Local news and opportunities to get involved from your local Labour and Co-operative councillors in Thurlow Park.
Please have a look at our video about the Norwood Road and Tulse Hill Gyratory improvement plans. Resident workshops over the weekend showed there is a great interest in, and commitment by, the local community to become involved in making a real difference to the future of the area.
We are starting work on a
project which will bring real improvements to Norwood Road and Tulse
Hill, with funding from Transport for London. There is an opportunity to
come together with others from your community on 6th and 7th of June to share ideas and come up with projects that can make a real difference to the area.
Don’t worry if you haven’t been involved in a neighbourhood project
before. Just come along and meet other people from your community who
want to make a difference. There will be plenty of people on hand to
make you feel welcome, answer any questions you might have and help you
to turn your ideas into live projects.
Not only will you be able to get involved in making your area a
better place to live, you will also be offered training and support to
develop and realise your ideas. Who knows? You may end up running your
own community project.
The sessions will be at the Old Library on Saturday 6th June (10-4pm) and Sunday 7th June (11-2pm). The Sunday session is being run as part of the Norwood Feast and you can also find us at a stall near St Luke’s Church.
Don’t worry if you can’t come to both days, or even to all of one
session. Just come along and join in for as long as you can, you’ll be
very welcome.
Light refreshments will be available on both days and children are
welcome too. If you would like to book a space or have any questions,
please contact abirley@lambeth.gov.uk or georgina@jameswilsoncoffee.co.uk. Alternatively, just turn up on the day!
During a themed debate at Lambeth Council Town Hall Anna spoke at length about how the Council can build a Lambeth borough that is sustainable, green and one that has an effective transport system.
Anna explained that she had used Twitter to gauge public opinion on transport, and noted that the key issue was safety, with driver injuries falling as cyclist injuries rose, while clean air was also a problem. She also raised the fact that children and young people needed to be persuaded to use sustainable transport, and that policies such as the 20mph speed limit and schools encouraging walking and cycling could help to achieve this. Anna also commented that while councils had made achievements in changing people’s methods of transport, she expressed the need for a grass roots approach, as had been seen in Tulse Hill.
Tree Shepherd are organising a campaign for a new monthly ‘pop-up market in the pm’ at Station Rise Tulse Hill. It’s called ‘Twist on Station Rise’ (@TwistRise) and follows several months of local campaigning by the Norwood and Tulse Hill Forums working together with Lambeth councillors and local businesses.
They are applying for the Mayor’s High Street Fund and currently seeking crowd-funding support from local interested parties and stakeholders. For more information or to pledge go to – http://spacehive.com/twist-pop-up-on-station-rise-tulse-hill?searchText=twist
Last summer, we helped to secure £5million to improve the Tulse Hill gyratory over the next five years as part of the Mayor of London’s gyratory improvement programme, and a further £2million to improve Norwood Road.
We have been working with Lambeth officers and Transport for London to make sure the community takes the steering wheel for this – we hope that you and your neighbours will be part of the project. Even if you’ve not been involved in something like this before, there are lots of opportunities to contribute, lead and get training whatever your experience.
We’re kicking things off this Tuesday with a Supper Club at the James Wilson Coffee Shop in Tulse Hill, hosted by the Norwood and Tulse Hill Forums – please join us, and bring a dish if you can. There will be plenty of opportunity to discuss the project and how you can get involved, or just enjoy the food and meet your neighbours.
The first community consultation of the major works involving Norwood Road and the Tulse Hill gyratory will be at the James Wilson coffee shop – 357 Norwood Road, on Tuesday 14th April from 6.30pm
Come along and have your input about improving Norwood Road which has been allocated £2m funding over the next two years by Transport for London. Funding for developing ideas for removing the gyratory has also been approved by Transport for London, and so we hope there will be lots of interest.
How can this area be improved to benefit you? We have a fantastic opportunity to really influence how our local communty will look and feel, so please come along and have your say!
Transport for London (TfL) has appointed CVU to replace the traffic lights at Norwood Road junction with Chatsworth Way. Works will be taking place on the footway. To ensure the safety of road users temporary traffic lights will be deployed on site during these works.
The Traffic Signals that have reached the end of their 15 year life cycle and the modernisation of the traffic signals will improve reliability and maintenance.
A1215 Norwood Road junction with Chatsworth Way is an important route for through road uses, and as such is a difficult route to maintain. The work has a number of phases in order to reduce the amount of disruption caused and to maintain road capacity as much as possible at all times.
The improvement works are planned to start on 02 March 2015 and continue for approximately eight weeks depending on the weather conditions. The works will be carried out in phases, with day time footway works taking place Monday to Friday between the hours of 08:00 and 18:00. Saturday works will be taking place between the hours of 08:00 and 13:00.
Should you require further information or an update during the delivery of these works please contact Streets Customer Services department on 0343 222 1234 or email: customerservices@tfl.gov.uk or via the web at www.tfl.gov.uk/contact.
Thurlow Park Labour are backing the campaign being spearheaded by local residents to reduce speeding on Norwood Road.
Between Tulse Hill and Brockwell Park some cars often go dangerously fast creating a risk for residents and the wider community. At this months Council meeting Cllr Fred Cowell presented a petition from 250 local residents calling for greater speed prevention measures along the Norwood road.
Thurlow Park Cllr’s will carry on working with local residents to tackle speeding in the ward as we know this is concern to residents. Use our Speedwatch – https://thurlowparklabour.org/speedcheck – to report any speeding that you see.
The first ever West Norwood Soup – micro grants for local projects takes place on Thursday 29 January between 6:30 and 8:30pm. The event costs £10.
Otter Trading
17 Knights Hill
London SE27 0HS
Buy a ticket and get a delicious hot meal plus one vote for a project. Come and meet friends, support a high street business, and help a local project develop.
3 projects will pitch on the night. 50% of the ticket price goes to a local cafe to cover the meal and 50% goes to the projects.
There is growing concern among residents in Thurlow Park about road safety. We want our streets to be safe for everyone to walk and cycle so have developed this tool for residents to report dangerous driving and speeding.
This puts the power back into your hands – your reports will go straight into our inboxes and let us know every time there is an issue.
This information will really help us to take action. We can notify the police when there are regular dangerous incidents, use the data to identify hotspots where we can target speed checks and traffic enforcement, and we can easily produce evidence when we make the case for traffic calming measures or speed cameras. See – http://www.thurlowparkspeedcheck.co.uk
We hope you find it useful – if you have any suggestions on how we can improve the site, please get in touch.
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