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. […]
Read moreOver 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. […]
Read moreLetter 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 […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden, London Fire Authority member and parliamentary candidate for Hendon today condemned Barnet’s three Conservative MPs for voting against Labour’s House of Commons motion on Fire Service pensions, as they instead the backed cuts to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme. Andrew Dismore said ‘The changes that the Conservative Government is making to […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden and Parliamentary candidate for Hendon questioned the London Mayor and the Police Commissioner over policing in Barnet and Camden during the London Assembly plenary on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Dismore said: “It is appalling that the Met is way behind its target for officers being taken away from the boroughs for […]
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