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Parking on Kennington Park Estate

Hyde Housing has changed the way UKCPM manage parking on our Estate. These are the key points of the new SIPPI system which came into effect on 1 April 2025. 1.  Permit Prices Lower emission vehicles: ie. those that are ULEZ compliant, will be charged at £90 per year for the first car. Hyde social rent tenants: social rent tenants will receive a 20% discount. This means that for social residents with a ULEZ complaint car the cost of an annual permit is reduced to £72 per year for the first car. Additional vehicles and cars that are not ULEZ exempt: the permits for second cars and non-ULEZ complaint cars will increase to £200 per year (regardless of tenancy type). Hyde do not normally issue more than two permits per home, but in instances where an exception is made, additional vehicles will be charged at the commercial parking rate, which…

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Kennington Park Post Office is threatened with closure – again!

  The Post Office has announced ‘a corporate restructuring’ – and Kennington Park Post Office is one of 115 branches across the country, including 32 in London, at risk of closure. No decisions have yet been announced, and there is still a chance that the branch will remain as it is. The Post Office are expected to provide an update on their plans for the at-risk branches in March 2025. If a change of service at Kennington is announced, this could mean a franchise partner comes in to manage the branch as an alternative to closure.   Any changes would likely take months before being implemented and would have to go through statutory public consultation. Local residents successfully campaigned to save Kennington Park Post office thirteen years ago, resulting in its renovation. Let’s not lose this vital facility for our community. The post office is more than just a service…

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Reclaiming Kennington Oval!

Lambeth Council has restricted traffic on the roads going through and surrounding Kennington Park Estate and called it Kennington Oval Reimagined. We – the residents – are campaigning to Reclaim Kennington Oval. Lambeth’s objectives of healthy neighbourhoods, improved air quality, traffic reduction, increased cycling and walking, and safer streets are all admirable. Sadly, the way they are implementing them is not. Major traffic-heavy roads encircle Oval cricket ground and Kennington Park Estate, but it is the quiet streets within that circle which are now subject to wide-ranging controls. The pollution, noise and poor air quality from the major roads will continue unabated. With school streets at either end denying access for two hours a day, large planters taking up half the width of the narrow streets and new double yellow lines, residents’ lives are being severely disrupted. There is only one narrow access road into most of the Estate. Large…

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