Myatt’s Fields councillors will next month be switching their regular monthly surgery to Thursday 9 May 2024 in order to avoid a clash with the Mayoral elections (taking place on Thursday 2 May 2024).
As usual the surgery will be held at Longfield Hall, 6pm-7pm, and as always, no appointment is necessary: if you have an issue to discuss please do drop in for a chat!
The monthly surgeries will return to the first Thursday of every month from June 2024.
The Myatt’s Fields Boiler Garden project – an excellent community garden on Mostyn Road – is hosting a Spring drop in event on Saturday, 13 April at 2pm-4pm.
The event has been organised to dove tail with Incredible Edible’s family friendly walk which kicks off earlier in the afternoon (more details about this event here).
If you are interested in visiting this excellent community event, all of the details are below.
Incredible Edible Lambeth has created a new walking map linking food gardens and wellbeing sites throughout Brixton, which includes locations within Myatt’s Fields.
The organisation will launch the map on Saturday 13th April with a family friendly walk starting from Wyck Gardens Orchard at 1.30pm and ending at the Boiler Garden, on the Myatt’s South estate.
Incredibly Edible Lambeth describe the walk as “family friendly and step free, so bring your children for a walk in nature, ending with fun activities at Myatt’s Fields South Boiler Garden.” The route also takes in the award winning Myatt’s Fields Park.
The walks are funded by Transport for London and the event is funded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund.
You can book a ticket for the event here: and a map of the walking route is below.
Local Myatt’s Fields councillors Paul Gadsby and Annie Gallop have called on energy providers EON to take urgent action over heating failures that have affected households across the Myatt’s North estate (Oval Quarter) during the Easter break.
Residents across the neighbourhood faced limited or no heating after an outage during the recent bank holidays, the latest in a series of failures over the past few years. The system is operated by energy provider EON.
Cllr Gadsby and Cllr Gallop said:
“It is unacceptable that many residents across Myatt’s North have had to go days with either partial or no heating over Easter. To make matters worse, local people have been struggling to get any response from EON about what is going on.
“As councillors, we have written to EON asking them to urgently explain when this problem will be fixed and what compensation residents can expect. We have separately asked the Council to raise this matter with EON at the highest level.
“In the longer term, it is worth remembering that two years ago EON promised Lambeth Council and the local community that they had fixed the heating outages on the estate: it is about time that this company, which makes billions in profit, fulfilled their promises to their customers.”
UPDATE (3/4/24): EON have confirmed that heating has been restored to the area, and the energy provider has confirmed they will be offering compensation to residents for the Easter outage.
While welcome, Local Councillors will be taking up the repeated pattern of long term heating failure with EON, and will be expected improvements to be made in the future.
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