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The Green Party is no longer supporting Saiqa Ali as a candidate in its Streatham St Leonard’s stronghold, after her social media posts were criticised as antisemitic and opposition parties repeatedly called for her to go -- Article >>>
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Common & Vale's Labour councillor Dominic Armstrong is bottom of the class for casework, data suggests — just six formal enquiries to the council, puts him bottom of the list in Lambeth and way behind any other councillor in #Streatham -- Article >>
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A car smashed through railings and embedded itself in the corner of a block of flats on Streatham High Road late on Saturday evening. All three emergency services attended the incident. No serious injuries were reported at the scene
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Too busy to be open, too busy to close? The road through the middle of #Streatham Wells is key to the fabric of the area, and poses difficult questions for policy-makers and council election candidates -- Article >>>
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Lambeth’s deputy council leader says there are “currently no plans to restrict traffic on Valley Road” in #Streatham – but confirms that a cycle route is proposed along it, and stresses that the council needs to “keep people safe” -- Article >>>
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Pothole politics: the crumbling state of #Streatham’s roads is emerging as a focus for local election candidates, with the Greens highlighting potholes as a “bread and butter” issue that it says is symptomatic of the area's “managed decline” -- Article >>>
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LibDem council candidates are “strongly opposed” to the return of the #Streatham Wells LTN, which brought the area’s transport system to its knees before Lambeth was forced to ditch it, almost exactly two years ago -- Full article >>> streathamstuff.co.uk/article…
Labour marks its territory in #Streatham Wells -- council moves ahead with "healthy route" cycle scheme, which seems to require the closure (again) of Valley Road and also a cycle lane straight across the common -- full article >>>
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Argument builds over who did what and when, as Labour backs away from streetlight-dimming plan streathamstuff.co.uk/article…
#Streatham’s Labour councillors say they ditched controversial streetlight-dimming scheme a year ago – and blame "error" for their inclusion in council plans. LibDems - accused of "misinformation" - say Labour have questions to answer - Full article >
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All very murky - Council plans to dim #Streatham's streetlights, are they on or off?
Labour is trying to close the issue down, claiming that it “vetoed” its own idea last year. But can that be right, and is the controversial plan really off the table?
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A car crashed into a lamppost on a #Streatham street on Wednesday after hitting a broken drain cover that residents have been reporting to the council for nearly two months. Emergency services attended, and the female driver was taken to hospital with a suspected broken arm.
ALT A black car on the pavement, its bonnet and wing smashed by contact with a lamppost, which has been knocked off vertical
The cover was originally broken by a utilities worker, who had said it would be fixed the next day, according to one resident. Another said he had reported it to Thames Water, who sent the report to Lambeth council, while a third said he had reported it to Lambeth directly.
ALT A police car in the foreground and an ambulance behind it, with the crashed car on the pavement
The FixMyStreet website also has two reports of the problem. The first of them dates back to June 15th: "Manhole cover rocks and is noisy as cars drive over it". The second, from 22nd July, describes a "collapsed catchpit cover". Both include pictures of the damage.
ALT A picture of the cover, missing one corner and misaligned in its frame, from a report on the FixMyStreet website
Waterstones' first weekend in #Streatham went "fantastically", and "a lot of books" got sold, possibly including one by Boris Johnson, although that could not be confirmed. --1/8
The British Heart Foundation operates a second-hand bookshop on the High Road, but the new Waterstones branch is otherwise Streatham's only specialist bookseller, and the first since Words Worth Books, fondly recalled by long-time Streatham watchers... xitter.cf/RJDoyleSW2/status/1766…
Top of the list by number was the late lamented Words Worth Books, from whom I appear to have bought an enormous number of books, some of which I have even got around to reading in the subsequent thirty years.
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