MAYOR RAHMAN ACCUSED OF RAIDING LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

Tower Hamlets Labour Group has accused Mayor Lutfur Rahman of raiding the Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy (NCIL) fund for his own agenda, at the expense of local infrastructure projects that were approved by the previous Labour administration. At June’s meeting of Tower Hamlets Cabinet, Mayor Lutfur Rahman announced the unprecedented step of cancelling £17m of […]

DEVELOPERS OFF THE HOOK: ASPIRE WAIVES AFFORDABLE HOUSING QUOTA FOR HUGE CANARY WHARF SITE

Aspire Councillors are facing criticism from Tower Hamlets Labour for controversially approving plans for developers to build a 46-storey tower block in Canary Wharf with no affordable housing. The planned site at 56-58 Marsh Wall, would have had to include 278 affordable flats under the council’s 35% affordable home quota. However, at April’s meeting of […]