Councillor Victor Chamberlain

Extraordinary meeting, Council Assembly - Wednesday 19 March 2025 9.00 pm

The Council Assembly met to discuss the award of Freedoms of the Borough. The Council resolved to agree the recommendations for the award, although the names of the people or organisations to receive the honour were discussed in private and are not public knowledge. The meeting started at 9pm and finished at 10.30pm.

North West Multi-Ward Decision Making Meeting, North West multi-ward forum - Tuesday 18 March 2025 6.00 pm

This meeting of the North West multi-ward forum included the allocation of funding from the Cleaner Greener Safer and Neighbourhoods Fund schemes, as well as the Devolved Highways programme. The meeting also included the review and potential adoption of the minutes of the previous meeting of the forum. Please note that this summary is based on the meeting agenda and the reports pack provided to the attendees, and so it does not describe what was discussed, or what was decided at the meeting.

Extraordinary meeting, Council Assembly - Wednesday 26 February 2025 9.00 pm

Southwark Council held an extraordinary meeting to discuss a motion of no confidence in the leader of the council and the cabinet member for finance in relation to the performance of the Housing Department. An amendment to the motion, proposed by the Labour Group, was passed and the substantive motion, as amended, was also passed.

Budget and council tax setting meeting, Council Assembly - Wednesday 26 February 2025 7.00 pm

The Council Assembly approved the proposed budget for 2025-26 as amended by the Liberal Democrat group. It also approved the associated council tax increase of 4.99% and agreed to continue existing local schemes for war disability and war widow/widower housing benefit. In addition, the Capital Strategy and the Treasury Management Strategy were approved without amendment.

Overview & Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday 12 February 2025 6.30 pm

This meeting was scheduled to include a review of the Southwark Community Safety Partnership, and updates to the council's Statement of Community Involvement. It also included an update on how the council's scrutiny function was being improved.