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LAMBETH COUNCIL FUNDING Autumn/Winter Wavertree and Wyatt Park roads ‘FAKE NEWSPAPERS’ SCAM 2016-17 in Streatham... no consultation TREATHAM ATTERS Lambeth Council has been criticised by S M residents’ groups for spending huge amounts The newsletter from local Conservatives for wards across Streatham. of money on magazines, ‘free’ newspapers Produced at no cost to the taxpayer, paid for by voluntary contributions COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ‘INHUMAN’ and email newsletters, designed to present Conservative Group vows to halt the demolition of people’s homes for the Labour administration in a positive light. proper community-based consultations The Labour council has refused to stop funding fake newspapers such as ‘Brixton The Labour council is using Review of the council’s failure to Labour councillors of failing to Blog’, ‘Lambeth Talk’, and ‘Living Local’. FIRE RISK IN LAMBETH its own failure to do repairs consult properly and consider listen to residents. The council’s expensive spin department as its justification to demolish renovation. In Streatham, Wavertree and selects data to put into its newspapers from lowrise estates, and end The Conservative government Wyatt Park Road residents its Survey of Tenants and Residents (‘STAR’), residents’ right-to-buy. COUNCIL FLATS ‘CRITICAL’ recently reversed a similar have also had 3-storey flats to cover up Labour’s poor management In May the Conservative Group decision by Southwark Council built next to their homes with of housing. This year the independent pledged to halt all estate imposed on Aylesbury Estate no consultation whatsoever Leaseholders Council refused to support the Internal Lambeth report reveals demolitions to allow proper residents as a breach of human (above). £30,000 survey, calling it ‘a complete waste of devastating truth of Labour’s community-led consultations, rights with its ‘extremely low public money’. Meanwhile, the Labour cabinet calling Lambeth consultations valuations’ for compulsory has replaced Tenants and In the last year politically marginal council failure to keep residents safe ‘inhuman’. purchases. Leaseholder Councils and wards have been targeted with glossy ‘one- Cressingham Gardens residents In October, Chair of the local Housing Forums with off’ leaflets paid for by taxpayers, containing An audit report shown to council’. are now on a second Judicial Leaseholders’ Council Stephen Labour supporters, to stop photos of Labour councillors giving out awards. Streatham Matters has found that Gyte resigned after accusing residents opposing its plans. Meanwhile the Conservative 12 out of 23 buildings selected government has spent £100m on did not have up-to-date fire risk new bathrooms and kitchens for STREATHAM FLY-TIPPING STREATHAM assessments, rating Lambeth’s Lambeth tenants as part of its Decent ACTIVISTS CALL failure as ‘critical’. Homes Scheme, the largest grant to STILL ‘OUT OF CONTROL’ 7 of the 12 buildings without fire any council in the UK, repackaged by Fly-tipping in Streatham is still FOR BETTER risk assessments had not been the Labour council as the ‘Lambeth out of control say residents, with AIR QUALITY assessed for more than 3 YEARS. Decent Homes Scheme’. an average of 52 incidents EACH As a result of the council’s The report comes despite the 2013 WEEK in a 3 month period last poor record for many years on inquest into the Lakanal building The chaos at the council year. air pollution, Conservatives fire in next-door Southwark where 6 under Labour is risking the lives in Lambeth are supporting a “ Council officers are struggling people died, and where the Labour- of our loved ones. We cannot let scheme for drivers to be paid to run council had failed to carry out Lakanal fire in Southwark... to deal with the problem since asking Lambeth Council to do the this go on the Labour Council prioritised scrap polluting diesel vehicles. same. fire risk assessments. no fire risk assessment Streatham ... Fly-tipping ‘endemic’ resources elsewhere. ” The air quality is particularly bad Streatham resident and activist By contrast, Conservative-run Common. They were jailed for 4 Enforcement has been increased on Streatham High Road and near Helen Smith (above) has Wandsworth council finished annual years. TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENTS ‘URGENT’ to try to cope. St Leonard’s Junction. expressed her disappointment that fire safety assessments of all of its The dispute between Southern Conservatives’ Neil Salt, seized Last year Chairman of the Enviro- Mayor Sadiq Khan has ditched a 1,233 council blocks in September. Next door Conservative-run Recently the Conservative City of Rail management and its unions the initiative on a cross-party Crime Review Labour Cllr John key election promise to plant two Wandsworth recently prosecuted London Corporation said it will no Conservative Opposition Leader Cllr has seen Opposition Conservative and non-party political basis, Kazantzis admitted that despite million new trees in London, in a professional fly-tippers who left longer lease or purchase diesel Tim Briggs has demanded urgent councillors meet with TfL bosses and continues to lobby transport Labour’s efforts, fly-tipping had ‘got move likely to reduce air quality building waste on Tooting Bec models to replace older models, action, saying ‘The chaos at the to push for a TfL management decision makers to get urgent worse’. further. and the Conservative Group are council under Labour is risking the team to run the Southern Rail and longer-term improvements for Promoted by Shirley Cosgrave, on behalf of Streatham Conservative Association, both of 3 Gleneldon Road SW16 2AX Printed by St Ives plc, 6th Floor The Place, 175 High Holborn, London WC1V 7AA. lives of our loved ones. 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Streatham Matters A3.indd 2-3 07/11/2016 19:06 OurSecurity. aim: LocalStability. services, Opportunity. local opportunities, a council for everyone Email: [email protected] KEEP UP TO DATE LABOUR COUNCILLORS VOTE TO PAY Local News inbrief TOWN HALL: LIBRARIES, THEMSELVES MORE ALLOWANCES, THEN PUT UP COUNCIL TAX BY A SEX ABUSE INQUIRY, CHILD MASSIVE 4% A YEAR Conservatives Labour councillors have gyms, and cutting funding IN HALF calculate changed the Lambeth constitution for parks. to pay themselves thousands of Cllr Louise Nathanson expressed SERVICES TAKEOVER RISK Labour would pounds in ‘special allowances’, anger that Labour councillors were have saved at by giving each other titles such as Council meeting chaos... Lambeth Council has The High Court Inquiry abusing their majority by paying ‘Community Lead’ and ‘Special library protestors attracted national media into historic allegations of least £175m themselves more allowances Project Lead,’ without identifying Bishop Thomas Grant... attention with its plan to close the sexual abuse of children by making while cutting services, such as any projects. top of the class libraries and turn others into under the care of Lambeth this year’s renovating the children’s paddling gyms, with The Guardian council has been rocked by reductions They also rejected a Conservative pools on Streatham Common. amendment to the budget that TORY REFORMS newspaper calling it ‘an controversy, with the Judge Conservatives calculate Labour in staff back would have frozen council tax, absolute shambles’. formerly in charge accused of would have saved at least £175m HELP IMPROVE making racist comments. The in 2009 saved funding for libraries and The Labour elite claims by making this year’s reductions in Shirley Oaks Survivors Group green spaces, and kept the same SCHOOL RESULTS reductions in money from staff back in 2009. and other victims of abuse services for vulnerable people. Bishop Thomas Grant councillors continue to central government has forced The Labour council recently spent School in Streatham has criticise Conservative at homes run by Lambeth Instead, the Labour council is it to close libraries. huge amounts of money on short topped the GCSE results school reforms that have in the 1970s to 1990s are increasing council tax by 4% a films, newspaper adverts and in Lambeth again, and is seen 1.4m more children Yet Lambeth Conservatives represented. year for the next 3 YEARS, closing found £1m in their alternative bus shelter posters to persuade now in the top 100 UK now attending good or Children’s Services in libraries and turning them into budget to keep libraries open residents how little money it had. schools. outstanding schools. Lambeth have been told by cutting waste, calling the to improve, or central Schools Minister Cllr Tim Briggs said: ‘The ‘Culture 2020’ proposals the Tories want to create a government will take over. Streatham Common Nick Gibb MP has ‘No-Culture-By-2020 proposals’. The warning comes after Paddling Pools... Empty congratulated the school. country for everyone, not A report in July showed that the service was found to be La Retraite School was just the Left-wing elite next-door Conservative-run ‘Inadequate’ by OFSTED in second, with Dunraven who can pick and choose Wandsworth council has 2015. The Labour council is School in Streatham schools. Yet again actually IMPROVED its libraries spending an extra £5m to try third. Labour are out of touch with what parents want.’ with better management, to improve the service. Meanwhile Labour despite the same funding reductions.

STREATHAM COMMON: OPPOSITION GROUP PRAISED FOR LONGER, NOISIER SPEECH ‘UNITING COMMUNITIES’ MUSIC EVENTS A speech by Conservatives at a full John McDonell MP at a Labour council meeting, responding to the Momentum event in Clapham Lambeth Council is pressing ahead with plans to stage murder of Jo Cox MP and insecurities even bigger, louder and more frequent outdoor events on Garage Nation... ‘example of good practice’ felt by Lambeth residents as a result LABOUR ‘SLOW Streatham Common. of the UK leaving the European Union, The new Lambeth ‘Events Strategy’ was challenged by has been widely praised. CIVIL WAR’ The change has been Conservative councillors in a ‘Call In’ scrutiny committee Cllr Tim Briggs paid tribute to Jo Cox The Streatham described as fuelling a in August. Residents and local groups were ignored on MP, but urged people to distinguish Labour party is now ‘slow civil war’ within all the major issues considered, with the Labour council between ‘the sense of danger and its dominated by the militant Labour. The failures of justifying a base increase to 90 decibels as ‘only as loud reality’, with no hate crimes reported ‘Momentum’ faction, the Labour council have as Hyde Park’. in Lambeth since the ‘Brexit’ vote. sources say. provided an opportunity Streatham residents have traditionally been tolerant of He added: ‘Wherever you are Despite claims of for ‘class war’ activists big outdoor music events, and the popular Garage Nation from, wherever your parents or racism and homophobia, to try to recreate the festival on the Common was praised as ‘an example of grandparents came from, whatever hundreds of Jeremy disastrous ‘Loony good practice’. your sexuality, or religion, or whatever Corbyn supporters in Lambeth’ of the 1980s. is important to you and your identity Lambeth, including Yet no money from events has yet been spent on the Meanwhile centre-ground and your happiness’, Conservative many hard-Left Greens, Common’s worn-out playgrounds, toilets and paddling Streatham Conservative councillors would always support will choose Labour pools, despite promises made by council officers in party has tripled its local Cllr Tim Briggs (2nd left) and Conservative residents to live their lives with as ‘Momentum’ candidates 2014. membership since 2014. activist Vernon DeMaynard (3rd left) at the much freedom and opportunity as to become councillors in South London Islamic Centre, Streatham The Rookery Cafe... renovations Meanwhile long-awaited renovations have started at the possible. 2018. popular Rookery Cafe, now under new management.

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