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St Stephens CE School Parade: Friday 3rd July

Posted in Local events and pictures on 26 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

St Stephen’s CE School will be holding our Carnival on Friday the 3rd July. This year the theme is Circus – children will be parading along South Lambeth Road (around 2.15pm), into Albert Square (around 2.30pm) and through Dorset Road Estate. It would be great if as many residents as possible could cheer and wave [...]

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Photos of the Albert Square Summer Fair

Posted in Local events and pictures on 24 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lots of photos of the Summer Fair here. Scroll down to the bottom right of the site and click on ‘more photos’ in the Neighbourhood Photos section. If you have local photos to add you can include them here by uploading your photos to Flickr and tagging them ‘assasw8′ or if that all to much [...]

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The Comment Board

Posted in Community involvement on 23 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You may have seen the discussion board we had at the Summer Fair for you to post your comments on local issues. We had categories for The Royal Albert, Community Activities (what do you want to see more of?) and General. We’ve recreated them here.
The Royal Albert
Keep it as a pub. Cheaper and more diverse [...]

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Traffic not very calming

Posted in ASSA business, Traffic and transport on 16 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Latest dialogue with Lambeth Council – suggestions and questions sent to them in March, responses received today.
ASSA proposal: That the top of Lansdowne Way (between the Clapham Road and the South Lambeth Road) be returned to being a two-way road.
Lambeth response: Unfortunately we are unable to progress this [...]

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Tunnelling under South Lambeth?

Posted in Traffic and transport on 12 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The latest proposals for the development of Battersea Power Station include the idea of extending the Northern Line from Kennington through Nine Elms to a new station at the power station itself. Given the track record of Battersea Power Station proposals – a special shuttle service to Victoria was proposed twenty years ago and never [...]

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ASSA AGM – Tuesday 16 June

Posted in ASSA business on 11 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The annual meeting of the Albert Square and St Stephen’s Association takes place this coming Tuesday at St Stephen’s Church. Tea, coffee and conversation from 7.30 – the meeting proper will start at 8pm. Do come and share your thoughts, ideas and questions for the future of our area and the work of ASSA. If [...]

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All the fun of the fair

Posted in ASSA business, Community involvement, Local events and pictures on 10 June 2009 | 1 Comment »

THE FEAR
There was much checking of the weather forecast before and on the Saturday morning, but in the event, in a week that had swung from much sun and high temperatures to heavy rain and cold, everyone was grateful for the window of no rain that occurred from 3pm on Saturday.
THE STALLS
The Fair was wonderful. [...]

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