1. Walworth Society General Meeting – Wednesday 21st September 7pm.
Our next general WS meeting will be held on Wednesday 21st September online starting at 7pm. Our agenda for the September meeting is:
- Welcome, apologies and introductions.
- Action points from our July 2022 meeting and matters arising.
- The Future of the Walworth Road and the Southwark Council Economic Strategy – discussion with Cllr Martin Seaton Cabinet Member for Jobs, Business and the Town Centres.
- Developing a Local List for Southwark – presentation and discussion with Michael Tsoukaris Southwark Council.
- Licensing Policy – the impact of late night businesses in Walworth.
- Walworth Heritage Action Zone – update.
- Walworth Stories – update.
- Planning Matters.
- Southwark Council – Cleaner Greener Safer (closes 2nd Oct).
- Other current issues.
- AOB.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting if you can make it.
Join in on Zoom, click here or log on with meeting ID: 817 0784 5551 Passcode: 343719
The action points from the July meeting will be discussed at the meeting.
The links for the Local List consultation are:
https://southwarkdraftlocallist.commonplace.is/proposals
and
https://southwarkdraftlocallist.commonplace.is/map/southwark-central
and the link to the Economic Strategy consultation is:
https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/corporate-strategy/economic-strategy-22-30/
| 2. World Day Festival At Pasley Park News from the Friends of Pasley Park. Come and join us for World Day 12-4 pm at Pasley Park on the 1st October. The event will be a celebration of our rich and diverse community and will highlight the story of Mary Seacole and her links with the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens. The fete and festival is free and features: The famous dog show at 1:15-2:15 pm. Music and dance Free activities for children, including face painting Foods of the World Market Zone Arts and Crafts DJ A Play about Mary Seacole Community Pub If you would like to have a stall or volunteer on the day, please contact John Whelan at: whelanjohnwalworth@gmail.com or call 07747-649671 for further information. More info click here. |
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3. Southwark Law Centre Planning Workshop.
News from Southwark Law Centre.
Planning Made Simple: How to Engage with Planning Applications in Southwark
Join the Planning Voice project at Camberwell Green URC Church on Thursday 29th September at 6:30pm for a beginner level workshop looking at how to engage with planning applications in Southwark.
We will be covering the following:
- How to find out about local planning applications affecting your local environment
- Navigating Southwark Council’s Planning Portal
- How to make a comment on a planning application using the Planning Portal – and how you can do this offline too!
- How to engage with local elected representatives on the Planning Committee.
The workshop is open to everyone, especially those who are new to the planning process and want to get involved.
Refreshments will be available!
You can sign up using Eventbrite click here. We are also open to people turning up on the day.
4. WeWalworth Barbeque.
News from the WeWalworth project.
The WeWalworth team invites you to our upcoming Neighbourhood BBQ on Saturday 24th September. We’ve already hosted a Neighbourhood BBQ [1] and had more than 100 conversations with local people – and we’re hoping to do that again this month, in order to move closer to a solution for the community.
If you’ve come to one of our events before and want to join again, it would be great if you could bring a friend or colleague along! To register click here, For more information go to coda.io/@we-walworth/project.
As you know, the BBQ area in Burgess Park was enormously popular before Covid, but the area is now fenced off after complaints about anti-social behaviour and safety concerns. Local people fear that the decision has already been made to keep the area closed for good. By bringing people from both sides of the argument together, by working together as a group of residents, practitioners and professionals, including representatives of local and national government – could the BBQs be the issue to unite a neighbourhood? We’re looking for people to join the conversation and take action.
So, join us for a Neighbourhood Welcome starting with a barbecue lunch. You’ll learn more about this project, get some training and together we’ll go out and start speaking to our neighbours.
WHEN: 3-7pm on Saturday 24 September
WHERE: Walworth Living Room, Surrey Square, London SE17 2JU
Childcare will be available if required.
Together we’ll explore and learn about:
- Techniques to engage with people we don’t yet know
- Identifying great ideas and leaders in our community
- Why do we want to organise around connections and networks.
This is our second Neighbourhood Welcome on BBQs. Over the summer we’ve been recruiting a small team to work on the barbecue challenge together over the coming weeks and months and there will still be space to join that group in September.
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