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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August 31, 2024 · 5:33 pm

New flats at 2 Thornlaw Road

Developers have submitted plans to replace the Trinity Baptist Church SE27 0SA  on the corner of Thornlaw Road and Knights Hill, opposite the bus garage.

The plan is for 20 new homes  ( 5 x 1 bedroom, 11 x 2 bedrooms,  4 x 3 bedrooms). 7 homes for shared ownership make up the affordable housing. The proposed building is 4 storeys high plus a basement for community use and disabled parking.

To see the plans in detail and comment please go to the Lambeth Planning portal quoting ref 24/02054

The deadline for comments is 20th September  and any decision for approval will be made by councillors at the Lambeth Planning Committee.

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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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August 2, 2024 · 10:57 am

Summer of Food & Fun

Lambeth council is running a Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) Programme from Monday 29 July to Friday 30 August 2024.  It’s aimed at helping local families with children and young people aged 4 to 16 including SEND children.

 

 

 

 

 

Activities in the Norwood area:

  • AA2ndvoice CIC, Community Hall, Chatsworth Baptist Church
  • Allstars Activity CIC, Crown Lane Primary School
  • Ashdon Jazz Academy, The Old Library, 14-16 Knights Hill
  • BiG (Besty’s Inspirational Guidance) C.I.C, Rosendale Playing Fields
  • OurParks LTD, Julian’s Primary School. 226, Leigham Court Road
  • Parallel Youth Enterprise St Martin-in-the-Fields School, Tulse Hill
  • Rathbone Society, The Old Library, 14-16 Knights Hill
  • Rathbone Society, Central Hill Community Youth Hub
  • Upper Norwood Library Trust 39 Westow Hill

For more information and contact details of activities throughout Lambeth see:

https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/summer-activities-around-lambeth/summer-food-fun

See our previous post 13/7/22

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July 24, 2024 · 2:22 pm

Temporary road closures this summer

A set of road closures are planned  for works by Thames Water over the summer holiday period when traffic is reduced.

Casewick Road will be closed for 5 weeks either at its junction with St Julians Farm Road or the junction with Thornlaw Road between Thursday 25th July and Saturday 31st August 2024.  St Julians Farm Road, at its junction with Knights Hill, will be closed Wednesday  21st August to Sunday 25th August. Only one junction will be closed at a time to allow for short local diversions. See map above.

For any queries please speak to the contractors on site or phone Thames Water on 0800 316 9800 quoting project ref BB70048918

Thames Water‘s sewer replacement project will close Leigham Vale for 6 weeks between Friday 26th July and Tuesday 3rd September .  For the first few days Knollys Road at Leigham Court Rd will be closed too.  See our previous post 14/7/24

A 6 month water mains replacement project is starting in Palace Road on  Monday 29th July when the road outside the school will be closed.

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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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July 14, 2024 · 12:04 pm

Helen Hayes MP

Helen Hayes was re-elected as MP for Dulwich & West Norwood on July 4th.

27,356 voters supported Helen – giving her 60.3% of the vote and putting Helen in the top 8 constituencies nationally for vote share. Her majority is 18,789 on a turnout of 57%.

See detailed election results for Dulwich & West Norwood  in this pdf.

Helen is a popular MP and was congratulated by many constituents at West Norwood Feast markets on Sunday 7th.

Constituents can meet Helen at her advice surgeries starting in September. For details please email : helen.hayes.mp@parliament.uk

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May 24, 2024 · 8:19 pm

Changes to our primary schools

Fenstanton primary school

Lambeth council wants to hear from children,  parents and the wider community about important changes to its primary schools.

London’s birth rate is dropping significantly and boroughs like Lambeth now have too many school places.

Across Lambeth there are over 500 spare places in reception classes (children aged 4 and 5 ) in September 2024. That is the equivalent of 18 full reception classes of 30 children.  Schools are funded by government on the number of children attending the school. So there will have to be changes to Lambeth’s primary schools to stop the schools getting into debt.

West Norwood schools are in the ‘south east’ area which has 114 spare reception places. A proposed change to the ‘south east’ area is the closure of Fenstanton school  SW2 3PW in 2026.

Lambeth’s schools team is consulting children,  parents and the wider community with a closing date of on Friday the 14th June. For details see:

https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/consultations/have-your-say-primary-school-places

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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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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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