Andrew Dismore

Over recent months, we have heard a lot in your news and letters columns about the problems of overdevelopment in Colindale and West Hendon, including the lack of affordable housing in the huge schemes  being built (or on the way)  in those wards .  However, we have heard little about the pressing housing and development   issues in Mill Hill. the […]

Dear Editor, Money for Grahame  Park is welcome, but the key problem  is that this is not  going to provide any extra genuinely  affordable homes for Grahame Park or anywhere else for that matter,  homes that  are desperately needed. The Conservatives have made clear time and again that they  are not interested in providing homes for less well off people. […]

  Over recent months, we have heard a lot in your news and letters columns about the problems of overdevelopment in Colindale and West Hendon, including the lack of affordable housing in the huge schemes  being built (or on the way)  in those wards .  However, we have heard little about the pressing housing and development   issues in Mill Hill. […]

Letter for publication Dear editor, We challenge Barnet‘s three Conservative MPs publicly to oppose Conservative Barnet Council’s scheme to dismantle the borough’s library service through their draconian cuts package, with closures, sell offs and reductions in size. These damaging plans strike at the heart of our communities across our borough.  The Conservative Council’s bogus libraries consultation offers a ‘choice’ only […]

In September 1954, 60 years ago, London’s greatest archaeological discovery- the Temple of Mithras, was unearthed when  a wartime  bombsite was being cleared for redevelopment. An estimated 400,000 people flocked to visit the site and view the ruined remains. Now, Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)  are undertaking an oral history project, collecting and celebrating the memories, ephemera and pictures of […]