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Irvin's winter funfair is back on Clapham Common from 27 December 2026 to 3 January, noon to 9pm daily. Rides are £2 each; the entrance is on The Avenue.
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Local Info
Lambeth Roadworks: A23 Signals Back on Brixton Hill 28 Sept
Temporary signals return to the A23 at Brixton Hill on Monday 28 September, and Holmewood Road is shut there to 23 October. The council register has moved.
Clapham
Clapham Murder: Man Charged Over Poynders Road Death
A man has been charged with murder after Thomas Carey, 39, was found dead on Poynders Road, SW4. The Met is still appealing for footage from 3 and 4 September.
Lambeth Council
Lambeth's £93m Budget Gap: Survey Closes 7 October
The council's £93m black hole is a cumulative gap to 2029-30, not a hole in this year's budget. Its budget survey closes on 7 October, before the meeting.
Community
Free climate programme for 11 to 14s in Tulse Hill, 13 Oct
Rekindle's six-week Earth Needs Us runs Tuesdays to Thursdays, 4pm to 7pm, from 13 October at Oasis St Martin's, Tulse Hill. Free, ages 11 to 14, hot food.
Brixton
Black History Month Brixton 2026: Free Market 10-11 Oct
The Black Culture Market is free at Lambeth Town Hall on 10 and 11 October. Plus a £20 archives talk, two tours from Windrush Square and Southbank dates.
Clapham
Harris Academy Clapham: Year 7 tournament with Beth Durant
Year 7s at Harris Academy Clapham played football and netball with Beth Durant and Harry Cain. What was said, and the £442 kit cost behind the day.
Clapham
Clapham fireworks 2026: Herne Hill 31 Oct, no Lambeth show
Lambeth has no bonfire night display in 2026. The nearest are Herne Hill Velodrome on Saturday 31 October and Dulwich Sports Club on Saturday 7 November.
Clapham
Clapham Christmas lights 2026: no date yet, 27 Nov likely
The Clapham Old Town switch-on has fallen on the last Friday of November three years running. This is Clapham has not announced 2026 yet. Here is when it will.
Lambeth
Myatt's Fields By-Election: Seven Candidates, Vote 8 Oct
Seven candidates, one seat, in a ward where the last seat went by 17 votes. Myatt's Fields votes on 8 October, and registration closes at midnight on 22 September.
Lambeth
Lambeth Food Hygiene: Five Venues Rated Zero, 1,485 at Five
Five Lambeth food businesses hold a zero hygiene rating and 75 are on one. The borough has the smallest share of top-rated premises of any of its neighbours.
Planning
Landor Road: £350m Plan for 700 Homes on Hospital Site
L&G, PGGM and Nest plan about 700 homes on the old Lambeth Hospital site. The NHS trust's own page still describes 553 homes and 50% affordable housing.
Brixton
Lambeth Remembrance Sunday 2026: 8 Nov, six ceremonies
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Lambeth held six ceremonies last year, from Kennington Park at 10.45am to Windrush Square at 2pm. Times due in October.
One thing worth knowing before anything else: the Lambeth and Wandsworth boundary runs through Clapham, so two streets a few minutes apart can have different bin days, different parking rules and different council tax bills. This site covers the Lambeth side, and the rest of the borough with it.
That means Clapham and Brixton, Stockwell and Vauxhall, Kennington and Oval up by the river, and Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, West Norwood, Gipsy Hill and Streatham going south. Lambeth Council decides planning, licensing, parking and bins across all of it, and publishes the evidence in registers hardly anyone reads. We read them and write down what they say, linking to the document each time.
If we cannot show you the source, we do not publish the claim.