Cooperative Parks Programme

Information Booklet

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Foreword

Lambeth has 60 wonderful parks and green spaces which for many people without private gardens, provide a haven that contributes to people’s enjoyment of living, working, and visiting Lambeth. This is shown with the different activities such as picnics and outdoor events held throughout the year. Examples include a wide range of sporting activities and events, dog-walking, picknicking, or simply relaxing in the open air. We can see that the natural environment can act as a rehabilitative safe space for people to escape from the hustle and bustle of inner city living and enjoy their natural surroundings.

However we also know that we are living in a changing environment, one in which we must find up to £100million of savings by 2016, representing 45% of the Council’s controllable budget. Where public services should aim to grow and achieve more for the wider community, and one where Lambeth residents should have the opportunity to have more of a say in what happens and what is delivered in their parks. This Cooperative Parks Programme is the first step towards meeting this challenge. It shows how instead of accepting that we should do less with what we have available, we have opted to be more inventive and to reinvigorate our parks service. Looking at our many active and enthusiastic park users, friends, and community groups, it is clear that we have a great foundation already and history shows us how community involvement in the way parks are run and how services are delivered can be hugely successful.

The purpose of this booklet is two-fold: it looks to the future and proposes a new vision for the service, including three different cooperative service models that support greater local involvement in decision-making; it also sets the scene and provides detailed information about our current parks service, including budgets and investment. We hope this information will help you decide how involved you would like to be in the future of our parks and open spaces. Together, we could build upon the progress and achievements made through the years of Lottery Investment, Green Flag Awards, and new gardening projects and begin to shape, design, and deliver a more ambitious vision for our park services that gives you more control and say.

I am very pleased to lead this Cooperative Parks Programme and ask you to please read this booklet and fill in the accompanying Cooperative Parks Questionnaire to help us deliver a thriving parks service for everyone.

Cllr Sally Prentice Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure

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Executive Summary

Lambeth Council currently manage and maintain the borough’s 60 parks and open spaces. We make sure parks and open spaces are safe, clean, and well maintained. We also manage and deliver a range of improvement or development schemes as well as support the excellent work of local community and friends groups who deliver on behalf of local residents.

Cuts in central government funding means that the parks and open spaces budget has to save £400,000. The need to save money challenged everyone to think differently about he we maintain and improve our excellent parks. Instead of stopping or reducing services, this Cooperative Parks Programme was developed to meet this challenge. Instead of stopping or reducing services, we have set an ambitious vision for our parks that aims to transform how we work to support cooperative management and greater local involvement in service provision. Our first step is to test this vision. There is no one size fits all approach but as a guide we have suggested three levels of how our parks might be run:

• Council-led management: traditional Council managed approach; limited community involvement • Cooperative management: setting up a representative partnership between the Council, community, councillors, and other partners who jointly make decisions about their local park or open space • Community-led management: community-led group/s is/are responsible for managing the park or facility and the services delivered; the Council adopts a monitoring role

Supporting communities to have more say in decisions on their local park or open space will include developing an investment plan that clearly shows where physical improvements or developments are needed so we can prioritise and plan projects as money becomes available.

Overall, this transformation programme will promote change in accountability and support a stronger focus on value for money and transparency that will lead to delivering clear outcomes and benefits for everyone who visits our parks.

To achieve this vision we have to work together. The Cooperative Parks Information Booklet lays the foundation for this journey and we invite you to send through your views.

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Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces: An Introduction

Parks and open spaces improve our physical and psychological health, strengthen our communities, and make our neighbourhoods more attractive places in which to live, work, and visit. Our vast array of green open spaces are fantastic assets for the borough and ensuring they remain this way amidst challenging financial circumstances takes effort.

As a borough, we know that we have to find increasing levels of savings by 2016, whilst maintaining our high standard of services. However, we also know the value placed on our parks and green spaces, proved time and time again, most recently through the Lambeth Residents Survey which revealed 78% of our residents rate our parks and green spaces as good or excellent. Therefore, instead of accepting to do less with a smaller budget, we want to build on our service and try and do something different. By looking at our parks differently we could be more ambitious and create opportunities for more environmental education programmes, support more training and employment for disadvantaged groups, and focus on public health by transforming underused parks into healthy food growing spaces and community gardens. We could support greater involvement of our many active and enthusiastic friends of parks groups, management advisory committees, and different communities. We could be more transparent and plan with you how and where new improvements are built in our parks.

These ambitions have driven us to this point. To setting a vision for the future of our parks that includes the development of three different models of cooperative management in parks that support greater local involvement in decision-making, which are outlined in this booklet. To help you understand what we do and deliver on an everyday basis, we have also included: • our current arrangements • detailed and transparent financial information and budgets • a profile on capital investment in parks and plans for the future

This will give us lots to talk about. However we think our parks and green spaces are worth it and see the future being one that recognises their potential. This booklet is the start of that journey. The beginning of us finding out your views on the future vision for parks, including our proposals for cooperative management and involvement. We hope this information will help you decide where and how involved you would like to be in the future of our parks and open spaces.

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Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces: A Vision for the Future

We need to agree a vision that is aspirational and captures all the major contributions that parks and green spaces can make across a number of themes, including: • improving public health • improving mental health • stronger communities • stimulating local economy • improving the environment • safer communities • increased learning, training, and employment • developing local businesses • higher quality facilities • cooperative working and community involvement (see pages 5-8)

Based on these themes, we have proposed the following vision for the service which we are seeking your views on in the accompanying Cooperative Parks Questionnaire:

‘All residents will have access to an attractive park and open space where they can enjoy and create opportunities to engage in leisure, heritage, and sports and learn new skills.’

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Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces: Cooperative Management

1. What is cooperative management? The term ‘cooperative management’ describes a situation where instead of the Council providing parks management and maintenance services in the manner it always has, the emphasis is shifted towards joint decision-making. This could lead to a different approach where the Council, councillors, and local people come together to make decisions jointly on where money is spent and on what.

2. Why are we doing this? We want to better understand what your priorities are and find new ways of meeting them. We also recognise that we are not necessarily always the best placed to make decisions and want to ensure that you have the opportunity to be involved in the decisions that impact upon you.

3. What will be the main changes with cooperative management? The Council currently provides services by carrying out research, developing proposals, and consulting with the public. As part of a more cooperative approach, we would involve you at the outset to understand what the local need is, what services would best address that need, and how we could best make that happen. Decisions regarding your local space would be made together and to help us do so, we will be more open about what resources we have available.

4. Has this been done before? Lambeth is fortunate to have several Management Advisory Committees and Friends Groups already established that feed in or deliver local services – particularly in parks and green spaces. For example, the Lorn Road Allotments Management Advisory Committee already work cooperatively by managing the site (including holding regular meetings with allotment holders) and ensuring its everyday effective administration. The Council still retains certain key functions and ownership of the land and is responsible for duty of care of the site. Myatt’s Field Park and are other examples of where communities work cooperatively and often take the lead – case studies are provided below.

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Myatt's Fields Park holds popular activities in the park for various communities to engage with, ranging from horticulture and events programmes to a retired people's lunch club on Fridays, and Saturday "Cook and Eat" sessions where local people are employed to teach other park users about the food they know and love.

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses is a partnership project with Lambeth Council which manage the greenhouses in Brockwell Park. The group deliver a wide range of gardening, environmental education and community development projects and work with different groups including schools, residents, and the charity St Mungo's to provide opportunities for the group to participate in community horticulture, urban conservation and biodiversity projects.

There are also a number of other projects outside parks and green spaces that build on this idea of joint partnership working with the local authority. The Cooperative Libraries programme is a good example of where residents, community groups (or Friends groups), and the council are working together to improve our libraries so they better meet the needs of the local neighbourhood. Similar to parks, this programme is not about applying one set model for running a library service - it is about creating tailored models that work for different sites and establishing an equal partnership to improve services for everyone. If you want to find out more about this project go to www.lambeth.gov.uk/Cooperativelibraries .

5. How will this impact me? We are proposing to look at new and different approaches to managing our parks and green spaces that support local community groups and organisations to choose how involved they want to be in the direct management of their park or green space. This could range from little or no involvement, to a joint partnership arrangement with the Council, to community-led management (further details are provided below). Practically speaking, this could mean that a qualified and experienced group could be managing your local park, a facility in your park (e.g. a football pitch), or a section of your park (e.g. formal gardens) and making decisions on its use. Before we move forward however, we want to know what you think about proposals to involve communities more in decision- making in parks, as outlined in the accompanying Cooperative Parks Questionnaire.

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Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces: Cooperative Management Models

Over the past year we have had a number of conversations with local friends of parks groups and ward councillors to help us shape a cooperative model for managing parks and green spaces. This model aims to involve communities more in local decision-making (where interested) and provide an opportunity for residents and park users to have more say in what is important and what goes on in their park. To that end, three levels of park management have been proposed that describe different degrees of cooperative involvement and responsibility in parks and green spaces. For example, communities or friends groups could be jointly deciding with the Council and councillors what activities take place in their local park, including improvement and maintenance, or at the far end of the spectrum, could be adopting sole management of their space. However all three service models are based on the understanding that ownership of the park or open space will remain with the Council for all residents to access and enjoy.

The proposed cooperative management models are described in further detail below – however these are intended to act only as a guide as we expect different models will be needed for different parks. Understanding your views on how these models could (or could not) work in your local space and whether we have considered everything is part of our formal consultation which is listed in the accompanying Cooperative Parks Questionnaire.

Level One: Council-Led Management This scenario represents the traditional approach to managing parks and green spaces. In this instance the Council will continue to be responsible for this site and provide planned and reactive repair maintenance services as required and any community needs or requests will come through to the Council for consideration. There would be less community influence over service delivery under this level.

Level Two: Cooperative Management A cooperative joint management arrangement is the second level, which aims to support a formal joint partnership arrangement that is representative and consists of Council officers, councillors, community groups, third sector organisations, and any other stakeholders with interests in the management of the park or green space. This group would act as the main shared decision- making body for services and activities taking place in the park and would be responsible for setting outcomes, raising sponsorship

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Level Three: Community-Led Management This level supports an independent model where a local and community-led board is solely responsible for the management of a park, the activities and services delivered (including maintenance), and has control over buildings, available budgets, and any income generated. The Council’s role would be one involved in defining and commissioning outcomes, monitoring standards and intervening if/when things go wrong.

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Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces: Current Arrangements Lambeth has two main parks-related contracts that are employed to ensure our parks and open spaces are safe and of a good quality: • Grounds Maintenance Contract with Veolia Environmental Services 1 • Trees Maintenance Contract with City Suburban 2

Each long term contract is for ten years and both expire on 31 March 2014.

Grounds Maintenance Contract We know that heading down this cooperative management path with local groups and communities will take time. We also know that essential maintenance services such as litter collection and grass cutting in our parks and open spaces need to continue. We have therefore signed up to a short term grounds maintenance contract with Veolia that allows us sufficient time to work with you to develop new cooperative management models. This is particularly relevant for those groups that are looking to work towards a community-led management model as it allows for a phased and gradual approach to groups taking on more responsibility in their local space. This short term contract will also deliver the following functions:

• No reduction to the existing standard of front line services • Stronger relationship between contractor and groups in parks • Social value benefits

Tree Maintenance Contract

This contract service is based on a routine programme of cyclical tree maintenance (specifically pruning), but only in relation to street trees and trees on housing estates.

1 A breakdown on the spend and yearly budget is provided as part of the Budget Profile and Appendix 1. 2 This contract is managed within the parks service but is largely funded by Lambeth Housing. 10

Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces: Budget Profile

The first step for us is to provide a description of what is involved in looking after a park, including what resources we have and where they are currently spent. In total, the Lambeth parks revenue budget is valued at £5.35mil per annum which is largely allocated across the grounds maintenance contract, repairs and maintenance, corporate facilities management contracts, and staffing costs 3. The relative headline spend is depicted below.

Figure 1: Annual Parks Spend in 2012/13

Sports Repairs and Maintenance Ecology Building Maintenance Sports Planned Maintenance Utilities Cleaning Licenses and Levies Grounds Repairs and Maintenance Tree Maintenance Staffing Grounds Maintenance Contract

0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 Spend (£)

The immediate financial pressures facing the Council and the need to find increasing levels of savings led to a £400,000 savings target to be secured from the parks service by 01 April 2014. Instead of this total savings being ‘topsliced’ from the new grounds

3 Capital investment and spend (including that brought into the Council) is included as part of the capital investment profile in our parks and green spaces.

11 maintenance contract, resulting in a disproportionate impact on front line services, we are exploring spreading the savings across the entire £5.35mil service as part of a broader re-design of the parks service. To support this challenge, a description of the parks budget is provided below. Where possible, an outline of spend per park is provided. However the majority of the budget is set aside either for borough-wide and corporate costs or managed on a regional basis.

Corporate Contracts and Central Costs The parks service budget includes charges which are automatically topsliced from the overall parks service budget for borough- wide services that are managed corporately. For example, in some instances the Council uses one contract to deliver services across the borough that span a range of different Council areas. The economies of scale generated through the use of corporate contracts have been a source of local authority savings and efficiencies. For the Parks Service, these corporate contracts comprise planned maintenance of buildings and infrastructure in parks (e.g. playground and changing rooms) and the cleaning of park facilities (e.g. toilets and staff buildings) – both of which are part of the Total Facilities Management Contract delivered by Balfour Beatty.

In addition to these corporate contracts are costs that are held centrally and cannot be broken down - namely the repair and maintenance of sport facilities (e.g. repairing broken floodlights), ecology budget, and staffing costs. The repair of sports facilities is held centrally and allocated across all parks and green spaces reactively, based on need 4. The ecology budget is also held as a central pot and allocated to parks and green spaces across the borough for improving the overall environmental and living conditions for plants and animals (e.g. grasslands and lake improvements). Staffing costs are split into two teams. The parks operations team are responsible for performance management of the grounds maintenance contract, administration of the repairs and maintenance budget, and ensuring all parks and spaces are of a high standard and meet community expectations. The cultural development team are largely a project management team, responsible for managing capital improvement works taking place in Lambeth’s parks and green spaces, largely derived from section 106 developments and external funding sources (e.g. Heritage Lottery Fund). 5

The total central borough wide costs for parks and green spaces on an annual basis are as follows:

4 Repairs that are less than £500 are covered under the Total Facilities Management Contract. 5 Profiles of the capital investment in parks and green spaces are outlined in further detail under Capital Profiles. 12

Table 1: Parks Service Corporate and Central Costs

Cost Sum Explanation Preventative and Planned £200,000 This figure represents the cost of maintaining all buildings and infrastructure in Maintenance: Buildings and parks and green spaces under the Total Facilities Management Contract, Infrastructure including sports buildings (i.e. changing rooms). £100,000 is topsliced from the Parks Operations budget; £100,000 from the Leisure Services budget. A significant portion of this sum covers planned and preventative work in Lambeth’s Leisure Centres. See Preventative and Planned Maintenance on page 21-22 for further detail Cleaning Maintenance: £150,000 This is the total annual cost for cleaning all public toilets in Lambeth’s parks and Buildings and Facilities green spaces and for cleaning Brockwell Hall, which is also managed as part of the Total Facilities Management Contract. For further detail please see Cleaning Maintenance on page 22 Reactive Repairs and £20,000 This cost is for reactive repair works associated with sports facilities in parks, Maintenance: Sports which is partly captured as part of the Total Facilities Management Contract (for Facilities any repairs under £500) and partly allocated as a central pot of funds for any sporting facility repair needs across our parks. See Preventative Maintenance for Sports and Leisure Facilities on page 22 and Reactive Repairs and Maintenance on Sports Facilities on page 23 for an explanation Ecology £25,000 This is the budget used for environmental improvements and activities across all of Lambeth’s parks and green spaces. See Ecology on page 23 for further detail Staffing £930,000 This is the existing cost for the parks staff across the two teams – parks operations and cultural development. A more detailed description of staffing can be found on page 23-25

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Borough Catchment Area Costs The grounds repairs and maintenance section of the parks budget is largely managed and split along geographical lines – North Lambeth, Central Lambeth, and South Lambeth (see page 23 for a list of the parks in each area). 6 This budget is administered by three area park officers 7 and divided this way to allow for flexibility in allocating funds across the parks in each catchment area according to need. In addition to carrying out any necessary repairs and maintenance in their cluster of parks, each area park officer provides technical advice and a single point of contact for community groups, as needed.

The annual grounds repairs and maintenance costs for each of the three clusters of parks and green spaces are as follows:

Table 2: Catchment Area Costs

Cost Sum Explanation Grounds Repairs and £55,600 This figure represents the total budget for carrying out reactive repairs and Maintenance maintenance in parks within each of the three borough catchment areas – North, Central, and South (this figure does not include the additional separate budgets for individual parks). See Reactive Repairs and Maintenance on page 25-26 for further detail Contingency Repairs and £74,000 This sum is held for contingency use for repairs and maintenance works in all Maintenance parks and green spaces. This budget ensures that there are sufficient funds available for use or to support existing repairs and maintenance budgets if any large and unforeseen expenditure arises. See Contingency Repairs and Maintenance on page 27 for further detail

Individual Park Costs There are certain costs that can be broken down by park either due to their larger size or the nature of the service or contract provided. Table 3 presents the total cost of each budget and Appendix 1 displays the split for each park under each of these

6 However the bigger parks and green spaces retain their own individual grounds repairs and maintenance budgets, which are outlined in the section on individual park budgets. 7 Staffing costs associated with area park officers are captured as part of the overall staffing costs – outlined in corporate costs. 14 budget headings - namely the annual grounds maintenance contract, planned maintenance of sports facilities, and individual parks repairs and maintenance budgets (those managed separately to the catchment areas). 8 It is also worth noting that the spend per park differs each year, particularly in relation to the planned maintenance on sports facilities, as it describes a rolling programme of maintenance and should be treated more as an indication of approximate spend.

Table 3: Individual Park Costs

Cost Sum Explanation Grounds Maintenance £2.44mil This figure represents the total annual cost of Lambeth’s grounds maintenance Contract contract, which details how our parks and green spaces are looked after and what services regularly take place to ensure they are maintained. See Grounds Maintenance Contract on page 28-31 for further detail, including spend by park Planned Maintenance: £250,000 This figure refers to annual programme of maintenance works on sports facilities, Sports Facilities such as redecorations of changing rooms or resurfacing of tennis courts. Necessary works are identified from building surveys, users’ needs, or complaints. This sum also includes works planned for Leisure Centres. Repairs under £500 are captured as part of the Total Facilities Management Contract. See Planned Maintenance on Sports Facilities on page 28-29 for further detail, including spend by park (where undertaken) Grounds Repairs and £245,800 This sum is the total of all the parks that retain separate repairs and maintenance Maintenance: Individual budgets attached (e.g. Myatt’s Field, , etc). These parks have individual Parks parks budgets owing to their size and use. See Grounds Reactive Repairs and Maintenance on page 27 for further detail

Income from Parks and Open Spaces There are several routes by which our parks and open spaces generate income which largely cover three main streams – events in parks, concessions, and rent from buildings (e.g. cafes). Total income generated in 2012/13 is £773,138. Income generated from

8 These are the only service budgets where it is possible to disaggregate by park.

15 events in parks refers to the booking or hire charges set by the Council’s Events Service for event organisers planning to hold outdoor events in our public parks or open spaces. The monies from all these activities or services are received and managed by different Council departments and are for the most part redistributed across the Council for reinvestment back into other public services, where needed. However, an additional environmental impact fee is charged to event organisers and is specifically assigned to Parks Service to cover any damages to grounds or site. Concessions describe the income made from hire of parks and open spaces, which at present only includes mobile vendors – namely ice cream vans. This figure comes back to the Park Service budget. Rent is generated from use of buildings in parks and green spaces, which are largely cafes, and approximately 60% of the rental figure is allocated to Property Services and 40% comes back into the Parks Service budget.

Table 4: Income Streams in Parks

Income Stream Sum Explanation Outdoor Events £550,000 This figure represents the total income generated in 2012 from the booking and hire of Lambeth’s parks and green spaces for commercial and community events, including income made from filming on public sites. See Income Streams in Parks on page 31-33 for further detail, including income generated per park Concessions £45,400 This figure represents the monies received by the Parks Service for mobile vendors use of the site – largely ice cream vans. See Income Streams in Parks on page 31-33 for further detail, including income generated per park Rent £177,140 This is the total sum received by the Council before the sums are split between Property Services and the Park Service. See Income Streams in Parks on page 31-33 for further detail, including total rental income paid by park

Broader Fees and Charges Framework As part of the Cooperative Council ambition, it is important that our fees and charges are relevant and fit for purpose. This principle has driven us to conduct a review of our current policy, looking specifically at the cost of: • Commercial and community events and activities • Sport and leisure - cost of using our leisure centres and sports facilities in parks • Library charges - overdue library books, reservations, and photocopying 16

• Registrar services – for example, births, marriages, and civil partnerships • Activities in parks and open spaces – for example personal training and selling of food or drink • Cemeteries and crematoria – specifically burials and cremations

We know we can improve the way we set, apply, and enforce our charging framework and discussions so far have also told us we should: • Improve our communication. For example, some fees and charges are publicised and some are not and we can better explain when and why changes are brought in • Be more consistent around which fees and charges we increase and which we don’t

We want to work together to agree a new fees and charges framework for our cultural offer that will: • Improve transparency and communication about our fees and charges • Implement a consistent and fair fee structure • Agree a new approach to enforcement to ensure commercial fees are collected and activity is well managed • Improve booking systems • Protect our facilities and balance levels of activity • Help to support growth and increase income.

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Lambeth Parks Capital Profile (2011/12 – 2014/15)

Lambeth is fortunate to benefit from a wide range of high quality leisure and recreational facilities in our parks and green spaces. These new developments or improvements have added to the positive feel and usage of our parks and have brought significant benefits to communities through the extra sports facilities for park visitors to use, new play areas for children, and enhanced lighting and pathways to improve public safety, to name a few. These physical (or capital) developments have on the whole been funded from Section 106 9 and Lottery Grants and since 2011/12 10 Lambeth’s parks and green spaces will have had £16.1million of capital investment. A year on year picture of the capital invested in Lambeth’s parks and green spaces over the past few years as well as committed projects that will be delivered within the next two years are outlined in Appendix 2. This includes capital schemes that are committed and seeking additional monies to support delivery. Figure 2 depicts a headline view of the type and number of capital schemes that have been delivered since 2011/12 and Figure 3 presents the spread of funding sources. Figure 2: Headline Capital Schemes Delivered since 2011/12

Improvement/Regeneration Projects 7% 11% Childrens Play Areas 46% Sports Improvements

Landscape Improvements 27%

Other Developments 9%

9 New developments (e.g. residential developments) bring benefits to local communities. However, there are also known impacts on the local area through the development, such as more people moving in to the area, using local facilities such as parks, roads, and leisure facilities. These impacts are mitigated through agreements known as ‘Section 106 agreements’ which are between the developer and the Council and bind the developer to funding certain schemes (e.g. new play facilities). 10 The period for each year runs from 01 st April to 31 st March. 18

Figure 3: Distribution of Funding Sources since 2011/12

11% 19% Section 106 10%

3% Big Lottery Fund

London Marathon Trust

Heritage Lottery Fund

Other 57% There has been much discussion on the decision-making process used to agree capital investment in parks and green spaces. Although it is understood that some funds are bound by certain restrictions (e.g. proximity to a development under section 106 or grant application criteria set by external funding bodies) there remain several issues that are continually raised, including: • need for transparency and better regularity around the information shared • inconsistent investment across the borough and across individual parks and spaces • need for better community involvement in capital schemes considered and implemented • competing demands and priorities for investment – particularly when drafting grant applications • overlapping and complex investment plans (e.g. Master Plans, Management Plans, Green Flag Award Plans)

While there are current structures in place that involve friends groups and communities and guide what capital schemes are delivered, it may be that there is scope to improve our investment or prioritisation process.

Looking to the Future Through this cooperative parks programme and the upcoming Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) framework 11 , we have an opportunity to address some of the issues raised and improve the planning, decision-making, and investment process for capital development schemes in our parks and green spaces. We will soon begin the development of a capital commissioning plan that

11 The CIL framework is similar to S106 as a charge on new developments, but it has greater flexibility and lifts the geographic restrictions.

19 outlines the future investment priorities across the borough and provides clear justification for schemes. Possible and beneficial capital schemes in parks and open spaces without Friends groups will also be considered. This commissioning plan will be informed by the Open Space Strategy and be developed with input from all friends of parks groups and signed off by Cabinet Members to ensure a shared understanding of the capital investment needs of all parks. This will also ensure any future decisions meet community needs and are grounded in sector expertise. In addition, its development will be guided by the following principles at a minimum:

Community involvement built in to all stages – this will support and promote better partnership working and community engagement, particularly at the early development and decision-making points

Simplified and clear plan for investment – brings together the range of investment and development

documents for parks into one coherent plan that identifies where capital investment is needed and for what. It also justifies the priorities that have been set based on demographic information, local need, and community aspiration

Transparent and regularly updated information – descriptions, cost, and progress of capital

development projects are readily available to the public and updated regularly by officers

Agreed shared vision for our parks and green spaces – development of a joint vision that meets the aspirations of the Council, community, and park visitors and recognises the contributions of all

High standard of parks services are maintained – Lambeth parks are currently of a high standard with 78% of residents rating our parks as excellent or good and increasing numbers of green flag award winning parks each year. Capital funding should be directed to support and continue this service.

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Appendix 1: Lambeth Parks Budget Details

As described under the Budget Profile, Lambeth’s current parks service involves the management and administration of a number of services that come at a cost and are considered essential to managing successful parks and green spaces. Further detail on each of the headline services mentioned are provided below to help you understand what is involved in managing and maintaining a park, improve understanding of how much is spent on various services (provided by park where possible), and help you to make informed decisions on the level of influence and day to day involvement you would like to have in your local green space. It may even stimulate thinking around how parks services could be provided or managed differently.

Preventative and Planned Maintenance: Buildings and Infrastructure Improving the condition of buildings and ensuring compliance with statutory health and safety regulations is the primary objective behind this corporately managed cost. This could include works ranging from fixing a broken window to maintaining a safe and efficient drainage and sewage system. This is currently managed via two separate budgets as part of the corporate Total Facility Management Contract from which works are commissioned on a borough-wide level – namely for Preventative and Planned Maintenance of Buildings and Infrastructure in Parks and Preventative Maintenance of Sports and Leisure Facilities. These two budgets cover both cyclical preventative and planned building works, as well as reactive repair works under £500 to ensure everything is in good working order and specifically cover the following services: • Reactive repairs under £500 (e.g. blocked toilets or a failed light); • Statutory Inspection and Testing and Associated works (e.g. electricity meter readings or paddling pool temperature checks); • Cyclical Planned Maintenance (e.g. maintaining boilers, calorifier and heat exchanger systems); • Minor Works (i.e. works that have a value of less than £25,0000 such as minor concrete wet play repairs or fillings) • Rolling five years Lifecycle Replacement Plan

Preventative and Planned Maintenance of Buildings and Infrastructure in Parks £100,000 is topsliced from the parks and open spaces operations budget for preventative and planned maintenance (PPM) on all facilities and infrastructure in parks and green spaces (largely cyclical compliance works), which includes any reactive repairs under £500 across the park. This spend is allocated as part of the Total Facilities Management Contract provided by Balfour Beatty and includes maintenance of playgrounds, wet play areas, staff buildings (e.g. depots), bandstands, seating, and more. Examples of

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PPM compliance works include weekly inspections and water testing in paddling pools in high season and regular lighting tests to ensure all are fully operational. Reactive repairs recently commissioned through this contract include repair of the drinking fountain at Agnes Riley Gardens, replacement of two baby swings in Wyck Gardens, and repair of a broken bench in Hillside Gardens.

Preventative Maintenance of Sports and Leisure Facilities £100,000 is also allocated from the Leisure Services budget for preventative maintenance on sports and leisure facilities, of which a significant portion is used to cover preventative work in Lambeth’s Leisure Centres. 12 Similarly to the PPM in buildings and infrastructure, this spend can also be used for reactive repairs under £500 (although this budget is limited to sports and leisure facilities). In parks, preventative works refer solely to any compliance or statutory testing in sports buildings in parks – namely changing rooms, although reactive works can be raised for any sports facility in a park or green space. Examples of PPM works include statutory inspections and testing (i.e. gas, water, electrical, fire, etc) of changing rooms to ensure all are safe and fully operational. Reactive repairs under £500 that have been recently commissioned include repair of the floodlights at Park, Pleasure Gardens, and Larkhall Park.

Cleaning Maintenance: Building Facilities Cleaning of buildings in parks is a corporately commissioned service covered under the Total Facilities Management contract. This cost applies only to the cleaning of public toilets in parks and green spaces (in addition to Brockwell Hall) on both a routine and reactive basis and is received at a total cost of £150,000 per year, paid through the Parks and Open Spaces Operations budget. This service also includes periodic deep cleaning and specialist cleaning services as specified in the contract. Parks with public toilets include: • Agnes Riley Gardens • Myatt’s Field • Archbishops Park • • Brockwell Park • Ruskin Park • Common • Common • • Streatham Rookery

12 The split in spend between leisure facilities (e.g. Recreation Centre, Clapham Leisure Centre, etc) and facilities in parks is as yet undetermined.

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Reactive Repairs and Maintenance: Sport Facilities An additional £20,000 is set aside in the Leisure Services budget for reactive repairs and maintenance on sports facilities in parks that are not covered by the Total Facilities Management Contract - that is, for works that are more than £500. These repairs are generally identified during site visits to our parks and green spaces, public information, and client officers and the spend is largely driven by sports facilities that are in frequent use or represent an immediate need. It is also worth noting however that a portion of this budget is also used for reactive repair needs in Lambeth’s Leisure Centres.

Ecology A small budget of £25,000 has been allocated for ecology and environmental improvements in our public parks and green spaces across the borough. These finances are held and administered by our parks service and allocated towards different activities that improve the appearance of our parks (particularly for wildlife and natural areas) and support community involvement on a yearly basis. Examples of activities and parks that have benefitted from this budget include pond improvements and marginal plants at , water storage butts for growing hubs (community gardens) at Brockwell Park and , and support for the Loughborough Park community garden launch, as well as purchase of generic use tools and materials (e.g. wildflower seed) for park volunteers in parks across the borough and wildlife surveys.

Staffing There are two main teams within Lambeth Parks Service that deliver the bulk of parks services across the borough and describes the total staffing spend of £930,000: • Parks and Open Spaces Operations Team • Cultural Development Team

Parks and Open Spaces Operations Team The Parks and Open Spaces Operations Team are responsible for the everyday maintenance and management of the many parks and green spaces in Lambeth. This includes responsibility for monitoring the performance of the grounds maintenance contract provider and ensuring that all Lambeth’s parks and green spaces are safe and of a high standard, as well as providing horticultural advice, carrying out any repairs, and building relationships with local community groups. This team also plays a role in monitoring the trees maintenance contract and retaining oversight of Lambeth’s cemeteries. This team is comprised of a core layer of management and a front line delivery arm which consists of area parks officers responsible for ‘on the ground’ management of

23 parks and green spaces. To ensure sufficient coverage and attention across all parks, Lambeth is divided into three main catchment areas - North Lambeth Parks, Central Lambeth Parks, and South Lambeth Parks - each of which is managed by an Area Parks Officer: A list of parks and green spaces under each catchment area is outlined below in Table 5.

Table 5: Parks and Open Spaces in Borough Catchment Areas

North Lambeth Parks Central Lambeth Parks South Lambeth Parks Albert Embankment Gardens Coldharbour Lane Becondale Road Archbishops Park Dumbarton Court Gardens Eardley Road Sidings Claylands Road Elam Street Hillside Gardens Cleaver Square Holmewood Gardens Kirkstall Gardens Emma Cons Kennington Oval Knights Hill Woods Hatfields Kennington Park Norwood Park Kennington Green Loughborough Park Palace Road Nurture Gardens Lambeth Walk Sherwood Avenue Lansdowne Gardens Milkwood Road St. Luke’s Church Gardens Larkhall Park Rush Common Streatham Common Paradise Park Ruskin Park Streatham Green Pedlars Park Slade Gardens Streatham Memorial Gardens St. John’s Churchyard St. Mark’s Churchyard Streatham Rookery St. Mary’s Churchyard St. Matthews Gardens Streatham Vale Park Memorial Gardens Trinity Gardens Tivoli Park Ufford Street Rec Windmill Gardens Unigate Woods Vauxhall Park Windrush Square Valley Road Playing Fields Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Wyck Gardens

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• Clapham Common – full time park manager who also looks after Grafton Square, Agnes Riley Gardens, and St. Paul’s Churchyard

Cultural Development Team The Cultural Development Team is largely a project management team, responsible for managing the capital improvement works that take place in Lambeth’s parks and green spaces, including applying for funding. These projects are outlined in the capital profile in Appendix 2 and primarily consist of new build, regeneration, landscaping, or environmental developments of varying sizes with staff members responsible for managing each from inception to completion – some of which are funded through external funding streams. Allocating Section 106 resources based on available master plans and management plans and carrying out ongoing consultation with local community groups is also an essential role of this team. A final responsibility of this team includes managing the preventative, planned, and reactive repair work on sports facilities in parks and green spaces. This is treated separately to other facilities in parks (e.g. paths, seating) and also includes changing rooms.

Grounds Reactive Repairs and Maintenance: Catchment Areas Lambeth also provide a reactive maintenance service for repairing items and resolving unplanned issues that are outside the scope of the grounds maintenance contract. This is administered by the Area Park Officers and range from fixing a broken fence to planting a different bedding scheme for example. The service is allocated on both an individual park basis 13 and a borough catchment area basis - North Lambeth Parks, Central Lambeth Parks, and South Lambeth Parks (see page 20 for a list of the parks in each catchment area that share a reactive maintenance budget), with the total catchment area budget costed at £55,600. Within each of these catchment areas, the repairs and maintenance budget is used and applied across the individual parks according to need and urgency and has meant that the Council is able to be more flexible and take into consideration a number of factors when carrying out necessary works including: • Urgency of repair work required or compliance requirement (e.g. poses a health and safety risk) • Type of facility (e.g. gate repair vs replacing a light bulb) • Frequency of use (e.g. football pitch vs bandstand) • Cost of repairing different types of facilities

13 Largely in reference to the bigger parks in line with their higher visitor numbers, size of the grounds, and number of buildings and facilities. This is described as part of grounds repairs and maintenance budget for individual parks and spaces.

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• Meeting social outcomes or Council priorities (e.g. repairing lighting along pathways to improve public perception of safety) • Stakeholder involvement – both community and external – and accommodating user groups that deliver positive activities in the park • History of capital investment • Last time the facility/building was maintained

The repairs and maintenance budget for each catchment area (minus the bigger parks) in 2012/13 is as follows:

Table 6: Reactive Maintenance Budget for Catchment Area Parks

North Lambeth Parks Central Lambeth Parks South Lambeth Parks Albert Embankment Gardens Coldharbour Lane Becondale Road Archbishops Park Dumbarton Court Gardens Eardley Road Sidings Claylands Road Elam Street Hillside Gardens Cleaver Square Holmewood Gardens Kirkstall Gardens Emma Cons Kennington Oval Knights Hill Woods Hatfields Loughborough Park Palace Road Nurture Gardens Kennington Green Max Roach Park Sherwood Avenue Lambeth Walk Milkwood Road St. Luke’s Church Gardens Lansdowne Gardens Rush Common Streatham Green Paradise Park Slade Gardens Streatham Memorial Gardens Pedlars Park St. Mark’s Churchyard Streatham Vale Park St. John’s Churchyard St. Matthews Gardens Tivoli Park St. Mary’s Churchyard Trinity Gardens Unigate Woods Stockwell Memorial Gardens Wyck Gardens Valley Road Playing Fields Ufford Street Rec Vauxhall Park Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Total Budget: £25,600 Total Budget: £9,000 Total Budget: £21,000 26

Some examples of repair work include installing fencing around Clapham Common at a cost of £13,000. Further detail on the reactive repairs and maintenance budget by park is provided as part of the Grounds Repairs and Maintenance Profile.

Grounds Reactive Repairs and Maintenance: Individual Parks £245,800 has been allocated for individual parks based on their size and use. Table 7 specifies the split in reactive repairs and maintenance budget for each park.

Table 7: Reactive Repairs and Maintenance Budget by Park

R&M Park Budget Myatts Field Park £19,200 Brockwell Park £45,000 Clapham Common £60,000 Streatham Common £33,000 Individual Kennington Park £15,000 Parks Larkhall Park £4,800 Norwood Park £13,800 Ruskin Park £15,000 Windmill Gardens £10,000 Windrush Square £30,000 Total £245,800

Contingency Repairs and Maintenance Roughly £74,000 is held by the Parks Service for contingency purposes. This sum can be used for any repairs or maintenance works required to parks and green spaces across the borough where there are insufficient funds available within the allocated individual or catchment repairs and maintenance budget to cover the costs. It could also be used to supplement or support existing budgets as needed.

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Grounds Maintenance Contract and Planned Maintenance of Sports Facilities Lambeth’s grounds maintenance contract is a ten year contract worth approximately £2.44million per year, which details how your parks are looked after and what services regularly take place to ensure they are maintained to a high standard. Table 8 provides an approximate breakdown of the current spend by service as part of this contract across all Lambeth’s parks and green spaces:

Table 8: Total Annual Spend by Maintenance Service

Maintenance Services Details Allocated Spend Waste Management Collection of litter (including dog waste), emptying bins and green £808,000 waste recycling (including Christmas trees) Grass Management Cutting of amenity and fine grass areas £488,500 Site Security and Public Safety Opening and closing parks and open spaces, opening and closing £351,000 public toilets, and providing staff for weekend security and summer seasonal staff Maintenance of Ornamental Staffing and maintenance of traditional or formal gardens and other £189,000 and Formal Gardens areas of high quality horticultural value Maintenance of Sports Maintenance of sports facilities including courts, pitches (turf, Astro, £140,200 Facilities Redgra, and tarmac), nets, bowling greens, skate parks, trim trails and general facilities to ensure they are safe, clean and useable Maintenance of hardstanding, Maintenance of all footways, areas of hardstanding, safety surfaces £118,000 fence lines and footways and floors of open structures so they are clean and safe Maintenance of Seasonal Design and maintenance of bedding schemes (biannual winter and £115,500 Bedding summer) Maintenance of Shrubs and Maintenance of ornamental shrubs, hedges, shrub beds and £99,800 Hedges climbing shrubs Graffiti Removal and Removal of graffiti, posters and other unauthorised advertising £44,000 Prevention Maintenance of Semi-Mature Ensuring the establishment of newly planted saplings and semi- £20,600 28

Trees mature trees through good horticultural and arboricultural practice, including watering Maintenance of Rose Beds Maintenance of rose beds to ensure good health and maximum £18,100 flowering Herbaceous Maintenance Maintenance of herbaceous perennials, bulbs, and the management £15,200 of invasive herbaceous plants Maintenance of Children’s Providing safe, clean, and accessible children’s play facilities £10,500 Playgrounds including regular inspections of surfaces, equipment and sand pits Maintenance of Furniture, Inspection and cleaning of all furniture, fittings and other £9,450 Fittings and Infrastructure infrastructure, including drinking fountains, to assess their condition and safety. Paddling Pool and Wet Play Providing safe, clean, and accessible paddling pool and wet play £9,450 Maintenance facilities during summer season (1st May and 30th September) Maintenance of Naturalised Management of woodland and wetland sites to protect wildlife, £2,700 Areas promote biodiversity and increase public access and enjoyment Total £2.44million

As stated, as part of the grounds maintenance contract we are able to disaggregate spend by park or green space considering the cyclical nature of many services and the infrastructure, facilities, and activities within each site, which is presented in Table 9. This Table also shows approximate spend on planned maintenance of sports facilities per park (where undertaken). This maintenance budget is used to ensure the significant number and range of sports facilities in Lambeth’s parks and green spaces are safe, fit for purpose, and of a high standard. It is managed by the Cultural Development Team and is split between planned maintenance in sports facilities in parks and within Leisure Centres. In parks, the spend is driven largely towards sports facilities that have received little capital investment, are in frequent use, or represent an immediate need, which is informed by condition surveys and the essential repairs plan. This budget represents a total cost of £250,000 and the spend by park varies each year depending on the condition of the assets and urgency.

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Table 9: Grounds Maintenance Contract and Planned Sports Maintenance Spend by Park

Site Name GM Spend SM Spend Site Name GM Spend SM Spend Agnes Riley Gardens £31,828 £12,000 Norwood Park £80,512 - Albert Embankment £10,767 - £6,381 - Gardens Palace Road Nature Garden Archbishop's Park £82,084 £3,250 Paradise Park £17,933 - Becondale Road £972 - Pedlar's Park £9,874 - Brockwell Park £341,131 £67,000 Rush Common £67,718 - Clapham Common £435,569 £25,000 Ruskin Park £143,992 - Claylands Road Open £1,174 - Sherwood Avenue Open £956 - Space Space Cleaver Square £5,098 - Slade Gardens £23,959 - Coldharbour Lane £6,301 - St John's Church Gardens £11,140 - Dan Leno Gardens £4,953 - St Luke's Church Gardens £6,782 - Dumbarton Court Gardens £1,179 - St Mark's Churchyard £9,126 - Eardley Road Sidings £8,790 - St Mary's Gardens £3,943 - Elam Street £15,946 - St Matthew's Church Gardens £8,691 - Emma Cons Gardens £3,798 - St Paul's Churchyard £7,967 - Grafton Square £11,183 - Stockwell Memorial Garden £2,521 - Hatfields Green £9,301 - Streatham Common £117,502 - Hillside Gardens Park £26,715 - Streatham Green £2,448 - Holmewood Gardens £13,129 - Streatham Memorial Garden £6,056 - Kennington Green £1,586 - Streatham Rookery £90,617 £2,200 Kennington Oval £4,786 - Streatham Vale Park £44,323 £1,300 Kennington Park £138,533 £12,700 Tivoli Park £29,263 - Kirkstall Gardens £2,803 - Trinity Gardens £1,198 - £2,678 - Ufford Street Recreation £9,516 - Knight's Hill Wood Ground Lambeth Walk Doorstep £18,306 - £7,987 - Green Unigate Wood

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Lansdowne Gardens £949 - Valley Road Playing Field £11,663 - Larkhall Park £75,500 £1,300 Vauxhall Park £58,498 £5,100 Loughborough Park £26,136 - Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens £30,037 - Max Roach Park £33,664 - Windmill Gardens £16,012 - Milkwood Community Park £12,050 - Windrush Square £2,483 - Myatt's Fields Park £71,512 £1,000 Wyck Gardens £22,022 -

Income Streams in Parks As mentioned, the Council generates income from use of parks and open spaces through three main streams – outdoor events, concessions (mobile ice cream vendors), and rent from buildings. Events are typically divided into two main categories – commercial events (e.g. SW4) or community events (e.g. friends groups) and are charged accordingly. The amount received by each park in 2012/13 is outlined in Table 10 below. However, it is also worth noting that the rental prices quoted are total figures and represent the sum before the funds are split between Property Services and the Park Service.

Table 10: Income Generated by Park in 2012/13

Site Name Events Concessions Rents Agnes Riley Gardens - - Albert Embankment Gardens £33,175 - Archbishop's Park - - Becondale Road - - £13,600 Arlington Road: £14,400 Café: £33,000 Gas Pressure Reduction Station: Brockwell Park £5,000 Events: £178,633 Windmill Drive: £15,150 Bandstand Café: £16,000 Bandstand: £125 Paddling Pool area: Bowling Green Café: £16,500 Clapham Common Funfair: £49,312.50 £4,000 Rookery Road Café: £13,000 Southside: £142,350 Battersea Rise: £4,500 Tennis Courts: £12,100 Claylands Road Open Space - - Cleaver Square £275 -

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Site Name Events Concessions Rents Coldharbour Lane - - Dan Leno Gardens - - Dumbarton Court Gardens - - Eardley Road Sidings - - Elam Street - - Emma Cons Gardens £650 - Grafton Square - - Hatfields Green - - Hillside Gardens Park - - Holmewood Gardens - - Kennington Green - - Kennington Oval - - £82,400 Café: £13,500 Kennington Park Prince Consort Lodge: £4,000 Cricket Ground: £1 Kirkstall Gardens - - Knight's Hill Wood - - Lambeth Walk Doorstep - - Green Lansdowne Gardens - - Larkhall Park - - Loughborough Park - - Max Roach Park £25 - Milkwood Community Park - - Myatt's Fields Park - - Norwood Park - - Palace Road Nature Garden - - Paradise Park - - Pedlar's Park - - Rush Common £125 - Ruskin Park £825 Land: £51,120

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Site Name Events Concessions Rents Café: £3,500 Sherwood Avenue Open - - Space Slade Gardens £550 - St John's Church Gardens - - St Luke's Church Gardens £550 - St Mark's Churchyard - - St Mary's Gardens - - St Matthew's Church £525 - Gardens St Paul's Churchyard - - Stockwell Memorial Garden - - Streatham Common £15,000 Lower Common: £7,350 Café: £18,000 Streatham Green - - Streatham Memorial Garden - - Streatham Rookery £550 - Streatham Vale Park - - Tivoli Park - - Trinity Gardens £400 - Ufford Street Recreation £40 - Ground Unigate Wood - - Valley Road Playing Field - - Vauxhall Park - Café: £3,500 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens £1,900 - Windmill Gardens - - Windrush Square £17,506 - Wyck Gardens - - Total £550,617 £45,400 £177,121 TOTAL INCOME £773,138

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Appendix 2: Capital Investment in Lambeth’s Parks and Open Spaces

A year on year picture of the capital invested in Lambeth’s parks and green spaces over the past few years as well as committed projects that will be delivered within the next two years are outlined in the tables below. These physical development or improvement projects have been funded through a variety of sources ranging from Section 106 developments to Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund. Any further capital investment proposals for 2014/15 onwards will be considered and agreed in partnership with local friends of parks groups, ward councillors, and Council officers as part of the development of a capital commissioning plan for parks and green spaces. This will ensure future decisions and allocations meet community needs and expectations and are grounded in sector expertise. The period for each year is from 01 st April to 31 st March.

Table 11: Lambeth Parks Investment 2011/12

Completion Park Project Details Funding Source Cost Date Restoration of Restoration of derelict Victoria shelter in Archbishops Park Nov 2011 S106 £84,000 shelter the park Slade Gardens New Children’s Play Development and construction of a Dec 2011 Big Lottery Fund £103,500 Area Development usable under 5's play area (capital) Big Lottery Fund (revenue) S106 Total £187,500

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Table 12: Lambeth Parks Capital Investment 2012/13

Completion Funding Park Project Details Cost Date Source Larkhall Park Tennis Court Installation of two new tennis courts Sep 2012 S106 £233,000 Installation Mayor of £20,250 £253,250 Fund Stockwell Environmental Landscape improvement works including trees, Jan 2013 S106 42,000 Memorial Improvements to plantings, and furniture. Gardens Gardens Wall Condition A specialist condition survey of the grade II listed Mar 2013 Lambeth £12,500 Cemetery Survey perimeter wall that describes future maintenance, CIP repairs and costs for future financial budgeting. Wyck Gardens Re-establishment Provide new children's play facilities in park and deliver Aug 2012 S106 £80,000 of Playground associated landscaping to screen the Thames Water utility structures Total £387,750

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Table 13: Lambeth Parks Capital Investment 2013/14

Completion Funding Park Project Details Cost Date Source Archbishops Tennis Courts Development of 2 tennis courts and line marking for Jun 2013 S106 £75,000 Park a netball court Improvement plan General improvement and landscaping works Apr 2013 S106 £16,000 Brockwell Improvement and ••• Walled Garden development; Dec 2013 Big Lottery £5,500,000 Park Regeneration ••• Construction of greenhouses; Fund Works ••• Refurbishment of ponds; ••• New play area; ••• Other improvements (e.g. railings) ••• Norwood Lodge improvements; ••• New paths; ••• Tree and vegetation improvements; ••• Site reinstatement works Brockwell Park Repair and upgrade of the two bay practice nets Apr 2013 S106 £39,700 Cricket Initiative and wickets London Marathon Trust Hatfields Redevelopment General redevelopment and improvement works – Mar 2014 S106 £100,000 Green Project including appointment of a landscape architect to Southwark refurbish the green. A phased master plan is Council currently under development Hillside Improvement Oct 2013 S106 £26,000 Gardens works to fitness Installation of outdoor fitness equipment in the park Park and sporting facilities within the park Kennington Restoration of the Development of flower garden restoration scheme, Dec 2013 Project Total: Park Flower Garden including the restoration of hard and soft Development: £46,800 landscaping infrastructure, appointment of an Heritage activity coordinator, an apprentice gardener, and a Lottery Fund learning and development programme that details S106 36

Completion Funding Park Project Details Cost Date Source use of volunteers for ongoing maintenance Friends Group Volunteer Time

Master Plan Development of a 10-year phased master plan with Jan 2013 S106 £20,000 Finalisation the Friends and local community to assist with securing and allocating future funds. New Table Tennis Installation of 2 table tennis tables in partnership Jul 2013 Friends Match £10,000 Provision with the Friends of KP Funding S106 Environmental Levy Sports Field Re-levelling works to the football and cricket oval Jun 2013 Surrey County £23,000 Improvements outfields. Cricket Club (Kennington Park Contribution Extension) Lambeth Parks Lambeth Play Area The development of a new play area for children Jun 2013 Veolia Grant £17,050 Walk Development aged under six years S106 £77,000 Doorstep £94,050 Green Larkhall Park Priory Grove Landscaping and redevelopment of Priory Grove Apr 2013 Local £50,000 Regeneration entrance to park Implementation Plan Thrive Project Community food growing project led by Thrive Mar 2014 S106 £14,028 Charity, specialising in therapeutic gardening Football pitch Funds were used to renovate the grass surface Apr 2013 S106 £5,000 renovation football pitch Millennium Resolution of S106 project to carry out improvements and make Dec 2013 Awaiting £75,000 Green Infrastructural the Green more attractive area to create a small funding source Issues – related area for events. to S106 grant Norwood Skate Park Conversion of derelict paddling pool into a skate Sep 2013 London £60,000 37

Completion Funding Park Project Details Cost Date Source Park Development park facility that will involve remodelling concrete Marathon Trust £15,000 surface in keeping with existing topography Lambeth Parks £75,000 General Environmental improvements, including works to May 2013 Awaiting £60,000 Improvements improve the pathway and entrances (Benton’s Lane funding source and Finch Avenue) and biodiversity improvement works Paradise Park General site improvements, including converting the Aug 2013 S106 £210,000 Park Regeneration central water feature into an interactive childrens Works water play area, replacement of the central seating, and resealing of the paths Slade Improvements to Greening of Ingleborough Street in partnership with Jul 2013 LBL Highways £95,000 Gardens Ingleborough highways including: repaving, sustainable drainage, S106 Street trees and plantings, and a new entrance into Slade Gardens. Stockport Redevelopment Reseeding playing fields to bring fields up to a Oct 2013 London Road Playing of Playing Fields usable condition for local school and rugby club Marathon Trust £107,000 Fields Capital reserve Grant virement Stockwell Restoration of Restoration of the War Memorial Clock Tower Apr 2013 War Memorial Memorial Memorial Clock Trust Grant £20,000 Gardens HRE CIP Restoration of Repainting of the Rotunda Mural Jun 2013 HRE CIP £8,000 Rotunda Mural Dulux Paint Grant Vauxhall Regeneration of Architectural sketch designs for highway and Aug 2013 S106 £15,000 Pleasure Glyn Street environmental improvements to Glyn Street that Gardens aims to regenerate and pedestrianise this adjacent street and improve the interface with the park Construction pending secured funding TBC Public Realm TBC Terracing and Architectural terracing and ground re-modelling Aug 2013 S106 £9,000 Ground Re- designs that aim to reduce the height of the 38

Completion Funding Park Project Details Cost Date Source modelling Works mounds, create pathways linking Goding Street and the park, and explore options for extending the park Phase II Landscaping, planting, furniture, entrance ways, 2013/14 S106 £384,000 Landscaping play provision West Essential Road Essential works to the entrance roads and forecourt Nov 2013 Lambeth CIP £900,000 Norwood and Drainage due to asset failure. Cemetery Works Total £8,155,778

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Table 14: Lambeth Parks Capital Investment 2014/15

Completion Park Project Details Funding Source Cost Date Archbishops General • Shelter restoration; Apr 2014 S106 £100,000 Park Improvement • Sports feasibility study; Works • Lamp column replacement; • Pathway refurbishment Brixton Brixton Windmill Restoration of windmill to enable delivery of 2014/15 Heritage Lottery Total: Windmill Restoration programme of activities around heritage education Fund £565,000 LBL Friends Brockwell Brockwell Hall and Refurbishment works - Bid to Big Lottery £3,500,000 Park Stables pending Changing Room Refurbishment works for changing block 2014/15 VAMS £803,000 Development Big Lottery Fund London Marathon Trust Clapham Installation of New Development of new build changing facilities for Sep 2014 TBC Approx Common Changing Rooms at the use of football players and other identified park £1mil Battersea Rise users. Feasibility study commissioned Playground Refurbishment of playground on Battersea Rise Not yet Awaiting funding £15,000 Refurbishment programmed source Outdoor Fitness Installation of outdoor wooden fitness equipment Mar 2014 S106 £6,000 Equipment on Clapham Common North Side and Battersea London Marathon £54,000 Rise along popular jogging route Trust Total: £60,000 Angling Teaching Improve presentation of pond and prevent Mar 2014 S106 £52,000 Zone and Long deterioration Environment Pond Area Agency Improvement Revenue Improvement of • Reinstatement of two netball courts; Dec 2013 S106 £15,000 40

Completion Park Project Details Funding Source Cost Date Sports Zone on • 1 additional basketball court; London Marathon £135,000 Rookery Road • Install safeguard for basketball court drop; Trust Total: £150,000 • Repair railings; • Reinstatement of tarmac; • Improve pedestrian access to site Kennington Flower Garden Implementation of flower garden restoration Dec 2014 Project £225,200 Park Restoration scheme, as outlined in 2013/14 Implementation: £50,000 Heritage Lottery £23,100 £10,000 Fund Total: S106 £308,300 Volunteer Time Gardener (TBC) Green Link Landscape improvements within the ‘green link’ Jul 2014 (est) S106 (negotiated £180,000 Improvements (St area as part of the legal requirement in the condition) est. Agnes Place planning agreement with Lambeth Council and Regeneration) L&Q Housing. This will include new entrance, pathways, plantings, railings and park furniture which will be completed by L&Q Housing as part of their works.

Myatt’s Field Grant – portable Grant for Lambeth Tigers Football Club to provide TBC S106 £18,000 Park floodlights them with portable floodlights in Myatt’s Park (move from Mostyn Gardens) Slade Regeneration Environmental improvements, including entrance Dec 2014 S106 £393,000 Gardens Works works, path works, a nature trail, fitness External grants equipment, and park furniture renewals. pending Vauxhall Improvement works TBC TBC S106 £58,000 Park

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Completion Park Project Details Funding Source Cost Date Vauxhall Terracing and Construction and re-modelling roughly 25% of park Aug 2014 S106 £150,000 Pleasure Ground Re- grounds Gardens Modelling Works Total £7,352,300

Total Capital Investment £16,083,328

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Appendix 3: Quick Profile of Lambeth

# Park Address Park Facilities Friends Play Ground Sports Wet Toilet Formal Buildings/ Natural Areas Group Facilities Play Garden Features 1 Agnes Riley Gardens Atkins Road, London SW12 0AH Y 3G pitch; Y Y N O/clock club Gardens Y Grass track; B/ball courts 2 Albert Embankment Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP N N N N N N N N Gardens 3 Archbishop's Park Carlisle Lane, London SE1 7LE Y Redgra pitch; N Y N N Wildlife; Y Tennis courts; Pond Netball courts; Cricket nets; Grass track 4 Becondale Road Becondale Road, London SE19 1QJ N N N N N N N N 5 Brockwell Park Brockwell Park Gardens, London Y Grass track; Y Y Y Café; Pond (x3) Y SE24 9BJ Cricket nets; O/clock club; B/ball courts; Brock. hall BMX track; Bowling green; Grass FB pitch; Tennis courts 6 Clapham Common Windmill Drive, London SW4 9DE Y Redgra pitch; Y Y Y Bandstand; Woodland Y Grass track; Café (x3); Pond (x3) A/Rules pitch; O/clock club Cricket nets; B/ball courts; Cricket wicket; Bowling green; Grass FB pitch; Tennis courts; Rugby netball; Skate park; Softball; Touch rugby 7 Claylands Road Open Claylands Road, London SW8 1PH N N N N N N N N Space 8 Cleaver Square Cleaver Square, London SE11 4EA N N N N N N N N 9 Coldharbour Lane Somerleyton Road, London SW9 8PL N N N N N N N N 43

# Park Address Park Facilities Friends Play Ground Sports Wet Toilet Formal Buildings/ Natural Areas Group Facilities Play Garden Features 10 Dan Leno Gardens Patmos Road, London SW9 6SQ N N N N N N N N 11 Dumbarton Court Gardens Brixton Hill, London SW2 5LN N N N N N N N N 12 Eardley Road Sidings Bates Crescent, London SW16 5AP N N N N N N Nature reserve N 13 Elam Street Gordon Grove, London SE5 9DT Y N N N N N N N 14 Emma Cons Gardens The Cut, London SE1 8LN N N N N N N N N 15 Grafton Square Grafton Square, London SW4 0DA Y N N N N N N N 16 Hatfields Green Hatfields, London SE1 8DH N N N N N N Grassland N 17 Hillside Gardens Park Hillside Road, London SW2 3HL Y B/ball court; N N Y O/clock club; N Y FB tarmac pitch; Garden Tennis courts centre 18 Holmewood Gardens Holmewood Road, London SW2 3NA Y N N N N N N N 19 Kennington Green Kennington Road, London SE11 4LD N N N N N N N N 20 Kennington Oval Kennington Road, London SE11 4PP N N N N N Water N N feature 21 Kennington Park St. Agnes Place, London SE11 4BE Y: Childrens + 3G pitch; N Y Y O/clock club; Nature trail; Y Adventure Grass track; Cafe Wildlife B/ball courts; Cricket nets; FB tarmac pitch; Hockey pitch; Netball courts; Tennis courts 22 Kirkstall Gardens Kirkstall Gardens, London SW2 4HR N N N N N N N N 23 Knight's Hill Wood Cedar Tree Grove, London SE27 N N N N N N N N 0QD 24 Lambeth Walk Doorstep Fitzalan Street, London SE11 6QU Y N N N Y N N N Green 25 Lansdowne Gardens Lansdowne Gardens, London SW8 N N N N N N N N 2HA 26 Larkhall Park Courland Grove, London SW8 2PX Y 3G pitch; N N Y Café; N Y B/ball courts; O/clock club; FB grass pitch; Water Tennis courts feature 27 Loughborough Park Moorland Road, London SW9 8UA Y: Adventure B/ball courts N N N O/clock club N Y + Childrens 28 Max Roach Park Villa Road, London SW9 7ND Y: Adventure N N N N O/clock club Nature trail N + Childrens 29 Milkwood Community Park Milkwood Road, London SE24 0HZ Y B/ball courts N N N Amphitheatr Wildlife Y 44

# Park Address Park Facilities Friends Play Ground Sports Wet Toilet Formal Buildings/ Natural Areas Group Facilities Play Garden Features e; Trim trail 30 Myatt's Fields Park Cormont Road, London SE5 9RA Y 3G pitch; Y Y Y Mulberry Nature area Y Grass track; Children’s Tennis courts Centre; Greenhouse s; Cafe 31 Norwood Park Salters Hill, London SE19 1EA Y Grass track; Y Y Y O/clock club Wildlife Y FB tarmac pitch; MUGA court 32 Palace Road Nature Garden Palace Road, London SW2 3NJ N N N N N N Nature reserve Y 33 Paradise Park Lambeth High Street, London SE1 Y N N N N N N Y 7JR 34 Pedlar's Park Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5JT Y N N N N N N Y 35 Rush Common Brixton Hill, London SW2 2AA Y N N N N N N N 36 Ruskin Park , London SE5 8EL Y Redgra pitch; Y Y Y Bandstand; Pond; Y Grass track; Cafe Wetland B/ball court; Cricket wicket; FB grass pitch; Rugby; Tennis courts 37 Sherwood Avenue Open Glenister Park Road, London SW16 N N N N N N N N Space 5EA 38 Slade Gardens Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 Y: Adventure Grass track N N N O/clock club N Y 0DB + Childrens 39 St John's Church Gardens Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY Y N N N N N N N 40 St Luke's Church Gardens Norwood High Street, London SE27 N N N N Y N N N 0HY 41 St Mark's Churchyard Kennington Park Road, London SE11 Y N N N N N N Y 4PP 42 St Mary's Gardens Road, London SE1 N N N N N Water N N 7JH feature 43 St Matthew's Church Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RJ Y N N N Y Water N Y Gardens feature 44 St Paul's Churchyard Rectory Grove, London SW4 0DZ N N N N Y N N N 45 Stockwell Memorial Garden South Lambeth Road, London SW8 N N N N N N N Y 1UQ

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# Park Address Park Facilities Friends Play Ground Sports Wet Toilet Formal Buildings/ Natural Areas Group Facilities Play Garden Features 46 Streatham Common Streatham Common South SW16 Y FB pitches; Y Y Y Café Woodland; Y 3BX Cricket Grassland Nature Trail Local Nature Reserve 47 Streatham Green Streatham High Road, London SW16 N N N N N N N Y 6HE 48 Streatham Memorial Garden Streatham Common North, London N N N N N N N N SW16 49 Streatham Rookery Covington Way, London SW16 3BX N Tennis courts N Y Y Café; Pond Y Water feature 50 Streatham Vale Park Abercairn Road, London SW16 5AL Y: Adventure Tennis courts N N Y O/clock club N Y + Childrens 51 Tivoli Park (Knight’s Hill Tivoli Road, London SE27 0EE Y B/ball court; N N N N N Y Recreation Ground) FB tarmac pitch 52 Trinity Gardens Trinity Gardens, London SW9 8DR N N N N N N N N 53 Ufford Street Recreation Ufford Street, London SE1 8QD Y N N N N N N Y Ground 54 Unigate Wood Roy Namba Close, London SW16 N N N N N N Nature reserve Y 2QD 55 Valley Road Playing Field Curtis Field Road, London SW16 2LZ N FB grass pitch N N N N N N 56 Vauxhall Park Lawn Lane, London SW8 1JY Y Grass track; N N Y O/clock club; N Y B/ball court; Cafe FB tarmac pitch; Tennis courts 57 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HL N B/ball court; N N N N N N FB tarmac pitch 58 Windmill Gardens Blenheim Gardens, London SW2 5EU Y N N N N N N Y 59 Windrush Square Effra Road, London SW2 1JQ N N N N N N N Y 60 Wyck Gardens Millbrook Road, London SW9 7JD Y FB tarmac pitch N N N N N Y

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