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Welcome to our guide for the area around Bonnington Square in Lambeth. Below we present a selection of upcoming events, local attractions and great places to eat and shop.

The nearest station to Bonnington Square is ‘Vauxhall Tube’ which is about 5 minutes to the North West.

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Bonnington Square, Vauxhall, London SW8, 2 bedroom flat

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Two bedroom split level furnished apartment within this recent conversion of a totally refurbished period three storey property in Bonnington Square (This little known, yet very sought after residential period square has an almost Bohemian atmosphere with a strong community culture, which maintains its own beautiful communal gardens and potted street planters), only a very short distance from Vauxhall tube(Victoria Line) /BR, the open spaces of Vauxhall and Spring Park and within easy reach of Oval tube (Northern Line). The apartment boasts two double bedrooms, huge storage room/study, spacious reception, separate fitted kitchen, two bathrooms, small rear patio garden and access to the mature landscaped communal gardens serving Bonnington Square. Ideal for professionals.

via Bonnington Square, Vauxhall, London SW8, 2 bedroom flat – 13314729 – Zoopla.

Bonnington Square – London | Self Help Housing

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In the early 1980s a large number of properties in Bonnington Square, Vauxhall, were acquired for demolition by the then Inner London Education Authority in advance of proposals to build a new school on the site. They were left empty and would have become derelict but for the intervention of a group of people who could see how they could be brought back into use on a temporary basis

They formed a housing co-op and negotiated with ILEA which eventually  agreed to lease the properties to South London Family Housing Association, which handed over the management to the co-op. The co-op did up the houses, transformed the area and even opened a community café.

Years later plans for the school were eventually dropped and of course the properties had been saved. Today, there are various forms of tenure in the Square ranging from tenants to shared owners and even owners, but the amazing thing is that it was saved from dereliction and has gone on to provide a much sought after place to live.

It’s a brilliant example  of how buildings can be preserved, money can be saved, people can be housed and how the environment can be enhanced!.

Funded by grants and local sponsorship, the garden includes a water wheel and  lush, sub-tropical planting. Widely reported in the media, the Pleasure Garden is today regarded as one of the finest community gardens in London.

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Travis Perkins donation

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A huge thanks to Travis Perkins for donating a metal lockable van-vault 920x555x490 free of charge. This means we don’t need to worry so much about leaving our tools in convenient reach of volunteers working in the garden

Contact information
TRAVIS PERKINS TRADING CO. LTD
77 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD
VAUXHALL
LONDON
SW8 1RJ

Tel: 020 7582 4255
Fax: 020 7587 0453
Opening Times
Monday:6:45am – 5:00pm
Tuesday:6:45am – 5:00pm
Wednesday:6:45am – 5:00pm
Thursday:6:45am – 5:00pm
Friday:6:45am – 5:00pm
Saturday:8:00am – 12:00am
Sunday:Closed

Products and services available in branch

  • Brick Matching Service
  • Decorating Centre
  • Doors & Joinery Centre
  • Drainage Centre (inc. Soil & Rainwater)
  • Dry Lining Centre
  • Estimating Service (Extensions & New Build excl Timber Frame)
  • Flooring Centre
  • Insulation Centre
  • Landscaping Centre
  • Lintel Centre
  • P&H Section
  • Paint Mixing Service
  • Timber Centre
  • Timber Milling Service
  • Toolhire
  • Velux Centre

Bonnington Café

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Bonnington Café is a vegetarian and vegan cafe in a homely old shop, selling tasty, healthy and reasonably priced food. Run by a co-operative of chefs from around the world – whom you can ‘meet’ online before visiting – this seemed to me what local food should be. Started in the 1980s, it has blossomed from its roots as a squat café providing cheap meals for the community.

As we sat in the café, admiring our surroundings and the sense of tranquillity, complete with magnificent large window looking out onto the street, I realised that until I took my friend along to last month’s food co-op she didn’t even know what one was! As we ate and she enthused happily about the quality of food, I felt I’d started something. To my interest, she continued to tell friends we bumped into on the way back home about it.

Just around the corner from the café, Bonnington Square is a little piece of paradise amidst the throng of Vauxhall, with a community-run garden, which has spread its green tentacles among the neighbouring streets.

Bombed in WWII, for many years the square possessed a couple of token municipal swings and later became a centre for dog mess and vandalism, the council apparently forgetting about it. In the 1990s, plans were made to redevelop the site.

With a sense of community already in place, locals fought, and won, the right to transform the area into a community garden, which is now successfully run by volunteers. With the garden’s towering exotic trees, you half expect to see the odd monkey swinging past on a vine. Here residents have taken real ownership of their slice of the city, a natural progression from the café’s roots.

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