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Lambeth Council to dump even more trucks in Norwood
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 [...]
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 bags to [...]
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’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.
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…
Jowell: Recession will be ‘deepest ever’
A local Labour MP has admitted that the economy is wrecked after 11 years of Labour Goverment and facing a recession “deeper than any that we have known”. Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, made the admission while being interviewed…
Lambeth Labour to slash sports funding
Almost £1million worth of spending cuts are to be made to sports provision, libraries and parks in Lambeth. Labour are set to reduce community sports programmes and slash previously planned investment in libraries and parks to save £995,000…
Labour shamed by “one star” for libraries
The libraries and other cultural services have gone into meltdown under Labour according to a report from the government spending watch dog. The Audit Commission rated Lambeth at “one star” for cultural services, despite alleged attempts by the Labour Party to…