TH Labour Demands Urgent Action Following Allegations of Exploitative Practices in Former Council Housing Blocks
For Immediate ReleaseDate: 16/4/2025 Cllr Asma Islam, Labour Councillor for Weavers Ward and Shadow Cabinet Member for Housing, has written to Tower Hamlets Council and the Government in response to a recent London Centric article alleging exploitative practices by a property developer operating in former council housing blocks within Tower Hamlets. Cllr Islam has written […]
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 […]
Tower Hamlets Labour pushes for accountability and transparency for their Tower Hamlets Homes residents
Labour councillors are proposing a motion on Tower Hamlets Homes (THH) at a meeting of Tower Hamlets Council tomorrow on Wednesday 18th January which calls on the local authority’s Mayor to enact concrete measures to ensure effective democratic oversight of the performance his proposed in-house housing management service., The motion also calls for much greater […]
Mayor Rahman and Aspire Rejects New Council Homes in Ashington House
At a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee this week, Tower Hamlets Labour Councillors called on the Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets and the Cabinet Member for Housing to review their decision to remove funding from the Ashington House redevelopment scheme, an important project which had the potential to deliver much-needed council housing for […]
