Artist Tamara Froud joins members of the 1st Fulham Rainbows at the unveiling of her mosaic
A riverside mosaic commemorating Fulham’s sporting heritage has been unveiled with the help of a barbecue and string concert.
The semi-circular design, covering 75 square feet, has made a stretch of riverside walk safer and brighter at Carrara Wharf, near Putney Bridge.
Mosaic expert Tamara Froud consulted residents in flats along Fulham’s river walk before a team of artists spent a month in a studio assembling a design with the university boat race at its heart.
The Labour MP for Hammersmith, Andrew Slaughter, is already noted for his extremist stance on the Middle East. Now he has sent a tweet congratulating Seph Brown on his election to the Young Labour London executive.
Brown reportedly made comments about "shooting down zionists" during a debate at the LSE. When the Labour MP Barry Gardiner discovered his views he sacked Brown from a campaigns role but Brown was accepted for work as a volunteer working for Ed Miliband during his leadership campaign last year - this proved a great source of embarrassment
A spokesman for Mr Miliband said: “Looking at these reported comments, they are clearly reprehensible, and we completely reject them. The campaign has benefited from hundreds of enthusiastic volunteers, who undertake a variety of tasks.
“The person in question is an unpaid volunteer and has clearly already paid a price for this silly behaviour in the past. We understand that he lost a previous job as a result of the comments he reportedly made while still a student.”
The Union of Jewish Students said: “We are disappointed to hear that Ed Miliband has failed to dissociate himself from an individual who, throughout his time as anti-racism officer at LSE, showed little regard for minority students. We urge the Miliband campaign to reconsider its position.”
Questions about planes, trains and automobiles will be put to an expert panel at the borough’s first transport summit.
The meeting, hosted by Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s Residents’ Services and Environment Select Committee on Tuesday November 8 at Hammersmith Town Hall, begins at 7pm and is the culmination of the long-running transport campaign, Get H&F Moving.
As part of the Get H&F Moving campaign over the past ten months, the council has been asking residents and commuters what improvements they want to see in the borough that could help ease congestion and delays on the transport network.
The council received hundreds of comments from residents who emailed and tweeted their rants, gripes, ideas and suggestions or spoke to councillors and officers at one of the Get H&F Moving road shows. Now, councillors and residents will discuss the most talked-about issues, like road works, congestion and cycling, and question a panel of experts made up of representatives from Transport for London, Thames Water and Heathrow airport’s operator, BAA.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council have brought in accountants Deloitte to tighten procedures for using consultants. This include implementing a central register. Cllr Greg Smith is interviewed about it on the BBC Politics Show (34 minutes in.)
Astonishing hypocrisy from the Labour group leader and former Cabinet Member for Housing Cllr Stephen Cowan in a Politics Show programme last Sunday about the use of consultants. When Labour was running the council nobody had a clue how many consultants were being used.
"We are the ones who have got a grip," said Cllr Greg Smith.
Thames Water stands to make a colossal £162million a year in additional revenue from its 20 mile long super sewer due to a ‘perverse incentive’ in the way the water industry is financed.
Current regulations encourage water companies to build their way out of problems rather than consider greener, more sustainable options, according to Professor Colin Green, who is a national expert on water economics.
Thames Water claims the massive concrete tunnel, which would be around the size of the Channel Tunnel, is needed to prevent sewage being released into the River Thames. But Professor Green, who is based at Middlesex University, says financial gain is likely to be the real motive behind the controversial scheme.
Professor Green says that 14 million Thames Water customers will be ‘ripped-off’ under the current plans as the current price system ‘creates a strong incentive to pour concrete’ rather than explore green alternatives that don’t make money.
Two of Britain's best local authorities now share a single chief executive, following a joint appointment at Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) and Kensington and Chelsea.
Derek Myers, who has been chief executive of K&C since 2000, took the helm at both councils after his appointment was ratified by H&F Council on Wednesday night.
The move, which will save the two authorities some £200,000 a year, is the latest in a series of major senior management shares between three west London councils.
In May this year Westminster, H&F and Kensington and Chelsea agreed radical plans to combine a range of services. Children's services, adult social care and libraries are already in the process of being shared and single "Tri-borough" directors have been appointed for each. Under the plan, there will be approximately 500 management and back office jobs lost across the three boroughs.
A concerted campaign is underway to plant trees on borough estates, with £10,000 earmarked to enhance green spaces.
Planting will begin in December, with priority given to Fulham’s Bayonne estate, where 15 trees will be planted.
Other estates to gain large specimen trees in the planting season, which runs until March 2012, include Lancaster Court, Ethel Rankin Court, Fulham Court, Arlington House and the Springvale estate.
Some of the planting will be ‘whips’ – metre-high bare-rooted saplings which are simply dug in as clumps of five, with grass and bulbs allowed to grow around them.
Dear Sir, The suggestion from the Labour MP Andrew Slaughter that those of us who dislike tower blocks should support Ken Livingstone to be restored as Mayor of London shows Slaughter has a short memory. When residents objected to a ten storey tower block on the Allied Carpets site just north of Ravenscourt Park, Livingstone tried, unsuccessfully, to push it through. When the Prestolite site in Larden Road was revised with a reduced height he tried to scupper the changes to a more attractive scheme thus threatening a delay to the much needed extra housing.
The truth is that Labour have offered kneejerk opposition to all development since they lost control of the Hammersmith and Fulham Council five years ago. They say they understand the need for more housing yet when more housing is proposed their councillors on the planning committee have voted against it en bloc every single time.
Slaughter should reflect on his own record of failure on housing during his ten years as Council leader. He might find some new data from the housing charity Shelter instructive. When he ceased being council leader in 2005 there were 1,825 household in temporary accommodation in this borough. Often it would mean hostels or overcrowded conditions. Temporary accommodation manages to combine being expensive for the taxpayer and dreadful for the tenants. It is now down to 881.
An innovative project to keep homes warm and insulate residents from spiralling energy bills has been praised by the Prime Minister David Cameron.
Mr Cameron toured the Bayonne estate this morning to see how local council tenants are benefiting from new cavity wall insulation thanks to a combination of government grants and an innovative partnership between Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) Council and Climate Energy Ltd.
283 homes in the Fulham estate will benefit from new cavity wall insulation – with the works coinciding with the council’s Decent Homes programme to reduce the need for extra scaffolding and disruption.
More than 100 properties have been completed so far and with a cold winter predicted and energy companies under fire for spiralling energy bills the Prime Minister decided to see for himself how the scheme is working on the ground.
Ann and John Ford, who have lived on the Bayonne estate for more than 20 years, invited Mr Cameron in for a cup of tea and a chat about how they have benefited from the scheme.
