Southwark Council has just launched a traffic order for parking in Nelson Square, which will have the effect of returning some of the parking spaces that were lost when the works were done to put the raised access tables in on each side of the square. My colleague, Cllr Adele Morris took this issue up […]

The full details of cuts to bus services across Southwark have been revealed by Caroline Pidgeon, the Liberal Democrat Londonwide Assembly Member. Through carefully monitoring of the bus changes she has discovered three cuts to bus services which have already been implemented without TfL even informing the public before the changes came into place. Last […]

Hundreds of local residents in Borough, Bankside and across London have signed the online petition to save the RV1. Residents are telling us that this is a vital service that they rely on and that they don’t want to see half their buses taken away. People are also annoyed that the Mayor and TFL didn’t […]

Southwark Liberal Democrats are calling on the Mayor of London to take urgent action to stop the RV1 bus service being cut in half. Borough Liberal Democrat councillors David Noakes, Adele Morris and Maria Linforth-Hall have written to Transport for London (TfL) to demand that the plans are immediately halted so that residents can have […]

Plans for demolishing and rebuilding the Elephant and Castle shopping centre were dealt a blow last week by a surprise decision from Southwark Council’s Planning Committee. Plans by the development firm Delancey were expected to pass, given they the full support of the Labour Council’s leadership. The Planning Committee’s proceedings went on for almost eight […]

298 homes in Southwark have been sitting empty for over two years, research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.  The figures, uncovered through Freedom of Information requests, show that there are over 210,000 homes across the country  (795 in Southwark) that have been empty for six months or more. Of these, 60,000 had been empty […]

I’ve been receiving lots of emails about my views on Fracking. I was proud to stand up against Fracking as a Manchester councillor and called for the City to become a ‘Fracking Free Zone’, sadly the Labour administration disagreed.  This is a column I wrote for the Manchester Evening News about Fracking which was published in May 2013: […]