Wednesday is the first of the Gamesley estate walkabout’s which are been done by Lara Ford the Gamesley Estate Co-ordinator, and Dave Burrows one of the Caretakers from High Peak Community Housing. The Walkabouts have been introduced by the Company to look at improving involvement of residents in how our area’s are managed, and will […]

Any resident’s that have seen this weeks (Thursday 19th October) Buxton Advertiser, will have been concerned to see the front page headline of “we lost plot over repairs”. The article, which reports overspends of £200,000 on general repairs, and £450,000 on the kitchen and bathroom replacement programme make grim reading, however the company advise that […]

If you are travelling by train in the next few days, please be aware that due to a fire Guide Bridge station will be closed. Further details are available here, and although there has been a bus ‘replacement’ service today, they expect to have a normal (except for stopping at Guide Bridge Station) service in […]

Friday night saw this year Mayoral Reception take place at Buxton’s Pavilion Garden’s. The ‘do’ which takes the form of a sit down meal, is a bit expensive at £20 + a ticket plus your travel, but is always worth attending to show support for whoever the current Mayor is. Anyway for Friday’s event I […]

Tuesday saw a meeting of the development plan select at the council offices in Chinley. The main item on the agenda was a presentation from members of the High Peak branch of Friends of the Earth on why the council should have a ‘prescriptive energy policy’ for new builds and any major redevelopment’s / conversions. […]

Although Monday, involved a day off work, it started quite well with interviews at the HQ of the Tameside and Glossop PCT in Denton for the practice that will take over the running of the dental service from the clinic. One of the candidate’s had put together a good submission prior to the interviews, performed […]

Residents in the Hurdlow area have today been receiving letter’s advising them of changes to the plans for the current planning application on Hurdlow. I am advised by the planning officers that the changes to plans are ‘relatively’ minor, and are not sufficiently different to alter either the report to the development control committee, or […]

Despite several members (including the other Councillor Mckeown) not been able to take part in the discussion, last nights Corporate Select Committee considered the report on disposal of land for the two housing schemes. Despite a lengthy speech from me, objecting to the two proposals and listing many of the reasons why we are objecting […]

Even, if you have signed the petition against the housing schemes, please consider making an additional objection, click here for details on how to. Additional if you have not yet objected to the planning application for Hurdlow, please consider objecting, again click here for details on how to.

Due to slight technical problems, there has been a slight delay on the updated information for objecting to the housing schemes. I am hoping the ‘problems’, will be resolved shortly and the information will be available on this site before the end of the weekend.