The Power of Norwood High Street
Lambeth, London
Type: Digital month-long consultation
Client: London Festival of Architecture
Status: June 2020
Pilot project: A Co-working space
Collaboration: Station to Station, the West Norwood & Tulse Hill Business Improvement District
Publication: High Streets Task Force
This activity for the London Festival of Architecture was about the potential and power of Norwood High Street as a symbol for many similar London high streets in crisis. We believe Norwood High Street and its surrounds could be re-invented as a creative and cultural link between Brixton and Croydon. There are key sites available for affordable housing and developer-led projects, but we want to ensure the street level remained in use by and for the local people. This means affordable workspace, parks, pop-up venues, ecology walks, cafés, innovation hubs. We needed to ensure the local makers, artists, school-children, freelancers, young families, SMEs and senior citizens have a high street that serves their needs. Working with the local community and in collaboration with Station to Station, the Business Improvement District for Tulse Hill and West Norwood, A Small Studio proposed a radical re-think of the use of this high street.
Click JOURNEY to see the results from a collaboration with urban ecologist Joanna Ferguson with whom we have develop a Bat’s Highway
Click LANDSCAPE to see the results from our Workshop for Secondary School Children, the Workshop for Residents with Learning Difficulties and the Landscape Webinar.

Contributors to The Power of Norwood High Street
West Norwood Feast: children’s workshops in the West Norwood monthly community event organised by local volunteers
L’Arche: organization building community with people with learning disabilities
The Elmgreen School: secondary school
Local residents
Norwood High Street Landowners
Portico Gallery
Small Medium Enterprises (SME)
Shopkeepers of Norwood High Streeet
East Anglia Records: Artist, Landscape Architect Tutor, Designer, Musician
Mark Fairhurst Architects: architecture studio
One Hundred Projects: Ed Wall, Academic Leader Landscape at the University of Greenwich
Prior & Partners: urban planning and design firm
R2 Studio Architects: architecture studio
Untitled Practice: landscape and architecture design office
Lambeth Councillors
London Borough of Lambeth: Business, Culture and Investment Team
London Borough of Lambeth: Planning Team
London Borough of Lambeth: Policy Team
London Borough of Lambeth: Regeneration Team
