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Feb 11 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
This is a lie
225 new Council built homes
23 converted homes
157 s106 private developer built as their planning obligation
422 old homes Council bought from Poplar Harca or Right to Buy - displacing existing tenants but not new
So only 225+23 are genuinely new homes
Rest are
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just making Tower Hamlets Council the landlord rather then somebody else - does not solve the underlying problem of not enough affordable housing
Which TH has no real ambition in resolving

It says it has 1,185 other new properties in the pipeline
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But after almost 7 years they have only actually delivered 225 brand new homes or 32 a year
Private developers have delivered thousands of new homes in the same period
Backup to the numbers is from questions I asked for Wednesday Cabinet
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/documents/b403…
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Feb 11
NCP Car Park & Powerleague closure
The NCP car park at Crossharbour is about to or has closed
No longer listed by them as a car park on their website
Their 2nd car park next to Jack Dash House remains open
Above the car park were two 5 or 7 aside football pitches, they close
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as well on Sunday with only a few days notice
Used by Power League for football & others
This has nothing to do with CW College next door
TH Council wants the site re-developed as part of their Local Plan 2031 (replacing a car park with homes is fine as long as does not also
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mean losing scarce sports facilities)
I have always worried especially after COVID about the site being re-developed but I had hoped for more advance notice.
I have emailed NCP already asking what is going on and whether or not we can keep access to the sports facilities
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Feb 9
More failures of ambition by Tower Hamlets Council
Tower Hamlets Council for about 10 years now has used 585-593 Commercial Road as its car pound
Now intend to sell it to a private developer for housing
Not develop itself despite it having excellent transport connections
Why?
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Why sell an asset you own with a public transport access of PTAL of 6a (where 1 is worst and 6b best) making it one of the best-connected sites in TH (close to Limehouse DLR & c2c station)
The Mayor says he wants to deliver 2,046 new Council homes but then routinely misses
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opportunities to maximise development on land it owns
Examples

or

or
https://t.co/3D31gu0VEy
or

If he really did want to deliver more new Council housing then you develop land you own - surely?
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Feb 8
Register of Gifts & Hospitality report is always interesting but especially this latest one
One part of Tower Hamlets Council, TH Homes provides free £100 tickets for Cllrs?
And a developers agent also providing for free £100 tickets to Councillors
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/documents/s197…
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The Speakers Charity Ball has become one of the main ways for developers to 'meet' Councillors but except for Cllr declarations, pics & occasional reports little in the public domain
It is an annual party (I have only been to 1 year's ago) to raise £ for speakers charity
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As you can see tickets to Cllrs for free attendance is common including from developers & housing associations including TH Homes (why should one part of the Council subsidise another?)
Like Robert Jenrick sitting at a table with a developer, this is similar
3/
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Feb 7
Just some detail to add to the excellent Podcast about the 4 girls who went to Syria + the 4 who may have tried to go from the same school
Last year after talking to a guardian I had the idea of formally requesting a Serious Case Review into this case
A subject much discussed
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in Tower Hamlets but rarely in any formal Council session except for the attempt by @RabinaKhan in September 2019 that was rejected by other Cllrs
So last October I wrote this email which resulted in the discussion at Children's Scrutiny Sub-Committee featured in the podcast
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I later received the attached reply
@RohitKachrooITV, @tamhussein @mohammedakunjee
Council had apparently decided in 2019 NOT to do a Serious Case Review
I think that was a mistake in retrospect
By 2019 we were pretty sure at least some of the girls had died (3 out of 4 now)
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Feb 5
@going4golds and I did a tour yesterday of St Georges Baths in Shadwell which remains closed & whose future is being decided next week - I wrote a report on Facebook including pics
Will do a Twitter thread later laying out key issues
But here are some
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 facebook.com/groups/1942479…
pictures of key issues we saw
Lots of rust in the building, most seriously in the iron bars within the concrete this is the most serious issue but how widespread is it?
Two areas had been exposed on the side walls but is it also in the ceiling?
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This is staff hallway - netting installed to catch things dropping from the ceiling as there is a lot of damage to the ceiling areas
Staff areas not nice
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Feb 2
Things in Tower Hamlets are often worse than you think they are
We knew Children's Services had major issues after OFSTED failed them quite badly in 2017 but 4 children mentioned in this report had issues mainly post OFSTED
Report more critical of Police than Council &
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some signs of improvement in the report but by providing detail on cases across 6 Boroughs (4 in TH) it provides a snapshot of problems & makes recommendations
But quotes from those involved were stronger then official report
standard.co.uk/news/uk/rochda…
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The problem as a Councillor responsible for scutinising the Council is that we almost never get to see information like this unless somebody external writes a public report
The understandable need to protect children's anonymity = makes it easy to hide what is really going on
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