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Cllr. Patrick Edwards speaks out

June 18, 2015 Cllr.Patrick Edwards, Fred Wigg and John Walsh Towers, the Labour Party in Waltham Forest

According to the Waltham Forest Guardian, Labour Cllr. Patrick Edwards, of Cann Hall ward, has now publicly broken ranks with his party’s leadership, and come out strongly in favour of the tenants in Fred Wigg and John Walsh Towers being balloted about the Council’s plans for the redevelopment of their homes. He is quoted as saying: ‘”I support redeveloping Fred Wigg and John Walsh but it’s important that the people who are going to live there back it too. We’ve moved a long way from the era where people were told what was good for them to one where they can actively voice their future.That voice should come through a properly conducted independent residen... »

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Private Eye reports the E11 BID Co.

June 18, 2015 E11 BID Co., Fawaad Sheikh, North London Ltd., Private Eye, Waltham Forest Business Board

A little bit out of sequence, but for those who didn’t see it, this story (see ‘Lost in the Forest’, centre column, bottom) is interesting on LBWF and the E11 BID Co., the subject of previous posts. Its from Private Eye no.1388, 20 March-2 April 2015. »

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Private Eye reports the Town Hall asbestos scandal

June 15, 2015 Private Eye, Town Hall asbestos

See ‘Dust to Dust’, centre column, bottom of page. From Private Eye no. 1394, 12-25 June 2015. »

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Stella Creasy’s views on local government: getting better, but not yet best

June 12, 2015 MPs, Stella Creasy MP, the Labour Party in Waltham Forest

I was interested to hear Stella Creasy MP tell Andrew Neil on last week’s Sunday Politics show: ‘Do you think local government matters, Andrew, because I do. Local government is often the first place where people come into politics’. She is quite right, of course, and similar sentiments are exactly why I write this blog. But has she really lived up to her own words? There are plenty of things about Dr. Creasy to like. She is a good communicator, and has a high and generally positive profile in much of Waltham Forest. She deserves considerable credit for her campaign against loan sharks, particularly as this involved her in some totally undeserved and very unpleasant public abuse. And she is ... »

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The National Construction College’s Cathall Rd. facility UPDATE: local people still miss out

June 12, 2015 National Construction College Cathall Rd.

Courtesy of the LBWF Growth Scrutiny Committee, I now have some up-to-date figures on how many people – and in particular how many local people – have attended The National Construction College’s Cathall Rd. facility. As I pointed out in a previous post on this subject, LBWF initially promised that the College would have a dramatic impact on the locality. In December 2010, Council Leader Cllr Chris Robbins told Waltham Forest News that it was ‘“a fantastic, world-class training facility for local residents and people from across east London”’ and endorsed the view that ‘over the next four years the Construction Training Centre will provide training for more than 4000 local people’ (see WFN, ... »

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