Author Archives: AndrewDismore

The Mayor of London’s answers to my questions (May 2015)

A1 Stirling Corner to Borehamwood Junction      Question No: 2015/1317    AndrewDismore Between Stirling Corner and Borehamwood Junction (A1) there is a sensible 50mph limit which is designed to make the road safer. Constituents have complained to me about the lack of observance of the 50mph limit. In light of this is it possible for the MPS to patrol (in arrangement with […]

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Barnet Council scheme to destroy Pavilion Way playing fields must be stopped

  As the London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden I have submitted my objections to the Council’s scheme to expropriate Pavilion Way fields for a free school. (For full objection click here.)  Pavilion Way fields have been deliberately neglected by the  Council so that they could have a self fulfilling prophesy of disuse enabling them to build on this vital green space. […]

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The Government’s pledge to introduce a seven days a week GP service should be taken with a strong degree of caution.

    Of course we would all like to see surgeries open seven days a week, but that means them being properly staffed. What’s concerning about the Health Secretary’s pledge is he makes no mention of how he will deliver it.   In Barnet and Camden we already have a GP crisis on our hands. Practices are overstretched and we […]

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Dismore challenges Mayor over Sweets Way and broken housing promises

I challenged Mayor Boris Johnson over the Sweets Way evictions and the Mayor’s broken pledge that people should not be moved from the place they have been living and where they have put down roots.     On BBC Radio London on 28 October 2010, the Mayor said: “What we will not see, we will not accept, any kind of Kosovo […]

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