What a waste of time & money by Tower Hamlets Council at the request of the 'Local Campaigns Forum of the Labour Party'
Looks like Canary Wharf ward will stay as Canary Wharf ward
Bethnal Green as Bethnal Green ward
St Peters as St Peters
This follows
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democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/ieListDocument…
the Local Campaigns Forum (who are they?) requesting a review of ward names
The Council undertook consultation on changing the names of 3 wards:
Bethnal Green to Bethnal Green East opposed by 70% of the residents of the ward who responded to the consultation v 26% want change
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St Peters Ward to be changed to Bethnal Green West was narrower but 52% of residents in the ward wanted to keep name v 46% who wanted to change the name
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Canary Wharf (which I represent)
96% of residents wanted to keep the Canary Wharf name versus 2% who wanted to change back to Millwall
(I still want to use the name Millwall for other things but not to change ward name now)
See 2nd pic for reasons those opposed to change
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This has gone to two Council meetings, will go to another next week & maybe full Council
Council officers must have spent weeks of effort producing reports & analysis
We should not allow any un-named group to initiate future requests without more evidence of support first
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This has been a waste of time
Forcing @going4golds & I to spend time & effort on something that should have been dealt with in the next boundary review (see our letters below, apologies for the images but they are in the public domain now)
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We will ask the General Purposes Committee meeting next Thursday to park this issue until the boundary review (we must be due one in the next 5 years?) & not waste time at the next full Council meeting when resident responses so clear
& thanks to residents who responded to the
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Council consultation & the very clear mandate for no change from residents
I did not support changing CW name, did not trust the process by which the request was made & feared the division this might cause
But we have to reclaim the Millwall name from the hooligans some way
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