Transport for London has announced changes to the capital’s bus services, with the RV1 singled out to be scrapped altogether.

Children play areas in Southwark are being segregated according to class, with kids from social housing prevented from playing with those who are not – even if they may be classroom friends in the same school.

Southwark Liberal Democrats scored a major victory at the Council Assembly last Wednesday night by setting the agenda for the Council’s environment policy for the next decade.

Southwark Liberal Democrats successfully passed a motion at Council Assembly on Wednesday night, calling for a new strategy that makes the preventative drug PrEP more widely available.

The number of people diagnosed with HIV has dropped by a sixth in the last four years, though Southwark still has the second highest level in the UK.

Southwark Lib Dems have forced a concession from Labour on their controversial ‘Golden Goodbyes’ to departing cabinet members on Southwark Council.

Latest government figures show Southwark is still the ‘Empty Homes Capital’, with eight hundred more Southwark homes empty than last year, bringing the full number to 6,761. This is more than neighbouring Lambeth, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets combined, far more than any other London Borough, and almost double the number for the whole of Manchester.

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Southwark Liberal Democrats have submitted their alternative council budget. With Southwark having had the highest level of knife-crime in London, they are calling for the Council to allocate £1million a year to fund a dedicated specialist unit of police officers to combat it.

Southwark Liberal Democrats have announced their two amendments to the Labour budget. 

Both are fully costed and will prioritise funding a specialist Knife-crime unit and a new hub for rough sleepers.

Despite promising to keep libraries open at last year’s local election, Southwark Labour moved to shut libraries for part of the week in their first budget of the new term. They had hoped to squeeze the change through by burying the change in small print as ‘reshaping’ services. However, at the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny committee, Liberal Democrat councillors dug deeper to reveal the full story and launched a stinging attack at their backtracking.