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Chalkhill Park planting comes into glorious flower
Just a year after opening Chalkhill Park is looking stunning this week as the plants come into flower. Congratulations to Garth McWilliam and the team.(Wild flower meadow)
View ArticleMore democracy 'wherever practicable' suggests new Labour councillor
As the Labour Group meets this morning there are signs of some disquiet over the changes in Scrutiny. However, concentrating minds even more in the context of concentrating power, is the proposed...
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Brent Labour's new cabinet announced
The new CabinetA challenge to Cllr Muhammed Butt's leadership by Cllr Neil Nerva was beaten at today's Labour AGM when Butt won 75% of the votes.Cllr Michael Pavey narrowly beat Cllr Ruth Moher for the...
View ArticleBrent scrutiny proposals elaborated
I have received further details of the way Scrutiny is intended to operate under the new Brent Council arrangements from a reliable source. They seem to go beyond what is actually in the papers going...
View ArticleNew Brent Cabinet must lance this boil
Before the election the Brent Green Party called for an independent investigation into various controversial aspects of the running of Brent Council which had emerged in postings on Wembley...
View ArticlePowney blasts scrutiny proposals
Former Brent Labour councillor James Powney yesterday blasted the Scrutiny proposals going before the Full Council meeting on Wednesday. LINKHe describes the proposals as 'ill-advised' and put forward...
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Robust local press in Brent more important than ever
Hannah Bewley, Brent reporter for the Willesden and Wembley Observer, has filed her last reports fro that paper. During her time at the paper, which is an off-shoot of the Harrow Observer, despite...
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Sulivan Primary closure put on hold
Stephen Cowan, the incoming Labour leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, has announced that the closure of Sulivan Primary School has been put on hold pending the decision of the new adminstration....
View ArticlePowney calls for councillors to give themselves time to discuss Scrutiny...
It is good to see James Powney LINK responding to the 'clarification' of Scrutiny proposals which I published from a source very close to Brent Labour earlier LINKLike me he can see no reference to...
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Fryent Way Traveller encampment highlights need for Traveller sites
Rumours circulated yesterday about Travellers moving on to Fryent Country Park. When this picture was taken yesterday there were only a handful of caravans there in the meadow adjacent to the Fryent...
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Brent Labour backbenchers vote to reduce their own powers and Tories split
It was a sad day for democracy at the Brent Council AGM yesterday when not one of the 56 Labour councillors questioned the constitutional changes that will see the level of scrutiny in the Council...
View ArticleAlperton downgraded after first post-academisation Ofsted inspection
Alperton Community School which received an Outstanding grade in its previous Ofsted Inspection has been downgraded to Requiring Improvement in the latest inspection, which is the first since it...
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Gladstone Free School opening delayed until September 2015
Paul Phillips, Principal Designate, has issued the following statement on Gladstone Free School, which was due to open in the Dollis Hill area in September 2014.Gladstone School, the new Free School...
View ArticleKensal Rise Library application a baptism of fire for the new Planning Committee
The controversial planning application for the Kensal Rise Library development appears to be scheduled for the new Planning Committee on June 17th, despite the police not having yet reported on their...
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Chalkhill BMX track ready for use
The cycle facilities at Chalkhill Open Space (Barnhill Road/St David’s Close) are now complete and ready for use by the local community. The facilities provided include a BMX track, a family cycle...
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Unusual activity in Fryent Country Park disused tennis courts
Investigating unusual Sunday morning activity in the disused tennis courts behind my house this morning, I found UK based Punjabi singer Kaz Khan and crew getting ready to film their latest YouTube...
View ArticleNatalie Bennett: 'We are at a big change, a leap, in politics'
Natalie Bennett speaking at the Ecosocialism: Fracking, Climate and Revoution conference on Saturday whcih was organised by Socialist Resistance and Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century. A...
View ArticleBirmingham affair reinforces need for accountability through LAs
Today's report on Birmingham schools has revealed many contradictions but the one that strikes me most is that some of the most serious allegations are about an academy school which of course is...
View ArticleCOPLAND IS GETTING GOVE’S ‘REVERSE -TROJAN -HORSE’ TREATMENT
Guest blog by Will ShawWhatever the rights and wrongs of the case, the bizarre events surrounding the Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ schools should have finally made clear that Ofsted exists to give the...
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