It’s been a long, hard haul, but the former playing fields at Abbotshall Road on the Corbett Estate are soon to be reborn as a healthy lifestyle centre including sporting facilities, a community café, a community garden, and drop-in clinics to help residents improve their health and wellbeing. We wanted to capture some very neglected buildings…
The owner of the Green Spot Cafe at 403 Hither Green Lane shares her #BestIdeasforCorbett Late last year, we surveyed the shops and businesses on the Corbett Estate London to ask them what they would do to drive Catford South and Hither Green regeneration. With the help of the research team at ImaginePlaces, we visited all…
Read all about the progress we’ve made with the Abbotshall Road Playing Field community garden, the brand new Healthy Lifestyles Centre, our ‘shop local’ initiative, the Commonplace interactive Love Corbett map (above), and much more…download the Corbett Society’s very first newsletter here:
Recently one of Catford’s more well known residents, the journalist Lucy Mangan wrote about her favourite library, none other than the Corbett Estate’s very own Torridon Library. It featured in the Boxing Day edition of The Guardian The article is a must-read, not only because of the fact it is our own beloved local library, but…
News hot off the presses is that a website has just been launched to take in the views of the residents and businesses who live in the Corbett Estate. It’s here: https://lovecorbett.commonplace.is/ To get involved, you can add comments about where you love, what you like about it, maybe what you don’t like and you can…
Over 50 people attended the inaugural awards ceremony of ‘Corbett Portraits’ at Torridon Road Library, Catford, on Thursday 6th November, a photographic competition organised by the Archibald Corbett Society. The photographs feature local residents, their families, shop keepers, street cleaners, the local butcher and other people who live and work on the Corbett Estate. MP Heidi…
The Archibald Corbett Society would like to invite all residents to the launch of the Corbett Portraits Competition Exhibition, at the Library on Torridon Road. This Thursday 6th November at 7.30pm, local MP Heidi Alexander will open the Exhibition and hand out prizes to the winning entries. Refreshments will be provided. Corbett Portraits have been taken by local…
Last Saturday over 20 volunteers from the Archibald Corbett Society and the Corbett Residents Association joined forces to help put the finishing touches to the new community garden at Abbotshall Road playing fields. They planted hundreds of bulbs, bushes and trees and laid the bark chip path that runs through the centre of the garden…
The Corbett Residents Association has set up a petition addressed to Lewisham Council and Transport for London to look at improving the general safety of Brownhill Road for pedestrians. As anyone living in the area is well aware, the junction between Torridon Road and Brownhill Road is a regular crossing point for pedestrians, even though…
Tuesday 14 October Time: 7pm-9pm St Laurence Community Centre, 37 Bromley Road, Catford SE6 2TS Come along and pick up free spring bulbs to plant in your front garden at this month’s Catford South Assembly. A gorgeous selection of Tulips, Alliums & Daffodils. Bulb bags can also be picked up at Torridon Road Library and…