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The Latest Breaking News from Lambeth

Fury as Lambeth Council spends £200k on legal battle over Brockwell Park festivals

An FOI request has revealed Lambeth spent £187,724 on legal cases related to the park’s events in 2025

Evening Standard

Homeless families accuse London council of harassment and intimidation

Families in temporary accomodation accuse Lambeth Council of ‘intimidating’ home visits which led them to believe they were would be evicted

Evening Standard

Brockwell Park festival organisers submit planning application for first time after controversy

Residents can have their say on Brockwell Live that features festivals such as Mighty Hoopla, Cross the Tracks and Field Day after legal challenge to events

Evening Standard

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UK grooming gang inquiry faces further disruption as candidate for leader withdraws

Former Lambeth children’s services director Annie Hudson pulls out following intense media coverage

The Guardian - UK

Anger as London council fails to refund drivers for £1.3m in ‘unlawful’ LTN fines

Only around 1,662 penalty charge notices worth £126,715 handed back to motorists by September 26, according to research

Evening Standard

How Brixton’s gentrification gravy train is pushing locals aside

As house prices soar so do plans for development, but residents aren’t so keen

Evening Standard

London council ordered to remove unlawful Low Traffic Neighbourhood that raked in £1 million in fines

The High Court told Lambeth Council it must remove the LTN in West Dulwich with immediate effect and denied it permission to appeal

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Oscar winner Mark Rylance joins fight to stop music festivals turning London park into ‘prison camp’

Local campaigners argue summer festivals are causing long-term damage to Brockwell Park as they launch legal action against Lambeth Council

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Residents block London street to stop controversial £650,000 plan to replace parking spaces with benches

Locals sealed off the road with fake crime scene tape to stop council employees from entering to start on scheme

Evening Standard

Lady Howarth of Breckland obituary

Social services director, chief executive of Childline and one of the first ‘people’s peers’

The Guardian - UK

Church of England clear-out needed following Makin Review, says ex-minister

The Church of England’s Commons representative also said ‘those responsible must be held to account’.

Evening Standard

Lambeth Council to pay £15k after housing mum in flat separating her from disabled children

The Local Government Ombudsman found ‘serious failings’ in how the council handled the housing needs of Ms X and her disabled children.

Evening Standard

Spotify Unwrapped mapped: can you Guess which London borough went bonkers for Billie Eilish?

The capital’s music listening tastes have been revealed — and all the boroughs sampled had distinctive preferences

Evening Standard

I escaped homelessness and then Lambeth council raised my rent by £470

It made a mistake on my contract and says I have to pay extra, even though I’m a disabled person on a low income

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London Eye made a permanent fixture on capital's skyline

Lambeth Council made the attraction permanent beyond the cut-off date of 2028

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Mould-ridden flat is going to kill me and my baby, says Clapham mother

Lambeth Council apologised for the ‘distress’ its failings had caused to Stacey Coveley and her family

Evening Standard

Europe's largest climate tech hub urges London councils to invest in green start-ups

A shared workspace for green start-ups operates in County Hall thanks to a £1.45million cash injection from Lambeth Council

Evening Standard

Brockwell Park: South London residents fed up with ‘constant’ noise after 6 music festivals in 10 days

Thousands of revellers have flocked to Lambeth’s Brockwell Park in the past two weeks for festivals including Mighty Hoopla, Wide Awake and City Splash

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Michael Gove accuses Lambeth Council of ‘persistent’ failures after child left in mould-ridden home

Housing Secretary says London council failed to provide ‘most basic level of decency’ for tenants after complaints

Daily Mirror

Mum says she's lucky to be alive after flat ceiling collapses twice leaving her homeless

The government ombudsman ruled in Ayoola Ahmed's favour when Lambeth Council were slow to fix the first ceiling collapse, the second time she said she was almost killed when it came down again

The Guardian - UK

Four English councils bring half of legal actions for blue badge misuse

Two-thirds of local authorities did not prosecute anyone for disabled parking scheme fraud, data reveals

The Independent UK

Friction over LGBTQ issues worsens in global Anglican church

Friction has been simmering within the global Anglican Communion for many years over its 42 provinces’ sharp differences on whether to recognize same-sex marriage and ordain LGBTQ clergy

The Independent UK

Church must stand up against oppression, Archbishop of Canterbury says

Justin Welby was speaking at the Lambeth Conference.

The Guardian - UK

Anglican church has lost its way on same-sex marriage

Letters: Ian Gordon, Stephen Evans, William Bartram and Meirion Bowen respond to Archbishop Justin Welby’s affirmation that gay sex is a sin

The Guardian - UK

Losing faith in bishops over LGBTQ+ rights and their lack of empathy

Letters: Andrew Foreshew-Cain and Canon Dr Paul Oestreicher on Anglicanism’s culture war around sexuality

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