Brockwell Park is the new home for Lambeth’s annual fireworks display Lambeth’s 2013 fireworks display will take place in Brockwell Park on Tuesday November 5th  and not Clapham Common as originally planned. Lambeth council say it has confirmed Brockwell Park as the venue for the annu

TENANTS ON an Upper Norwood council estate are protesting against plans to use a former childrens’ home there to house 27 ‘vulnerable’ people.   London Housing Trust want to lease the former childrens’ home at 3 Highland Road after it was bought at auction by a

LAMBETH, CROYDON AND SOUTHWARK councils raised a combined total of £28.6 million in on-street parking fines – and a collective £47.9 million in parking income – for the 2011-12 financial year, figures issued by the RAC Foundation reveal.   Lambeth finished in the top ten e

AN INVESTIGATION into low pay and the London living wage has been launched by the London Assembly’s economy committee. Figures show that 700,000 Londoners – 16 per cent of workers – earn less than the London living wage of £8.55 per hour – and that there are 1.1 million ch

 A LONDON BOROUGH OF CRYSTAL PALACE – that’s the plan being proposed by the Upper Norwood Improvement Team.   In a move which partly reflects the plot of the 1940s Ealing Studios film classic ‘Passport to Pimlico’ – where residents of part of Pimlico decl

A CRACKDOWN on illegal encampments to stop sites being repeatedly used and to target those responsible is being taken to the courts by Croydon council. “Last year our officers had to deal with 83 unauthorised encampments, which in some cases required bailiffs being brought in to

UPPER NORWOOD JOINT LIBRARY will only open for three days a week from Monday April 29th – and closing for lunch on two of them. Five staff will be losing their jobs – a reduction from the current complement of 10 – four other vacant positions having remained unfilled

UPPER NORWOOD JOINT LIBRARY will only open for three days a week from Monday April 29th – and closing for lunch on two of them. Five staff will be losing their jobs – a reduction from the current complement of 10 – four other vacant positions having remained unfilled

LAMBETH COUNCIL is to take over control of Upper Norwood joint library – prior to it being run by a community-based trust. The move will hopefully bring to an end the uncertainty surrounding the future of the hugely popular icon on Westow Hill. Lambeth and Croydon councils, who

GIPSY HILL ward councillors are being urged to get the pedestrian crossing lights installed last year on Westow Hill switched on as soon as possible.   In a letter to the three Lambeth councillors representing the ward Gipsy Hill residents association say residents have repeatedly rai