Persuading the council to fix Newington

Hey. The trees in front of the centre lights at the Harper road side need pruning back. The floodlights aren't effective any more. Nina Chantry and Rebecca Towers were aware of a previous request but no action was taken.

Will deal with separately. Have details of someone else we can tell about it

On at 7.30

Apparently this is being live streemed

Link??

No idea soz! They did great

Well done guys!

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Good work boyz thanks
Nice hair emmet.;)

Well done guys.

Nice one guys! It's great to see the passion and dedication, and with Emmet on the mic how could they not be persuaded!

Fingers crossed!

What happens next?

Basically they support us, but now we need to put in a bid for Cleaner Greener Safer funding. hopefully we can list a load of the councillors from last night as supporting our bid, as they were v supportive last night. I also spoke to the guy who runs the funding stream, also supportive. Deadline end of October, I'll try and pull it together next week, then we hear in Jan, work wouldn't start untill April at the earliest

Interesting that they want you to apply for CGS funding. Essential maintenance (which this is, at least as far as I've understood the issues) should normally be funded from standard budgets, but I suppose that will have been pruned down by cuts.

The good news is that CSG offers the opportunity to think of other improvements that would help--anything that won't break the bank but whose absence has annoyed you for years--and that could feasibly be included in the funding.

Also, if you haven't done this already, make sure that you actually speak with the council officers who manage the park and the MUGA, as they'll have a wish list, too, and getting that into the bid, if it's not too much, would make it very likely to succeed as well as bdeing a good opportunity to work in partnership with them. If you're at all unsure whom to contact, the councillors will help you.

CGS is the funding pot where good ideas go to die. Unless you've got the backing of some large residents assoc or tenant managed HA like Leathermarket JMB, Southwark pay very little heed to ideas that wouldn't be a vote generator. Surely they have a budget for capital works for parks and public spaces, or a sporting budget, that this would fall into?

Yes, as I said, it should really be funded from a standard budget. That it isn't (and nobody seems to expect it will be) suggests that there isn't any money from that at the moment.

It's certainly the case with community funding that in straitened times it can be abused to top up council budgets. I've seen that happen several times (not in Southwark). The CGS process is still quite open, though, from what I hear. Southwark Cyclists were always very successful through it, but they mainly worked on it ten to seven years ago. It may well have changed in the meantime.

Thanks guys. Have met with council staff who are responsible for North Southwark's park, and they are supportive. Neither they nor the councillors mentioned any funding other than CGS (other than potentially Section 106 funding), so I guess everything else has dried up