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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 […]
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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 […]