I promised to keep you up to date about developments concerning Avanti School’s plan to move to Broadfields and to the Fairway. This is not a campaign against Avanti itself: just that the location they have selected are not suitable either from the local residents’ viewpoint; or for that matter, for children attending the school and their parents. This may […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore AM, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, today made a submission to Barnet Council’s Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on bus services to Finchley Memorial Hospital Mr Dismore said: “So far, the Mayor and TfL have been utterly unresponsive to requests for additional bus services to Finchley Memorial Hospital. He has been similarly unresponsive to other […]
Read more1967/2013 ‑ Free schools permitted development rights Andrew Dismore Do you support the recent relaxation of planning controls for free schools? Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Yes, I do think free schools are excellent, Andrew. It is a great thing that London has now done more. I think now something like 38% of all the free schools in the […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, has today published the response he has received from Government free schools minister Lord Nash, (attached). Mr Dismore said: I suggested to the Council, the Mayor of London and the Government, they should make available to Avanti part of the soon to be vacated land on the MOPAC owned […]
Read moreThe Barking to Gospel Oak line will be electrified following today’s announcement of a borrowing guarantee of £90m. Labour Assembly Member Andrew Dismore and campaigner for electrification welcomes the move and urges Mayor Boris Johnson and Transport for London to ensure work starts as soon as possible. Labour London Assembly Members wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne […]
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