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HELPFUL LEGAL ADVICE
Brixton Advice Centre to leave historic Railton Road HQ
Brixton Advice Centre, a fixture on Railton Road for decades, is selling its building...
Council aid for EU residents to stay in Lambeth
Lambeth council is to fund local charities to advise European Union nationals living in...
PLANNING & HOUSING
10,000 Lambeth private rented homes could have ‘serious hazard’
Lambeth council’s new private renting licensing scheme will soon apply to most of the borough.
The council’s cabinet has approved the extension of the “selective...
Council takes back private rented homes for homeless
Lambeth council is taking back homes that it previously rented in the private sector to make them available for homeless families.
It said this move...
COUNCIL
Striking traffic wardens warn of ‘chaos’
A trade union is predicting “Christmas chaos” on Lambeth streets as traffic wardens go on strike for two days.
GMB, a local government union, said its members...
Council plans to meet ‘impossible’ finance choices from parking income and...
Lambeth council is considering increasing its income from parking and events in parks and consulting on reducing the number of children’s centres in a...
Council outlines Brixton anti social behaviour work
Lambeth council says a team of outreach workers is operating in Brixton town centre to engage with drug users.
There has been mounting concern about...
Council tenant three years in temporary accommodation
Lambeth council has, once again, been named in a Housing Ombudsman monthly report on severe maladministration.
In this case, the ombudsman cited a case it reported...
CRIME
Church members parade through Brixton over gun and knife crime
Led by their inspiring drum corps, the congregation and supporters of Brixton’s Seventh Day Adventist church took to the streets at the weekend to...
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
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