A row over the timing of last year’s council by-election in West Thamesmead has split Greenwich Labour – with the council leader being criticised for asking two party members to withdraw requests for a poll to be held. The election was held on December 19, the last Thursday before Christmas, and followed the resignation of […]
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Councillors jeered as watered-down cladding fire safety motion passes
Residents of blocks in Thamesmead blighted by unsafe cladding jeered Greenwich councillors as a watered-down motion on fire safety was passed amid shambolic scenes in Woolwich Town Hall. Leaseholders in Royal Artillery Quays are in dispute with Barratt Developments, which built the riverside blocks two decades ago, over the type of cladding it plans to […]
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Labour fends off Lib Dem surge to win West Thamesmead by-election
Labour’s Jahdia Spencer won the West Thamesmead by-election – but little more than one in eight voters cast their ballots on the last Thursday before Christmas. Spencer won 464 votes – 45.1 per cent of the vote – while the housing campaigner Steve Day, standing as a Liberal Democrat candidate, took 336 votes (32.7 per […]
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Labour newcomer among five standing in West Thamesmead by-election
A woman who has been a Labour member for just two years – and has said she plans to go into politics in Bermuda – has been picked to be the party’s candidate in the West Thamesmead by-election. Jahdia Spencer, 26, was born in the archipelago but has lived in London since she was 16. […]
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Royal Artillery Quays cladding campaigner to stand in by-election
A campaigner who has been fighting the developer behind a riverside housing development has been selected to fight a Greenwich Council by-election next month. Steve Day will contest West Thamesmead for the Liberal Democrats in the by-election, to be held on December 19. He hopes to succeed Chris Lloyd, who was the Lib Dems’ only […]
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Greenwich Labour ‘blocked’ call to help cladding row residents
Greenwich Labour has been accused of blocking a call for stronger fire safety protection at a riverside housing development after a councillor withdrew her support at the last minute. Chris Lloyd, the Liberal Democrat councillor for West Thamesmead, had hoped that the council would pass a motion criticising the developer that built Royal Artillery Quays. […]
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‘I want to start crying’: Residents who fear bankruptcy slam Robert Jenrick’s cladding fund
August 2022 update: Optivo announced in May 2022 that it would cover remediation costs for leaseholders at Norfolk House in Deptford, including waking watches and fire alarms. This story is from February 2021 and does not reflect the current situation. Residents living in flats wrapped in unsafe cladding and insulation in two SE London developments […]
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Greenwich & Woolwich MP Pennycook speaks out on cladding as Starmer visits Thamesmead
Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook has criticised “reprehensible” proposals to make leaseholders pay to make the cladding on their homes safe, hours after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visited Thamesmead residents who fear bankruptcy. Pennycook spoke out in a Labour debate in the House of Commons on the crisis following the Grenfell Tower disaster, […]
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