Brixton Buzz

Local residents in Streatham have raised concerns about the state of a property which was attended by the fire brigade earlier this year in their local neighbourhood.

The property is owned by Dellhome Ltd, a company used by developer Iqbal Ali Khan to rent temporary accommodation to various London councils.

Private Eye recently reported on the fact that Lambeth has given almost £4m to companies owned by Iqbal Ali Khan, despite the fact that the landlord has a previous conviction for illegally converting a property into flats without planning permission.

Seen locked up outside Craft Beer on Brixton Station Road is this knackered bike which served as an advert for the now defunct Buzz Bike rental business for three years.

Time hasn’t been kind to the bike, which now has buckled and broken wheels.

The Vauxhall-based Buzzbike supplied bikes and e-bikes to commuters for a monthly fee shut up shop in November last year citing “escalating costs and difficult economic conditions that have impacted the whole bike industry.”

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face, and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside his body, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is summoned from Baker Street, with Dr Watson in tow, to unravel the mysteries surrounding his death, and investigate the ancient curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles…

Lambeth Council has been forced to step in and rethink part of its borough-wide green retrofit programme after its main contractor, Cenergist Ltd, went into administration over the summer

— leaving the work only 90 per cent complete and the Council scrambling to finish the job.

Cenergist had been hired under the government-backed Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to carry out low-carbon heating and energy-saving upgrades at ten schools and two leisure centres, including Streatham Leisure Centre.

Lambeth Liberal Democrats have been in touch to express their deep concern over the decision to relocate the Streatham Wells and Streatham Common & Vale Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNTs) from their base at 326-328 Streatham High Road to Gipsy Hill Police Station in Crystal Palace.

They told Brixton Buzz:

We are shocked and appalled at the terror attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester yesterday.

That this happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it even more horrific.

In Lambeth, we stand united with our Jewish community in rejecting all forms of violence, terror and hate, including antisemitism.

With this incredibly devastating news, our hearts go out to everyone affected by this appalling terrorism, particularly those who are grieving for the loss of loved ones.

Lambeth’s Deputy Leader, Cllr Rezina Chowdhury, has quietly deleted her X account over the weekend – just as the Council finally responded to months of complaints about her social media behaviour.

At first glance, ditching X might look like an act of principle. Who wants to hang around on a platform run by a tech bro who has openly called for a UK race war?

But the timing tells another story.

Cllr Chowdhury’s disappearance from the site looks far more like an attempt to erase the evidence – a digital cover-up with the May 2026 local elections looming.

It’s not every day you see Streatham and Croydon North MP Steve Reed relaxed and smiling opposite Michael Gove.

Yet that was the scene in a recent Spectator interview, with Reed – now Starmer’s Housing Minister – talking through his big new plans for communities and housing with the ex-Tory Minister turned editor of the right-wing rag.

What stood out wasn’t just Reed’s ease in explaining his vision to a right-wing audience, but his choice of words. “Power has to be taken, not given,” he declared.

Local MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill) will be a headline speaker at an emergency South London zoom meeting on Friday 26 September at 6pm, called in response to the biggest far-right march in recent British history.

After the 110,000-strong Unite the Kingdom rally which Brixton Buzz described as “Christian fascism” (see our film below), the Rt Rev Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark, publicly denounced “racism as sin” ahead of a cross-denominational church statement released on Sunday.

When Steve Reed was leader of Lambeth Council back in 2010, he sold us a bold vision: the Co-operative Council. It promised residents more control, more say, and more power over the services they used. Lambeth, he claimed, would be at the cutting edge of a democratic revolution.