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Controversial Office Project for Town Hall Bureaucrats passes Stage One
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 Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s Conservative Cabinet has given the green light to a multi-million pound project to provide new luxury office space for Town Hall bureaucrats on King Street in Hammersmith.The project will involve demolis... |
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Shepherds Bush Station: fighting on - a message from Andrew Slaughter MP
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 There will be no trains from Shepherd’s Bush central line station from 2 February until at least the middle of October.Despite over 7,000 people so far writing to object and meetings with everyone from Westfield’s and London Unde... |
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Andy Slaughter MP calls on LU to keep Shepherd's Bush Station open
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 This is the letter that Andy Slaughter MP wrote to London Underground Managing Director Tim O'Toole after the public meeting on Thursday 24th January 2008, which unanimously called on LU to postpone the closure of Shepherd's Bush Central Line Tu... |
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Packed Meeting Puts Tube and Council Bosses Under Pressure on Station Closure
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 200 people filled the Shepherds Bush Village Hall on Thursday 24th January 2008 to question London Underground (LU) Director Richard Parry about the closure of the central line station from 2 February. The audience of commuters, local residents and b... |
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Kids Now Roaming Streets As H&F Council Sells Youth Club For £5m
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 Residents of Sands End, Fulham, tell us that there are now large numbers of young people roaming the area now that H&F Council has sold off the Castle Youth Club.The Council had promised that it would provide alternative facilities, how... |
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H&F Council's Latest Profit Making Scheme Set To See 5000 Revellers Pack Furnival Garden
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 We’ve been contacted by large numbers of local residents who are worried, having discovered that H&F Council has applied to run a wide variety of entertainment events for up to five thousand people in Furnival Gardens. The park runs adjacent to... |
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Unhappy New Year For Homeless As H&F Council Ends Local Homeless Hostels
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| H&F Council are shutting down twelve homeless hostels and turning them into private housing worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. The controversial decisions are going before the Planning Applications Committee which is chaired by Ravenscou... |
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H&F Council Stops Mobile Library Service
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 Friday, 21 December 2007, is the last day residents will be able to use H&F Council’s Mobile Library Service. It’s been abolished.The controversial decision will largely affect local children and the elderly who are the main custome... |
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A normal day in Hammersmith & Fulham?
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| A correspondent writes: Yesterday I went to Hammersmith Town Hall to buy my annual Parking Permit. The price is up marginally. (I'm not sure how many other piecemeal rises of our local council charges there are across the board, but... |
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Housing Cover Up Denied
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 Management of Hamersmith & Fulham Council’s housing stock is managed by an Arm’s Length Management Organisation (“ALMO”). The ALMO recently commissioned a mock Audit Commission Inspection its housing management services. The inspecti... |
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Labour Claims Victory as Tories Back-Track on Awarding Themselves 18% Pay Hike
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 Labour was celebrating a U-turn after the Tory Council Leader said Councillors will no longer receive the planned 18% increase in their wages. The Conservative Group of Councillors voted unanimously to award themselves the 18% pay rise at t... |
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Tories Cut Voluntary Sector Funding
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 The Council has slashed funding to thirty one local groups that they admit “are not a political priority”. The groups that are not a “political priority” include homeless people, the mentally ill, people in need of legal advice, childr... |
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Police Team Slashed by 25% in Central Hammersmith
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 The Hammersmith Broadway ward police team is to lose a quarter of its officers. The money saved will be used on what the Tories themselves call their 24/7 policing “gamble” or “test” in Shepherds Bush Green and Fulham Broadway wards. ... |
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London Young Labour Campaign for Affordable Housing
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 About twenty Young Labour activists joined Andy Slaughter MP and local party members to campaign on the White city and Wormholt Estate against the Tory council's housing policies. Five hours of leafleting were broken by lunch on the Uxbridge Ro... |
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Hurlingham & Chelsea School Saved
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 The Tories have withdrawn their application to close Hurlingham and Chelsea Secondary School. They did so only hours before their proposal was to go before the Adjudicator on April 24th. It is a humiliating climb down.Tory Councillors annou... |
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Peterborough Primary School Protests
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| On Tuesday April 3rd over a hundred children, parents, governors and teachers came to the Town Hall to object to plans to close Peterborough Primary School. The Tories refused to allow the delegation to speak at the Education and Children’s Service... |
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Tories Cut Affordable Homes Again
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 The former Chelsea Arts College in Fulham was to be developed as 127 low-cost homes – 82 at affordable rents. Labour offered a £13 million grant to help pay for the new homes. But then the Tories took control of the Town Hall and scrapped the rent... |
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Tory Councillors Vote for £34 Million Cuts then award themselves an 18% Pay Rise
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| Residents have expressed anger after Conservative councillors voted through an 18% pay rise for themselves on the night they slashed key services used by children, the elderly, the homeless and local residents. The annual budget meeting of H... |
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Free transport under attack again - Tories call pensioners' pass "quite mad"
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 The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone today restated his commitment to defend free bus and tube travel for older and disabled Londoners, after the Freedom Pass came under attack from a senior Ealing councillor and London Assembly member. Cou... |
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The Tories are trying to cut London's free bus and tram travel scheme for children
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 Mrs Thatcher used to say, 'When I see a man of 25 riding the bus, I see a man who has failed in his life'. Now it seems, the Tories have decided that Mrs Thatcher was being a bit soft. They don't just think bus travel is bad for men in their t... |
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