Both the blog (www.blog.anthonymckeown.info) and my website (www.anthonymckeown.info) have received a little bit of a facelift to hopefully tidy things up and make them look a little bit better. However a slight side effect of this, is that for the next few days at least (possible longer if things are busy) a number of the ‘older’ bits […]
Census forms are now starting to drop through letter boxes on the estate. If you’ve received your form and need some help filling it in, there’s an event (as per the details below) being run at the Geoffrey Allen Centre on Tuesday 22nd March.
This Saturday (12th March) from 9.00am until 10.00am in the Gamesley Residents Association Office on Winster Mews, sees this months Councillor’s Surgery.We’ve not set a theme as such for this month’s, but if you have an issue you want to raise, or even if you just want to call in and say hello, why not […]
I don’t often comment on planning issues, as they tend not to arise too often with the ward, but one from Whaley Bridge that is due to go before the next planning committee has caught my eye and not necessarily in a good way. The application in question is HPK/2010/0289 with regards to the replacement of railway […]
Well not quite – at least I hope not, but with all the speculation around what route and where a new high speed line between the north and south should go, it was nice to see a reminder of the past power for high speed rail, whilst travelling through Milton Keynes on Saturday.
Today saw a trip down to London, to observe and take part in the proceedings at the Labour Local Government Conference. Amongst the speakers, (as pictured left) was Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party. A more detailed report from today’s event will follow in the mornings as its being a fairly long day […]
This coming Wednesday (9th March) sees the next meeting of the Gamesley and Charlesworth Safer Neighbourhood Team, starting at 1.30pm in the Gamesley Residents Association Office on Winster Mews.Amongst other things the meeting gives local residents an opportunity to meet with the local police and discuss issues in the area along with an opportunity for setting […]
Given the talk before the last general election of saving the ‘Post Office’, I hope the that the details reported in the Guardian of the Post Office losing the contract from the department of works and pensions to cash ‘giros’ in the Post Office will be reviewed and reconsidered. This contract which the Unite union […]
In addition to consideration of issues around the budget, the full council considered a number of other issues, starting off with two questions from members of the council one around concerns over lobbying by developers on planning applications, the other around New Mills Town Council. Following on from that were four recommendations from the council’s […]
Tonight saw a meeting of the full council to effectively finish off this years budget process with the approval of the council’s budget process. As is traditional at the budget meeting, a certain amount of the debate is one side calling the other, which is not entirely productive when national issues are flagged, but it […]