Welcome to the Walworth Society
The Walworth Society aims to:
- Be a voice for people in Walworth
- To preserve and protect its rich architectural heritage
- To protect and help improve its green and open spaces
Please explore our website. It is currently under construction but we hope you will find it useful. All offers of help, advice and support are much appreciated.
Community Asset Walkabouts
Thanks to everyone who came along to our 3 walkabouts in each of the Walworth Wards. We had a fantastic turnout with well over 50 people taking part altogether. We were looking at 3 different types of things in the areas that we visited:
1. Buildings (private or publicly owned) or open spaces that can qualify as community assets (linked to the new Localism Act 2011).
2. Historic buildings that are in need of protection (ties in with the forthcoming Southwark Council consultation about the Local List of historic buildings).
3. Green/Open Spaces that are currently unprotected (ties in with the Southwark Council Open Spaces Strategy consultation).
We also looked at a number of places that are highlighted as development sites in the Elephant & Castle Supplementary Planning Document.
Although we did not manage to look at everything in each ward, we have got some really useful results from the process and the results from each ward can be seen in the downloadable documents below. Please say if there are things that are missing and we will of course add them to the reports.
We will be using this work over the next 6 months in our work with Southwark Council. Thanks again to everyone who took part. Below are some photos of the walkabouts.
 EastWalWalkabout1-31Mar12.pdf | 349 Kb |
| FaradayWalkabout-12May12.pdf | 389 Kb |
| WestWalWalkabout-06May12.pdf | 757 Kb |
Protecting local green spaces
One of the key ambitions of the Walworth Society, written into our constitution, is to identify and protect open spaces in the area. We fear that the intense development pressure in the wider area is putting many of our valuable, and currently unprotected, green spaces at risk.
There are various ways for the community to secure green and open spaces, both now and for future generations, the most important step being to identify them. If you are aware of local green spaces which you are worried may not currently be protected and could be at risk of development, then please get in touch and let us know. You can also discuss them in our Forum.
Thanks to the contributions of people from all over the local area, we were able to make a detailed submission to the Southwark Council Open Spaces Strategy Consultation which ended on 8th May 2012. If you would like to read what we suggestion, the submission is downloadable below.
| WalSoc-OSSResponse-08May12.pdf | 489 Kb |
161-179 Manor Place SE17 - Victorian Terrace
The Victorian terrace on Manor Place at the north end of Pasley Park is under threat of demolition as part of the redevelopment of the site.
UPDATE: April 2012 - The Terrace is now in the process of being disposed of by Southwark. The good news is that they are inviting proposals for refurbishment as well as redevelopment. The tender period ends on 11th May 2012. The Walworth Society has produced an information pack attached below (MPT-InfoPack) that it hope that interested developers will refer to outlining the aspirations that local people have for the terrace.
This is a historic terrace that has provided shops and services for the local area for well over 100 years.
The terrace was built between 1875 and 1896 and local people are keen to ensure that it is retained and restored as part of the redevelopment of the site (which we very much support).
There was a well attended community-led meeting to discuss future ambitions for this site at St Paul's Church on Tuesday 24 January at 7pm. The minutes from this meeting and resulting letter from the local Ward Councillor are attached below. For further discussions on the site please log into our Forum
Kennedy's Sausage Shop
One of our first campaigns is to try to see improvements to the shop front of Kennedy's Sausages and, if possible, to get the shop back into use.
Kennedy's is the only shop that is listed on the Walworth Rd and, since the shop closed a few years ago, has fallen into complete neglect. It is now on the English Heritage Buildings At Risk list and it is a real shame that a shop front that was a part of the Walworth Rd for so long is now in such a terrible state and not in use.
For further discussions on the site please log into our Forum