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22 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Tower Hamlets Council to receive £38.067 million in COVID support from government, highest amount of any London Borough, just ahead of Newham
Forecast from TH Council is that total cost of COVID this year is £35.9 million
I am not sure yet whether
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 gov.uk/government/pub…
£38 m includes compensation for lost income from sales, fees and charges, worth maybe £7 million, will ask.
So this year it maybe that we end up OK purely on direct COVID related costs/lost income i.e. make small 'profit'.
But we have lots of other historic financial issues
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affecting this year + potentially large losses from business rates (from recession & working from home threat to TH economy) + Council tax next year so the position is not good
But problem is that Council narrative that £ problems entirely due to COVID & that government need
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to step up hide those historic issues and our dependence on business rates income
Government (so far) has stepped up and provided financial support proportionate to reported costs/loss of income this year
Next year will be the challenge & more on this in coming months
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23 Oct
I set up & run a Facebook group called Canary Wharf & Isle of Dogs Residents
Total membership 22,181 people today
In the last 28 days 18,298 of those members active i.e. looked at least at one post
Highest daily active members 13,159 last Sunday, looked at one post on that day
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Approved 623 requests to join but rejected 394 peoples requests to join (mostly people I believe to be commercial posters or the same person / group of people trying to access using different fake accounts or not in E14 or linked to E14 area)
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despite the name it now covers E14 postcode
It is public, so can view it without being a member but can only post / comment if a member
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22 Oct
30 Marsh Wall, red brick office building opposite Britannia hotel between Novotel & Landmark
Consultation on planning application next week for new student housing on this site by Tide
Registration for consultation meeting 5pm 28th October
cratus.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
This is 3rd
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consultation on this site
In 2013 for 57 storey 550 homes
In 2016 for 43 storey 271 homes
2020 for x storey 1,100 students (like McDonalds & North Quay site also being considered in part for students)
Tide bought the site in January 2020, specialise in modular/off site
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construction
tideconstruction.co.uk
Site is this red brick building in middle of picture
2013 consultation petered out in 2014 when they proposed to reduce height & lose GP surgery in 1st proposal as a result
2016 planning application, never decided upon, not sure why
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20 Oct
Help required with developer
Approximately 100-140 family sized homes in Island Gardens are owned by the person who is the target of the letter below (he submits formal complaints against any Cllr who mentions his business in public including me)
He converts them into HMO's
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He buys 1980/90's built 3/4/5 bedroom family properties in four main locations: Ferry Street, Lockesfield Place, Cyclops Mews, Ambassador Square.
In these places he owns a substantial number of the properties which then makes it easier to buy more of them.
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Since 1st August he has submitted 7 planning applications for those properties, see pic and 17 since 1st January 2020. I cannot think of anybody else who submits so many applications on different sites.
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10 Oct
Key issues in Tower Hamlets
On Wednesday I wrote to the Councils Overview & Scrutiny C'tee with a list of what I thought the top issues were in TH including fact that TH has the highest number of ASB incidents in the country since lockdown + the most buildings affected by
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cladding / fire safety issues in the country + 40% of the Councils income comes from business rates income = lots of closed business in CW estate
I detailed 5 issues that I thought the Council needed to look at in more detail, read here or below
facebook.com/groups/1458438…
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a. Care home deaths - how did 33 people out of 68 die in a 6 week period at Aspen Court? what happened elsewhere?
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9 Oct
Labour Cllrs unaminously voted for only 42 new homes (+more in old building) in one of the best sites in the whole of TH as regards access to transport, parks & shops
Very clear they do not believe there is a housing crisis as they claim
But the C'tee decision last night will
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be a wonderful argument against taller developments elsewhere
I did wonder last night how so many tall buildings get planning permission in TH given the arguments the Council made against a tall building on land itself owns
Those arguments can be used against them elsewhere
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But I really did want more new homes on this site
We won't solve the housing crisis through such a complete lack of ambition on Council owned land (for the 2nd time this year)
It is also unfair/poor planning to push so much development to quite small

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7 Oct
Not tackling the housing crisis
A thread about the failure of TH Council to actually do what they promise
Last week I read a report about new TH Council housing application on Southern Grove in Mile End where the Veolia depot was (Council own the land) when I spotted an error
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It said the site was 12 minutes walk to Mile End tube station (Central, District & Hammersmith & City)
Probably a typo as it did say the Public Transport Accessibility Level was 6a (where 6b best & 1 worst)
Close to two cycle super highways, 9 bus routes within 3 minutes walk
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11 minutes walk to a DLR station at Bow Church
In other words one of the best connected sites in TH
Close to two major parks + shops/cafes etc
Easy bus ride to several major supermarkets
And it is 2 minutes walk to Mile End station I checked
So how big is this proposed
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