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We live in challenging times - vote for Susan Pearson as your new Alderwoman and your voice in shaping the City as the place to live, work and visit.  I was first elected to Court of Common Council in March 2017 and was delighted to be re-elected earlier this year. Most of our long standing … Continue reading Time for change

Sustainable homes On Golden Lane our homes are cold and damp. We wait and wait for the new windows that have been promised for years. Water leaks through the roofs and mould from condensation is rife. In the Barbican the communal heating system is expensive and patchy some flats too hot and some too cold. … Continue reading My pledge as your Councillor

PUBLIC CALL FOR THE CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION TO RESPECT THE LAW We, the City councillors named below, call on the City Corporation to pay its social housing tenants a full refund of a profit that it (and a number of other local authorities) made on “water reselling” from 2001 to 2019 following a ruling … Continue reading Tenants due a water charge refund

CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION FAILS ITS RESIDENTS I've called on the City of London Corporation to use some of its £2.6 billion quasi-public “City's Cash" to fund an acceleration of the renovation of its social housing estates, which - due to decades of neglect - are in poor condition. My call has been rejected by the leadership. … Continue reading Call for funding

THE CITY DEFERS REFORM OF ITS DISCREDITED 'STANDARDS' REGIME. As mentioned in my last blog a significant proportion of City residents signed a petition last year declaring that they had no confidence in the City Corporation’s “standards" regime. One of their demands was for reform of “standards" proceedings. A motion was put to the Court of … Continue reading ‘Standards’ reform deferred