It's Groundworks Time Again

Groundwork have have sent LETRA the grant application form to apply for the Housing Estate Improvement Programme (HEIP). We hope to make a successful application for a new project on our estate.  
LETRA would like to hear your ideas on this, what would you like us to apply for. The popular new Play Area at Pelham House was our last winning bid.
So put aside the seasonal festivities for a moment and get back to LETRA  with your suggestions. We need to have them by the 17th January 2013.

• Please Email LETRA at: lyttonresidents@gmail.com
• For more information see Groundwork leaflet side 1 & side 2
• Groundwork's opening party at Pelham play area
• Launch of Pelham Play Photos

Kensington Olympia now part of London's Orbital Network

Kensington Olympia is finally part of the completed London Overground orbital network of train routes. The network is finished this week, with the opening of Clapham Junction to Highbury & Islington, via Surrey Quays, section.

You can circle around the heart of London, entirely on overground trains, giving commuters from Olympia many new connections to take advantage of.

• Hammersmith Today Story
• Transport for London Overground page
• You Tube Video about London Overground
• London Overground Map (pdf)

Parking Charges for Estate Residents ?

H&F is considering bringing in a consistent parking charge scheme for residents. 
"Cllr Andrew Johnson, cabinet member for housing, said: “We have inherited a ludicrous situation from the now defunct arms length management organisation that sees some residents pay £137 a year to park their cars close to their homes while their next door neighbours can park for free. At the same time our tenants and leaseholders in street properties who want to park their cars have to pay £119 for a parking permit.
The new system would provide all estate residents with a first come, first serve opportunity to park, with no guarantee of a parking space, similar to on-street parking. Penalty Charge Notices will be issued on illegally parked cars.
Similarly, there are a number of different charges for garage rents across the borough and there is a need to improve the condition of lettable garages. To rectify the problem, the council is asking residents for their views on  increasing the weekly charges for a garage or motorcycle garage to a level nearer the market rate. The revenue collected will be used to improve garage facilities on estates."

• H&F page on the consultation

Monday Update - Parking & Garages Consultation

Residents should have received a letter from H&F by today, about the proposed changes to parking and garages, on the Lytton Estate. If you have concerns about these proposals, make sure you get your response form back to H&F, for the 9th January 2013. 

Alternatively you can ring the hotline on 0800 5426724 and leave your number for H&F to get back to you. 
To read the letter click the links below:

• Consultation letter side 1
• Consultation letter side 2

Tesco Kensington Winter Food Festival

Tesco Kensington, on the Cromwell Rd, held a Winter Festival of Food today. Stalls, sited on the stores front plaza, representing the shops newly refurbished departments, offered a wide variety of foods for everyone to sample. In addition,  jugglers and a steel band entertained the customers all afternoon, while staff collected for Cancer Research UK. 
Now the stores update works are complete, it has number of new counters for shoppers to try, as well as a recently opened pharmacy on the forecourt, that provides a good range of services and extended opening hours.

Christmas Opening Hours:
Christmas Eve   Midnight to  2200
Christmas Day   Closed
Boxing Day         Closed  
Thursday 27th    Open midnight onwards
New Years Eve   Midnight to 1900
New Years Day   0900 to 1800
Wednesday 2nd  Open midnight onwards

WW2 Bomb Site Map of London

Bomb Sight is an interesting website mapping bombs dropped on London during the Blitz, between the 7th October 1940 and the 6th June 1941. The site features wartime maps of London, interactive and localised area maps of the places hit during eight months of WW2. Altogether, 17 high explosive bombs fell in the Avonmore and Brook Green ward over the period shown. 

• Bomb Site home page
• Avonmore and Brook Green map
• Bomb Census Project
• You Tube video about the site

New Foodbank at St. Luke's, Redcliffe Gnds.

List of foods wanted

In these tough economic times many people are going without the basics like food. To help those in need, the Trussell Trust have opened a new foodbank, at St. Luke's Church, Redcliffe Gardens. It joins a network of the trusts foodbanks in Britain. They can supply, those without, with a foodbox which contains 3 days worth of food. You can contribute by donating food or money, also volunteers are needed to help.

To receive food you need to obtain a voucher from care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers, the CAB and police who identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher. Foodbank clients bring their voucher to a foodbank centre where it can be redeemed for the three days of emergency food. 

The foodbank at St. Luke's is open on:-

Tuesday - 12 to 3pm and

Fridays  -  1 to 4pm

• To volunteer
• To Donate - food or money
• Tel. 0207 052 0336
• St. Luke's foodbank website 
• Trusts Foodbank Location Map