Andrew Dismore

The Regeneration Committee held hearings into residents’ consultation and involvement in major estate schemes. This was an opportunity to expose the shortcomings of Barnet Council especially concerning West Hendon and Brent Cross, contrasted with the inclusive and genuine consultation of Camden in the Bacton Low Rise development which I recently visited with Assembly Housing Chair, Tom Copley.

 

To see what regeneration has meant to residents in West Hendon, the recent BBC programme tells it as it is, as well as this article in the Guardian.

I visited   Middlesex University Students Union, to see their exhibition about student housing in the private rented sector – which I have since followed up on a number of occasions, including pressing for more affordable rents for students, an article on student housing and a full motion at the Assembly , which was passed unanimously .

I have been increasingly concerned about the delays in addressing the faulty gas supply for residents living in Strawberry Vale estate in East Finchley.

Which I have followed up with a letter to Lord Kerslake, the chair of Peabody Housing.

We have also seen a large increase in the numbers of street homeless.

Finally, see my response to Zac Goldsmith’s visit to Colindale.