RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 20 December 2007

From Riverside Community Development Trust, 20 Newburn St, SE11 5PJ. 020 7820 0555. info@rcdt.org. www.rcdt.org

ENews/Events Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT

Previous ENews/Events Listings can be seen on www.rcdt.org

 

SEASONS GREETINGS – enjoy the holiday break

 

NORTH LAMBETH PEOPLE FIRST EXPO

 

If you have not already requested a stall booking

you can still make one to aogunsola@lambeth.gov.uk

 

DIARY

 

Friday 21

Planning Statement of Community Involvement. Last day for submisison of views on Lambeth Council’s consultation on the See 7 December Enews.

Close time 5pm

Friday 21

Last chance to see: ‘Postcards from the Park’. Exhibition at Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Rd/.Palace Rd.  The value of parks and green space has been known since the Victorian period, when many of our great parks were founded. Today, nine out of ten people visit parks and green spaces and enjoy the physical and mental benefits that their visits bring*.The Museum is exhibiting the winning photographs from the national ‘Postcards from the Park’ competition, organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund in partnership with parks charity, GreenSpace. The competition and exhibition explore how people use parks and green spaces today and celebrates the significant lottery investment in them to date.

10am-5.30pm

Saturday 22

Oval Farmers’ Market, St Mark’s Church, Kennington Oval.

10am-3pm

Saturday 22

Seven-a-side tournament for under 10’s, 11’s and 13’s. Stockwell Park Football Club will be awarding trophies and medals at a seven-a-side tournament for under 10’s, 11’s and 13’s on Saturday 22 December from 10am to 6pm at Kennington Park astro pitch. To find out more ring 0780 645 6535 or 0794 770 8221 or email info@stopu.org.uk or eaispinfo@yahoo.com or have a look at the team’s website www.stopu.org.uk

10am – 6pm

Sunday 23

St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event. Christmas Carol Service. St Peter's Singers, St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

 

NEWS

 

Community Safety Grants Available. Two grants of £500 each funded by the Metropolitan Police Authority are available as part of the North Lambeth People First Expo on 26 January. The grants will be voted upon by those attending the event. Applications need to support the MPA’s community safety priorities and demonstrate that the work will:

·                    reduce crime at a specific location, or as faced by a particular community group in North Lambeth

·                    support diversionary activities linked to current anti-social activity

·                    improve community safety

·                    support community cohesion and bring people together of different backgrounds

 

Applications cannot be accepted from political parties or third party giving organisations and not be used to promote religious beliefs. Projects must be able to start before March 2008. The Council is administering the grants for the MPA. Applicant organisations must have a bank account or be supported by a larger organisation with a bank account. Organisations with bank accounts which receive a grant will have to register as a Council supplier. Deadline for applications is 11 January at 5pm to jchristie@lambeth.giov.uk.

Comment: If your organisation has a bank account but does not want to register as a Council supplier, or if your organisation does not have a bank account, then RCDT (which is a registered supplier) will be pleased to act as your supplier/banker – no charge.)

 

Beaufoy Institute. The Charity Commission is still considering the Council’s request to merge the two Beaufoy Trusts as a Scholarship Fund with the ability to sell the site. The Commission is informing objectors thatthe issues raised in the representations that we have received about the scheme are complex.  Consequently, we are still in the process of gathering information from the Council, in their role as trustee.’

Licensed minicabs given red route exemption. Councillor Robert Banks (Lib Dem,  Oval Ward) wants local residents to know about the new rules applies to minicabs and red routes. Transport for London has announced: ‘Hundreds of thousands of Londoners will benefit from a safer and more convenient minicab service as the capital’s 40,000 plus licensed private hire vehicles are to be eligible to stop on red routes to pick up and set down passengers. The ‘Red Routes’ are only five per cent of the capital’s road network but they carry up to thirty five per cent of London’s traffic. From 17 December licensed drivers who display a new “Private Hire” roundel sign on the outside of their vehicle will be allowed to pick up and set down pre-booked passengers, but not park and wait, on red routes. The new sign, which will remind Londoners that licensed minicabs must be pre-booked, is likely to be adopted by the majority of private hire vehicles operating in the capital.’ ‘Minicabs must be pre-booked and are not available for hire by flagging down on the street. Any minicab touting for hire on the streets of London is acting illegally and is liable to prosecution as well as having its licence revoked.  Passengers who take a minicab in this way put themselves at risk as details of their journey and driver will not be properly recorded.’

 

Waterloo/South Bank Events and News – see www.London-SE1.co.uk

 

LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS

Planning Applications

16-22 December (excluding 22)

73 Walcot Square. Erection of single storey rear extension with installation of new lower ground level window at side elevation. Town Planning and Listed Building Applications. Ref: 07/04870/LB & 07/04869/FUL

Unit B, 3 Whitacre Mews. Replacement of existing window with double door at ground floor level to unit B. Ref: 07/04705/FUL. Applicant: The Society For The Protection Of Unborn Children

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, 10 Wandsworth Road, at Vauxhall Cross. 020 7926 1180. tpac@lambeth.gov.uk. Plans can also be seen at Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

Planning Decisions

16-22 December (excluding 22)

28 Bonnington Square. Alterations. Permitted.

32 Bonnington Square. Adaptations. Application withdrawn.

42 Cleaver Square. Single extension, Application refused. Certificate of legal development, Refused.

The Coach House, 104A Fentiman Road. Basement and extension. Refused.

The Court Tavern Public House, 42 Renfrew Road. Application withdrawn.

28 Hanover Gdns. 2 storey extension. Refused.

17 Newport St. Redevelopment of the site, involving the demolition of the existing building and erection of a five-storey building with roof terrace to provide five self-contained flats  (one x 1-bedroom and four x 2-bedroom units), together with associated works. (Revised scheme to approved application 07/00150/FUL/FUL to include changes to the external appearance and positioning (in part retrospective) of the building.) Ref: 07/04102/FUL. Applicant: Zeemos Ltd. Decision pending.

20-28 Stannary St. Details re-planning conditions. Permitted.

LOCAL LINKS – see www.rcdt.org

 

2008 DIARY

Every Saturday - Oval Farmers’ Market

St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval Tube) 10am-3pm

Every Tuesday from 8 January - Jazz at The Pilgrim Pub

The Ned Flanders Quartet featuring Dee Byrn, and opne jam session. Pilgrim Pub, Kenningotn Lane. 83-0-11pm. on Tuesday January 8th 2008 after a Christmas break. ADMISSION FREE  Jazz fans, singers and players welcome.

Monday 21 January

 

 “After Iraq - shall we ever intervene again?”  Local resident Paddy Ashdown has had a distinguished career as a commando, diplomat and leader of the Liberal Democrats. From 2002-2006 he was the UN’s High Representative in Bosnia.  His experiences have led him to some vivid insights into the handling of conflict and its aftermath. Light refreshments.  Everyone welcome.

No admission charge, but a £2 donation is invited. Friends of During Library. Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

6.45 for 7.15pm

Saturday 26

North Lambeth People First Expo.  Lilian Baylis School of Technology. If you would like to come along or to take part contact 0207 926 2784 email: aogunsola@lambeth.gov.uk . See News stories above.

12-4pm

Monday 18 February

Back to the future:  Jeffe Jeffers looks at the highs and the lows of the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement’s history, its role as innovator, establishment challenges, the changing role of the voluntary sector over that time, and where LMHS stands in the current government view of that role.   Light refreshments.  Everyone welcome. No admission charge, but a £2 donation is invited. Friends of During Library. Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

6.45 for 7.15pm

Wednesday 20 February

Quadrille Dancing with Elsa or Gentle Exercises with Lullyn. Durning Library Older People’s Group, Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

 

Monday 17 March

“A History of the Elephant & Castle”. Far more than the origin of the name!  Stephen Humphrey, local historian and Kennington resident, will go back at least to the 13th century, though his slides date mainly from 1850 to 1940. His family has lived in the area since the 19th century.  Light refreshments.  Everyone welcome. No admission charge, but a £2 donation is invited. Friends of During Library. Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

6.45 for 7.15pm

Wednesday 20 March

Quadrille Dancing with Elsa or Gentle Exercises with Lullyn. Durning Library Older People’s Group, Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane

 

 

 

ART GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS

 

Dates

Gallery

Exhibition

Times

Tuesdays – Sundays + Bank Holiday Mondays

Museum of Garden History

Lambeth Palace Rd

020 7401 8865

www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh

 

Permanent Garden & Local History Displays.

Family Quiz Sheets to accompany the Local History exhibition are available.
our competition.

10.30am-5pm

Tuesdays – Saturdays until 12 January

 Corvi-Mora
 1a Kempsford Road
  020 7840 9111
  www.corvi-mora.com

ANNE COLLIER
 

11am-6pm

(Closed 21 Dec-3 Jan)

Till 27 January

Parabola Trust

123 Kennington Road
020 7735 8292
www.parabolatrust.org

Danielle Arnaud of Parabola Trust is curating the exhibition by Tessa Farmer  ‘Little Savages’ at the Natural History Museum, London. Farmer’s work involves highly detailed mise-en-scenes of plant roots, bones, insects and animals engaged in ferocious battle.

 

 

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