A cross-party committee of Southwark councillors will be examining what went wrong with the botched refurbishment of Draper House. Work on the tower block at Elephant was halted after a gas leak left a resident in hospital. Repairs contractor Breyer has now had its contract with Southwark Council “concluded”. Now the council’s Housing, Environment, Transport and Community […]

Southwark Liberal Democrats have responded to the news that more ‘bulge’ primary school places are being created by saying it is “too little, too late” and reiterating calls for new schools in the borough. Southwark Council has announced that six schools will take an additional 30 reception class pupils (Albion, Bessemer Grange, Crawford, Dog Kennel […]

Councillors in Southwark are leading calls for a new court dedicated to dealing with domestic violence cases in the borough. Councillor Catherine Bowman, the Liberal Democrat chair of the council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee, has written to the Deputy Justices Clerk Ms Thirza Mullins MBE asking for the courts to be introduced in the area. […]