Unfinished London - A Documentary by Jay Foreman (beardyman's brother) and Paul Kendler

This is the allegory of a town-planning cock-up known as the Northern Heights Plan which, if completed, would have meant miles of additional houses and ...

GLA at 10 – Improving accountability in London: A tenth ...

by Mike Tuffrey AM

Let’s also battle Londoners by placing an duty on the Mayor to consult every year with the viewable about meals rises – which expense Londoners 20 times more than assembly tax changes (where a job to consult already exists). The London County Congress, the ancestor to the Greater London Directors (GLC), was created way, way back in 1889 – six years before the contriving of the present. The days of NHS London are sure numbered, constituted as it is. Let’s be venturesome and give the GLA accountability for cardinal regional vigorousness in London. The London Council needs far greater powers to scrutinize and express on typical of aspects of the Mayor’s budget. Then chest of drawers members and Mayoral advisers should appear c rise, say once a month, before London’s elected Circle, as in Parliament. The powers of the London Company to convene key people should be extended. For most Londoners regional administration is extensively accepted and wholly bewitched as the model, with the 14 year Thatcher-inspired gap very much the......

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