How Privatisation Threatens “The People’s Park”: A Balancing Act in Austere Times
By Cllr Asma Begum (Bow West and Shadow Cabinet member for the Environment) How do we balance the need for local authorities to raise funds for vital services (in an era of budget cuts and austerity) against the fundamental right for residents to access the green spaces they collectively own? This delicate question comes to […]
Labour councillors slam Mayor Rahman’s plan to ‘Privatise’ Victoria Park
The Labour group of councillors in Tower Hamlets, have strongly criticised Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s decision to amend the Major Events Policy for Victoria Park, which would allow two extra major events to take place in the park each year and increase the capacity threshold for a large event from 5,000 to 20,000 people. This will […]
Statement from Cllr Sirajul Islam Leader of TH Labour Group on agreement between LBTH & Unite
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 26/09/23 “Tower Hamlets Labour welcome the deal struck between workers from Unite and the Council. It should never have got to the point, where mountains of waste were piled high on our streets, for Lutfur Rahman to realise the value of our refuse worker’s labour. It should never have been the case, […]
Letter from Cllr Sirajul Islam to Unite strike re: strike action in Tower Hamlets
LABOUR CALLS ON LUTFUR RAHMAN TO END T HAMLETS WASTE CRISIS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 25/09/23The Tower Hamlets Labour Group has called on Mayor Lutfur Rahman to find a resolution to his dispute with striking waste workers from the Unite union. One week into the strike action taken by waste workers has left huge piles of rubbish on the streets of Tower Hamlets with concerns about health […]
Statement from TH Labour on Unite strike action
Statement from TH Labour concerning industrial action announced by Unite members working for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8/9/23 Statement from Cllr. Asma Begum shadow cabinet member for the Environment and Climate: “It will be deeply concerning for residents to learn that Lutfur Rahman’s waste emergency is set to get worse. […]
TH LABOUR DEMANDS ACTION ON WOMEN’S SAFETY
The Tower Hamlets Labour Party has submitted a motion on women’s safety to be considered by the council on July 19th. The motion calls for more action from the council and its partners to prevent and tackle violence against women and girls in the borough. The motion recognises that many women and girls in Tower […]
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 […]
Tower Hamlets Labour pushes Mayor Rahman to Save Our School Streets
Cllr Sirajul Islam, Leader of the Tower Hamlets Labour Group and Cllr Asma Begum, Ward Councillor for Bow West and Shadow Cabinet Member for the Environment and the Climate Emergency have today written to the Mayor of Tower Hamlets to demand he listen to the local community and reverse his decision to close the school […]
Tower Hamlets Labour call on Mayor Rahman to reverse the Closure of Chisenhale School Street
Tower Hamlets Labour has called on the Mayor of Tower Hamlets to reverse his decision to remove the School Street at Chisenhale Primary School in Bow West, which goes against the wishes of the local community and the Aspire administration’s own commitment to improve air quality in the borough. Tower Hamlets has one of the […]
