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Streetworks improvements begin next month with Norwood Road pavement resurfacing

Work will shortly be starting to resurface the pavements along Norwood Road, as the first phase of Streetworks, the community led project to improve West Norwood and Tulse Hill. This includes both sides of Norwood Road between Leigham Vale and Elmcourt Road.  It will start in early August and will be carried out in phases as follows:

• 1st Phase: Norwood Road (east side only) opposite Leigham Vale to Avenue Park Road – approximately one week

• 2nd Phase: Norwood Road (east side only) between Avenue Park Road and Elmcourt Road – approximately three to four weeks

• 3rd Phase: Norwood Road (west side only) between Leigham Vale and  opposite Elmcourt Road – approximately five weeks

In the letter sent to residents /businesses Lambeth states; 

We are aware that many of you live or work near the affected roads and we will do our best to minimise disruption.  We will have signs to inform the public that businesses are open as usual and to ensure that there will always be access to premises while improvement works are progressing. There are no scheduled road closures as part of the work however the parking bays outside Elmcourt Pharmacy will be suspended during the works on the west side of Norwood Road (the last phase of works).

We appreciate that these improvement works will cause some short term disruption however we will ensure that access and servicing needs are catered for. Should you have any queries regarding these works please contact Debbie Parker on DParker@lambeth.gov.uk or contact one of your local councillors

There are other changes proposed to improve West Norwood as part of Streetworks – you can see the plans at a public exhibition this Wednesday between 6.30-8pm at the Old Library, Knights Hill

Open Orchard party tonight

Open Orchard is celebrating the end of the tree planting season with a party tonight Friday 13 May, 6-8pm at the L’arche
Garden Lodge, 21 Idmiston Road, West Norwood, SE27 9HE

Whether you bought a tree, sponsored the Open Orchard’s work, got involved in planting, tweeted, liked or simply supported what they do, this party is for you.

There will be a potluck dinner at the lovely L’Arche Garden Lodge on Idmiston
Road, West Norwood- one of the orchard locations from 2015. Please bring a dish
to share – Open Orchard will provide some cider, made from apples some of
the volunteers picked last year. And for those that want to carry on the celebration,
they plan to head to a local pub afterwards. 

So they know you are coming, and to avoid everyone bringing quiche, please RSVP here.

Projects like the Open Orchard are what makes us so proud to be councillors in Thurlow Park and West Norwood – this is a community where people get involved and make positive changes happen. We want to do all we can to support community projects like this, so if you have an idea but you’re not sure of the next steps, please get in touch.

South Circular crash: Lidl lorry overturns at Tulse Hill gyratory

Yesterday an HGV overturned at the junction of Norwood Road and Christchurch Road, outside the Coop. The Lidl lorry crashed at about 11am and it took most of the day to move it and get traffic flowing again. The driver is apparently fine, suffering only minor injuries.

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As your local councillors, we have consistently campaigned for better safety at the Tulse Hill gyratory. vehicles travel too fast around the one way system and the busy roads break up the town centre. Before our election, prompted by an incident of a speeding car coming off the road and into the front room of a house, we worked with council colleagues and the community to organise a petition calling on the Mayor of London to invest in improving the space. We were successful in getting a commitment of £5million to redesign the space, and a further £2million to continue improvements the length of Norwood Road going south.

The project has been a community led effort, and a huge amount of time, skills and imagination have been contributed to coming up with a design. At monthly co-design sessions, 50 plus residents have been taking part in detailed design conversations, and with our estates, schools, youth groups and community organisations we have mobilised hundreds of you to have your say and get involved in training, local procurement, walkabouts and creative projects. 

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The consultation for the Norwood Road design will begin after the Mayoral elections in May, and work should begin by the summer. The Tulse Hill gyratory is a bigger project and will be completed by 2020. We are excited that we will soon have a safer, more pleasant town centre, and that it will reflect the ideas and aspirations of local residents.

If you want to get involved, contact hello@streetworks.london

South Circular crash: Lidl lorry overturns at Tulse Hill gyratory

The Norwood FEAST is back! To enable the monthly event to take place Lambeth have put in place a temporarily ban vehicles from entering or waiting in that length of Chatsworth Way which lies between Norwood Road and Dalton Street on the following Sunday’s (i) 3rd April; (ii) 1st May; (iii) 5th June; (iv) 3rd July; (v) 7th August; (vi) 4th September; (vii) 2nd October; (viii) 6th November and (ix) 4th December 2016.

If you’d like any further information about the FEAST see – http://westnorwoodfeast.com/

The Edible Bus Stop on Norwood Road opened this weekend. Anna went to help plant with Cllr Braithwaite, cabinet member for sustainability and the environment, and Poppy Rupra, youth cabinet member for sustainability (and the Blue Peter gardener!)

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.