Friday 29 April 2011

Royal leaning on the lamp post

Every summer, we have a "leaning on the lamp post" event. Even though it's only April, we couldn't miss a chance to get together around food and drink. We weren't the only ones, there were parties nearby on Brixton Hill and Rodmill Lane. Anyway, here's ours:

The bin fairy is back! This time for the royal wedding

The bin fairy usually strikes on Christmas eve, decorating our bins with tinsels. But it looks like the royal wedding was a big occasion enough for her. Here are the pictures of the decorations which appeared last night in Sulina Road.









Friday 15 April 2011

The planning weekly list: stay on top of changes in our area...

What is changing in our area? Are there any planning applications which will impact our neighbourhood?

I had a nice chat with Diana Morris, a councillor in an adjacent area who happens to be the chair of the Lambeth planning committee. She gave this nice little tip: Lambeth publishes a Planning Weekly List with all the planning applications and appeals received and determined in a given week.

Here's the link to it: Lambeth Planning Weekly List

It makes an easy way to spot changes in our area. I just searched for "sulina", "morrish", "wallis", "new park road" and "streatham place" in the last 8 weekly lists.

All I could find were the pruning of trees in New Park Road, a new logo on the McDonald's roof in Streatham Place and a strange proposal to transform a single property in Morrish Road in "9 bedsits" (this last one was refused).

Do you know a better way to keep track of planning applications? Are you aware of current planning applications affecting our neighbourhood?

Laurent