The latest edition of the Leyton FOCUS Newsletter has just gone to press.
It will be delivered to every household across the ward by our team of volunteers.
Please contact Bob Sullivan on 8556 8335 if you would like to help deliver the FOCUS near your home. It is usually published about every six weeks and a round should take about 45 minutes. Thank you.
You can access a copy of the FOCUS here: Leyton 354
Waltham Forest’s Labour run Council has voted to give the Chief Executive of the Council a whopping inflation busting pay rise of £15,000 – an 8% increase.
This makes his salary £195,000! Even the Prime Minister only gets £142,000. Labour councillors said it was reward for overseeing council cuts.
Given that the cuts were a loss of 1,000 jobs plus salary cuts to the rest of the council staff should this have been rewarded?
On top of that, Labour councillors voted to give the redundant deputy chief executive a massive £140,000 pay off.
You can be assured that the staff who lost their jobs did not receive any golden pay offs.
Can you believe the way this Labour Council spends your money. Last year they increased the Deputy leader’s pay by 25%.
Your money down the drain
Focus will keep on reporting the arrogant and wasteful ways that this Council spends your money.
The latest edition of the Leyton FOCUS Newsletter has just gone to press.
It will be delivered to every household across the ward by our team of volunteers.
Please contact Bob Sullivan on 8556 8335 if you would like to help deliver the FOCUS near your home. It is usually published about every six weeks and a round should take about 45 minutes. Thank you.
You can access a copy of the FOCUS here: Leyton 352
Having come back from my summer holidays I was shocked to find that Waltham Forest Labour Council has agreed a policy that councillors will no longer be the subject of checks to protect our vulnerable children and adults unless they meet them once a week or more than 3 days per month or between the odd hours of 2am and 6am.
All councillors are Corporate Parents to all of the children in Council care, so they should actively safeguard and protect those who are looked after. We need to protect our children in care. All councillors therefore should be checked.
Abuse of children has now been shown to have taken place for many years in and out of Council homes across the country. It is important therefore that residents are confident that all of our Councillors are people who can be trusted with our children. If you agree with our views on protecting our children click here to sign the petition.
Thank you for those of you who supported me and my colleagues Jerome Harvey-Agyee and Audrey Lee in the recent elections. Although the result was a bit of a shock the response from residents has been hugely positive. After 33 years working for local residents the Focus Team and I are not going to give up. So look out for our next Focus Newsletter.
Former Lion and Key public house
The Council’s planning officer has approved the change of use of Lion and Key House, in Leyton High Road, from a care home into a hotel.
Further details should be available on the Council’s website by quoting application number 2014/0380 in the Planning Explorer.
The number of people in the country is expected to soar from 53 million to more than 57 million between 2012 and 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics. This amounts to an extra 384,410 people a year – or a city the size of Nottingham.
But the population boom is expected to add to the growing housing crisis – as fresh figures emerged this morning showing a boom in renting and overcrowding.
England’s population is booming – with every region set to grow between 2012 and 2022
Almost one in five homes in England are now rented – a 50 per cent increase in just 10 years. The number of owner occupied homes meanwhile dropped from 69% to 64% over the same period.
Homes with six or more people also spiked – rising by a quarter in just 10 years, including one in 25 homes in London.
But at the same time 1.1 million homes lay empty in 2011 – a 21 per cent spike in a decade.
England’s population is expected to boom in the next decade – with London, the South East and parts of the East Midlands (coloured in dark purple) set to grow more quickly than elsewhere
Despite a booming population and growing demand for homes the number of people living in each household has plummeted over the last 100 years
The housing crisis is being made more acute by the growing number of homes being left empty. The Office for National Statistics revealed today that more than a million homes are now unoccupied
Dan Wilson Craw, of Generation Rent, said:
‘Today’s statistics confirm that our broken housing market is creating deep divisions in society – wealthy property owners can afford to leave houses to stand empty, while more people who can’t buy are forced to squeeze into overcrowded private renting.
‘The government has no hope of reversing this trend with a scheme like Help to Buy – the nation’s renters need better rights in the rental market if they want to live somewhere they can genuinely call home.’
While an increasing number of homes sit unoccupied, the pressure to get on the housing ladder is expected to soar as the population booms over the next eight years.
London, the South East and East Anglia are expected to take most of the new population.
The capital itself will be home to 9.4million by mid 2022 up from 8.3million in 2012 – an increase of 13 per cent.
South East England will grow by 7.8 per cent and the East of England by 8.6 per cent. The North East will experience the slowest population growth – adding just 2.9 per cent over 10 years.
Soaring house prices have pushed more and more people into rented accommodation, the Office for National Statistics has found. Almost one in five homes is now rented out
As more than a million homes lie empty, people are squeezing themselves into properties. The number of homes with six or more people in them has soared by 25 per cent in 10 years
Of the 13 per cent projected growth in London, almost 90 per cent is because of a boom in the number of babies being born. Just 10 per cent is due to immigration.
Although London is a destination for many people migrating to live and work, both from other regions and internationally, there are also large numbers of people who leave the capital.
One reason for the ‘natural’ population boom is because London has only a little over 11 per cent of its population aged 65 and over – compared with most other regions where 17 per cent of the population are pensioners.
The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to increase in all regions by an average of 22 per cent between mid-2012 and mid-2022. The fastest growth in those aged 65 and over is seen in the East Midlands where the number is projected to increase by 25 per cent from 8.1 million to 10.1 million over the 10 year period.
Audrey Lee – Bob Sullivan – Jerome Harvey-Agyei
The Leyton Ward FOCUS Team, led by popular long-serving Councillor Bob Sullivan will be contesting the local council election on Thursday 22 May.
Please remember you have 3 votes for the Liberal Democrat FOCUS Team.
Polling Stations are open from 7am until 10 pm.
Please don’t forget to vote.
The latest issue of the FOCUS Newsletter is currently being distributed across the ward.
Access a copy here: Leyton 350
The latest issue of the popular Liberal Democrat FOCUS Newsletter is hot of the press, and will be delivered free of charge across the ward by our team of volunteers.
Councillor Bob Sullivan would be pleased to hear from you if you would like to help deliver the FOCUS near your home, or help with other local campaigning.
His phone number is 020 8556 8335, thank you,
