Prince's ward community coffee morning

We're pleased to announce details of 2013 Prince's ward community coffee morning!

Saturday 23 March
11am - 12:30pm
St Anselm's Church Hall

Please come along to say hello to your local councillors, Lorna, Mark and Steve, and your London Assembly Member Val Shawcross.

Planning update

Apologies for the lack of blog posts over the past month - Cllr Steve Morgan has been keeping residents up to date with planning and licensing news via email. If you haven't done so already, please sign up to his occasional emails by sending him a quick email request.

Two important pieces of planning news from the past month are:

The Pathways project at St Anselm's Church has been given planning permission.

This scheme will transform the church into a community hub for several activities - including a restaurant, new hall, after school tuition, and accommodation. You can read the planning committee report here, and minutes from the meeting here.

The scheme had a lot of support from many residents in Kennington, but was opposed by residents living close by in Sancroft Street and Cardigan Street. After careful consideration local councillors decided to support the scheme because of the increase in positive activity it will bring to Kennington Cross.

A developer is holding a consultation about redeveloping Eastbury House on the Albert Embankment.

Eastbury House is one of the postwar office blocks on the Albert Embankment. Developers have a consultation website setting out their proposal to replace it with a 28 storey mixed use tower.

Coffee morning this Saturday!

Our fourth annual Prince's ward community coffee morning takes place this Saturday!

Residents of Prince's ward are invited to a community coffee morning on Saturday 4 February, from 11am to 12:30pm, at St Anselm's Church Hall , Kennington Cross.

It will be a chance for residents to meet their neighbours and local councillors, and to discuss issues affecting the area. Assembly Member Val Shawcross, Kate Hoey MP, and Leader of Lambeth Council Steve Reed will also be attending.

We hope to see many residents there!

2012 Labour Calendar and Coffee Morning

Over the coming days volunteers will be delivering the 2012 Prince's Labour calendar. It has contact details for all your local Labour representatives.

Alongside you should receive an invitation to our annual coffee morning. This year it's being held on Saturday 4 February, at 11am at the usual venue of St Anselm's Church Hall. All residents are invited to enjoy a tea or coffee and a chat with their Labour representatives.

Councillors will be joined by Kate Hoey MP, London Assembly Member Val Shawcross, and Leader of the Council Steve Reed.

St Anselm's Church planning application submitted

St Anselm's Church have submitted their planning application to transform the existing church into a thriving centre for community and youth projects.

The details of the application are:

Change of use of part of the ground floor of St Anselm's Church to a restaurant/cafe/delicatessen (Use Class A3), relocation of the church use to a new second floor, demolition of vestry and part of transepts, together with other minor external alterations within the site. Demolition of Havilland House and garages and redevelopment of the site to provide a new community hall (Use Class D1), educational facilities (Use Class D1), two work units (Use Class B1), and 17 residential units (Town Planning and Conservation Area Consent Applications received).

You can view the plans by visiting the following page and then clicking on the associated documents link: http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=LM2CI9BO0AY00

Once you have looked at the plans you can support or object to them by clicking on the submit comments button.

You can find out more about the project at http://www.pathwaysse11.com/

Local councillors will be supporting the application, which gained the support of 98% of 600 residents who attended a consultation event held at the church.

St Anselm's planning consultation

St Anselm's Church at Kennington Cross has launched a consultation with residents about major plans for redevelopment of their site.

Rev Angus Aagard (pictured) told several hundred people about the groups he wants to bring together on the site.

Into University will move from Centenary Hall to a new classroom on the site. They have provided additional tuition and support to over 1000 local school children to help improve their achievement and raise their aspirations.

The Pelican Nursery will continue working on the ground floor of St Anselm's Church Hall, providing high quality nursery places for a social mix of young children.

The London Youth Support Trust's business units for young people starting up on their own have already been built in the top floor of St Anselm's Church Hall.

Tomorrow's People provide work experience for young people on their flower stall. Currently outside the church, it's hoped they will move to the middle of Kennington Cross and be based out of the ArtsLav project in the discused gentlemen's convenience.

The Clink is a restaurant project based in a prison in Sutton. It provides work experience in a high quality restaurant environment to the prisoners there. The Clink hope to open a brasserie on the ground floor of the Church, open to all, providing work for carefully selected exoffenders who have left prison. They will be housed in flats at the back on the site.

A new community hall will provide a subsidised space for community activities and meetings.

Several new flats will replace Havilland House on Sancroft Street, providing accommodation for clergy, young people working in the business units, and exoffenders working in the brasserie.

The Church will be in the same building, but on a raised floor above the brasserie and new hall. It will preserve the architectural feel of the church whilst making it much easier and economical to heat.

The initial reaction from local residents, the Kennington Association, and ward councillors has been hugely positive. The scheme has the potential to create a bustling community hub, providing services of benefit to everybody in the area. A planning application will be launched shortly - if you support the scheme please consider writing to Lambeth's Planning Department to let them know. Demonstrating community support will be crucial to the application's success.

The consultation continues today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday).

Community coffee morning announced!

Following the success of 2009's Prince's ward coffee morning, the councillors are delighted to announce a coffee morning for January 2010.

Residents of Prince's ward are invited to a community coffee morning on Saturday 23 January, from 11am to 12:30pm, at St Anselm's Church Hall , Kennington Cross.

It will be a chance for residents to meet their neighbours and local councillors, and to discuss issues affecting the area. Kate Hoey MP will also be attending.

We hope to see many residents there!

Tree of Hope lit up

Tuesday evening saw hundreds of Kennington residents flock to St Anselm's Church to watch as Kate Hoey MP switched on the 'Tree of Hope' lights.

The Tree of Hope is designed to improve Kennington Cross, increase the sense of community, and provide a positive focus after the tragic deaths of several young people in past few years.

The money has been raised by the Kennington Association, who have spearheaded the project.

Local councillors helped out by donating part of the 2008 'ward purse' fund towards the project.

If you have a good idea for the 2009 ward purse, please get in touch with your local councillors in the next month.

This week's Labour activity in SE11

On Tuesday evening Councillor Steve Morgan held a well-attended surgery at the Vauxhall Five Tenants' Hall. Residents of the five blocks met Steve to speak about issues they are facing with Lambeth Council. More people signed the petition asking the Council to bring forward badly-needed work to windows and concrete balconies.

On Wednesday morning Kate Hoey MP and Mark Harrison visited Denby Court sheltered housing for a coffee morning. Residents asked Kate to find out whether major works were planned for the buildings, which have had little work done to them since they were built in the early 1980s.

On Saturday the Kennington Association held their bazaar at St Anselm's Hall. The hall will also play host to a special fish and chip dinner on Monday 23rd, where Kate Hoey will welcome Frank Field MP as a guest of honour.

Community coffee morning a huge success!

The first community coffee morning organised by the Prince's Labour Action Team was a huge success, with over 50 residents passing by for a hot drink and a chat.

Kate Hoey MP, Councillor Lorna Campbell, and Councillor Steve Morgan spoke to residents about issues they were facing. Party members Mark Harrison and Martin Caldwell served teas and coffees, and Jack Hopkins welcomed people at the door.

There were representatives from areas across the ward, including Ethelred TMO, Vauxhall Gardens Estate Tenants' Association, Kennings Way, churches, community groups and businesses.

The event was kindly hosted at St Anselm's Church Hall at Kennington Cross.

Encouraged by the success of the coffee morning, Prince's Labour Action Team are now thinking ahead. Organiser Mark Harrison said 'We'd be keen to find out whether residents would appreciate more ward-wide events, or more focused area-based meetings, held in partnership with residents' associations'. Please let us know!

Left: SE11 residents chat over over coffee.

Right: Cllr Lorna Campbell and Kate Hoey MP discuss casework they collected from the coffee morning.

Community coffee morning announced

The Prince's Labour Action Team are delighted to announce a community coffee morning, open to all residents, which will take place on Saturday 17 January, from 11am to 12:30pm.

It will be a chance for residents to meet their neighbours and local councillors, and to discuss issues affecting the area.

It will be held at St Anselm's Church Hall, at Kennington Cross. St Anselm's is at the junction of Kennington Road and Kennington Lane, and the Church Hall is on the left hand side of the Church.

We hope to see many residents there.