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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…
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 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…