Complaint upheld: Cllrs Eglin, Ihenachor, Imre, and Malik found not to have...
A recent post (see link, below) recorded that (a) Cllrs Rhiannon Eglin, Chrystal Ihenachor, Sazimet-Palta Imre, and Zafran Malik had not declared their interests, and (b) several other councillors,...
View ArticleCrime up, police sanction detections down, yet the LBWF Safer Neighbourhoods...
In the 12 months ending August 2022, crime in Waltham Forest rose 1.9 per cent, while sanction detections (charges, summonses, cautions reprimands, final warning, etc.) fell by the same amount....
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Michelle Edwards launches a Twitter feed about her experiences in one of...
Michelle Edwards is a respected local journalist who in the past campaigned on transparency and accountability, while at the same time writing a regular column for the Waltham Forest Echo about what...
View ArticleThe Health and Safety Executive censures one of LBWF’s contractors after...
As might be predicted, knowing the revelations of the past, the more that emerges about LBWF’s recent attempts to deal with dangerous asbestos in the Town Hall, the dodgier the local authority looks....
View ArticleResponding to a Freedom of Information Act request about the Walthamstow...
The LBWF e-mail pasted below is largely self-explanatory. However, the back story is less certain. Are LBWF officers really ignorant of the Freedom of Information Act’s Section 41? Or was this an...
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Waltham Forest cartoonist Woof on LBWF and the Freedom of Information Act
(Reproduced by kind permission of Woof)
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How Cann Hall councillors communicate with residents…
A resident writes: ‘We opened a community café and foodbank near that notice board, and wanted to put one of our A4 posters on display in it. We found out that – inexplicably – a local shopkeeper held...
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LBWF’s Town Hall asbestos scandal: an update and comment
Local Democracy Reporter Josh Mellor yesterday posted a story on the asbestos scandal under the amusing headline ‘Council investigating itself over former town hall asbestos’, here:...
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Private Eye reports the new LBWF asbestos scandal (2)
From issue 1586, 18/11/22-01/12/22.
View ArticleThe Charity Commission issues regulatory ‘guidance’ to Walthamstow charities...
In the autumn of 2021, complaints were made to the Charity Commission about two Waltham Forest Muslim charities, the Miftahul Jannah Academy and the Masjid-E-Umer Trust (which runs Walthamstow Central...
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How Leytonstone councillors communicate with residents…
(image supplied by Woof, and used with thanks) A resident writes: ‘Of course, Leytonstone councillors are always on Twitter and so on….. But what about people who haven’t got mobile phones or...
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LBWF in Private Eye yet again, this time over dodging key questions about...
A further story highlighting what happens when a resident questions LBWF about an unarguably important local issue, receives an absurd response, but persists. And, making matters a whole lot worse,...
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Waltham Forest council is the sixth most complained about in all of England
Over recent years, LBWF has incessantly boasted about its achievements, all the while stressing that it prioritises ‘listening’, and is on the side of residents, or as one past Leader was fond of...
View ArticleHas LBWF Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes’ Town Hall asbestos...
As previously reported, following my request that LBWF examines whether it may have recently contravened the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes is embarked...
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Local journalist Michelle Edwards reveals pressing fire safety issues at a...
The respected Waltham Forest journalist Michelle Edwards has recently moved to a flat in a low-rise block at Pinder Road, Wood Street, completed by Countryside Partnerships in early 2022 and now owned...
View ArticleAfter 64 working days, LBWF Director of Governance and Law, Mark Hynes, is...
In an e-mail of 30 January 2023, LBWF Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes writes: ‘Although I was hoping to have concluded my review into the concerns you raised about asbestos management...
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Looking back at the past, an occasional series. Part three: Private Eye...
From Private Eye No.1407, 11/12-18/12/15 As a previous post noted: ‘Perhaps curiously, given LBWF’s decidedly chequered record in identifying and addressing Islamist extremism, Martin Esom, the...
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Hate crime in Waltham Forest: setting aside the scary rhetoric, is it as bad...
Introduction In the last few years, LBWF has regularly asserted that Waltham Forest is afflicted by ‘an unprecedented rise’ in damaging hate crime – especially, according to senior councillors,...
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LBWF’s fiefdom: ‘borough of culture’ or borough of dysentery?
One recurring theme in LBWF’s endless self-promotion is that, thanks to the Town Hall’s efforts, Waltham Forest is an unusually appealing place, the borough of ‘the Stow’ and ‘the Stone’, ‘quirky,...
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