RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 12 October 2007
From
ENews/Events
Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT
RCDT Website Regular Activities Page. There have been several
changes to the activities so for the time being this page is being
taken off the website. If you have a regular activity you want
included in the new page please email
info@rcdt.org.
OCTOBER IS BLACK HISTORY
MONTH
For the Lambeth
Programme see
www.lambeth.gov.uk/News/100107BlackHistoryMonth2007.htm
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THIS WEEKEND 13 & 14 OCTOBER
Apologies to Roots & Shoots for saying their
event was Saturday in the last edition |
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Saturday. 10am-3pm. Oval Farmers Market. St Marks
Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 11.30am-2pm. Dyeworks Saturday class:
Blending and spinning alpaca. |
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Saturday. 3pm & 7.45pmTyphoon Live.
East Asian plays in the UK:
Getting Married & Dogs.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval |
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Sunday 11am-4pm. Roots & Shoots Apple
Day.
Apple displays – 80 apple
varieties from the Brogdale Horticultural Trust (sold at end
of day); apple juice pressing; producers’ and makers’
market, art for children. story-telling, corn dollies and
the Corn Queene, “All Our Apple Days” film, wildlife garden,
refreshments, barbecue including veggie. Adults £1. Children
free. Roots & Shoots. Walnut |
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Sunday 12-6pm. Esther Teichmann. Silently Mirrored.
Last day of exhibition at Man& Eve. |
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Sunday |
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THIS MONDAY 15 OCTOBER |
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7pm.
PRINCE’S WARD INVESTMENT STRATEGY COMMUNITY REFERENCE GROUP
MEETING.
Alford House, |
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NEWS
Lambeth Policy
Network – Community Cohesion.
The Council is in the process of developing a Lambeth Policy Network
that will be co-hosted by Steve Reed (the Leader) and Derrick
Anderson (the Chief Execxutive). The Network has been created to
take the Borough's thinking forward on key policy issues and
challenges, and to develop a positive vision and position on how we
deal with it, and articulate this position to key decision makers.
The topic for the first Lambeth Policy Network conference will be
Community Cohesion. A conference to present this work has been
arranged for
ArtsLav Project.
Some readers may be wondering what has been happening with the
Kennington Cross Grade II listed underground toilets and the ArtsLav
Project proposal created by Friends of Kennington Cross.
Negotiations between RCDT and the Council stalled over repairing
obligations and leasehold/freehold, which can only be unblocked
through political decisions. RCDT
is no longer in a position to re-start negotiations and continue to
support the Friends. It has therefore notified the Council. The
Friends have also notified the Council they wish to re-enter
negotiations hopefully with a new partner.
Digital Photography Course for 15-19 Year Olds.
Alford House is running a digital photography course for 15 to 19
year olds starting on Friday 16 November
Autumn Home Ground –
Beaufoy. The Autumn issue of Home
Ground is out now. This issue is as always packed with local news
and events taking place over the next couple of months. There’s a
feature on the history of the Beaufoy family to give a context to
the current interest in the possible uses of the Beaufoy Institute,
and plans for a Kennington cultural quarter. If you would like to
receive the pdf version (over 1MB) please email
homegroundmagazine@gmail.com with your details. Hard copies are
available from Stockwell Resource Centre,
Create a Tree and decorations using recycled
materials.
Oval Partnership is supporting an art workshop to
create a public Xmas tree.
The tree will be put in a public place and unveiled as part of the
Christmas lights on 1st December.They
need old CD’s, buttons, ribbons, shiny
wrapping, aluminium tins, colourful plastic bags Anything that is
shiny, glitters and is waterproof. See October Diary for more
details.
REGULAR ACTIVITIES (See also Diary)
ART AT THE PELICAN.
The
DIARY
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OCTOBER |
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Tuesday 16 – Saturday 3 November |
Double Negative.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval
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Wednesday 17 |
Quadrille dancing
with Elsa. Over 50's Meeting
at the Durning Library. Free refreshments sponsored by the
Friends of the Durning Library, |
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Saturday 20 |
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 20 |
CITY FARM 30th ANNIVERSARY. Lots of activities
for kids. Second-hand and local history bookstall, talk on
North Lambeth and Slavery & Abolition, Dyeworks activity.
Refreshments.
Friends of |
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Sunday 21 |
Paulette Phillips Marie-France & Patricia Martin Ruth.
Last day of exhibition at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art. |
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Sunday 21 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; Liquid Architecture Octet. Nielsen
Serenata-Invano and |
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Monday 22 |
Day
Workshop: Field Recording in the
City with Chris Watson. Performance: Leafcutter John
and Peter Cusack. See News story above.
For full details, times and prices
contact the |
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Wednesday 24 |
Music
Performance:
Biosphere and Storm by Chris Watson and BJ Nilsen.
See Monday 22. |
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Wednesday 25 & Thursday 25 |
Create a Tree and decorations using recycled
materials. Drop-in-sessions. Free to all ages. Ashmole
Tenants Hall, |
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Thursday 25 |
Music
etc.
Audition: Chris Watson selects his favourite Monday Workshop
edits
Performance:
Biosphere and BJ Nilsen and Chris Watson
See
Monday 22. |
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Friday 26 |
Music
Performance.
See
Monday 22. |
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Saturday 27 |
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 27 |
Dyeworks Saturday class: Half Term – no class. |
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Sunday 28 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; The |
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NOVEMBER |
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Thursday 1 |
A talk by Helen
Dillon. Dillon’s Garden Book will roll hot off the
press on 1 November and will launched by the author at the |
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Friday 2 |
Churchill &
Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill’s Houses & Gardens.
A talk by Stefan Buczacki. Stefan’s new book, based
on an extensive study of original documents, provides a
fascinating biography of Winston Churchill through the
houses he lived in and the gardens he made. It contains
much new information, unknown even to Churchill scholars,
and this will be the only opportunity to hear Stefan talking
about his book in
www.museumgardenhistory.org |
Talk at |
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Saturday 3 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Spinning multiple plys. |
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Sunday 4 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalist; Jamie Walton, cello. Bach
unaccompanied cello suite No.2 in D minor. Britten Suite
No.3. Preacher; Rev'd Nick Mercer, Director of Ministry in
the Diocese of London.
St Peter’s Church, |
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Monday 5 |
Digital Photography Course for 15-19 Year Olds Enrolment
day.
Alford House, |
11m- |
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Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10 |
The Persian Revolution.
Play.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval
House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval |
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Thursday 8 |
A conversation between John Brookes and
Barbara Simms. Following the
publication of Barbara Simms’s new book
John Brookes Garden and Landscape Designer, this evening provides the chance to hear a
conversation between the designer and the author and to take
a close look at ten projects that span John’s career as a
key figure in contemporary garden design since the 1960s.
He has provided inspiration to many through his
gardens, his teaching and his books, including his recent
title John Brookes Garden Design Course.
His drawings will inspire the conversation and the
audience will be able to view the images on a large screen
as the conversation progresses. Barbara and John will be
signing books at the end of the evening.
Tickets £10 or £5 for Museum Friends.
www.museumgardenhistory.org |
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Saturday 10 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Spinning with mixed fibres. |
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Sunday 11 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Preacher; Rt Rev'd Lord Harries, former
Bishop of Oxford. The St Peter's Singers sing the Howells
Requiem.
St Peter’s Church, |
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Tuesday 13 November |
Spring Gradens Urban Development Framework Meeting.
City Farm, |
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Tuesday 13 – Saturday 8 December |
The Lightning Field. Play.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval |
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Saturday 17 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Spinning fluffy yarns. |
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Sunday 18 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; Elizabeth Roberts, soprano,
Christopher Glynn, piano. Strauss Four Last Songs and Mozart
Concert Arias. Preacher; Canon John Salter, Vicar of
Wantage.
St Peter’s Church, |
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Wednesday 21 |
Gentle exercises
with Lullyn. Over 50's Meeting
at the Durning Library. Free refreshments sponsored by the
Friends of the Durning Library, |
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Saturday 24 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Children’s craft day. |
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DECEMBER |
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Saturday 1 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Dye workshop.
Browns and greys using light blues. |
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Sunday 2 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Advent Carol Service. St Peter's Singers. St Peter’s Church, |
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Saturday 8 |
Dyeworks Saturday class: Spinning fine yarns from merino and
alpaca. |
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Saturday 15 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
End of Term class. |
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Wednesday 19 |
Christmas Party.
Over 50's Meeting at the Durning Library. Free refreshments
sponsored by the Friends of the Durning Library, |
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Sunday 23 |
St Peter’s Recital and
Prayer Event.
Christmas Carol Service. St Peter's Singers, St Peter’s
Church, |
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DYEWORK’S SATURDAY CLASSES. To contact
Dyework, the excellent spinners and weavers group Tel: Penny Walsh
020 8692 2958, or Diane Sullock 020 7622 4913. Email:
PennyWalsh@Dyework.co.uk. Website:
www.dyework.co.uk
ST PETER’S
RECITAL AND PRAYER EVENTS.
For a copy of the brochure email the North Lambeth Parish office on:
anselm.nlp@btconnect.com
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS
Planning Applications
Week 30 September – 6 October
57 Walnut Tree Walk.
Approval of details pursuant to Condition 7 (Detailed drawings of
the new window) of Listed Building Consent 07/01808/LB (External
alterations involving the installation of 2 solar heating panels on
the front roof slope, removal of boiler flue to the front elevation
at 3rd floor level, installation of new window to the side elevation
of the existing lobby at basement level, replacement of plastic soil
pipe on the rear elevation with cast iron pipe and removal of
redundant foul water connections. Internal alterations at Roof level
involving: insulation of the roof, removal of existing boiler and
installation of a new boiler within the roof.
Third floor level: Installation of a new hot water storage
tank with access door from front room, Removal of part of the
existing wall and enlargement and re-arrangement of existing
bathroom, removal of part of the existing ceiling and formation of a
new access hatch to roof space.
Second Floor level: Installation of a new shower room and wc
involving removal of internal partitions and enlargement of existing
opening and install new glass sliding door, alterations to the waste
pipe. First floor level:
Removal of fabric covered panels from internal walls and
installation of new panelling and removal of false door head and
make good. Ground floor level: Removal of existing kitchen and
installation of a new kitchen in the front room, opening up of
existing fire places, relocation of existing fuse box, removal of
existing doors between the breakfast room and kitchen, remove floor
covering and sand floor boards.
Basement level: Treatment of internal walls for
lamp and insertion of a new sash window in the side elevation
of the lobby) granted on 26.7.2007. Ref: 7/03985/DET.
Lambeth Palace, Lambeth
190 -
Land At St
Week 7-13 October
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcAplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx.
If this link does not work then go to
www.lambeth.gov.uk and
track through to Planning and Public Access database. And to go and
see any plans is easy from the KOV area as the
Town Planning Advice Centre is at Phoenix House,
Planning Decisions
Week 30 September – 6 October
Week 7-13 October
Land At St
The Court Tavern Public
House,
LOCAL LINKS – see www.rcdt.org
ART
GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
(please note
that from now on this section will only include information about
exhibitions currently showing
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Dates |
Gallery |
Exhibition |
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Tuesdays – Sundays + Bank Holiday
Mondays |
Lambeth
020 7401 8865
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Permanent Garden & Local History Displays.
Family Quiz Sheets to accompany the Local History exhibition
are available.
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Fridays –
Sundays till 21
October |
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art |
Paulette Phillips Marie-France & Patricia Martin
Ruth
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2-6pm |
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Tuesdays –
Saturdays till 17 November |
Corvi-Mora |
ARMIN KRÄMER. “Where to?” |
11am-6pm |
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Wednesdays – Sundays
till 14 October |
Man&Eve,
020 7582 7861.
info@manandeve.co.uk.
www.manandeve.co.uk |
Esther Teichmann.
Silently Mirrored.
Brings
together a series of photographs and a double screen film
projection that examine the relationship of the self to the
maternal body and to the body of the lover. Both
relationships evoke desire and fascination as well as the
fear of separation and abandonment.
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Till 27 October |
Oval
House Theatre, 52-54 Kennington Oval.
020 7582 0080
ext 222 or 202
nazneen.nawaz@ovalhouse.com debbie.vannozzi@ovalhouse.com
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A Fine Balance. Sabi North’s current exhibition has been inspired by Rohinton
Mistry’s prize winning novel ‘A Fine Balance’ an Indian tale
of survival, about four unlikely characters whose lives come
together in the most unforeseen circumstances. Free |
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30 October – 24
November |
Ditto |
Digital Ikebana
by Italian photographer
Ligeia Lugli
is a series of digital photographs inspired by the Japanese
art of flower arrangement called ikebana. Free |
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Till |
Parabola Trust
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Danielle Arnaud of Parabola Trust is curating the exh;bition
by
Tessa Farmer ‘Little
Savages’ at the
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PRINCE’S WARD STRATEGY
An Assessment by Jeffe Jeffers,
Director, Lady Margaret Hall
Settlement
Lambeth Council are now moving the
Prince’s Ward strategy forward.
A meeting of all local interested groups is being held at
Alford House on Monday night at
The core to their proposals can be
summarised as
1.
A plan based on selling keys sites to pay for social infrastructure.
This means they will sell
1.
The Beaufoy Institute for a use related to its social and educational
covenant.
2.
The adjacent land for housing.
3.
The
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The sale of the youth club site on
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The provision of services on the Lilian Baylis school site by
non-council organisations, which can demonstrate financial viability
independent of the Council.
Organisations currently in place include, Sports Action Zone,
African Child and North Lambeth Health Project.
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As yet unidentified spare land on the school site will be offered for
sale as housing.
7.
The youth club will be relocated on the Lilian Baylis old site.
Housing
The housing proposal is mixed
social and private and is targeted to meet the mayor’s target of 50%
social housing.
The Council state that the monies
raised from the land sales will be spent on service provision
locally.
Timescale
The Council is spending £600,000
on preparing the necessary tender documentation and it appears that
this process is nearly complete.
Obstacles
1)
Beaufoy Institute – process not yet clear of Charity Commission: land
ownership doubts remain.
2)
Adventure playground. This
process is entirely in Council control and could be the 1st.
Planning consent will be needed for the new site.
3)
Youth Club – the position here has been ambiguous for many years and to
take this forward may take time.
4)
The Council still have 2 constraints on Lilian Baylis old school.
a)
A restriction by DFES who currently insist on the site remaining in
education use.
b)
The restrictions due to the listing of the buildings and playgrounds.
The removal of the first is
conditional on the Council convincing the DFES that they have
adequate provision for secondary schooling in the north of the
borough.
The removal of listing is
always a difficult, long and tortuous process.
A further constraint on the
Council’s plan is their own proposal to use the school as a decant
facility during the alterations to another secondary school which
would tie up the site until 2012.
Response to the Council Proposals
Consultation
The Council claim to have
consulted widely on this; by this they seem to mean they have talked
exclusively within the Council.
There is no sense of local grass roots consultation.
The process has been agreed by the Council and the new
proposed consultation appears to be purely oversight of the
implementation process
Strategy
One of the key questions is – how
much of the Council’s strategy reflects the real needs of the
community and creates a strong basis for its aspirations?
Our view is that it is a ‘social
services’ view of Kennington, ignoring the real need for
aspirational education in the area and ignoring the significant
changes in the local economy – i.e. the growth of the arts based
economy and the opportunities they offer.
The increased new social and private sector housing in the
area will be more than 1500 units over the next 2/3 years.
As the area has no town centre, no significant economic base,
(local offices are converting to flats), and no retail, the area
will become an inner city dormitory for an unstable mix of high
earning buyers and minimum wage tenants.
The Council’s strategy is the
nanny state – you can have services but not opportunity, a youth
club but no local high value employment for our youth – (the
majority of young people already go to school outside the area), the
highest % in Lambeth.
This is the strategy of containment.
It may solve the Council’s difficulties of funding empty
buildings but creates a whole new series of problems for the area.
The Council’s strategy lacks
vision, clear direction and the ability to make a difference.
Who pays for what?
The Council’s proposals on how
they will spend the sales proceeds are unclear.
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Are all the receipts going to be used to refurbish the school, build a
new youth club and a new adventure playground?
Will they be ring fenced?
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OR
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Will the Council also seek a contribution to the general rate fund?
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Will some of the proceeds from the sales be used to underpin the long
term running costs of the service providers?
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How transparent will the financial processes be or will they be cloaked
in commercial confidentiality?
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How are the Council going to ensure that chosen service providers have
both the capacity and the financial strength to provide long term
quality provision in a period when the voluntary sector is
increasingly funded on short term (3 year) packages?
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They will presumably be asked to pay a rent for their space and be
responsible for its upkeep and maintenance in line with government
policy.
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What mechanisms have the Council in mind to ensure continuity of
service?
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Are the Council also going to commit all the section 106 monies from the
housing development to support the service operations?
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Since most of the sites are conflicted is the plan to sell the easy bits
and hold the cash until the whole project can be put in place?
Timing is all
It is hard to gain a clear picture
of the Council’s timeline on all these interactive proposals.
Key questions are – Are all the
political parties in support of these proposals as the Council’s own
time line crosses an electoral boundary (2010)?
Local experience of changes in
administration has been poor e.g. Labour’s much worse offer to
Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre than that of the previous Liberal
Council.
Will the service provision be
taken forward piece meal and how does this hang together?
As almost of all these proposals
are probably open to considerable local objection how does this
impinge on the timeline in the planning process.
The process relies on the private
sector doing a quick deal and sticking to it.
In a clearly turbulent market this appears a risky gamble.
Local history is of developers agreeing A. and building B,
with a long argumentative intermission.
There will be a significant amount of land banking in the
process whilst the market sorts itself out and this will have a
severe impact on the timeline.
Consultation
This is a community, which has
lost faith in consultation –
Project Vauxhall – the Kerrin Point consultation etc.
Here we have a situation where the Council have made all the
key decisions, and are asking the community – what?
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To rubber-stamp it, just go with the flow? Accept the broad sweep and
chose the wallpaper?
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OR
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Are they now asking the community to take real control of the process,
where they have real choices and control over core decisions
– it’s
not clear? The first is
as pointless as a lifebelt on the Titanic.
The Council need to make clear
what they mean. The new
Council proposals for community involvement have no local mechanisms
for calling the Council to account.
The old system may have been full
of old hack activists but they at least asked pertinent questions.
Any ‘consultation’ process in
which participants do not have real power is a sham.
We need to examine the Council’s proposals minutely.
What’s the alternative?
The Council are looking at real
alternatives elsewhere in the Borough to use government funded
programmes to transfer assets to local control.
Our situation is ideal for that approach but the Council are
of the opinion that there is very little capacity in our community
(i.e. they do not believe there is sufficient capacity even to
provide trustees for the proposed new Beaufoy scholarship fund!!!).
These government programmes are
being used extensively around the country to create long-term viable
community institutions modelled on
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