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We receive numerous complaints about flytipping from residents of Knollys Road, in the north part of the ward. We pushed the Council hard for action to clean up the mess and secured some important promises, such as increased street sweeping.
Unfortunately, the problem persists. Sometimes residents are unaware that the Council can collect bulky items of [...]

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 [...]

Another Labour Lambeth Housing Scandal as millions of pounds lost as houses left to rot.

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 [...]

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.  [...]

Thurlow Park Conservative Councillors are working with Peabody residents and voluntary groups to ensure the continuation of the Community Hall on the Rosendale Road half of the estate.  Peabody Trust officials at a meeting last week said there were no resources immediately available for the replacement or refurbishment of the hall which is a listed [...]

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 [...]

Lambeth Conservatives are calling on the Council to take tough action to curb the growing menace from dangerous dogs in parks and on some housing estates in the borough…

The operator of a late night music bar at Tulse Hill Station has been told by the licensing authorities that his business is now in “the last chance saloon” unless he cracks down on dodgy customers including people suspected of having…

Conservative Councillors in West Norwood have used the new annual “Ward Purse” scheme to support two worthy community projects in Thurlow Park as well as a much needed pavement improvement scheme…

Cllr Clare Whelan talks about Labour’s plans to close the general waste depot in Vale Street, West Norwood.  The decision means that Lambeth residents will need to travel to Battersea from 1 April 2009.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…