Leader of the council and cabinet members
Councillor Catherine Rose
Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, Leisure and Parks
Cllr Rose’s responsibilities include:
- Neighbourhoods - working with residents to develop strategic plans to improve each neighbourhood as well as the council’s overarching strategy to transform the organisation to operate on a neighbourhood basis (working with the Cabinet Member for Communities, Democracy and Finance)
- Leisure centres - management of the councils' leisure centres, swimming pools and gyms
- Sport - management of the council’s multi-sport, athletics, football, tennis and cycling facilities; supporting and promoting grassroots sports; and the council’s relationship with local sports clubs
- Culture - events and festivals; theatres, galleries, museums and performing arts; opening a Southwark LGBTQ+ cultural space; establishing a Latin American cultural space; and promoting Southwark as a centre for filmmaking
- Libraries - council’s libraries, heritage and archives service
- Parks and Play - parks, green spaces, playgrounds and adventure play
- Biodiversity and trees - tree planting and maintenance; increasing biodiversity and nature;
- Gardening - community gardening, food-growing and allotments, including on the councils' estates
- Waterways - including moorings & marinas and flood defences
- Cemeteries and crematorium services
- The renewal of Peckham Library Square
Page last updated: 20 July 2023