Have you recently received a questionnaire from Ipsos MORI on behalf of Lambeth Council asking for your comments about how involved you are in the community and your views on Lambeth? We noted that only one questionnaire was sent per house, even where houses in our area are divided into flats (for example, only one [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Community involvement survey
Posted in ASSA business, Community involvement on 27 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
Neighbourhood Watch
Posted in Crime and safety on 13 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In case you didn’t know, there is an active Neighbourhood Watch group covering the ASSA area. We think the best way to reduce crime and make people feel safe is to develop a community in which everyone feels they have someone to turn to if they are concerned. Our local Safer Neighbourhoods team is led [...]
Transition Town Brixton – Home Grown Food
Posted in Green issues on 12 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to Brixton’s ‘Great Unleashing’ last week – don’t worry its not a cue to run for cover… It is the launch of Transition Town Brixton. It was a huge success with a packed town hall of people from Brixton and the surrounds wanting to make a difference and starting at home. Put simply, [...]
ASSA Climate Action Network: What’s it all about?
Posted in Green issues on 7 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The need for better home energy As residents in the Albert Square, St Stephens Terrace, Aldebert Terrace and Wilkinson Street, you will be only too aware of the energy inefficiency of old houses and their large carbon footprint. There are myriad ways to make our homes more energy efficient and reduce our emissions; ranging from [...]
The DiLietos are back
Posted in Shops and restaurants on 7 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News just in: Just to say that we were delighted to find that Luigi Di Lieto, formerly of the Di Lieto family bakery on the South Lambeth Road, is back. And so is his brother Giovanni. Luigi is running ITALO, a delightful new Italian deli in Bonnington Square. ITALO is on the corner with Vauxhall Grove at [...]
Slower speed bumps
Posted in ASSA business, Traffic and transport on 3 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Residents in the Albert Square conservation area should have today received updated consultation material from Lambeth Council about the proposals for traffic calming measures in the area. The last meeting of the Albert Square and St Stephen’s Association (ASSA) Committee considered these and came to the following conclusions, which we hope will assist you in [...]
Bumping speed
Posted in Traffic and transport on 2 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The deadline is on us for responding to the consultation by TfL and Lambeth council on the proposed installation of seven “sinusoidal road humps” at locations shown in red on the map. The pack which came through my letterbox said there was a questionnaire about the proposals, but didn’t actually include one – though there [...]
FixMyStreet
Posted in Lighting and street repairs on 2 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
FixMyStreet is a simple way of letting Lambeth council know about things which need fixing – broken lamp posts, dangerous paving stones, and so on. All you have to do is put in your postcode, click on the map exactly where the problem is and give a short description. All that then gets sent to [...]


