Now for change: Michael Poole-Wilson for Prince’s
Lambeth Conservatives have chosen experienced local campaigner Michael Poole-Wilson to fight the Prince’s Ward by-election on June 4th. Michael has lived in Kennington since 2002…
Conservatives call for inquiry into dangerous dogs
Lambeth Conservatives are calling on the Council to take tough action to curb the growing menace from dangerous dogs in parks and on some housing estates in the borough…
Labour Lambeth rejects 1.5% council tax reduction
Labour Lambeth has rejected a lawful alternative Conservative budget that would have cut Council Tax by 1.5 per cent to help hard pressed residents hit by the government’s failure to manage the economy. Building on…
Conservatives demand help for Lambeth businesses
Lambeth Conservatives have called upon the Labour-run Council to support local businesses during the recession by cutting the time it pays invoices from small businesses from 30 days to 10…
Labour’s ‘porkie pie’ record on housing
Labour Lambeth let down tenants before it took power in 2006 by failing to tell them it planned to set up the deeply unpopular Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO), now called Lambeth Living…
Lambeth faces fraud inquiry over £22m overspend
Labour bosses face an investigation over a possible overspend of £22m in housing budgets. Houses were left empty while the council continued to pay private landlords for their use and it regularly took six weeks for new tenants…
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 projects per [...]
Lambeth Labour – highest council tax in London
Labour Lambeth has set the highest council tax hike in London – a whopping 4.75 per cent and well above pension and inflation increases. This goes with the 7.23 per cent rise in rents for Lambeth tenants, which hits low income earners hardest who are not on benefits.
“Labour is spending money like a drunken sailor [...]
Lambeth Labour – highest council tax hike in London
Council is “wasting money like a sailor on shore leave”
Labour-controlled Lambeth Council’s proposed council tax increase is the highest in London – and much of the increase is being wasted on gimmicks, greed, and spin.
Labour proposes that the tax should rise by 4.75%, well above inflation and above pension increases. London’s second highest rise was [...]
‘Give people a say’
It’s time to redress the imbalance in the level of control local people have over the tax they pay towards local services.
Conservative councillors are backing a campaign by the Local Government Association (LGA) which reveals on average for every one pound in tax that people in Lambeth have a vote over where it goes, seven [...]