Camden Council 22 May 2014 Election Results

Results taken from Camden council website HERE 

Camden councils results include rejected/spoiled 'votes' in the total number. To make it clearer I have calculated the actual number of valid votes and the rejected ones.

According to Camden council the Turnout was 38.69% (60,046 ballots cast). I'm guessing this includes all who actually turned up at the polling station, proxies and postal votes and rejected/spoiled ballot papers.

54 Seats, 18 Wards.
Previous Seats (May 2010-May 2014)
Con 10
Lab 30
LD 13
Green 1

Seats following 22 May 2014 council elections
Green 1
Labour and Cooperative 2
Lib Dems 1
Conservative 12
Labour   38


Winners names in bold
 


 Belize
Jonny Bucknell - Con                                   1219
Bradley Hillier-Smith - Lib Dems                        760
Madeleine Jennings - Lab                                  939
Claire-Louise Leyland  - Con                        1157
James McGowan - Lab                                       782
Darren Robert Murphy - Green                          269    
Lawrence Joseph Nicholson - Lib Dems               678
Harunur Rashid - Lab                                        709
Leila Roy - Con                                            1016
Nigel Rumble - Independent                              199
Tom Simon - Lib Dems                                      992
Rowan St Clair - Green                                     272
Stuart Temple Taylor - Green                            243

Total including rejected                                   9257
Actual votes                                                   9235
Rejected/spoiled                                                 22


Turnout 38.26%

Bloomsbury
Hammad Baig - Lib Dems                                  185
Timothy Barnes - Con                                       608
Amiery De Malet - Lib Dems                              212
Sabrina Francis - Lab                                   1271
Samuel William Gage - Green                            396
Giles Game - UKIP                                            219
Stanley Grossman - Lib Dems                             167    
Adam Douglas Keir Harrison - Lab               1295
Andrew Keep - Con                                            536
Sarah Macken - Con                                           489
Rishi Madlani - Lab                                       1226
Dee Searle -Green                                             419
Shana Tufail - Green                                          341

Total including rejected                                    7385
Actual votes                                                    7364
Rejected/spoiled                                                  21


Turnout   33.11% 


Camden Town with Primrose Hill
Juniour Blake - Lib Dems                                    295
Pat Callaghan - Lab                                       2005
Richard Cotton - Lab                                     1542
Phil Cowan -Independent                                    287
Nicola Hart - Green                                            641
Mukul  Hari - Lib Dems                                       255       
Sarah Hoyle - Lib Dems                                      309
Chris Kassapiss - Con                                         609
Rory Manly - Con                                               655
Richard James Merrin - Con                                567
Lazzoro  Pietragnoli - Lab                             1608
Daniel Alexander Rosenbaum - Green                  601
Ben Van Der Velde - Green                                 455
          
Total including rejected                                     9847
Actual votes                                                     9829
Rejected/spoiled                                                   18

Turnout 38.00%



Cantelowes
Danny Beales - Lab                                          2002
Paul Nicholas Braithwaite - Lib Dem                        725
Fran Bury - Green                                                 639
Fiona Ann Firman - Green                                      632
Robyn Gardner - Con                                             375
Victoria Green - Green                                           546
Margaret Jackson-Roberts -Lib Dem                        355
Phil Jones - Lab                                                 1966
Angela Mason - Lab                                           1899
Robert Anthony Ricketts - Con                                361
Catherine Felicity Jane Sinclair Jones - Lib Dem       344
Will Timmins - Con                                                346

Total including rejected                                       10221
Actual votes                                                       10190
Rejected/spoiled                                                      31


Turnout 40.58%


Fortune Green
Ian Cohen -  Con                                                      893
Juan Jimenez - Green                                               326
Nancy Jirira - Lib Dems                                             950
Leila Mars - Green                                                    403
Lucy Oldfield - Green                                                318
Richard Olszewski - Labour and Cooperative        967
Andrew James Parkinson - Con                                  739
Flick Rea - Lib Dems                                            1151
Lorna Russell - Labour and Cooperative             1028
Nick Russell - Lib Dems                                             865
Tom Smith - Con                                                      686
Phil Turner - Labour and Cooperative                         904

Total including rejected                                           9246
Actual votes                                                           9230
Rejected/spoiled                                                       16


Turnout 39.20%


Frognal and Fitzjohns
Siobhan Baillie - Con                                            1497
Jack Boardman - Lab                                                 606
David Ian Bouchier - Lib Dems                                   294
Charles Hilary Harris -Green                                      411
Mazida Khatun - Lab                                                  481
Andrew Mennear - Con                                       1428
Edward Sherman Ross - Green                                   363
Richard Salmon - Lab                                                 512
Gio Spinella - Con                                               1352
Erich Wagner - Lib Dems                                            187
Anne Ward - Lib Dems                                                284
Stephen Edward West - Green                                    312

Total including rejected                                            7738
Actual votes                                                            7727
Rejected/spoiled                                                         11


Turnout 33.70%


Gospel Oak 
Steve Adams - Con                                                  634
Theo Blackwell - Lab                                          1687
Constantine Buhayer - Green                                   527
Peter John Horne - Con                                            551
Roger Hughes - Lib Dems                                         248
Barry Leavers - UKIP                                               361
James Richard Marshall - Green                                429
Maeve McCormack - Lab                                     1590
Laura Frances Noel - Lib Dems                                  245
John Reid - Trade Union and Socialist Coalition          110
Larraine Revah - Lab                                          1534
Kevin Simon Sefton - Lib Dems                                158
Sangita Singh - Con                                                 456
Jane Kathryn Walby - Green                                     548

Total including rejected                                           9084
Actual votes                                                           9078
Rejected/spoiled                                                          6

Turnout 40.70%


Hampstead Town
Rachael Agnew - Lab                                               726
Robert Carruthers - Lib Dems                                   542
Linda Chung - Lib Dems                                         1148
Tom Currie - Con                                                1272
Sophie Emma Clare Dix -Green                                512
Maisie King - Green                                                 365
 Simon Marcus - Con                                           1465
James Newsome - Lib Dems                                      575
Maddy Raman - Lab                                                  711
Luca Salice - Lab                                                      609
Stephen Stark - Con                                            1380
Prashant Bhaskar Vase - Green                                 288

Total including rejected                                          9604
Actual votes                                                          9593
Rejected/spoiled                                                        11

Turnout 43.68%


Haverstock
Rahel Mohammed Bokth - Lib Dems                         913
Charlotte Sophie Collins - Green                              456
Christopher Cooke - UKIP                                        315
Stephen Daughton - Con                                         351
Nathan Davidson - Con                                           339
Jill Fraser Lib Dems                                               1081
Alison Kelly - Lab                                               1707
Andre Lopez- Turner - Green                                   356
Abdul Quadir - Lab                                             1578
Carole Ricketts - Con                                               291
Matt Sanders - Lib Dem                                           976
Una Sapietis - Green                                               361
Abi Wood - Lab                                                  1462

Total including rejected                                         10206
Actual votes                                                         10186
Rejected/spoiled                                                       20

Turnout 42.46%


Highgate
Sian Berry - Green                                             1642
Will Blair - Con                                                       727
Beth Charlesworth - Con                                         763
Will  Dilnott-Cooper - Con                                        662
Sally Gimson - Lab                                             1739
Martin Charles Hay - Lib Dems                                 198
Matthew Johnston - Green                                     1252
Valerie Leach - Lab                                                1567     
Oliver Lewis - Lab                                              1664
Robert McCracken - Green                                     1099
Henry Potts - Lib Dems                                            232
Martin Wright - Lib Dems                                         130

Total including rejected                                         11702
Actual votes                                                         11675
Rejected/spoiled                                                        27

Turnout 49.95%


Holborn and Covent Garden
Jeremy Richard Allen - Lib Dems                              222
Lewis Barber - Con                                                  601
Nikki Brain - Green                                                 480
Robert Carlyle - Independent                                   162
Alison Frost - Con                                                   635
Julian Fulbrook - Lab                                         1844
Eve Mullen - Green                                                 458
Daniel Nesbitt - Con                                                576
Awade Olad - Lab                                               1588
Anthony Quinn - Green                                           357
David Simmons - Lib Dems                                      196
Sue Vincent - Lab                                               1714
Ken Wright - Lib Dems                                             181

Total including rejected                                          9046
Actual votes                                                          9014
Rejected/spoiled                                                        32

Turnout 35.50%


Kentish Town
Omar Ali - Lib Dems                                                304
Meric Apak - Lab                                                1992
Doreen Bartlett - Con                                              452
Paul Barton - Con                                                    397
Darryl James Davies - Con                                       427
Judy Dixie - Lib Dems                                              375
Valdir Francisco - Lib Dems                                      195
Georgia Gould - Lab                                           2076
Jenny Headlam-Wells - Lab                               2165
George Houghton - Green                                        738
Alaa Owaineh - Green                                              818
Jack Stephen Parker - Green                                    882
Maxine Spencer - UKIP                                            287

Total including rejected                                        11128
Actual votes                                                         11108
Rejected/spoiled                                                        20

Turnout 40.75%



Kilburn
Sarah Astor - Green                                                 402
Douglas Beattie  - Lab                                         1661
Richard Dunham Bourn - Green                                 276
Maryam Eslamdoust- Lab                                    1611
Thomas Gardiner - Lab                                        1543
Janet Grauberg - Lib Dems                                        876
Sheila Hayman - Green                                            286
Jack Holroyde- Lib Dems                                           746
James King - Lib Dems                                              883
Nick Vose - Con                                                        411
Tim Wainwright - Con                                               409
John Whitehead -Con                                                357

Total including rejected                                           9483
Actual votes                                                           9461
Rejected/spoiled                                                        22

Turnout 38.31%


Kings Cross 
John Burden - Lib Dems                                            236
Brian  Gascoigne - Green                                          550
Abdul Hai - Lab                                                    1333
Sarah Hayward - Lab                                           1467
Dominic Kendrick - Green                                          459
Adam Lester - Con                                                    431
Ivan Julian Massow - Con                                          403
Patsy Prince - Con                                                    401
Jonathon Simpson - Lab                                      1424  
Michael Ancrum Skinner - Lib Dems                           195
Elizabeth Margaret Stanton Jones - Lib Dems              263
Lewis Sullivan - Green                                              446

Total including rejected                                           7631
Actual votes                                                           7608
Rejected/spoiled                                                        23

Turnout 34.52%

 Regents Park
Shahin Ahmed - Con                                               595
Nash Ali - Lab                                                    1648
Sam Cannicott - Lib Dems                                        232
Hamish Hunter - Con                                               551
Heather Johnson - Lab                                       1675
Daniel Jarrod Jones - Lib Dems                                 525
Daviyani Rayshma Kothari - Lib Dems                       133
Stephen Plowden - Green                                         457
Barry Read - UKIP                                                    380
Nicholas John Seston - Green                                   409
Nadia Shah - Lab                                                 1599
Ellie Vesey Thompson -  Con                                     516
Anne Wright - Lib Dems                                           198

Total including rejected                                          8930
Actual votes                                                           8918
Rejected/spoiled                                                        12

Turnout 36.04%


St Pancras and Somers Town
Nana Oye Adjepong - Lib Dems                                192
Peter Brayshaw - Lab                                         2488
Rob Culligan - Con                                                   368
Samata Khatoon - Lab                                        2423
Elliott Miller - Con                                                    295
Matty Mitford - Green                                               562
Brian Rice - Con                                                       351
Roger Robinson - Lab                                          2511
Koonal Kirit Shah - Green                                         440
Nicole Sykes - Lib Dems                                            178
Abdul Hannan Tarofdar - Lib Dems                             245
James Widdowson - Green                                         526

Total including rejected                                         10617
Actual votes                                                         10579
Rejected/spoiled                                                         38

Turnout 38.60%


Swiss Cottage
Chris Butler - Lib Dems                                             300
Tom Franklin - Green                                                433
Roger Freeman - Con                                           1294
Andrew Haslam-Jones -  Lib Dems                              230
Helen Jack - Green                                                    376
Andrew Marshall - Con                                         1340
Jill Newbrook - Lib Dems                                            347
Ben Nunn - Lab                                                        1029
Sheila Patton - Green                                                 339
Simon Pearson - Lab                                                 1008
Gretel Reynolds - Lab                                                 960
Don Williams - Con                                                   1221

Total including rejected                                            8886
Actual votes                                                            8877
Rejected/spoiled                                                           9

Turnout 34.67%


West Hampstead 
John William Bryant - Lib Dems                                836
Natalie Eliades - Con                                               800
Nick Grierson - Con                                                 811
Richard Neil Griffiths - Green                                   327
Zane Hannan - Green                                              343
Keith Moffitt - Lib Dems                                            943
Magnus Nielsen - UKIP                                             202
David Pearce - Trade Union and Socialist Coalition       67
Angela Pober - Lab                                             1166
Gillian Risso-Gill - Lib Dems                                      901
Phil Rosenberg - Lab                                           1179
Andrew Saywell - Con                                               715
Quentin Tyler - Green                                               250
James Yarde - Lab                                                1082

Total including rejected                                             9622
Actual votes                                                             9622
Rejected/spoiled                                                            0

Turnout 38.00%

Senior Camden Council officer sacked

According the the Hampstead and Highgate Express HERE, 

1 May 2014 

CASP Gardening Project

 Click Here for original council document of below information.

CAMDEN ASSOCIATION OF STREET PROPERTIES

CASP GARDENING PROJECT

February 2014 

HISTORY OF CASP GARDENING SCHEME

The CASP Pilot Gardening Project was established in June 2011 with  financial assistance from the Gospel Oak DMC. 

The Association set up and somewhat manages the project which has now been extended to include Gospel Oak, Kentish Town and Hampstead. 

Funding to date includes: Gospel Oak £7000, Hampstead £6000 & Kentish Town £10.000

The aim of the project is to provide gardening assistance to older, vulnerable or disabled tenants who live in Camden owned street properties. 

Historically, this type of service was never provided by Camden Council despite many ground floor LBC street properties being allocated to disabled tenants, etc. 

Initial discussions during the setting up of the project were extensive and covered area's such as insurance, suitability of the gardening team to work with vulnerable adults (CRB checks, etc), references and related housing management issues, etc. 

The Association set up and manages the project which has now been extended to include Gospel Oak, Kentish Town and Hampstead, although we remain in close contact with senior housing staff to discuss different aspects of the scheme such as funding and its management, etc. 

CASP meets regularly with the gardening team overseeing the works and any special requests such as input from OT's are passed to housing staff, etc. 

Many of the gardens have been left unattended for years and pretty extensive works have been required in some of the gardens in order to make these areas usable - before and after photographs are available on request. 

Over the years, some of these unattended areas have also attracted high levels of ASB and funding was used in some instances to revamp these areas - groups of individual gardens - into usable and attractive areas. 

For example, one of the areas (consisting of four individual gardens) was cleared and made attractive by sowing wild flowers, etc. 

GO, KT and Hampstead housing staff have also been proactive in identifying street property tenants who meet the criteria to receive assistance from the scheme. 

Our team of gardeners have extensive experience of working with vulnerable tenants in the community and the Association is already receiving excellent feedback. 

Since funding was first allocated in June 2011, funding used or is already committed to funding works taking place in the following Gospel Oak, Kentish Town and Hampstead streets: 

1. Malden Road NW5

2. Queens Crescent NW5

3. St Leonard's Square NW5

4. Russell Nurseries Estate NW5

5. Savernake Road NW5

6. Basset Street NW5

7. Grafton Road NW5

8. Marsden Street NW5 

9. Herbert Street NW5

10. St Baptist Gardens NW5

11. Maitland Park Road NW5

12. Grafton Terrace NW5

13. Hawley Road NW5 

14. Chetwynd Road NW5

15. Brecknock Road NW5

16. Caversham Road NW5

17. Gaisford Street NW5

18. Patshull Road NW5

19. Lawford Road NW5

20. St Alban's Road NW5

21. Chester Road NW5

22. Leighton Grove NW5 

23. Kingsgate Road NW6

24. Maresfield Gardens NW3

25. South Hill Park Gardens NW3

26. Goldhurst Terrace

27. Woodchurch Road NW6

28. Lady Margaret Road NW5 (New Referral) 

29. Ingestre Road NW5 (New Referral)

30. Croftdown Road NW5 (New Referral)

update 8 March 2021

 

DMC's Review - History of the DMC's

An officers report to the councils Housing and Adult Social Care in regards to the review the committee is carrying out into the 5 Committee District Management Committee's (DMC's) HERE


History of the DMC's

Back in the days prior to part 2 of the Local Government Act 2000 HERE coming into force in July 2001, the dmc's where sub-committee's of the councils then Housing committee. 

The housing committee and its sub-committees had council tenants as members - legislation allows them to do this.

In 1998, a DMC document HERE reveals that cllrs on the Housing committee bestowed upon some council tenants rights they weren't legally entitled to: voting rights on the councils housing committees (the dmc's).

" RESOLVED 

THAT the Tenants' Associations listed in Appendix A be  formally registered with the Council and their nominated representatives be co-opted onto the DMC, with voting rights for the Municipal Year 1998/99"   HERE

Legislation

The Local Government Act 1972, states under section 101 HERE   in regards to local governments discharge of their functions:

Subject to any express provision contained in this Act or any Act passed after this Act, a local authority may arrange for the discharge of any of their functions—
 
(a) by a committee, a sub-committee or an officer of the authority; or
(b) by any other local authority.

In relation to committees section 102 says:

(1) (a)a local authority may appoint a committee of the authority; or
(b)two or more local authorities may appoint a joint committee of those authorities; or
(c)any such committee may appoint one or more sub-committees

 (3)A committee appointed under subsection (1) [F25or (1A)] above, other than a committee for regulating and controlling the finance of the local authority or of their area, may, subject to section 104 below, include persons who are not members of the appointing authority or authorities or, in the case of a sub-committee, the authority or authorities of whom they are a sub-committee, F26. .

Section 13 HERE of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989  adds further to the above:

13 Voting rights of members of certain committees: England and Wales.
(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who—
(a)is a member of a committee appointed under a power to which this section applies by a relevant authority and is not a member of that authority;
(c)is a member of a sub-committee appointed under such a power by such a committee as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above and is not a member of the relevant authority, or one of the relevant authorities, which appointed that committee,
shall for all purposes be treated as a non-voting member of that committee (my emphasis),  joint committee or, as the case may be, sub-committee.

Section 13 above came into force more or less around August 1990 HERE

By June of 1999 all 5 cllr lead dmc's (the 5 dmc's were aligned with the councils 5 district housing offices) had council tenant reps as chairs or vice chairs.

Each dmc was also given £100,000 pa to allocate on  council housing capital works. This was on top of the existing but smaller revenue budgets (around £35,000 each pa ) dmc's had been allocating.

Council meeting of 17 May 2000 
agenda item  6. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS GOVERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMITTEES AND THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO COMMITTEES 

 The Mayor moved and Councillor Dermot Greene seconded, that the report be received and adopted.
RESOLVED
- THAT the standing committees of the Council be constituted as set out below (my emphasis)

(e) HOUSING COMMITTEE (16) 
Majority Party (11) 
Brian Weekes, Dave Horan, John Rolfe, Charlie Hedges, Heather Johnson, Roger Robinson, Sybil Shine, Anne Swain, Jim Turner Maggie Cosin and Penny Abraham.

Opposition
(C)(3)Peter Horne, Andrew Mennear Piers Wauchope
(LD) (2) Jane Schopflin, Sidney Malin 
Plus named substitute 
(C)(1) Stephen Hocking 
(LD) (2) Flick Rea, Heather Thompson  

Plus 10 non voting members (my emphasis), one from each DMC, one from the Camden Federation of Tenants Associations, one from the Camden Federation of Private Tenants and one from the Homelessness Liaison Group, one from Leaseholders forum and one from TMO Liaison Group

Note it says "Plus 10 non voting members "

Forward a couple of weeks from the above full Council meeting to the Gospel Oak DMC  30 May 2000 HERE 

 1.REGISTRATION OF TENANTS ASSOCIATION AND CO-OPTION OF TENANT REPRESENTATIVES 
RESOLVED THAT all the Tenants Associations listed in Appendix A be formally registered with the Council and their nominated representatives be co-opted onto the DMC with voting rights (my emphasis) for the municipal year 2000/2001. 

Within weeks of the full Council meeting and the agreed 10 tenant reps appointed onto the councils then Housing Committee with no voting rights, had  transformed into the continuation of 5 Housing Committee sub-committees that had at least ten voting tenant reps each.

It was around this time that council tenant reps from the Camden Association of Street Properties (CASP) started attending dmc meetings.

By 2004 a few estate based council tenants reps (dmc and cftra members) had taken over CASP.

The council had given them housing transfers to street properties in order to do so.

A few years earlier, in January 2001, council tenant members of the dmc's who where also members of the Camden Federation of Tenants and Residents Association (CFTRA) managed to get the following motion agreed by 4 of the 5 dmc's:

“This District Management Committee agrees that the budget of £456,000 be withdrawn from the Community Involvement Team from April 1st 2001 and that tenants decide where and how the money will be used" 

The CFTRA then set themselves up as a private company limited by guarantee in the same name, and took on the tenant participation service from the councils in house team - to provide services to other council tenants on behalf of the council.

From what I can make of things, the cftra taking on the TP service has been a disaster from start to finish resulting in the current situation where the cftra has lost all its funding and support from the council.

The change of governance system brought in by the Local Government Act 2000 should have meant that the dmc's where shut down but cllrs allowed the dmc's to continue but as council tenant groups funded and serviced by the council.

The dmc's also continued to exercise council functions of allocating large sums of money to themselves. This progressed to dmc members actually being given direct access to council money to buy goods and services/works on behalf of the council - without an apparent formal legal management agreement/contract being in place. No annual accounts of spending required by the councils. No receipts required.

Councils officers agree with the tenant reps how much the cost of the works etc will be and the tenant rep is sent a cheque (or given a government procurement card) to transfer public money into the tra's bank account.

The dmc's don't produce annual accounts of where the money they have allocated to themselves has been spent. The council doesn't require the dmc's to account for the spending.

This set up continues to this day.

Housing Management Efficiencies Review

On 26 June 2013 the councils housing and adult social care (hasc) scrutiny committee held their first (of a limited number of sub- meetings) Housing Management Efficiencies review meeting HERE

Terms of reference 

• Investigate current Housing management structures and consider proposals to address any deficiencies

• Investigate the role and responsibility for each head of service in Housing Management, how they relate to each other and to other council departments, how they work together and share resources, and how they use the budgets allocated to each

• Investigate efficiency saving opportunities without affecting front line service delivery

• Make visits to appropriate departments and carry out mystery shopping within the above scope and investigation

• Consider the implications of the above findings and make recommendations to improve efficiency and service delivery for tenants and leaseholders.

Labour cllr Julian Fulbrook is the cabinet member for housing.

2nd meeting 16 July 2013 HERE 
3rd meeting 30 July 2013 HERE
4th meeting due 18 Sept 2013 HERE
5th meeting 1 Oct 2013 HERE
6th meeting 9 Oct 2013 HERE
7th meeting 24 Oct 2013 HERE
8th meeting 6 Nov 2013 HERE

One theme that keeps occurring in relation to council housing management (and it could be right across the council) is the continued operation of a financial system that allows any tom, dick or harridan to invoice the council for works/services without having to provide receipts.

Such as not requiring council housing repairs teams to provide proof of the works they have done ie get job signed off by tenant as proof it was carried out.

Or not requiring dmc members to provide proof of what they spend large sums of public money on.

I wonder if any improvements have been implemented since the 2002 Audit of Camden Council Leaseholder Service Charges HERE    was carried out? The report is very damning of how the council mis-manages money.