Category Archive: council

Jun 19 2013

Labour Puts the (Dog) Crap Back in Harrow

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Guest post by Murray, who’s running a campaign to get Harrow Council to rethink the idea of removing Dog Bins from Harrow. To save £35,000 the apparently common-sense lacking Labour Council in Harrow are going to rip all the dog waste bins out of Harrow open spaces and get dog walkers to put the dog-poo …

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Jun 15 2013

Kisses at the Council – Pippa Lee and Adrian Parker on Vaughan School Plans

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Isn’t the Freedom of Information Act a wonderful thing? All kinds of strange things pop out, often when you least expect it. In a bundle of documents provided to us under FOI legislation, we stumbled across an email between Pippa Lee, Chair of Governors at Vaughan School, and Adrian Parker, Head of Education Strategy at …

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Jun 15 2013

Councillor Diaries: Cllr Camilla Bath

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Cllr. Camilla Bath Diary- 14/15 May 2013 As a long-serving councillor, one of the most rewarding aspects of the job is being able to develop personal relationship with residents, really getting to know them and providing help where I can. The morning of the 14th began with a telephone call from a constituent of mine …

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Jun 15 2013

Start Your Own Business Workshop – June 28, 2013

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Start Your Own Business Workshop Friday 28th June 2013 10am -12.30pm Harrow Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2UY Harrow Council and ABi Associates invite you to a FREE workshop to help you start in business. Turn your idea into a profitable venture! This workshop will guide you on how to start up based around your own …

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Jun 15 2013

Whitchurch Fields Enquiry – End of Part I

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All the evidence in the Whitchurch Fields Public Enquiry has now been heard, and the summations will be heard on July 3, 2013 and a site visit will take place the same day, along with visits to a number of houses from those likely to be badly impacted by the place. Our source at the …

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Jun 13 2013

Council’s Childrens’ Services Encourages Petition re: Vaughan School

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Followers of the Vaughan School expansion will probably be aware that the planning application has been deferred, unanimously, by Harrow’s Planning Committee. That’s fair enough – they obviously weren’t entirely happy with the application (from the Council’s Childrens’ Services department). However, the Childrens’ Services department has now, it seems, asked Vaughan School to start a …

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Jun 13 2013

Harrow Councillors “Out of Touch” About Educating Children

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How to win friends and influence people. Indeed, when a school Headteacher makes such as sweeping statement, you’d have to wonder what’s behind it. Documents obtained by iharrow.com under the Freedom of Information Act show a confidential email  from Andy Griffin, Headteacher of Vaughan School – the school seeking planning approval for a huge expansion – …

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Jun 12 2013

Council’s business directory to be launched at Access to Finance event

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Budding entrepreneurs and existing businesses can get invaluable hints and tips from experts at a joint event hosted by Harrow Council, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW) on 19th June. The event will also stage the launch of the third edition of the Council’s new and improved Business Directory, an online business directory and …

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Jun 09 2013

Vaughan School Planning Application – Council Website Crashes Again

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Earlier this week notices were served to residents and individuals who had previously commented on this application advising them that the deferred planning application was being heard again at the next Planning Committee meeting on the 19th June. They were invited to leave comments. However…on attempting to do so today we got this response, below. It …

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Jun 08 2013

Harrow – A “Tory-led” Council?

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When Cllr Sachin Shah (Labour, Queensbury) described a recent Harrow Council meeting as “Tory-led” on Twitter I put it down to a touch of jealousy, maybe sour grapes – you know the sort of things that politicians say when they’re a bit miffed. But then I got to reading a quote from Harrow’s Conservative Group …

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