Update from Friend of Kennington Park: Cleaver Sq Fete SUNDAY 27 MAY

The annual Fete will be held  in CLEAVER SQ on 27 May 12 noon- 4 pm.

The Friends are taking a table as usual, to tell local people what we are doing and our plans for the future.

Come along and renew your sub and find out more.

The committee would welcome more helpers on the day, to hand out Park Life and bring in potential members.

If you are willing to give an hour or so of your time, please e-mail friends@kenningtonpark.org.

Vauxhall area SPD update

Update from Lambeth Council:

Thank you to everyone who came to our open days in March or responded to the online exhibition.

Your feedback is helping us produce a draft Vauxhall area supplementary planning document (SPD). We expect to take this draft to the Council’s Cabinet on 9 July 2012 and to undertake a statutory consultation shortly after.

You can view highlights of the consultation feedback online at www.lambeth.gov.uk/vauxhallspd

We will of course keep you updated on the progress of the SPD and let you know the details of future consultation activity.

Best wishes

The VNEB team at Lambeth

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

Nighttime roadworks notice for TFL to affect Vauxhall

Vauxhall Bridge Joint Replacement Scheme

Transport for London (TfL) has appointed RingwayJacobs to carry out expansion joint replacement works at Vauxhall Bridge. The scheme is to undertake essential maintenance of the bridge which involves replacing the existing expansion joints. Upon completion, these works will reduce the need for further unplanned emergency works on the Bridge.

These will be carried out overnight from 24 March 2012 and are scheduled to be completed by 06 April 2012. Ringway Jacobs will be working from 20.30 until 06.00 Sunday to Friday nights and 0800 until 18.00 on Saturday and Sunday.

This scheme will be carried out using lane restrictions on the bridge and bus lanes will be suspended as necessary to help traffic flow. All traffic management will be removed at the end of each working night.

We anticipate moderate disruption to vehicular traffic and to mitigate this, we will have advance warning signs in the area to pre-warn drivers of these works.

TfL’s London Streets Traffic Control Centre (LSTCC) monitor London’s roads 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the responsibility of keeping London moving. The operators in the LSTCC will monitor this location during the works and if necessary remotely change our traffic signals to help ease congestion. Whilst we appreciate that a certain level of disruption is inevitable, TfL has worked closely with Ringway Jacobs in order to reduce the impact of these works on road users, local people and businesses as far as possible.

I apologise in advance for any inconvenience that these essential works may cause. Should you require further information or an update during the delivery of these works please contact our Streets Customer Services department on 0845 305 1234 or via our website at www.tfl.gov.uk/contact.

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