‘community’ Archives
Got a good idea for a community project in Clapham Town?
Earlier this week Lambeth council announced the opening of this year’s community project scheme. Residents are being asked to submit their proposals for four worthwhile community projects with budgets of £25,000, £50,000, £75,000 and £100,000. Last year a number [Read More]
Noise in Clapham Old Town?
In recent months Clapham Town’s three local councillors have been recieving complaints about noise coming from Grafton House, a popular bar in the Old Town. Complaints have included the level of the music together with noise from customers. Late night noise can be a [Read More]
Lambeth schools cuts – Gove pulls back!
Some good news for Lambeth schools came through late on Friday. As we mentioned a few weeks ago, a number of projects in the borough were under threat after a series of cuts to Labour’s refurbishment and rebuilding programme were announced by Education Secretary [Read More]
Clapham Councillor Surgery – Saturday, 24th July
The Clapham town councillors will be holding one of their roving surgeries this weekend at the rear of 42 Clapham Manor Street between 11am and noon. All residents are welcome to come and discuss any issues they might have. If you cant make the surgery then feel free to [Read More]
School cuts in Lambeth
A new week, a new kick in the particulars from the Conservative government. After last week’s VAT rise, we now have the final masterstroke in Michael Gove’s plan to stop that horrific scheme to continue improving schools. You can just see it now, the last Labour [Read More]
Lambeth council’s public meetings
We are a little bit late on the game with this one, as Lambeth has been holding a series of public meetings recently aimed at getting the your views on the services the council provides for a few months now. Some of them have already passed, but as shown below there are a [Read More]
NHS in Lambeth – public health meeting next Wednesday
Lambeth PCT is having a public meeting about the future of healthcare across the borough – including Clapham Town – next Wednesday at St Mary’s Parish Hall, 1 St. Alphonsus Road off Clapham Park Road, London, SW4 7AS. And we want to hear your views! The meeting [Read More]
Budget cuts – everyone will suffer
The Conservative – sorry, I mean Coalition – government unveiled its crash and burn budget this week as Im sure many of you will have noticed, mainly because it hits every single ordinary person in the UK hard. The Tories and their Lib Dem lackeys did their best to sell [Read More]
Summer Fayres
Summer has come to Clapham, with a series of fetes and fayres across the area. Today, 19 June, was the turn of The Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common whilst the previous week was the turn of St Pauls Church in Clapham Old Town. As always it was great to see so many local [Read More]
