Wandle Fortnight is a community-led celebration of all things Wandle. It runs from September 8th to September 23rd and celebrates the wonderful Wandle Trail which goes through Sutton! More details on: http://www.wandlevalleyforum.org.uk/wandle-fortnight.html#

Mapping the Wandle’s mills
A new self-guided trail map to explore the Wandle’s industrious past has been created by The Building Exploratory with the help of the Wandle Industrial Museum and a team of keen volunteers.
The trail map can be obtained by visiting the Wandle Industrial Museum or downloading a digital version from http://wandlevalleypark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mapping-The-Mills-Trail-Map-Final.pdf

Do have a look at this – a wonderful campaign being run by Living Streets and, if you can, get in touch with your prospective Councillors to remind them of the importance of walking and cycling.
Imagine a truly Liveable London. A city where:
It’s enjoyable to walk and cycle your local trips
You can breathe fresh air on streets free from congestion
Children can safely roam, and walk and cycle to school
There are relaxing places to stop, rest and talk to your neighbours

The website link is: https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/what-you-can-do/campaigns/my-liveable-london

London Living Streets now has its own website which went live in March 2018. You can see it at: https://londonlivingstreets.com/about/
It has masses of pictures, video clips etc. And lots of links to local Living Streets groups Including ours! – https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/what-you-can-do/local-groups/sutton) and other organizations.
And helpful information under Useful Stuff.
Anyone can send Comments (see the Box at the foot of relevant pages called Leave a Reply.) And anyone can Contact London Living Streets (go to the Contact page).

Among the exciting features of the website are:
Blog: Emma Griffin has done the first blog – Street Myths and Misconceptions. If you look at nothing else, take a look at this. She tackles a range of common doubts and misunderstandings. Go to https://londonlivingstreets.com/2018/03/09/street-myths-and-misconceptions-2/
News: This is available at https://londonlivingstreets.com/news/

If you have an item of news send it to Contact, for David Harrison’s attention.

Twitter: Susie Morrow (former Living Streets Trustee) has been running the London Living Streets tweeting for some time. The most recent tweets appear on every page of the Website. You can also tweet to London Living Streets yourself at https://twitter.com/LDN_LS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flondonlivingstreets.com%2F

Until Google gets on top of it, it is necessary to put in the full URL — https://londonlivingstreets.com/about/
Spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in anything to do with transforming London’s streets in the interests of people on foot. We have a huge outreach task in London Living Streets. This website can play a big part in this work.

A new map has been published by the Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust. It can be accessed on its website – http://wandlevalleypark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Wandle-Trail-Map-Interactive.pdf.

We have been actively involved with the Sutton section of this lovely walk and important transport link, enabling one to walk to Morden in 45min and to Merton Abbey Mills in 55min – so much nice than using other forms of transport!

The Cheam North and Worcester Park Local Committee has agreed in principle to construct a new path in Sutton Common Park as shown on the attached plan.

The aim of the scheme is to provide a gravel surfaced path for walkers to use all year round between the pavilion and footpath leading to Morden Way and Elm Road West. It will provide an improved facility for the existing users of the park and will hopefully encourage new users in to the park and through the park on route to other local destinations. A new path is also proposed to link to one of the gates into the playground area. It is not intended to provide street lighting along the path as it is to be promoted as a daytime route only and the gates to the park will continue to be locked at night. Funding for this scheme is available from Transport for London.

The Friends of Sutton Common Park (www.foscp.org.uk) support this proposal as it is identified as an infrastructure improvement scheme in the Parks Master Plan.

Consultation Plan March 2017consultation letter

Here is a link to the GuideDogs home page which is asking for examples of selfish and dangerous pavement parking where there is no room for anyone, let alone a wheelchair user or someone with a pram, to get through.
GuideDogs is a powerful organisation and has a very active lobbying system. They were on the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee subgroup that I was on (representing Living Streets!) that advised on council matters and had a strong presence.
I’ll see if I can get some pics and send them along.
The link is: http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/supportus/campaigns/streets-ahead/pavement-parking/where-is-pavement-parking-happening?Ref=email&dm_i=LDK,4RUKI,MEHSP4,HXXCB,1#.WKisjn-Qn8c

If the link above doesn’t work, search for Guidedogs and get the link via the home page.
Tony P Feb18