Congratulations to the Friends of Glossop Station who have won first prize for the best station adoption group in the ACORP (Association of Community Rail Partnerships) Community Rail Awards 2009. The award which was annouced at a glitzy cereomony in Carlisle yesterday, saw Glossop take the award due to there continuing efforts to bring a […]
Have to say that I agree with the view that is been attributed to Ming Campbell by the IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) that all government ministers should have to go through confirmation hearings by parliamentary select committee’s in a similar way to the confirmation hearing process run by the American Senate and House […]
This Saturday sees the second and final councillor’s surgery during the housing growth options consultation. As with our normal surgery it will take place from 11.00am until 12.00noon at the Gamesley Residents Association Office on Winster Mews. As with the previous surgery, the main focus is on the current housing growth options consultation that is […]
As part of the effort’s to return to work following my redundancy earlier in the summer, I was required to attend a back to work session recently. Initially and I’m not quite sure why, I had the vision of some of the job club scenes from the league of gentleman, but thankfully it was nothing […]
Last Friday afternoon saw a walkabout on the estate with the alliances new head of housing Ian Young. Mr Young is one of the new raft of managers following the management restructure that took place over the summer, and is from a more traditional housing background, than the manager that previously held the overview for […]
A variety of meetings coming up this week, starting off with tonight’s (22/9) full council meeting which will consider a motion from the Conservatives on how wonderful everything is with the alliance, along with appointing the new deputy mayor. The meeting will also consider a lengthy confidential report around the joint senior management restructure that […]
Last Thursday also saw the inaugural meeting of the waste and recycling subcommittee. The committee will be looking to help develop the council’s waste strategy for the period up to 2015, in addition the committee will also be having a partial review of how well the current system of boxes and bins is working and […]
Last Thursday evening saw a meeting of the audit and regulatory committee amongst the items considered were the annual governance report from the audit commission, along with reports on international financial reporting standards, freedom of information, annual internal audit report and risk management. As I have done previously I expressed my concerns to the audit […]
As noted earlier this past weekend the local police have been busy completing surveys on local people’s views on crime and disorder issues. For the two sessions that took place on the estate they seemed to be a steady flow of locals who were nabbed for the questionnaire, and I understand from talking to the […]
Last Friday saw the Heritage Centre and Tourist Information Centre in Glossop close their doors for the last time at their Henry Street base. I think overall this is a shame, and that the council response whilst welcome in terms of looking at a review of ‘visitor services’ across Glossopdale dose appear to be slightly […]