Alan Johnson MP at All Saints Church

Dulwich Books in partnership with the Family Rights Group are delighted to host Alan Johnson MP in the Crypt of All Saints Church on Lovelace Road on Thursday 5th June, where he will be discussing his memoir ‘This Boy.’ Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Family Rights Group (www.frg.org.uk) of which Alan is a patron.

This event and will be held from 7pm in the Crypt of All Saints Church, Lovelace Road, West Dulwich, London, SE21 8JY. Please see more here – http://arounddulwich.co.uk/alan-johnson-mp-saints-church-dulwich/

Tickets are £10 each (£8 under 18s concession) and are available online here, by email dulwichbooks@yahoo.co.uk, by phone 020 8670 1920, or in person from Dulwich Books, 6 Croxted Road, Dulwich, SE21 8SW.

Supporting the Portuguese community

Max, Anna and Fred met with the local the Portuguese Socialist Party in Norwood and discussed a number of issues impacting upon the local Portuguese community.

Meeting at Cafe Castelo we spoke with the owner, members of the Portuguese community and Alcino Francisco, leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party in London.

We will continue to support the Portuguese community in Thurlow Park and the wider West Norwood area and hope to build ever closer links with other groups in the ward over the coming months and years.

Progress update on the Edible Bus Stop

As you can see, the Edible Bus Stop is starting to take shape. West Norwood will see this garden as part of a project on the route from Clapham Common to Crystal Palace.
It’s being constructed in the pavement of Norwood Road – between Lancaster Avenue and Elmcourt Road.

Volunteers will be needed to help plant the garden at the end of May with a grand opening in early June. And throughout 2014, regular gardening afternoons 1pm-4pm will be held on the first Sunday of every month – on West Norwood Feast days.

To get in touch please contact – west_norwood@theediblebusstop.org

Norwood’s new leisure centre

It’s exciting to see that the new West Norwood Leisure Centre will be opening this summer! Located a one minute walk from the West Norwood station, the new West Norwood Leisure centre will boast a high tech modern quality gym, a swimming pool and an exercise studio. Memberships are now on sale, with no joining fee until 1st June 2014. Pop into our Membership Sales Office and speak to a member of staff, or join online here.

Membership office:
The Old Library Centre
14-16 Knights Hill 
West Norwood SE27 0HY
Opening times: 
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 09:30 – 17:30

Wednesday: 09:30 – 20:00

Saturday: 09:30 – 17:00

Deronda triangle CPZ

Thurlow Park ward Labour candidates (Max, Anna and Fred) have been working with residents of the Deronda Triangle Area Residents’ Association to support their work as they call upon the Mayor and Council to reduce the controlled parking hours from 10 hours (08:30 – 18:30) to 2 hours a day. Alongside residents we have been collecting signatures and making residents aware of the petition.

Parking is one of the many traffic related issues we hear about on the doorstep as we talk to residents. Since 2010 Labour have made a unprecedented capital investment in upgrading and improving Lambeth’s highways. Over 140 roads and pavements have beneffited from almost £50m worth of works. We will go further in the next four years and have committed to tackling pot holes and cracked and uneven pavments along more than 130 miles of roads and pavements.

Council tax frozen – again

Lambeth Labour will freeze your council tax for the sixth year running. Show your support by signing our pledges here: http://tinyurl.com/m5vjq2p

Labour Lambeth is on your side. Our approach is to be ambitious for everyone and rooted in fairness. In tough economic times we are working with residents to get things done.

Together we will continue to make Lambeth a place we are all proud of and because we listen to you, your priorities are our pledges.

Space for Cycling

We have been very pleased to see so many Thurlow Park residents writing to us about improving cycle safety and welcome the excellent work that the London Cycling Campaign has done in helping to coordinate some of the priorities of cyclists across Lambeth. The Labour Council have compiled a complete list of those priorities by ward across the borough, which we would be happy to share. As soon as we have more information about your proposal to make routes to Turney and Rosendale schools safer we will update you.

In the meantime, the Labour Council is working hard to make the borough as cycle friendly as possible. We are pleased to be the third most popular borough for cyclists in London and it is a Labour manifesto commitment to make Lambeth the most cycling friendly borough in London. Some steps we taking in this direction include;

Labour are committed to making a record investment in our road and pavement network. In the next 4 years alone Lambeth are going to repave 130 miles of highways and footpaths to help eliminate potholes and other obstacles that pose a threat to cyclists.

We are working with neighbouring Southwark to introduce a borough-wide 20MPH zone.

In Thurlow Park, many of you signed our petition last summer calling for greater safety measures around the Tulse Hill Gyratory. We managed to secure a £5 million investment to redesign the junction to make safer and more cycle friendly.

Under Labour, Lambeth were the first borough in the UK to introduce secure, covered cycle hangars on streets and estates for residents without spaces to store their cycles and we are looking to expand this provision.

In Thurlow Park we are working on improving road safety in and around the Rosendale School area to allow everyone to cycle safely, including better traffic monitoring and the potential addition of a cycle path.