News from Lambeth Council

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We are committed to maintaining a clean and safe environment for everyone in our borough to enjoy. Here you can read about the latest news from our parks, waste, streets, transport and sustainability teams.

Three secondary studients in 'trees for cities' green hi-viz tabards identiftying trees from leaf shapes on a checklist

Measuring Kennington’s trees

Trees for Cities (originally Trees for London) is an independent charity inspiring people to plant and love trees. Their first iTree survey on a whole park area will be...

Selection of vegetables, caption reads "Urban Harvest, Saturday 16 September 2017"

The Urban Harvest

Celebrate the harvest on Saturday 16 September 2017, with workshops and feasts in local community gardens across London. There's also plenty of time to sign up your garden to...

garage roof replanted as wildflower meadow on Calias Gate estate, North Lambeth

Green grow the roofs at Calais Gate

Over the last few years the Parking and Garages team has tried to find as many sites as possible where we could fit green roofs. In some cases we...

Cllr Winifred in Brockwell Park

A record 14 of Lambeth’s parks receive Green Flag awards

Fourteen of Lambeth’s open spaces are now recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as some of the very best in both the United Kingdom and the world.

Image of Bonnington Square, which is a secluded and quirky part of Lambeth full of exotic flowers and palm trees.

Unlock Secret Lambeth

The Sustainable Travel Team have been putting together another walk around the borough and have added it to the Secret Lambeth booklet just in time to give them away...

A still image from Explainer Film. A skull surrounded by NO2 car fumes

Sign the petition for Better Air

Lambeth has some of the highest levels of air pollution in the UK. We're doing all we can to combat this but real progress can only be made if...

Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite and Will Norman, London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner posing with Santander bicycles in front of the Town Hall

Santander Cycles to expand to Brixton

Seven new docking stations, providing space for up to 200 bikes, are to be installed across Brixton

View across a wood, the floor shaded by large trees with little else able to grow in the shade.

Bringing an ancient landscape back to life

As part of the Living Landscapes initiative, the London Wildlife Trust has been awarded a grant of nearly £700,000 from Heritage Lottery Fund to revive the Great North Wood.

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