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Gipsy Hill Conservative councillors have always been active supporters of the Upper Norwood Library. Recently, they invited Ed Vaizey the Conservative Shadow Arts Minister where he met…

Events have moved quickly since we first alerted you to the threat to Carnegie Library which Labour-controlled Lambeth Council is considering selling off for private flats.
Labour councillors and the local MP have sought to dismiss the threat to the library. Yet the facts are there in black and white: the “Building operates well as a [...]

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…