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Big Society – Is there a golden core?
The Chief Executive of Trafford Housing Trust, Matthew Gardiner has written on his blog of his hopes for the Government’s Big Society programme. Matthew is not someone normally associated with political eulogising, so his words are interesting. He writes; if The Big Society is about reversing that trend…
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Trafford’s Budget 2011/12
Trafford Council are implementing huge cuts to their budget despite being sheltered from the worst of reductions in Government Funding compared to the most deprived areas like Manchester and Salford. The Conservative draft budget shows savage cuts to all service areas. At the same time, the numbers of…
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Weekly Update 14th February 2011
Monday Lostock Residents and Tenants Association Meeting. I was sad to learn that Roy Jolly is standing down from his role as chair of the Tenants Association. It’s going to be a loss to Lostock; he’s made the residents and tenants meeting into a vital forum for anything…
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Weekly Update 6th February 2011
Monday Attended Stretford Neighbourhood Forum. Long presentation justifying the budget choices as representative of the citizens’ choices in the consultation. It still is a rather contrived argument given the choices that were presented to the public. The public do not not like the council giving away £21m to…
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Stretford Neighbourhood Police Team – Commentary on January Performance from Insp Sutcliffe
Dear All, It’s February already and it only seems a couple of weeks ago that we were in the middle of the Christmas festivities!!!! January has been and gone and with it, a little bit of a mixed bag in relation to crime within the area. The vast…
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Stretford Neighbourhood Police Team – Latest Quarterly Performance
I’ve received the latest quarterly performance from Trafford’s police team. The performance from the Stretford team is particularly striking. Well done to Andy Sutcliffe and all the men and women who’ve made a real difference. Commentary: We have reduced crime in all areas compared to last year, resulting…