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Lambeth Together: health and care services in Lambeth

Lambeth Together is an exciting new development, bringing together different organisations to work together to co-ordinate and deliver health and care services in our Borough. There will be a fully integrated care system for people who live and work in Lambeth. You can read more about their plans in the presentation on their website, which includes at slide 12 ways you can get involved now.

In brief, Lambeth Together is being developed as a collaboration between those who have a major role to play in these services and local people:

Involvement opportunity - Healthy London Partnership

The Healthy London Partnership is a collaboration of London’s health and care system to support the delivery of better health in London. Two patient representatives are sought to sit on the London Choosing Wisely Steering Group.

Crime Statistics

Norwood Forum will be reporting regularly on crime in West Norwood using data obtained from the Metropolitan Police. Below are the top three reported crimes in December 2017 for each Ward. For Knights Hill and Thurlow Park burglary and assault without injury were the major reported criminal activity and in Gipsy Hill drugs offences and theft from vehicles topped the list.

Knollys Goods Yard

Over the last year there has been a lot of activity regarding the Knollys Goods Yard, the triangular shaped land surrounded by railway tracks that is off Knollys Road and owned by Network Rail.

Chapel Road – community garden

Jason Prentis of Veolia has done a number of great projects to improve Norwood. Most of the street planters are his work and he has organised clear up campaigns. His new plan is to create a community garden at the junction of Knight’s Hill and Chapel Road to turn it from an unloved illegal dumping ground into something we can all enjoy and be proud of. The Garden has been designed by local resident Tessa Parikian -

Norwood Co-operative Local Investment Plan (CLIP)

Lambeth Council has published the Norwood Co-operative Local Investment Plan (CLIP), which covers Gipsy Hill, Knight’s Hill and Thurlow Park wards. You can read the full report here.

Police drop-in meetings

Your local police teams are holding regular ward-based drop-in meetings and all are welcome to attend. Notice of these meetings is published on the met police website (your area section), some with more notice than others. Published information as of today (5 February) is as follows:

Gipsy Hill

Drop-in surgery

An Everyman Cinema to open in Crystal Palace.

The Palace Cinema Campaign announced last week that Everyman plan to “restore a four-screen cinema to Crystal Palace, bringing films to audiences on the big screen on a regular basis for the first time in fifty years.”

The Campaign will provide a further update once more is known. The original catalyst for the campaign back in June 2009 was the sale of the Gala Bingo Hall, 25 Church Road (the former 1920's art deco Rialto cinema), to Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC).

Leisure Activities for South Lambeth Seniors

Time on your hands?

Looking for new interests?

You are guaranteed a warm welcome from the following groups operating in the Norwood area:

Norwood Pensioners

Activites: Flower arranging, Tai Chi, Chair Based Exercise and Line Dancing

Meet on Tuesdays (10am - 3pm) at The Old Library, Knights Hill, West Norwood,SE27 9JX

For more information contact: Elsie Gardener on 01883 622902

U3A Norwood

Improving the private rented sector in West Norwood: meeting

As we all know house prices are putting home ownership out of reach of most people and by the end of 2021 it is predicted that almost one in four households will be renting privately. Nowhere is this more acute than in London.

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