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Tulse Hill Forum confidence building day

Free event for parents/carers. Highly informative, fun & interactive,

Monday, 16 February from 3.30 – 6.30pm
Venue: High Trees Community Development Trust (corner of Tulse Hill and Upper Tulse Hill) SW2 2NS

This highly educational and interactive workshop focuses on anti-bullying, child protection, anger management and peer mentoring and is delivered through a series of role plays, games and movie clips.

It equips you, as a parent or carer, with life skills and provides you with practical ‘step by step’ techniques to reduce bullying or anger to which your child may be exposed, be it in school, via internet or friendship groups.

It is designed to help you understand how can you, as a parent / carer / professional, help your child confront and overcome this very negative behaviour. This workshop is conducted by Julie Wilkinson who has been a pioneer in this field and has experience in child protection for over 20 years.

This workshop is free of charge. All you need do is register, as spaces are limited! Fun activities for older children and crèche for little ‘uns!.

To register please contact:

Eva Christmas, Roupell Park 07983 584 767
Aileen Garden, Tulse Hill Forum 07886 562 686
Sarah Coyte, Lambeth Council 07852 916 199

Refreshments will be provided.

Jobs available at the soon-to-open Tulse Hill Hotel

The Tulse Hill Hotel is hiring, ahead of their reopening in a few weeks – a great opportunity for local full time and part time jobs.

You can join Jemma, the new General manager, at their recruitment open day on 14th October at 11am-4pm at the Florence (131-133 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill), to find out more. Please send Jemma your CV and confirm your attendance in advance on jemma.kiddle@hotmail.com

Tulse Hill West Norwood Art Trail

On the first weekend of October artists and crafts people across the borough of Lambeth will be opening their studio and work spaces to the public. Doors will be open from 10am to 6pm, 4th and 5th October and admission will be free. Lambeth Open showcases the fantastic range of creative talent tucked away in our borough and is a great way to discover the various art spaces too often hidden in your neighbourhoods. Visitors will be able to see inside the artist’s studios and exhibition spaces for a unique personal insight into the individual creative processes. See the Norwood events below.

1. Portico Gallery – 23a Knights Hill, London SE27 0HS
2. Michael Burles – Parade Mews, London SE27 9AX
3. Carolyn Moon – 6 Crosby Walk, London SW2 2NN

Tulse Hill gyratory – get involved!

Last year we petitioned the Mayor to invest in Tulse Hill as we felt the gyratory was dangerous, noisy and unpleasant. We were delighted when Transport for London agreed to spend £5m improving the junction and roads.

We have worked with officers at Lambeth to identify ways for local people to be involved in deciding how the gyratory should change. We will be working with residents over the next few months to put together plans which we will then put to Transport for London to model. Once they have turned our ideas into something workable, there will be further consulation, and we hope that construction will begin within the next couple of years.

We should also get funding to improve the rest of Norwood Road from the corner by Tesco, where pavements have just been completed, to Tulse Hill. We’d love to know your priorities for improvements along here too – from pavements to markets.

If you would like to have your say, we are looking for local people, groups and businesses to get involved! Please send us an email or get in touch with your ideas!

Plans submitted for the Tulse Hill Hotel

An application to reopen the Tulse Hill Hotel, which has been closed for a while, has been submitted by Greene King. They have plans to invest in the space to make more use of the garden, improve the food service and offer 9 guest bedrooms.

For further details, please take a look at the Lambeth planning portal – http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-applications-and-policies/viewing-current-planning and look for planning applications 14/2219 and 14/02231.

Greene King have also applied for a variation to the licence, as this is necessary to carry out their plans to increase use of the garden. Comments are due by 30th June and you can take a look online for more information – http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/business-services-rates-and-licensing/licence-comments/current-licence-applications

Proposed development on Avenue Park Road

On Saturday 29 March Cllr. Ann Kingsbury alongside a large number of residents of Avenue Park Road and Maley Avenue met the Chair of Planning Applications Committee (PAC) – Cllr. Diana Morris – on Saturday morning when she visited the site of the proposed Avenue Park Road development.

The proposal to build a large block of flats alongside the railway line at Tulse Hill Station, comprising 42 dwellings and 2 commercial premises, which will extend from the South Circular to roughly the junction of Maley Avenue and Avenue Park Road has caused concern to local people.

Site visits are common for large developments. One or more members of PAC attend in order to see the physical context of a planning application before it goes to the committee the following week. On this occasion only Cllr. Morris was present from PAC though she was supported by 2 of the planning officers and a representative from the developers – Mayfair 500.

The purpose of the visit was an opportunity for local residents to discuss the proposal and to point out any specific issues /concerns that they want considered by the PAC. Cllr. Morris was asked to look at the site from Avenue Park Road, from the station and from local gardens to assess the impact of the proposals and to tour nearby streets where residents had asked her to consider the effect on a district already under parking stress.

The PAC meets to consider the Mayfair 500 application on 1st April 2014.

£5million for improving the Tulse Hill gyratory

We want to ensure that Tulse Hill is a safe, pleasant place to live, work and cycle. Currently, the busy traffic on the gyratory makes it unsafe and there have been a number of accidents. Your Labour Action Team have been campaigning for the improvement of the junction since 2010.

In October, Val Shawcross AM presented a petition, collected by Thurlow Park ward Cllr Ann Kingsbury and local campaigners; calling for TfL to give Tulse Hill gyratory urgent priority for road safety measures, following a long standing issue with collisions and accidents.

Many of you signed that petition last summer and we are delighted that TfL have listened to us and announced a £5 million investment to redesign the junction as part of the London-wide junction improvement programme.

A response to the petition from the Mayor of London has now been received and you can read this here. Val said ‘I’m delighted to see that TfL have allocated £5million of funding for improvements in the Tulse Hill area’

Improvements include –

1. Removing the current one-way gyratory
2. A new road system which prioritises the needs of pedestrians and cyclists
3. Intermediate measurers to improve safety until major measures can be implemented

Thank you to everyone who signed our petition and joined the campaign. This investment will greatly improve the lives of residents living close to and working around the gyratory.