RCDT
ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING
From
A special edition of this listing will be sent out on
Tuesday 26 June. As I will out of
Bonnington Festival 1 July
RCDT is contributing £500 to the organisers of the
Bonnington Festival being held on 1 July to help pay for licences
and insurance and for publicity material to be distributed on the
Ashmole and
RCDT Development Plan 2007-8
RCDT’s Board has updated its
Development Plan for the year up to
IS FUTURE IMPROVEMENT OF
July Diary and
Given the major news items in this
issue and planned special edition next Tuesday the July diary and
Contents:
Events: this
Weekend,
next Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and Saturday 30 June
News: Friends of Spring Gdns, Little Stratz Nursery, City Farm, White
Bear, School Vouchers, Farmer’s Market, Lambeth Arts Trail
Genesis
Appeals Against Planning Refusal on
A Cultural
Quarter for Vauxhall/Kennington? How Likely Is That?
Will the
The Latest on
Local Planning
Applications:
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Saturday 2-5pm. |
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Saturday 2-4pm. |
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Sunday
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12pm-3.30pm.
If your are interested
in attending the event please call Age Concern on - 0207 346
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6pm. Special Additional
Meeting of Community/Police Consultative Group for Lambeth. At the last meeting of the Group at St
Anne’s Hall, Vauxhall, on 1 May, issues concerning the |
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www.lambeth.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.asp?CId=441&MId=5762&Ver=4
Editorial Comment.: Is there a last minute
chance for the Friends of Spring Gardens and local
Councillors to get a radical re-think so that the long-term
wish to have proper frontages from Goding St onto Spring
Gdns can be provided for? |
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THIS
THURSDAY 28 JUNE |
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Final
Date for letters re 1 Glyn St Planning Appeal.
See
story below. |
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7pm. 150 Years of Trollope’s ‘ |
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THIS
FRIDAY 29 JUNE |
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SATURDAY 30 JUNE |
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2-5pm. North
Lambeth Parish Fete The
excellent Fete will take place in |
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Island Block Exhibition
will close with a music performance by Hildegard Kleeb and
Roland Dahinden, musicians with an interest in sound
sculpture (past collaborations with Anthony Braxton, John
Cage, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt, Alvin Lucier, etc.). |
NEWS
Friends of
Little Starz Kennington Nursery Open Day is on 14 July.
New Director for City Farm.
Welcome to
Sharon Clouston as the new
Director of Vauxhall City Far who started work on Monday 18 June. If
you love animals, and/or would you like to get back in touch with
nature, then the Farm is looking for volunteers. Vauxhall City
Farm, 165 Tyers Street, Tel 020 75825104: You can also help by
giving the Farm a
donation through Charities Aid Foundation’s secure
https://secure.efundraising.org.uk/tailored/donation.asp?appeal=3483
or by setting up a Direct Debit on
https://secure.efundraising.org.uk/tailored/regular/regular.asp?appeal=3483
Kennington Community Nights at the White Bear.
The
White Bear
Theatre Club has started special Kennington community
nights. Quote "KA" for
two tickets for the price of one on the first
Wednesday evening of each production. The first event (Tuesdays to
Saturdays at 7.30pm and Sundays at 4pm, running through to 8 July
was launched on
Wednesday 20 June, with
A Hole In The Fence, a play by David Foley, a UK premiere, which
is expected to be very well-attended - so book asap!
A Hole In The Fence. Presented by Box of Tricks Theatre. Box office:
020 7793 9193.
Leave a message with the number of tickets you wish to reserve and on
which date. We will only get back to you if there are no seats
available. The White Bear is on
Shopping at Tescos or Sainsbury’s?
Then
Oval Kennington Farmers Market. 14 July to 4 August. /span>
Tricia Anderson (Oval
Partnership) writes:
We have the go ahead to run a Farmers Market
for 4 consecutive Saturdays from 14 July to 4 August, in St Marks
Church grounds (opposite Oval Tube station) during which time
Lambeth Parks will assess the impact on the park grass. Here's to a
successful market - and sunny Saturdays! Please do all you can
to support the Market and let your friends and contacts know about
it too. We will be leafleting the area nearer the time but
this is advance warning!
tricia.anderson@ovalpartnership.org.uk
Spring Forward - Lambeth Arts Trail For Well Being October 2007. Trust Art Project (TAP) is
sponsoring a local initiative to promote creativity as a means to
improve well-being for everybody who lives in Lambeth. October is
traditionally a month in which we celebrate World Mental Health. To
mark this TAP is printing an arts trail and directory.
The Lambeth arts trail and directory will bring together any
creative initiatives planned for this October 2007 and encourage new
ones by promoting them all free. How you can get involved? If you
are a creative person, run creative projects, have an idea, or are
inspired to devise a project that we show case on the trail
directory. You may be an artist/ maker/ writer, individual, group of
friends,
organized group, studio, from a
health/ caring service, community, voluntary, independent, a
survivor of the mental health system, faith or statutory group. We
want to promote all creative works such as fine art
exhibitions/events, films, performances, choirs, dance, craft,
workshops etc. TAP also wants to hear from people who can provide
temporary spaces to show the creative projects in October. There
will be a creative summit on July 13 to help you develop your plans.
If you are ready with your event or project contact Tap for an entry
form. Deadline for final entry form submissions is
Editorial Comment:
Here is an opportunity for the local Health & Fitness, Leftbank
Artists and Local History networks to come up with some imaginative
ideas.
GENESIS
APPEALS AGAINST PLANNING REFUSAL ON
Views to
Inspector must be in by 28 June
Genesis
Housing have appealed against the decision to refuse Planning
Permission for the redevelopment of
If you want
to take a look at the plans, you can contact
Eamonn MacMahon,
Chair of the Friends of Spring Gdns, writes:
The Appeal deals with the old plan which doesn't
take into account the urban framework plan. The building would be 7
stories high have 67 flats with a retail/cafe unit. The building
would be monolithic with no terraces and would create right to light
problems and is of no architectural merit. The 7 stories would be
the same height as the 4 story building next door which will create
very low ceilings and some interior flats would get practically no
sunlight. The prices would not make them affordable for most people
in our area and they will be sold to anyone with no priority given
to Lambeth residents. At the same time it seems a new plan has been
submitted should the appeal fail but there seems to be little
difference in the two schemes. This makes the whole issue very
confusing and it's a shame that Genesis didn't again consult for
local opinion and have ignored the valid objections made to
the first application. I know 'Parks " have officially objected.
When writing the things to object to are:
1.
Loss of existing functional, employment-generation floor
space (which is prejudicial to
Borough policy)
2.
By virtue of it's bulk, scale, design and articulation of
materials would result in a visually
over dominant form of
development
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Harmful to
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Inadequate information was submitted regarding transport
issues to determine
detrimental impact on
highway and pedestrian safety issues
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It's worth noting that the loss of the BMW showroom/garage
on
already taken considerable employment from the area.
I hope this helps and the more people who object the more chance we
have of stopping this abomination and getting something built which
may be to the benefit of the local
community.’
Background from
How long they have known about Genesis's proposals?
The developers
submitted a pre-application inquiry in March 2006. This inquiry
proposed the redevelopment of the site involving the erection of a
seven storey building to provide Class A1 use at part ground floor
level and residential at part ground floor level and on the upper
floors, comprising 51 flats including 22 shared ownership flats (11
x 1 bedroom and 11 x 2 bedroom) and 29 social rented flats (14 x 2
bedroom, 12 x 3 bedroom and 3 x 4 bedroom).
Planning officers responded to this inquiry in April 2006 and
raised a number of concerns about the proposals. Since then further
plans have been submitted and advice given by planning officers.
The developers have now submitted a planning application
which is currently invalid.
What their views on it are?
Due to the fact
that the application is invalid and has not been assessed by
officers I am unable to comment at this stage as to whether the
development currently submitted would be acceptable and in
accordance with the relevant Lambeth Unitary Development Plan
policies.
Why it has not been reported to Framework meetings?
It may be the case that the planning officers who
attend the framework meetings were not aware of the pre-application
discussions taking place, as they were not involved.
However the planning department is not required to undertake
public consultation on pre-application inquiries, it is the
responsibility of the developer to undertake any pre-application
consultation. Planning
officers always encourage developers to do this however it is not a
legal requirement.
At what stage a planning application is expected to be submitted?
A planning application was submitted on the
30/06/2006
for the
redevelopment of the site involving the demolition of the existing
building and erection of a seven storey building to provide 67 self
contained flats (32no 1 bed, 24no 2 bed and 11no 3 bed affordable
housing units), with a Cafe unit (Class A1/A3 use) to part of ground
floor level fronting onto Auckland Street and cycle store. (ref:
06/02151/FUL). This
application is currently invalid.
Whether the
scheme would be a Section 106 scheme?
If the
submitted scheme is acceptable then if is likely that the Council
would be seeking a Section 106 contribution.
Whether the proposed £40,000 to the park is on the low side?
As stated
above, due to the fact that no assessment has been made on the
application currently submitted I am not able to advise as to
whether the sum of £40,000 would be an appropriate contribution.
The planning history of the site is as follows:
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Planning permission granted for the erection of 2 single
storey extensions at 2nd floor level, formation of a roof
garden and alterations to the elevations in connection with
the proposed use as recording studios with ancillary
offices, residential accommodation and the formation of a
means of vehicular access.
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Planning permission granted for the change of use of the 1st
floor warehouse to use as offices, together with alterations
to the elevations including the installation of 2 roller
shutter doors and formation of 2 new vehicular accesses on
the |
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Planning permission granted for the independent use of
280sq.metres of the 1st floor as offices together with
elevational alterations (ref: 87/00795/PLANAP).
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Planning permission granted for the installation of an
entrance door and glazed canopy on the |
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Planning permission granted for the erection of an extension
at first and second floor level for use as offices and the
change of use of part of the ground floor from storage to
offices. (ref:
88/00283/PLANAP). |
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Application withdrawn for the use of the premises as offices
ancillary to the existing warehouse/storage use of premises.
(ref: 96/01062/PLANAP). |
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Planning permission granted for the use of entire premises
as Use Class B1 (offices). (ref: 96/01619/PLANAP). |
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Planning permission granted for the refurbishment and
extension of first and second floors of the building to
provide additional B1 office use and a self-contained
apartment.(ref: 99/00209/FUL). |
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Planning application withdrawn for the erection of a new
seven storey building partly on existing public highway with
four storey south-western wing over new access road to
include retail (use classes A1, A2, A3) at ground floor
level, office use (use class B1). (ref: 01/00813/FUL) |
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Planning application withdrawn by the applicant for the
erection of new 7 storey building partly to include retail
(use classes A1, A2, A3) at ground floor level, office use
(use class B1) at part basement and levels 1 to 6 and
enclosed roof plant above together with ancillary parking.
(ref: 01/00977/FUL). |
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Planning permission refused for the erection of a new
building comprising a basement plus six storeys together
with an additional storey in a tower partly on existing
public highway with a 3 storey south western wing over a new
accessway providing part use of the ground floor for retail
/ café use and office use in the remainder of the
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Planning permission granted for the redevelopment of the
existing building to provide new building comprising
basement, ground and upper four floors plus roof plant, for
use as retail (class A1/A3) on part ground floor and
business space (B1) in the remainder (ref: 03/01049/FUL) |
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Planning application received for the redevelopment of the
site involving the demolition of the existing building and
erection of a seven storey building to provide 67 self
contained flats (32no 1 bed, 24no 2 bed and 11no 3 bed
affordable housing units), with a Cafe unit (Class A1/A3
use) to part of ground floor level fronting onto Auckland
Street and cycle store.(ref: 06/02151/FUL).
This application is currently invalid. |
When did the
current owners acquire the site?
I understand
from the details submitted with the current planning application
that the current owner of the site, Ridgeford Ltd, acquired the site
in June 2000.
What discussions
have the planning department had with the developers and when did
the discussions begin?
The developers
submitted a pre-application inquiry in March 2006. This inquiry
proposed the redevelopment of the site involving the erection of a
seven storey building to provide Class A1 use at part ground floor
level and residential at part ground floor level and on the upper
floors, comprising 51 flats including 22 shared ownership flats (11
x 1 bedroom and 11 x 2 bedroom) and 29 social rented flats (14 x 2
bedroom, 12 x 3 bedroom and 3 x 4 bedroom).
Planning
officers responded to this inquiry in April 2006 and raised a number
of concerns about the proposals. Since then further plans have been
submitted and advice given by planning officers.
The developers have now submitted a planning application.
Due to the fact that the application is invalid and has not
be assessed by officers I am unable to comment at this stage as to
whether the planning application has been submitted in accordance
with advice previously given by officers.
When will
residents be informed about the proposal and be allowed to comment
on it?
When the
application is made valid, i.e. when the Council has received
sufficient information and drawings from the applicant in order for
a full assessment of the application to be made, then the
application will be validated and neighbouring residents consulted.
WILL THE
FRAMEWORK MEMBERSHIP BE NARROWED?
The next Spring Gardens Development Framework
meeting being held on Tuesday 26 June at
- The Urban Framework
Group (the Group) shall provide advice and guidance on the
implementation of the development and regeneration proposals
contained within and arising out of the Urban Framework for
- Inasmuch as the Urban
Framework identifies the importance of
- Membership of the Group
shall consist of: A Prince’s Ward Councillor, Council officers
representing: Environment, Culture and Community Safety,
Environmental Development Unit, Transport, Planning, Housing,
Town Centre Manager, other such Council officers as required,
Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, Metropolitan
Police LGBT Team. a representative of The Friends of Spring
Gardens, a representative of Vauxhall City Farm and Vauxhall Gay
Business Forum.
- The Chair of the group
shall be a Ward Councillor.
5.
The Group shall normally meet every two months.
Up until now
the email list for the meetings has included several members of the
Friends, the City Farm, the Settlement, RCDT, All Nations, St
Peter’s Church, Vauxhall Heritage Centre, Vauxhall Gardens Community
Centre, some local business people, and Kate Hoey, the local MP. The
allotment holders have also attended in the past. The proposed terms
of reference would see only one representative each of the Friends
and the Farm.
The other agenda items include:
the current status with the closure
of Tyers Street, revised terms of reference, community safety
progress, progress of Spring Gardens Development, progress with
Supported Housing on the former Lord Clyde Nightshelter site and
Vauxhall City Farm News.
In December 2005 representatives of several of the community and
voluntary groups on the Framework listing agreed the following
statement on the Development Process. It clearly explains the
reasons why wider representation from community and voluntary groups
is needed.
‘Lambeth Council has begun a
process of looking at how
On 28 November 2005
representatives of the following local community and voluntary
organisations with interests in seeing improvements to Spring
Gardens and/or would be effected by the improvements, attended a
meeting convened by Riverside Community Development Trust: All
Nations Centre, Friends of Spring Gardens, Vauxhall Society, and
Vauxhall St Peter’s Church & Heritage Centre,
The meeting discussed a
range of issues about the development process. The following has
since been agreed as the basis for consideration by our own
organisations and other interested parties.
1.
The Council’s aim to improve
2.
The community, regeneration and social value of the Gardens
should be paramount in determining the final improvement proposals.
3.
There should be recognition and commemoration of the
international importance of the historical background of the area (
4.
The community assets adjacent to the Gardens should be
improved and better integrated with the Gardens to increase the
complimentary added value of the attraction of the Gardens and those
assets.
5.
The long-term viability of Vauxhall City Farm and St Peter’s
Church and Vauxhall Heritage Centre are integral to the attraction
of an improved Spring Gdns.
6.
The maintenance and enhancement of the quality of service
offered by All Nations Centre to residents, particularly in regard
to Sunday/weekday services, the James Kane Nursery and its Saturday
school should be integral to the improvements.
7.
Imaginative design solutions are needed especially in respect
of some of the road and boundary issues which compromise safety
especially of children, and which visually detract from the amenity
of the Gardens.
8.
Capital and maintenance investment should be organised to
maximise employment and training opportunities for local people
(e.g. contract work in the park, landscaping, etc).
9.
Meeting the needs of the different groups of residents,
especially those on the estates near the Gardens should be at the
centre of the improvements.
10.
There should be a continual process of ensuring the
involvement of all parties who are identified as potentially being
affected by different aspects of the proposals.
11.
Ways need to be found by all parties involved in the
development process to increase the level of community knowledge and
engagement in the process.
12.
While there may be disagreements over some of the details of
the emerging improvement plan all parties involved should seek to
resolve the matters within the spirit of partnership to ensure that
the overall improvement goal is achieved.
13.
The improvement process should be seen as a long-term project
to ensure that the value of the investment in the improvements is
not eroded by inadequate spending on subsequent maintenance.
Agreed by:
All Nations Centre – Tope
Akinola
Friends of
Riverside Community
Development Trust – Sean Creighton
Vauxhall St Peter’s Church &
Heritage Centre – Revd. Wilma Roest
Vauxhall Society – Jim
Nicolson
The 14 May
ENews/Events listing carried the following item on the April
Framework meeting.
‘Developments
at
A CULTURAL
QUARTER IN VAUXHALL/KENNINGTON?
HOW LIKELY IS
THAT?
The truth is, it¹s not so far fetched.
When plans for an
Guided Walk.
RCDT’s Development & Management Worker
Sean
Creighton will lead a guided walk around the Vauxhall/Kennington
area looking at its arts and cultural heritage and opportunity sites
including the sites of the former Lambeth School of Art, the former
Doulton Factory, the former
Kennington Arts
Quarter
proposal is the
plan to re-energise the arts and crafts by linking the Beaufoy
Institute, former
’Push
the Envelope’ the publication
records a discussion with
Peter St-John,
Anna Harding,
Tony Carter,
Jeffe Jeffers,
Sheena Wagstaff
and
Richard Grayson which took place at the
Beaconsfield
symposium Push the Envelope sustaining arts communities on the
left-bank, July 2006. The debate addressed a range of issues
including: the impact economic ‘regeneration’ is likely to have on
existing art communities in North Lambeth and the lessons to be
learned from arts-led regeneration in other areas, such as London¹s
East End; the project to reconnect craft skills with art practice in
a hostile climate and the pros and cons of running small-scale
operations in the shadow of Tate. The event also launched a new
North Lambeth arts network: Leftbank Artists.
Programme:
For further information
please contact Rachel Fleming-Mulford on 020 7582 6465 or at
rachel@beaconsfield.ltd.uk.
THE LATEST ON
Further to
the item on the future of Pimlico School in the 25 May ENews/Events
listing (see on
www.rcdt.org) which many Lambeth children go to (inc. from this
area), Richard Woollard, a local resident, explains the background
and the next steps in Westminster Council’s decision making process.
‘The popular
Parents are often attracted
to these academies because of the spanking new buildings that come
with them. There isn’t this incentive in the case of Pimlico because
it is going to be rebuilt anyway: the finance is in place and the
developer is in the process of being selected.
The Council have carried out
an initial consultation where “stakeholders” were invited to choose
between Pimlico remaining a community comprehensive or becoming an
Academy or
In the meantime the school
is seriously dealing with the identified weaknesses and is
apparently well on track to meet the required targets in the short
time allowed. It is in the unusual position of sharing a head
teacher with the other community comprehensive in
After a rather slow
beginning there is now a very active organisation trying to protect
the existing status of the school. Their campaign leaflet draws
attention to the disadvantages of Academies:
§
The sponsor
decides what students should learn
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There is no public
accountability with only a token parent or teacher on the governing
body.
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There is a danger the
curriculum will be “dumbed down” to suit the needs of local
businesses and to score highly in the league tables.
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Admissions would be decided by
the sponsor who can impose his own selection criteria.
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Employment conditions would be
lowered so experienced and talented staff would leave.
And the
strengths of a comprehensive are highlighted:
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A full curriculum in a full
range of subjects including A-levels would continue to be provided
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An elected governing body
where parents and teachers have a real say would continue in
operation.
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Teaching and support staff
would continue to have decent, nationally agreed pay and conditions.
§
Admissions would continue to
be decided on open and fair criteria.
§
It would remain a school run
by educationalists, accountable to elected members and not to
private companies.
The
Council Cabinet is due to consider the future of the school on 9th
July and may well make its final decision then. Supporters of
To Sign up to the e-petition
to
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Pimlico
For up to date news visit:
www.pimlicopsa.org.uk
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS
Week 17-23 June
Whitgift House, Whitgift St.
Approval of details pursuant to
ccondition 8 (Cycle parking) of Planning ref: 04/02994/FUL.
Redevelopment of a former car-park site involving the erection of a
six storey residential building comprising (17) one and two bedroom
flats. Granted on 25/11//2005. Ref: 07//02399/DET. Applicant London
& Quadrant Housing Association.
3 Hanover Gdns.
Replacement of front and rear external staircase, replacement rear
basement window with French doors t doors, erection of rear railngs,
to basement and 1st/sup> floors and rendering and painting, of
entire front elevation. Internal alterations to include removal of
stud wall and installation of a new bathroom to the basement flatly
(Town Planning and Listed Building Consent). Ref: 07/02277/FUL) &
07/02039/LB.
181 & st1:Street w:st="on">
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcAplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx/a>.
If this link does not work (as it did not on15 June) 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,
lambeth.gov.uk. Plans can also be seen at Durning
Library,
JULY DIARY –
see 15 June Listings issue on
www.rcdt.org
REGULAR ACTIVITIES – see
www.rcdt.org
LOCAL LINKS – see www.rcdt.org
ART
GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS – see 15 June Listings issue on
www.rcdt.org
CAPITAL NIGHTS JAZZ FESTIVAL AT MUSUEM OF GARDEN HISTORY – SEPTEMBER
– see 15
June Listings issue on www.rcdt.org
ENews/Events
Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT
Unless stated
editorial comments do not reflect the views of the RCDT Board
RCDT is supported by
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(Lambeth Council)