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 Another Call Centre Kick in the Teeth |
Southwark residents are being massivelyshort-changed by the Lib Dem /Tory council's £100million call centre after it emerged today (26/06/2008) that somestaff there are pretending to be answerphones instead of dealingwith customers’ enquiries. It’s not yet clear whether the shockingpractice, where residents are asked to leave a message by a callcentre operative mimicking a voice mail service, is common practiceor the act of a lone individual. Southwark’s Labour council...
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| Southwark's Tory housing boss sitting on biggest stock of empty
council homes in London |
Southwark’s Tory housingsupremo Cllr Kim Humphreys is letting almost 1300 council homes standempty despite a waiting list for council housing that’s14,500 households long - with an incredible 593 peoplewaiting in the highest priority band. This week the council isadvertising only a meagre 48 of those empty properties onits ‘Homesearch' property-matchingfacility. The Lib Dem/Tory executive hasbeen heavily criticised by residents for the chaotichandli...
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| 'Soviet-era' queues mark Lib Dem/Tory Freedom Pass failure |
Hundreds ofelderly and disabled Southwark residents were forced to queueoutside council One-Stop Shops at the beginning of this week(02/06/2008) as the Lib Dem/Tory-run council tried to rush throughoutstanding applications for Freedom Passes which expired on31st May. According to reports in the press, some peoplehad been waiting outside in the rain for hours without beingoffered a seat or any other assistance, prompting the ChiefExecutive of the council to make an embarrassing publicapology...
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| Seventeen Thousand Southwark Residents Worse Off under Johnson |
Southwark’sLabour councillors have condemned the decision by Tory Mayor BorisJohnson to scrap a travel scheme that has benefited thousands ofthe borough’s most deprived residents. In astatement sneaked out over the Bank Holiday weekend, Johnsonannounced that the Bus and Tram Discount Card, which provideshalf-price bus travel for Londoners in receipt of income support,would be scrapped from this August. The scheme was introduced byLabour Mayor Ken Livingstone in 2007. Over 17,000Sou...
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| Cllr Paul Bates asks minister for more powers to build council
housing |
Southwark Labour’s opposition spokesperson forhousing, Cllr Paul Bates, has written to Caroline Flint, thegovernment minister for housing, asking her to relax the rulesaround building new council houses. The move comes in the wake ofsignificant issues around the ‘decant’ of the Heygate Estate wherea lack of available, suitable, alternative council houses has ledto significant friction between Heygate residents and thecontrolling Lib Dem/Tory administration. It alsofollows a recent rep...
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| Lib Dem and Tory's failure to provide bins 'driving people to
fly-tip' |
Over half of new general refuse wheelie binsordered from the council by Southwark residents take longer thanthree weeks to be delivered, a fact which is driving people tofly-tip according to Labour councillors. A Freedom of InformationAct request made by opposition Labour councillor Susan Elan Jonesafter one of her constituents waited five months for a bin revealsthat out of the 1009 wheelie bins ordered in the last six months581 (57%) took over three weeks to deliver. The staggering figurecomes...
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| Southwark Labour's new team to hold Lib Dem/Tory administration to
account |
Southwark’s opposition Labourcouncillors last night agreed their new shadow executive for2008/09 to hold the failing Lib Dem/Tory coalition in charge ofSouthwark Council to account. The new team mirrors the controllingadministration’s ten member cabinet. As well as leading on housing, Cllr PaulBates will take additional new responsibility for the council’sregeneration schemes reflecting the need to link development in theborough with providing for existing tenants and residents, a cle...
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| Southwark's Lib Dem/Tory coalition to take housing and crime off
the council's agenda |
Southwark’s Liberal Democrat/Tory executive isonce again set to make changes the council’ constitution, the rulesgoverning council business which the Labour opposition argues arenot liberal or democratic. At the council meeting on21st May the eight member Lib Dem/Tory coalition isscheduled to take the power to decide the council’s crime andhousing policies away from council assembly, the body of 63councillors elected in the local elections two yearsago. Opposition Labour councillors c...
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If you want to find out how your
councillors can stand up for you in your local area
there are 5 easy ways to get in touch
...1. Phone...
Your councillors' phone numbers are listed below.
...2. Email...
Your councillors' email addresses are listed below.
...3. Post...
Write to your councillor at Southwark Town Hall, Peckham Road, SE5 8UB.
...4. Go to a surgery...
Surgery times are listed below.
...5. This website - use the message f...
Southwark’s Tory housingsupremo Cllr Kim Humphreys is letting almost 1300 council homes standempty despite a waiting list for council housing that’s14,500 households long - with an incredible 593 peoplewaiting in the highest priority band. This week the council isadvertising only a meagre 48 of those empty properties onits ‘Homesearch' property-matchingfacility. The Lib Dem/Tory executive hasbeen heavily criticised by residents for the chaotichandli...
Hundreds ofelderly and disabled Southwark residents were forced to queueoutside council One-Stop Shops at the beginning of this week(02/06/2008) as the Lib Dem/Tory-run council tried to rush throughoutstanding applications for Freedom Passes which expired on31st May. According to reports in the press, some peoplehad been waiting outside in the rain for hours without beingoffered a seat or any other assistance, prompting the ChiefExecutive of the council to make an embarrassing publicapology...
Southwark’sLabour councillors have condemned the decision by Tory Mayor BorisJohnson to scrap a travel scheme that has benefited thousands ofthe borough’s most deprived residents. In astatement sneaked out over the Bank Holiday weekend, Johnsonannounced that the Bus and Tram Discount Card, which provideshalf-price bus travel for Londoners in receipt of income support,would be scrapped from this August. The scheme was introduced byLabour Mayor Ken Livingstone in 2007. Over 17,000Sou...
Southwark Labour’s opposition spokesperson forhousing, Cllr Paul Bates, has written to Caroline Flint, thegovernment minister for housing, asking her to relax the rulesaround building new council houses. The move comes in the wake ofsignificant issues around the ‘decant’ of the Heygate Estate wherea lack of available, suitable, alternative council houses has ledto significant friction between Heygate residents and thecontrolling Lib Dem/Tory administration. It alsofollows a recent rep...
Over half of new general refuse wheelie binsordered from the council by Southwark residents take longer thanthree weeks to be delivered, a fact which is driving people tofly-tip according to Labour councillors. A Freedom of InformationAct request made by opposition Labour councillor Susan Elan Jonesafter one of her constituents waited five months for a bin revealsthat out of the 1009 wheelie bins ordered in the last six months581 (57%) took over three weeks to deliver. The staggering figurecomes...
Southwark’s opposition Labourcouncillors last night agreed their new shadow executive for2008/09 to hold the failing Lib Dem/Tory coalition in charge ofSouthwark Council to account. The new team mirrors the controllingadministration’s ten member cabinet. As well as leading on housing, Cllr PaulBates will take additional new responsibility for the council’sregeneration schemes reflecting the need to link development in theborough with providing for existing tenants and residents, a cle...