To get access to the building you need to round the side of the church, down Nelson’s road, and ring the bell – someone will answer! The only time the surgery wont run is on bank holiday weekends.

If you can’t make it down then feel free to email anyone of your councillors at the below addresses:

Helen O’Malley – homalley@lambeth.gov.uk

Nigel Halesden – nhalesden@lambeth.gov.uk

Christopher Wellebelove – cwellebelove@lambeth.gov.uk

Local Clapham Town counsellor Nigel Halesden gives an interview with local Clapham blogger Jason Cobb, which was uploaded on the 19th January (for those searching through his back catalogue). It is a tough interview in which Nigel talks about the scope of the project and when it will be finished, as well as answers some of the questions about how the redevelopment has been conducted.

Have a listen to the interview and give us your feedback on what you have heard.

Information about where classes at the leisure centre have been moved to are available at this page.

As the Lambeth website outlines, excessive noise is defined as a disturbance that impacts on any resident’s quality of life. Specifically this can be:

If you’re being upset by any of these problems, then you can call the 9am to 5pm service on 020 7926 6111 or the rapid response service which is open at the below times:

The petition close on Wednesday, so if you havent already signed the petition please put your name on the site and forward a link onto your friends and family. Its vital we get this funding to meet the unexpected surge in demand for primary school places in Lambeth – it sounds like a cliche, but your voice really will count!

The Streatham Guardian has just put up a decent write up about the council’s gritting effort across Lambeth and has the reassuring message that we aren’t about to run out of that all important grit as the council has enough resources to see us through the cold snap. This is thankfully coming to end very soon, but if you want updates from the local area have a look at our page from the weekend.

Remember if you have any comments about how services have operated during the cold weather or suggestions on how things could be improved, please contact your Clapham Town councillors below.

Helen O’Malley – homalley@lambeth.gov.uk

Nigel Halesden – NHaselden@lambeth.gov.uk

Christopher Wellbelove – CWellbelove@lambeth.gov.uk

The council’s website has once again been updated with news on services across the borough – this link outlines the state of play yesterday, but is still fairly accurate. Keep monitoring the main page for further updates as well as TFL’s main site for news about the transport network across the captial – it also has a handy five day weather forecast. The BBC, as ever, is also running a pretty effective weather and news page on the big freeze, which alas is predicting some sharp icy winds and snow over the next 48 hours.

If you have any comment or views on how services are working – or any urgent issues – please contact your local Clapham Town Labour councillors:

Helen O’Malley – homalley@lambeth.gov.uk

Nigel Halesden – NHaselden@lambeth.gov.uk

Christopher Wellbelove – CWellbelove@lambeth.gov.uk

However, its not quite as scary as the Tory leader scrambling around yesterday trying to figure out whether the Tories were in favour of some kind of ill defined tax break for married couples or not. One moment Dave was promising it to the nation, then several spin filled melodramas later his advisors were rapidly packing him into a cupboard and pretending the whole thing had never happened. Apparently Cameron – according to one Tory source -  ended up blaming his people for HIS foul up, screaming about briefing papers until the men in the white coats came to calm him down.

While all this was going on one sharp photo-shopper came up with a far more appealing version of that creepy poster. Unlike the slogan on the orignal, the words on this are true…  

The council has updated its snow page with news about what services – buildings, schools – are up and running.

UPDATE! – READ THIS PAGE FOR LATEST NEWS

The mayor hiked up fares for those without season tickets – commonly people from low income backgrounds – late last year, with the hit being delivered from the start of this year.

A full run down of the prices, borrowed from a summary on Liberal Conspiracy, is below: 

 -A single bus journey by Oyster up 20% to £1.20

- A weekly oyster bus pass up 20% to £16.60

- Six-zone peak single Tube fare by Oyster up 10.5% to £4.20

- A five-zone off-peak single Tube fare (outside zone 1) up 18.2% to £1.30

- Most Oyster pay-as-you-go Tube fares up by 20p per trip.

- Overall tube fares will rise 3.9% and overall bus fares up by 12.7%.

This is obviously not good for anyone, especially as the mayor continues to take the approach of cutting key services, like policing, while jetting off to Europe to beg for super rich hedge fund bosses to be let off from more scrutiny. Or, as he has done today, whining about those poor old bankers and their desire to leave the country (dont suppose they need any help packing?)

Surprisingly, Clapham Tories haven’t uttered a word about these rises and their impact on residents – nothing on their Parliamentary candidate’s website for Vauxhall or on that of the Lambeth Tories.

How about helping to find out what they think by contacting them asking for their view on whether they back yet more of Boris’ far rises – you can contact their candidate here and your local Tory candidates here. Let us know your feedback by contacting your Labour councillors as well on this page.

We believe that hitting people hard, especially those on low incomes, is not what Clapham needs. These prices could have been avoided had the mayor not already mismanaged the capital’s budget. The question is, do Clapham Tories back their Mayor’s fare rises?