A safer and cleaner Southwark

Under a Labour Mayor, Labour Council, and now Labour Government, crime in Southwark is out of control. Southwark has the fifth highest crime rate in all of London, while police services are being cut and staffing levels are set to plummet.

Phone snatching has reached all-time highs, and antisocial behaviour plagues our parks and estates. Many of our streets and public spaces are blighted by litter and fly tipping.

Liberal Democrats will make our streets, estates and parks clean and safe. We would:

• Double the number of directly employed community safety wardens from 30 to 60 across Southwark and invest in street lighting so that no-one feels unsafe walking home
• Provide the names and contact details of local community wardens to residents and hold regular public meetings alongside the police to report back and hear concerns 
• Use more mobile CCTV units to help enforcement and gather information to help tackle crime, antisocial behaviour and fly tipping 
• Open 5 new youth clubs across the borough  
• Work with schools, community centres, and places of worship to open more of them after school so young people have somewhere safe and warm to socialise and study in the evenings 
• Tackle fly-tipping by organising mega-skip days and abolishing the bulky waste collection charge
• Roll out a “request a bin” service, so residents who understand and care about their area can play their part in addressing litter hotspots 
• Deliver more public toilets and reinvigorate the community toilet scheme to improve accessibility and reduce anti-social behaviour 
• Guarantee that all council estates that ask for them will have working security doors by 2028.