Your Labour Community Team for Thames View Ward are Lucy Lee and Sabbir Zamee.
On this page you can find out what your Labour Councillors and the wider Labour team are doing for you. If you need help from your Councillors, click ‘surgery details’ above to find out where you can meet your councillors or how to contact them.
We were making the most of the rare sunny weather this Saturday as the Labour team of community volunteers were out knocking on doors and listening to residents in and around Crossness Road.
We’re out most weeks – rain or shine – knocking doors across Thames View Ward. Door knocking is a great way for us to hear about issues affecting you. If you were out or we missed you, we’ll have left a leaflet letting you know how you can get in touch with your Labour action team. In the meantime, if there are any issues you’d like to raise, do get in touch by clicking the surgery details above.
Labour volunteer teams have been out across the ward extensively over the last few week listening to residents. A number of residents have asked about applying for postal votes for the elections in May.
Voting by post is the safest and easiest way to make sure your vote counts. The quickest and easiest way setup postal voting is by applying online via the Government’s website here.
You can also download, print out and fill in a paper postal vote application form. This should then be sent to your local Electoral Registration Office.
Electoral Registration Officer, Ground Floor North, Town Hall, Barking, 1 Town Square, IG11 7LU
Your Labour Community Team can help with lots of things, but unfortunately we can’t help you complete or return these forms. Do ask a friend or neighbour if you need help.
Councillor Lucy Lee writes: Your Labour Team spent 3 hours this week on a litter pick and were able to collect 16 bags of litter, loads of plastic, bottles and cans, Christmas wrapping paper, crisp packets, paper cups and food containers which were clearly from the local shops, gas canisters a car wheel clamp and a bunch of random items!
Please help us by reporting flying tipping to the council, as this is the quickest way to ensure that it can be cleaned up quickly.
Please do also share your ideas on what the Thames View Clean-up campaign should include to discourage littering. I’ll do the leg work but I think multiple minds are better than one so let’s do this together and please do get in-touch.
Feel free to forward this to friends & neighbours living in Thames View & Riverside wards (as I know the ward divide cuts right though Bastable Avenue)
In the meantime, we’ll carry on with our regular litter picks.
Thank you to those who came down to celebrate the Thames View Christmas Tree Lights Switch-on yesterday. Special thanks also to the Barking and Dagenham Council officer, tree lights contractor and of course to Santa who all helped with the preparations.
It was lovely to meet and chat with lots of new and existing families (and a special little one for his first Christmas ) who stopped by to design their wish for Thames View on their tree decoration & collect a small gift.
For those who offered to help with next years event, if I’m fortunate enough to be re-elected, please do get in touch and we can make the next one even bigger and even more festive…I can feel a Christmas Market in the air.
Councillor Lucy Lee writes about the latest Drop-In Dr Clinic last Friday at the Thames View Community Hub on Bastable Avenue:
“A great day of holistic health intervention at our Drop-in Dr Clinic on Friday – continuing to ensure easier access to GP’s, statutory services, Reflexology, and an amazing network of community support. I was also delighted that Nesil Caliskan our MP for Barking was able to join us today.
The appreciation from residents shown to us each time we deliver a clinic gets me every time (on this occasion I received home made lemon curd thanks David!).
There is honesty nothing more important than expressing care and consideration for one another in everything you do.
I’m so super grateful to have an amazing community of people around me who understand the positive impact of partnership work, instantly coming together to empower all who come into contact with the pop-up clinics. As the African proverb states: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”.
You are truly appreciated Jagan, Parissé, Zoinul, Nadia, Sarah, Rachel, Almu, Emma, Alina, Charles & the Thames View Hub team, along with the Aurora team and Barking Riverside Limited.
The next drop-in session will be in January. We’ll post more information here as soon as it’s confirmed.
Newly elected Labour Councillor Lucy Lee was featured in the latest edition of The River View, a grassroots community newspaper.
The paper explained: “For Lucy, the decision to stand wasn’t a long-held ambition but rather the result of local encouragement. “I hadn’t thought about becoming a councillor until a residentsuggested it,”she explained during our interview. “At first, I was taken aback, even uncomfortable with the title. But the more I reflected, the more I realised that if we want better decisions, we need people who listen and understand our community at the table.”
You can read the full story here, including more information about Lucy’s campaign for better access to GP appointments in Thames View and rebuilding pride in the area.
Local news and local journalism is more important now than ever. We commend those volunteering to support this excellent local newspaper.
Barking Riverside Limited have now partnered with Barking Reach Resident Association (BRRA), providing funding to help transform Riverside News into a sustainable resident-led newspaper. Find out more and read the latest newsletter on the website.
Thank you to everyone who supported Lucy Lee in yesterday’s by-election.
On willing the by-election in Thames View, Barking and Dagenham Labour’s newest Councillor, Lucy See said:
“I will work hard to uphold the trust you’ve placed in me.”
Lucy will work hard along side existing Labour Councillor Sabbir Zamee to represent everyone across Thames View.
If you need help from either Lucy or Sabbir, click ‘surgery details’ above to find out where Labour Councillors hold surgeries for local residents, and how to contact them.
Labour Campaign teams have been out right across Thames View in support of our candidate Lucy Lee. If we missed you, we’ll have left a leaflet. Please do get in contact if there’s anything we can help with.
Labour Teams were out again this week speaking to residents in Thames View. We have a strong Labour Team in Thames View working hard for all residents.
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