1st results of Liveable Streets LS survey
Q2 What should the Mayor do next with Liveable Streets?
Green - extend & strengthen the programme
Dark Blue - stick to the existing proposals
Yellow - pause to reconsult residents
Light blue - scrap the whole thing
Orange - Not sure
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As you can see I segment the answers by source (same survey, same questions)
Full results here
cllrandrewwood.com/news
As you can see the results are strikingly different depending on which social media tool you ask Q in
I have always known this but this provides some proof
2/
But total results are dominated by responses from my Twitter & my Facebook group mainly in E14
So in total responses clearly pro-LS
(note Collector pic done today rest of results as at 8pm Friday when I announced in public that I could segment answers by social media tool)
3/
Not part of the survey but Councillors have received emails from 35 people in support of Liveable Street since the pause
There was something striking about their names versus the demographics of TH as a whole
When we got emails about the mini-zone parking change was different
4/
Note some of the social media responses are E14 focussed (because that is where I am) and LS has had little impact here yet with only the Barkantine programme underway (3 one way streets but no road closures yet)
5/
I will do more work on this but survey also proves I think disproportional responses to who fills in online surveys
Twitter very high rate of response compared to WhatsApp, Nextdoor, Facebook (even on the Anti-LS group)
Who uses each social media tool is very important if we
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are to understand division
Also noticeable how Nextdoor & FB TH wide results are most mixed - generally least 'political' tools or groups but also low response rates
This is to help inform the opposition motion for debate Wednesday night at full Council
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/documents/s191…
7/
Motion starts
"The division caused between different parts of the community by this issue and the way it has been implemented. That we need to find ways of reducing this division"
These surveys illustrate that division, how do we find a way through this as a community?
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ASDA Planning update - meeting tonight Thursday
You can watch the meeting live from 6.30pm, click on the link
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I sent the Councillors on the Committee below 8 planning reasons for a rejection yesterday (see pics)
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In 2017 the planning committee rejected a number of planning applications
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I was sent it this month (although report says final April 2021)
Should have been published within 6 months of 13th Feb 2020
It's 2020 housing
towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/planning_…
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These are important documents because in both years we missed our housing targets
Also not consulted on as gov. suggests
This has consequences as means new higher housing targets
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This will be hard as depends on large-scale developments coming forward but Council is slow to make decisions i.e. ASDA!
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Housing crisis?
I am currently reviewing Tower Hamlets Council housing borrowing model - numbers confidential but the borrowing from government they want to make to build/buy homes is a fraction of what Barking & Dagenham are pursuing at £1.3 billion, see their plans in pics
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Although to be fair we also get a fraction of the government grant money that the Mayor of London has allocated to Barking & Dagenham even though we have higher housing targets
We are still dependent on overseas investors paying a premium in TH to fund our affordable housing
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What if that ends?
Councils/Mayors 2,000 new Council homes will not actually contain many new Council built homes in TH
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I have been in Germany for the last few weeks for my mums 80th birthday party
So here are some tweets about good ideas we can take from Germany, except maybe this 1st one, Germany has elections in September, there are lots of posters everywhere, mainly of politicians faces!
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The 2nd thing we must definitely have more of in London are German cakes (pics from my mums birthday party)
1st pic Friday choice
2,3,4th pic Saturday choices 😀
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We already have some of these in Tower Hamlets
Places where people can leave their books for others to borrow & read - a local residents library
Germany just does it more professionally & at scale
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Afghanistan has been a generational failure by the West
Endlessly repeating mistakes
Mainly led by the US but us, Brits were involved from day 1
It will mean accepting more refugees from Afghanistan including here in TH unless the Taliban really have learnt from their previous
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But most think that unlikely
So we need to plan to accept refugees: those who worked closely with UK military/government + leaders (especially female) + engineers/scientists/doctors/etc - all those who will be either
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But many Afghans may well attempt to leave, population is 40 million (almost twice Syria)
Afghans expectations of how they want to live now will be very different from 1996-2001 thanks to the internet
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Some thoughts on what Aspires win last night means for TH
Pic is of 2021 by-election results versus May 2018 local election results
a. Kabir Ahmed/Lutfur Rahman/Aspire won a safe Labour ward - they have won 2 of 3 by-elections since 2018 - not a guarantee of success next May
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as in 2016 they also won Whitechapel only to lose it in 2018
b. Lutfur Rahman will see this as an encouragement to him to stand as Mayor next May - if there is low turnout and no PATH party to split the vote he could win next May unless John Biggs gets loads of 2nd preference
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votes
c. I have twice given John my 2nd preference vote I am unclear why I should do so again, TH is just not doing a good job enough job in a range of areas (see 3 closed swimming pools as latest issue), while Council officers get part of blame he is ultimately responsible
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