A Labour politician who oversaw the sale of a London council house in a £3 million deal has been criticised for entering a prize draw to win it. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A South London childminder is locked in a dispute with a firm owned by a millionaire Labour party donor about trees overhanging her back garden. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Over half of a London borough’s larger council homes were let to families outside of the bidding system in the second half of last year. A housing support group says it means there is 'no guarantee' council homes are going to those most in need. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Streatham residents opposed to a £650k plan to replace parking spaces with seating down their street have blocked access to council workers set to start work on the controversial project. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

South London politicians have hit out at the Met after it moved local police to a station in Central London—over a 45-minute walk away from the area. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Lambeth Council ended main housing duty to 187 families after it found them a flat in the private rented sector in 2024. Eviction from privately rented homes is one of the leading causes of homelessness, according to housing charity Shelter. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

187 Lambeth families were given the choice between a private landlord or homelessness in 2024. Why is that an issue? Evictions from private tenancies are the biggest driver of homelessness, so it's simply causing a cycle. Story by @robjfirth.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

The Met has asked Lambeth Council to suspend the licence of Aquum in Clapham after a woman was allegedly raped by a staff member. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A South London police officer who made misogynistic comments in a WhatsApp chat containing other Met employees has been given a final written warning. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A mum and her kids had to go to the toilet in bin bags after they were left without a flushing toilet for a month. Zena Ekada said she has been left in despair at the state of temporary accommodation she was placed in by Lambeth Council in January. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A Labour London borough with a pledge to create 11,000 council homes by 2043 has defended its building record after data uncovered by the Liberal Democrat opposition showed it failed to start work on a single council home last year. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Lambeth Council's new five-year homelessness strategy admits ‘the need to source TA [temporary accommodation] in more affordable locations, including outside of London’. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Teachers at a South London primary school due to shut down are in a 'lose-lose situation' after the council pushed forward the closure date by a year, a staff member has claimed. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A South London road where traffic is so bad houses shake and crack now has even more buses running down it. Timetable changes mean the 284 between Grove Park Cemetery and Lewisham station will pass down Sandhurst Road in Hither Green more often. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A former South London court will be turned into a 15-storey hotel where most of the rooms don’t have windows. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Squatters have reportedly moved into a South London cinema which closed suddenly six months ago. The intruders are believed to have taken over the former Catford Mews building in Catford town centre around a fortnight ago. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Over 70 per cent of council homes lack an up-to-date electrical safety certificate in Southwark. Council leader Kieron Williams admitted Southwark should have previously focused more on improving the quality of council homes at a meeting on Monday. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

As part of our new Broken Homes campaign, we're looking at how Londoners are being displaced, sometimes hundreds of miles from their support network, due to the chronic shortage of temporary accommodation in the city. Story by @robjfirth.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

The controversial Borough Triangle development, which covers an area the size of one and a half football pitches, was narrowly approved by councillors at a Southwark planning meeting on Wednesday evening. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Labour's @jimdickson.bsky.social has stepped down as councillor for Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction ward in Lambeth. A by-election will be held to select his successor on May 1. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Nigel Farage's old school is getting a refurb: www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

The Borough Triangle development in Elephant and Castle will go before Southwark Council’s planning committee this evening. I spoke to residents and traders about what they made of the controversial plans, which include a 44-storey skyscraper. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A South London business that delivers training to young people has been left 'devastated' after thieves stole over £25,000 worth of laptops, cameras and microphones. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

This has been a bit lost in the smoke today with the Hayes fire, but @robjfirth.bsky.social has written a great piece exploring why it's virtually impossible to get a 3 or 4-bed council home in Lambeth at the moment www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Bakerloo line trains could run every two minutes under Transport for London plans to upgrade and extend the Tube route. The proposals, which depend on government funding, would allow 27 trains per hour to run on the line, seven more than the current 20. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

South London families stuck on a council's housing waiting list for over a decade have expressed concern about an apparent drop in the number of larger social homes available to bid on. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A London councillor who quit Labour 8 months ago has joined the Green Party. @tamhauyu.bsky.social - who was elected in 2022 - will sit as Lewisham Council's only Green councillor. @zackpolanski.bsky.social said he was 'delighted' to see Tam join the Greens. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Plans to restructure Lambeth Council's child safeguarding team were approved the day after a 16-year-old boy was shot dead in Stockwell. Story by @robjfirth.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A union official has criticised Lambeth Council for approving controversial plans to restructure its contextual child safeguarding team after a 16-year-old schoolboy was shot dead in the borough last week. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Care leavers and domestic abuse survivors will be given a better chance of securing council homes by a South London borough. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Janet Wertli was incorrectly charged hundreds of pounds for lights in a random car park and maintenance to non-existent grounds as part of her service charge. She now wants Southwark Council to include a detailed breakdown of costs in each service charge bill. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Traffic restrictions could be introduced on more streets in Kennington under plans revealed by Lambeth Council. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

A South London council has waved through a £1 million cut to the libraries budget despite opposition from residents. Lambeth Labour councillors approved the more than one fifth reduction to the 2025/26 libraries budget at a meeting on Wednesday. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Plans for a 15-storey tower on top of Southwark Tube station and 44 council homes next door have been approved by councillors. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A political row has broken out between Lambeth Labour and the Green and Lib Dem opposition after auditors warned the Labour-led council that it was in an ‘extremely challenging financial situation’ and advised it to make further savings. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

South London politicians have expressed shock and sadness after a 16-year-old schoolboy was shot dead on Tuesday. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Ricardo Rauseo paid 12 months rent upfront (£21k) to secure a 1-bed flat in Brixton from landlord Lexadon in 2022, after starting a master's degree at LSE. He claims his experience from renting from the landlord was so bad he moved back to the USA. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

South London residents have slammed plans by the firm behind clubs including Printworks and Drumsheds to put on events in a former newspaper warehouse near their homes. www.mylondon.news/whats-on/mus...

Lambeth Council leader @clairekholland.bsky.social has denied hiding cuts to libraries from the public, after a campaigner accused her of ‘burying’ a £1 million package of savings in a 10 page spreadsheet. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A South London council spent £10k on a launch ceremony for its borough plan held at Tate Modern. Southwark Council leader Kieron Williams was among the more than 100 guests who attended the ‘Southwark 2030’ event at the gallery in February. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

A London borough with 40k families waiting for a home may have to sell off council houses to repay a £40 million government bailout an official admitted on Thursday. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Southwark Council has been accused of ‘waste’ by an opposition politician after commissioning a £60k report into a £1 million secondary school free meals pilot which it later buried. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

South London residents living on a street used as a rat run by speeding drivers fear it's only a matter of time before a pedestrian gets killed. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

A memorial for the last two men executed for sodomy in England has moved a step closer after a South London politician gave his renewed backing to the project. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Six years ago Sadiq Khan planned to set up a commission to explore how rent controls might stop the costs of London's private rental market from spiralling. It still hasn't been set up, and Londoners are backing fresh calls to do so. Story by @robjfirth.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/cost-of...

'Like queuing for nightclub': South London crime meeting branded 'disaster' but MP slams 'shouty men' ... I tried to get to the bottom of what happened at an event attended by MP Neil Coyle in Rotherhithe the other week... www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

I spoke to gym goers and swimmers in Southwark about their thoughts on the council's planned leisure centre membership price hike. www.mylondon.news/whats-on/wha...

A new 2k capacity music venue has been allowed to open in a South London shopping centre due to be bulldozed within a few years. Corner Corner will be based in the former branch of The Range in Surrey Quays Shopping Centre for five years. www.mylondon.news/whats-on/mus...

A Labour politician who works at a church accused of abuse and exploitation by former members has resigned from Lewisham Council's cabinet. Brenda Dacres announced Cllr Kim Powell had left her role as cabinet member for business with ‘immediate effect'. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...