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Weekly Update 23rd May 2011
Planning – don’t you just despair? part two Last week I was criticising the craven compliance towards officers and the politically blessed that meant our planning system in this country still owed more to medieval petitions from commoners to the Dukes and Duchesses than it did an objective…
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Weekly Update 16th May 2011 (more of a gripe this week)
Planning – don’t you just despair? There’s something about planning committee that just grates with me. Maybe it’s the faux inclusivity and bonhommie, maybe it’s the fake veneer of non-political objectivity. Every cell of the body of every councillor on every planning committee is by definition ‘political’. It’s…
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Kate Green’s Blog
Kate Green publishes a weekly blog at www.kategreen.org Here’s her latest update This was the week in parliament when the cracks between the Tories and the LibDems really began to show. Tory gloating following last week’s truly terrible election results for the LibDems has blown apart the love-in…
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Weekly Update 9th May 2011
Election over – now back to those issues The Lostock neighbourhood is suffering a resurgence of youth nuisance. Partly it’s as a consequence of the hot weather, partly it’s due to design faults in the new development that we were well aware of before it was built, partly…
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Grateful Thanks for Your Support
Firstly, thank you for voting me as your councillor for a second term. I’m chuffed to bits to have got so much support; it’s a huge privilege. Overall it was an ‘ok’ night in Trafford for Labour without making a massive breakthrough in seats. We just gained the…
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Kate Green pursues answers on Trafford General – Tory minister calls for chauffeur
Kate Green is working hard in Parliament to get assurances from health ministers over health provision in Manchester. Unfortunately, the Conservative minister they’ve allocated the task to is Simon Burns. This is a minister who in 9 months has already cost the taxpayer £41,000 in chauffeur (so tory!!)…