Archive for January 2009
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Anger as leaseholders face huge bills
Thousands of leaseholders across Lambeth are to receive huge bills for £5 million of work carried out on their estates as the country goes into recession and economic decline. Demands for five-figure sums will be sent to 3,500 leaseholders in the coming fortnight for works such as roof and windows replacements carried out as long as eight years ago. In almost all cases, the cash demands from Labour Lambeth are expected to be disputed because of the poor quality of the work and its exorbitant cost.
Labour hits tenants with £12 a week rent rise
Labour Lambeth is raising rents for all its 33,000 hard up tenants by between £12 a week from March. That’s now official news. Every single tenant will be worse off from April when Labour councillors increase the average cost to every household on Lambeth estates by another £750 a year once rents and…
Vale Street dustcarts must not stay – sign our petition
Residents in West Norwood have been badly let down by Lambeth Council and the local MP. In 2006, Lambeth Council decided to site a dustcart depot in Vale Street, West Norwood. This was supposedly temporary until September 2009, in order to create space for a much-needed new school in East Brixton and to…
The disappearing library
After conjuring up fake libraries to fool the government inspector, Lambeth Council’s latest illusion is to make one of London’s oldest and best libraries disappear completely. In its “Lambeth – Yours to Explore!” map, all Lambeth’s libraries are marked except Upper Norwood. Gipsy Hill councillor Graham Pycock said: “The library has been here for 110 years; how can Lambeth possibly lose it?” On the Norwood version of this publicity document, West Norwood Library is praised as Norwood’s only library with Upper Norwood Library receiving no mention. Graham adds: “When I tackled the publicity department about this they implied that this was deliberate policy…
Lambeth Labour: Apply for credit cards
Labour-run Lambeth Council has been slammed for encouraging residents to join the electoral register to apply for a credit card. The adverts have been sited on busy streets across the borough just as the credit crunch kicks in for…
Views sought on £12k ‘purse’ for community projects
Conservative councillors in Gipsy Hill and Thurlow Park are consulting local residents and community groups about a new grants project from the Council whereby each ward has a £12,000 “Ward Purse” to allocate to deserving causes or projects. There are rules regarding the allocation of this money. The main ones are: No more than three [...]
Vale Street depot to close – sign our petition
Lambeth Council has decided to close the Vale Street Waste Depot to general waste. It will in future take recycling only. This decision was made without any consultation with local residents. Conservative councillors in West Norwood forced the Council to reconsider and won concessions, but the closure will still…
Jowell: Recession will be ‘deepest ever’
A local Labour MP has admitted that the economy is wrecked after 11 years of Labour Goverment and facing a recession “deeper than any that we have known”. Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, made the admission while being interviewed…
Former Conservative Mayor of Lambeth Dies Aged 41
Former Lambeth Conservative Councillor Jonathan Driver, who has died aged 41, was the current Mayor of Croydon and worked in the day as a history teacher and cricket umpire at Emanuel School Wandsworth. He was found dead at his home…