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HOLLAND PARK SCHOOL STATEMENT TO COUNCIL 22 June 2011
Cllr Atkinson spoke under Standing Order 19: Firstly, I would like to point to the excellent and first rate OFSTED report that was published recently. I hope that the whole Council will join me in...
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LABOUR DEMANDS ACTION FOR POOREST WARD
Call for all-party plan to tackle Golborne ‘most deprived ward in London’ in the richest borough in Europe New figures* naming Golborne in North Kensington as the joint poorest ward in London on...
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Former Tory Councillor found guilty of child and animal porn charges
STOP PRESS, UPDATE 19.4.12 At the full Council meeting on 18.4.12 the Labour Opposition Group proposed an amendment to a Tory proposal about a new Standards regime. In our opinion, given the huge...
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‘A LIGHT TOUCH WILL NOT PROTECT OUR CHILDREN’
Labour Opposition Group appalled at Council decision not to tighten standards regime in wake of second child pornography case After a bad-tempered Council meeting on 18 April, Labour opposition...
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VICTORY FOR MARKET AS BT PLANS ATM PHONE KIOSKS
British Telecom are planning to open new telephone kiosk ATMs on Portobello and Golborne Road Market. Following the closure of the HSBC Bank and their ATMs in Portobello Road last December that was...
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COUNCIL SPENDS £1M ON SOUTH KEN PARTY BUT WILL NOT SAVE NORTH KEN SKATE PARK
Residents of a North Kensington estate are furious as Kensington and Chelsea Council has refused to intervene to protect a popular children’s skate-park from demolition. Wornington Green estate,...
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‘SMOG’ WARNING FOR NORTH KENSINGTON
This week, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) warned residents in North Kensington that ground level Ozone breached safety levels as permitted under UK and European Union...
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RICHEST COUNCIL TURNS ITS BACK ON WORKING POOR
Councillor Robert Atkinson, Labour’s spokesperson for Children’s Services 1.11.12 New Children’s Centre strategy will not make work pay As expected the Cabinet of RBKC voted unanimously on Halloween...
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PETITION TO END TNT POSTAL SERVICES PILOT
Cllr Pat Mason After receiving numerous complaints from worried residents about TNT’s performance, North Kensington Labour Councillors have launched a public online and paper petition to be delivered...
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150% COUNCIL TAX ON EMPTY AND SECOND HOMES, demands Kensington Labour
14.12.12 Kensington and Chelsea Labour councillors are urging the Conservative ruling group to withdraw the current 10% discount and raise the Council Tax payable on all second homes by 150% in the...
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Britain’s first ‘state funded public school’
Following its star performance in Tatler magazine, the governors of Holland Park Academy, assisted by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, are promoting a change to its admissions policy that...
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TOP TEN TORY FAILURES #1- from ‘the most unequal borough in Britain’
Every day between 20 Feb and 5 March, when they will announce their alternative Budget, Kensington Labour Group will announce an area of extreme inequality in Kensington and Chelsea ‘the most unequal...
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TOP TEN TORY FAILURES #2 – from ‘the most unequal borough in Britain’
Every day between 20 Feb and 5 March, when they will announce their alternative Budget, Kensington Labour Group will announce an area of extreme inequality in Kensington and Chelsea ‘the most unequal...
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TOP TEN TORY FAILURES #5 – from ‘the most unequal borough in Britain’
Every day between 20 Feb and 5 March, when they will announce their alternative Budget, Kensington Labour Group will announce an area of extreme inequality in Kensington and Chelsea ‘the most unequal...
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TOP TEN TORY FAILS #10 – from ‘the most unequal borough in Britain’
Every day between 20 Feb and 5 March, when they will announce their alternative Budget, Kensington Labour Group will announce an area of extreme inequality in Kensington and Chelsea ‘the most unequal...
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END OF TERM REPORT: shameful results with inevitable consequences for K&C Tories
The ten posts highlighting different areas of inequality in K&C were posted one per day in the run-up to the Council Budget-setting meeting on 5 March 2014. The borough known as ‘The Royal Bank...
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OUTRAGE AS COUNCIL ‘OVERCHARGES MARKETS BY £1.2m’– AGAIN
Portobello and Golborne Market Traders Overcharged for Waste Collection AGAIN! Labour Councillors Call for an Urgent Council investigation It’s only five years since the Council had to repay £750,000...
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‘SHUT UP’– senior Tory responds to desperate parents
‘SHUT UP, YOU’RE NOT ELECTED’ Tory Whip shouts at shocked parents of SEN children as ‘predictable and disastrous’ outcome of Triborough project affects transport for vulnerable 25.7.14 Parents and...
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IT’S OFFICIAL: WESTWAY SPORTS PITCH BREACHES EU AIR POLLUTION SAFETY LEVELS
High levels of NO² discovered at sports pitch after Council denials 13.10.14 A planning application that involved moving a sports pitch from green space to a site beside the Western Cross Route and...
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TORIES ‘INSULT TO STRUGGLING FAMILIES’
Council prioritises opera over vulnerable and homeless 23.11.14 Kensington and Chelsea Labour Group Councillors are appalled to learn that the Council is planning to make a one-off payment of £5m to...
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