Last night saw a meeting of the Development Plan Select Committee, which amongst the various items on the agenda received a report from the consultants working on the Development Plan for the Wood’s Mill Area. The presentation suggested four options, along with a preferred option combining parts of some of the others, which would see […]
Entries for Gamesley’s Christmas Light’s Competition close on Wednesday 13th December, prizes are available for the best-dressed house, along with a prize for ‘a area improvement’ for the best-dressed street.
Thursday 14th December, from 5.30pm until 8.30pm will see this year’s Gamesley Christmas Market, taking place outside the shops on Winster Mews. Lisa, Mandy, Sue and the team have put together a fun packed evening, with carol singing, market stalls, Christmas band, Santa’s Grotto, Christmas lights switch on and much much more, come along and […]
Gamesley’s first team bounced back from last week’s cup defeat with a 5 – 0 win, against Poynton. No game for the reserves whose Reserve Division Cup match was postponed.
Many thanks to all the local residents who attended this morning’s councillor’s surgery and took away some energy saving light bulbs, for any who missed out I hope to have some more shortly.
Following a lengthy consultation process, the Joint Committee of Primary Health Care Trusts decided at it meeting last Friday to keep baby services at Tameside Hospital, with neonatal intensive care units been concentrated at St Mary’s, Manchester, the Royal Bolton and Royal Oldham Hospitals. This matches up with option A of the consultation process, which […]
On Thursday the Glossopdale Area Forum took place, with the main topic of discussion been health, and in particular the plans of the Tameside and Glossop PCT to build a Primary Care Centre in Glossop. The centre which is intended to replace the existing clinic at George Street in Glossop, will provide a whole range […]
Wednesday saw a meeting of the Governors at St Margaret’s school, not much to report, with most issue’s moving along steadily – good news though on exam performances. Attendance at the school so far this ‘year’ is good, with expectation high that the 94 % attendance target will be met. Some concern’s over what the […]
As part of my ‘normal’ work, I receive a regular newsletter from the HSE (Health and Safety Executive), which this week included an item about today (Tuesday) been the launch date of the UK’s first Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week. The ‘campaign’, which is being launched at the House of Commons today, and will run until […]
Monday night saw a meeting of the Environment Select committee, an interesting meeting, covering the following: land pollution, gambling act, micro-generation, waste strategy, and a report on the ‘beacon status’ year. Of particular interest was a ‘update’ report on the ‘Binnovation’ scheme. This saw all the Glossopdale members present, including myself raising concern’s other how […]