A petition started last week by locals at the Gamesley Residents Association has lead to a meeting that is taking place today (Tuesday) between the GRA and Mark Ford at High Peak Community Housing. The petition was started following concerns been raised over delays to repairs and problem in some cases with getting repairs done, […]

Gamesley Station Originally uploaded by AnthonyMck. Also flagged up during the question and answer session at the area forum was the continued need for the Gamesley Station. The proposals for the station are included within the saved policies from the local plan which were approved by the recent full council meeting, and were flagged up […]

Last Thursday evening saw a meeting of the Glossopdale Area Forum take place at the Glossop site of the Glossopdale Community College. The theme for the evening was around the Shaping the future of the High Peak Consultation that is currently going on. The Shaping the future consultation is basically looking at the plans and […]

Next week sees the May half term holidays and as with other periods ofschool holidays the Sport and Community Centre in partnership with variousother agencies on the estate has a packed week of activities plannedincluding DJ workshops and football coaching for 2-4 year olds. For further details on activities taking place on Gamesley please pick […]

Since last week, both myself and the other Cllr Mckeown have received a number of calls, comments and complaints about the recent grass cutting or rather lack of grass cutting done on the other side of ring road around the estate. After checking with the parks section, the edge of the ring road / around […]

The first teams last game of the season finished in a 5 – 3 home win for Gamesley who were playing against Linotype/Cheadle HN meaning a 12th place finish in the league for this season. The reserves finished there season with mixed news for the final two games, starting with a 3 – 2 win […]

Following on from the normal full council meeting was the annual council meeting, as expected despite strong opposition from both Labour and Liberal Democrat members of the Council Robin Baldry was elected as Mayor of the Borough for the forthcoming year. One of the reasons for those concerns was around how people view the role […]

Last Tuesday evening saw a meeting of the full council, well two in fact an ‘ordinary’ one and the annual meeting. The ordinary meeting considered amongst other items a number of recommendations that have previously been through the select committees and executive including the asset management plan, pay and workforce development strategy, street trading consents […]

Last Thursday evening saw the annual general meeting of the Labour Group onthe borough council. No changes to any of the officer posts with the group been happy to continuewith Caitlin Bisknell from Buxton as group leader and Glossop's JacquiWilkinson as deputy leader. Committee places were also reviewed with the group deciding that on thewhole […]

Last Wednesday's as highlighted last week saw a meeting of the local actiongroup. The presentations from the Councils Enforcement Officer and the manager ofthe dog warden service were informative with one important issue beenhighlighted during both talks. That issue was that in order to make sure resources are targeted at theright place, locals need to […]