Last night was a meeting of the Audit and Risk Management panel which looked at a range of accounts, annual governance letter and internal audit reports, which while important are generally quite opaque. 

Labour change manifesto after the elections.

Conservatives revealed today that Greenwich Labour rewrote their commitments to the electorate after the election in May.

There are few members of the public  who attend full Council unless there are specific issues which affect a particular group like provision of a third pool in the Eltham Centre or the conditions on the Ferrier Estate. Conservatives have requested the Council looks at webcasting the meetings, but Labour argue this is expensive and there simply isn’t the interest (which, if based on public attendance seems quite reasonable). 

CONSERVATIVES have condemned a decision by Greenwich Council Labour Councillors, to vote unanimously against supporting small shops in the Eltham area.    At full council (Wednesday 1st June) the Conservative’s put forward a motion, asking the Eltham Regeneration Agency to investigate the idea of creating an internet shopping facility for small shops and business in the Eltham area (including New Eltham and the Tudor Parade). Conservatives explained that the idea of allowing local shoppers to order over the internet and have deliveries to

It has been a busy week at the Council, with £8m of cuts decided on Monday and a full Council meeting on Wednesday. I was at the Full Council meeting and have written a couple of articles about that already so thought I would just report back on the less interesting parts of that meeting in this article. If you make it to the end I suspect you should be contacting me to stand for Council as you really are interested in local politics!

  Eltham North Conservatives celebrated this week as the Planning Inspectorate rejected plans to build homes on an environmental haven adjacent to a sheltered housing development in Friars Mews.   The original application to build housing on land which is adjacent to the sheltered housing in Friars Mews was rejected by Greenwich Council’s planning department but the developer Anglia Homes appealed to the Planning Inspectorate to try and overturn the decision. In his decision, the Inspector, who had visited the site, stated that the supply

On Friday, Eltham North Councillor Spencer Drury attended the consultation displaying the plans for the Eltham Baths site.

The plans include flats and houses mainly intended for shared ownership.  In addition there were plans for flats to be allocated specifically for older people. 

Residents of Glenhouse Road in Eltham enjoyed the summer sunshine this afternoon as they held a street party.
 
The event was run and organised by residents but had originally attracted a £430 charge from Greenwich Council for the road closure process. Residents contacted their local Eltham North Ward Councillors and Spencer Drury spoke with Council Officers on their behalf. As a result of Spencer’s conversations with Council officers, the £430 fee was waived.
 

Conservatives welcomed news that two extra police officers have been assigned to Eltham High Street, which should allow officers from the Eltham North Safer Neighbourhood Team to spend more time dealing with issues in that ward.
 
A key pledge in the Conservative Manifesto for Council elections was to put in place police teams in Eltham and Greenwich Town Centres and following a request by Chairman of the Safer Neighbourhood Panel, Mr Terry Powley, confirmation was given by the police that they would be allocating extra officers to the High Street.