As the West Norwood Free Film Festival closes on Saturday 27 April (8:30pm) with an outdoor screening of Spider Man at the West Norwood Health & Leisure Centre, the Herne Hill Free Film Festival opens.

Veolia, Lambeth Council’s contractor, advises:

"Only 30% of Lambeth households are using the kerbside food recycling service - even though its so easy to recycle. So we’re making it easier still to remember what, where, when & how to recycle food waste. Lambeth’s food waste recycling service has been running for almost six years. We think it’s time to remind everyone about how easy it is to recycle food waste, and give people a helping hand to get started. Its available for all kerbside properties to use.

Lambeth Council receives a number of applications each summer from event organisations to hold festivals, sports events or other activities in Brockwell Park and other locations. In the last few years, especially with Love Box and Field Day last year, there have been particular concerns to the local community of noise, anti-social behaviour and the impact on the park.

Last summer Field Day and Mighty Hoopla held a three day music festival over the first weekend of June.  This year, Mighty Hoopla has applied to hold a two-day event: 8-9 June 2019 with around 25,000 people over two days and a smaller event footprint than last year.  The second day would be a new funk, soul and jazz festival called Cross the Tracks.

One community engagement session has already been held, and an additional community engagement session is now to be held (see details below).