Councillor Sunil Chopra

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.

Licensing Sub-Committee - Tuesday 4 March 2025 10.00 am

The Licensing Sub-Committee were scheduled to meet to consider an application for a new premises licence for Coco Loco, a new Italian delicatessen and cocktail bar in a converted railway arch at 345 Camberwell Station Road [^1].

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.

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.

Licensing Committee - Tuesday 11 February 2025 6.00 pm

The Licensing Committee of Southwark Council had two substantive items on the agenda for their meeting. Firstly they were scheduled to decide whether to adopt the council's new statement of gambling policy, which would set out the council's approach to the licensing of gambling premises between 2025 and 2028. Secondly, they were scheduled to decide on a protocol for whether or not the committee's licensing sub-committee hearings should continue to take place remotely, or whether they should return to being held in person.