The 2026 Local Elections saw the Green Party in Southwark achieve their highest number of councillors ever in the borough, and their first new councillors elected since 2006.
After a hard-fought campaign in which members from across the borough came out to knock on doors and speak to residents about Green values and a Green future for Southwark, the Green Party won 22 council seats in Southwark.
Following that victory, Southwark council fell into no overall control. After discussions with other parties and amongst our members and councillors, the Southwark Green Party voted to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
As such, for the first time in almost two decades, Labour are no longer in control of Southwark. And for the first time in history, Southwark will be governed by a coalition of councillors from the Green Party and Liberal Democrats.
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Our Manifesto for Southwark
In joint administration with the Liberal Democrats, the Southwark Green Party will look to implement the policies that we campaigned on across Southwark during the elections, many of which are shared policy commitments with our coalition partners. You can read our full manifesto here; below are some of our key promises:
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Our Green Councillors
The Southwark Green Party now has councillors elected in all parts of the borough, ready to support you and help govern Southwark with Green values for the better of all.
Chaucer
Felix Hamer - [email protected]
Felix has lived in Elephant and Castle for a decade and been active in residents' associations. In his career, he has focused on global climate policy with WWF, decarbonisation with BCG, and community impact with HX Expeditions. Felix is standing to make Chaucer and Southwark greener, fairer, and better run.
Pascale Mitchell - [email protected]
Pascale is a mother, carer, and school librarian who has lived in social housing in Southwark for over 30 years. She has organised to defend local estates through campaigns including Fill Empty Homes and Yes to Fair Redevelopment. She supports rent controls, decent repairs, SEN provision, disability rights, and full divestment from companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
Suzanne Wise, Deputy Executive Member for Adult Services - [email protected]
Suzanne has lived in Chaucer for over 4 years. She has worked as a business leader as a lawyer and sustainability expert. She chairs a London environmental charity and sits on the board of a large Essex based social housing provider. She is passionate about London's green spaces and decent homes for all.
Dulwich Hill
Janice White, Deputy Executive Member for Culture - [email protected]
Janice has lived in Southwark for 30 years after growing up in Greater Manchester. She runs a small communications business based locally, working with arts, culture, heritage and community organisations to help them connect with people and tell their stories. With experience as a charity trustee, she has a practical understanding of good governance and how community organisations operate day to day. Janice wants to see a fairer borough for all residents, support vibrant local culture, and protect the green spaces that make Southwark special.
Goose Green
George Grime, Deputy Executive Member for Tenant & Leaseholder Services - [email protected]
George loves East Dulwich where he has lived for 45 years. He was an active member of the Labour party all his adult life - until it became clear that Labour no longer stood for progress – and he joined the Green Party in 2023.
George is a member of the UVW trade union and is particularly passionate to promote the ideals of good quality affordable housing for all and solidarity with Palestine - and to play a part in defeating the politics of division and hate being promoted by Reform and Labour.
George retired recently from a lifetime working in social housing, mostly in Southwark. He volunteers on the residents’ board running a Southwark Council estate and was a school governor at Heber Primary School for 18 years. His son attended Heber and Charter schools.
James McAsh, Leader of the Council - [email protected]
James has been the councillor for Goose Green, in East Dulwich, since 2018. He is hardworking and responsive, with one of the best records on casework in the whole borough. Until recently, he was the Cabinet member for Clean Air, Streets and Waste and under his leadership, Southwark had the highest recycling rate in inner London. He is a primary school teacher, trade unionist and socialist.
Eloise Waldon-Day, Executive Member for Council Coordination and Climate - [email protected]
Eloise is a long-time passionate local campaigner. She helped push Southwark Council to declare a climate emergency, shaped their climate plans, and founded the Southwark Climate Justice Coalition, uniting 15+ local groups to drive community climate action.
She's Head of Strategic Partnerships at C40 Cities, a global network of mayors united in tackling the climate crisis, and brings global climate solutions back to Southwark. Her career has spanned supporting women's leadership in Rwanda, and advancing sexual and reproductive health access worldwide with MSI and ActionAid.
Eloise can be found with her two dogs on Peckham Rye, playing sport, and volunteering at her local youth club.
North Walworth
Rebecca Corn, Executive Member for Education and Care - [email protected]
Rebecca Corn is a human rights and protection specialist with nearly two decades of local and international experience working with children, young people and vulnerable adults, and communities affected by violence, conflict and disaster. She has served with United Nations Peace Operations in Sudan and South Sudan and with the UN Human Rights Office on Afghanistan. She has also served with UN and NGOs in Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia and on Colombia, Syria, Yemen and Palestine. She has worked with NGOs in the UK including Amnesty International, Crisis, Rape Crisis and most recently with Barnardo's as Lead Advocate for care leavers and asylum seeking young people in Southwark.
After serving overseas she is very happy to be back home serving her community. Rebecca lives locally in social housing, was born just down the road in Bromley, and brings both professional expertise and lived experience of navigating public services and disability support. She is actively involved in local organising and volunteering, including at Walworth Garden, and is founder of an arts and research organisation working with survivors of violence through community-based projects.
Rebecca is committed to practical, sustainable, community-led change.
Sam Foster, Executive Member for Finance & General Purposes - [email protected]
As a councillor, I've seen Labour failures first hand on the Aylesbury Estate regeneration, where residents Labour claims to serve have been left in limbo for years. I joined the Greens because they fight for a borough we can afford, where people can live in dignity, freedom and security.
Vanessa Threadgold, Executive Member for Parks and Recreation - [email protected]
Nunhead & Queens Road
Catherine Dawkins - [email protected]
Catherine, works for a South London charity and cycles on Queens Road almost every day. She is passionate about making local roads and streets safe for all. She has organised local litter picks and has been working with local groups to understand how best the streets can serve residents of Nunhead and Queens Road.
Mayor Claire Sheppard, The Mayor of Southwark - [email protected]
Claire is a community campaigner, Se15 small business owner and mum. She co-founded Nunhead Knocks during Covid, which pivoted to giving micro grants for food and fuel until 2023. Claire is passionate about improving life in Southwark and serving her community.
Richard Taylor - [email protected]
Richard works in architecture and as a result is always looking for ways housing and the built environment can be improved for residents. He loves helping out local ventures, such as the many community gardens in the area and at the Nunhead Repair Shop. He also participates in the local policing panel to make sure local views are heard.
Old Kent Road
Alexandra Austin, Executive Member for Public Works and New Homes - [email protected]
I have lived in Southwark all of my adult life and I love my patch. I want to give something back to the area that has let me grow and supported me.
We deserve better. Better services by the council, better maintenance of social housing, better planning and licensing, better value for the money we all pay. We need accountable and effective leadership, and I will stand for integrity, social justice and pragmatism.
Funding from Westminster has been reduced in real terms over the past decade and more, but we need to make sure that the resources we do have are spent in the most effective way possible, and targeted towards those who need them most. We can't have glass high rises next to homelessness, luxury flats with no affordable housing, we need to do better.
Peckham
Dean Peters - [email protected]
Dean Peters is a BACP-registered talking therapist, having run his own practice in Southwark for six years. He's passionate about reducing the individual and public health burdens of drug use, and volunteers for national charities in this field. He's grateful for the chance to fight for the residents of Peckham, where he has lived for four years.
Ryan Cox - [email protected]
Ryan has over 14 years of experience in the environmental sector, with tackling the climate emergency as his core motivation. A dedicated trade unionist, he campaigns for improved social housing, rent controls, and an end to harmful council cuts. As a long-term Southwark resident, Ryan believes the Green Party can bring real change to the borough.
Rotherhithe
Colin Boyle - [email protected]
Colin moved to Rotherhithe in 2002 and is committed to protecting Rotherhithe’s distinctive history and character, and its strong, diverse and inclusive local community. A project manager in the NHS, Colin joined the Green Party in 2013, and campaigns for greener, healthier and better place to live for all in Southwark.
Kath Whittam - [email protected]
Past Mayor of Southwark Cllr Kath Whittam has a long record as a community activist. From serving as Chair of her Safer Neighbourhood Ward Panel, private residents’ representative on the Canada Water Campaign Forum, and Chair of the Rotherhithe Under 5’s Group at Time and Talents as her earlier involvement in the community she has lived in since 1987.
Her lifelong interest in the natural environment saw her become a Friend of Lavender Pond and Russia Dock Woodland, and she was the manager of Surrey docks farm. She has also been a very active member of The Amicable Society working with other members on the conservation of the two historic statues standing proud above the old Free School in Rotherhithe to restore their paintwork and brighten their traditional ‘bluecoats’. Meanwhile her commitment to education after teaching science for 16 years, has continued in her role as School Governor first at Redriff School, Bacons College as parent governor and now Albion Primary School. Since 2014 she has been an elected councillor for Rotherhithe Ward.
Rye Lane
Reginald Popoola, Executive Member for Council Homes - [email protected]
Cllr Reginald Popoola has been a hardworking local councillor since 2022. Raised in Peckham, he worked in the charity sector supporting residents with welfare benefits, housing, and employment enquiries. He is fighting for funding to make Peckham Rye Station accessible and against the lack of truly affordable homes at the Aylesham Centre development.
St Giles
Callum Fowler - [email protected]
While living and working in Southwark, Callum has seen the impact of austerity and the cost of living crisis on local residents. Empty shops, dirty streets and cost of living crisis has become the norm for too many of us. He wants to represent and empower residents of St. Giles with a safer, cleaner, more accessible community in the heart of Camberwell.
Andy Higson - [email protected]
Andy has called Camberwell his home for over a decade. Passionate about SEND provision, clean air, and ensuring affordable housing for all, Andy will bring his energy and dedication to the council if elected. Andy left the Labour Party over the government’s moral failure to oppose the genocide in Gaza.
Rachael Penny - [email protected]
Rachael is an active member of the Friends of St Giles Church and Camberwell Community Choir who has lived in Southwark for 19 years. She is passionate about protecting local venues and green spaces and believes everyone should have safe and affordable housing. As a councillor she would listen to residents and advocate for people in Camberwell.
If you live in a ward without Green councillors, you can find their contact details on Southwark Council's website here. These wards are:
Borough and Bankside, Camberwell Green, Champion Hill, Dulwich Village, Dulwich Wood, Faraday, London Bridge & West Bermondsey, Newington, North Bermondsey, Peckham Rye, South Bermondsey, St George's, Surrey Docks
Our Executive Committee
Since the Local Elections, we have elected a new Executive Committee, scheduled to serve from June ’26 - ’27. They can be reached at [email protected]:
