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I visited the Wild Life Centre on Marsden Road at the weekend and am intrigued that the entire street of Victorian houses have matching wrought iron fences and gates. They are quite modern with wild life detail throughout - frogs on the gates and the tops of the fences shaped into leaves, for example. It seems unlikely that all the owners would have bought into a scheme as it would have been quite expensive I would have thought, and there are a lot of houses. Does anyone know the history of them? It really makes the street unique and looks great!
Southwark Council spent a boatload of money about ten or more years ago tarting up some of the streets round there. House owners had to contribute very little. This quite often included replacing front doors and paths as well. I heard rumors there was some sort of grant from somewhere.

Tigres Pride Wrote:

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> This was part of the Bellenden renewal scheme paid

> for with money from the EEC, not Southwark funded

> in any way. They only oversaw the work in the

> area.


Thought leaseholders and freeholders had to pay if they wanted to be included.

We're close to Marsden and our road was done back in 2001. We had to pay ?100 and for that we got a new front garden wall, gate and railings, tiles from pavement to front door and front house brick work jet power washed. I think we also had the bay window ledge re worked and painted. There were loads of tile shapes and colour combinations to choose from for your path and you could choose your own combination but whole street had to agree on gates, railings and wall height - they were fun community meetings! Few households opted out. There was an extension to the scheme doing replacement windows and possibly roofs - much more means tested I think and scheme started to fall apart / run out of money by the time this came to us. On the whole did really smarten up the whole look of the area and a feel good vibe whilst works going on, meeting more neighbours and chatting about how progressing etc
Quite a few streets were incorporated into this bellenden regeneration scheme of the early noughties including us in Nutbrook Street. we got railings, victorian style pathway tiles of our choice, doors and windows painted and repointing. all for a hundred quid. Fun times of community meetings. Our only regret is that we didnt choose bedding for our narrow front gardens instead of slabs.

Huggers Wrote:

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> Quite a few streets were incorporated into this

> bellenden regeneration scheme of the early

> noughties including us in Nutbrook Street. we got

> railings, victorian style pathway tiles of our

> choice, doors and windows painted and repointing.

> all for a hundred quid. Fun times of community

> meetings. Our only regret is that we didnt choose

> bedding for our narrow front gardens instead of

> slabs.


65 properties in Nutbrook Street were part of the "Nutbrook Street Facelift Scheme".


The cost was ?268,155.


An average of ?4,125 per property.

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