It was great to go to the official opening of the Halliwell Court Community Garden on Sunday with Councillors James Barber and Jonathan Mitchell.

The sun shone despite it being the coldest day so far this winter and there was a great turnout of residents wanting to celebrate the new facility.

Fittingly, the ribbon was cut by the oldest and youngest residents in the block.  

This was one of the first schemes that local councillors promoted through the popular  ’Cleaner Greener Safer’ scheme - which gives the local community, through the Community Councils, a fund  for projects in their own area. It used to be so difficult to get money for these sorts of schemes when everything was decided in Peckham.  The ‘local’ was usually over looked in favour of the ’strategic’.  The Lib Dem approach of devolving powers to community councils has made a real difference.