Opinion View from the town hall: Liveable Streets plan is causing confict
Do you know of anyone who does not want to live in a nice street? A liveable street? We all do. And we all want to make our environment a much healthier place to live in.
Do you know of anyone who does not want to live in a nice street? A liveable street? We all do. And we all want to make our environment a much healthier place to live in.
The current strike action by Unison is in response to the threat by Mayor John Biggs to sack 4,000 council workers if they do not sign up to the new terms of service known as Tower Rewards.
As we are all now too aware, black people are four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, and people from BAME communities are around twice as likely to die than white people.
NHS England confirmed Tower Hamlets has its first case of Covid-19 and on Monday my surgery was inundated with questions about this.
In November last year I proposed a motion at council that it has a duty to support and assist people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to enable them to access appropriate living conditions; with a couple of minor amendments it was unanimously passed.
I have had to deal with numerous cases of residents whose mental health has been seriously affected by failures of social housing providers.
On just one day last week, three people entered the waters of the River Thames and did not resurface, one at Waterloo, one at Kingston-on-Thames and one at Shadwell Basin.
Does anyone know what is going on with our schools? Tower Hamlets Council certainly doesn’t.
Many in our borough know that free movement of people isn’t just about cheap labour – for Tower Hamlets businesses free movement is about access to talent which is essential to continue to grow and innovate.
Last week saw an unforgiveably vile video of a man making racist remarks about Muslim schoolgirls circulated on social media.
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