Vauxhall Society committee member Gabriel Gbadamosi, who grew up locally and used Kennington’s Durning Library extensively, launches his first novel. From his sister’s taunts to a series of house fires, from his parents’ crumbling marriage to police harassment and the realisation that the council intends to clear out the ‘slum’ he calls home, young Michael learns to navigate his way through an array of obstacles. Vauxhall is an edgy, moral tale from the childhood slums of 70s London. Signed...
Water Lambeth – A Walk among the Fragments When: Thursday, April 25, 12.30 – 1.30 pm Where: We will meet at 12.30 pm, St Mary Lambeth churchyard (now The Garden Museum), at the junction of Albert Embankment and Lambeth Palace Road. Free to Vauxhall employees *Booking essential* - Email frances.forrest@vauxhallone.co.uk Water Lambeth – A Walk among the Fragments The building of the Albert Embankment in 1868 swept away the medieval waterside settlements of Lambeth parish. Water Lambeth was the...
It looks like the Northern Line Extension scheme will be shoved through regardless of Lambeth Council’s wild claims of ‘16,000 homes and 25,000 jobs’ and no idea of what it’s all going to cost. It also looks like the Greater London Authority has promised Battersea’s developers that the GLA, i.e. tax – and council taxpayers, will take the considerable financial risk. But, says Lansdowne Gardens’ Professor Sir Malcolm Green, it’s worth objecting as the project nears parliamentary rubber-stamping. The...
Nothing specifically with Vauxhall, except it’s only a short bus ride or brisk walk away form Vauxhall Bus Station, it’s free (unless you buy a picture or a programme) and it’s a respite from the winter blues. This is The Society of Botanical Artists’ exhibition ‘The Language of Flowers’. Westminster Central Hall (it says ‘Methodist’ over the door’) in Storey’s Gate, SW1, just off Parliament Square. Daily from 11 am to 5pm until 21 April http://soc-botanical-artists.org/
The Dutch Embassy’s rumoured move from Hyde Park Gate to Nine Elms is now official. The Kingdom of the Netherlands has done a deal with Embassy Gardens developers Ballymore Group that will see the embassy move in 2017 a 50,000 sq ft site next to the US Embassy on Nine Elms Lane. For the PR hype: www.embassygardens.com www.nineelmslondon.com/news/dutch-embassy-coming-to-nine-elms
There’s some fun returning to site of Vauxhall Gardens (now ‘Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens’ for the first time in many years, with a five-day festival that, quite properly for an institution as English as Vauxhall Gardens, runs from Friday 19 April through the weekend to St George’s Day, Tuesday 23 April. Falconry, Shakespeare, food, and much more. For details, see our Events Calendar
Here’s some straight questions. Here’s a chance to have your say on your local library (while you still have one). It’s at a Lambeth Libraries public meeting between 2pm and 4 pm on Saturday April 20 at The Tate South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road. Here’s some questions the Lambeth Libraries top brass would not like to answer and would prefer you not to ask: You talk about being a ‘Co-operative Council’: does that mean that you expect...
Want to know more about finding your way through the mess that is the planning system in Lambeth? The Waterloo Community Development Group is hosting a borough-wide consultation for community group representatives on Lambeth’s Local Plan on Saturday 20 April 11am-3pm at Stockwell YMCA, 40-60 Stockwell Rd, SW9 9ES . Oh, and there’s a ‘light lunch’ too. Lambeth is the borough with the fifth densest population in the country, some wards having over a quarter more people than ten...
The Vauxhall Society and Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey are among those backing the objection of residents of flats around the Albert Embankment to a planning application to build extra storeys on the Plaza Riverside Hotel. Lambeth has turned down the application before because this is a particularly densely-populated part of an overcrowded borough. The development would further deprive many dwellings – among them ‘affordable homes’ – of daylight and sunlight. But Lambeth Council now stands to pocket £220,000 or...
Businesses moving into the Vauxhall Nine Elms ‘Opportunity area’ will have their business rates payments channelled directly into paying for the Northern Line Extension, the Vauxhall Nine Elms Partnership (VNEP) says. When businesses start paying, how much and for how long VNEP (i.e. Wandsworth and Lambeth Councils) do not say. No mention is made of dipping into Council Tax money. Lambeth Council leader Lib Peck is the ‘co-chair’ of VNEP and has put her name to the VNEP statement...
