Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe appointed to Olympic Park legacy board
Hackney's elected mayor, Jules Pipe. Photograph: Hackney Council
Jules Pipe, Hackney’s directly elected Mayor, has been appointed to the board of a quango in charge of looking after the legacy of this summer’s Olympic Games.
Mr Pipe was appointed to the board of the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) along with his counterparts in the neighbouring Olympic boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
Mr Pipe will serve on the board alongside Mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman and the leader of Waltham Forest, Councillor Chris Robbins, all until the next local government elections in 2014 – or earlier if any ceases to be an elected member of their respective local authority or if the local authority decides to nominate someone else.
The LLDC was created using powers given to the Mayor of London in the Localism Act 2011, and its stated purpose is to “manage the ongoing regeneration and development of the Olympic Park and surrounding areas of east London”.
The organisation held its first board meeting earlier this month.
More information at London Legacy.
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Hooray free tickets for Pipeshaft and his cronies
Jules Pipe and Lutfur Rahman serving on the same planning quango…heaven help democracy in east London, and anyone who stands in the way of their ‘grand vision’!
Mosques and apartment villages all round!
Even Diogenes of Sinope, a founder of the Cynic philosophy wrote that calumny is only the noise of madmen, but then again actual malice is a real danger to the publisher and not just to the author.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith-Smith_v_Williams
@jed I think Hackney Citizen is quite used to threats from the control freaks and bullies in the Labour Party.
I don’t accept bullying of the rest of us by example by doing so to the socially acceptable victim be they an individual or a group. Dumbing down such as using derogatory terms on the other hand just fails us Hackney Electors.
What is your position on the risks set out in the review of the Sustainable Community Strategy, the keystone long-term strategy for all of the Borough’s strategic partners including the Council? What are your ideas about addressing them, or do you think they are overstated?
Review of the Sustainable Community Strategy and recommendations of focus and priorities, Hackney Council [PDF]
@jed Top down blah blah
@Antitwat: you forgot to mention major chain stores – gotta suck up to those multinationals in the bland new vision for east London! 😉
“I think Hackney Citizen is quite used to threats from the control freaks and bullies in the Labour Party.”
Well said, Cllr Boff. And most readers recognise them for what they are too, and the desperation behind such threats.
C’mon Jed Keenan, would you really want to live in a world without such wonderful characters as these?
Sir Julian Benjamin Pipeshaft CBE and here and the inimitable
Boffmeister of the Fourth Estate.
Would you like to see Private Eye, Spitting Image and other satirical political publications banned? How sad! I was under the impression politicians, excepting perhaps control-freak Pipeshaft, were secretly flattered by the extra attention.
@chewbacker Dahling, It’s worse NOT to be talked about.
‘Laugh it up, fuzzball’, Private Eye on pages 19-27 is satire and the rest is a subjective agenda, a destination for the powerless with ‘stories’ or the powerful with a conflict to continue that is in turn published or not depending on the subjective agenda of the publisher and editor. A gazette of the business of the national government, not legislation but the business? Maybe we don’t need one or maybe it’s too expensive or time-consuming, or it’s simply of no interest to Electors even if we could have any input or an effect on its outcomes? I should test this hypothesis and setup a Hackney Council gazetteer of the business of it and its strategic partners in Team Hackney, posting headline stories about our 40% multi-generational child poverty or the utter ineffectiveness of the Council’s Ways into Work worklessness interventions or the hopelessly poor 14% command of the domestic market by the Borough’s commercial and third sector enterprises, all fully detailed in the minutes and papers of the business of the Council. I guess that when I raise the ‘symbolic advantage’ of being part of a committed citizenry then this would raise our numbers.
Andrew Boff AM, like Meg Hillier MP for example, is much too busy to commit to holding two seats and I have no idea why the Tories have no other takers for the Hackney Central by-election candidacy or why he put himself forward to trump the opportunity that a committed hard working local Association member would have really valued. Either way its bad form and a backwards step, especially when standing for election to the Assembly at the same time.
@Jed erm. You’re saying Councillors shouldn’t have other jobs?