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Streatham Library’s 50+ Group meets on the last Friday of each month from 10:30am-12pm for board games, card games, quizzes, puzzles and colouring.

Billed as an opportunity for a friendly chat and to catch up with old friends and make new ones, members are expected to chip chip in £1 a meeting to cover the costs of the tea, coffee and biscuits.

They say, “Sociable new members welcome. ”

Dates and times

Location

Streatham Library

London, SW16 1PN

Contact details

Vincia Bennett, Library Manager

Lambeth Council is delivering its vision for safer, greener, and more accessible travel with the third phase of improvements to the Peckham to Streatham Healthy Route to make our neighbourhoods fit for the future.

The Peckham to Streatham Healthy Route is part of the Healthy Routes network, connecting neighbourhoods in and around Herne Hill, Tulse Hill and Streatham, using mainly quieter streets. Since September 2020, the project has sought to enable walking, cycling, and wheeling.

Minnie Kidd House in south Clapham is the new home for all the sexual health services that were previously available from the Streatham Hill clinic.

Cabinet Member for Healthier Communities, said:

“For STI Awareness Day on 14 January we hoped to raise awareness of sexual health in Lambeth and highlight Minnie Kidd House as the newest clinic in Lambeth.

Hive Café, a community charity café in SW2 providing work placements for people with learning disabilities, is appealing for funds after suffering multiple break ins.

Over the past three weeks, the cafe has suffered three break-ins—on December 22nd, December 24th, and January 6th 2025—causing extensive damage.

Vandals destroyed windows, stole the till, and caused total damages exceeding £25,000. The café is currently closed, leaving staff and work placements without a safe space to work.

Funding, finances and some often frivolous behaviour best sums up the themes coming out of Lambeth Town Hall as we take a look back at our Brixton Buzz archive for the past year.

It was a year where Homes for Lambeth was put out of its misery, Lambeth made a move on taking services back in house, and a more commercial approach to running some areas of public life was taken.

Let’s take a look back on how Brixton Buzz kept an eye on the Council throughout the past year.

January

Leach Family update:

In May, the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery (FOWNC) kindly published an article I’d written on the Leach family who had a small chain of hardware shops, the first of which opened on Loughborough Road in the 1880s. Thanks to Tony Leach and Paul Adams who have shared incredible images of the family and their memories over the last few years.

One of London’s biggest parties is back to take another 1000+ crowd of dancers across the midnight finish line with headliners STONE COLD HUSTLE and a line-up of funk, soul, rare groove & disco specialists on the decks at Peckham Levels.

SLST honcho JAZZHEADCHRONIC, will be joined by headliners, Bristol’s finest, STONE COLD HUSTLE (LIVE), plus DJs KEITH LAWRENCE, AITCH B (SOUL II SOUL), Jazzcotech boss PERRY LOUIS and Reach Up Disco Wonderland DJs NICK HALKES + DJ DEKAYNE.

TfL plans to spend at least £650,000 on closing a residential street at its junction with the A23, Streatham High Road, removing trees and taking out disabled parking bays, in order to move a pedestrian crossing 50 yards south of its existing location.

Transport Commissioner Andy Lord conceded a short delay to the works on Friday, following an intervention by LIberal Democrat London Assembly Leader, Hina Bokhari AM.

Lambeth residents were shocked to learn last week that a planning application for a giant digital advertising screen has been given the go-ahead metres from their living room window.

The billboard company, Wildstone, were originally granted permission in 2019 to transform the existing paper billboard into a digital screen, before any tenants had moved into the newly built flats at 666 Streatham High Road.

This planning permission expired in September this year and residents were delighted that their case against the development was finally going to be heard.

In a powerful movement to combat alarming disparities in cancer outcomes, Black communities across South East London are joining forces to encourage the uptake of breast screening appointments for women aged 50 to 71, and for Black men aged 45 and over, who have a higher risk of prostate cancer, to talk to their GP about having a PSA blood test.

With data revealing that 1 in 12 Black men will die from prostate cancer compared to 1 in 24 white men, and Black women twice as likely to receive a late breast cancer diagnosis, the urgency for action has never been clearer.