Have your say on Lambeth Draft Tenancy Strategy and Affordable Housing Statement

Lambeth Council wants your views on a draft Tenancy Strategy and Affordable Housing Statement. Share your views by completing the survey. The consultation runs from 27 January to 8 March 2020. Have your say now.

Street parties – applications now open!

Thinking about summer and how you plan to spend your days having fun in the sun? Look no further as you can now apply to Lambeth Council to run your very own street party in 2020!

Rosendale Road to Gipsy Hill: proposed Healthy Route

Lambeth Council has developed a range of improvements for walking and cycling along Rosendale Road, as part of the Brockwell Park to Gipsy Hill Healthy Route project and they want your views on the designs.

The main changes proposed on Rosendale Road with the planned design are:

Norwood Bus Garage wins Gold!

The Norwood Bus Garage on Ernest Avenue won Gold at the 2019 UK Bus Awards! Arriva London South won the award for top London Garage in recognition of “best practice, high quality staff and outstanding standards of customer service in the industry”. The team at Norwood, is described as “continually striving for excellence and having recently undergone a transformation programme to help improve operational performance, it has a strong focus on the development of its colleagues and the whole team works closely with the local community.”

Thames Water Norwood Road Water Mains works: update

Thames Water have provided the following update on the ongoing works and temporary bus stops in Rosendale Road:

Crystal Palace Festival 2020

The dates have been announced for the 2020 volunteer-powered, hugely creative and fun Crystal Palace Festival. The festival is completely reliable on volunteers and monthly volunteer meet ups have been organised so you can get involved.

Norwood Community Safety Partnership - details of next meeting

The next review meeting of the Norwood Community Safety Partnership norwoodforum.org/norwood-community-safety-partnership will be on 11 February, 7.15 pm for prompt start at 7.30 and hard stop at 9.30.

The Advocacy Academy

The Advocacy Academy is a transformational Social Justice Youth Organising Movement for young people from South London who are passionate about creating a more fair, just and equal society. It’s the only one of its kind in the UK, but follows in the footsteps of a long line of youth movements who have changed the world.The deadline for applications to the class of 2021 at the Advocacy Academy is Midnight on Sunday 9 February.

Your commitment will include three school holiday residential retreats and every Friday evening from September – January in Brixton.

Crystal Palace International Film Festival

The film festival returns with:

120 films: 11 World Premieres, 14 European premieres; 12 UK premieres and 19 London premieres
Q&As with filmmakers from around the world.
Food and Drink, including Vietnamese Street Food and Crystal Palace's own Comfort & Joy.
4 Fabulous venues.
Johnny Vegas presenting the CPIFF Awards

Local police meetings: January – March 2020

The Metropolitan Police have made further changes to a number of the planned local meetings, and the following updated information is taken mostly from the three Safer Neighbourhood Team websites today (23 January).

These meetings are an opportunity to raise issues informally with our local police teams - at public meetings and drop in sessions over the coming weeks. If you are not sure which ward you live in, click on the following links (which will take you to a ward map):

Norwood Forum

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