At Norwood Forum we’re all looking forward very much to the return in April of the free film festival. What recent releases or classics will be chosen this year? Perhaps a chance to see those films subject to a very limited theatrical release – Roma or the Ballad of Buster Scruggs?

In the meantime, there’s a call out to all short film makers:

In November 2018 an application was received by Lambeth to demolish the existing funeral directors and beauty salon at 382a – 384 Norwood Road and erect a two to four-storey building with basement to create two commercial units and 12 residential units.

Transport for London (TfL) are faced with funding difficulties and are not able to commit to the removal of the Tulse Hill gyratory system.  They are happy to continue with the design and modelling stages over the next 3 - 6 months and prepare the business case but the project will then be put on hold.  TfL say they may reprioritise the Tulse Hill project if circumstances change but this is of course unpredictable.

Over the past nine months or so, Norwood Forum has been raising the poor cleanliness of the West Norwood town centre with Veolia (the Council’s contractor), Council officers, Councillors, and Station to Station.  The stretch of pavement opposite West Norwood station had become a 24/7 dumping ground for local commercial and domestic waste, and this in turn attracted regular domestic and builder’s waste from elsewhere. Waste was apparently put out on the pavement in unsuitable containers and next to litter bins on Norwood Road, and this resulted in staining of the new pavements.