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Hope for Granville Plus Nursery and Granville Kitchen in new Cabinet Report
The Granville Plus purpose built extension - will it survive? A new Cabinet report going before the Brent Cabinet on November 15th gives some seeds of hope for those campaigning for the Granville...
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Brent won't revise Council Tax Support Scheme despite 3.99% CT rise in 2017-18
Brent Council Tax Support caseloadA report LINK going before the next Brent Cabinet recommends that the Council Tax Support Scheme should not be revised to support vulnerable residents despite another...
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Brent Council recommended to bring housing management in-house
BHP's King's Drive Estate, WembleyBrent Council is set to bring its housing management back in house if a recommendation going before Cabinet is approved. The issue brought tenants and leaseholders out...
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Green 'jobs of peace' could replace Trident jobs claims new report
Green MEP for the South West, Molly Scott Cato, is to launch a new report tomorrow looking at how jobs linked to Trident can be converted into green jobsThe report explores how the current 2000 or so...
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Parkinson's sufferer Hakeem M Haleem granted limited right to remain after...
Following a petition signed by nearly 23,000 people and lobbying of the Home Office Hakeem Muhammad Haleem has been granted limited right to remain without recourse to public funds. Hakeen suffered...
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Many allotments likely to be at risk after Farm Terrace court judgment
Goodbye Farm TerraceA four year battle LINK to save the Farm Lane allotments in Watford from development ended last week when a judge found against the campaigners. BBC London News showed an 80 year...
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Passionate statement on Trump from US Friends of the Earth: The environmental...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President-elect Donald Trump threatens our environment and we vow to fight him every step of the way. Like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Trump tapped into a deep resentment about the...
View ArticleGreen MEP calls for people to unite behind 'tolerance, diversity, mutal...
Molly Scott-Cato, Green Party MEP, has made this statement on the American Presidential election result:Like so many I am deeply shocked to think of the boorish and inexperienced Donald Trump becoming...
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23 storey block on historic Dollis Hill site likely to be opposed
The 'Pre-Application Presentations' now made at Brent Planning Committee are useful as an early warning of planning applications to come. The public are not allowed to make representations but can...
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Cllr Mashari rejects call for her resignation over Granville redevelopment
Kilburn Times storyCllr John Duffy (Labour, Kilburn) took the unusual step yesterday of circulating an email to all councillors calling for the resignation of Cllr Roxanne Mashari (Labour, Welsh Harp)...
View ArticleBenefit Cap starts this week - some helpful resources
More than 120 parents attended this morning's Parents' Forum at Chalkhill Primary School. The agenda included a presentation by Neil Gann, Welfare Reform Project Manager on the benefit cap which comes...
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Young Eco-Warriors: New 'Cleaner Streets' App for primary schools
Bapchild & Tonge School 'Eco-warriors' using the app to report litterBrent Council already operates the Cleaner Brent Phone App for reporting flytipping and much else. Could we see Brent schools...
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Cllr Butt admits wrong doing in the 'tarmucking' of local street. What now?
Nine Chandos Road (or nearby) residents attended the Brent Connects-Willesden meeting at the Willesden Green Library last night and five of them spoke against the council's policy to replace paving...
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Brent Council poised to lease out 8th floor of Civic Centre to HMRC agency
Civic Centre office floorsBrent Council appears to be likely to lease the 8th floor of the Civic Centre to the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and Executive Agency of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs...
View ArticleBrent Tories call for Brent Council to return to committee governance rather...
Brent Conservatives have tabled a motion for the Council meeting on November 21st calling for Carolyn Downs, CEO, to formulate a commitee meeting of local government for Brent Council.They claim that...
View ArticleWho was really responsible for the Granville Centre debacle?
Last week I published Cllr Duffy's interchange with Cllr Mashari in which he called for her resignation over the Granville and Carlton Centres in South Kilburn. LINKCllr Mashari claimed that the...
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Farm Terrace Allotment Campaign 'disappointed' by National Allotment...
From Farm Terrace Campaign LINKWe are extremely disappointed by the National Allotment Society 's recent press release regarding the result of our Judicial Review regarding the deregulation of Farm...
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EDUCATION - INVEST, DON'T CUT March & Rally Nov 17th
The cuts being implemented by the Conservative Government put education at risk. Increased funding is desperately needed to safeguard our children’s education. We are asking the Government to change...
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Action on school funding and staffing crisis needs your support
Slide from presentation at Brent governors' meeting with Brent senior officers Brent schools, which out-perform other schools nationally, are going to have to fight to maintain their position in the...
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Residents call for wider and extended consultation on controversial Ealing...
Ealing Road Library (centre) set back from Ealing RoadResidents around Ealing Road Library, Wembley, are calling for the consultation plans on the development of the Ealing Road Library site in Ealing...
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