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Lambeth Cooperative Park Management Proposals

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Foreword

Lambeth has 60 wonderful parks and green spaces which for many without private gardens, provide a haven that contributes to people’s enjoyment of living, working, and visiting Lambeth. This is shown with the number of weddings, picnics, and range of outdoor events held

throughout the year. The different co mmunities coming together to play sports, enjoy a spot of gardening, or relax. We can see that their natural environment and surroundings can act as rehabilitative safe havens for people to escape from the hustle and bustle of inner city living and feel a part of nature.

However we also know that we are living in a changing environment. One in which we must find £178million of savings by 2016, representing 45% of the Council’s controllable budget. One where public services should aim to grow and achieve more for the wider community. And although challenging, instead of accepting that we should do less with what we have available; we want to take this opportunity to be more inventive and reinvigorate our parks service. We have a great foundation already looking at our many active and enthusiastic park users, friends, and community groups, and the first step for us is to find out from them what is important in your parks service. History shows us how community involvement in park management and services can be hugely successful and the sense of local ownership and pride it can engender and we seek to support this work. 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.

This is a challenge which I welcome and think Lambeth is ready for.

I am very pleased to be involved in this cooperative parks programme and ask you to please read this booklet and send us your thoughts to help us improve our approach.

Cllr Sally Prentice

Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure

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 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 sa vings by 2016, whilst maintaining our high standard of services. However we also know the value placed in 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 this potential and try and do something different. By looking at our parks differently we could create opportunities for more environmental education programmes, support more training, and employment places for disadvantaged groups, and focus on public health by transforming underused spaces into healthy food growing spaces and community gardens. All of which can only be done with the support of our many active and enthusiastic friends of parks and community groups.

This booklet is the beginning of our journey to understand your ambition for the parks service and give you a chance to be more involved and have a say in how and what we deliver. We have included:

• themes to explore in developing and testing a joint vision for our parks service

• proposals for new models of cooperative management in parks, which include management approaches where the Council and local people could make decisions together on where money is spent and on what

• 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 the potential of our parks.

Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces: A Vision for the Future

We need to agree a vision that is aspirational and captures the major contributions that parks an d 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

Based on these themes, we have proposed the following vision for the service:

‘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.’

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 management approach set up where the Council, councillors, and local people come together to jointly make decisions 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 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 manage 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 retains certain key functions and ownership of the land and is responsible for duty of care of site. Myatt’s Field Park and Brockwell Park are other examples of where cooperative working is already a large part of everyday management.

There are also a number of other projects outside of 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 management 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 to no involvement, to a joint partnership arrangement with the Council, to independent management – it’s up to you (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, either independently or as part of a partnership with the Council.

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 distinguishable levels of park management have been proposed that describe what cooperative involvement and responsibility in

parks and green spaces could look like. For example, communities or friends groups could be taking on a more hands-on role in the use, improvement, and maintenance of our parks, and at the far end of the spectrum, could be taking on sole management of a space. The proposed cooperative management models are described in further detail below – however these are intended to act only as a guide.

Level One: Council-Led Management This model represents a more traditional approach to managing park and green spaces and might be most suitable for spaces that do not have an active Friends group or have a Friends group that is happy with the current arrangement and prefers little formal responsibility for its management. In this instance we would continue with current management and maintenance arrangements for the site and manage relationships with providers and local groups. Community influence may be less than with other cooperative models. Alternative uses for the site may also be explored as part of this model.

Level Two: Cooperative Management Cooperative management describes a formal partnership arrangement with representatives from the Council, community, third sector, councillors, and other park users with interests in managing parks or green spaces. This representative group would be supported to become the main decision-making body for services, events, and activities taking place in the park and could set outcomes, raise sponsorship and funding, and decide where funds are and should be allocated. This could also include monitoring the performance and delivery of planned maintenance services – for example, by requiring contractors to attend public meetings and respond to feedback from the group. In this way, the cooperative group would have more control over the services delivered and be able to redirect activity, as appropriate. This approach would put local accountability for decisions in the hands of the group, emphasising the importance of partnership working and shared decision-making. Structure of this group would need to be agreed – particularly to decide who has final say if an agreement can not be reached.

Level Three: Community-Led Management This level supports an independent model which may involve an external body taking over the maintenance and management of a park or green space. This may include retaining control of buildings and amenities through lease or service level agreements as well as the transfer of any available budgets, including the income generated. Depending on the scope of independence, the remit for this model may also include responsibility for employment or letting contracts. The Council’s role could instead be one that defines and commissions how the park or space is used, monitoring standards, and intervening if things go wrong. Ensuring the local community continues to benefit from open and public access to parks and green spaces and financial sustainability are fixed expectations under any community managed model.

Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces : Budget Profile

The first step for us is to provide a description on 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 1. 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 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

1 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.

9 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 of 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 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 can not 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 2. 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 being 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). 3 The total central borough wide costs for parks and green spaces on an annual basis are as follows: 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 parks and green spaces Maintenance: Buildings and under the Total Facilities Management Contract, including sports buildings (i.e. changing rooms).

2 Repairs that are less than £500 are covered under the Total Facilities Management Contract. 3 Profiles of the capital investment in parks and green spaces are outlined in further detail under Capital Profiles.

Infrastructure £100,000 is topsliced from the Parks Operations budget; £100,000 from the Leisure Services budget, of which a significant portion of this sum covers planned and preventative work in Lambeth’s Leisure Centres. See Preventative and Planned Maintenance on page 16-17 for further detail Cleaning Maintenance : Buildings and £150,000 This is the total annual cost for cleaning all public toilets in Lambeth’s parks and green spaces and for Facilities cleaning Brockwell Hall, which is also managed as part of the Total Facilities Management Contract. For further detail please see Cleaning Maintenance on page 17 Reactive Repairs and Maintenance: £20,000 This cost is for reactive repair work s associated with sports facilities in parks, which is partly captured as Sports Facilities part of the Total Facilities Management Contract (for 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 17 and Reactive Repairs and Maintenance on Sports Facilities on page 17-18 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 18 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 18-20

Borough Catchment Area Costs The grounds repairs and maintenance section of the parks budget are the only finances managed and split along geographical lines – North Lambeth, Central Lambeth, and South Lambeth (see page 19 for a list of the parks in each area). 4 This budget is administered by three respective area park officers 5 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 Maintenance £55,600 This figure represents the total budget for carrying out reactive repairs and maintenance in parks with in each of the three borough catchment areas – North, Central, and South (this figure does not include the

4 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. 5 Staffing costs associated with area park officers are captured as part of the overall staffing costs – outlined in corporate costs.

additional separate budgets for individual parks). See Reactive Repairs and Maintenance on page 20 - 21 for further detail Contingency Repairs and £74,000 This sum is held for contingency use for repairs and maintenance works in all parks and green spaces. Maintenance 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 22 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 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). 6 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 Contract £2.44mil This figure represents the total annual cost of Lambeth’s grounds maintenance 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 23-25 for further detail, including spend by park Planned Maintenance : Sports £250,000 This figure refers to annual programme of maintenance works on sports facilities, such as redecorations Facilities 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 24-25 for further detail, including spend by park (where undertaken)

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

Grounds Repairs and Maintenance: £245,800 This sum is the total of all the parks that retain separate repairs and maintenance budgets attached Individual Parks (e.g. Myatt’s Field, Ruskin Park, etc). These parks have individual parks budgets owing to their size and use. See Grounds Reactive Repairs and Maintenance on page 25 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). The monies from 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. Income generated from 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 majority of these funds are redistributed across Council services as needed; however an additional environmental impact fee is required which is specifically assigned for 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 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 26-27 for further detail, including income generated per park Concessions £XX 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 26-27 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 26-27 for further detail, including total rental income paid by park

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 7 and Lottery Grants and since 2011/12 8 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%

7 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). 8 The period for each year runs from 01 st April to 31 st March.

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 9, 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 outlines the future investment priorities

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

15 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.

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 on how

much is spent on various services (provided by park whe re possible), and support 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 PPM compliance works include weekly inspections and

17 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. 10 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 Kennington Park, Vauxhall 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 • Norwood Park • Brockwell Park • Ruskin Park • Clapham Common • Streatham Common • Kennington Park • Streatham Rookery

Reactive Repairs and Maintenance: Sport Facilities

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

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 Clapham Common, water storage butts for growing hubs (community gardens) at Brockwell Park and Streatham Common, 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 undertaking to ensure all Lambeth’s parks and green spaces are safe and of a high standard, including 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

19 parks officers responsible for ‘on the ground’ management of parks and green spaces. To ensure sufficient coverage and attention across all parks, Lambeth is divided into three main catchment areas which are managed by a single Area Parks Officer respectively: North Lambeth Parks, Central Lambeth Parks, and South Lambeth Parks. 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 Lamb eth 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 Kirstall Gardens Emma Cons Kennington Oval Knights Hill Woods Hatfields Kennington Park Norwood Park Kennington Green Loughborough Park Palace Road Nurture Gardens Lambeth Walk Max Roach Park 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 Stockwell 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

In addition to these area park officers are other parks with dedicated park managers:

• Brockwell Park – full time park manager • Myatt’s Field Park - park manager three days per week • Clapham Common – full time park manager that 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 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 for unplanned services ranging from fixing a broken fence to planting a different bedding scheme and is allocated on both an individual park basis 11 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 • 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

11 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.

• History of capital investment • Last time the facility/building was maintained

The repairs and maintenance budget for each catchment area (minus the bigger parks) 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 Kirstall 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

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.

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 is 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.

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 your park is maintained to a high standard. Table 7 provides an approximate breakdown of the current spend by service as part of this contract across all Lambeth’s parks and green spaces:

Table 7: Total Annual Spend by Maintenance Service

Maintenance Services Details Allocated Spend Waste Management Collection of litter (including dog waste), emptying bins and green waste recycling £808 ,000 (including Christmas trees) Grass Management Cutting of amenity and fine grass areas £4 88 ,500 Site Security and Public Safety Opening and closing parks and open spaces, opening and closing public toilets, and £3 51 ,000 providing staff for weekend security and summer seasonal staff Maintenance of Ornamental and Staffing and maintenance of traditional or formal gardens and other areas of high £18 9,000 Formal Gardens quality horticultural value Maintenance of Sports Facilities Maintenance of sports facilities including courts, pitches (turf, Astro, Redgra, and £1 40 ,200 tarmac), nets, bowling greens, skate parks, trim trails and general facilities to ensure they are safe, clean and useable Maintenance of har dstanding, fence Maintenance of all footways, areas of hardstanding, safety surfaces and floors of £11 8,000 lines and footways open structures so they are clean and safe Maintenance of Seasonal Bedding Design and maintenance of bedding schemes (biannual w inter and summer) £11 5,500 Maintenance of Shrub and Hedges Maintenance of ornamental shrubs, hedges, shrub beds and climbing shrubs £9 9,800 Graffiti Removal and Prevention Removal of graffiti, posters and other unauthorised advertising £44 ,000 Maintenance of Semi -Mature Trees Ensuring the establishment of newly planted saplings and semi -mature trees £20 ,600 through good horticultural and arboricultural practice, including watering Maintenance of Rose Beds Maintenance of rose beds to ensure good health and maximum flowering £1 8,100 Herbaceous Maintenance Maintenance of herbaceous perennials, bulbs, and the management of invasive £1 5,200 herbaceous plants Maintenance of Children’s Providing safe, clean, and accessible children’s play facilities including regular £10, 500 Playgrounds inspections of surfaces, equipment and sand pits

Maintenance of Furniture, Fittings Inspection and cleaning of all furniture, fittings and other infrastructure to assess £9, 45 0 and Infrastructure their condition and safety, including drinking fountains Paddling Pool and Wet Play Providing safe, clean, and accessible paddling pool and wet play facilities during £9, 45 0 Maintenance summer season (1st May and 30th September) Maintenance of Naturalised Areas Management of woodland and wetland sites to protect wildlife, promote £2, 70 0 biodiversity and increase public access and enjoyment Total £2. 44 million

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 8. This Table also presents 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. This budget is managed by the Cultural Development Team and is split between planned maintenance in sports facilities in parks as well as 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. Table 8: 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 Gardens £10,767 - Palace Road Nature Garden £6,381 - 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 Space £1,174 - Sherwood Avenue Open Space £956 - 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 - Knight's Hill Wood £2,678 - Ufford Street Recreation Ground £9,516 - Lambeth Walk Doorstep Green £18,306 - Unigate Wood £7,987 - 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 -

Grounds Reactive Repairs and Maintenance: Individual Parks

£245,800 has been allocated for individual parks based on their size and use. Table 9 specifies the split in reactive repairs and maintenance budget for each park.

Table 9: Reactive Repairs and Maintenance Budget by Park

Park R&M Budget Myatts Field Park £19,200 Brockwell Park £45,000 Clapham Common £60,000 Individual Streatham Common £33,000 Parks Kennington Park £15,000 Larkhall Park £4,800 Norwood Park £13,800 Ruskin Park £15,000

Windmill Gardens £10,000 Windrush Square £30,000 Total £245,800

Income Streams in Parks As mentioned, the Council generates income from use of parks through three main streams – outdoor events, concessions (mobile ice cream vendors), and rent from buildings in parks. Events are typically categorised into two main categories – commercial events (e.g. SW4) or community events (e.g. friends groups) and are charged accordingly. The specific funds received by park are 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

Site Name Events Concessions Rents Agnes Riley Gardens - - Albert Embankment Gardens £33,175 - Archbishop's Park - - Becondale Road - - £13,600 Café: £33,000 Brockwell Park Gas Pressure Reduction Station: £5,000 Events: £178,633 £5,552 Bandstand Café: £16,000 Bandstand: £125 Bowling Green Café: £16,500 Clapham Common Funfair: £49,312.50 Rookery Road Café: £13,000 Southside: £142,350 Tennis Courts: £12,100 Claylands Road Open Space - - Cleaver Square £275 - 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 - £825 Land: £51,120 Ruskin Park 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 Gardens £525 - St Paul's Churchyard - - Stockwell Memorial Garden - - Streatham Common £15,000 £1,876 Café: £18,000 Streatham Green - -

Streatham Memorial Garden - - Streatham Rookery £550 - Streatham Vale Park - - Tivoli Park - - Trinity Gardens £400 - Ufford Street Recreation Ground £40 - 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 £7428 £177,121 TOTAL INCOME £735,166

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

Table 12: Lambeth Parks Capital Investment 2012/13

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

Table 13: Lambeth Parks Capital Investment 2013/14

Completion Park Project Details Funding Source Cost Date Archbishops Tennis Courts Development of 2 tennis courts and line marking for a netball court Jun 2013 S106 £75,000 Park 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 Works ••• Construction of greenhouses; Fund ••• 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 Cricket Repair and upgrade of the two bay practice nets and wickets Apr 2013 S106 £39,700 Initiative London Marathon Trust Hatfields Redevelopment Project General redevelopment and improvement works – including Mar 2014 S106 £100,000 Green appointment of a landscape architect to refurbish the green. A phased Southwark master plan is currently under development Council Hillside Improvement works to Oct 2013 S106 £26,000 Gardens Park fitness and sporting Installation of outdoor fitness equipment in the park facilities within the park Kennington Restoration of the Development of flower garden restoration scheme, including the Dec 2 013 Project Total: Park Flower Garden restoration of hard and soft landscaping infrastructure, appointment of Development: £46,800 an activity coordinator, an apprentice gardener, and a learning and Heritage development programme that details use of volunteers for ongoing Lottery Fund maintenance S106 Friends Group Volunteer Time Master Plan Finalisation Development of a 10 -year phased master plan with the Friends and Jan 2013 S106 £20,000 local community to assist with securing and allocating future funds. New Table Tennis Installation of 2 table tennis tables in partnership with the Friends of KP Jul 2013 Friends Match £10,000 Provision Funding

S106 Environmental Levy Sports Field Re -levelling works to the football and cricket oval outfields. Jun 2013 Surrey County £23,000 Improvements Cricket Club (Kennington Park Contribution Extension) Lambeth Parks Lambeth Play Area Development The development of a new play area for children aged under six years Jun 2013 Veolia Grant £17,050 Walk S106 £77,000 Doorstep £94,050 Green Larkhall Park Priory Grove Landscaping and redevelopment of Priory Grove entrance to park Apr 2013 Local £50,000 Regeneration Implementation Plan Thrive Project Community food growing project led by Thrive Charity, specialising in Mar 2014 S106 £14,028 therapeutic gardening General improvement Earmarked for general improvement works -£10,000. May refer to Sep 2013 S106 £10,000 project Thrive project above. Football pitch Funds were used to renovate the grass surface football pitch Apr 2013 S106 £5,000 renovation Millennium Resolution of S106 project to carry out improvements and make the Green more Dec 2013 Awaiting £75,000 Green Infrastructural Issues – attractive area to create a small area for events. funding source related to S106 grant Norwood Skate Park Conversion of derelict paddling pool into a skate park facility that will Sep 2013 London £60,000 Park Development involve remodelling concrete surface in keeping with existing Marathon Trust £15,000 topography Lambeth Parks £75,000 General Improvements Environmental improvements, including works to improve the pathway May 2013 Awaiting £60,000 and entrances (Benton’s Lane and Finch Avenue) and biodiversity funding source improvement works Paradise Park Park Regeneration General site improvements, including converting the central water Aug 2013 S106 £210,000 Works feature into an interactive childrens water play area, replacement of the central seating, and resealing of the paths Slade Improvements to Greening of Ingleborough Street in partnership with highways Jul 2013 LBL Highways £95,000 Gardens Ingleborough Street including: repaving, sustainable drainage, trees and plantings, and a S106 new entrance into Slade Gardens.

Stockport Redevelopment of Reseeding playing fields to bring fields up to a usable condition for local Oct 2013 London Road Playing Playing Fields 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 Rotunda Repainting of the Rotunda Mural Jun 2013 HRE CIP £8,000 Mural Dulux Paint Grant Vauxhall Regeneration of Glyn Architectural sketch designs for highway and environmental Aug 2013 S106 £15,000 Pleasure Street improvements to Glyn Street that aims to regenerate and pedestrianise Gardens this adjacent street and improve the interface with the park Construction pending secured funding TBC Public Realm TBC Terracing and Ground Architectural terracing and ground re -modelling designs that aim to Aug 2013 S106 £9,000 Re-Modelling Works reduce the height of the mounds, create pathways linking Goding Street and the park, and explore options for extending the park Phase II Landscaping Landscaping, planting, furniture, entrance ways, play provision 2013/14 S106 £384,000 West Essential Road and Essential works to the entrance roads and forecourt due to asset Nov 2013 Lambeth CIP £900,000 Norwood Drainage Works failure. Cemetery Total £8,165,778

Table 14: Lambeth Parks Capital Investment 2014/15

Completion Park Project Details Funding Source Cost Date Archbishops General Improvement • Shelter restoration; Apr 2014 S106 £100,000 Park Works • Sports feasibility study; • Lamp column replacement; • Pathway refurbishment Brixton Brixton Windmill Restoration of windmill to enable delivery of programme of activities 2014/15 Heritage Lottery Total: Windmill Restoration around heritage education Fund £565,000 LBL Friends Brockwell Park Brockwell Hall and Refurbishment works - Bid to Big Lottery £3,500,000 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 the use of football Sep 2014 TBC Approx Common Changing Rooms at players and other identified park users. Feasibility study commissioned £1mil Battersea Rise Playground Refurbishment of playground on Battersea Rise Not yet Awaiting funding £15,000 Refurbishment programmed source Outdoor Fitness Installation of outdoor wooden fitness equipment on Clapham Mar 2014 S106 £6,000 Equipment Common North Side and Battersea Rise along popular jogging route London Marathon £54,000 Trust Total: £60,000 Angling Teaching Zone Improve presentation of pond and prevent deterioration Mar 2014 S106 £52,000 and Long Pond Area Environment Improvement Agency Revenue Improvement of Sports • Reinstatement of two netball courts; Dec 2013 S106 £15,000 Zone on Rookery Road • 1 additional basketball court; London Marathon £135,000 Trust Total: • Install safeguard for basketball court drop; £150,000 • Repair railings; • Reinstatement of tarmac;

• Improve pedestrian access to site Kennington Flower Garden Implementation of flower garden restoration scheme, as outlined in Dec 2014 Project Park Restoration 2013/14 Implementation: Heritage Lottery

Fund £225,200 S106 £50,000 Volunteer Time £23,100 Gardener (TBC) £10,000 Total: £308,300

Green Link Landscape improvements within the ‘green link’ area as part of the Jul 2014 (est) S106 (negotiated £180,000 Improvements (St legal requirement in the planning agreement with Lambeth Council and condition) est. Agnes Place L&Q Housing. This will include new entrance, pathways, plantings, Regeneration) 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 them with portable TBC S106 £18,000 Park floodlights floodlights in Myatt’s Park (move from Mostyn Gardens) Slade Gardens Regeneration Works Environmental improvements, including entrance works, path works, a Dec 2014 S106 £393,000 nature trail, fitness equipment, and park furniture renewals. External grants pending Vauxhall Park Improvement works TBC TBC S106 £58,000 Vauxhall Terracing and Ground Construction and re -modelling roughly 25% of park grounds Aug 2014 S106 £150,000 Pleasure Re-Modelling Works Gardens Total £7,352,300

Total Capital Investment £16,093,328

Appendix 3: Quick Profile of Lambeth Parks

# 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 Gardens Y Grass track; club 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 B/ball courts; club; BMX track; Brock. hall 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 Cricket nets; club B/ball courts; Cricket wicket; Bowling green; Grass FB pitch; Tennis courts; Rugby netball; Skate park; Softball; Touch rugby 7 Claylands Road Open Space Claylands Road, London SW8 1PH N N N N N N N N 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 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 Y 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 N Y FB tarmac pitch; club; Tennis courts Garden centre 18 Holmewood Gardens Holmewood Road, London SW2 3NA Y N N N N N N Y 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 Nature trail; Y Adventure Grass track; club; Wildlife B/ball courts; Cafe 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 0QD N N N N N N N N 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 FB grass pitch; club; Tennis courts Water feature 27 Loughborough Park Moorland Road, London SW9 8UA Y: Adventure B/ball courts N N N O/clock N Y + Childrens club 28 Max Roach Park Villa Road, London SW9 7ND Y: Adventure N N N N O/clock Nature trail Y + Childrens club 29 Milkwood Community Park Milkwood Road, London SE24 0HZ Y B/ball courts N N N Amphitheat Wildlife Y re; 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; Greenhous es; Cafe 31 Norwood Park Salters Hill, London SE19 1EA Y Grass track; Y Y Y O/clock Wildlife Y FB tarmac pitch; club MUGA court 32 Palace Road Nature Garden Palace Road, London SW2 3NJ N N N N N N Nature reserve N 33 Paradise Park Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JR Y N N N N N N Y 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 Y 36 Ruskin Park Denmark Hill, 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 N Y 0DB + Childrens club 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 Lambeth Palace 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 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 N N N N N N N N Garden 1UQ 46 Streatham Common Streatham Common South SW16 3BX Y FB pitches; Y Y Y Café Woodland; Y Cricket Grassland 47 Streatham Green Streatham High Road, London SW16 N N N N N N N N 6HE

48 Streatham Memorial Streatham Common North, London N N N N N N N N Garden SW16 49 Streatham Rookery Covington Way, London SW16 3BX N Tennis courts N Y Y Café; Pond N Water feature 50 Streatham Vale Park Abercairn Road, London SW16 5AL Y: Adventure Tennis courts N N Y O/clock N Y + Childrens club 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 2QD N N N N N N Nature reserve N 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 N Y B/ball court; club; FB tarmac pitch; Cafe 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 N 60 Wyck Gardens Millbrook Road, London SW9 7JD Y FB tarmac pitch N N N N N Y