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Tony Colman MP for Putney writes
In this week's diary for PutneySW15.com
our MP covers the local issues of Night Flights,affordable
housing & Sure Start, and on the national Socially Responsible
Investment, Prof. Sir Roy Meadows plus updates on International
affairs.
 Local
Night
Flight Ruling
I
am appalled at the recent decision to overturn the 2001 ruling
of the European Court of Human Rights. People in South West
London have suffered enough - but we will not be giving up
on the fight to reduce night time flight noise. Key campaigners
are now looking at options to take the matter back to the
British Courts. I fully support the campaign to reduce night
flights and to halt the expansion of Heathrow
Affordable
Housing
After
lobbying both the Mayor of London and Wandsworth Council I
am glad to say the new residential block at Wandsworth Shopping
centre is to include 32% affordable housing. I was hoping
for 50% but 32% is a good proportion for Wandsworth and I
am glad the Mayor of London was able to get involved. Housing
is an important issue in Putney, not least because it is quite
rightly one of the most desirable parts of London. However,
I want to see our key workers catered for and encourage the
Council to reject applications for large scale developments
which do not have a significant affordable housing component.
I
have also asked that the Council insert conditions in their
planning approval for building schemes in residential areas
to avoid disturbance for residents.
SureStart
The
Department for Education and Skills has confirmed the first
£2 million of funding for Roehampton SureStart. The
SureStart programmes has been fine tuned for local needs with
maximum inputs from Roehampton and West Putney parents and
parents to be. The aim of the programme on a national level
is to halve child poverty - I want to see this happen in Roehampton
and commend all the hard work of parents and organisers in
getting the programme up and running.
Local
Events
The
Wimbledon Championships are over for another year, I hope
residents of Southfields and other areas close to the All
England Club were not badly affected by the extra visitors
but were able to take advantage of their proximity to one
of the worlds' best sporting events.
The
season of summer fetes and fairs continues with a number of
local schools organising excellent fund raising events for
all the family.
All
Saints Church put on a wonderful performance of Iolanthe to
welcome in their new vicar.
The
Service of Thanksgiving for Liz Radcliffe was unsurprisingly
packed out with people wishing to pay their respects to a
well loved pillar of the Putney community, who will be greatly
missed.
National
Professor
Sir Roy Meadow
Many
of you will have seen reports on the outcome of the Sally
Clark appeal and the Trupti Patel murder trial, in which expert
evidence was given by Professor Sir Roy Meadow. His evidence
in these two cases has now been brought into doubt. Yet Professor
Meadow has also given evidence in very many Family Court cases,
where children have been taken away from their natural parents
and put into foster care or adopted. In view of the discrediting
of his evidence in the Clark and Patel cases, there must be
a real possibility that injustice has been done in many of
the Family Court cases in which Meadow gave evidence. I am
campaigning for a review of all such Family Court cases, having
become aware of a particularly sad case in Putney where four
children were taken away from their parents as a result of
Meadow's evidence.
Socially Responsible Investment
I
was happy to chair a meeting on Community Development Finance.
It is good to see that many of the recommendations made by
the Social Investment Task Force in 2000 have been accepted
by the Treasury and that real progress has been made on community
development finance and on getting banks to report on their
activities in deprived areas.
International
After
being lobbied by numerous constituents on the importance of
making trade fairer for developing countries I was happy to
attend the Commonwealth Trade Forum in London, where I spoke
with Minister for trade from Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana about
the way forward for improving trade rules.
As
chair of the United Nations All Party Group I was honoured
to chair a meeting with Hans Correll - the UN Under-Secretary-General
for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the UN. We discussed
the future of international law and the importance of the
United Nations.
For
more information about what I've been up to and how to contact
me go to my website www.tonycolman.org.uk
Or just e-mail me with any concerns/problems: colmant@parliament.uk
To
check if I am your MP, please log on to www.locata.co.uk/commons
and enter your full postcode.
Tony Colman MP
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July
10th, 2003
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