Streatham News

This World AIDS Day, Sunday 1 December, the London-wide, Lambeth-led HIV Prevention Programme Do It London focuses on health inequalities, highlighting the needs of Black heritage communities disproportionately affected by HIV.

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Vital expenses including extra help to pay household bills, and school meals during the holidays, can now be supported over the next six months through the borough’s £2.7m Household Support Fund (HSF) allocation, confirmed by the Government.

A team of ambulance crews at London Ambulance Service are calling on Londoners to help spread some festive cheer by donating presents to sick children this Christmas.

Central to the improvements is a significant upgrade to the local streets and space for local businesses around the shops on Amesbury Avenue, which will help to create a new focal point for the neighbourhood and boost local businesses.

Here’s an interesting Freedom of Information request regarding Active Lambeth, the in-house Town Hall company that now manages leisure centres in the borough.

In short, the FoI requests:

On Monday, low pressure will continue to bring rain and showers for many, wintry across northern Scotland, and fairly windy at first in the east. However any wet and windy weather will ease as a ridge of high pressure moves in from the west overnight Monday and into Tuesday.

Lambeth has become the first London local authority landlord to receive a C2 grading from the regulator. The RSH issues gradings from C4 where it has serious concerns about failings, through to C1 where all standards are met.

The plan includes a major upgrade for the local centre on Elm Park and permanent upgrades to traffic filters throughout the neighbourhood. The improvements on Elm Park were made possible by the 73 per cent drop in traffic on the road brought about by the area’s low traffic neighbourhood.

Streatham kept up their winning form on home ice as they defeated Slough Jets 4-2 at the weekend, writes Christopher Beal.