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Lee Gatiss reports on traditionalist meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace on LLF One councillor says that because Lambeth changes political hands regularly, ruling parties may have avoided raising rents for fear of alienating voters. Lambeth’s council chamber looks a lot like a criminal court, and when Ms Kerrigan spoke at January’s meeting, it was as if councillors were on trial. ‘Tenants will certainly remember [the rent rise] next time they cast their vote,’ she warned. So after the fraud, the incompetence, the soaring rents, the poor repairs – is Lambeth finally getting a grip on its housing? The church has authority in controversies of faith, but it cannot ordain anything contrary to God’s word written. That’s what our Articles say, Article 20. So bishops who are not disciplining those who are teaching in error, in accordance with our formularies and Scripture, are in contravention of their own consecration oaths, and they ought to repent as well. Whatever their personal opinion might be on the issue, they need to repent of not disciplining those who are in serious, soul-destroying error.”

To complete the problems facing both the TMOs and Lambeth Living, suspicions of fraudulent activity have surfaced recently. Richard Hornby, the current finance director, joined in January 2007 and a new divisional director of housing, Rachel Sharpe, joined last week from neighbouring Southwark Council to finally replace Ms Lynch. Ms Kerrigan spoke on behalf of tenants, saying that the 40 per cent of tenants not on housing benefit would be hit hardest. ‘The agenda is clearly to make tenants pay for the council’s mismanagement,’ she said at the meeting. ‘A council led by Labour particularly should not be pushing those tenants into benefit.’

The parents of the schoolgirl demanded a meeting with the police, so they can “explain to everyone why he was reinstated”. They also called for the Met’s ‘safer schools’ officers to be abolished and for trauma counselling to be offered to children like their daughter who experience violence at the hands of police. The consequence of being disproportionately policed is increased entry into the criminal justice system. The council pins the blame on a ‘high-risk’ contract with housing association Amicushorizon Group to run its temporary leasing, which the Liberal Democrat administration signed in 2003. The association says it was simply responding to council instructions. Since the deal ended a year ago, the council has reduced its void levels from 180 homes to 42. The campaign in Lambeth will continue the efforts started by the authority’s “Look out for Lambeth” campaign in March. But Lambeth promised to improve before – most notably after the 2005 fraud – and most tenants will be watching out for results, not words.

A formal complaint about the wrongful arrest was made to police in August last year and the Met confirmed last week that it is still being investigated by one of its professional standards units. The accident follows four other deaths of cyclists in London this year, all involving lorries. Claire Hitier-Abadie, 36, a French-born mother with two children, was riding a cycle hire “Boris bike” when she had a fatal accident with a Crossrail lorry in February. Southwark council is launching its own positive action campaign today, where men and boys will see sexual harassment through film and posters that offer the victims perspective. The new speed limits would be supported by new signs and road markings, and TfL would work closely with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to ensure that drivers understand and comply with them. Existing speed cameras would have their enforcement threshold changed to reflect the new speed limit. Banners attached to streetlamps in the new 20mph areas would also be put in place to increase driver awareness. Following implementation, TfL plans to carry out monitoring to determine whether further measures to reduce vehicle speeds are required. Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Board.The Mayor’s Office has accepted that SNB’s across London are not working and is wanting to consult re improved arrangements.Lambeth police at the time said so many officers attended because the officer had “pressed his emergency button and requested more units for fear of being assaulted”. But the APA, which is supporting the family, said the children at the scene were simply trying to let the officer know the girl wasn’t guilty of burglary. Chris Lee, executive director of housing, regeneration and environment since 2006, says: ‘We have frozen his assets to recover our money and the insurance claim covers most of it.’ Across all public perception indicators [9] people’s opinions about Lambeth Police have worsened across all indicators. Lambeth residents express [13] the lowest level of public trust and confidence in London that Lambeth Police officers will treat them fairly Lambet h stops and searches. (S&S) Action Plan Dashboard [3] that provides access to key data in relation to trust, confidence and disproportionality.