Dulwich and Herne Hill Safe Routes to School would like to hold an Early Years Event on the afternoon of Wednesday 21 June from 1.30 to 3.30 pm, promoting road safety and sustainable travel to Early Years’ families (0-5 years). The Herne Hill Velodrome have kindly offered to host the event; a stunning venue, especially since its renovation and building of the new pavilion. The Velodrome already runs initiatives for very young children and has excellent coaches, bikes and resources.  The event planning is in the very early stages so all details will be confirmed after the Easter break. However, please pencil in the date for your Early Years’ pupils. There will be balance bike training, a bike obstacle course,  pedestrian training, Dr Bike and other activities taking place.  This event is being organised for the participation of local nurseries and primary schools but parents/carers and younger siblings are welcome to come along too.  If you would like further ...

As someone with a rather unloved front garden, I've loved watching Joe Swift  on 'The Great British Garden Revival' encouraging us all to cover the concrete with pots and planters and am keen to finally play my part in the RHS' ' Greening Grey Britain Campaign ', by digging up some paving slabs and finally being able to do something to make my street a little bit greener and a little bit more attractive. This did mean I was a little surprised (and rather annoyed!) to see an episode of 'Homes Under the Hammer' in which the advice, given several times, was to pave over the front of one of the properties to create space for a car to 'add value'. Is it really more valuable to turn our gardens into parking spaces? Can we be bold and say that paving over entire front gardens is making our streets look ugly, damaging our local environment and making pavements unsafe, all for the sake of personal convenience? We were fortunate enough to attend Southw...