Lambeth Conservatives

Despite numerous warnings from local residents and Conservative councillors, Labour run Lambeth Council failed to take adequate steps to stop squatters occupying a council house in West Norwood valued at £459,000. The property had been empty for over four months while bureaucrats dithered.
The house in a leafy street opposite a church was “decanted” in [...]

Lambeth Conservative Group Leader John Whelan “wheelie binned” it for a day on October 30 to raise money for the children’s charity Barnardo’s. He volunteered for a shift as a bin man to raise money for the charity. And Lambeth’s waste contractor Veolia fixed for him to empty his own bin and those of his [...]

Labour smears directed at a new Conservative councillor in Brixton who converted to the Tories collapsed in shame today, exposing Labour as the “nasty party” of South London.
Labour Leader of the Council Steve Reed alleged at a Lambeth Council meeting on October 21, and on his personal blog and Twitter account, that the Conservatives had [...]

A senior Labour councillor who represents the same ward as the Labour Leader of the Council Steve Reed has resigned the Labour Whip and joined the Conservative Group.  Councillor Betty Evans-Jacas, who represents Brixton Hill Ward, is also a Labour nominated member of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and had been a member [...]

Labour councillors have been slammed for spending more than £300,000 to conduct surveys on children in care with cash that could be spent on providing better services for them.
Labour-run Lambeth is to hire market research firm Ipsos Mori to conduct interviews with “looked-after” children and young people in the borough over the next three years [...]

Labour Lambeth plans to close two swimming pools at Clapham and Streatham in the run up to the 2012 Olympics. In 2006, Labour promised to “Keep Lambeth Swimming” but its ambitious promises to build new pools in Clapham and Streatham were flawed and depended on deals with private developers in the hope that new [...]

Labour Lambeth is once again considering a plan to sell off the Carnegie Library for conversion into private flats.  At its July Cabinet meeting Labour Councillors passed a report without changing any of the wording which reads:
“Building operates well as a library however its location is not ideal and suffers from low service numbers, high [...]

A group of Conservatives from Lambeth spent the second half of July working on different social action projects in Rwanda.
Conservative Candidate for Vauxhall, Glyn Chambers, instructed 50 primary school teachers in writing and speaking English, whilst others worked on projects to develop Rwanda’s private sector through building the capabilities of the business school and graduate [...]

Labour-controlled Lambeth Council has let Norwood down badly.
Local residents and ward councillors asked the Council to remove the dustcart depot from Vale Street by this September, as the council had promised.
The Council’s decision?
It has decided to keep the dustcarts in Norwood for at least four more years and increase the likely frequency of truck visits [...]

A Conservative councillor is calling on Lambeth Council too step up its efforts to combat climate change.
Cllr Clare Whelan, who helped set up its green programme, spoke out after Labour Lambeth failed to meet its commitment to reduce energy use and cut pollution.
Clare chaired a cross-party commission which studied how the council could become greener.  [...]