Cllr. Clyde Loakes and food standards: Waltham Forest revealed to be London’s...
Every now and again, Cllr. Clyde Loakes, the relevant Cabinet portfolio holder, pops up in local media, and assures residents that LBWF is taking food hygiene very seriously. Thus, earlier this year,...
View ArticleAnother LBWF fire safety cock up: now its housing management agent, Morgan...
Over the years, LBWF has gained a reputation for blunders, whether big, like recklessly exposing its own employees in the Town Hall to dangerous asbestos dust, or relatively small, like planning to...
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Looking back at the past, an occasional series. Part one: LBWF CEO Roger...
The story reproduced below is from the Oldham Evening Chronicle of 11 June 2010, and deals with the dismissal of current LBWF CEO Martin Esom’s immediate predecessor, Andrew Kilburn. Briefly, Mr....
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LBWF launches a £40m. programme to upgrade the fire safety of its social...
It has long been suspected, by this blog not least, that LBWF is facing a major problem about fire safety in its social housing provision, and now some new evidence shows that not only is this true,...
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Crime and policing latest: the Waltham Forest Safer Neighbourhood Board hits...
The Waltham Forest Safer Neighbourhood Board (WFSNB) brings together councillors and residents, and is a potentially very important component of the local fight against crime, supported, as it is, by...
View ArticleCllr. Anna Mbachu’s High Court claim to have been libelled thrown out,...
This afternoon, Local Democracy Reporter, Josh Mellor, is reporting in the Waltham Forest Echo that Councillor Anna Mbachu has lost a libel action in the High Court, and must pay £15,000 in costs....
View ArticleIslamic extremism in Walthamstow: the Charity Commission investigates two...
As has been reported by various media outlets (most prominently the Times), the Charity Commission is currently investigating two Waltham Forest Islamic charities, the Miftahul Jannah Academy and the...
View ArticleEx-Leader of LBWF Cllr. Clare Coghill joins the board of private sector...
A couple of weeks ago, Cllr. Clare Coghill, the ex-Leader of LBWF, amended her Town Hall register of interests form to acknowledge that she has joined ‘Square Roots One York Road Uxbridge UB81RN’ as...
View ArticleLBWF and faith groups: a ‘gay friendly’ council does business with a church...
A recent post on this blog (see links), which broadly raised the question of how – if at all – LBWF should interact with faith groups that do not subscribe to its social cohesion and equity policies,...
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Complaints by residents about Waltham Forest councillors: another can of worms
As many readers of this blog will know, Waltham Forest councillors must comply with the ‘Code of Conduct for Members’, Part Nine of the LBWF Constitution. This document covers matters such a ‘General...
View ArticleCllr. Clare Coghill and Square Roots Registered Provider Ltd.: the...
Reaction to Cllr. Coghill’s appointment to the Board of Square Roots Registered Provider Ltd. continues to provoke discussion, and, in some quarters, condemnation. One issue is whether her change of...
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STOP PRESS Cllr. Coghill revealed to have issues with her register of...
As this blog has noted before, despite the fact that she long has been a senior figure in the Town Hall, Cllr. Clare Coghill’s record over her LBWF register of interests forms is not outstanding. In...
View ArticleLBWF Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes lands a plum job on the side,...
Reports reach this blog of a new and arresting episode in the life and times of our old friend, LBWF Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes. The gist is as follows. In the past few years, Thanet...
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LBWF fraud team’s investigation of the FEDs fire safety scandal dodges key...
In response to a Freedom of Information request, LBWF has just released a redacted version of the June 2021 investigation report, authored by the internal Corporate Anti-Fraud Team (CAFT), concerning...
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Cllr. Coghill confirmed to have broken LBWF’s Code of Conduct by not...
A recent post (see first link below) looked at ex-Leader Cllr. Clare Coghill’s LBWF register of interests in the period 2014 to 2018, and noted some discrepancies. In 2014, Cllr. Coghill declared...
View ArticleLBWF Leaders rattle the begging bowl, but splash £100,000 on ‘a conversation’...
Since the start of the pandemic, the respective Labour Leaders, first Cllr. Clare Coghill and later her successor, Cllr. Grace Williams, have returned to versions of the long-standing Labour complaint...
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Ex-Leader Cllr. Clare Coghill’s breach of the LBWF Code of Conduct: Director...
Leading on from previous posts about Cllr. Coghill and her breach of the LBWF Code of Conduct by not declaring in 2017 that she was on the staff of Barry Sheerman MP, Director of Governance and Law...
View ArticleSenior Cabinet portfolio holder Cllr. Simon Miller steps down, as local...
In recent days, Cllr. Simon Miller has announced he will not be standing at the forthcoming local elections, and this is provoking some comment, because as Cabinet portfolio holder for Economic...
View ArticleThe Housing Ombudsman Service berates LBWF for its error-strewn response to a...
Hardly a week goes by without someone from the Town Hall popping up to insist that, in everything LBWF does, it is ‘resident focused’. However, as previous posts have suggested, whether such a boast...
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Google has some fun with Cllr. Anna Mbachu
Google ‘Cllr. Anna Mbachu’, and scrolling down finds the one time Mayor of Waltham Forest featuring in this juxtaposition: Who says algorithms don’t have a sense of humour? PS Just to be clear,...
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