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Southwark's Empty Homes crisis deepens
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.
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Update on 2019 Council Budget - Cllr Anood Al-Samerai
Dear friend, 2019 has been very busy for us so far. On the national scale, we’ve continued campaigning to keep our security, prosperity, our place in the world as well as our rights and freedoms…
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Lib Dems announce budget plans
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…
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Lib Dems call for ‘Police Officers not Press Officers’
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…
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Lib Dems Stop Labour Library Cuts
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.
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Councillors working to resolve youth violence
South London has been plagued with youth violence and anti-social behaviour in recent times. The reasons for this are many and not simple to solve.
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‘Betrayal’ of bus route closure
Transport for London have announced plans to scrap the RV1 bus service altogether.
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Southwark Council’s latest ‘Gravy Train’ scandal
Local groups and opposition councillors have accused Labour-run Southwark Council of ‘stitching up’ a body that’s intended to be a grassroots-up forum and ‘feathering their own nest’ by giving their…
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Southwark loses a tree every day
Latest figures released show that over the last four years, Southwark Council have felled 2,248 trees in the borough. For every three trees it cuts down, it only replaces one, meaning overall…
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Lib Dems shown as 'hardest working' councillors
Next month, voters in the ward of London Bridge and West Bermondsey will decide who they want to represent them on Southwark Council. The election has been delayed due to the death of a conservative…