Lambeth housing officers and Cabinet member for Housing and Regeneration Pete Robbins announced at a ‘community briefing’ last week that the Somerleyton Road site will not be sold off to developers as originally proposed but instead retained and developed by the council itself. The plan to build council housing on the site is a shift […]

The council is planning to allow 280 new homes on Somerleyton Road, between the Barrier Block (Southwyck House)/Moorlands estate and the railway line in Brixton. It looks like most of the housing will be at ridiculous prices that most local people can’t afford. But the final decision won’t be made until the start of next […]

Lambeth’s ‘Shortlife’ Housing Co-ops: a brief history by Trace Newton-Ingham ‘Shortlife’ Housing began in the early 1970s when Lambeth began Compulsorily Purchasing houses for ‘slum clearance’. During this forced displacement, the council began to ‘hand out’ keys for these newly emptied properties, to people who were being made homeless by the CPO-ing of other houses […]

Labour pledges to scrap the bedroom tax – Now stop the evictions! You may already be paying the bedroom tax. You may be among the 50,000 that are already building up arrears. You may be wondering how you are going to get through the next 2 years, when you hope that Miliband might get rid of […]