A fresh view for our streets

Our Community Freshview event last Saturday November 2nd saw a team of residents busily making and painting wooden planters. It was very satisfying to plant them up and place them in areas previously affected by rubbish dumping. Thanks to Lambeth for materials and support, especially Council officers Richard and Jason who helped us on the day!

UPDATE: our efforts have been spotted and feature in an article on cnbc.com.

Charmian Kenner, chair of the Sulina Road, Morrish Road & Wallis's Cottages Residents Association in Lambeth, told CNBC.com that the scheme had benefited her area.
"We've discovered that if you put any kinds of plants or flowers on the street, this deters people from dumping rubbish. They begin to see the area in a different way. If you make the area look nice and attractive it no longer conjures up thoughts of dumping rubbish."

Sawing the planks

Putting the planter together

Sorting out construction

The final product

Painting the planter

Putting the finishing touches

Beginning the planting

Still hard at work

The happy gardeners

The planters in place

Street party 2013 (more pictures)

Some more pictures from the 2013 "Heroes and villains" street party.

Spiderman watching over the party

Definitely a villain!

Catwoman

Face painting

HERO!

Dressing up race

The Darth Vader cake for the "Guess the weight of the cake" contest

Keep the party going...

Winding down at sunset.

Street party 2013

This year's street party just ended. Another fabulous day. It was great to see so many people out there. Great weather too...

Street advent calendar 2012

In the run up to Christmas, we organised our own street advent calendar. Every day, a new number appear on someone's window, the game is to spot it. Here are the pictures we managed to gather. If anybody has a picture of number 17, please get in touch.

Apologies for the one I've missed. Number 24 was on the street Christmas tree (this is last year's picture but we did decorate it this year too!).