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A Labour politician who oversaw the sale of a London council house in a £3 million deal has been criticised for entering a prize draw to win it.
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Councillor who oversaw sale of council homes for £3m enters raffle to win one
A Liberal Democrat councillor branded Cllr Livingstone's decision to enter the draw a 'gross irony' - but admitted he'd entered the lottery too
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April 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
A South London childminder is locked in a dispute with a firm owned by a millionaire Labour party donor about trees overhanging her back garden.
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Childminder in dispute with millionaire Labour donor over garden trees
A branch crashed into the childminder's garden destroying a shed five months ago, she claims
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April 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Over half of a London borough’s larger council homes were let to families outside of the bidding system in the second half of last year.

A housing support group says it means there is 'no guarantee' council homes are going to those most in need.

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Over half of London borough's larger council homes let outside bidding system
A campaigner said there was 'no guarantee' if council homes were going to those most in need
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April 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Streatham residents opposed to a £650k plan to replace parking spaces with seating down their street have blocked access to council workers set to start work on the controversial project.

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Road blocked off with fake crime scene tape as angry locals try to halt work
Residents of the Lambeth street say the plans will destroy businesses and make the area a magnet for antisocial behaviour
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April 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
South London politicians have hit out at the Met after it moved local police to a station in Central London—over a 45-minute walk away from the area.
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Outrage as Met moves local police to area a 45-minute walk away
Rotherhithe is losing out on 90 minutes of street policing per day due to the relocation, according to a local politician
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April 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Lambeth Council ended main housing duty to 187 families after it found them a flat in the private rented sector in 2024.

Eviction from privately rented homes is one of the leading causes of homelessness, according to housing charity Shelter.
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187 Lambeth families given choice between private landlord or homelessness
There was an eight-fold increase in the number of homeless families pushed into private rented accommodation by the council in 2024
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April 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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187 Lambeth families were given the choice between a private landlord or homelessness in 2024. Why is that an issue? Evictions from private tenancies are the biggest driver of homelessness, so it's simply causing a cycle. Story by
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187 Lambeth families given choice between private landlord or homelessness
There was an eight-fold increase in the number of homeless families pushed into private rented accommodation by the council in 2024
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April 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Met has asked Lambeth Council to suspend the licence of Aquum in Clapham after a woman was allegedly raped by a staff member.

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South London bar could be shut after worker accused of raping customer
Officers are investigating the alleged rape at Aquum on Clapham High Street
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April 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A South London police officer who made misogynistic comments in a WhatsApp chat containing other Met employees has been given a final written warning.
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PC who sent misogynistic WhatsApps urged to 'learn lesson'
Two other officers received written warnings for failing to report offensive remarks made in the WhatsApp group
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April 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A mum and her kids had to go to the toilet in bin bags after they were left without a flushing toilet for a month. Zena Ekada said she has been left in despair at the state of temporary accommodation she was placed in by Lambeth Council in January.

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'We've been left without a flushing toilet - my family's had to go in bin bags'
The mum says they also can't use the gas hob or the home risks exploding
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April 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A Labour London borough with a pledge to create 11,000 council homes by 2043 has defended its building record after data uncovered by the Liberal Democrat opposition showed it failed to start work on a single council home last year.
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Council that pledged to build 11,000 council homes by 2043 started 0 last year
It said it would have been 'reckless' to begin new council homes last year due to high inflation and interest rates
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April 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Lambeth Council's new five-year homelessness strategy admits ‘the need to source TA [temporary accommodation] in more affordable locations, including outside of London’.
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Council looks for temporary accommodation outside of London to save cash
The council spends £100 million per year housing families in temporary accommodation
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April 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Teachers at a South London primary school due to shut down are in a 'lose-lose situation' after the council pushed forward the closure date by a year, a staff member has claimed.
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School teachers in 'lose-lose situation' after closure date brought forward
Staff members want the council to commit to making no compulsory redundancies
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April 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A South London road where traffic is so bad houses shake and crack now has even more buses running down it. Timetable changes mean the 284 between Grove Park Cemetery and Lewisham station will pass down Sandhurst Road in Hither Green more often.

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Road where traffic makes houses shake and crack is getting more buses
The residential street in Hither Green is already on four daytime bus routes
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April 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A former South London court will be turned into a 15-storey hotel where most of the rooms don’t have windows.

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Site to be turned into hotel where most rooms have no windows
A council employee described the hotel as 'unconventional'
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April 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Squatters have reportedly moved into a South London cinema which closed suddenly six months ago. The intruders are believed to have taken over the former Catford Mews building in Catford town centre around a fortnight ago.

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Squatters move into South London cinema and 'hold all-day rave'
A Holland and Barrett employee said he could hear booming music coming from the Catford venue next door
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April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Over 70 per cent of council homes lack an up-to-date electrical safety certificate in Southwark.

Council leader Kieron Williams admitted Southwark should have previously focused more on improving the quality of council homes at a meeting on Monday.

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Council admits it 'should've focussed on quality' over fire safety failures
The South London borough focussed too much on building a large number of homes and left half of them with no smoke alarms and thousands with no fire safety checks
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April 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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As part of our new Broken Homes campaign, we're looking at how Londoners are being displaced, sometimes hundreds of miles from their support network, due to the chronic shortage of temporary accommodation in the city. Story by
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South London family put in 'temporary' home 140 miles away for 5 years
The family was one of 256 being housed outside of London by the council at the end of 2024
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April 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The controversial Borough Triangle development, which covers an area the size of one and a half football pitches, was narrowly approved by councillors at a Southwark planning meeting on Wednesday evening.
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44-storey South London tower approved with 900 homes replacing food court
Up to 40 traders at the Mercato Metropolitano food hall will have to find a new home
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March 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Labour's @jimdickson.bsky.social has stepped down as councillor for Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction ward in Lambeth.

A by-election will be held to select his successor on May 1.
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South London councillor resigns 8 months after becoming Kent MP
He was praised for 35 years of 'unrivalled service' to Lambeth
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March 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nigel Farage's old school is getting a refurb:
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£60k a year school Nigel Farage attended submits plan to refurbish site
Multiple rooms in the all-boys boarding school in Dulwich, built in the Italian Renaissance style, would be refurbished if the plans are approved
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March 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The Borough Triangle development in Elephant and Castle will go before Southwark Council’s planning committee this evening.

I spoke to residents and traders about what they made of the controversial plans, which include a 44-storey skyscraper.
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Plan to demolish London food hall for 44 storey skyscraper leaves locals divided
Nearly 900 homes could be built on the site of the food court
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March 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Sewage leak and 'asbestos' covered with bin bags: Councils named and shamed
Another woman was left without power in her kitchen for months
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March 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A South London business that delivers training to young people has been left 'devastated' after thieves stole over £25,000 worth of laptops, cameras and microphones.

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Thieves steal £25k of equipment from firm that helps young people get a job
The business in Tulse Hill has had to pause sessions it runs at schools because of the break-in
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March 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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This has been a bit lost in the smoke today with the Hayes fire, but @robjfirth.bsky.social has written a great piece exploring why it's virtually impossible to get a 3 or 4-bed council home in Lambeth at the moment www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
Inside battle to get council home as borough's 3 and 4-beds disappear
Lambeth families say there are fewer three and four-bedroom social homes appearing than they have ever known
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March 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM