How Lambeth Will Move Forward
Our central policies include:
- Providing more school places swiftly and in the right location working openly with teachers, governors and parents.
- Supporting parent-promoted schools.
- Supporting more Faith schools.
- Reducing waste, especially in Council communications, to reverse Labour’s excesses.
- Providing a greater say for tenants and leaseholders in the running of the council’s housing stock and the setting of housing budgets.
- Establishing an internal Leaseholders’ Ombudsman to settle service charge disputes swiftly and with a steer to cut bills.
- Freezing of home-help charges.
- Investing in roads and pavements.
- Improving parks and consulting more fully with Park “Friends” groups.
- Supporting local libraries, “as libraries” as well as their being community hubs.
- Progressing work on leisure facilities in Clapham, Streatham and Norwood we will make sure Streatham Hub gets built.
- Enforceming tenancy agreements to combat antisocial behaviour and deter irresponsible dog ownership.
- Allowing greater tenant representation on the ALMO — we support the principle of having tenants and estate “purses” for locally funded schemes
- Supporting the Upper Norwood Joint Library: this library, operated jointly by Lambeth and Croydon, is an idea model for local control of community assets throughout the borough.
- Minimising rents by moving costs from the Housing budget to the general budget, where it is proper to do so.
