Highlights from our last committee meeting

If you’re wondering what Friends of Brockwell Park are up to right now, here are some of the things we discussed at our last meeting. Please join in the discussion by posting your comments below:

1. Noshir Patel (Secretary) and Laura Morland (FOBP Parks Liaison) attended the Lambeth Parks Forum meeting at the Town Hall on November 13, which discussed the shape of the Council’s future events policy. We have many questions arising from the above, particularly Lambeth’s favouring the option of the existing policy with a few tweaks.

2. We will hold an extraordinary Committee Meeting on December 4 in order to formulate a response for presentation to the Lambeth Parks Events Strategy consultation, beginning in January 2019. This response will incorporate both FOBP’s questions arising from the presentations at the November 13 meeting, and FOBP’s views on future events in Brockwell Park.

3. We expressed our strong opposition to the Council’s intention to allow commercial hoardings within Brockwell Park, as being a commercial intrusion in a precious public space that most people desire should be free of such things.

4. The ruined tarmac on the path between Brockwell Hall and the meadow to the North has still not been repaired. This is part of the still-unrestored damage caused by ‘FieldDay/Mighty Hoopla’ in June this year.

Help with hedge planting

The Biodiversity Group are planting a small hedge by the Effra Play Centre this Wednesday (28th November). They initially planted a small number of hedging bushes on the inside of the railings, last year, with the help of the Community Payback team. Now they need to infill the gaps where the bushes failed.

They will be planting additional hedging plants along the outside of the fence so that the Play Centre has a hedge ‘screen’ so the children can play in the newly renovated area in front of the Effra building.

They need help! It is a bit cold and muddy but if you can come along and do a couple of hours – they would be very grateful. No experience is necessary and they have the wonderful Richard Jedrzejczak guiding the group.

They start at 10.30am and you will find the group by the Effra Play Centre, or you will see the TCV van a short walk up by the Brockwell Gate entrance. Dress up warm and wear sensible shoes or boots.

All the fun of the Brockwell Park Christmas fair

Shop super-local for your Christmas gifts this year with the annual Friends of Brockwell Park Christmas Fair. It’s this Sunday 2 December at Brockwell Hall between 11:00 and 15:00 and will give you the chance to wear an enormous smug and sorted look on your face right up until the Big Day.