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Residents of Havering have shared their Christmas wishes, revealing their frustrations and hopes for real change in the borough.
Housing is one of the reasons I got into politics, it is important to me, it is important to my constituents, and it underpins almost every aspect of our lives.
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Havering Council has criticised the “wasteful and unnecessary drain on public resources” caused by a long-running battle to gain access to a tenant’s property for a routine electrical and asbestos safety check.
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Cash-trapped Havering Council will borrow £46million to build more than 1,000 new homes in Romford, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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Yesterday, we asked our readers if they were the Leader of the Council for the day, what changes would they make? The list of changes residents wanted to make were endless and included improving policing, repairing roads and potholes, removing the borough from the ULEZ zone and removing parking charges across the borough.
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Plans for almost 500 new homes in Havering are due to be approved this week, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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Havering Council has agreed to pay more than £7,000 to a homeless mother after her family was left to live in unsafe housing writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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The London Borough of Havering has seen its population increase from around 237,200 in 2011 to 262,100 in 2021, a jump of roughly 10.5% in just a decade. Estimates suggest the number of residents may now be approaching 276,000 in 2024. This growth brings new challenges for housing, services, and infrastructure.
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An overwhelming majority of Havering residents have made their views clear — they do not want to see the borough’s Green Belt built on.
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Havering Council and Wates Residential have hit a major milestone in the borough’s 12 Estates Regeneration Programme with the completion of demolition works at Chippenham Road in Harold Hill.
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Plans have been put forward to demolish a former Romford nightclub and replace it with almost 300 homes, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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Parts of a popular Havering shopping centre could be demolished to make way for 700 new homes, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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Residents living near Petersfield Avenue yesterday celebrated a petition win. A planning application to build six homes at the rear of 55-57 Petersfield Avenue was refused.
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I am writing in response to your recent article detailing the motion passed at Full Council on 3rd September, led by Councillor David Taylor and supported by Labour and Independent councillors. While the headline suggests a noble cause, the narrative presented is misleading and misrepresents both the facts and the position of the Havering Residents Association (HRA).
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Green Belt was once untouchable land, but now the barriers are being lowered, and our countryside no longer has the protection it once did.
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A coalition of Conservatives, Labour and Independents have united in efforts to deliver more social housing in Havering, with opposition from the ruling Havering Resident’s Association party (HRA) .
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Fury as Council officers rule no environmental statement is needed as locals say a tranquil stretch of greenbelt farmland in Hornchurch is under threat as developers eye 570 new homes.
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Locals in Harold Hill are furious as a green space once home to deer and birds is torn up to make way for new houses.
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Across London and beyond, local councils are finding themselves squeezed between government housing demands and the realities of stretched infrastructure. Communities are left asking — where will the schools, GP surgeries, and transport links come from to match the surge in new homes?
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The future of the Devonshire Hotel in Hornchurch looks set for change as plans have been submitted to Havering Council to convert the former hotel into new housing.
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