Lib Dem Action for Clapham and Stockwell

Published on Sat 29th Apr 2006

Lib Dems have won funding to improve Clapham Common

Lib Dems are calling on the Mayor of London and the government to sort out the mess that is the Northern Line and making sure Clapham & Stockwell residents' voices are heard in City Hall, including fighting Ken Livingstone's planned cuts to peak-hour services on the 137 bus route.

Increased funding for the transport department has enabled them to change the parking zones in Clapham and Thornton to make them fit better with local residents' wishes. And we've delivered free short-term shopping bays to support local business and community facilities, like those on Wandsworth Road and Abbeville Road and planned for Emmanuel Road.

Worked with the Clapham Society and the Friends of Clapham Common to win heritage lottery funding for the restoration of the Clapham Common bandstand.

Calling for a "saturation zone" on Clapham High Street to help keep a mix of different premises and prevent it turning into a stretch of just bars and pubs.

From April 2006 community safety wardens will be on patrol across the borough - including in Stockwell - to serve those areas least covered by the police, who have had to scale down plans for neighbourhood policing in each ward because of a lack of funding from the Ken Livingstone.

Parks in Clapham and Stockwell have received a total investment of £2.7m since 2002, and funding from Urban II for upgrading Larkhall Park is on its way. The council's annual parks repair and maintenance budget has been nearly tripled since Labour was in control.

We've invested in community with facilities like

• an under-10s play area on the Fenwick Estate

• the William Bonney Estate football pitch and community garden

• Stockwell Refugee Women's Centre

• Replaced fences on the Weir Estate

• Restored and replaced street nameplates

• A disability ramp for Notre Dame tenants' hall

A massive £1.1 million refurbishment programme of Lambeth's libraries including £80,000 on Clapham Library and £8,842 in Stockwell on the South Lambeth Library. And there are proposals for a new library as part of the Clapham Park development.

£840,000 package of community safety and environmental improvements for the main roads and areas around Stockwell underground.

We've won £17.2m from the government to set up a massive street lighting contract to upgrade and replace Lambeth's current street lighting and install more where it's needed.