News on Lambeth Safer Streets

As part of the Central Government’s Safer Spaces Fund, Lambeth has received funding to install additional lighting columns on Clapham Common to improve illumination and therefore safety of people using the green spaces. The Safer Spaces Fund was extended to encompass a targeted response to tackle instances of Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG).

We have commissioned specialist outdoor lighting designers to carry out a lighting assessment across the common and have also engaged with community groups to identify paths and areas used most frequently as through-routes across Clapham Common.

The approach was to identify where additional lighting columns are needed to provide additional level of night-time safety and to ensure uniform and safe lighting levels at key walking and cycling routes as identified by our residents and users of the borough, while protecting biodiversity.

Following the review, we are installing 37 additional lighting columns in Clapham Common at the cost of approximately £200,000 ensuring all columns will match the styles of the existing historic columns on the common.

On Clapham Common the additional lighting will be installed:

• Along the path network between around the Holy Trinity Church and the paddling pool

• Along the paths leading to Windmill Drive playground, public toilets and the Spinney

• The path from Windmill Drive to the Long Pond

• Along two popular paths leading to the Bandstand

• From the southern tip of the green waste yard to the Avenue

• Both paths that run along the edges of Nursery Woods.

• Lights along the paths in Nursery Woods will benefit from diffusers which will concentrate the light on the paths while protecting biodiversity in the woods.

Thanks to you, our residents and communities input, watch us light up Clapham Common.