by Puru Miah | Oct 13, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Housing
In response to queries raised by residents at a walkabout East End Homes, published at on this blog. Please find below East End Homes Response (Part 1 of 3) to the questions raised. Questions raised by residents are in bold text. Residents need more information and...
by Puru Miah | Oct 7, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
On Friday the 5th October, I and four other Councillors signed a Call In (Request to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to ask the Mayor to reconsider his decision) with regards to the decision to close the remaining 3 Local Authority Day Nurseries. The other four...
by Puru Miah | Oct 6, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
On Friday the 5th October, I and four other Councillors signed a Call In (Request to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to ask the Mayor to reconsider his decision) with regards to the decision to Outsource/Privatise the Community Equipment Service (CES). The other...
by Puru Miah | Sep 29, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community
I have been invited to a consultation meeting by TFL and Tower Hamlets Council, with regards to the proposed North South Cycle Route by TFL linking Hackney with Canary Wharf. Please see pictures below: I cannot attend the meeting due to work commitments, but notified...
by Puru Miah | Sep 23, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
How members and ordinary residents can win: big politics, grassroots organising: transforming Tower Hamlets Labour into a Social Movement Big Politics: Reversing the binary – making the ‘Man in the Suit’, work for ordinary residents and members, and not the...
by Puru Miah | Sep 23, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
Below is a guest post from Labour Women for Public Nurseries who are campaigning to keep open the remaining three Local Authority Day Nurseries (LADN), Mary Sambrook, John Smith and Overland. “£6 billion of taxpayers’ money subsidises childcare each year much of which...
by Puru Miah | Sep 22, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Crime and Anti Social Behavior (ASB), Housing
East End Homes (EEH), have put in planning permission to build additional units on the Eric and Treby Estate. I met up with East End Homes along with residents and stakeholders to discuss the proposed planning application, on the 15th August 2018. We walked around the...
by Puru Miah | Sep 15, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Housing
The below post is from an email sent by the Mile End Residents Association (MERA) If you found that the links to the pages I referred to in my previous email (and the links below) showed ‘Document not available’, open the whole planning portal first, HERE, then the...
by Puru Miah | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
Once upon a time the East End of London was at the forefront of cutting edge political thinking and activism. In order to bring about a renaissance of this Golden Age, councillors such as myself along with activists have to break with existing political conventions,...
by Puru Miah | Aug 11, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Crime and Anti Social Behavior (ASB), Democracy
On the 24th of July 2018 the Strategic Development Committee decided to grant Poplar HARCA and Telford Homes their plans to redevelop Chrisp Street. In this piece I will outline my reservations about the application as well as further questions that need to be...
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