Welcome good to see labour covering the wards and I don't think you have big shoes to fill more like you will do a better job. If people wanted to keep JB then they should have voted for him. But anyway welcome and good luck not that you will need it
You can always buy the cat flap that has a tag where it will only open for your cat, that will stop other cats coming into your house and for the bins you build housing for them with a lid. This will also hide the bins and look nice
What I don't understand is why the Borough of Southwark has money to ask us if we want CPZ but doesn't have money to fill in the large number of pot holes everwhere