🚨Police teams in Walworth and Peckham are to be DOUBLED🚨 With town centre plans and action days this summer, Labour are making our streets safer.

Only Labour are serious about tackling crime in Peckham. Your Labour councillors have worked with the Met to establish a new Town Centre Team - doubling the number of police officers in Peckham 🚔

We welcome the Planning Committee’s decision to refuse the Aylesham application.

Thanks to Labour’s planning policies, local councillors in London Bridge and West Bermondsey are investing £2.6 million in local infrastructure projects From estates to parks to solar panels, we are delivering improvements hand in hand with our communities

Labour is investing £39bn in the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation.

We've campaigned for this, and this Labour government has listened.

Happy Pride Month to our LGBTQ+ community in Southwark and beyond! Yesterday Cabinet attended a ceremony to raise the pride flag above the council’s offices. This year we have provided £32,000 of grants to make this summer a summer of pride in Southwark 🏳️‍🌈

We have been providing free healthy school meals in Southwark for over a decade Tory and Lib Dem governments ignored us when we said that free school meals are a powerful tool to tackle poverty Now Labour are delivering what they couldn’t: free school meals across the country

This week, Cllr Kieron Williams announced his resignation as Leader of Southwark Council and Southwark Labour. Please see below for our full statement 👇

“Southwark is a place full of hope, and it is full of amazing people, that create that hope.” On Saturday we came together to celebrate everything our communities have achieved over the past year Congratulations to all our residents who received an award 👏

With our local health on the high street programme, waiting lists down and now GP surgeries being upgraded across our borough, Labour is bringing healthcare to the community and recovering our NHS 🩺

On day 2 of the Southwark councillors’ challenge, our cllrs were put through their paces in circuit training at Burgess Park 💪

Labour are building genuinely affordable homes for local people 🏡 Last year more social rent homes were completed in Southwark than in any other London borough 🏗️ Meanwhile no Lib Dem councils in London managed to start building a single new social rent home ❌

Labour are working with our communities to boost the environment, with the first set of £550,000 delivered for local organisations to help wildlife and build climate resilience 🌳

80 years ago, the freedoms we enjoy were secured by our remarkable Second World War generation. Today we come together to celebrate those who fought for our freedom.

“Southwark Council leader announces £20 million of funding for communities across Southwark” southwarknews.co.uk/news/communi...

“Our residents have had enough of the criminal dumpers who pollute our neighbourhoods with rubbish.” - Cllr James McAsh’s comment as the government announced new powers to crush fly-tippers’ vans southwarknews.co.uk/news/communi...

Today Labour have announced a crackdown on fly tipping: ✅ New £1,000 fines for fly tipping in Southwark ✅ New powers for the council to seize and crush waste criminals’ vans ✅ New technology used to identify fly-tip vehicles ✅ New sentences for waste criminals

Only Labour has a plan to rebuild trust between our local communities and the police who serve them The new policing oversight meets tonight, with residents at the heart of improving transparency and accountability of policing in Southwark 🚔

Local Labour councillors in Rotherhithe have secured changes to Lower Road to ease congestion 🚗 Consultation on an additional lane between Redriff Road and Plough Way will open on 1st May

Labour are delivering in in Peckham with an upgrade to Peckham Rye Station Square 🏗️ The new Square will revitalise the entrance to the station from Rye Lane, exposing the refurbished Victorian station building and providing new open space on Rye Lane

Do you live on the Harold, Swan Mead or Creasy estates? Your local Labour councillors are bringing the repairs service to you! From Midday tomorrow the repairs team will be on hand to fix your repairs on the spot 🔧

Last month Labour councillors brought the council’s repairs service to the Brandon Estate in Newington This Wednesday London Bridge & West Bermondsey councillors are bringing a repairs action day to Harold, Swan Mead & Creasy estates, with repairs carried out on the spot 🔧

Fantastic to see residents moving into 22 new council homes in Camberwell We are delivering more council homes than any other local authority, with over 3,000 new council homes built or on site - delivering genuinely affordable homes for local people 🏡

A lovely day to be out speaking to residents around Trinity Church Square. Such a beautiful Southwark spot! Thanks to this amazing @southwarklabour.bsky.social team! 🌹

Labour are working hard to rebuild trust between our residents and the police The Police Oversight Board is putting the community at the heart of this work Come along next Tuesday or email the address below to share your thoughts

Our clean power mission is simple ✅ Taking back control of our energy security ✅ Creating jobs across the country ✅ Boosting growth www.gov.uk/government/n...

Local Labour councillors in Old Kent Road are investing almost £2 million in local projects - improving green spaces, making roads safer and upgrading sports equipment across the local area

Local Labour councillors in Rotherhithe are investing £200k to revitalise Albion Channel 🦆 This comes as part of £20 million set to be delivered by Southwark Labour for local infrastructure projects

Southwark Labour announces £20 million investment for local projects, with first £5 million to include: 🏓 £ 1 million for Marlborough Sports Garden 🌳 £700,000 for a new community hub in Leyton Square park 🦆 £200,000 to revitalise Albion Channel in Rotherhithe

Amidst a national housing crisis, Labour are working hard to build more genuinely affordable homes for local people So far this year one in five of all new social rent homes started in London were started here in Southwark 🏗️

London schools are going greener—and saving money. Today I revealed which schools will receive our Greener Schools funding to help them cut energy bills and carbon emissions, so more can be spent on what matters most.

New community-owned homes are coming to Peckham 🏡 London CLT will partner with the local community and council to deliver around 12 new genuinely affordable homes - the value of which will be tied to local incomes forever

After three years of inspections, safety works and planning, the leaning pillars in the Ada Salter Garden in Southwark Park have been replaced to match the original pergolas and lakeside wall. We are delighted that the Garden is re-opening to the public after the repairs have been completed.

“The Arzner, in Bermondsey Square, is billed as the only cinema in the capital dedicated solely to screening LGBTQ+ films” 🎥 🍿 t.co/zMyTXoTUqS

Labour councillors are calling on your support to protect local policing in the area t.co/NDYq4X1WD2

Despite Tory and Lib Dem austerity cutting council services across the country, Labour have kept our libraries running and opened two brand new ones Brilliant to now see two of our fantastic libraries recognised in Time Out’s list of London’s best! www.timeout.com/london/thing...

In which I mix my professional and political roles to explain why @southwarklabour.bsky.social values the borough's creative industries so highly.

After Southwark Labour rejected the opposition’s budget amendment this year, Cllr Richard Leeming explores why so many companies choose Southwark to shoot their films, and why voting Lib Dem would send them elsewhere…

Last night we were delighted to back @unison.org.uk campaign for a #NationalCareService ✅ Improving quality of care ✅ Supporting independent living ✅ Public sector delivery of care ✅ National partnership for delivery ✅ A fair pay agreement for carers

Many thanks to Zaya Nasheed & Migrant Democracy for their work in championing voting rights for Southwark residents born outside the UK Tonight Council Assembly unanimously supported extending the right to vote to migrants across our borough

Cllr Michael Situ backs Labour’s plans for a national care service 👇

Celebrating our migrant communities, Cllr Charlie Smith speaks to how proud he feels to adjudicate Southwark’s citizenship ceremonies as a former Mayor

Tonight Cllr Sam Dalton moved our motion on extending voting rights to migrants who call Southwark home:

This year in London more than one in five new social rent homes have been started in Labour-run Southwark. Meanwhile Lib Dem-run Kingston, Richmond and Sutton have started zero, zero and zero new social rent homes Check the GLA’s stats here: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

Announcing £15,000 for a new accessible roundabout in Dulwich Park Playground, Cllr Margy Newens highlights how local Labour councillors are working with the Friends of Dulwich Park to upgrade the park’s children’s play area 🛝

Local Labour councillors are working with the community to expand wildlife and green spaces in Southwark Cllr Reggie Popoola outlines the rewinding and repurposing of space around Nunhead Library to bring more green space for residents to enjoy

Speaking to our themed motion @jamesmcash.bsky.social celebrates “the deletion of the tarmac wall” between Dr Harold Moody and Consort Park 🔨 Southwark Labour are bringing parks to a street near you 🌳

As we await the opening of a brand new leisure centre in Canada Water, Labour councillors from Rotherhithe went along for a sneak peak 👀

Many thanks to Latin Elephant for celebrating the opening of outdoor cooking in Burgess Park and raising the need for greater collaboration and sharing of power with community groups