Thanks to everyone who filled out our Shop Local, Shop Corbett survey. We have received nearly 250 surveys, full of great ideas for injecting new life into our shopping parades. The surveys give a clear message that respondents would use new shops and services if they were available. Here are a few headlines: 98% of…
Explore your area, meet locals and use Twitter to connect the dots and have your say The Corbett Estate Neighbourhood Forum is all about preserving the old and embracing (the best of) the new. So we’re pretty excited about our next event, dreamed up for us by local digital innovators Stickyworld. A Twitter Walkabout is a brilliant way to…
If you reckon you’ve got green fingers (and even if you haven’t), do come down to the community Garden at Abbottshall Road Playing Fields this coming Saturday 2nd May, between 10.30am and 2pm. To encourage those vital bees none of us can do without, we’ll be weeding, sowing a wild flower garden and making bee houses. That’s…
Want to know more about goings on at the Corbett Society? You can read the minutes of our last board meeting, here
A big thank you to Telegraph columnist and local resident Jeff Howell, who has signed up to write for the CS website. He’ll be posting updates on the restoration of his Corbett Estate house.
Support the Shop Local, Shop Corbett campaign and fill out our survey for a chance to win a £25 shopping voucher at one of our favourite local butchers. More info here
t was back 2011 that Lewisham Council agreed to transfer the Abbotshall Road Playing Field, part of the the Corbett estate, to Community Teachsport at a peppercorn rent on a 25-year lease. (Teachsport is a body of professionally qualified sports instructors used by educational establishments all over London when they want to bring more and better sporting…
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: