Greens drop support for Streatham candidate Saiqa Ali

29 Apr 2026 — The Green Party is no longer supporting Saiqa Ali as a candidate in its Streatham St Leonard’s stronghold, following allegations that she made antisemitic posts on social media and amid ...

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Streatham councillor Dominic Armstrong is bottom of the class for casework, data suggests

25 Apr 2026 — Council data shows that the Labour councillor has made just six formal Member Enquiries – the council’s main mechanism for handling residents’ issues. He’s bottom of a list of more than ...

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Car smashes into block of flats on Streatham High Road

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 inj...

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A residential road doing a main road’s job: the Valley Road conundrum

17 Mar 2026 — Traffic flows heading south through Streatham have again highlighted the conundrum that Valley Road poses to local policy-makers. On the one hand it’s too busy and its rush-hour traffic ...

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Council must keep cyclists safe on Valley Road, Lambeth deputy leader says

17 Mar 2026 — Lambeth’s deputy council leader has said there are “currently no plans to restrict traffic on Valley Road” – but confirmed that a cycle route is proposed along it, and stressed that the ...

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Pothole politics comes to Streatham, as Greens point to “literal craters” as symbol of decline

16 Mar 2026 — The crumbling state of Streatham’s roads is emerging as a focus for local election candidates, with the Green Party highlighting local potholes as a “bread and butter” issue that it says...

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LibDems to oppose return of Streatham Wells LTN

9 Mar 2026 — Local LibDem council candidates have come out as “strongly opposed” to the reinstatement of the Streatham Wells Low-Traffic Neighbourhood, which famously brought the area’s transport syst...

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Labour marks its territory in Streatham Wells, with cycle plan for Valley Road and Streatham Common

Straight on for Croydon! Streatham’s Labour-run council is pressing ahead with a cycle scheme that seems to require not just the closure – again – of Valley Road, but also a bike lane straight across ...

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Argument builds over who did what and when, as Labour backs away from streetlight-dimming plan

Streatham’s most senior Labour party councillors have doubled down on claims that they ditched controversial streetlight-dimming plans at first sight and as much as a full year ago – and blamed errors...

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All very murky - Labour’s plans to dim Streatham's streetlights, are they on or off?

Council plans to save money by turning down streetlights in Streatham and across Lambeth have generated a month-long storm of argument (and plenty of evasive political wording). Labour is now trying t...

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