Monday 7th November Labour Group Meeting – Anti Social Behaviour Report Then quite a long meeting preparing for the budget. Tuesday 8th November Listened to Kwame Anthony Appiah’s lecture on Radio 4, or to be really honest, the radio was on in the background, while I did some…

Monday 31st October Escalated Casework on the Dane Road lift. It’s not helped that Metrolink is down again. I’ve moved the enquiry up a level. Hopefully I’ll get somewhere with this. Checked the planning application for Station Road. The consultation period closes 14/11/2016. I think what I need…

Monday 24th October Progressed a couple of pieces of Casework on the lift at Dane Road, it’s still not working and I’ve reported it; and the cycleway at the bottom of Moss Road – schedule for a visit by the sweeper this week. A colleague relayed the circumstances…

Summary of a week’s activity as councillor.

Rugby League has a long standing reputation as a family orientated spectator sport. The experiences that Gorse Hill residents have relayed to me following last week’s Grand Final between Wigan and Warrington at Old Trafford suggest that things have slipped. Football fans, we’re used to. It’s never an…

Why would anyone think that placing a parking space that can only be accessed via the dropped kerb of a pedestrian crossing is a good idea? Imagine school children at the crossing and a car is reversing back into the road from behind. It’s ridiculous. I’m pushing council…