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Policing in Waltham Forest: performance
This post turns from its predecessor’s focus on police priorities to police performance. For reasons that are unclear, the most up to date figures borough by borough on number of offences and related...
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St. Mary’s Primary School, Walthamstow, and asbestos: the final verdict (1)
The Waltham Forest Guardian‘s Tom Barnes has just filed an online story reporting that, following a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Balfour Beatty Regional Construction,...
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St. Mary’s Primary School, Walthamstow, and asbestos: the final verdict (2)
Lest there be any doubt about the matter, this excerpt from AEC Ltd, “Independent Report on the Potential Risk of Exposure to Asbestos during Refurbishment Works in 2011 at St Mary’s School...
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London Borough of Waltham Forest: ‘a property empire with a sideline in...
In March 2016, then portfolio holder for economic growth and high streets, now Group Leader, Clare Coghill travelled to Cannes in the company of LBWF CEO Martin Esom and ‘Assistant Director,...
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LBWF Leader Clare Coghill’s MIPIM muddle
In 2012, the Waltham Forest Guardian reported that councillors were finding the requirement that they fill in and then update their register of interest forms to be challenging. Some had missed out...
View ArticleKnife crime in Waltham Forest: a nasty little scandal (6)
In mid-June, I contacted the Mayor’s Officer for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to inquire about whether it or LBWF had prime responsibility for the Waltham Forest Safer Neighbourhoods Board (WFSNB). A day...
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LBWF CEO Martin Esom’s appointment to the Health and Safety Executive Board:...
In July of this year, LBWF CEO Martin Esom joined the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as a part-time non-executive director – a post that entails approximately 30 days commitment per year for a...
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Waltham Forest’s Safer Neighbourhoods Board and MOPAC funding: a scandal in...
Previous posts have dealt in depth with the travails of the Waltham Forest Safer Neighbourhoods Board (WFSNB) – its inability to hold regular meetings, the incompleteness of its minutes, and the fact...
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Redeveloping Waltham Forest: some experiences from the periphery
As a previous post indicates, LBWF is currently engaged in a major public-private programme to redevelop the borough. Much of the publicity about this programme centres on a few key hubs, principally...
View ArticleJohn Cryer MP speaks out on Labour anti-semitism
Currently, the BBC is running a story about John Cryer and Labour’s anti-semitism: ‘A senior Labour MP has said he is shocked at some of the anti-Semitic tweets by party members that come before its...
View ArticleLocal Labour heavyweight Richard Price denounces internal party shenanigans
Eagle-eyed politicos have drawn my attention to a speech by local Labour heavyweight, Richard Price, at the party’s recent Brighton conference, which can be viewed here at I hour 51 minutes:...
View ArticleCllr. Anna Mbachu, accusations of bullying, and an embarrassing Employment...
Anna Mbachu is Labour councillor for Grove Green ward, chair of the Health and Housing Scrutiny Committees, and Deputy Group Leader. Her current public profile is low-key. But in the past, she has...
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Hather Ali, of ‘bed in a shed’ fame, to stand for Labour in Higham Hill...
News reaches this blog that the Labour Party has chosen Mr. Hather Ali as a candidate for Higham Hill in the forthcoming local elections. This is certainly very surprising, because a couple of years...
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LBWF Leader Clare Coghill’s MIPIM muddle (2)
After this blog’s previous posts about Council Leader Clare Coghill’s 2016 and 2017 visits to Cannes for ‘real estate’s Glastonbury Festival’, the Marché International des Professionnels de...
View ArticleJohn Cryer MP’s Election Agent, Ian McKenzie, and the local Labour...
Reports emanating from Labour insiders reveal that John Cryer’s Election Agent, Ian McKenzie, has spectacularly alienated much of the local party membership, to the extent that some now see relations...
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Cllr. Anna Mbachu’s register of interests form prompts new controversy
A recent post looked at Cllr. Anna Mbachu’s unfortunate performance at an employment tribunal. Now news emerges that her register of interests form is also generating controversy. It is a matter of...
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Fred Wigg and John Walsh Towers update
This blog has previously covered the disgraceful situation that is ongoing regarding the ‘redevelopment John Walsh and Fred Wigg Towers in Cann Hall. Pasted below are two updates prepared by the...
View ArticleLBWF Leader Cllr. Clare Coghill and knife crime: some issues that need to be...
According to the Waltham Forest Guardian, there were serious stabbings in Walthamstow on the 14, 16, and 19 November just past, leading the police to impose a section 60 order, which allows them...
View ArticleLBWF dodges the Local Government Association’s acclaimed peer review scheme,...
Since 2011, the Local Government Association (LGA) has run and financed a scheme called Corporate Peer Challenge (CPC), which it sees as ‘a core element of our sector-led improvement offer to local...
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Cllr. Anna Mbachu’s register of interests form prompts new controversy UPDATED
A post on this blog of early November, cross-referenced below, related that (a) though senior Labour councillor and chair of the LBWF Housing Scrutiny Committee, Anna Mbachu, had been a director of...
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