RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 29 September 2007

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

 

TOMORROW- SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER, 6.30pm

 

St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event. Recitalists; Rebecca Kozam (oboe) and Andrew Macmillan, piano. Handel Sonata Op1, No.8. Saints Saens Sonata Op 16. Preacher; Rev'd David Cherry, Chaplain, University of London. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.

 

Please note that the next ENews will be on 12 October.

 

NEWS

 

LAMBETH CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON POLICE HANDLING OF STOCKWELL SHOOTING. 6PM, TUESDAY, 2 OCTOBER, Karibu Centre, Gresham Road, Brixton SW9.  The Community Police Consultative Group for Lambeth will consider a presentation by the Chairperson of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), Nick Hardwick. You will recall that Nick Hardwick on the report into the conduct of the Metropolitan Police and the Commissioner following the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.  There will also be speakers from the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Metropolitan Police Service.

 

KOV FORUM MEETING TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER. Pedlar’s Acre, Opel St (behind housing office, 91 Kennington Lane). Networking 6.30pm. Meeting starts 7pm. The agenda includes a presentation on the Prince’s Ward Investment Strategy, Launch of the Friends of Lambeth Community Care in Monkton St, up date on Communities first and pilot Civic Assembly, Save Kennington Open Space Action Group, Riverside Medical Centre at St George’s Wharf. All welcome

 

PRINCE’S WARD INVESTMENT STRATEGY COMMUNITY REFERENCE GROUP. The three Prince’s Ward Councillors have written to a number of local organisations inviting them to the initial meeting to discuss the Prince’s Ward Community Reference Group at Alford House, Aveline St on Monday 15 October, 7pm-9pm.) The meeting will discuses the formation of the group and how it can ensure that local residents have the opportunity to be actively involved in the regeneration of sites in the Ward. The Group will be chaired by a local Councillor and is likely to meet 4-6 times year. The Councillors would particularly like the Chairs of local organisations to take an active part, but if they would like to nominate another person on behalf of the organisation they can. The draft agenda for the meeting on 15 October will include a brief summary of the report to Cabinet on 30 July on the Strategy, the way forward for the strategy, and terms of reference for the Group. The organisations invited are: Ethelred TMO, Ethelred Towers TRA, Vauxhall Gardens Estate representative on the North Lambeth  Housing Forum,  Friends of Lambeth Walk Open Space and of Vauxhall Spring Gardens, Vauxhall Five and Cotton Gdns TRAs, Cottington Close TMC. Kennington Association, Lighthouse Education Service, Ethelred Youth Centre, RCDT, Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, Denby Court Sheltered Housing TRA, North Lambeth Youth Forum, and the point blocks. Observers have also been invited from Ethelred Nursery, Walnut Tree Walk, Archbishop Sumner and Vauxhall Primary Schools, Lilian Baylis Technology School and the Estate Director of Ethelred TMO.  For background and debate on the Strategy see the 27 July and 17 August ENews/Events listings on www.rcdt.or.g

 

 

BARRETT’S SEEKS PLANNING OPERMISSIOJN ON DETAILS FOR KERRIN POINT DEVELOPMENT. See Local Planning Applications and News section below.


 ARMIN KRÄMER. “Where to?”. New Exhibition at Corvi-Mora Gallery Opens 4 October. 6.30-8.30pm. See Diary and Art Galleries & Exhibitions section.

ROOTS & SHOOTS APPLE DAY.  Saturday 14 October. – See Diary.

 

ART AT THE PELICAN. The Pelican Nursery School has started Saturday morning art and craft sessions for children aged 18months – 5 years. Older children and babies welcome and catered for Tel: 020 7820 6600. www.thepelicannursery.co.uk. St Anselm’s Church Hall, 286 Kennington Rd. Drop in or book in advance. £5 per artist. Refreshments available.

 

AUTUMN EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF GARDEN HISTORY. This autumn events at the Museum of Garden History offer the opportunity to find out about more about Churchill through his gardens, attend the launch of a number of key gardening titles, hear a conversation between Barbara Simms and John Brookes and record sounds from the Museum Garden to create a piece of music. See Diary for details of the events. Talks: 1, 2 & 8 November, A week-long music festival starting 22 October will celebrate the art of field recording with a special interest in the wildlife of London. The Monday workshop is led by world-renowned natural sound recorder and former member of Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson. Also featuring are special performances by Biosphere, Scanner and Leafcutter John and the Storm project, which follows a weather front as it crosses the North Sea.

 

ARCHBISHOP SUMNER SCHOOL. Year 5 will be visiting Nelson Mandela’s statue in Parliament Square. The school has been invited to Lambeth Town Hall in recognition of its ‘Outstanding’ OFSTED report. On Friday 4 October children who bring £1 can wear their jeans. All money will go to genetic research. The Harvest festival assembly will be held the same day with items brought in to be donated for homeless people. Year 4 visited the Natural History Museum. They loved it. Children have completed a ‘Take One Picture’ project inspired by Rubens’ ‘Autumn’ painting. Swedish teachers have visited the school. The school’s brass band is playing at an Alzheimer‘s Memory Walk’ event in the Imperial War Museum Park.

 

DON’T LOSE YOUR CHANCE TO VOTE. The heat being generated by the General Election speculation could mean that an election is run on the current register up to 31 December, and on the new register from 1 January 2008. And there is the Mayor of London and GLA elections in next May. The new register is being compiled at the moment. Lambeth Council is urging residents not to lose their right to vote by making sure that they are on the register. All residents were sent a form in August. If you have not returned it you are urged to do so. If you want to check you are on the draft register contact the Council: 020 7926 2144. Have any of your neighbours moved in since August who you could advise to make sure they get on the register? See www.lambeth.gov.uk/News/PressReleases/280907DontLoseRightVote.htm

 

SIMON JENKINS ATTACKS MAYOR AND GOVERNMENT OVER TOWER BLOCK BONANAZA. In Friday’s Guardian Simon Jenkins roundly attacked the obsession with tower blocks: ‘Size is everything to a mayor consumed by edifice complex’. ‘Ken Livingstone is allowing a forest of giant towers to dwarf and destroy the intimate landscape of London’. He includes derision about the way John Prescott overrode the Council, residents and the Inspector over the proposed St George’s Tower at Vauxhall. See: www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2178952,00.html

The growing threat of tower blocks was flagged up by Michael Ball (Waterloo Community Development Group worker) at Kennington, Oval & Vauxhall Forum in autumn 2006.


DIARY

                                                

 

OCTOBER

 

Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6

Motherland. www.ovalhouse.com. Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval

 

 

7.45pm

Saturday Matinee 3.30pm

4 October

LAMBETH COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE NEEDS FRIENDS. LAUNCH MEETING.  LAMBETH COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE NEEDS FRIENDS. LAUNCH MEETING Thursday 4 October. 6pm. A new voluntary community organisation, to be called The Friends of Lambeth Community Care Centre is being set up. It will replace an already established non-membership Centre Advisory Group (CAG), which has decided that there is a need to establish a more broad-based organisation involving a wider cross-section of the North Lambeth community. The purpose of the Friends organisation will be to support, protect and help develop the Care Centre, a half-way house between hospital and home, especially for those living alone and for the elderly. It is important that the Centre's contacts with the local community are strengthened, to ensure it provides the best possible service for all who need it. The Care Centre is run by the NHS Lambeth Primary Care Trust. The meeting will start at 6.30pm. Light refreshments, wine and soft drinks will be served from 6.00pm. The organisers hope you will come and join them. Monkton Street.

6pm

4 October

ARMIN KRÄMER. “Where to?” New Exhibition opens at Corvi-Mora Gallery. See Art Galleries & Exhibitions section.

6.30-8.30pm

Saturday 6

Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube)

10am-3pm

Sunday 7

St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event. Recitalists; The Veya Saxophone Quartet. Programme including music by Bernstein and Piazzolla. Preacher, Rev'd Giles Frazer, Vicar of St Mary's, Putney. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

Tuesday 9

KOV Forum. Pedlars Acre, Opal St (behind Housing Office, 91 Kennington Lane). See News item above.

6.30pm networking. 7pm meeting.

Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13

Typhoon Live. East Asian plays in the UK: Getting Married & Dogs. www.ovalhouse.com. Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval

7.45pm

Tuesday & Saturday Matinees 3pm

Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13

Confessions of A Dancewhore. www.ovalhouse.com. Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval

 

8pm

Saturday 13

Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube)

10am-3pm

Saturday 14

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 Tree Walk/Fitzalan St. 020 7587 1131. admin@rootsandshoots.orgh.uk, www.rootsandshoots.org.uk

11am-4pm

Saturday 13

Dyeworks Saturday class: Blending and spinning alpaca. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

Sunday 14

Esther Teichmann. Silently Mirrored. Last day of exhibition at Man& Eve. See Art Galleries & Exhibitions section.

12-6pm

Sunday 14

St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event. Recitalists; Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Gould, piano. A programme of English Song. Preacher; The Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Rev'd Tom Butler. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

Tuesday 16 – Saturday 3 November

Double Negative. www.ovalhouse.com. Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval

 

7.45pm

Wednesday 17

Quadrille dancing with Elsa. Over 50's Meeting at the Durning Library. Free refreshments sponsored by the Friends of the Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane. All over 50 welcome.

3-4pm

Saturday 20

Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube)

10am-3pm

Saturday 20

CITY FARM ANNIVERSARY. The Anniversary event will now be held on Saturday 20 October. There will be range of activities at the Farm. There will be supporting activities in St. Peter’s Church by Vauxhall Heritage Centre, a second-hand booksale, launch of a pamphlet on Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, a history walk (dependent on weather), possibly some history talks, and a Friends of Spring Gardens display about the next plans for the Gardens in St. Peter’s Church. RCDT will be contributing funding to the activities.

 

Saturday 20

Dyeworks Saturday class: Dyeing a range of purples and browns.  Overdyeing using indigo cochineal and Brazil wood. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

Sunday 21

Paulette Phillips Marie-France & Patricia Martin Ruth. Last day of exhibition at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art. See Art Galleries & Exhibitions section below.            

2-6pm

Sunday 21

St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event. Recitalists; Liquid Architecture Octet. Nielsen Serenata-Invano and Ferguson Octet Op.4. Preacher; the Very Rev'd Victor Stock, Dean of Guildford. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

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 Museum of Garden History on 020 7401 8865 or go to www.museumgardenhistory.org

 

Wednesday 24

Music Performance: Biosphere and Storm by Chris Watson and BJ Nilsen. See Monday 22.

 

Thursday 25

Music etc. Midday Interview: Jon Wozencroft & Mike Harding interview Chris Watson

Audition: Chris Watson selects his favourite Monday Workshop edits

Performance:  Biosphere and BJ Nilsen and Chris Watson

See Monday 22

 

Friday 26

Music Performance

 

Saturday 27

Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube)

10am-3pm

Saturday 27

Dyeworks Saturday class: Half Term – no class. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

Sunday 28

St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event. Recitalists; The Brook Street Band. Handel Cello Sonatas. Preacher; Rev'd Lindsay McKenna, Vicar of All Saints' Hanworth and former Director of Cara. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

 

NOVEMBER

 

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 Museum of Garden History. Helen will talk about her book in which she encapsulates, in her inimitably witty and accessible style, her lifetime of gardening know-how, deep love of plants and assured sense of design. Her book is illumination for every gardener – from the beginner wondering why nothing will grow in the garden of the new house to the sophisticate aiming at exquisitely subtle effects. This will be one of the first chances to buy Helen’s book, which she will be signing at the end of the evening. Tickets £10 or £5 for Museum Friends. Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road.  Tickets can be booked by calling 020 7401 8865.  info@museumgardenhistory.org; www.museumgardenhistory.org

7pm, drinks from 6.30pm.

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 London. There will be the opportunity to buy signed copies of the book after the talk. Tickets £10 or £5 for Museum Friends. Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road.  Tickets can be booked by calling 020 7401 8865. info@museumgardenhistory.org

www.museumgardenhistory.org

Talk at 7pm, drinks from 6.30pm

Saturday 3

Dyeworks Saturday class: Spinning multiple plys. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

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, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10

The Persian Revolution. Play. www.ovalhouse.com. Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval

7.45pm

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. Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road. Tickets can be booked by calling 020 7401 8865. info@museumgardenhistory.org

www.museumgardenhistory.org

7pm, drinks from 6.30pm.

Saturday 10

Dyeworks Saturday class: Spinning with mixed fibres. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

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, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

Tuesday 13 – Saturday 8 December

The Lightning Field. Play. www.ovalhouse.com. Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval

 

7.45pm

Saturday 17

Dyeworks Saturday class: Spinning fluffy yarns. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

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, 310 Kennington Lane

6.30pm

Wednesday 21

Gentle exercises with Lullyn. Over 50's Meeting at the Durning Library. Free refreshments sponsored by the Friends of the Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

3-4pm

Saturday 24

Dyeworks Saturday class: Children’s craft day. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

 

DECEMBER

 

Saturday 1

Dyeworks Saturday class: Dye workshop.  Browns and greys using light blues. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

Sunday 2

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

6.30pm

Saturday 8

Dyeworks Saturday class: Spinning fine yarns from merino and alpaca. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

Saturday 15

Dyeworks Saturday class: End of Term class. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St

11.30am-2pm

Wednesday 19

Christmas Party. Over 50's Meeting at the Durning Library. Free refreshments sponsored by the Friends of the Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

3-4pm

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

 

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 23-29 September

Site Of Kerrin Point, Hotspur Street. Approval of details pursuant to conditions 4 (Landscaping), 13 (Arboricultural Method Statement) 14 (Arboricultural method statement),  20 (Method of Construction Statement) and 22 (Programme of Archaeological work) of Planning Permission ref: 07/01355/RG4. Demolition of existing structures and erection of a new development ranging in height from 5 to 10 storeys in order to provide 214 residential flats comprising 123 x 1-bed, 68 x -2 bed, 14 x 3 -bed and 9 x -bed units, along with 403 sqm retail/community facility (Class A1/D1), together with the provision of 64 car parking spaces at basement level, cycle storage and communal garden.  The application also includes the reconfiguration of the existing car parking on Hotspur Street and provision of new playground areas and games court to replace those existing. Granted on 15.8.2007. Ref: 07/03773/DET & 07/03801 & 6-8/DET. Applicant: Barratt Homes (East London Division).

217 - 219 Kennington Lane. Change of use from retail (Use Class A1) to an estate agents (Use Class A2). Linwood House Ltd. Ref: 07/03662/FUL

160-162 Old South Lambeth Road. Alteration to rear extension incorporating change in roof pitch and removal of four windows within ground floor side elevation. Ref: 07/03632/FUL. Applicant: Stuart & Duffy Ltd.

289 - 299 Kennington Lane. Approval of details pursuant to condition13 (No other part of the development shall be occupied until the new means of access have been sited and laid out in accordance with the approved drawing, and constructed) of Planning Permission Ref: 06/02732/FUL.  Demolition of existing buildings and erection of a 3 storey warehouse building with 2 storey basement and 3 internal demountable mezzanine floors for self storage use (Use Class B8) and 'flexi offices' (Use Class B1), together with 9 car parking spaces, cycle stands, boundary treatment, landscaping, lighting and a cctv camera (Amended description). Granted on 21/12/2006. Ref: 07/03513/DET. Applicant: Big Yellow Self Storage Co.

13 Tyers Terrace. Loft conversion with the erection of a rear dormer window and one front rooflight. 07/03441/FUL.

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

Week 23-29 September

190 - 196 Kennington Park Road. Approval of details pursuant to Condition 7 (Contamination Report) of Planning Permission 05/01101/FUL (Redevelopment of site involving the erection of a five storey building comprising 28 self contained flats (4 x studio flats, 13 x 1 bed, 10 x 2-bed and 1 x 3 bed), together with landscaping and boundary treatment and associated alterations) granted on 07/07/2006. Application permitted.

325 Kennington Road. Change of use. Application withdrawn.

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

 

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.
One is on Environment, Entertainment & the local landscape, and the other is on Industry & Transport. Included will be a cover folder with pictures for children to colour in and keep, and inside some questions and opportunity to draw a garden or transport picture and enter our competition.

10.30am-5pm

Fridays – Sundays till  21 October

Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road
020 7735 8292
danielle@daniellearnaud.com
www.daniellearnaud.com

Paulette Phillips  Marie-France & Patricia Martin  Ruth           

     

2-6pm

Tuesdays – Saturdays till 17 November

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

ARMIN KRÄMER. “Where to?”

11am-6pm

Wednesdays – Sundays till 14 October

Man&Eve,131 Kennington Park Rd.

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.

12-6pm

 

 

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 London Development Agency, and part-funded by Pedlar’s Acre Trust (Lambeth Council)