Have your say on proposed changes to recycling centres : Derbyshire County Council is consulting on making some changes at the nine household waste recycling centres or tip’s as some may call them, the nearest of which is on Melandra Road, just off the A57 at Brookfield. The consultation focuses on the following three proposals […]
Small Electric Items Recycling Event : High Peak Borough Council have introduced a new service for the collection and recycling of small items such as kettles and radios. To help kick-start the new collections there are two events taking place for people to dispose of electrical equipment for recycling or reuse, with the first of […]
New Glossop Library Plans : Derbyshire County Council are currently running a consultation so residents can see the plans and architects’ drawings for the new / relocated Glossop Library. The proposal is to move the library from its current location to a new build within / connected to the nearby Glossop Adult Education Centre. You […]
Gamesley Christmas 2015 – Buses, bins and other info – listed below are details for Gamesley local services during the Christmas period – if you think there’s anything missing or you have useful details to add, please get in touch. Local Buses Christmas Eve 394 – Glossop to Stepping Hill – Normal Service 341 – […]
#Ourday #Housingday 2015 ; On Wednesday 18th November, council’s from across the country, that have responsibility for the hundreds of vital local services, will be aiming to bring them to in 140 characters when councillors and staff take part in a tweetathon. #OurDay has been organised by the Local Government Association, which represents more than […]
This coming Saturday morning (26th September) morning will see this months ‘Councillors Shoppers Surgery’, and it’s not just any old surgery this month it’s also our 4th anniversary since starting the ‘Shoppers Surgeries’ back in 2011. The idea behind the ‘Shoppers Surgery’ is to bring together a number of local councillors from across Glossopdale to […]
To help keep you up to date on local services in bad weather, I’ve added a ‘Service Updates in Bad Weather‘ page, which draws together any information that I’m able to advise on local services, along with two sets of twitter updates – one showing information from local bus and train companies, the other showing […]
A quick summary catch up post on some of the things that have taken place since my last post. First up is the February full council meeting, which took place on the last day of February, which in addition to the usual budget processes and council tax setting, also saw the council take the […]
If you’ve read the public notices section of either the Glossop Chronicle or Buxton Advertiser this week, you will have seen the notice on the left around dog control orders. As folk may recall from last year, consideration was given to introducing ‘Dog Control Orders’, and whilst it resolved that for the most controversial element of these […]
From the 1st April this year, ‘public health’ will return to local government, as it once was in years gone, and to some extent at least in Victorian time the very reason for local government to exist in the first place, with those early works to stop the spread of diseases such as cholera by […]