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- Southwark Labour calls for review into use of asbestos in the housing stock
Southwark Labour is calling on Lib Dem leader Nick Stanton to launch an urgent review of the use of asbestos as a fire retardant in the borough’s housing stock following...
- Lib Dem/Tory Executive Fail to deliver on Elephant Deal again
 Lib Dem/Tory run Southwark Council last night agreed to delay the regeneration of the long awaited Elephant and Castle yet again, with no end in sight for this much needed...
- Lib Dems vote to carry on dithering at Elephant
Southwark Council’s Lib Dem/Tory coalition voted to back ‘the status quo’ on the Elephant & Castle regeneration at Council Assembly on Wednesday, despite years of dithering and delays and in...
- John Denham has ‘not ruled out’ a public inquiry into the Lakanal House Fire
John Denham MP has written to Southwark Labour councillors Peter John and Ian Wingfield with assurances that he has not ruled out a full public inquiry into the Lakanal House...
- Lib Dem/Tory coalition fail to meet ‘final deadline’ for Elephant
Southwark’s Lib Dem/Tory coalition has missed its 1st July deadline to sign a deal with developer Lend Lease for the Elephant and Castle, two years after the council entered an...
- Southwark worst in London at collecting council tax
 Lib Dem/Tory Southwark Council now has the lowest rate of council tax collection in London and third worst in the country, according to new figures released by the government last...
- Southwark Labour Slams Housing Strategy Shambles
 Labour Councillors have condemned the decision by Southwark’s Lib Dem-Tory Executive to delay the publication of the borough’s new housing strategy by at least three months.
The administration had been...
- Lib Dem/Tory coalition to concrete over another green space
Lib Dem and Tory Councillors on Southwark Council, last week (18/06/2009) agreed to build on part of Nursery Row Park in East Walworth without having consulted the Friends of the...
- Lib Dem’s £85,000 Talking CCTV Blunder
 Lib Dem/Tory-run Southwark Council will spend £24,000 removing talking CCTV cameras under eighteen months after they were installed, having never been switched on. The cameras, which were designed to offer...
- Southwark Labour elects its leading team
Southwark Labour’s opposition councillors have agreed the shadow executive that will expose the Lib Dem/Tory coalition’s cuts, closures and price hikes until next year’s local election.
Cllr Susan Elan...
- Boris deals double blow to Southwark
 Mayor of London: turns down £7 million of government cash for new station at Surrey Canal Road asks the government not to increase the number of trains from...
- Give us our station!
 Local Councillors, residents and MPs have joined forces to call on the Mayor of London and the Transport Secretary to agree a new station at Surrey Canal Road when...
- Southwark Labour welcomes government's decision to halve council rent increases
 The government has decided to halve the statutory council house rent increase across the country to help council tenants through the current challenging economic times. Although final council rent levels...
- Southwark Labour welcomes new money for London’s forgotten park
 Burgess Park, one of South East London's largest parks, and London's unfinished large park has today (04/03/2009) won £2 million of investment in the Mayor of London's Help a London...
- Anne Worsley passes away
 A message from Cllr Peter John, Leader of Southwark Labour Group: I am very sorry to report that Anne Worsley, the Chair of the Bermondsey and Old Southwark Constituency...
- Southwark council slammed for failure to improve youth provision
New statistics released by Southwark Council as part of its biannual residents survey reveal that the Lib Dems running the council are still failing to provide enough good quality facilities...
- Teenage conceptions in Southwark higher than anywhere else in the country
 More teenage girls got pregnant in Southwark in 2007 than anywhere else in the country. Startling new figures released by the Office for National Statistics yesterday (26/02/2008) show that...
- Lib Dem/Tory coalition forces through budget of cuts, closures and price hikes
 Southwark's Lib Dem/Tory coalition forced through their budget for the 2009/10 financial year on Monday which continued the trend of recent years with a raft of sweeping cuts, closures and...
- Tenants and leaseholders hammered by new price hikes on estates
Southwark's Lib Dem/Tory run council is set to clobber hard-pressed tenants with rocketing price hikes as charges for essential services on estates face up to 200% increases. In...
- Massive childcare price hikes will pound parents
Southwark Labour councillors have written to the borough’s Lib Dem Education boss asking her not to approve massive planned increases to the council’s childcare charges. The planned increases will affect...
- Southwark’s GCSE results show improvement slower than neighbours
 The 2008 GCSE league tables show that Southwark’s exam results are continuing to improve, albeit at a slower rate than in neighbours Lambeth and Lewisham. The number of school leavers...
- Lib Dem/Tory Exec Set £2 million Aside for New Tables and Chairs
Southwark Council’s ruling Lib Dem/Tory coalition has been blasted in the local press for setting aside £2 million for furniture for its brand new offices. News of the massive sum,...
- Tories Threaten to Scrap Regen Agency
The Tory frontbench has made a scathing attack on the new organisation which could help Southwark's regeneration projects through the credit crunch. Grant Shapps MP, the Tory Shadow Housing Minister,...
- Read Southwark Labour's response to the Road Safety Consultation
 You can read Southwark Labour's response to the Council's road safety plan, which includes discussion of the borough's controversial speed humps, by clicking here....
- Southwark Lib Dem/Tory coalition spend most on spin in London
New research by the Tax Payer’s Alliance has revealed that Southwark’s Lib Dem/Tory coalition spends £4.8 million a year on spin and publicity, more than any other council in London....
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