Lambeth Council Says: “The Dustcart Depot Must Stay”

Residents in West Norwood have been badly let down by Lambeth Council and the local MP.

In 2006, Lambeth Council decided to site a dustcart depot in Vale Street, West Norwood.  This was supposedly temporary until September 2009, in order to create space for a much-needed new school in East Brixton and to allow time to build a permanent depot for the trucks.

Local residents and ward councillors strongly opposed this scheme.  The trucks are too large for the surrounding residential streets.  Councillors also said that once the trucks were moved that the council could not be trusted to remove them. However, the council pressed ahead, gaining planning permission after the local Labour MP submitted a last-minute letter in favour of siting the trucks here.

Recently, our worst fears proved correct. The council has announced that it has not yet created a permanent site, and indeed for now it will not even try to do so.  Unfortunately, little progress has been made in developing the new school.  It will therefore continue with the “temporary” site in Vale Street, possibly for up to four years, even though it admits that this will cost £1m - £1.5m per year more than a new single site elsewhere.  This is a betrayal.  Conservative councillors warned the council and the MP what would happen, but they would not listen.

The council still needs an extension to its planning permission to allow the trucks to remain here.  Please sign the petition below to oppose an extension of planning permission.

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