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…
Lambeth Labour to slash sports funding
Almost £1million worth of spending cuts are to be made to sports provision, libraries and parks in Lambeth. Labour are set to reduce community sports programmes and slash previously planned investment in libraries and parks to save £995,000…
Labour fail to tackle climate change
Labour councillors have failed to take a lead in tackling climate change in Lambeth after sitting on the recommendations of a cross-party report for 9 months.
The Climate Change Commission report was finished in July 2007 and after months of delay it was finally tabled at a Labour Cabinet meeting in January 2008. But even then [...]
Vassall chain saw massacre
As over 40 trees were being felled in Myatt’s Fields Park, residents awoke to the cold reality that they’d been hoodwinked by consultants who’d run roughshod over local concerns.
“The council’s regeneration scheme for the park has so many things going for it, but the botched consultation left many feeling they’d been hoodwinked into a grandiose [...]
Save our trees!
Fact: Last year Labour felled 298 trees, but replanted only 138
Residents are gobsmacked at new statistics showing how little the council under Labour cares about our environment.
Stuart said: “Trees are such a vital part of our environment. There’s no excuse for the council not to replace trees it chops down. They sacked the Park [...]