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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011A small group of local residents have come together to form South Lambeth Trading Collective to stimulate the economic and social regeneration of the area.
Our first project is to be the development of a market on Wilcox Road SW8 and we have been working with Lambeth Council to help achieve this goal. We want [...]
TRA AGM - Wed 6 April, 7pm, Wheatsheaf Hall
Sunday, March 20th, 2011Hear what the current committee has achieved over the past year, help decide what you’d like done on our estate next year and elect a new Chair and the committee members to do it! Find out about the plans for:
Wilcox close
The new Sainsbury’s
New Covent Garden Market
Tate Library - at risk of closer?
Green schemes & funding [...]
Wilcox Road and Wilcox Close Improvement works - Update
Thursday, February 17th, 2011Over the next six months and on behalf of Lambeth Council, FM Conway will be improving the public realm along Wilcox Road and Wilcox Close.
The scheme will see the footway renewed with improved paving, with feature granite, the carriageway will be resurfaced but the cobbles will be retained as a character feature, the lighting will [...]
Tate South Lambeth featured on Channel 4 News on 14th February
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Tate South Lambeth featured on Channel 4 News on 14th February in an item comparing the Big Society concept with Victorian philanthropy.
Lambeth Living names a new Chief Executive
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Neil Litherland has been appointed interim Chief Executive of Lambeth Living, London’s largest arms length management organisation (ALMO).
Neil has a track record of achievement in local government and housing. As Deputy Chief Executive of Camden Council he played a key role as the north London borough became the highest rated council in the country.
As Director [...]
Tenants face rent increase
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Arm’s-length management organisation Lambeth Living will have to axe 130 staff over the next 18 months to help plug a £8.4 million hole in its parent authority’s housing budget.
Officers have warned that Lambeth Council’s housing revenue account debt could reach £14 million by March.
This week the London authority agreed a plan which in April will [...]
Housing crisis: 130 jobs to go
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008AROUND 130 jobs are to be axed at a council-owned housing firm – with some staff losing their jobs just before Christmas.
Lambeth Living Limited, the private company that manages the borough’s social housing stocks, plans to cull around 130 posts in a desperate bid to save cash.
“If the Almo wants to save cash it [...]
Caribbean woman statue unveiled
Saturday, October 11th, 2008London’s first public statue of an African-Caribbean woman has been unveiled as a memorial to women in the Caribbean community.
The 3m (10ft) high Bronze Woman statue of a woman holding a baby has been installed in Stockwell Memorial Garden, south London.
The anonymous figure is based on a poem of the same name by Guyana-born Cecile [...]
Playground proposals for Mawbey brough estate
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Lambeth Living’s landscape architect, our local councillors, parents and our TRA are working together to seek funding to improve the play areas on our estate.
View the Proposal for the Mawbey Close Play Areas by the Mawbey Arms and Herbert Morrison school. Applications have been submitted to several bodies in search of grant funding towards the [...]
New Tenant Services Authority Chairman says social housing sector is “off the pace”
Thursday, September 25th, 2008The chairman of the new social housing regulator, the Tenant Services Authority (TSA), delivered a firm message to housing associations yesterday (Wednesday 17 September) when he said that the social housing sector had “fallen off the pace”.
Anthony Mayer, delivering his first speech (full speech below) as Chair of the TSA at the National Housing Federation [...]