Rezina Chowdhury

Woman holding a necklace

Woman holding fingerless gloves

Women outside a shop holding a shopping bag

Pair of gold glitter knee high boots

For #smallbusinesssaturday2025 we popped into some of our local shops where we did some #sustainable shopping buying preloved jewellery from the royal trinity hospice & some Christmas gifts from Cornercopia
There were some things we didn’t quite get round to buying…

#shoplocal
#shopsustainably🌿

On This Date: London's Killer Smog It became so dense, at times, that it was challenging for residents to find their way around at night, according to the U.K. Met Office. This stable configuration of relatively warmer air aloft toppi...

73 years ago today, London's Great Smog began. We've come a very long way, but there's still work to be done to clean up our dirty air. #AirPollution #London

Poster about delivering inclusive urbanism - women changing cities

Panel of women sitting down

Audience at the British library

Still buzzing from the recent #Womenchangingcities event.

Inclusive design isn’t optional. It’s how we unlock real urban change. When we listen to those most overlooked, solutions get smarter, streets get fairer, and cities work better for everyone.
@academyofurbanism.bsky.social @dutchcycling.nl

‘The Child Poverty Strategy shows why a Labour government matters’ – LabourList This is an adapted version of my analysis from the LabourList email this morning. To receive our email every weekday morning please subscribe here.  Yesterday I…

Labour can be proud of the strategy it has announced today. Now they must get on to deliver it. To realise the potential of all children. @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the government's Child Poverty Strategy

Great piece by my brilliant colleague & fellow deputy leader, Cllr Danny Adilypour

“Housing is not a privilege. It is a fundamental human right….We will keep building on this momentum until every Lambeth resident has access to the safe, secure, and affordable home they deserve”

Labour publish ambitious child poverty strategy to lift over half a million kids out of poverty by 2030 – LabourList Labour will launch its Child Poverty Strategy tomorrow, promising the biggest fall in child poverty in a single parliament since records began.  The government says…

Labour launch ambitious Child Poverty Strategy, promising around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 and deliver Labour's 'moral mission'.

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

Keir Starmer mocks Tory defections to Reform and election pact reports at PMQs “An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure.”

Keir Starmer calls a potential Reform-Tory pact "an absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure" #PMQs

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Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !

Not too late to join our FREE webinar this Wednesday lunchtime! Hear from Cllrs @edwardlamb.bsky.social and @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social on actions councils are taking to restore children's freedom, as well as 'big picture' stuff from us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Loving Desert Island discs with Salman Rushdie this morning on BBC radio 4. So much resonates with me, especially the secular upbringing in a Muslim household. I hadn’t seen the inside of a mosque until my 20s.

And @laurenlaverne.bsky.social saying Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan was icing on the cake!

Had great fun today planting hedges on the Cowley estate. Thanks to all the staff and volunteers for exceeding our tree planting targets!
#Nationaltreeweek
#Lambeth

People and children gardening

Woman and young child planting bulbs

Woman and young child planting bulbs

Lovely sunny (but chilly) morning for bulb planting with some very excited and keen mini gardeners.

The kids had great fun planting lots of bulbs which will add lots of colour to the Palace Road rain gardens next spring. Thanks to Abacus nursery and Father Nature for letting us join in! 🌷🌼🪻🐝🐝🐞🌳

Love Lambeth Lambeth is celebrating National Tree Week with special planting events, which will see the borough’s tree planting programme pass 12,000 new trees in just three years – more than double the borough’s ...

🌳We said we’d plant 5000 trees by 2026. During this National Tree Week I am delighted to announce that we’ve planted over 10,000 trees in Lambeth with thanks to the dedicated hard work by volunteers, staff & partners in helping us achieve this 🌳

love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-pled...

No #R4Today I will not be listening to James Dyson, one of your chosen guest editors this Christmas.

Still frustrated that it’s the false equivalence of the BBC that delivered Brexit for the likes of Dyson.

Children sitting on a colourful rainbow street illustration

Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.

So pleased to be part of @RosendaleSchool 's efforts towards achieving TFL GOLD 🥇in their travel for life programme.

@TheNorwoodForum are posting lots of great local stories whilst #COP30 is running - many can save you money and reduce environmental impact 🌱

www.norwoodforum.org/Norwood-and-...

Thrilled with the turnout for yesterday's bike bus 🚲 🌧️🚲🌧️🚲🌧️

Featuring Walking and cycling commissioner @willnorman.co.uk and Lambeth's @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social

It was a great display of the vital necessity of *safe routes to school* 🚸🚲

Rosendale Bike Lane & Safer Crossings Now 📢

An astonishing 90% of primary schools in Lambeth now have school streets. These are helping make journeys to school safer, they improving air quality for the children and are enabling more kids to walk, scoot and cycle to school.

It is great working with @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and team.

It was great to see @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social , Deputy Leader of Lambeth Council and @willnorman.co.uk, London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner
today on an epic bike bus organised by @solverosendale.bsky.social.

It was to celebrate one year of their amazing and transformational school street!

Two people with bikes holding up signs saying solve the school run

Great to join mums, dads, kids and teachers today scooting and cycling to school on the Solve The School Run bike bus and to celebrate Rosendale Road School Street’s 1st birthday. Thanks to @willnorman.co.uk for joining us this wet and soggy but joyous morning! @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

Alongside the poppy, I’m wearing a Marigold today to recognise the bravery & sacrifice of the Indian subcontinent in the World Wars.

Over 1.3 million Indian servicemen fought across Europe, Middle East, & East Africa with over 70,000 fatalities in WW1 alone.

#Remembrance #Marigold #LestWeForget

Two people standing and holding paint brushes

Three people painting over graffiti

Person kneeling down by a wall and painting with their fingers

Painting of a pigeon

Busy morning painting over unsightly graffiti on Russell’s footpath in Streatham. Great to be joined by Steve Reed MP who picked up a brush and started painting with us.

Very proud of the repainted pigeon even though I had to resort to finger painting due to a lack of fine tip brushes!

Do drop me an email at RChowdhury@lambeth.gov.uk and I’ll aim to respond to you asap.

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BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.

YouTube video by Streetfilms® Tour the Tranquility of some of London's Low Traffic Neighborhoods (LTNs)

Tonight at 9pm see a Streetfilm that just doesn't exist on Youtube or anywhere: @solomonge.bsky.social takes us on a #London tour of nearby LTN's and shows us how some of the installations work to keep vehicles out of neighborhoods.

And don't miss the final minute!

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Woman standing at a lectern

Three people in conversation

Group of people including the mayor of Lambeth

Lambeth Council partnered with Big Local North Brixton & Impact on Urban Health to explore heat risk, identifying the most heat-vulnerable areas & with hyper local partners engaging residents directly. This is what climate action looks like: local, collaborative, & full of heart.
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Should Britain Fall Back in Love with Cars? A response to Tim Leunig's call for Britain to fall back in love with cars

An article in the Financial Times argued that Britain should “fall in love with cars again” and invest in more motorways.

Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not.

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Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !

Let’s seize this moment for children’s outdoor play!
FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm

Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !

Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps.

@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social

Remembering the Bengal Famine of 1943

Remembering the Bengal Famine of 1943. Manchester Museum, 22 October 2025. Free, but booking required. Presentation starts at 6PM. Builds on Kavita Puri's podcast series.