Stockwell Park 'Fun Day' - Saturday, 14th July 2012

Community Trust Housing, landlords of Stockwell Park and Robsart Estates, held their annual residents 'Fun Day' in Slade Gardens, Robsart Street, SW9 on Saturday 14th July 2012. Despite the erratic weather and rain, a large number of residents enjoyed themselves with a variety of activities from football matches, circus rides and clowns, information stalls and lots of delicious food!  Community Trust Housing used the day to consult residents on their plans for the next phase of the regeneration of the estates, including demolishing and rebuilding a taller Wayland House. 

Local Ferndale Councillors Paul McGlone, Sally Prentice and Neil Sabharwal had a "Meet your local Labour Councillors" stall. We were joined by fellow Labour Councillor Adrian Garden, as Slade Gardens is just inside Vassell ward which he represents. This allowed us to meet and talk with local residents about the regeneration plans, carry out a survey on residents views on local leisure facilities provided in Brixton, and pick up individual problems that we will help them with.

The cake Sally made as a prize for filling in our leisure questionnaire was won by a local resident who donated it to the Community Trust Housing staff for their Monday morning tea break!

Councillor Paul McGlone commented, "The rain did not dampen the fun people had! These events are important to generate community cohesion and I know we councillors enjoyed the day immensely." 

 

Disorder and looting in Brixton - message to Ferndale community representatives and groups

Brixton is a strong and united community that utterly condemns the scenes we saw last night. People were shocked and appalled by the vandalism and hooliganism we witnessed and this kind of criminal behaviour has absolutely no place in our community.

Let’s be very clear that this is simply opportunistic criminal activity that has no justification whatsoever - it’s criminal disorder not riots. Relations between the community and police today are strong, and this incident will not undermine the huge progress made over the past decades.

We are now determined that the borough gets back to normal as quickly as possible and will be offering all the support we can to the police and reassurance to local people and businesses.

Please also see a message from the Leader of the Council, Cllr Steve Reed.

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/News/2011/080811AMessageFromCouncillorSteveReed.htm

Please feel free to contact any of us if you have any concerns or questions.

Regards,

Councillors Paul McGlone, Sally Prentice and Neil Sabharwal

Ferndale ward