A fresh start for Lambeth

After 20 years of Labour rule, residents deserve a council that works for them, not against them. Lib Dem Councillors will always fight for residents in their communities. Lambeth deserves better. We seek to build a borough we can all be proud to call home.

It's time for a change

Lib Dem councils work with residents. They build new council houses, support carers and protect our environment. That's why local people are switching to the Lib Dems.

Together we can fix Lambeth

The Liberal Democrats have a plan to fix Lambeth Labour have let us down here in Lambeth. Labour say there isn’t enough money to keep the streetlights bright or run the Lambeth Country Show. But Labour have wasted millions on failed housing schemes and on fighting residents in court.

And instead of standing up to Nigel Farage, Starmer's Labour scapegoats migrants and refugees.

1. Ensure residents shape decisions that affect them

Require resident agreement and co-design for everything from traffic schemes and park events to care and special educational needs plans.
Bring back lost youth facilities with young people designing what they need.
End the ‘Town Hall knows best’ culture and Labour’s ‘tick-box’ consultations

2. Fix Lambeth’s finances

Redirect the millions Labour waste on failed vanity projects back into local services, ending the era of undeliverable financial 'wish-lists', bail-out loans and escalating debt.

3. Tackling crime & caring for our streets

Keep people safe by ending Labour’s street light dimming plan.
Partner with police on active CCTV monitoring in crime hot-spots.
Keep police station front counters open and promote trust in policing.
Plant more trees, repair pavements and clean streets.
Launch regular ‘mega-skip’ rounds, and catch and fine fly-tippers.

4. Fix Lambeth Housing and tackle homelessness

Redirect the £21m Labour is paying lawyers defending the council's shoddy repairs into actual repairs.
Pay contractors for finished jobs – not every call-out, with a tenant / leaseholder sign-off process before payment is made.
Build new social housing and bring empty homes back into use to tackle homelessness

5. Improved care: safe, person-led and efficient

Back home carers and involve people in their own care plans.
Protect children with early intervention with family support involving the wider family in children’s plans.
Support domestic abuse refuges.
Offer elderly and disabled people home safety checks to prevent greater risk and cost later.

6. A fairer deal for everyone on our roads

Encourage public transport, provide more safe walking and cycling routes and back car sharing.
Expand EV charging, cycle parking and e-bike bays, but impound abandoned e-bikes at the operators’ cost.
End Labour's hikes to parking permit fees, with fairer charges for residents, visitors and others.

Labour fail on Lambeth

Waste and bad value for money

Council Tax rises every year. And charges like parking permits are among the most expensive in London. But Labour in Lambeth have wasted the money:

• £67 million wasted bailing out their bust and failing council-owned house building company.

• £2 million a year wasted on a plush riverside office block that the council left empty.

• £21 million wasted paying lawyers to defend legal cases because the council housing service failed to do repairs they were contracted to do.

The council's own auditors have slammed the council's failure to budget competently and to get value for money. Labour has racked up overspends during the last four years and now faces having to sell off up to £116m of public assets.

Lambeth is now practically bankrupt - so services like streetlights, libraries and even the Country Show are being cut.