Category Archives: Press Releases

Dismore speaks up for London Heritage

At today’s City Hall plenary to approve the Mayor’s culture strategy, Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore asked the Mayor: ‘How will your Culture Strategy reinforce and support the Draft London Plan in protecting London’s at-risk heritage, especially when a new development is proposed, bearing in mind the number of specialist heritage officer posts lost or […]

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Last chance to bid for drinking fountains to be installed in Barnet

Local London Assembly Member, Andrew Dismore AM, has called upon eligible local organisations to urgently submit bids for free water refill points to be installed in the borough, ahead of Friday’s deadline. This comes on the back of City Hall’s recent announcement that £5 million of funding has been allocated towards the rollout of 100 new drinking fountains across the […]

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Dismore questions Fire Chiefs over post Grenfell implications for Fire Brigade

At today’s London Assembly plenary session on the London Fire Brigade, Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore AM, deputy chair of the City Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee led the questioning of London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton and Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience, Fiona Twycross AM. Mr Dismore asked the Fire Commissioner and Deputy […]

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New powers to allow Councils to remove cladding on privately owned tower blocks welcomed

Commenting on the Government’s update to fire safety regulations today to give councils the powers to remove ACM cladding from privately owned high-rises, Labour’s London Assembly Fire Spokesperson, Andrew Dismore AM, said: “For nearly eighteen months, Londoners living in privately owned blocks of flats have watched with horror as building owners have delayed replacing flammable cladding. Finally, boroughs have the […]

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