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Concerts at Manchester United
At Thursday’s Planning Committee Gorse Hill Councillors Mike Cordingley and Dave Acton spoke passionately for residents against a proposal to host rock/pop concerts at Manchester United between the end of May and end of June each year. United propose to host up to 7 concerts each year in…
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Planning Alerts. com
You may have read in the press that Royal Mail has issued an injunction against a company that supplies post codes to Planning Alerts. See link. Whilst this hasn’t affected the feeds coming from Planning Alerts to our site as they are are longitude/latitude based, it does look…
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Sports Led Regeneration of Old Trafford Cricket Ground and Environs – Open letter to Consultation and Trafford Leisure Trust
Bernie Jones, Chief Executive Trafford Leisure trust Following attendance at the neighbourhood forum consutation event on the Old Trafford regeneration, I wanted to put into writing my concern about the absence of Trafford Leisure Trust as a key proactive partner in this project. The project is a key…
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Digital Switchover
I went to the digital switchover event on Tuesday night for councillors and officers. I can’t add to the publicity in terms of what to do to switch over but there was one particularly relevant advice. Apparently, when the analogue service is terminated, the digital signal used by…
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Tesco Megastore
Tonight’s neighbourhood forum was a bit of a shock. It was arranged at short notice to discuss the cricket ground renewal. As such, residents were invited from Great Stone Road and Talbot Road nearest to the cricket ground. Gorse Hill residents from the opposite side of Chester Road…
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Public Schools – Elitist, Exclusive and Exempt
The Tory loyalists have got themselves into a lather at Conservative Home. The charity commission have had the downright cheek to threaten removing the charitable status of two public schools: St Anselm’s in Bakewell and Highfield Priory in Preston. The Preston school does not provide any bursaries; its only…