I was left in a peculiar position at the London Neighbourhoods Online Unconference, held at the offices of Ofcom on Saturday. On the very same day that the Stockwell Festival was being staged, plus the Lambeth Archives Open Day, here I was, flying the online flag for Sunny Stockwell, just as I enter single digit [...]
Here we go again… Streatham Hub - it’s the Lambeth planning hot potato that no one wants to take hold of. Especially so Tesco, the corporate paymaster. The latest twist in the decade long running farce to build a new ice rink and leisure centre in SW16 took another spin this week. With @lambeth_council cabinet [...]
Commissioned by our friends from @lambeth_council and authored by the South Bank Employers’ Group, my suspicions were that the Draft South Bank and Waterloo Cycle Strategy 2010 - 2012 was going to be yet another classic case of the local authority listening to the needs of business rather than residents. But at 103 pages long, [...]
To the Mayor and Councillors of the London Borough of Lambeth: YOU ARE SUMMONED TO ATTEND A MEETING of the COUNCIL to be held in the Council Chamber, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, SW2 1RW on Wednesday, 28 July 2010 at 7.00 pm. Cripes. This was the message on the agenda front sheet from Lambeth [...]
The second @lambeth_council cabinet meeting of the new administration and any online observer who had downloaded the agenda front sheet in advance would have been caught out. Whoops. Bumped up ahead of items including the Schools Exclusion Scrutiny Commission Action Plan, the Council Performance Digest and the Response to Dogs Scrutiny Commission (cripes) were the [...]
It’s all about cost cutting in the latest, um, cost cutting local council information free (ish) sheet this fortnight. Let’s skip straight away to the Letters page of Lambeth Life, and a penned effort from Charlie Hainsworth of SE24: “I was impressed to see that in this time of economic constraint and belt tightening, my [...]
How to solve a problem like Streatham Hub? Preferably by keeping local politicians and corporate paymasters out of the whole process. That was pretty much the conclusion come the end of @ChukaUmunna‘s first People’s Question Time, held in the Labour MP’s Streatham constituency on Thursday evening. Listen! The Hub is a headline writer’s gift that [...]
