Cllr Shama Tatler attended her last Brent Cabinet today to make a presentation on the next stage of the South Kilburn regeneration.
Cllr Tatler earned the nickname 'Towerblock Tatler' for her unapologetic support for highrise developments and densification in Brent housing projects.
From tomorrow she starts a new role at Head of the Labour Office at the Local Government Association.
Cllr Tatler will step down as the Cabinet lead for Regeneration, Planning and Growth but says she will continue to support Brent Labour from the back benches.
She wrote on LinkIn:
Thank you to all my Cabinet colleagues, past and present and I wish my successor all the best in continuing to deliver progressive Regeneration and Planning for Brent's residents.
Oh how we wish Towerblock would at least have left long ago. She is now leaving Brent with a substantially worse housing crisis than when she began her tenure. It features a substandard and totally unaffordable housing stock while Metroland is becoming the dilapidated HMO capital of London.
ReplyDeleteBegone Towerblock for all the good you did. Still drawing your councillor allowance then? No shame.
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DeleteYou really ought to learn the difference between correlation - both happened at the same time - and causation - which you have provided no evidence for.
DeleteBest news to start the week.....but who will replace her?
ReplyDeleteHurrah for Brent
ReplyDeleteAmazing how much damage one person can do to Brent's residents and the Labour Party.
ReplyDeleteGood news. Having blighted South Kilburn she moves on to what she obviously thinks are greener pastures. Ambitious, having failed in her attempt to become an MP (even with the assistance of a parachute courtesy of Keir Starmer) she was never going to hang around. You might think she would see it as important to see out her `flagship' regeneration scheme, but, since it appears to be hitting the rocks, perhaps that's why she's going now. Doesn't want to go down with the ship... And two pay packets must help the pain of not being an MP go away.
ReplyDeleteDeserting the sinking ship. Not a surprise is it.
DeleteShe’s the reason it’s sinking in the first place. Her departure gives Brent a fighting chance.
DeleteMaybe Brent will now wake up to its southern boundary no mans land and the massive Inner London wealth and high quality opportunities growth there that should be mainlined direct into Brent life. Brent gets new infrastructure connections building....
ReplyDeleteIt's embarrassing how there is no foot tunnel planned the 500 m from Harlesden Old Town to Old Oak Common HS2/ Eliz Line station via Willesden Junction on the way. Or South Kilburn tenanted towers car-free housing 45 ha zone unable to with its own new cycle network connect into Westminster's impressive separated cycle network ready made next door.
One can hear the sighs relief throught Brent, and now residents are holding their breath hoping we won't get more of the same from a successor.
ReplyDeleteI thought she was fully commuter to the people of Chingford and Woodford Green? Had assumed she would be taking up a role there. Or was she only committed to them whilst there was an election on? Thanks for giving us IDS Shama!!
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