth.gov.uk

Councillors will be meeting Thames Water early in the new year to agree on improvements for dealing with emergency road works and to demand Thames Water invests more in its mains pipes.

West Norwood has already had years of disruption from Thames Water installing new mains in Leigham Vale and Norwood Road.  See our many earlier posts including : 23/1/2019 7/2/2017

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June 11, 2022 · 1:38 pm

Glennie-Broxholm temporary one-way system

Glennie Road

Glennie Road and Broxholm Road are a one-way road system for the duration of the roadworks by G.Network over the summer. G.Network are installing fibre optic cable under the road to provide faster broadband  to homes.

Over the years many residents have requested a one way system for Glennie and Broxholm as these roads have parking on both sides and leave little room for the through traffic- which can be very busy, particularly in early evenings.

Broxholm Road

These roadworks are a useful test of how a one way system might work in the long term. Traffic is temporarily flowing west to east along  Glennie Road and flowing east to west from Royal Circus along Broxholm Road.  Highways engineers tell us one of the disadvantages of one way systems is that vehicles tend to speed up.

Please let your local councillors know how the temporary one -way system works for you, as a pedestrian, cyclist or driver, by emailing Cllr Ibtisam Adem iadem@lambeth.gov.uk

There is a major programme underway across the UK for private companies to install fibre optic cable for broadband connection to the internet. The government plans for everyone to have access to the internet by December 2025  when land line telephone numbers will transfer online. For more information see here .

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May 9, 2022 · 12:23 am

Councillors elected for new West Norwood wards

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

 

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April 5, 2022 · 4:41 pm

Update on major developments

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

12/2/22

26/1/22

10/1/22

 

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