Author: tgntra

New Digital Support Service

Posted by

0

We want to tell you about our new Digital Support service which has been set up with the support of Southwark Council Tenants Fund.

We are now running regular Digital Support sessions at various locations throughout the borough where people who live or work in Southwark can get free help and support if they are having difficulty getting online. Our staff and volunteers are available on the sessions to guide people through online systems including:

  • Making and managing your Universal Credit claim online
  • Setting up a MySouthwark account including registering for Homesearch
  • Online Bidding
  • Making a change in your circumstances

We have also set up an agency referral appointment system that you can use to help the people you deal with get online and get net savvy. If you work for an organisation and wish to refer a client, please click here.

If clients prefer they can simply drop in to see us during the sessions or they can email or phone for an appointment and details are on our website: click here

If you have any questions about the new service please email operations@citizensadvicesouthwark.org.uk and we will get back to you.

Best wishes

Christopher Green

Chief Executive Officer
Citizens Advice Southwark
8 Market Place, Southwark Park Road, London SE16 3UQ

Tel: 020 7740 1744

Mobile: 07881 558600
www.citizensadvicesouthwark.org.uk

Meeting Reminder – May Elections – 28rd March 2018

Posted by

0

6.30pm Wednesday 28th March
Globe House | Corner of Bermondsey Street & Crucifix Lane

3rd MAY COUNCIL ELECTIONS CANDIDATES MEETING
WE HAVE INVITED THE SIX LEADING CANDIDATES FOR THE
LONDON BRIDGE AND WEST BERMONDSEY WARD TO PRESENT THEIR POSITIONS ON NEIGHBOURHOOD, LOCAL AND CITY-WIDE PLANNING ISSUES AND TO ANSWER GENERAL QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC

vtpw

oba

Our meetings are open to the public and we encourage you to take this opportunity to bring others along with you for what we hope will be a very informative discussion.

Draft Agenda:

6:30pm – Welcome and Update

  • OBF Neighbourhood Area Application  –  our legal advice on Judicial Review
  • A Local List for Southwark  –  A change of heart from the council?
  • New Southwark Plan  –  Summary of key issues and expected timelines

7:00pm – Council Candidate Manifesto Introductions

  • from the Liberal Democrats: Damian O’Brien, Humaira Ali, William Houngbo
  • from Labour: Julie Eyles, John Batteson and Ed McDonagh

7:30pm – Questions to the candidates from the Forum

8:00pm – AOB

If you have any questions or comments which you would like the Forum to consider putting forward on your behalf  please put them to us on info@oldbermondseyforum.org

All Welcome

LTF special meeting Wednesday 21st March 11am

Posted by

0

Re the Mayor’s consultation on estate regen ballots

To:  LTF friends and contacts  

LTF is holding a meeting for members, friends and contacts on the Mayor’s consultation on estate regeneration ballots on 21st March at Ampthill Square Tenants Hall, Barnby Street, London NW1 2RS.

Please find attached a short LTF briefing on the Mayor’s consultation document.  It includes a summary of the consultation document, the GLA’s consultation questions and also (inserted and highlighted in yellow) some comments that LTF has made previously in other consultation responses, where appropriate.

Discussion at the meeting will feed into the LTF’s response to consultation and the drawing together of some key bullet points that we hope will support LTF members, friends and contact in making their own responses to the consultation.

If you are unable to attend the meeting but have any comments that you would like included in the discussion, please forward to me.

Best wishes

Sharon Hayward

Co-ordinator

London Tenants Federation

May Elections – Our new ward candidates speak – 28th March 2018

Posted by

0

OBF OLD BERMONDSEY FORUM
MEETING and UPDATE
6.30pm Wednesday 28 March
Globe House | Corner of Bermondsey Street & Crucifix Lane 

MAY COUNCIL ELECTIONS
OUR LABOUR AND LIB-DEM WARD COUNCILLORS ARE INVITED TO TALK ABOUT THEIR RESPECTIVE POSITIONS ON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING TO INFORM YOUR VOTING
As our followers are now aware, the Council have refused to allow St Thomas St or the areas between the railway line and Tooley St to become part of our neighbourhood plan.  This is a brazen reassertion of their rejection of the whole principle of neighbourhood planning – at least in so far as it is anything other than another sham engagement of the community in the development of their neighbourhoods.  It is of course in line with their sham ‘consultations’ on planning issues generally.  We have instructed our specialist planning QC to advise on the legality of this decision as it makes neighbourhood planning meaningless; essentially, neighbourhoods can only have a plan if it endorses exactly with what the Council themselves want to do. We are allowed only to be their puppets.

It is obvious that the present Council are likely to continue their steadfast resistance to anything that stands in the way of their secretive cash-driven deals with developers, done behind closed doors.  So what support can we expect from at least our local Councillors? The Council elections on 3 May are our once-in-four-years opportunity to select at least three members of the Council so we have invited candidates for our redefined ward, London Bridge and West Bermondsey, to share their views and state their positions.

Currently confirmed to attend are:

Julie Eyles, John Batteson and Ed McDonagh of the Labour Party

and

Damien O’Brien, Ben Johnson of the Liberal Democrats

Also to be discussed is our response to the Council ‘s refusal of our area extension.  By the time of the meeting we expect to have legal advice on the prospects for a Judicial Review of the decision.

All Welcome

REMINDER: CONSULTATION ON THE OLD KENT ROAD AREA ACTION PLAN DROP IN SESSION

Posted by

0

We have prepared a further draft of the Old Kent Road Area Action Plan which we are consulting on until 21 March 2018. The documents are available to view on our website here.

The plan explains our strategy for the regeneration of the Old Kent Road, including the extension of the Bakerloo Line, to accommodate new homes, provide new jobs, leisure, shopping, parks and transport improvements in a new town centre over the next 20 years.

Come along to a drop-in session to find out more about the plan:

Wednesday 7 March 2018   4.30pm – 8.30pm   Christ Church Peckham, 676-680 Old Kent Road, London SE15 1JF

Fill out our online questionnaire on our consultation hub to give your views on the plan.
We look forward to hearing from you.

Southwark Council

planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk

020 7525 5471