Tonight (Tuesday) sees a meeting of the Environment Select Committee which unfortunately due to another commitment I will miss, items for consideration are reports on transition Buxton, national indicators on Climate Change and Fuel Poverty, tree strategy, and update on Waste and Recycling and the review of the Council's Environment Statement. Wednesday sees an event […]
As will no doubt be covered extensively in the press this week, last Thursday evening's meeting of the corporate select and executive have resulted in a decision to sell the council's current site at Chinley, and push for improvements at both Glossop and Buxton. Now whilst I can agree with many of the reasons outlined […]
As well as St Margaret's school fair on the Saturday, Friday night sees the St Charles school fair on one side of Glossop and Simmondley School on the other. Now whilst in a sense each school is in its own area of Glossopdale and won't attract people from across Glossop, you would think that given […]
This Saturday from 10.00am until 2.00pm is the summer fair for St Margaret's school. As well as all the traditional summer fair items, they are also having a car boot sale running alongside the school fair.
This week (15th to 21st June) is Men's Health Week which sees a series ofevents up to and including Father Day with the aim of heightening awarenessof preventable health problems and encouraging the treatment of theseproblems. In previous years, events have been held locally around the issue, but sofar this year I'm unaware of any […]
This week (as flagged up by a friend on Facebook) is Refugee Week a week of events organised by the refugee week partnership to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK. The refugee week partnership is made up of a whole group of bodies including Amnesty International UK, British Road Cross, the Children's Society […]
This coming weekend starting with the annual general meeting on Friday 19th June at 8.30pm sees a series of events to celebrate a £200,000 renovation of the Glossop Labour Club. The events continue on the Satuday (20th June) with a barbecue with the Powderkegs border morris dancers from 2.00pm and the Clarion Choir from Nottingham […]
Many locals will have seen flagged up on the news yesterday details of a report by ATOC who are the association of train operating companies, about the need for expansion of the rail system by the restoration of lines lost since the time of Beeching, along with around 40 new stations. Now whilst unfortunately our […]
Thursday evening sees a meeting of the Corporate Select followed by a meeting of the council's executive. The two meeting will consider reports on property services and the customer first project and whilst due to the items under discussion been 'part 2' and confidential I can't go into that much detail I think the effects […]
Last Friday afternoon (12th June) saw a ceremony to mark the signing of the10 year management agreement between High Peak Community Housing and thecouncil to continue to manage the council's housing stock in the HighPeak. The new agreement which I hope will allow a fuller partnership between theCouncil and the company will continue to improve […]