A message from Friends of the Durning Library

The Durning Library is an important part of our local community.

Lambeth Council is currently considering the future organisation of its library service. We know that there are to be severe budget cuts and if the community does not step in, our library may not survive.

As the library’s Friends, we need your help to decide how best to plan for its future, and so we need to hear your views, whether or not you use the library.

Please complete this short survey by clicking on the link below – it will not take long and it is important that as many local people as possible have their say.

www.durninglibraryfriends.org.uk/survey

Paper copies are available at the Durning library if needed, or you can download a PDF version from the website. Please complete the survey by 30th January. And please forward it to anyone else you think might be interested.

We shall be holding a public meeting at the Durning Library on Monday
27 February to enable everyone to give us their views and the results of the survey will contribute to this discussion.

So, PLEASE complete this questionnaire, either on paper or on-line, and return it to us by Monday 30 January.

Thank you in advance,

Priscilla Baines
Chairman, Friends of the Durning Library

Friends of Durning Library

(Our brand new website www.durninglibraryfriends.org.uk is now live – visit it to complete the questionnaire and to find out what is going on at the Durning library).

Planning application for 30-60 South Lambeth Road

An application has been received, following public consultation for:

Redevelopment of the existing site to provide a 32 storey mixed-use building comprising new leisure uses (swimming pool & gymnasium) and 572 units for student residential accommodation. Provision of refuse and cycle storage, disabled parking and associated landscaping.

http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=LV83R5BOHV000

Email any comments to jfullelove@lambeth.gov.uk

Let us know your thoughts on the development on ovallabour@gmail.com

Update of the Fire License Review

As we've previously mentioned the Metropolitan Police asked Lambeth Council to review Fire nightclubs license. We submitted our views, noting our desire for Fire to be a better neighbour to residents and spoke on the day for residents.

The committee ruled that Fire should loose its license for 6 weeks and a number of conditions were added to the license. The club was closed until 15th December 2011.

As part of the concessions from the club they committed to sharing the numbers of the duty manager residents so they could be contacted whenever the club is open. The numbers are:

07500668547 and 02077355676

Full details of the decision can be found here: http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/moderngov/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=2387

Claylands Green Freshview

We had a great saturday morning with residents and officers sprucing up Claylands Green.

There's a great write up from the Oval partnership;

http://ovalpartnership.org.uk/ovalblog/2011/12/claylands-green-action-day/

Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea open days: November 24-25

Two open days are being held next week about the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea redevelopments on 24-25 November.

The multi-million pound redevelopments that make up Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea, or VNEB, form one of London’s largest regeneration programmes – second only to the Olympic site. Over the next twenty years major investment will transform the area bringing with it new businesses and jobs, public spaces, homes and leisure facilities.

This is a complex and long term project with different types of improvements taking place over a number of years. The open days on 24 and 25 November will bring the key people from each area of expertise into one location, making it as easy as possible for local people and local groups to find the information that interests them most.

The VNEB open day events are free and open to all and a great chance to discover:
o The most up-to-date information about the VNEB redevelopments.
o An update on the Northern line extension that will link the whole area to the Tube network.
o A chance to learn more about proposed improvements for pedestrians, cyclists, and local public transport users.
o Information about planned improvements to existing streets and a new linear park.
o A 3D model of the whole VNEB area.
o An opportunity to discuss proposals with the VNEB strategy board.

The open days will be held between 3pm-8pm on Thursday 24 November and 8am-6pm on Friday 25 November at Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8 5NQ.

The nearest tube and rail station is Vauxhall. Market Towers is the tall building on the south-western side of the Vauxhall one-way system. Use Exit 6 from Vauxhall tube station and it is the first building across Nine Elms Lane.

For more information visit: www.lambeth.gov.uk/vneb



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