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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

WATCH THE COURT MEETING ON THURSDAY 18 JUNE https://youtu.be/UQkeA7qgmWQ TO SEE THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE CITY'S DISCREDITED 'STANDARDS REGIME Last year, more than 1,100 City residents - many of them in our ward of Cripplegate - signed a petition declaring 'no confidence' in the City's standards regime.  That petition called for two specific … Continue reading The beginning of the end?

Here is correspondence I’ve had with the City Corporation’s Policy Chair and the Community Services Chair after the government recently published guidance promoting longer working hours on construction sites: My email to the Policy Chair and Community and Children’s Services Chair on 14 MayWill you undertake that the City Corporation, as the developer of the … Continue reading Latest news on COLPAI working hours