Andy Slaughter

Chronicle Column

May 21, 2012

Social housing is the catch-all title for property built and managed by the council, housing associations and charities. It could be five years or a hundred years old. A house with a garden or a flat in a tower block. It is rented out at an affordable price. In Hammersmith a third of families live [...]

London Underground – the Roof Falls In

May 14, 2012

Many people – certainly the 7,000 who signed petitions and wrote to TfL – remember that Shepherds Bush Central Line Station closed for most of 2008 causing huge disruption around the Green and delays to people’s daily commute. Back then, TfL insisted that the closure was necessary to get the work done properly, even [...]

A good result, despite Blot on the Landscape

May 5, 2012

It was a very good night for Labour in the local elections, both across the country and in London, as we gained over 800 council seats and won control of 32 extra councils. People have seen through the coalition. Not only do they not believe the governments two-year old mantra thatmaking ife harder for ordinary [...]

West Ken – Council Caught Out Three Times

May 4, 2012

Guardian Prints Correction Following Dave Hill’s article in the Guardian on 22nd March, the Council’s Steering Group replied with an article, published in the Guardian, which claimed that: 1) 100 out of the 761 households on the estate supported the council’s demolition plans. But there are only 81 addresses on the Steering Group’s mailing list, and [...]

MAY 3RD ELECTION DAY

May 3, 2012

HAMMERSMITH CANNOT TRUST BORIS JOHNSON THAMES TUNNEL – SUPER SEWER The Mayor has, quite simply, been dishonest and secretive about his support for this project. The secret papers I obtained through the FOIA show that he has supported the Tunnel from day one, despite his subsequent attempts to placate angry residents. He says the scheme “may [...]

Go North and Multiply

May 3, 2012

A Guardian Article published today contains shocking revelations about nothing less than social cleansing. Hammersmith Council is considering plans to move local residents into rented accommodation as far away as Derby. The Council is considering kicking families out of the homes they have lived in and making them move hundreds of miles away, despite claiming that [...]

Help for Consumers

May 1, 2012

Last Thursday I attended the Parliamentary launch of the Citizens Advice Bureau’s consumer service. Citizens Advice has a great tradition of helping people and championing their problems at a local and national level. This new service will provide consumer information across a range of sectors and take responsibility for representing consumers’ interests in unregulated sectors, [...]

London’s Air Quality

May 1, 2012

Boris Johnson’s inaction over London’s air quality could land the capital with a £300 million fine from the European Commission. Indeed, the quality of the air we are all breathing is so bad that London is the only UK region in breach of the EU directive on airborne particles. Instead of tackling this issue, Boris [...]

Hospital Changes

April 30, 2012

While in opposition the Tories produced regular scare stories about Charing Cross Hospital, none of which was true, and which I spent a lot of time denying. In a cruel and ironic twist now that they have come to power it seems that Hammersmith and Charing Cross could lose their A & E departments. Together with [...]

Scrubs Lane Fire

April 26, 2012

As you may be aware there was a fire at a scrap yard in the north of the constituency yesterday. Thankfully there was no danger to life or to property. Although, as you can see from the video above, which was shot by a local Labour Councillor, it was a large fire. At a time [...]

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