Brixton Buzz

As we reported earlier this month, the iconic 1970s Kennington Park skatebowl, known as “Kenny,” is at risk of being abandoned as Lambeth Council considers pulling its funding.

A change.org petition has already received over 1,700 signatures and last night campaigners assembled outside Lambeth Town Hall demanding that the park be brought back to full use,

FoKP are waiting to hear from the Council if any decisions were made at last night’s meeting

Keep up with FoKP’s Skatebowl story on their Instagram feed or on Facebook.

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.

A new book charting Keir Starmer’s rise to power has levelled explosive allegations about Lambeth Labour’s right-wing faction – including claims that the council’s current Deputy Leader, Cllr Danny Adilypour, joked with a white staffer about “becoming racist” while working with Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Labour members.

The Green Group of Councillors say that they have been made aware of “shocking attempts by the Lambeth Labour Group of Councillors to persuade disgraced former Labour Councillor Irfan Mohammed (pictured above) to attend Lambeth Council’s Full Council meeting next week on 15th October.”

They added: “This is despite Cllr Mohammed being charged with multiple sexual assault charges and awaiting trial in 2026.”

They told Brixton Buzz:

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.