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…
Brixton solicitor and civic hero dies suddenly
Phil Cremin, who died suddenly on 2nd February 2009 after suffering from a heart condition, was a well known Brixton criminal law solicitor. For 27 years he represented numerous people from socially deprived backgrounds and encouraged some of them to enter the legal profession. He was 57. Phil was originally from the Birmingham area and [...]
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…
Lambeth Labour: Apply for credit cards
Labour-run Lambeth Council has been slammed for encouraging residents to join the electoral register to apply for a credit card. The adverts have been sited on busy streets across the borough just as the credit crunch kicks in for…
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 [...]