On Friday 18 October, as part of the Future Clapham project, the thriving Clapham Pottery will celebrate its move to the attractive former chapel in Rectory Grove, previously the site of CAVE adult literacy school. The Mayor of Lambeth will officially open the site at 4pm.

Clapham Pottery is a self-funding not-for-profit community organization that has been operating at Clapham Leisure Centre for many years. The Pottery has gone from strength to strength since the long-established, professional North Street Potters took over its management two years ago. The group is committed to serving the wider community and each week this fine building will now be home to pottery classes and workshops for 150 students of all ages and all abilities. 

As part of the Future Clapham scheme, the Leisure Centre is due for demolition and rebuilding. Labour councillors insisted that the future of the Pottery was made secure and we have worked with the group and with officers to ensure the pottery would find a new home.

We were impressed by the efforts that led to Lambeth Council re-housing the project at: The Old Chapel, 4A Rectory Grove, SW4 0DZ

Under the preceding Conservative /LibDem administration, the Leisure Centre and neighbouring depot would have been sold off, with no allowance made for many of the popular clubs and classes.

Cllr Haselden said ‘I am delighted that this building is going to be kept in community use and that the longer-term future of Clapham Pottery has been secured.’

‘As councillors we were determined that Clapham Pottery stayed in Clapham to provide its much-valued service to a wide range of local people.’

Ambitious plans to regenerate Clapham have been given the go-ahead by Lambeth Planners. The council’s development partner, Cathedral Group, was granted permission for the multi-million pound Clapham One development at a planning committee meeting..

Part of the Future Clapham scheme, the development will deliver new, high quality public facilities for Clapham at no cost to the tax-payer. The scheme will also deliver 199 new homes.

It involves the redevelopment of two sites in Clapham:

Mary Seacole House on Clapham High Street will be re-developed to provide a state-off-the-art community library, healthcare centre and 136 new homes.

Clapham Leisure Centre site will be transformed to create a brand new facility – including a six-lane, 25 metre pool, a 100 station gym and a four-court sports hall – as well as 63 apartments.

The Mary Seacole House development is subject to final approval by the Greater London Authority, a decision is expected by the end of April.

For more information visit www.lambeth.gov.uk/futureclapham

LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 16A

TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF VENN STREET

FOR A SPECIAL EVENT (FRENCH MARKET)

1.    NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that to enable a special event (a French Market) to take place in Venn Street, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth subject to the agreement of Transport for London intend to make an Order the effect of which would be to temporarily ban vehicles from entering or waiting in that length of Venn Street which lies between Clapham High Street and Bromell’s Road on 27^th, 28^th and 29^th March 2009.

2     The bans referred to above would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs on the dates specified above.

3.    An alternative route would be available for affected vehicles via Clapham High Street, Stonhouse Street and Bromell’s Road.

4.    Whenever the bans referred to in paragraph 1 above apply the Order that imposes the one-way working in Venn Street between its junction with Clapham High Street and its junction with Bromell’s Road in a direction other than from south-east to north-west would be suspended.

Dated 13^th March 2009

TIM JACKSON

Assistant Director – Street Management