Brixton Blog

People facing hardship in the Lambeth and Croydon area received 27,109 emergency food parcels in the past year, with 9,632 of these going to children, figures released today (15 May) by The Lambeth Partnership of Foodbanks have revealed.

The partnership, which warned that donations from the public are no longer meeting the demand for help, saw a 9.5% increase in the number of emergency food parcels distributed compared to last year.

There was a 40 % increase in the number of pensioners receiving parcels compared to 2022/23.

A much anticipated and packed meeting to hear a joint Lambeth council and Metropolitan police plan to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in Brixton ended in disappointment last night (27 March).

Peter Impey, one of the founders of the grass roots residents’ organisation Action on ASB! (AOASB) which organised the meeting, told the full-capacity audience in St Matthew’s church opposite Lambeth town hall in Brixton: “We’ve worked so hard to try and get the police and the council to work together and this was not what we were expecting.”

Lambeth council has suspended the controversial Streatham Wells low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) trial that was introduced in October last year.

It simultaneously announced work on a major project to update the A23/Streatham High Road for walking and cycling as well as a “comprehensive package of bus priority measures” that is due to start in late Spring, causing “some reduced road capacity” while it lasts.

The council said the scheme had “met our objectives to reduce traffic and road danger’”.

Two LTN protesters make their way through the Gaza rally

Two rallies demanding action from Lambeth council took place outside the town hall in Brixton last night as a meeting of the full council took place inside.

Supporters of a ceasefire in Gaza got there first and gathered round the main entrance to demand that the council back their call, while opponents of low traffic neighbourhoods assembled on Brixton Hill.

Green Party councillors Scott Ainslie and Nicole Griffiths, who would later call on the council to back a ceasefire, addressed the rally.

Anti-choice protesters on Brixton Hill last year Local MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy today (18 January) accused the government of trying to roll back safe access zones designed to prevent women from facing harassment outside abortion clinics. MPs voted for the zones, which are due to come into force la

A speed limit of 20mph will be introduced on several major roads in Lambeth that are controlled by Transport for London (TfL) and not the council. Roads that will be affected include: Clapham Road, Kennington Park Road (A3) Kennington Lane (A3204) Stockwell Road (A203) Streatham Hill