Southwark homeowners: we hear you.
We know you want to know exactly what it is you’re charged for in your Bills.
That’s why we have made Southwark the first council to give an online breakdown of your bills, as we continue our mission to make the council a good landlord.
Ending homelessness is central to what Southwark Labour stands for.
Which is why it’s brilliant news that on World Homelessness Day, the Labour Government is providing almost £1 million to help tackle homelessness in Southwark.
🚨Police teams in Walworth and Peckham are to be DOUBLED🚨
With town centre plans and action days this summer, Labour are making our streets safer.
Only Labour are serious about tackling crime in Peckham.
Your Labour councillors have worked with the Met to establish a new Town Centre Team - doubling the number of police officers in Peckham 🚔
We welcome the Planning Committee’s decision to refuse the Aylesham application.
Thanks to Labour’s planning policies, local councillors in London Bridge and West Bermondsey are investing £2.6 million in local infrastructure projects
From estates to parks to solar panels, we are delivering improvements hand in hand with our communities
Labour is investing £39bn in the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation.
We've campaigned for this, and this Labour government has listened.
Happy Pride Month to our LGBTQ+ community in Southwark and beyond!
Yesterday Cabinet attended a ceremony to raise the pride flag above the council’s offices.
This year we have provided £32,000 of grants to make this summer a summer of pride in Southwark 🏳️🌈
We have been providing free healthy school meals in Southwark for over a decade
Tory and Lib Dem governments ignored us when we said that free school meals are a powerful tool to tackle poverty
Now Labour are delivering what they couldn’t: free school meals across the country
This week, Cllr Kieron Williams announced his resignation as Leader of Southwark Council and Southwark Labour.
Please see below for our full statement 👇
“Southwark is a place full of hope, and it is full of amazing people, that create that hope.”
On Saturday we came together to celebrate everything our communities have achieved over the past year
Congratulations to all our residents who received an award 👏
With our local health on the high street programme, waiting lists down and now GP surgeries being upgraded across our borough, Labour is bringing healthcare to the community and recovering our NHS 🩺
On day 2 of the Southwark councillors’ challenge, our cllrs were put through their paces in circuit training at Burgess Park 💪
Labour are building genuinely affordable homes for local people 🏡
Last year more social rent homes were completed in Southwark than in any other London borough 🏗️
Meanwhile no Lib Dem councils in London managed to start building a single new social rent home ❌
Labour are working with our communities to boost the environment, with the first set of £550,000 delivered for local organisations to help wildlife and build climate resilience 🌳
80 years ago, the freedoms we enjoy were secured by our remarkable Second World War generation.
Today we come together to celebrate those who fought for our freedom.
“Southwark Council leader announces £20 million of funding for communities across Southwark”
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“Our residents have had enough of the criminal dumpers who pollute our neighbourhoods with rubbish.”
- Cllr James McAsh’s comment as the government announced new powers to crush fly-tippers’ vans
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Today Labour have announced a crackdown on fly tipping:
✅ New £1,000 fines for fly tipping in Southwark
✅ New powers for the council to seize and crush waste criminals’ vans
✅ New technology used to identify fly-tip vehicles
✅ New sentences for waste criminals
Only Labour has a plan to rebuild trust between our local communities and the police who serve them
The new policing oversight meets tonight, with residents at the heart of improving transparency and accountability of policing in Southwark 🚔
Local Labour councillors in Rotherhithe have secured changes to Lower Road to ease congestion 🚗
Consultation on an additional lane between Redriff Road and Plough Way will open on 1st May
Labour are delivering in in Peckham with an upgrade to Peckham Rye Station Square 🏗️
The new Square will revitalise the entrance to the station from Rye Lane, exposing the refurbished Victorian station building and providing new open space on Rye Lane
Do you live on the Harold, Swan Mead or Creasy estates?
Your local Labour councillors are bringing the repairs service to you!
From Midday tomorrow the repairs team will be on hand to fix your repairs on the spot 🔧
Last month Labour councillors brought the council’s repairs service to the Brandon Estate in Newington
This Wednesday London Bridge & West Bermondsey councillors are bringing a repairs action day to Harold, Swan Mead & Creasy estates, with repairs carried out on the spot 🔧
Fantastic to see residents moving into 22 new council homes in Camberwell
We are delivering more council homes than any other local authority, with over 3,000 new council homes built or on site - delivering genuinely affordable homes for local people 🏡
A lovely day to be out speaking to residents around Trinity Church Square. Such a beautiful Southwark spot! Thanks to this amazing @southwarklabour.bsky.social team! 🌹
