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Birds and bats not consulted (but surveyed) for vast Vauxhall Square project

25 January 2012

Vauxhall-based property company CLS Holdings has applied for planning permission for its ambitious ‘Vauxhall Square’ redevelopment plan at Vauxhall Cross. CLS Chief Executive Officer Richard Tice stresses that the project does not depend upon the Northern Line extension from Kennington to Nine Elms being built. ‘Vauxhall Square’, would occupy the whole of the CLS-owned block bounded to the north by Parry Street, to the west by Wandsworth Road (with the exception of a terrace of listed houses), and by...

Vauxhall Park: Friends land punches on skyscraper developer in shadow-boxing match

25 January 2012

30-60 South Lambeth Road - Developer's image

The 32-storey student skyscraper proposed for 30-60 South Lambeth Road, would ‘overshadow’ Vauxhall Park and so further disadvantage people in an area of social deprivation that is short of open space. This and more is what the Friends of Vauxhall Park say in their objection to the scheme, sent to Lambeth planner Jonathon Fullelove and copied to Oval Ward councillors Ishbel Brown, Jane Edbrooke and Jack Hopkins. What the Friends of Vauxhall Park say: Dear Jonathan Fullelove, Ref: 30-60...

Lambeth Prospects: Images from the collection at Lambeth Archives

25 January 2012

Lambeth Prospects: Images from the collection at Lambeth Archives from the 17th to the 21st centuries will open at Morley College on Thursday 9 February 2012. The images, in media including oil, watercolour, print and photography give a rarely-seen insight into Lambeth over the centuries. The collection focuses on the north of the borough’s transition from a riverside village, to a Victorian industrial centre and then to today’s diverse 21st century community, but also on the development of its...

VNEB: not enough traffic at Vauxhall Cross? Have some of Wandsworth’s too!

24 January 2012

The traffic at Vauxhall Cross may get a lot heavier if Wandsworth Council has its way, according to Vauxhall Society affiliate the Fentiman Road and Richborne Terrace Residents Association. The cause? The skyscraper developments Wandsworth Council is giving the OK to along Nine Elms Lane. Wandsworth Council (it is reported but not yet confirmed) is insisting that all the traffic leaving the new Nine Elms developments should be forced to turn towards Vauxhall Cross so as to avoid adding...

Don’t miss our Blitz walks!

24 January 2012

The first of The Vauxhall Society’s two Blitz walks – and the first of our Heritage Walks programme for 2012 – is on Sunday 12 February at 11am. It’s a fantastic opportunity to learn more about how the Second World War affected this area – which was a major target for its railways and bridges. Sunday 12 February 2012, 11am Friday 17 February 2012, 11am Vauxhall in the Blitz Led by Chris Everett Meet Starbuck’s, opposite Vauxhall Tube &...

The Vauxhall Society, Friends of Vauxhall Park both say ‘No’ to 32-storey skyscraper

24 January 2012

The Vauxhall Society has objected to the application for planning permission to build a 32-storey skyscraper of 572 student apartments overlooking Vauxhall Park. So too have the Friends of Vauxhall Park. Nice though it would be to have the swimming pool promised for 30-60 South Lambeth Road, the skyscraper is so big and so tall that, as the developers admit, it would shade Vauxhall Park. This application, like the consultation before it, is not the first to be dogged...

‘Spring Mews’ springs architecture shock: not a skyscraper in sight !

23 January 2012

Vauxhall developer CLS Holdings has put in a planning permission application for the Spring Mews redevelopment on the northern fringe of the site of Vauxhall Gardens. While some might vote it an improvement on the ragbag of buildings presently on the site, from the illustrations in the consultation material others may conclude the buildings bland, dull and well down to the standard of recent design in that quarter.

VNEB/NLE: could they cost Boris his electoral ‘Opportunity Area’ in Vauxhall?

19 January 2012

Eager hands throughout Vauxhall will be reaching for the Mayor’s London Plan after the hands’ owners read in the 13-26 January issue of Private Eye (‘Regeneration Game’, p.14) that Boris Johnson has asked a developer to withdraw an unpopular plan for riverside ‘regeneration’, a plan approved by the local authority. No, not Lambeth, and not the Vauxhall, Nine Elms & Battersea ‘Opportunity Area’, still less its accompanying Northern Line Extension – likely to be a big local factor in...

All aboard NLE: George Osborne, Boris Johnson, Tory Wandsworth…. and, er, Labour Lambeth

19 January 2012

You might think that Lambeth Council would be very careful about promising vast sums of your money to fund the VNEB’s Northern Line Extension scheme now NLE’s cheer-leader Treasury Holdings has gone bust. As if. Lambeth’s ‘Cabinet’ has whole-heartedly signed up to NLE, ‘target cost’ £955 million, thus committing millions that otherwise would have gone on schools, hospitals and other good stuff that will be needed along the Vauxhall riverside. Of course, the money for those goodies will still...

For He or She who would a Guys and St Thomas Member or Governor be

19 January 2012

If you feel you don’t spend enough time hanging around NHS premises, why not become a member of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust (GSFT)? ‘Members’ vote for the ten governors who are due to be elected this May. These five ‘public governors’ and five ‘patient governors’ advise the Trust’s Board of Directors. You can become a GSFT ‘member’ (or qualify as ‘public governor’) if you live in Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, Westminster or Lewisham, or (also the qualification for...

Vauxhall One to give Vauxhall its Park back

16 January 2012

At the urging of The Vauxhall Society, Vauxhall Park is back on the map. By the end of 2011, the park had disappeared from maps and text published by Vauxhall One, the consortium of local businesses behind February’s referendum over whether or not the Vauxhall Cross area should have a Business Improvement District (BID). Now, however, after an approach from The Vauxhall Society, Vauxhall One Chairman Richard Tice, confirms that Vauxhall Park is back in the BID area and...

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Birds and bats not consulted (but surveyed) for vast Vauxhall Square project

Vauxhall Park: Friends land punches on skyscraper developer in shadow-boxing match

Lambeth Prospects: Images from the collection at Lambeth Archives

VNEB: not enough traffic at Vauxhall Cross? Have some of Wandsworth’s too!

Don’t miss our Blitz walks!

The Vauxhall Society, Friends of Vauxhall Park both say ‘No’ to 32-storey skyscraper

‘Spring Mews’ springs architecture shock: not a skyscraper in sight !

VNEB/NLE: could they cost Boris his electoral ‘Opportunity Area’ in Vauxhall?

All aboard NLE: George Osborne, Boris Johnson, Tory Wandsworth…. and, er, Labour Lambeth

For He or She who would a Guys and St Thomas Member or Governor be

Vauxhall One to give Vauxhall its Park back

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