In November 2018 an application was received by Lambeth to demolish the existing funeral directors and beauty salon at 382a – 384 Norwood Road and erect a two to four-storey building with basement to create two commercial units and 12 residential units.

Over the past nine months or so, Norwood Forum has been raising the poor cleanliness of the West Norwood town centre with Veolia (the Council’s contractor), Council officers, Councillors, and Station to Station.  The stretch of pavement opposite West Norwood station had become a 24/7 dumping ground for local commercial and domestic waste, and this in turn attracted regular domestic and builder’s waste from elsewhere. Waste was apparently put out on the pavement in unsuitable containers and next to litter bins on Norwood Road, and this resulted in staining of the new pavements.

Lambeth Council has recently announced an amazing opportunity to lease two community spaces from the council totally rent free. They are looking for organisations who will benefit the local community to lease either Dexter’s Adventure Playground (Brixton) or Larkhall One O’Clock Club (Stockwell) from the council.

Plans are afoot to increase the number of flights to the planned new three runway London Heathrow Airport.This will increase the number of flights over the whole of Norwood.  A public consultation called Airspace and Future Operations Consultation is underway to seek views by way of a questionnaire.