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Climate emergency means Southwark needs robust flood plans, say Lib Dems
The Southwark Liberal Democrats have called for an improved flood risk management strategy to protect against local effects of the climate emergency.
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Lib Dems Call for Action as Housing Benefit Gap Leaves Families £125 Out of Pocket a Month in Southwark.
Analysis of the latest Valuation Office Agency figures by the Liberal Democrats has shown that the Local Housing Allowance benefit (LHA) being frozen by the Tories combined with soaring local…
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Councillors Join Forces to Stop Rat Run Becoming Permanent
Borough and Bankside Councillors have joined Lambeth Liberal Democrats Councillor Donna Harris and local residents to call on Lambeth Council to stop a rat run on the Lambeth-Southwark border near…
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Southwark 3rd worst in England for housing complaints
The latest figures from the official local government watchdog show that Southwark had the 3rd highest number of housing complaints in England, being beaten only by Lambeth and Birmingham.
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Lib Dems Call for Plastic Free Southwark
As plastic free July comes to an end, Lib Dem Councilor and long term environmental campaigner Graham Neale has written to the council urging it to take radical action to become plastic free.
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Lib Dems call on all Southwark councillors to condemn Labour U-turn on self-id for trans people
Southwark Lib Dems have called on the leader of the council and the Labour group in Southwark to condemn the Labour Party’s U-turn on self-id for trans people. In the latest of a series of…
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Lib Dems urge rethink from train companies as all but one ticket office due to close in Southwark
Train operators in Southwark plan to close every ticket office in all stations apart from London Bridge, with multifunctional staff redeployed onto station platforms and concourses.
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Southwark second highest number of Households in Temporary Accommodation in Country
Official government data has revealed that that Southwark has over 3,500 households currently in temporary accommodation, the second most households in England.
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Lib Dems slam Labour after Southwark is fined for yet more maladministration by housing ombudsman
The housing ombudsman has order Southwark to pay nearly £2,000 in compensation for two cases of maladministration.
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Bike and car theft “effectively decriminalised” in Southwark as only 1.1% of cases end up in charge, Lib Dems reveal
Southwark Liberal Democrats revealed via an FOI that from 2020 to 2022, just 1.1% of all bike and care theft cases resulted in a charge.
