LTN 21 trial to be ended and local people to vote on LTNs in Ealing
Close Play Video Today (Friday 21 May) following the decision by the London Borough of Hounslow to close Swyncombe Avenue for a period of two months, Ealing Council has announced the end of the trial West Ealing South Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN 21) and pledged to give local people the final say on LTNs in their communities. Swyncombe […]
Ealing Labour commits to community led regeneration
Close Play Video Today (20th May 2021) Ealing Council’s new leader Councillor Peter Mason has announced a major reset in the council’s relationships with developers looking to build in the borough. The new approach will ensure that communities are put in the driving seat of change and will ask much more of developers in Ealing. […]
Ealing Labour to act on air quality around gasworks development
Close Play Video By Councillor Peter Mason, Leader of Ealing Council and Labour Member for Southall Green In my first act as Leader of Ealing Council, this morning (Wednesday 19th May) I’ve written to campaigners in Southall with my commitment to act on air quality and the gasworks development I’m a Southall councillor, and […]
New Leadership for Ealing Labour
Councillor Deirdre Costigan, Councillor Peter Mason and Councillor Bassam Mahfouz Yesterday (10th May) Ealing Labour councillors elected Councillor Peter Mason as their new leader at their Annual General Meeting. Peter will take up the post of Leader of the Council at its Annual Meeting next Tuesday 18th May. Peter was until recently Ealing’s Cabinet Member […]
Catering staff to be paid London Living Wage
Letter to UNISON confirming Ealing school catering staff will be paid LLW from 1st August Today (Wednesday 5th May) Councillors Julian Bell, Leader of Ealing Council, and Yvonne Johnson, cabinet member for schools and children’s services, have written to UNISON reps to confirm that school catering staff in Ealing will be paid London Living Wage […]
Ealing among Labour boroughs deprived of funding by Tory cronyism
Ealing Leader Councillor Julian Bell has joined the Labour leaders of 11 other London boroughs and written to chancellor Rishi Sunak demanding answers on levelling up funding. People in Ealing have the right to know why Sunak’s constituency has been prioritised for levelling up funding while Ealing hasn’t. Ealing is the 88th most deprived in […]
Keir Starmer and Bassam Mahfouz tell Government to protect family incomes in Ealing this lockdown
Cllr Bassam Mahfouz and Keir Starmer MP Labour leader Keir Starmer and Ealing Council finance lead Bassam Mahfouz are calling on the Government ‘to put families first during lockdown’ by supporting parents and protecting household incomes: Backing local government and giving it the money it needs to prevent the council tax rise that they have […]
Lord Woolley to lead Ealing’s race equality commission
Lord Simon Woolley This week we announced the fantastic news that Lord Simon Woolley will be chairing Ealing’s new race equality commission. Lord Woolley will be joined by Ealing Labour Councillor Joanna Camadoo-Rothwell, who will act as vice-chairperson, alongside 10 other commissioners who are yet to be announced. The commission will carry out a review […]
Tory government must apologise and scrap hostile environment policy
Home Officer sign This week Ealing Labour cabinet member for inclusion, councillor Joanna Camadoo-Rothwell, proposed and passed a motion at a full council meeting condemning the hostile environment policy. The motion also called for a long overdue apology from the government to the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities who have suffered because of it, […]
Thank you to Ealing Council staff
Thank you to Ealing Council workers At an Ealing Full Council meeting yesterday (Tuesday 21st July) Ealing Labour proposed and passed a motion in support of Ealing Council staff, thanking them for their incredible commitment to our borough during the Covid-19 crisis. The full motion is below. Ealing council staff have achieved amazing things in […]