Support our local shops !!

This all feels very wartime, but as things stand, our local shops are facing a major shortfall in income.

Due to the lack of passing trade, they are reporting 75% less takings, the Junction is a ghost town, there is almost no one in the centre.

Please can I make a special request to anyone that reads this that rather than make your weekly / daily shop at a large supermarket, can you take the chance to save some petrol and buy from our local shops.

They really need the trade, and if this carries on until March we may well see some go bust.

Thanks for your support.

Foxes, Lots of them!

I thought we were being burgled last night, crunching foot steps, and knocks and bashes at 3am. I got out of bed put the dressing gown on and walked down stairs expecting the worst. I peered outside to see three foxes, all standing on the roof of a car ( a small nissan micra ) fighting over some food that one of them had found. Even when I opened the front door, they all stood there on the car just looking without really careing and just carried on.    By the time I had come back with my camera to record this event, they had sloped off, one was on the neighbours shed, another in the road and the other had gone somewhere else. The fox I photographed saw me and walked over to see what on earth I was doing.

I dont know about you, but I have never seen so many foxes in Loughborough Junction / lambeth, they must be doing very well. Personally I find them threatening, bold, off hand etc etc and I wish that Lambeth would take it upon themselves to do something about the numbers. Clearly fox hunting is out, and that is probably why the council can not be seen to be culling them.

What do you think of the foxes?

Click here to see what Lambeth advise. Foxes in Lambeth

Proposed redevelopment of the Kings Car Park

Here is the link on the Lambeth Planning Site to the redevelopment of the Kings Car Park which is adjacent to Lilford Road Estate and Geoffrey Chaucer. Probably the largest scheme proposed in the area for many years.

This application is to build 108 affordable homes (social housing) on the
site of the Kings Car Park/ old Sunday Market site. The flats will be in 2
blocks filling the front of the site onto Coldharbour Lane and are all
proposed to be 8 storeys high. The highest buildings in the area are the
Lilford Estate and they are 5 storeys and set back – most properties are 2,
3, or 4 storeys high in the area. -

In an area with high levels of social housing (Lilford Estate, Winterbrook,
Thorlands, Geoffrey Chaucer and Crawford (over the Southwark Boundary)),
given the proposal to introduce a dispersal zone in this area, because of
already unacceptable crime issues, is such an intense development ideal?

Please look at the proposals and provide comment if you wish to Lambeth -
the DEADLINE is 4 August – which is when Lambeth anticipate making a
decision. I attach a couple of images.

Tim

Click here to leave a comment on the blog

Thinking of buying or renting a house in Loughborugh Junction?

I was pleased to see this comment in Your LBJ,

“We are thinking of buying a house in Loughborough Junction as we have been totally priced out of Herne Hill – we have been looking there for 1.5 years with no success. It is such a shame that LJ does not have the cafes, pubs etc around the station that Herne HIll has somehow managed to cultivate over the last few years. It does not help that there is no supermarket at all – I think getting a Sainsburys would actually really help the area (although I hate to promote supermarkets!). The Cambria is a really good start – will anyone else follow? I would be keen to help with any campaigning that needs to be done.”

I wondered if you would like to comment on this and help Kate and anyone else that is in the same situation, which I imagine must be quite common.

<<<<You can leave a Comment on this post by clicking here>>>>

Thanks

Nick

A New Year Note : 2009

We would like to thank everyone who has supported, contributed and read the Loughborough Junction Blog, it has been a busy year. It has been particularly exciting to be able to present and promote so many interesting events and businesses in the area as well as bringing attention to the more mundain things that just need sorting out.

I hope that in 2009 we can build on the good work already achieved with the LJAG group, local businesses, residents and the council.

Wishing you all a very happy New Year and every success for 2009.

Cheers!

What would make Loughborough Junction a better place to live or work?

Following a recent Lambeth mailing that fell through our door (and yours?), I thought I would add the letter to the blog to try and get an idea of what you think the priorities in Loughborough Junction are. Lambeth have been very supportive of the LJAG (Loughborough Junction Action Group) and are keen to work with residents and businesses on resolving issues in the area.

If you are interested in getting involved with the continued improvement of Loughborough Junction then why not join the Loughborough Junction Action Group. LJAG  (Residents / Businesses Only)

Click Here and then select Join this Group

The Goals of the Action Group.

(i) Independent of the Council.

(ii) An Action group rather than a residents association

(a) as it includes business

(b) Don’t want the constraints attached to a Residents Association.

(iii) Strive for positive action not just complaints

(iv) To put Loughborough Junction on the map (as distinct from Brixton and Herne Hill).

(v) Foster the community around Loughborough Junction and celebrating the area

(vi) Include social events.

We ran a similar poll in May 08, click here to see the poll results.

ELAM STREET OPEN SPACE

ELAM STREET OPEN SPACE

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Found this on my computer the other day. I think it probably dates from last year. I don’t remember writing it, though I must have done. This seems like the best place for it. I don’t have any pictures of ESOS alas.

 

This morning

 

This morning, like every year,

mid-October spoke to me in Elam Street Open Space.

The crisp yellow leaves said, listen to us crackle, look at our pointy fingers!

Of course there are leaves like us everywhere in every year,

but this year it’s our turn to be the crisp leaves in Elam Street Open Space

and it’s you we’re calling to.

The blue sky said, how blue does a moment have to be

for you to want to rescue it from time?

The sun said, it’s your cheek I’m warming,

and this is a now worth any other,

so do something!

 

But I thought of all the other mid-October days

and all the other people who’ve done their bidding.

I went home to dirty breakfast bowls

and a computer full of other people’s words.

 

Soon though it will be late November, when the leaves are always gone,

so, here – others or no – are this morning, and those leaves.

Budgets Slashed for Ruskin Park -

The next public meeting of the Freinds Of Ruskin Park is on 13th November at St Saviours church hall, Finsen Road 7.30pm where the Chair gives an update of park matters and people can comment on and discuss park issues.

The main issue is Lambeth’s lack of care of the park due to park budgets being slashed and money for projects taken for other expenditure.

People need to complain to their Councillors or Lambeth Parks directly. Please write to the councillors below, the care and maintanance of Ruskin Park affects us all, currently the park needs funds to continue ongoing work on the bowls green, the tennis courts, playground, the stable block and general maintanace of the park itself.

The Friends ORP are aware from verbal conversations with Lambeth Parks staff that money that was there for park projects is either no longer there or has been reduced, e.g. the bowling green planting. They believe it has been used to cover budget shortfalls elsewhere, but where they do not know. Why Lambeth feel the need to do this or what state their overall finances are in the Friends don’t know either. The Friends know that there is a budget freeze on all but essential park maintenance, i.e. where there are health and safety issues. To find out more come to the Friends public meeting or see the next newsletter due mid to late November.

Councillor Rebecca Thackray (Green Party) 07946 219 394

rthackray@lambeth.gov.uk

Councillor Kirsty McHugh (Labour)

Deputy Cabinet Member for Housing and Neighbourhoods. 07932 792 435

kmchugh@lambeth.gov.uk

Councillor Jim Dickson (Labour)

Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources. 020 3149 6657

jdickson@lambeth.gov.uk

The Whirled Cinema opens its doors again!

After a slightly longer absence than planned a new and improved Whirled Cinema is finally back for another season of great movies, screening films to our friends every Friday and Saturday evening.

For weekly updates please SUBSCRIBE to the Whirled Cinema mailing list

ENTRY: FREE

Friday 31st October
No Screening – Private Function.

Saturday 1st November (8.30pm)
The Flight Of The Red Balloon
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007

If the luscious red orb that sails through “Flight of the Red Balloon” like an airborne cherry looks as if it flew in from another movie, in some ways it did. The film, the latest wonderment from the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien, takes as one of its inspirations Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 classic, “The Red Balloon,” about a young boy and the talismanic sphere that follows him through the gray streets of Paris like a dog, a lover, a ghost — as much a reminder of the precariousness of life as an emblem of innocence.

Opening times & location details

Doors Open at 7:30 till late

Film Starts 8:30pm

259-260 Hardess St Loughborough Jctn
London SE24 OHN

2mins BR Loughborough Junction;10 mins Brixton

The aim of the cinema is to create a unique environment showing great movies & creating a relaxed atmosphere where you can meet and socialise with like minded people who share a passion for film.

Uniquely Located

Loughborough Junction’s central location makes it a superb point to go pretty much anywhere in London, the train station offers trains to central London, 2 stops to the South Bank, St Pauls, Farringdon and beyond to St Albans. The other way offers direct trains to Streatham, East Croydon and Wimbledon. Within ten minutes walk you can be in Brixton, Camberwell or Herne Hill.

If you want to travel by bike you can be in the city within 20 minutes or if you are feeling energetic Crystal Palace is worth a trip for some super views across London. Within 30 minutes you can be cycling around Regents Park.

Here are some of my favorite destinations.

1) The South Bank. Two train stops to Blackfriars puts you within an easy walk of the Tate Modern, the Globe Theatre, St Pauls and the Museum of London and of course the South Bank itself. By the way I can highly recommend the Haddock & chips at the Tate Modern cafe. (amongst the best!)

2) On Friday or Saturday morning the 35 bus to London Bridge gets you to Borough Market for a gastronomic feast for the eyes and senses. It’s also worth a visit to Southwark Cathedral which dates back to the Domesday Book, and is now the resting place of the American Indian Mahomet Weyonomon who died of smallpox in 1735 whilst petitioning King George II and seek justice for his tribe in America.

3) Dulwich Woods – located just behind the golf course in Dulwich – google maps is the largest single part of the ancient Great North Wood still extant. If you want to get some peace and quite, fresh air and absolutely no idea that you are in London, then pay these woods a visit. I haven’t been for ages however it is always a great place to explore. It will be beautiful now before it gets too muddy.

Where do you like to go? Please add a comment to let us know.