Waltham Forest’s competitive edge

By Martin Esom | 24 July 2023

With just a few days to go before my retirement, I’ve had a little time to look back on a local government career spanning some 40 years, the last 13 of them at the helm of Waltham Forest LBC.

It’s interesting when you take a longer view – away from the day to day demands of council work – patterns emerge that, on the face of it, may have appeared at the time to have been isolated decisions.

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