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Central to the improvements is a significant upgrade to the local streets and space for local businesses around the shops on Amesbury Avenue, which will help to create a new focal point for the neighbourhood and boost local businesses.

Amesbury Avenue will be upgraded with new widened footways to improve accessibility, as well as three new pedestrian crossing points, a bike hangar, and six cycle stands to promote walking and cycling. The council will plant five new trees on Amesbury Avenue to provide shade and shelter and make a stronger connection with Hillside Park.

Lambeth has become the first London local authority landlord to receive a C2 grading from the regulator. The RSH issues gradings from C4 where it has serious concerns about failings, through to C1 where all standards are met.

The inspection, which took place in August this year, also found that further improvements are needed, but the regulator was assured that Lambeth has good plans in place to achieve them.

The plan includes a major upgrade for the local centre on Elm Park and permanent upgrades to traffic filters throughout the neighbourhood. The improvements on Elm Park were made possible by the 73 per cent drop in traffic on the road brought about by the area’s low traffic neighbourhood.

Cllr Rezina Chowdhury, cabinet member for Sustainable Lambeth and Clean Air, said: “We are determined to make our neighbourhoods safe and pleasant. With these changes to the Tulse Hill LTN scheme, I’m confident that the area will be a great demonstration of our vision in practice.

The project will create five new green buildouts along Hercules Road, in Waterloo, and will replace parking area with new green spaces, cycle parking, more seating and space for people.

More than a dozen new street trees will also be planted to provide extra canopy cover, as well as adding more greenery to the neighbourhood.

Rezina Chowdhury, Cabinet Member for Sustainable Transport and Clean Air, Lambeth Council, said: “We are delighted to transform Hercules Road into a greener place where residents love to live and visitors love to spend time.

Faiths Together in Lambeth invited every community to promote peace and harmony with a Peace Walk visiting faith venues from the south to the north of the borough.

Celebrating Interfaith week

“The aim of the Faiths Together in Lambeth Peace Walk is to show our solidarity to the work of promoting Peace in our community. We do the Peace Walk as part of the Interfaith week which happens each year, usually in the first and second week of November. Our members look forward to doing this every year!” Said Lydia Taiwah of Faiths Together.

Word from the Cabinet

Lambeth Libraries teams up with Brixton Brewery as pub reading grows in popularity.

The Brewery’s latest research finds that Londoners are reading more, and enjoying books in places including pubs and bars. Over half the Londoners asked agreed they’d be interested in dedicated pub reading spaces.

Books on tap

The expansion would bring the total number of bays to over 350 meaning that most of Lambeth’s residents will be able to reach a bay within a 3-minute walk. The proposed Phase Four locations can be found in this map.

The council has launched a consultation on the proposals and is asking residents to respond by visiting our consultation portal. The consultation will last 21 days, starting on Friday November 15 and will finish on Friday December 6.

Stopping smoking is the best thing you can do for your baby.

The London Smokefree Pregnancy Week (#LDNSmokefreepreg) is an awareness campaign running from 18 – 22 November, aimed at both pregnant women smokers and healthcare professionals to raise awareness of the issue in London and to give support and signposting to advice.

Risk reduction

A Christmas gift list has been put together by Lambeth Council so local people can help sanctuary-seeking children in the borough get the chance to enjoy some festive seasonal cheer.

The aim is to raise 330 gifts for children in the Homes for Ukraine, Resettlement, No Recourse to Public Funds and Asylum Seekers schemes from a gift list which has been set up online at amazon.co.uk.

Choose a gift from our Amazon wishlist by 9 December

The scheme is part of the council’s Soak Up Lambeth programme, which aims to improve drainage using natural processes to reduce the impact of surface water flooding using a series of SuDS schemes for estates, schools, highways, and parks.