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Hertsmere Labour AGM 2019

SUMMARY OF KEY DECISIONS AT HERTSMERE LABOUR PARTY AGM Meeting held 30 May 2019 Results of Elections to Executive Posts CLP Chair (and statutory Deputy Treasurer): Dr Dan Ozarow Vice Chair (Membership and Information): Christopher Myers Vice Chair (General): Ann Harrison CLP Secretary: Initially a jobshare between Caroline Pitrakou & Cllr Jeremy…

Time for Tory Council to stop hoarding CIL funds and use them to benefit local people

Whilst Hertsmere Borough Council proudly announce that a developer who failed to pay the Community Infrastructure Levy on his Bushey Heath development has paid up on the eve of a court hearing, they still sit on millions of CiL money. The funds, which are levied on planning applications, are meant…

Hertsmere Fails Local Residents on Reviva

Elstree residents were left fuming after a change of use application on the controversial Reviva composting site was narrowly approved at the Hertsmere Planning Committee. Driving the approval to change the site to storage from recycling was Tory Shenley Councillor Anthony Spencer who clearly did not understand that planning conditions…

Reaction to May 2019 Local Election Results from Hertsmere Labour

Statement from Hertsmere Labour Leader Cllr Jeremy Newmark on May 2019 Local Government Election Results in the Borough: “I am delighted to be leading an enlarged opposition in the Hertsmere Chamber. We will continue to fight for better infrastructure, more investment in public services and provision of genuinely affordable homes…

Campaign Update: Save Aycliffe Road Post Office

“Fantastic Response” to petition organised by Labour Councillors

Labour Councillors Act on Removal of Mobile Breast Screening Unit in Borehamwood

Hertsmere Labour Councillors have raised concerns with senior Council Officers and the CEO of Herts Valleys NHS Clinical Commissioning Group following revelations that the mobile breast cancer screening unit was removed from Borehamwood due to the lease of parking spaces on a commercial basis to the BBC. The unit was…

Hertsmere Labour Leader Responds to Parliamentary Resignations

Commenting on the resignation of seven Labour MPs earlier today, Hertsmere Labour Leader Cllr Jeremy Newmark said: “I am receptive and incredibly sensitive to all of the concerns that they have raised. I have spoken out and campaigned relentlessly for the Party to do more to tackle antisemitism. I have…

Statement from Hertsmere Borough Council Labour Group Whip Cllr Richard Butler

“We note the re-emergence of media reports around historic events at the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC). These have appeared just as Cllr Newmark and our Party prepare to contest the 2019 Local Government Elections in Hertsmere. Some of the key protagonists in this affair are closely linked to the Conservative…

Hertsmere Tories “Running Scared” – Election Debate Snub

Local papers have reported that Hertsmere Conservatives have refused a challenge from Borough Labour Leader Cllr Jeremy Newmark to participate in a series of pre-election debates in the run-up to the local government elections on 2 May this year. Cllr Newmark said: “I am not surprised. The Tories are afraid…

Labour’s Housing Motions Falls Because Hertsmere Tories Are Too Tired to Finish Meeting

Following this evenings meeting of Hertsmere Borough Council (23 January 2019) Hertsmere Labour Group said that local housing provision will suffer after a key Labour motion on Housing was not debated. The Tories used their majority to close the meeting half an hour early at 10pm after one of the…