Brent Council to rely on volunteers for Meals on Wheels provision
Brent Executive approved the handing over of the provision of Meals on Wheels and meals at Day Care Centres to the voluntary sector this evening. There were passionate speeches by Brent Fightback and...
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Councils need powers to build new schools - new campaign needs your support
I was pleased to see Green Party leader Natalie Bennett tweet her support to the new School Places Crisis campaign to Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the NUT. The campaign calls for local...
View ArticleSupport the redoubtable Kensal Rise Library campaigners tomorrow
The Friends of Kensal Rise Library will be represented at the Brent Council Planning Committee on Wednesday 18th September by Co-Chair David Butcher. There will be other speakers including two from...
View ArticleMore than the environment: Green voices from the West Midlands
Away from the trendy bars, skateboarders and joggers of Brighton the World at One finds out about the success of the Green Party in industrial West Midlands:listen to ‘My report for @bbcradio4's #wato...
View ArticleLondon needs a million new homes by 2021 research claims
This statement from London Councils shows the depth of London's housing crisis:London's future prosperity is in doubt unless steps - such as lifting restrictions on councils borrowing against their...
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Iron age pottery found on Blackbird Farm dig
It seems a long step from the Lidl supermarket on one side of Blackbird Hill in Kingsbury and a possible iron age settlement on the other, but that is the possibility revealed by the archaeological dig...
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Who will do a 'Margaret Hodge' over fake Kensal Rise emails tonight?
'Now Mr Gillick, what do you have to say about these fake emails?'What a pity I have a Green Party meeting tonight. I would have liked to attend the Brent Planning Committee taking place this evening...
View ArticleBrighouse says some of Gove's powers should be taken away from him
Following the failure of my motion at Green Party Conference calling for a review if our education policy in the light of Michael Gove's reforms it is interesting to read today's report by Professor...
View ArticleMore student accommodation coming to Wembley Park
Affordable family housing in the Wembley Stadium regeneration area seems even further away after this annoucement:Developer Unite Group has purchased a one acre development site in north west London's...
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Kensal Rise Library development plans rejected by planning committee
Campaigners are celebrating after the application to convert Kensal Rise library into flats with a token library/community space was unanimously rejected by Brent Planning Committee on the...
View ArticleCllr Pavey calls on local MPs to support School Places Crisis campaign
Cllr Michael Pavey has written to local MPs Barry Gardiner, Sarah Teather and Glenda Jackson asking them to support the 'School Places Crisis Campaign'. The campaign seeks the restoration of power to...
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Rally and rhetoric at WL People's Assembly but strategy needed
Owen Jones gets into his stride (Photo: Simerjit Gill) About 100 attended the Assembly (Photo: Simerjit Gill)Last night's West London People's Assembly was certainly a lively affair with many...
View ArticleBrent Beats with Simon Mole on Thursday at Wembley Library
In association with Spread the Word, spoken word poet and MC Simon Mole leads this taster workshop on Thursday 26th September at Wembley Library (Civic Centre) opposite Wembley Arena. 4pm to 6pmTry...
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Crumbs for Londoners - Darren Johnson on the Mayor's housing policy
The Mayor expects 80% of new housing to be in these 33 regeneration areas Darren Johnson, the Green Assembly Member, has published a thoroughly researched report on the London Mayor's approach to the...
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Cars back at the steering wheel in new Wembley development?
The aspiration that the Wembley regeneration plans would capitalise on the area's good public transport links and reduce car use seem to have been all but abandoned. The item blow suggests that there...
View ArticleCheeky Caroline greets Labour in Brighton with 'Greens are the REAL...
Labour Party members attending their conference in Brighton this weekend, in the constituency of the UK’s first Green MP, will be welcomed by a billboard making the case that it is Caroline Lucas who...
View ArticleBoris's Housing Horror: The Video
There was consternation when I revealed that the new flats at Willesen Green Library were being marketed in Singapore with the unique selling point implying that they contain no riffraff because there...
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Willesden's local harvest yields fruit, wine, cider, chutney and crumbles!
Photo: Jonathan GoldbergBrent's fruit picking groups have had a bumper harvest this year, saving almost three tons of fruit that would otherwise go to waste in local gardens. The three groups, “Kensal...
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Now Woodfield School consults on academy conversion
Woodfield School, a secondary special needs school in Kingsbury, Brent has announced that it is consulting on the possibility of converting to secondary status.It would be the first special needs...
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