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Council Meeting 23rd Jan 2013
Full Council – a little background Full council meets once every two months or so. At this time of the year it’s a little more often, because it’s the time of setting budgets. The full council meeting perhaps surprisingly, is not a major part of the councillor’s workload.…
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Response from Cllr Mike Cordingley to New Health Deal for Trafford Consultation
Below is my response to the consultation.Closing date is 31st October 5pm.You can complete the consultation online.I urge you to do so.It’s vital that the views of residents in Gorse Hill Ward are taken into account. Do you support our long-term vision for an Integrated care system…
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Don’t look at Trafford General in Isolation
Councils back Kate Green MP in critique of Trafford’s Health Plans Manchester has become the latest body to question whether the plans to downgrade A&E at Trafford General are viable without the assurance of investment in other services across the region. Most significantly, the City Council’s Health Scrutiny…
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Weekly Update 30/7/2012 –
Tuesday Meeting to discuss Gorse Hill priorities on the Councils ward profile Meeting of Urmston’s Community Panel of Trafford Housing Trust. These panels distributed £0.75m across the borough last year and so are probably the biggest and most accessible funders of local community projects. The Urmston panel covers…
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Weekly Update 30/7/2012 – Executive Meeting – chapter four (Council Tax Benefit)
Council Tax Support The Government is abolishing Council Tax Benefit and delegating responsibility to Councils to support the poorest. Problem is that they’re not funding a replication of the existing scheme. Instead they’re making arbitrary cuts of 12%. They’re protecting pensioners but in some ways that makes it…
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Weekly Update 30/7/2012 – Executive Meeting – chapter three (Community Infrastructure Levy)
Community Infrastruture Levy When major housing or retail developments are built, it often places a burden on Council’s to support the development with infrastructure. The classic example is extra classrooms in a school when a development increases the school age population. Currently developers have been expected to make…