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26 April 2024 / 26 April 2024 by zoepeet
Wednesday 24 April 2024 Lambeth Labour’s Cabinet reshuffle misses the opportunity to tackle climate, housing and cost-of-living crises. Once again, its totalitarian control of committees will enable the party to evade rigorous scrutiny from opposition parties for another year. At Lambeth’s Council Annual Meeting, Green councillors demanded that Labour improve accountability by appointing opposition members […]
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23 April 2024 / 23 April 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Read the Knight’s Hill Newsletter below to find out more about Torla and why you should VOTE GREEN on May 2nd Click here to download / view the Newsletter as a PDF (with text included)
19 April 2024 / 19 April 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Vote Green – Vote Duncan Eastoe on 2nd May Read more about Duncan in the latest Streatham Greens News
10 April 2024 / 10 April 2024 by zoepeet
We hope everyone had a lovely Easter Holiday. Here is our March councillor update, highlighting our work in Lambeth Council and the local community. YOUR COUNCILLORS IN THE PRESS Lambeth’s Housing Strategy and New Homes ProgramScott called out Labour’s failure to deliver on its housing promises at Cabinet, reminding them of their 2014 policy of […]
29 March 2024 / 29 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
We don’t have billionaire backers, only extraordinary people like you fund The Green Party, please help us reach as many voters as possible across Lambeth and Southwark to let them know to give all 3 votes to the Green Party, to get as many Greens as possible elected onto the London Assembly in 2024. Claire […]
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21 March 2024 / 12 April 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Our Newsletters are put together by our support officer and we are delighted to announce that we have a new one, Zoe Peet, who used to work for a Green MP in Australia. Zoe has hit the ground running and is passionate about our vision and values. Here’s a glimpse into what we’ve been doing… […]
21 March 2024 / 21 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Please sign up below to join us to delivery London Green News and other election literature for the London Mayoral and Assembly election coming up in just 6 weeks time. Streatham St Leonard’s From Scott’s >> 23rd March, Saturday 11am – 1pm 24th March, Sunday 11am – 1pm From Nicole’s >> 30th Saturday March 11am […]
18 March 2024 / 24 March 2024 by scott
Friday 15 March 2024 Labour members ignored Greens Councillor Scott Ainslie’s questions about Lambeth’s housing strategy and delivery at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 13 March 2024. Following the release of Lambeth’s New Homes Program, Cllr Ainslie asked about the council’s capacity to nearly double the number of homes it builds by 2030. Cabinet members […]
1 March 2024 by scott
Wednesday 28 February 2024 Greens abstained on Lambeth Labour’s budget for failing to acknowledge its own financial mismanagement and conveniently omitting to mention the tens of millions of pounds wasted on the disastrous Homes for Lambeth. Cllr Nicole Griffiths, Streatham St Leonard’s ward, noted that Lambeth residents are facing the highest rise in council tax […]
21 February 2024 by scott
Friday 26 January 2024 At Wednesday evening’s Full Council Meeting the Labour administration voted down the Green Group’s motion (available here) calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Twenty Labour councillors (out of 58) were absent from the meeting, with just two Labour councillors and one Liberal Democrat voting for the motion. Cllr […]
14 September 2023 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Crowdfunder for Jacqueline Bond for Vauxhall Ward Councillor Jacqueline was Vauxhall’s constituency candidate for the Green Party in the 2019 general election and is already known in the area. In the video Jacqueline talks about what she is passionate about and explains why she will be an excellent local community campaigner for Vauxhall ward. The […]
19 July 2023 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Labour dilute Green democracy motion as administration fail to protect most fundamental of human rights Concerned about the government’s authoritarian new Public Order Act, Green party councillors have tabled a motion calling on Lambeth Council to write to urge the Prime Minister to repeal the draconian legislation [1]. Lambeth Labour have failed to do so. […]
18 April 2023 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
TW: Child Abuse Lambeth Labour leader needs to talk to abuse survivors. On 6th April, 2023, survivors of Shirley Oaks children’s homes held a protest outside the town hall asking for justice and accountability for ALL of the people placed in Lambeth’s care (sic) over decades. The protest notice [1] lists some of the issues […]
16 March 2023 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Councillor Nicole Griffiths and Councillor Scott Ainslie The Green Group put forward four proposals for Lambeth Council’s Revenue and Capital Budget 2023/24 to 2026/27. 1. A Citizens’ Assembly for Social Housing 2. Tackling empty homes and Lambeth’s housing crisis 3. Retrofitting Council properties, creating jobs and supporting local businesses 4. Clean Green Lambeth: a Workplace […]
9 March 2023 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Press Release: Labour play ‘Monopoly’ with Lambeth – and lose millions! Labour’s monopoly of Lambeth Council has lost hundreds of millions of taxpayers money on projects it has been warned about by Green councillors for years, but have continuously refused to listen. Lambeth Labour have used their majority to ram through pet projects, such as […]
2 February 2023 / 16 February 2023 by Lambeth Green Party
We are inviting all members to join us for a relaxed social event on Tuesday 28th of February from 7pm until 10pm near Brixton (at Cressingham Gardens Rotunda – on Tulse Hill SW2 2NJ) to meet and get to know other Lambeth Green Party members and supporters (you can bring non members too!), and find out more […]
29 November 2022 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
The Lambeth Green party and Green councillors are calling for an independent investigation of Lambeth Council’s disastrous flagship Homes for Lambeth, after it was announced last week that the company is being brought in house. After years of sustained pressure from the Green Party and local residents, the Kerslake Review into Lambeth’s affordable housing found […]
15 November 2022 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Spires needs our help to ensure essential services continue to serve the community Nicole and Scott spent the morning at the Spires last month to catch up with the CEO, Matt, of Streatham’s homelessness charity. Matt explained how the increasing cost of living is impacting on both their service users and their ability to maintain […]
11 November 2022 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Nicole and Scott have monthly meetings with the new Chief Executive, Bayo Dosunmu. Alongside other matters, top of their list is community safety across Lambeth, and the neglect of Streatham by the council. They are in regular contact with the Chief Executive and other local councillors to ensure the council take steps to tackle crime […]
7 November 2022 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
“There can be no meaningful mitigation or resolution of the global ecological crisis without specific action to address systemic racism, in particular the historic and contemporary racial legacies of colonialism and slavery.” – UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance Scott spells out the links between the […]
25 October 2022 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Scott’s speech on Labour’s Food motion, Full Council 19 October 2022 A hungry child cannot learn. That won’t come as a revelation to anyone in this room. Nor, I think, would anyone here disagree that preventing our poorest and most vulnerable from going hungry ought to be our top priority. Because if we cannot do […]
Lambeth Labour Councillors rejected a Green motion for a 4 day working week at October’s full council meeting, despite backing from trade unions, industry experts and many Labour MPs. The motion would have seen the council undertaking a trial for a 4 day working week with no loss of pay. The Green councillors highlighted the […]
28 January 2022 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Council decision to award a £6.7m Total Assets Solution Partner contract to Savills called in by Green Councillors. As expected, the call-in was rejected by Lambeth, despite the compelling case put together by the green group with other community groups. The ‘call-in’ argued that the award would seriously weaken Lambeth Council’s ability to tackle the climate […]
14 December 2021 / 24 March 2024 by Lambeth Green Party
Greens Keep Pressure On Council To Compensate Victims and Survivors of Child Sex Abuse in Lambeth Lambeth Councillors Nicole Griffiths and Scott Ainslie have participated in the Children’s Services Scrutiny, attended the Corporate Parenting Committee and Cabinet to discuss the council’s plan in response to the recommendations proposed by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse […]