Join local people to improve 'Bird Walk'

This Saturday and Sunday local volunteers will be planting and tidying in the alleyway between Wincott Street and Oakden Street. Local residents are welcome to join the volunteers between 10am and 3pm - donations of plants, bulbs and seeds very welcome (hardy plants which like the shade would be most suitable).

The alleyway has recently been resurfaced with new planting beds, to coincide with Archbishop Sumner School's reception classes' move to the Oakden Street site.

The planting is a resident-led initiative to help improve the alleyway. We are also looking into naming the alleyway and getting it properly 'adopted' by the Council. The frontrunner name is 'Bird Walk', as nearby Monkton Street used to be called 'Bird Street'. The school is also investigating whether mural painting might be a way for the children to help brighten up the route.

What environmental issues need sorting by the Council's Freshview?

It’s time to start thinking about the September Freshview which takes place in Oval and Prince’s Ward.

This year the Council is focussing its attention on issues that are of importance to local residents and businesses, so they are asking you to tell them about anti-social behaviour, burglary, litter and rubbish, street drinking and any similar problem.

Email Freshview@lambeth.gov.uk and let officers know specific details about the issues. This feedback will then form the basis of the operation.

Please send your ideas to Freshview@lambeth.gov.uk, by the end of Monday 3 September 2012.

Freshview in Prince's - 22 October

Freshview is coming to Prince's and Oval wards on 22 October.

The scheme is run by the council in partnership with lots of different agencies including Community Payback, the Metropolitan Police, Safer Lambeth and Transport for London. Every month the council and all the agencies work together for an entire day to tackle specific problems and freshen up the area of a local ward.

Freshview aims to:
-Improve environmental quality
-Reduce anti-social behaviour
-Increase community engagement and partnership working.

Activities that can happen during Freshview include:
-Free bulky waste collections for residents in selected streets
-Issuing fines for littering and waste
-Removing flyposting and graffiti
-Community service by Youth Offending and Community Payback teams
-Confiscating illegal goods and firearms
-Removal of nuisance vehicles
-Inspections of commercial premises
-Improving street lighting
-Cutting back trees and hedges
-Deep cleansing of problem hotspots
-Information stall providing feedback for residents, and much more.

If you have suggestions for clean up tasks that need doing please get in touch with your councillors as soon as possible!

Cottington Community Garden big tidy up!

Residents of the Cottington Close Estate will be leading a second day of work on their new community garden - tidying, weeding, pruning, planting and painting.

Lambeth Council is lending a hand as part of Labour's 'Community Freshview' scheme, where community groups are given the tools and assistance they need to lead a clean-up themselves.

Come and help out from 10am on Saturday 19 June!