tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10078554728773051972024-03-13T19:36:02.071-07:00Hammersmith and Fulham NewsNews and features about life in the west London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-27689441292048102332017-03-28T09:05:00.000-07:002017-03-28T09:05:39.139-07:00Conservative councils exit ‘Tri-borough’ arrangement after H&F seeks better value and campaigns to save Charing Cross A&E<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rF5qcAaC8PU/WNplbfZxJeI/AAAAAAAAANY/Lzk_7XNhlCQpljgawwx9BocdjA-ic64kwCLcB/s1600/Stephen%2BCowan%252C%2BGideon%2BSpringer%252C%2BSue%2BFennimore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rF5qcAaC8PU/WNplbfZxJeI/AAAAAAAAANY/Lzk_7XNhlCQpljgawwx9BocdjA-ic64kwCLcB/s400/Stephen%2BCowan%252C%2BGideon%2BSpringer%252C%2BSue%2BFennimore.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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Cllr Cowan with Cllr Sue Fennimore & Borough Commander Gideon Springer</div>
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night, Westminster Council and Kensington and Chelsea Council decided to exit the ‘tri-borough’ relationship. </span></div>
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Hammersmith and Fulham about the value, transparency and conflicts of interest
contained in the shared service relationship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of working to resolve these issues, the two Conservative councils opted to
withdraw. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stephen Cowan, the Labour Leader of H&F Council said, “We aspire to be the
best value, most effective council in the country - the best place for
residents to live and businesses to prosper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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built a reputation for improving services to residents while keeping tax low.
While our Conservative neighbours in K&C and Westminster have increased
council tax by 2% and 4% respectively, Labour H&F is one of only a few
councils in the country to freeze council tax.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also pointed to the facts that H&F are the only London council to cut
council tax this electoral term, the only council in the country to abolish
charges for adult social care, and the only council to cut 85% of all charges
for our residents, including freezing parking permit charges for each of the
last three years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the ‘tri-borough’, Cowan said, “It is no secret that we’ve had concerns for
some time about the value of the ‘tri-borough’, its lack of transparency and
its built-in conflicts of interest.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last two budgets identified £31 million in savings. The ‘tri-borough’
contributed less than 1% of that (£171,000). But problems with ‘tri-borough’
contracts, procured by Westminster City Council have cost Hammersmith &
Fulham over £5 million. This includes a botched contract for special needs
transport that put disabled children at risk (see this Guardian story <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/26/dangers-to-disabled-children-of-low-cost-specialist-transport">here</a>)
and which H&F has now put right for its children at great expense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Tri-borough officers faced conflicts of interest, for instance<br />over saving Charing Cross A&E</td></tr>
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Cowan added, “Senior ‘tri-borough’ officers have been put in the impossible
position of balancing our determination to keep Charing Cross Hospital open
with Westminster and K&C’s support for closing it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-47888954907735873472017-02-06T09:07:00.000-08:002017-02-06T09:10:46.423-08:00H&F parents, teachers and Labour councillors come together to fight government cuts to local schools<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Public meeting on 28 February</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hammersmith and Fulham’s Labour-run council
has called an urgent public meeting with parents, teachers and other residents to
fight government proposals to slash funding to H&F schools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At the meeting on <b>Tuesday 28 February at 7pm
in Hammersmith Town Hall</b>, head teachers and councillors will set out the damage
the cuts will do, and discuss with parents and other residents how to campaign
against the cuts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Conservative
government has </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2017/01/local-schools-face-28million-government-funding-slash"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">proposed cuts to H&F schools of
£2.8 million (three per cent)</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> at a time when outside pressures from government are seeing costs to schools
rise by 10%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">H&F Conservatives reject cross-party campaign
against school cuts </span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We hoped this would be a cross-party campaign,”
said Labour councillor Sue Fennimore, “But sadly H&F Conservatives are
putting their national party above local schools.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At a council debate
on the government’s plans last year, Labour councillors voted to fight the cuts
but </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://democracy.lbhf.gov.uk/documents/s75093/Minutes%20-%2027%20Jan%202016.pdf"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">H&F Conservatives refused to back
schools and parents in the campaign</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fennimore said, “This is
disappointing, but it’s great parents and teachers are coming together in huge
numbers to stand up for our local schools.</div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Labour councillors
have worked hard to protect school budgets and back our teachers, and our
schools are getting better each year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“These government cuts
would undo the good work, so we hope more and more residents will join the campaign to protect
our schools.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Support
from H&F’s head teachers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The local campaign has
the backing of H&F’s Schools’ Forum, which represents all the borough’s
schools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Its chair, head
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costs are increasingly significantly – it can only have a negative effect on
the education that we are able to deliver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“We will not be able
to employ the number of high quality teachers and leaders that we need to be
able to maintain standards.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-17381952579824240072016-09-01T10:08:00.001-07:002016-09-01T10:08:34.906-07:00H&F council rejects new threat to Charing Cross Hospital: “Our job is to protect the NHS and this plan is about dismantling it”<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charing Cross A&E and other services at risk in draft STP </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hammersmith & Fulham's Labour administration has rejected a new threat from the Conservative government to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Charing Cross
hospital’s A&E and other key services. </span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The new danger comes in the so-called “Sustainability
and Transformation Plan” (STP) put together by NHS North West London. This is
one of 44 STPs across England which the Conservative government has told the
NHS and local councils to prepare, and which menace hospital services throughout
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">H&F and neighbouring Ealing councils have refused to sign the North-West
London STP because it threatens Charing Cross and Ealing
hospitals by proposing to cut the number of major acute hospitals in the
area
from nine to five.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cllr Stephen Cowan and Michael Mansfield QC</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/26/plan-to-transform-nhs-could-led-to-downgrade-of-major-london-hospitals" target="_blank">Stephen Cowan, leader of H&F council, said</a>: “We condemn the Tory government for drawing up these plans. This is about closing hospitals and getting capital receipts. It’s a cynical rehash of earlier plans and is about the breaking up and selling off of the NHS. It will lead to a loss of vital services and will put lives at risk.”<br /><br />He added: “Our job is to protect the NHS and this plan is about dismantling it. This document is an affront to the sensibilities of the people of north-west London.”<br /><br />Julian Bell, Leader of Ealing Council, said: "We have made it abundantly clear that we will campaign until our last breath to save Ealing and Charing Cross hospitals.”<br /><br />Following government pressure on the NHS, Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals closed their A&E units in 2014, resulting in <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/waiting-times-at-ae-at-west-london-hospitals-hit-a-record-after-closures-9850531.html" target="_blank">unprecedented waiting times and missed targets.</a><br /><br />Since being elected in May 2014, H&F's Labour administration has been fighting alongside residents to stop the same thing happening at Charing Cross.<br /><br /><span id="goog_2050906014"></span><span id="goog_2050906015"></span>Last year, it invited leading barrister Michael Mansfield QC to lead an independent commission with medical experts to examine the government’s plans for Charing Cross hospital. <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-reforms-tories-been-deeply-6937431" target="_blank">Mr Mansfield concluded that the proposals were “deeply flawed” and “should be halted immediately”.</a><br /><br /><span id="goog_2050906028"></span><span id="goog_2050906029"></span>“We were elected to defend Charing Cross Hospital and its services,” said Ben Coleman, H&F’s Cabinet Member for Resident Satisfaction, “And the plans as they stand at the moment, although they have some good things in them, don't do that and we can’t support them” (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxJDEP7cpq4" target="_blank">see video at 2:07</a>). </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-13655858003550898032015-06-01T09:40:00.001-07:002015-06-15T07:01:42.862-07:00Reviewing H&F Conservatives' approach to hospitality one year after H&F residents removed them from office<div style="text-align: left;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former councillor Andrew Johnson's<br />
(Con) hospitality register<br />
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On January 29 last year the borough's <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2014/02/is-there-such-thing-as-free-lunch-h.html" target="_blank">former Conservative administration voted</a> to keep enjoying hospitality from property firms and other businesses Hammersmith and Fulham Council was or had been courted by. Five months later the Conservatives were voted out of office giving Labour a land slide victory in a borough that had been known as <i>"Cameron's favourite council"</i>.</div>
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Labour councillors immediately changed the rules and banned hospitality from property developers. We wanted to get an insight into the types of things Conservative councillors had been enjoying so here below is the hospitality record of former councillor Andrew Johnson who up until 2014 had been the borough's cabinet member for housing and a former member of it's planning committee. You can view the link to Mr Johnson's hospitality <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk//Directory/Council_and_Democracy/Councillors_and_MPs/Councillors/Councillor_Andrew_Johnson.asp?mgpage=mgListGifts.aspx%26amp%3BUID%3D131%26amp%3BRPID%3D42720351" target="_blank">register here</a>.<br />
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Andrew Johnson was voted out of office on 22 May 2014.<br />
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Register of hospitality received from property developers by the former councillor Andrew Johnson (Con), Hammersmith and Fulham's former cabinet member for housing.</h3>
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<strong>Free lunches, dinners and drinks:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li><b>4th November 2013</b> – Free dinner paid for by St. George Group</li>
<li><b>6th February 2013</b> – Free dinner paid for by British Gas</li>
<li><b>24th January 2013</b> – Free lunch paid for by Savills residential team</li>
<li><b>22nd November 2012</b> – Free dinner paid for by St James Group</li>
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<b>Free tickets and hospitality for sporting events and receptions</b><br />
<ul>
<li><b>2nd November 2013</b> – Free tickets to watch Fulham FC v. Manchester United FC courtesy of Alistair Mackintosh</li>
<li><b>9th June 2013</b> – Free Polo in the Park Family Day</li>
<li><b>1st March 2014</b> – free tickets to watch Fulham FC v. Chelsea FC courtesy of Alistair Mackintosh</li>
<li><b>18th November 2012</b> – Free ticket to Fulham Football Club paid for by Steve Norris</li>
<li><b>6th November 2012</b> – Free tickets to a reception at Somerset House paid for by Barratt Homes</li>
<li><b>21st June 2012</b> – free tickets to the cricket match, Middlesex v. Essex, at Lord's Cricket Ground paid for by Mosaic Family</li>
<li><b>12th June 2012</b> – Free tickets to the Aegon Championships tennis tournament at Queen's Club with free lunch - all paid for by Development Securities Plc</li>
<li><b>10th June 2012</b> – Two free tickets to the MINT Polo in the Park paid for by MINT Polo in the Park.</li>
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We may well review the gifts and hospitality register of other Conservatives over the coming weeks.<br />
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Meanwhile, as well as refusing all hospitality, the borough's Labour councillors have taken a more forthright approach in dealing with property developers as we can <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2014/10/mipim-boris-johnson-and-h-new.html" target="_blank">read about here</a>. We'll be reviewing that in the coming weeks.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-11113897699352092192015-03-29T05:14:00.001-07:002015-04-03T02:39:39.004-07:00H&F Conservatives' half a million pounds cut to H&F's street cleaning service was agreed six months before council elections but they decided it would only kick in afterwards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ItBwbN9dgkc/VR5dILuwbZI/AAAAAAAAAKI/gj0a9hd_SIg/s1600/H%26F%2Bstreet%2Bcleanser.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ItBwbN9dgkc/VR5dILuwbZI/AAAAAAAAAKI/gj0a9hd_SIg/s1600/H%26F%2Bstreet%2Bcleanser.jpg" height="320" width="211" /></a>At <a href="http://democracy.lbhf.gov.uk/documents/g2684/Public%20reports%20pack%2011th-Nov-2013%2018.00%20Cabinet.pdf?T=10" target="_blank">this cabinet meeting</a> on 11 November 2013, Cllr. Greg Smith (Con), the Borough's former cabinet member responsible for street cleaning, reported to his fellow Conservative councillors that he had cut £465,000.00 from Hammersmith and Fulham Council's street cleaning budget. However, he delayed the reductions in the street cleaning service until June 2014 - which was just a few days after the borough's last local elections.</div>
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Also in November 2013, Cllr Smith extended Serco's street cleaning contract which had been set to expire in June 2015. Now, it will run until 2021.<br />
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All of this has prompted Hammersmith and Fulham's new Labour administration to attack Cllr. Smith for sabotaging the street cleaning service. Cllr. <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk//Directory/Council_and_Democracy/Councillors_and_MPs/Councillors/Homepage.asp?mgpage=mgUserInfo.aspx%26amp%3BUID%3D1106" target="_blank">Max Schmid</a> (Lab), the borough's cabinet member for finance, said: <i>"By delaying the implementation of nearly half a million pounds of cuts in the street cleaning services until the weeks after last year's council elections, Cllr Smith was clearly hoping to disguise what he'd done while people were considering who to vote for. But by signing this into an extended contract he agreed would run until 2021 he has literally sabotaged the street cleaning service"</i><br />
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<i>"Deceitful attempts to fool local residents like this is exactly the type of arrogant behavior that led the public to remove Cllr. Smith and his colleagues from office last year. Now, this new Labour administration is literally having to clean up H&F Conservatives' mess".</i><br />
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Max Schmid pointed out that this is the sixth year of the government's austerity budget cuts which has seen a real terms cut of 10% in funding to Hammersmith and Fulham in 2015/16. <i>"Clean streets and a clean environment are a priority for this new Labour administration and despite inheriting a situation where we have to make £71 million of cuts and efficiencies over this four year term, just to balance the books, we will ensure we take the necessary measures to keep our streets clean".</i><br />
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Meanwhile, following last year's local elections, Cllr Greg Smith is now the Conservative leader of the opposition on Hammersmith and Fulham Council.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-11784180262273218072015-03-29T05:01:00.000-07:002015-04-03T02:34:38.691-07:00H&F Labour secures over £50m of extra funding for borough residents after renegotiating Conservative property deals<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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After winning the election in May 2014 promising to get better deals for residents, Labour councillors urgently examined a series of agreements that had already been recently agreed and signed off by the Conservatives. <br />
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The extra £50m secured by Labour as a result of revisiting the deals will: <br />
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• Deliver 231 new affordable homes.<br />
• Increase locally-funded police officers by 20% <br />
• Support arts and local infrastructure. <br />
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H&F Council Leader, Cllr Stephen Cowan, said: <i>“Too many Conservative councillors <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2014/02/is-there-such-thing-as-free-lunch-h.html">cosied up</a> to property developers and were weak in the deals they agreed on behalf of our borough. Mayor Boris Johnson is still doing that today. Despite that we have <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2014/10/mipim-boris-johnson-and-h-new.html">taken a firm line</a> and by the middle of last summer we had renegotiated an extra £16.2 million on deals Conservative councillors had already agreed and closed the book on. That figure now stands at over £50 million and we will win more". </i><br />
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Stephen Cowan added<em> "Last year people voted for our new Labour administration so we could 'put residents first - not property speculators'. That's exactly what were doing and providing hundreds of more affordable homes, extra police and other benefits for the people of this borough as a result".</em><br />
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Several more large-scale developments are still under renegotiation and it is expected that more will be secured for residents in the coming months.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-4540940314421751082015-02-26T09:20:00.000-08:002015-02-26T09:22:06.907-08:00Let them "drive cars"!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“They drive cars!” shouted out Cllr Jane Law (Con).
She was explaining why Conservative councillors in Hammersmith & Fulham
think it acceptable to force residents to walk up to 25 minutes to attend a
surgery held outside their ward. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Some residents in Conservative-held Palace Riverside ward face a 25-minute
walk to a neighbouring ward if they want to see one of their two councillors –
who together only hold three surgeries a year. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Advice surgeries are considered a fundamental part of the job specification
for Britain’s councillors and MPs but H&F’s Conservatives have linked up
wards to reduce the already low number of surgeries they hold. This has left
their constituents with long journeys and potentially months of waiting if they
need to see their elected representative. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Across the borough, for every five surgeries that H&F Labour councillors
offer, the Conservatives do just one. Labour councillors also hold their
surgeries in nearly four times as many locations at the Conservatives, making
it easier for residents to see them. At least four Conservative councillors
hold a single surgery per year, while others undertake only two. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Speaking on a report about councillors’ allowances at a full council meeting
last night Cllr Larry Culhane, who is H&F Labour’s deputy whip, contrasted
the Conservatives’ limited surgery workload with the weekly surgeries that
Labour councillors offer – all of which take place within the wards they were
elected to serve. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Cllr Culhane said “All wards have residents living different lives and
facing different issues but every resident should be able to see their elected
councillors without difficulty. Not only are H&F Conservative councillors
failing to hold enough surgeries, but expecting all residents to own cars to
access their basic democratic right shows just how out of touch they are. <o:p></o:p><br />
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“This year, Labour’s 26 councillors in Hammersmith & Fulham will be
holding over 270 drop-in surgeries in 18 locations across the borough. We also
offer additional weekly surgeries by appointment. In contrast, Conservative
councillors are holding only 55 surgeries in just 5 locations across the
borough.” <o:p></o:p><br />
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This sorry situation only became apparent recently after Conservative
councillors submitted their workload plans.<br />
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Meanwhile, the eight Conservative councillors who represent 21,000 residents
of Palace Riverside, Town and Munster wards have decided to offer just one
surgery a month between them. And the six Conservative councillors who
represent Sands End, Parsons Green and Walham wards have decided that just one
surgery a month between them is enough for their 16,000 residents. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Conservative councillors are also failing to turn up to take part in
important decisions at council meetings. Just four out of 20 Conservatives
attended the full council meeting last November. And last night’s annual Budget
council began with just 13 out of 20 elected Conservatives present. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The published records show that Conservative members are also consistently
failing to turn up to of Policy and Accountability Committees (PACs), which are
attended by scores of residents and deal with critical issues. Not a single
Conservative made the effort to attend the most recent meeting of the important
Finance PAC. <o:p></o:p><br />
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In the vote on councillors’ allowances last night, the Labour administration
confirmed the 10% cut which its members took in their special responsibility
allowances after the local elections last May in order to stand by residents in
these tough economic times. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-33636850929363441542015-02-05T14:08:00.000-08:002015-02-05T14:08:58.684-08:00H&F Labour’s £24m efficiency programme gives residents this year’s best deal in London<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Red = increased. Grey = not announced</td></tr>
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Hammersmith and Fulham’s Labour administration is reducing the cost of the council to residents despite large cuts to its Government grant. This has been achieved through an extensive £24 million efficiency programme.<br />
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H&F is the only London borough so far that has announced plans to cut council tax, according to the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04xm1tr/sunday-politics-london-18012015">see here at 43:50 minutes in</a>). Its Labour administration has also:<br />
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<li>Cut meals on wheels charges by 33%</li>
<li>Cut 15 other council charges</li>
<li>Halted the Conservatives' plans to increase parking charges by 14.7% - freezing those instead</li>
<li>Also frozen school meals and 138 other charges</li>
<li>Given nine in ten charges (as measured by their income value) a real terms cut</li>
<li>Become only the second local authority in the country to abolish charges for home care needed by disabled and elderly people.</li>
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Neighbouring Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea –two Conservative councils with whom Hammersmith & Fulham shares some services – are both planning to freeze rather than cut council tax. <br />
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In Bromley, the Conservatives are planning an almost 2 per cent council tax hike, <a href="http://bromtory.com/newsviews/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CONSERVATIVE-PARTY-MANIFESTO-2014.pdf">despite an election pledge to freeze it</a>. <br />
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“My fellow Labour councillors and I pledged to tackle waste in order to cut council tax and cut fees and charges. We didn’t make that promise lightly and we're now getting on and doing just that”, said Hammersmith & Fulham council leader <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Cowan</a>. “Within our first days in office, we saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by just by cutting council publications and ending the Conservatives’ use of lamppost vanity banners which they used to promote their councillors and political propaganda. We are using these and many, many other savings to reduce costs to residents as promised - despite heavy Government cuts.”<br />
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<b>Labour’s efficiency programme</b><br />
Although Government cuts have seen Hammersmith and Fulham’s spending power slashed by 10%, the Council’s Labour administration was able to cut taxes because of a wide-ranging efficiency programme, expected to save almost £24 million. This builds on the work <a href="http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/labour-appoint-cost-cutting-tsar-5967078">Labour did in opposition to identify over £20 million of structural waste.</a> <br />
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Key savings from the annual budget include: <br />
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<li>£4.3 million from securing outside investment from property developers and health authorities to fund areas previously paid for by council taxpayers</li>
<li>£3.8 million from improved performance and market share of the Council’s commercial functions </li>
<li>£3.5 million from renegotiating contracts and better commissioning</li>
<li>£2.5 million from rationalising the council’s office estate</li>
<li>£2.3 million from sharing services better with other councils </li>
<li>£750k from paying down and restructuring historic debt</li>
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Budget proposals went through a series of five public Policy and Accountability Committees over the course of January. They will be voted on by the full Council on 25 February. The Labour administration is about to begin a series of targeted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_budgeting" target="_blank">zero-based</a> service reviews so that resources are properly allocated to delivering the best outcomes for residents.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-84069728176184456162015-01-15T05:15:00.001-08:002015-01-15T05:15:55.962-08:00Independent Healthcare Commission gets to work as A&E crisis deepens<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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The Daily Mail calls it <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2899703/Mac-worst-E-crisis-ten-years.html"><span style="color: #0070c0;">the worst A&E crisis in ten years</span></a> and West
Londoners are stuck at the centre. It is a timely moment for the <span lang="EN-US">independent North West London Healthcare
Commission </span>to get to work.<br />
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<a href="http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/major-west-london-hospital-trust-8391501"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The latest NHS figures</span></a><span style="color: #0070c0;">
</span>confirm that, since the government shut the A&Es at Hammersmith and
Central Middlesex hospitals last September, Imperial College NHS Trust (which runs
Charing Cross, St Mary’s, Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea
hospitals) has consistently missed its target of seeing patients within four hours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And yet the government <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/mp-in-call-to-shelve-closure-plan-for-ae-department-at-charing-cross-9927999.html"><span style="color: #0070c0;">refuses to shelve plans</span></a> to downgrade the A&Es
at Charing Cross and Ealing hospitals, which would only make matters worse. </div>
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In response to a groundswell of concern from local
residents, Hammersmith & Fulham's new Labour administration joined with Brent, Ealing
and Hounslow councils to ask top barrister Michael Mansfield QC to lead the
independent <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/top-barrister-to-investigate-impact-of-ae-closures-on-patient-safety-9895171.html"><span style="color: #0070c0;">North West London Healthcare Commission</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Commission has now started work and is assessing the
impact on local people from A&E closures to date and from the threatened reduction
in services at Charing Cross and Ealing hospitals. Public meetings will be held across West London, with one planned for Hammersmith Town Hall on <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Dates_set_for_public_meetings_in_North_West_London_healthcare_inquiry.asp#3" target="_blank">Saturday 14 March</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Misleading taxpayer funded <br />leaflet from former H&F <br />Conservative administration</td></tr>
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Once upon a time, this would have had cross-party support. Unfortunately,
for the past two years, H&F Conservatives have shared Imperial’s desire to
sell off most of Charing Cross hospital to property speculators and send
emergency patients outside the borough. <br />
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“Cameron’s favourite council” even ran an expensive campaign
of taxpayer-funded leaflets misleadingly claiming that
the A&E would be “retained” at Charing Cross, despite health bosses
admitting that their plans would see most of the <span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/charing-cross-hospital-tower-block-could-be-sold-off-as-flats-9879528.html">hospital site sold and an end to blue light services.</a></span><br />
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Things changed once Labour took control last May. H&F
council now uncompromisingly <a href="http://www.saveourhospitals.net/index.php/2-uncategorised/272-hammersmith-and-three-west-london-councils-launch-independent-commission-on-the-future-of-our-a-es-on-5th-december-2014.html"><span style="color: #0070c0;">defends local health services.</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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According to H&F council leader Stephen Cowan, “The work
of the independent Commission, which is free of vested interests, is vital in
assessing how local trusts can ensure a safe and sustainable future for our
hospital services. I encourage everyone to have their say at the forthcoming
public meetings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“<a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/A_and_E_units_struggle_to_cope_as_independent_hospital_commission_prepares_to_hear_public_views.asp"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The deteriorating state of local A&E services</span></a>
is evidence of just how important this review is for West London.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Cllr. Harry Phibbs (Con)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only four out of the twenty Conservative councillors elected to represent wards across Hammersmith and Fulham showed up to the last Full Council Meeting on 5th November. It’s now common for H&F’s Conservatives councillors to just not to show up to committee meetings at all - even when vital issues are being reviewed. None of this has however stopped Cllr Harry Phibbs (Con) telling borough residents that the recently elected chair of the planning committee should return some of the £5,564.70 special responsibility allowance (SRA) he is paid to run the planning process because a January meeting has been cancelled. So we thought we’d review both Harry Phibbs’ and H&F Conservatives’ record on council pay and planning and contrast it with what's happening since H&F's residents removed them from office last May. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harry Phibbs featured in Private Eye magazine's Rotten Boroughs</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Firstly, H&F's newly elected Labour administration voted to cut all their special responsibility allowances by 10% at their very first <a href="http://democracy.lbhf.gov.uk/documents/g3242/Public%20reports%20pack%2016th-Jun-2014%2019.00%20Full%20Council.pdf?T=10" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Full Council meeting on 16th June 2014</span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Harry Phibbs had a starkly different approach: back in 2007 </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2007/08/h-tories-18-pay-hike-34million-cuts-to.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Phibbs voted to give himself</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and his fellow Conservative councillors a staggering 18% council salary rise; in the same year </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2007/07/tories-demand-6000-bonus-to-carry-out.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Phibbs successfully sought an extra £6,034</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> SRA payment for chairing the adoptions panel – a post that previously didn’t carry an SRA; and a year later in 2008 Phibbs supported the </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2008/03/h-council-leader-awards-himself-14-pay.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Conservative council leader’s bid for a 14% salary rise</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. And if Harry was harbouring any delusions that he might have ever been a worthy custodian of public money we feel compelled to point out that it was Harry Phibbs who argued squandering </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2011/11/h-conservatives-say-7000-tax-payer.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">£7,104 of tax payers’ money on a Monday afternoon booze up</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> for a favoured official was a good thing. </span><br />
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Only 4 out of 20 Conservative councillors turned up to<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Secondly let's consider the difference in approach to planning and development in the borough. Soon after winning the local elections in May 2014 the newly elected Labour administration voted to ban councillors from taking hospitality from property developers; Labour's councillors voted to give residents speaking rights at planning committee meetings and they agreed to publish details on H&F Council’s website of all meetings their administration has with developers. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">All these improvements happened under the leadership of the very same new chair of planning that Harry Phibbs has decided to pick on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Contrast that with H&F Conservatives' record: </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2014/02/is-there-such-thing-as-free-lunch-h.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Conservative councillors enjoyed lavish hospitality</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from the developers and lobbyist behind some of their most controversial property schemes; they were attacked by the Sunday Times for </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2009/01/sunday-times-attacks-h-council-for.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">splurging £11,839 of tax payers money sending a Conservative councillor</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to Cannes on the French Riviera so he could have secret talks with property developers; and even produced <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2009/10/h-council-tells-property-speculators-we.html" target="_blank">this council video</a> which said they had removed the <em>"uncertainty around planning applications"</em> to help property developers which was done at the expense of the very Hammersmith and Fulham residents they were supposed to be representing. Conservative councillors consistently refused for eight years to allow residents to speak at planning meetings – even when some of the developments would devastate their neighbourhoods. Phibbs himself was the former Conservative Administration's chief apologist - even arguing for his Ravenscourt Park constituents' homes to be </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2010/01/why-labour-councillors-will-reform-h.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">blighted by a planning scheme</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> that even Boris Johnson later rejected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Harry Phibbs knows that he's being a hypocrite. He has a long history of hypocritical attacks as Private Eye exposed in the attached article. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Phibbs took a very soft line when Conservative councillors failed to turn up to a council committee he used to chair - </span><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2010/01/why-labour-councillors-will-reform-h.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">you can see a good example of that here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Indeed, Phibbs himself missed the last Full Council Meeting and has missed nearly all H&F Council's cabinet meetings since May 2014 when he became the borough's Opposition spokesperson for environment, leisure & residents services. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So maybe it's Harry Phibbs who should be giving his council salary back. We advise it would be a good way for him to apologise to the borough's residents for all the unnecessary things he and his colleagues squandered public money on and for all the quite awful things the former Conservative administration did to planning and land development when he helped run Hammersmith and Fulham council.</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North End Road's Festive Market yesterday</td></tr>
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Fulham’s North End Road got a glimpse into a thriving future yesterday. An estimated 10,000 shoppers packed the Festive Market in the iconic high street on what turned out to be a very sunny first Saturday in December.<br />
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The Festive Market is a new initiative organised by H&F Council's new Labour administration. They set up and worked with North End Road action group to deliver on their pre-election pledge to better support independent retailers and regenerate North End Road.<br />
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TmI4uVkLtno/VIQu83SvHbI/AAAAAAAAAFU/q6OHNlsiSik/s1600/NER%2BFestive%2BMarket.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TmI4uVkLtno/VIQu83SvHbI/AAAAAAAAAFU/q6OHNlsiSik/s1600/NER%2BFestive%2BMarket.jpg" width="200" /></a>The day coincided with <a href="https://smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com/" target="_blank">Small Business Saturday</a> and alongside the usual top quality fruit and veg there was hand-made decorations, beautiful crafts, jewellery and art, clothes, delicious cakes, hot food, mulled wine, and much more which was all snapped up from a hundred stalls on both sides of the road, which was traffic-free for the day.<br />
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<em>“There was a really happy community atmosphere”,</em> said <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk//Directory/Council_and_Democracy/Councillors_and_MPs/Councillors/Homepage.asp?mgpage=mgUserInfo.aspx%26amp%3BUID%3D1282">Cllr Ben Coleman</a> (Lab), who champions small businesses in Hammersmith & Fulham. <em>“People got a vision of how good the road could become." </em><br />
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You can get an feel for the optimism and spirit of the stallholders in this video <a href="http://youtu.be/LZnyEfDQw_Q">here</a>. <br />
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Hammersmith and Fulham voted in the new Labour administration at last May's local elections. H&F Labour had campaigned for better support for independent retailers urging people to <em><a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2013/12/lets-make-this-christmas-small-business.html" target="_blank">"Buy Local"</a></em> to improve the borough’s high streets. <em>“We promised to support independent retailers in our </em><a href="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f29e63ad0717fb2c8bb51fe61/files/5d4e2853-a38b-4ffa-ad4d-e87126e2425f.pdf"><em>manifesto</em></a><em> and this is a very good start to showing what North End Road could become”,</em> said H&F council leader <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Cowan</a> (Lab).<br />
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The idea of pedestrianising North End Road for a day and filling it with new stalls came from a new action group of local residents, stallholders and shopkeepers set up by the borough's <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk//Directory/Council_and_Democracy/Committee_reports_minutes_and_agendas/Committee_Archive/homepage.asp?mgpage=ieListMeetings.aspx%26amp%3BCId%3D487%26amp%3BYear%3D0" target="_blank">Economic Regeneration, Housing and the Arts Policy and Accountability Committee</a>, which Ben Coleman chairs. <em>“Residents told us they wanted the market to be at the heart of North End Road’s revival, not shunted off to a side street, so that’s what we’re doing,”</em> said Coleman, <em>“We want to build a better borough by doing things with local people and not to them.” </em><br />
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<strong>Next steps</strong><br />
Everyone is invited to a public meeting to talk about what they thought of the Festive Market and help map out the next steps for North End Road. That meeting takes place at 7pm this Wednesday 10 December in <a href="http://www.stjohnsfulham.org/index.php/contact" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006699;">St John's Church</span></a>, North End Road, London SW6 1PB.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--OB8F8GFLgc/VIQu3ca9M5I/AAAAAAAAAFM/lnBRT_MYVbw/s1600/Kate%2B-%2BKC%2BLoves.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--OB8F8GFLgc/VIQu3ca9M5I/AAAAAAAAAFM/lnBRT_MYVbw/s1600/Kate%2B-%2BKC%2BLoves.JPG" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="320" /></a><strong>Voices from the day</strong><br />
Maggie has run her haberdashery stall at the market for nearly 30 years. <em>"I've seen so many people that I've never before seen in my life today. The pedestrianisation has made an enormous difference to the market. If we did this once a month it would be brilliant"</em><br />
First-time entrepreneur Nikki sold homemade cakes and pastries under the name Tarts of London. <em>"I saw an article encouraging small businesses to sign up so I gave it a go, I've always wanted to run my own stall and the council has been really supportive in helping me get to this point. There has been a constant stream of shoppers and the atmosphere has been great."</em><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/KC-loves/578549282184773">KC Loves</a> jewellery<br />
Kate from Shepherd's Bush sells handmade silver jewellery as KC Loves and has traded in Camden and Portobello markets. <em>"I never thought I'd trade here but the atmosphere has been really relaxed, everyone has a smile on their face and I've nearly sold out of stock".</em><br />
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It wasn't just small businesses that benefited. The Doorstep Library, Sir Edward Stoll Foundation and other local charities also promoted their work. Sam on the Stoll stall said, <em>"This is the first market we've done. It's great that we've been able to see and speak to new people in the community about the work we do."</em><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D97TYTT0GBI/VIQuKxwXryI/AAAAAAAAAEE/K7caDiVZ3EE/s1600/Fulham%2BBrass%2BBand.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D97TYTT0GBI/VIQuKxwXryI/AAAAAAAAAEE/K7caDiVZ3EE/s1600/Fulham%2BBrass%2BBand.JPG" width="400" /></a>Julian, a long standing local resident who shops on North End Road most days, told us <em>"There's a nice variety of stalls and people feel comfortable with time to stroll, stop and chat."</em><br />
The <a href="http://www.fulhambrassband.co.uk/">Fulham Brass Band</a> added greatly to the atmosphere rounding off proceedings with a wide variety festive favourites.<br />
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Please email Cllr. <a href="mailto:ben.coleman@lbhf.gov.uk" target="_blank">Ben Coleman here</a> if you'd like to share your views with him about this and other possible future ventures.
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Superintendent <a href="http://content.met.police.uk/Article/Profile--Gideon-Springer/1400004604393/1400004604393?scope_id=1257246763931">Gideon Springer</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hammersmith and Fulham's new Labour run council today announced it has acted to deliver the biggest increase in H&F funded police numbers in the borough's history. The number of locally-funded police officers in the borough will go up more
than 20% after the Labour administration signs a historic deal with the Metropolitan
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">H&F will fund 44 officers which is up from 36. The funding for the scheme was won when Labour councillors negotiated millions of extra pounds from property developers on deals the former Conservative administration had previously already agreed and closed the book on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the run up to the last election H&F Labour councillors </span><a href="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f29e63ad0717fb2c8bb51fe61/files/5d4e2853-a38b-4ffa-ad4d-e87126e2425f.pdf"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">made an early pledge</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to <em>"defend neighbourhood policing"</em> and <em>"put police back on the beat".</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cllr <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk//Directory/Council_and_Democracy/Councillors_and_MPs/Councillors/Homepage.asp?mgpage=mgUserInfo.aspx%26amp%3BUID%3D1277">Sue Fennimore</a>, H&F's Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion said the extra police officers will play a vital role in tackling crime across the whole borough commenting <em>"H&F's residents want safer neighbourhoods and we're determined to reduce crime and take all necessary measures to cut the causes of crime.</em> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Council leader <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/">Stephen Cowan</a> told us </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><em>“Residents voted for our promise to deliver extra policing and I am glad that we have been able to negotiate these extra funds and deliver on our promise within our first six months in office".</em></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117711092354374227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007855472877305197.post-29203379653283179872014-10-29T04:52:00.002-07:002014-10-29T04:52:23.342-07:00Adonis' 'tri-borough' review delivers immediate savings for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and signposts the way forward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back in 2010 three West London Conservative council leaders got together with the Rt Hon Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11603545">declared</a> that their proposal to share services between the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council could save the three local authorities up to £100million. <div>
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Last May, the residents of H&F voted in a new Labour administration. Having stated in their <a href="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f29e63ad0717fb2c8bb51fe61/files/5d4e2853-a38b-4ffa-ad4d-e87126e2425f.pdf">manifesto</a> that they were determined to get an objective view of the scheme which should be devoid of vested interests, H&F Labour invited an independent Critical Friends Board (CFB) to review the 'tri-borough' project and all its workings. That was led by Lord Andrew Adonis.<br /><br />As well as Lord Adonis, the CFB included the eminant Professor Tony Travers and Deborah Lincoln who all freely gave their time. Their review is the only independent review of this scheme ever undertaken. <br /><br />There's much of interest within its 75 pages for anyone wondering about the accountability and value of local services. Most notably, the scheme has delivered less than half of the £100million target originally claimed by Mr. Pickles. The projected £46.5million now targetted to have been saved by the end of next year is only similar to what Hackney, Lambeth and Camden have each saved all by themselves without such a scheme.<br /><br />You can read the executive summary of the CFB review <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Images/LBHF_Critical%20Friends%20Board_Tri-Borough%20Review_Exec%20Summary_27Oct_tcm21-191576.pdf">here</a>. The full report can be found <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Images/LBHF_Critical%20Friends%20Board_Tri-Borough%20Review_27Oct_tcm21-191575.pdf">here</a> and the press release put out by the Critical Friends Board is <a href="http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/West_London_shared_council_services_must_be_more_responsive_to_residents_and_open_to_others_says_Lord_Adonis.asp">here</a>. <br /><br />H&F's council leader, Stephen Cowan (Lab) has put out <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2014/10/review-on-tri-borough-shared-services.html">this statement</a>. In it he says H&F's Labour administration has <i>"acted immediately in implementing one of the major recommendations to appoint an exclusive chief executive for H&F. This brings about an immediate saving but also recognises the importance to each borough in having their own 'champion' directly accountable to elected representatives and therefore to borough residents." </i>H&F News understands that Nigel Pallace has taken on the interim role of CEO as well as keeping his old job at H&F as their Executive Director of Transport and Technical Services.<div>
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In 2010 Cllr. Cowan voiced his concerns <a href="http://www.thecowanreport.com/2011/06/questions-around-incompetence-stealth.html">here</a>. So expect a series of further announcements on how all the CFB's recommendations are taken forward as H&F's new leadership seeks to cut costs and improve the ways its services work for its residents.</div>
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Organised by the Big Local with the help of dozens of volunteers,
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There were also sports competitions, food from local
restaurants, a dog show, bouncy castle and fairground rides. White City
resident Sinead said “After a brief rain scare, the Festival was better than ever this year. It’s an authentic
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The day provided a good opportunity for local groups to
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important green spaces. Resident input into the design has increased in recent
months as a result of the early work of Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s new Policy and Accountability Committee responsible for parks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Save our Hospitals campaign was also active gathering
signatures for petitions calling on the Government and NHS bosses to drop plans that would see most of Charing Cross Hospital sold to developers, with the loss of hundreds of
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