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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Census 2021

        A message from the Census – Census Day has now passed. You must fill in your census, if you haven’t already. Whatever your needs, there are support services to help you. If you need help, visit www.census.gov.uk or call 0800 141 2021. Sunday March 21 marked the day that millions of people across England and Wales completed key questions about themselves and their households to ensure local services in every community are informed by the best information possible. However, for those who have not yet submitted their online or paper questionnaires or have maybe misplaced their invitation letter, there is lots of help available.   “The information you provide needs to be about who usually lives in your household on Census Day, which was Sunday March 21, however if you’ve haven’t completed it yet, please do so – there’s still time to,” the Office for National…

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Upgrading the CCTV monitoring system

In July we reported that the TRA had submitted formal complaints in respect of Hyde’s consultation on an upgraded CCTV monitoring system (see below). Hyde has now issued a statutory section 20 notice of intention. The TRA’s formal response to it can be found here.   Hyde has informed us that they are taking some time to consider our response. We very much welcome this constructive response and hope that this means that notice is being taken of our views and observations.   From July Newsletter: “Hyde wrote to residents in May asking for our views on whether an upgraded CCTV monitoring system should be provided in-house or outsourced. The TRA was most concerned about the content of this letter, which was based on inaccurate and misleading information about the history of the installation of CCTV locally, because it did not provide any data on the effectiveness of CCTV as…

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News from the Hyde Foundation

A new youth outreach project is starting on Kennington Park Estate in June, supported by The Hyde Foundation.   Three experienced outreach workers, Julian, Martine and Junior, will be on the Estate three times a week in the evenings for the next 6 months. The project aims to engage young people who are out on the Estate, and support them to access local provision and other positive opportunities. If residents want to meet outreach workers or arrange for them to work with particular young people living on the estate contact martine@utcs.org.uk. Youth workers will all have ID badges when working on the estate.

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Fireworks – and Hallowe’en events

Kennington Park Estate residents are very concerned at the dangerous misuse of fireworks by a handful of youngsters on the Estate and are asking everyone to spread the word about the Firework Code – and to make sure everyone sticks to it!  We are also asking local shops to stop selling fireworks to under 18s. It is illegal to sell adult fireworks or sparklers to anyone under 18; and for anyone under 18 to possess adult fireworks in a public place.      There is a free fireworks festival and bonfire just up the road in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens on Hallowe’en, 31 October, at 6.30 pm. More information and a map can be found by clicking here  (http://vauxhallone.co.uk/events/fire-festival-vauxhall-pleasure-gardens).   This year we are telling the “Legend of the Trickster God Loki and the Dark Elves.” The story of how Thor got his hammer. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens becomes Asgaard, the home of the Viking…

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