IT training project for older people to close 12 August 2013 by sianberry A HAMMERSMITH project to help older Londoners gain the IT skills and confidence to combat age discrimination in the workplace is to close. The ‘Third Age Foundation’, which has helped more than 6,000 people during its 20-year history, has decided to close its doors in the face uncertainties over future funding. London’s Green MEP Jean […] Read more »
Southwark Council betray cyclists with u-turn on Go Dutch commitment 12 August 2013 by sianberry Southwark Green Party has called on Cllr Peter John to honour his commitment to adopt the ‘Go Dutch’ cycling principles, after it emerged that new standards for streets recommend the removal of cycle lanes and a include policy against safe, protected cycle lanes. Cllr John promised to change the council’s approach last year following a […] Read more »
Mayor forces Fire authority to cut fire services 5 August 2013 by sianberry London Green Party Assembly Member Darren Johnson has criticised the Mayor of London for forcing London’s Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) to close ten fire stations, remove fourteen fire engines and axe 552 firefighter jobs. The Authority voted against these proposals on the 18th July. The stations earmarked for closure are Belsize in Camden, Bow in Tower Hamlets, […] Read more »
London Rental Standard silent on major problems tenants face 3 August 2013 by sianberry London Green Party Assembly Member Darren Johnson has criticised the Mayor of London’s new London Rental Standard, published yesterday, which sets out standards for landlord and letting agent accreditation schemes. Darren commented, “It’s amazing that the Mayor of London’s standard doesn’t make clear requirements on annual rent hikes, insecurity or extortionate letting agent fees. He needs to […] Read more »
Mayor admits his efforts “not enough” to stop 186,000 shortfall in social housing 24 July 2013 by sianberry The Mayor of London told Darren Johnson, London Green Party Assembly Member, today that his plans to build social housing are “not enough” to meet the need, when asked about his 2020 Vision. The Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research estimates that, on current plans, there will be a shortfall of 186,333 social homes […] Read more »
New figures show that plastic bag charge would work for London 18 July 2013 by sianberry The annual figures (2012) on plastic bag use show a 4% increase in their use in England, but a 76% fall in Wales, where a charge was introduced in October 2011. The mayor has lobbied the Government to act, but has refused to publicly criticize the government for their long standing refusal to enact reserve […] Read more »
London Green Party Euro Candidate Says: “No More Suicide Bridge” 17 July 2013 by sianberry From London Green Party European elections candidate, Caroline Allen: Last weekend I joined other Greens at a vigil on the Hornsey Lane Bridge calling for anti-suicide measures to be put in place there. Green Party Leader, Natalie Bennett, and London’s Green MEP, Jean Lambert were also at the Bridge, right on the border between Islington […] Read more »
Jenny Jones AM to take part in cycling vigil this evening 16 July 2013 by sianberry Today Jenny Jones, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, will participate in the London Cycling Campaign’s second ‘space4cycling’ ride which begins at 6.30pm in Russell Square, London. The ride has been organised in response to the death of a male cyclist involved in a collision with a tipper truck in Holborn yesterday morning. Ahead […] Read more »
High pay quadrupled in Boris Johnson’s City Hall last year 9 July 2013 by sianberry Four people in City Hall were paid more than £150,000 in 2012/13, roughly ten times the London Living Wage, figures published in the Greater London Authority’s unaudited annual accounts show. This is an increase from one person in the previous year, and in each of the other years since the Mayor came into office there […] Read more »
Boris Johnson decision to scrap Earl’s Court Exhibition Centres “will see London lose out to global rivals” 4 July 2013 by sianberry Responding to the Mayor of London’s decision to approve plans to demolish the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centres in redevelopment plans that include the Lille Bridge Rail Depot and West Kensington and Gibbs Green Housing Estates, London Green Party Assembly Member Darren Johnson said: “Boris Johnson claims to be a champion of the London economy and […] Read more »