Leaked official report shows how Labour wrecked housing service
The leaked Audit Commission report into Lambeth Living shows how the housing service in the borough has collapsed since the Labour Party regained political control of the council in mid 2006. Despite changing the Labour politician in charge of housing recently the decline has continued and now the housing director is packing his [...]
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…
Video: Vale Street Depot closure
Cllr Clare Whelan talks about Labour’s plans to close the general waste depot in Vale Street, West Norwood. The decision means that Lambeth residents will need to travel to Battersea from 1 April 2009.
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…
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…
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…
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 [...]
Councillor calls for smoke detector checks on fire death estate
Following the tragic death of a Lambeth council tenant in a fire at her flat in Petrel Court, West Norwood, Thurlow Park Ward Councillor John Whelan is calling for home fire safety checks on neighbouring properties. Cllr Whelan, a former member of…