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Local councillor , Jackie Meldrum, outside 210 Knights Hill

The London Fire Brigade’s  proposal to move West Norwood’s  fire station to a new site at 210  Knights Hill was thrown at by councillors on Lambeth’s Planning committee on Tuesday night. Objectors argued the fire station would create too much extra noise & nuisance in quiet residential streets. For details of the meeting see this section on Lambeth’s website.

Local councillor Jane Pickard backed objectors who said the Fire Brigade  was wrong to think they could not modernise  the existing fire station at 445 Norwood Road after it was listed as a  building of historical and special interest in 2006. During discussions with the Fire Brigade over the last few months it became clear that fire fighter training could be very noisy for residents living close by to the new station.

The Planning committee agreed with objectors and fire chiefs said they would now look again at  converting the station at 445 Norwood Road rather than moving elsewhere.

Jane said  “ This is really the best result for everyone. The fire fighters can get a better working conditions inside the existing building,   the  attractive front of the building could be preserved,  West Norwood will not suffer a derelict listed building which may be hard to convert to flats  and residents of Knights Hill neighbourhood will be left in peace & quiet.”