In 2022 Lambeth Labour stood on a manifesto of great public service. And we have delivered. Every major council service has been independently inspected and judged as transformed. We’ve achieved this despite the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic, cost of living crisis and over a decade of savage cuts from the Liberal Democrats and the Tories.
We have been on your side. We have done the hard yards, fixing our foundations. Now it’s time to go further.
Claire Holland, Leader of Lambeth Labour
Invest in our libraries, bringing more council services into them so residents can access advice, support and digital services in one place. We’ve already protected and invested £20 million in our award-winning libraries, lowering bills and installing new toilets, lifts and meeting rooms.
Continue our record investment in Lambeth’s parks and expand tree planting across the borough. Lambeth now has 26 Green Flag parks – the highest ever – confirming our position as one of the top boroughs in London for quality public spaces. We’ve planted 12,000 trees, tackling the climate crisis and reducing toxic air.
Protect bin collections, introduce free community skip days, increase on-the-spot fly-tipping fines to £1,200 and introduce a new enforcement van to collect e-bikes.
Double the number of cycle hangars again, alongside increasing the number of EV chargers across the borough.
Use new High Street Rental Auction powers to bring long-term empty shops back into use and take on gambling firms through our campaign for stronger legislation.
We’ve already reduced toxic air by over 50 percent in Vauxhall and over 25 percent in Brixton, due to Labour’s action on the climate and transport. We secured a new east-to-west bus route connecting Clapham South, Clapham Park, Brixton Hill, Tulse Hill, and West Dulwich, giving residents more reliable transport across Lambeth.
Expand on our 2022 commitment to introduce free swimming for under-11s, keeping children and teenagers healthy and saving parents money.
Invest in adventure playgrounds, youth clubs and safe community spaces, with £2.4 million available in 2026/27 alone.
4,000 more Lambeth children will now get 30 hours of free childcare every week and save each family up to £7,500 a year thanks to Labour.
Combine youth work, children’s centres, early help and family support into a single joined-up service for all children and young people.
Increase specialist school places and family support so more children with SEND can thrive close to home, including a new site at Kings Avenue School. We’ve already invested more than £10 million to expand Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) places, creating hundreds of new opportunities for Lambeth children.
Expand mentoring programmes, support teachers, and work with schools to make them smartphone free. All Lambeth Secondary schools are judged as ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted, Children’s Services transformed and recognised as ‘Good’ with support for care leavers in 2026.
Roll out free breakfast clubs in every primary school, expand free school meals, and help families with the cost of uniforms and school essentials. 17,000 children have already received free school meal holiday provision and ten new free breakfast clubs have opened at Lambeth primary schools.
Pay a grant to help young people from lower-income families stay in education post-16.
Introduce officers to patrol every neighbourhood, tackling anti-social behaviour with full council enforcement powers. Knife crime is already down 36% in the past twelve months in Lambeth, with new CCTV in hotspot areas, more on-street outreach and knife amnesty pop-ups.
Continue investment in Lambeth’s violence against women and girls service and protect London’s largest number of refuge beds. Establish a Women’s Safety Commission. We are proud to fund the greatest number of refuge beds of any London borough and twice the London average.
Safety hubs in our town centres, cab-style hubs for night-time workers, and Lambeth Loos, a new community toilet scheme.
Work with the Mayor of London to end rough sleeping in Lambeth by 2030. Expand our drug and alcohol outreach services from five days a week to seven. We’ve already invested £5 million annually in our rough sleeping service, helping more than 200 rough sleepers off the streets in 2025 alone.
Establish a new Hate Crime Commissioner and a new Police Scrutiny Panel to improve support for victims and increase scrutiny and accountability of the police to tackle all forms of hate crime.
We’ve secured 28 extra police officers for Brixton alone, alongside a new safety hub in Brixton. Re-established Safer Neighbourhood Panels, allowing you to have your voice heard in policing decisions in your community.
Labour will put you first by building more genuinely affordable homes for local families, ensuring fewer children grow up in temporary accommodation, and extra care beds for those who need them, tackling the housing crisis head-on. Over 2,600 new homes are currently in construction, planning or procurement, with over 40% being social and genuinely affordable.
When new development happens, local communities see the benefits. Ensure taxes levied on developers are redistributed to invest in the things you want.
Putting more families in safe and secure permanent accommodation, rebuilding lives while securing better value for council taxpayers.
Secured a discount of £405 on the average yearly water bill for thousands of residents and took tough enforcement action against Thames Water. Lambeth has the 9th lowest Council Tax in London.
Supported Tonic Housing to build UK’s first LGBTQ+ retirement homes in Waterloo and held the first ever annual Leader’s Pride Reception celebrating Lambeth as the home of Pride.
Download the full Lambeth Labour 2026 Manifesto. Our commitments on housing, safer streets, opportunity for young people, and cost-of-living support — all in one place.
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