Editing Streatham (section)

=== Contemporary Streatham ===
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[[File:Autumn on Streatham Common - geograph.org.uk - 736026.jpg|thumb|right|200px| Streatham Common. Avenue of autumn trees looking down Streatham Common towards Streatham High Road]]
In September 2002, [[Streatham High Road]] was voted the "Worst Street in Britain"<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2270840.stm|title=Britons name 'best and worst streets'|work=BBC News| date=20 September 2002}}</ref> in a poll organised by the [[BBC]] [[Today programme|''Today'' programme]] and [[Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment|CABE]]. This largely reflected the dominance of through traffic along High Road.

Plans for investment and regeneration had begun before the poll, with local amenity group the Streatham Society leading a successful partnership bid for funding from central government for environmental improvements. Work started in winter 2003–04 with the refurbishment of Streatham Green and repaving and relighting of the High Road between St Leonard's Church and the Odeon Cinema. In 2005 Streatham Green won the [[Metropolitan Public Gardens Association]] 'London Spade' award for best public open space scheme in the capital.

The poll was a catalyst for [[Lambeth London Borough Council]] and [[Transport for London]]'s Street Management to co-operate on a joint funding arrangement for further streetscape improvements, which benefited the section of the High Road between St Leonard's and Streatham station, and the stretch north of the Odeon as far as Woodbourne Avenue. The section between Woodbourne Avenue and Streatham Hill station was not completed until 2015.

Streatham Festival was established in 2002. It has grown to a festival with over 50 events held in an array of locations, from bars to churches and parks to youth centres, attracting over 3,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://streathamfestival.com/|title=Home|website=STREATHAM FESTIVAL}}</ref>
[[File:Streatham ice and leisure centre (13817947373).jpg|thumb|[[Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre|Streatham ice and leisure centre]]]]
After several years of delay and controversy over phasing, construction started in the autumn of 2011 on the ''Streatham Hub'' – a major redevelopment next to [[Streatham station|Streatham railway station]]. The project was a joint development by Lambeth Council and [[Tesco]]. The project involved the demolition of [[Streatham Ice Arena]], Streatham Leisure Centre and the former Streatham Bus Garage, and their replacement with a new leisure centre and a Tesco store with 250 flats above it. Streatham Leisure Centre closed in November 2009 due to health and safety concerns when part of the pool hall ceiling collapsed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/news/4744099.Council_closes_Streatham_swimming_pool/|title=Council closes Streatham swimming pool|access-date=31 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319220421/http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/news/4744099.council_closes_streatham_swimming_pool/|archive-date=19 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Streatham Ice Arena closed on 18 December 2011, having celebrated eighty years of operation in February 2011. For two years a temporary ice rink was provided at Popes Road, Brixton.

In November 2013, the new Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre opened to the public.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24984921|title=Streatham ice rink and sports centre opens|work=BBC News |date=18 November 2013}}</ref> The leisure centre houses a 60 m x 30 m indoor ice rink with 1,000 rink-side seats on the upper floors,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.lambeth.gov.uk/leisure-centres/streatham-ice-leisure-centre|title=Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre &#124; Lambeth Council|website=beta.lambeth.gov.uk}}</ref> a six-lane 25 m swimming pool, 13 m teaching pool, four-court sports hall and a gym with 100 stations.

The jazz venue [[Hideaway (jazz club)|Hideaway]] continues Streatham's long entertainment tradition. It features live performances of jazz, funk, swing and [[soul music]] as well as [[stand-up comedy]] nights. It won the Jazz Venue/Promoter of the Year category in the 2011 [[Parliamentary Jazz Awards]].<ref name="PPL">{{cite web | url=http://www.ppluk.com/en/About-Us/News/PPL-Annual-Performer-Meeting-2011-is-announced-1117/ | title=Winners announced at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards | publisher=[[Phonographic Performance Limited|PPL]] | work=News and events | date=18 May 2011 | access-date=13 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212165904/http://www.ppluk.com/en/About-Us/News/PPL-Annual-Performer-Meeting-2011-is-announced-1117/ | archive-date=12 February 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 2 February 2020 at around 14:00 GMT, [[2020 Streatham stabbing|Sudesh Mamoor Faraz Amman]] attacked and injured two people using a machete on Streatham High Street in what police  declared a terrorist incident.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51349664|title=Streatham attacker had been released from jail|date=2020-02-02|work=BBC News|access-date=2020-02-03|language=en-GB}}</ref> Alongside the machete, Amman was also wearing a vest with components made to look like [[improvised explosive device]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/02/streatham-terror-incident-man-shot-by-police-in-south-london|title=Police shoot man dead after terror-related stabbing attack in Streatham|last1=Davies|first1=Caroline|date=2020-02-02|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-02-03|last2=Dodd|first2=Vikram|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He was pursued by armed police and was shot dead outside a [[Boots (company)|Boots]] pharmacy.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/02/streatham-attacker-was-released-terror-offender-sudesh-amman|title=Streatham attacker freed from jail days ago after terror conviction|last1=Dodd|first1=Vikram|date=2020-02-02|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-02-03|last2=Sabbagh|first2=Dan|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|last3=Syal|first3=Rajeev}}</ref>

Streatham High Road also was host to Cat's Whiskers which later became Caesar's nightclub<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/8351879.caesars-nightclub-memorabilia-for-sale-as-londons-first-purpose-built-ballroom-prepares-for-demolition/|title=Do you want to buy a Roman chariot?|website=Your Local Guardian|date=26 August 2010 }}</ref> in the early 1990s through to 2005, which closed to become the site of the newly developed block of flats with a [[Marks & Spencer]] store and a [[Starbucks]] outlet.