Labour Rose For residents of Brixton Hill ward in Lambeth News from your Labour councillors: Florence Eshalomi, Adrian Garden & Martin Tiedemann

MAKING BRIXTON'S STREETS CLEANER, GREENER & SAFER

Plans to tackle flytipping and litter

One of residents' top concerns is fly - If there is a persistent problem, please tipping and litter. That's why we are get in touch so we can discuss how we leading a new crackdown on this can address it. unacceptable blight on our community. In the past year, we have lobbied Lambeth Council to be tougher on those Despite the Conservative government caught dumping rubbish on our streets cutting Lambeth Council’s budget in half, and improve the cleanliness of our area. we want to do more to address this, but we need your help. You can help us by: This has led to: - The issuing of more than 1,600 fines - Reporting fly tippers at across the borough last year, including http://bit.ly/2fRaAah or calling Lambeth one of more than £5,000 Waste Services on 020 7926 9000. - A new dedicated team to tackle fly - If you have large items they can be tipping and littering collected for a small fee by Lambeth - Trials of portable CCTV cameras to catch Waste Services on 020 7926 9000. fly tippers - one of these is in Brixton. - Sign up to be a Street Champion. There - Extended cleansing in key streets are already several in our area and the affected by litter from takeaways and Council will provide support to work nightclubs. together to improve your local area - A dedicated team to clean central www.lambeth.gov.uk/become-a-street- Brixton working from 6am - 10pm 7 days Brixton Hill's Labour team - Martin, Adrian & Florence champion. a week, 365 days a year. Lambeth's £360,000 for Brixton Windmill

In Brixton Windmill’s 200th birthday year families. As FoWG has its sights on secondary Lambeth Council is providing £360,000 to schools, and Holmewood plans to do more build an Education Centre to support the too, that building is inadequate. The £360k will activities of the Friends of Windmill provide a building flexible enough for both Gardens (FoWG). With that money, and the education and community activities, and leave fundraising that your local Councillors will Holmewood with all the One O’clock Club. actively support, 2017 will be a memorable year. To get the money FoWG had to prove the project was viable. In addition to fund raising, The Windmill provides an education their plans include grinding flour from locally programme for local primary schools in the grown wheat; baking bread; selling flour, old One O’clock Club, where Holmewood bread and souvenirs; and continuing guided Adrian Garden at the Windmill Nurseries also runs various activities for tours and community events.

Read more at www.brixtonhill.net

Chuka Umunna MP

Major developments on Brixton Hill  020 8835 7062  @ChukaUmunna There have been a lot of changes on Brixton issues and try to get them resolved. We are  Chuka.Umunna.MP Hill in 2016, and there will be lots more in 2017. trying to ensure that these major projects, of @parliament.uk The redevelopment of the old Lambeth College great benefit to the residents of Brixton Hill Chuka's office have weekly drop-in surgeries site into three education establishments and wider Lambeth, progress with minimum and a weekly surgery by (including a new Lambeth College) and the distress to the people most affected. appointment with Chuka. replacement of Hambrook House are both Call for details. progressing, and similar work on Olive Morris House will start in due course. Cllr Florence Eshalomi AM

Your local Councillors have been involved in ensuring that the problems, annoyances and  07985 735 474 inconveniences such major projects generate  @FloEshalomi are addressed and resolved. We have chaired  feshalomi @lambeth.gov.uk meetings between residents and developers Surgeries 1st Saturday for both these projects and will continue with each month, 10am at Olive Morris House. Roupell Park Community Centre, Hyperion House, Upper Tulse Hill The new hoardings outside the Town Hall project Between meetings we look at outstanding

Cllr Adrian Garden Florence: Lambeth's new London voice  07814 568 024 Back in May, Brixton Hill councillor with Transport for London via Florence,  @AdrianGarden2  agarden Florence Eshalomi was elected as the including the safety of crossings and @lambeth.gov.uk London Assembly Member for junctions on Brixton Hill, better bus and Surgeries 1st Saturday each month, 10am at Lambeth & Southwark alongside tube connections and the improvements Roupell Park Community Sadiq Khan as the new Mayor. needed to Acre Lane. Centre, Hyperion House, Upper Tulse Hill

In her new role, Florence holds the Mayor and the Greater London Authority Cllr Martin Tiedemann to account and raises issues that are important to us locally in Lambeth. She  020 7926 1000 is a member of the Transport Committee  @mtiedemann  mtiedemann and of the Police & Crime Committee, @lambeth.gov.uk where she continues her work on youth Surgeries 1st Saturday each month, 10am at violence and community policing. Roupell Park Community Centre, Hyperion House, Florence swearing in at City Hall Upper Tulse Hill We continue to raise important issues

Getting your views on road safety At last the New Park Road safety scheme trees planted to complement the chicane, is finished! It started in 2015 with anxious the build-outs, the coloured circles and the parents at Richard Atkins Primary School raised road level. asking their local Councillors to make New Park Road safer for their children. It was Most people agree the road is now much used as a rat run, and several had been safer - though a few have said they are injured as a result. confused by the ‘silly’ coloured circles. We think it slows the drivers down and makes After considerable consultation with them think - which leads to greater safety residents from a wide area, some false for all. We will continue to monitor this. starts, and a certain amount of ill feeling, Sustrans, our consultants in the project, Now we want to know where else there are came up with the present layout. Funded concerns about dangerous roads, crossings partly by the Council, but mainly by TfL, the and junctions - fill in our survey at Martin Tiedemann by the New Park Road circles final stage has been reached - a dozen or so http://s.coop/roadsafety

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