Following a series of complaints from local residents, including those with pushchairs, children, and a wheelchair user: Dog owners need to be particularly careful around Reverdy Road, Alma Grove and Balaclava Road. I have asked council staff to spray these stencils on the pavement: There is already a law in place (the Control of Dogs […]

Southwark council is spending less on its housing than it is receiving in rent. about £7m a year. That’s a lot of money. Perhaps that’s why staff morale is so low, and the repairs service is so bad that we have read apologies in the local paper. Anyway, tenants are getting short changed, we are […]

Local residents have been in touch with us about Southwark Council’s plans to build a probation hostel in South Bermondsey. Someone has pinned a poster on the fence at the site: Locals are upset about this for a series of reasons, I will be posting more about this soon. We visited the site to see […]

Southwark needs to get tough on fly-tipping We’ve set up a new website  to capture fly-tipping in Southwark – and it needs your photos of dumped rubbish! The Clean Up Southwark! blog, publishes pictures sent in by residents of unwanted junk cluttering up our streets. It aims to highlight the problem of fly-tipping in the […]

I went to visit the Veolia centre on The Old Kent Road today. I was amazed at the building, with men standing at a conveyor belt for hours on end,pulling plastic bags out of an endless stream of paper. It is a massive factory,  churning out paper, metal, glass and stuff to burn at SELCHP. […]

Southwark Council’s £8m flag ship policy of ‘free school dinners for all’ is back in the news.   The recent stories of horse meat being labelled as beef has shocked many. For many this is inconvenient, but for some, this goes right to the heart of our faith. Southwark serves food to other groups like […]

The Heygate Estate may seem like a million miles from South Bermondsey. A 15 minute bus ride from the Old Kent Road, The Heygate Estate was once home to over a thousand Council tenants. A secret document was made public last week (by mistake). According to the document, the whole estate was sold by Southwark […]

The weather on Saturday was cold and wet but we went out on Saturday to knock on doors, and listen to local residents. I’m always surprised about some of the issues people raise!

I was pleased to read that the Council has announced that our nurseries are safe. BUT. We’re concerned that services will be cut with fewer qualified staff, whilst prices will be going up. picture from Southwark News I hope the nurseries can survive these changes.  

The re paving around Thorburn Square SE1 is mostly satisfactory. I’ve asked that these slabs are re-laid. I hope we can get it done before the workmen are off site.