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Weekly Update
Quite a light week for meetings. Planning committee met on Thursday with a comparatively light agenda, but that was my only obligatory meeting. We had our monthly advice surgery on the 5th. Since I won’t be standing for re-election next May (2026), potential replacements are proactively getting involved…
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Creating a Buzz
Carolyn Mason is a resident in Lostock. She’s working on a project to repopulate wild bees in urban areas. Planbees.co.uk supplies small boxes of ‘bloom bombs’ that are filled with UK wildflower seeds which are all especially attractive and useful specifically to wild bees. Carolyn is hoping to provide…
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Community, Council, Environment, One Trafford, Police, Roads, Trafford Council, Uncategorized, walkabilityScrutinised: Highway Spend
A notable scrutiny meeting took place on the 12th March looking at some of the issues that most exercise residents: It was the Scrutiny Committee’s attempt at clarity and transparency in the prioritisation of interventions on a limited budget. I think the scrutiny committee made some progress. The…
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This is not the way to do it! (welfare reform)
Reform is needed. The number of people on benefits due to ill health has increased exponentially. Long waiting times within the NHS are contributing to this, but they aren’t the whole story. The government has clearly determined that financial incentives to be ‘on the sick’ rather than unemployed…
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Sad Passing – John Reilly
He always told me that signing off the installation of cycle lanes and ‘wands’ on Talbot Road went against his better judgement. Whatever the truth of this, he had a habit of installing cycling infrastructure that has stood the test of time. I always enjoyed working with John.…
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Close to water?
In which I look at what makes a town work and why Stretford has waterfront opportunities that it shouldn’t waste. I don’t want to lie on a beach. I don’t want to swim. Give me a town or small city that I can potter around in, and I’ll…