Labour to axe swimming in Clapham
Three years after fighting the last council elections on a promise to “Keep Clapham Swimming”, Labour Lambeth have announced plans to close and demolish the Clapham Leisure Centre in September…
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…
Lambeth should work with ‘five borough’ charity
Crystal Palace residents living in Lambeth are missing out on possible new community projects because Lambeth Council is not sending a representative to meetings of a charity, according to Gipsy Hill Councillor Andrew Gibson…
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…
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…