#ConsultTheCommunity
The Stakeholders: Norwood Forum, Norwood Planning Assembly, Station to Station BID, Norwood Action Group and Local Councillors have been ‘briefed’ by Lambeth Council's Development Team in a one hour meeting and that is all the public engagement that Lambeth are prepared to do. We do not consider this sufficient for such radical proposals for our neighbourhood. We shall be campaigning vigorously to have Site 18 and Site 19 removed from this Draft. 
Read on for the full story and find out how to get involved - with suggestions on what to say here

Group of Residents?
If you support to put together a group submission, please get in touch asap here

It is vital that principles of collective action, collaboration and partnership are at the heart of efforts to work towards agreed objectives and aspirations for the area. The strength and willingness to engage of the West Norwood and Tulse Hill community has been instrumental in delivering numerous successes for the area in recent years. The area is also home to a high number of organisations which have the capacity and expertise to take a lead in aspects of delivery, and which have also stated their desire and commitment to being part of future delivery.'
Or even the outcome of this consultation in 2018

 

Where has all that good engagement practice gone?  Covid-19 has radically altered everyone's lives and the needs of a community can only be realistically assessed through a programme of in-depth consultation.

 

A stakeholder group comprising Norwood Forum, Station to Station BID, Norwood Planning Assembly, Norwood Action Group and local Councillors is meeting regularly. We are working hard to engage with Lambeth on these proposals and produce a community response.

 

 

These are our current key issues of concern:

• ignoring all the consultation that has gone before
• lack of new consultation - especially to take into account the impact of Covid-19 on how we live our lives
• the scale and visual impact of the proposed tower blocks
• the loss of character and sense of place
• lack of ambition - environmental, architectural and use (what about this project built in Barking and Dagenham?)
• pressure on services and infrastructure
• where realistically do our local 'dirty' businesses move to - the scaffolders, the car repair garages?
• affordable housing allocation
• access to Site 19.