Last night (Wednesday) saw the first since the elections and the annual meeting of High Peak Borough Council. The first item to be considered at the annual council 2019 was the election of the chair of the council and Mayor of the High Peak for the forthcoming year, and I was proud and privileged to […]
High Peak Local Plan Adoption : Last night (Thursday 14th April) saw an extraordinary meeting of the full council, to consider and once considered adopt the local plan. As can be seen by clicking here, the report on the council’s website for the meeting stretches to 582 pages, and includes the local plan and the […]
The Local Government Boundary Commission is currently carrying out a review of ward boundaries within the High Peak with the aim of delivering ‘electoral equality’ for voters in future local elections. The overall aim of the review is to recommend ward boundaries that mean each councillor represents approximately the same number of electors. At present, (since their last review in 1998) there are some areas of the […]
This evening (14th May) has seen this year’s Annual Council and Mayor making, along with a normal meeting of full council to ‘finish off’ the previous ‘council year’ and as opposed to the other recent meetings which have featured issues around the local plan, it was a slightly quieter gathering. You can view the agenda […]
Well, whilst possible not quite as exciting as Monday Night Football, last night in the alternative venue (as opposed to the norm) of Buxton’s Pavilion Garden’s a meeting of the full council took place. The main purpose of the meeting was around setting the council’s budget for the forthcoming year, but it also considered one […]
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 […]