Although we’re part into the week already, this week sees a variety of meetings coming up. Yesterday (Monday) saw a meeting of the Councillor support and development group, which looks at the training needs of councillors. Today (Tuesday) sees a meeting of the housing options group looking at the future management of council housing in […]
Tomorrow (18th October) will see Credit Unions across the world celebrating International Credit Union Day. Every year, on the third Thursday of October since 1948, credit unions have celebrated their unique way of banking and this year they are celebrating their members, with the theme: ‘Members Matter Most.’ “In the face of all challenges, credit […]
This coming Saturday from 9.00am until 10.30am, there will be an extra councillor’s surgery, at the GRA Office on Winster Mews, Gamesley. The main aim of the surgery will be to provide information and collect views on the council’s Local Plan options consultation which has been running since early September and comes to a close […]
Blog Action Day was first started in 2007 and it has a purpose of bringing together bloggers from different countries and interests, to blog about one important issue on the same day. The hope is that by blogging about the same issue, on the same day, from their own perspectives, the blogging community will focus […]
Last Wednesday (10th October) afternoon saw the most recent meeting of the Gamesley and St John’s Safer Neighbourhood Team. In terms of priorities the current one around drugs issues was withdrawn, but the one on burglaries and metal thefts will be continued. One particular issue was raised around getting intelligence, with option of people reporting […]
Tuesday starts off looking at affordable housing development issues, followed by a meeting of the council’s corporate select committee, (the agenda for which can be viewed by clicking here) along with at the same time (6.30 till 7.30pm) in Glossop’s Bradbury House a public meeting for Glossop and Longdendale public members of the Tameside Hospital […]
The Ambulance Service in both Glossopdale and the High Peak is under threat, the East Midlands Ambulance Service due to the cuts and the North West Ambulance Service because of the ‘privatisation’ agenda of the current Government. Although on the face of it, the East Midlands Ambulance Service changes won’t affect folk in Glossopdale as […]
Last Monday (8th October) saw a meeting of the council’s Community select committee, in Glossop’s Municipal Buildings. Although not originally first on the agenda, the meeting was quite well attended by members of the public with a particular interest in the item on Dog Control Order’s, so the agenda was tweaked to get that item […]
On Friday evening (5th October) the council held a civic reception to celebrate and honour, both local residents who had taken part in both the Olympics and Paralympics and the volunteers who had contributed to both the events inLondon and the torch procession through Buxton earlier in the summer. The reception also doubled up as […]
Locals who viewed the Derbyshire County Council website on Friday (5th October) will have seen an announcement entitled “Plans for new library in Glossop announced”, which sets out the latest plan from the county council for a new library in the centre of Glossop. You can view the details of the announcement by clicking here, […]