The Conservative candidate for Eltham in next month’s general election has backed controversial plans to build private housing on a public park in his role as a senior Bexley councillor. Louie French, who is taking on Labour’s Clive Efford in the seat, supported the plans to build on West Street Small Park in Erith in […]
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Greenwich Council could start charging £30 for garden waste collection
Greenwich Council could follow its neighbouring boroughs in charging residents for collecting their garden waste – six weeks after denying it had any plans to bring in such a scheme. A updated waste strategy to come before the council’s cabinet next week proposes introducing fortnightly collection of general waste, charging £30 per year for garden […]
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Revealed: (Some of) the words you can’t say to Greenwich councillors by email
Hundreds of words are banned from being sent to Greenwich councillors and officers to avoid abuse and harassment, it can be revealed. The authority has become the latest to release its list of barred words and phrases, following investigations by the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Birmingham City Council was the first to reveal its list […]
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Abbey Wood businesses being ‘crucified’ by Crossrail delays
Struggling Abbey Wood businesses say they are being “crucified” by the ongoing delays to the opening of Crossrail. The major transport link was supposed to be up and running from December last year, but a series of controversial pushbacks have seen it delayed until spring 2020 at the earliest – and maybe as late as […]
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Bexley councillor quits Labour Party – but won’t be calling a Thamesmead by-election
A councillor who joined Labour when he was still taking his GCSEs has quit the party amid the national fallout over bullying and anti-Semitism. Now-independent councillor Danny Hackett says he will not be calling a by-election after he defected from Labour over the weekend. The councillor – who stood for Parliament in the last election […]
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Buying Erith’s Wickes store isn’t a property gamble, Bexley Council says
Bexley Council has played down figures showing it is among the top 10 councils making property investments, insisting all its land buys are for local regeneration projects. Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has been shared with 853, found the council has bought 10 properties in the past three years. They range from […]
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The Bexley bulletin: Will Tories be punished over parks and CCTV?
Local politics in Bexley is in some ways a mirror image of Greenwich – but tomorrow’s local elections there have an element of surprise about them. Will the Conservative council be punished for selling off parks and cutting back on CCTV coverage? 853’s DA-postcode correspondent STEVE KEENE explains what’s at stake the other side of […]
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Dead cat on the line: How the Cannon Street train ‘plan’ distracts from the real issue of who runs our rail
In political campaigning there’s a tactic known as the “dead cat strategy“. It’s best associated with the Conservatives’ campaign manager, Lynton Crosby. Boris Johnson, no less, once explained it: “Let us suppose you are losing an argument… Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as ‘throwing […]
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