An eco-camp has been set up in a residential area of West Norwood that neighbours fear is fast-becoming South London’s squatting capital. A group has set up the ‘Knights Hill Ecological Peace Camp’ with makeshift tents on the old Lambeth College site at the junction of Chapel Road and Knight’s Hill. Meanwhile, illegal squatters are [...]
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Shop owners’ anger at cafe ‘table tax’
Labour Lambeth plan to charge local businesses an arm and a leg for putting tables and chairs outside busy cafes. The Council recently announced plans to charge shops that already own the freehold to land in front of their shops as much as £824 for permission to put chairs or displays outside. For some shopkeepers [...]
Norwood club to be ‘monitored’
Lambeth Council has agreed to investigate complaints from residents relating to a West Norwood club – after reports of shots being fired by people leaving the venue. Incidents of antisocial behaviour from revellers leaving West Norwood Snooker Club on Norwood Road have caused many residents to complain to Thurlow Park Councillor Clare Whelan. Clare said: [...]
Popular farmers’ market closes
A popular farmers’ market in West Norwood was forced to close after Lambeth Council failed to support it. Hundreds of shoppers visited the fortnightly market on Norwood Road to buy fresh produce including fruit, vegetables, meat, cheese, fish and juices. But after a catalogue of problems – including stallholders being slapped with parking fines while [...]
West Norwood club ‘monitored’ over residents’ concerns
Lambeth Council has promised to investigate complaints from residents relating to a West Norwood club following an intervention by Conservative councillors – after recent reports of shots being fired by people leaving the venue…
‘Flawed consultation’ on £14m Norwood Hall project
The public consultation for a controversial £14 million redevelopment of the Norwood Hall site in Lambeth to build a polyclinic and swimming pool has got off to a flawed start. Lambeth town planning officials have sent details…
Labour fail to tackle poor performance by Lambeth Council
An unrelenting attack on the scrutiny process, that allows faults and problems at the council to be probed, has been launched on Lambeth Council by one of its most experienced members. Conservative Councillor Clare Whelan, a member since 1990, launched a robust attack against the Labour administration who she accused of failing to question and [...]
Lambeth Life ‘should be scrapped to save jobs’
Controversial free sheet Lambeth Life is to stay in print, despite mounting calls for it to be scrapped in the face of widespread cuts. At a full council meeting on Wednesday, July 28, Conservative group leader Councillor John Whelan argued that in the face of more than 400 council job losses this financial year, the [...]
Workmen destroy trees in residential street
Mature trees on a West Norwood avenue boasting million pound houses were cut down after a cock-up by contractors replacing the pavement. Workers for Conways were relaying a section of paving in Lancaster Avenue when…
Labour Lambeth “to cut 2,000 Jobs by 2014”
Labour controlled Lambeth Council will have to cut between 1,700 and 2,000 jobs by 2014 in addition to the 400 already slated to go by March 2011. “In confirming these figures to me senior sources within the council say Lambeth needs to make £62 million of budget cuts over the next three years,” says Conservative [...]
