After a two-year break, like Glastonbury (er, perhaps not quite the same …), Lambeth Country Show is back this year, on Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 July. It will run from 12 noon to 8pm on each day (last entry 7:30pm). Click here for the publicity blurb.
The consequential street closures and parking bans near to Brockwell Park are pretty comprehensive. Even for those of us who live just a little further away from Brockwell Park, one inevitable impact is the complicated series of temporary traffic orders which impose one-way traffic systems on certain nearby roads and road closures, and parking suspensions too. And not just for the weekend of the Show.
Although the Country Show runs for only two days, the numerous traffic orders extend from 7 July until 24 July.
The list of temporary traffic and parking restrictions has been published in a recent issue of the South London Press newspaper. They are probably also published on Lambeth Council’s website but we haven’t found them there yet. On the other hand there are the usual laminated A4 notices attached to lamp posts all over the place, like this one spotted on Milkwood Road.
It would be unbelievably tedious to list all the orders here. But the South London Press have also posted the full legal Order on their own website .
Impact on Fawnbrake and neighbouring streets
Just to pick out two or three details that might affect us living in this corner of Herne Hill:
- In Gubyon Avenue there will be one-way traffic system for all vehicles in the direction towards Herne Hill
- There will be one-way traffic on Milkwood Road between the bridge in Herne Hill and Gubyon Avenue
- Vehicles driving on Herne Hill will be banned from entering Gubyon Avenue
- Vehicles driving down Fawnbrake Avenue towards the centre of Herne Hill will be banned from turning right into Gubyon Avenue
However there is a sort of opt out. The Notice says that the “one-way traffic systems, bans and suspensions would only apply at such times as shall be indicated by the placing or covering of traffic signs and ‘no parking cones’”.
So, as ever, we will need to be sharp-eyed looking for such signs.