Expand your circle − be Triangular!
The Triangle Community has been running since 2006, and has already done lots to improve the area’s appearance, empower residents to discuss and take action on local issues, and increase overall community spirit in our neighbourhood.
But we urgently need YOU to get involved! Joining our committee is a rewarding way to actively influence the future of this area, and a great way to meet new friends and expand your social circle.
Don’t feel you have to commit hours of your time, or attend every single meeting and event. Whatever help you can offer − from sending out emails to watering plants, from dreaming up fundraisers to delivering leaflets − your input is invaluable.
If you’d like to get more involved with the Triangle Community, or make a monetary donation to help us stay afloat, contact us.
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Castles, Cakes and Clean Air…
On 20 September the Triangle Community Group and Lewes Road Community Garden hosted a wonderfully uplifting “Streets For People Party”. We had markets, bouncy castles, wacky cycle races, live music, the launch of the Lewes Road Clean Air Group, and lashings of community spirit. The Triangle’s cake and bric-a-brac stall raised nearly £100, which will help hugely towards continuing our projects. Thanks to everyone who joined in − we couldn’t have done it without you!
Members of the Triangle Community Group at our stall |
Lewes Road Winter Warmer
Sunday 6 December, 2-5pm, Community Garden
 Come and join your fellow Lewes Roadsters for another unforgettable extravaganza in the Community Garden − and, sadly, our last celebration there before the developers move in. There’ll be a market selling bric-a-brac, Christmas gifts, mince pies, mulled wine, hot chocolate and soup, plus bouncy kids’ stuff, carol singers and maybe even some fire juggling. Bring yourself, your mates and your talents to bear down on those almost mid-winter blues.
The day will include a screening of Fuming, Lewes Road for Clean Air’s new film, as we toast to five years of air pollution monitoring on our very own sooty doorstep. The Clean Air campaign will be signing up to 10:10 (the global campaign to get us beyond the “Age of Stupid”). We'll be looking for support to get a 10% traffic reduction on smelly old Lewes Road during 2010. All this in the deeply noble cause of giving our streets and our planet a habitable and happy future.
But we need your support to help things go smoothly, so if you’d like to run a stall, perform music or an act, help with setting up, taking down, lantern-making, storytelling, fire-making or cake-baking, get in touch. Everyone is welcome - including Father Christmas!
Heart-warming? Yes! Global Warming? No!
Contact Maureen from the Triangle Community Group: 11 Edinburgh Road / 07944 840967
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Open your Art!
Calling all artists: fancy opening your home as part of the Artists’ Open Houses in next May’s Brighton Festival?
 Hundreds of houses/venues in and around Brighton take part, and are divided geographically into different “trails”, which arrange distribution of the brochure in their area and hold occasional meetings to help support new members.
The Triangle comes into the Beyond the Level trail. Contact Jackie Jones, the trail rep, at
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if you wish to join in.
Registration starts on 14 Dec and ends on 12 Feb (though early registration is advised). Any queries? Check out the online manual for new houses on the AOH website: www.aoh.org.uk.
Alternatively, if you are an artist looking for a venue to show your work, the website now has an “exhibit your work” facility.
For £10 you can upload your details with a description, image, and link to your website. Any venues looking for more artists can then see your work and contact you.
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You must be choking…
Many Triangle residents have noticed the increasing volume of traffic rumbling along Lewes Road, and the Argus recently reported that our area is one of the worst ‘pollution hotspots’ in Brighton, with planning applications for new homes here being opposed because traffic-related air pollution is so high that it would be dangerous for occupants to open their windows.
High air pollution concentrations are bad for everyone's health. Brighton and Hove City Council acknowledges this, and monitors air quality on a daily basis. But many of us, while realising that this is a challenging problem to tackle, believe more action is needed. Something can and must be done.
Several local residents have formed the Lewes Road for Clean Air group to measure the number of vehicles using Lewes Road as a route in and out of the city, and to identify ways of cutting traffic volume, e.g. by proposing sites for park and ride schemes, encouraging greater use of public transport, and developing better facilities for cyclists. Next survey dates are 8 Sept, 11 Sept, 16 Oct & 20 Oct − come and help car-count for an hour. Email the group at
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, or check out the Facebook group
September 20 is Brighton & Hove’s Car Free Day, when the Clean Air group will host its very own Streets For People Party − a day of markets and music, as well as air quality awareness-raising, across the Community Garden and Edinburgh Road.
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