Dear Editor, ON December the 8th I met with Helena Mills, the CEO of the Burnt Mills Trust who have responsibility for SFG. In that meeting I presented a compilation of questions that a number of parents, myself included, had for the DfE about the…

Dear Editor, I WATCHED the Post Office Horizon IT public inquiry this morning (11 Jan) which focused on the testimony of Post Office investigator and security manager Stephen Bradshaw. I was appalled to hear that several paragraphs of one of Mr Bradshaw’s court statements was…

Dear Editor, WHEN I became leader of Harlow Council, I set out five priorities for this financial year. As 2023 draws to a close and with three months of the financial year left, I wanted to report on the progress we have made. When I…

THIS year will go down as a record breaking year for Your Harlow. Since we launched on July 1st, 2013, YH has made its main commitment to be providing as much news about Harlow to its residents as possible. So here we are, 32,000 plus…

EARLIER this week the Government published the much-delayed Policy Framework which will give Councils power to reduce the number of homes they must allow to be built if development will significantly alter the character of their area or damage the Green Belt, as well as…

Housing allocation scheme consultation https://selfserve.harlow.gov.uk/service/Housing_allocation_scheme_consultation Q1 WE want to ensure that local homes are let to genuinely local people and want to strengthen our policy to ensure this happens in all cases.  Proposal We propose that homes will only be let to those who have…

Blogpost by Bush Fair councillor, Kay Morrison CHRISTMAS is coming, and the goose is out of the question. For a vegetarian, goose (or turkey) isn’t an option, obviously, but it’s unaffordable for so many people. Santa will still come, though, won’t he? How? Always tricky,…

IMPRESS welcomes the news that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has been able to successfully hold the Daily Mirror accountable through a partial victory in court, over phone hacking and other unlawful information gathering. However, there remains a deep-rooted societal issue at play. The…

Dear Editor CAN you please thank all the parents who submitted questions for me to ask SFG and Baroness Barran. In total there were 17 questions, which I added word for word to my seven questions in a document I prepared for the CEO of…

Dear Editor, THIS weekend, I used the Queensgate roundabout and while it was overgrown, I can’t say that has ever been the problem for me with this roundabout. It has been the sheer traffic and the location. I can see now that it has been…

AS the year draws to a close, may we gently remind readers that our comments section is supposed to be a forum for debate and not a hub for hate. This may be the fourth time we have written a version of this appeal but…

Dear Editor, THE results are now in and the residents’ of Potter Street will have to accept that this current council has been granted permission to sell Osler House and to create a 38 car parking site next to four housing communities in Potter Street.…

Dear Editor, WHEN a group of residents in Harlow came together in 2017 to form a new local independent political party, a great deal of time was spent on deciding a name which reflected who we were and what we wanted to achieve. The Harlow…

Dear Editor  THE resumption of hostilities in the Gaza Strip ought to spur all people of goodwill to add their voices to the demand for a permanent ceasefire.   The United Kingdom is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council…