Category: Weekly Updates
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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 place shaping mechanism. This week we were…
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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 why we have councillors on the committee;…
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Weekly Update 9th May 2011
Election over – now back to those issues The Lostock neighbourhood is suffering a resurgance 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 it’s due to an inability to fix…
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Weekly update 11th April 2011
Less than 4 weeks to go until Polling Day and the Lib Dems try to reinvent themselves for third time in 12 months Just 12 months ago the Liberal Democrats were coming out of the first TV debate on a high with Nick Clegg proudly proclaiming that he was heralding a new cleaner more honest…
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Weekly Update 4th April 2011
Nomination in – Campaigning begins As we enter the election period, council meetings will become less frequent. So it’ll be a time to compare the records of the various parties in Trafford and give a verdict on this Conservative Government. I enjoy elections. Too many issues affecting our day to day lives are taken by…
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Weekly Update 28th March 2011
Computers! I can’t believe how much problems I’m having with computers at the moment. I’m hit with a perfect storm of old PC packing up, new PC failing after a week and being returned to manufacturer, Virgin Media revamping their webmail and hiding all my emails; and now the PC is returned from its maker…