Unfortunately I didn’t get to last weeks Corporate Select Committee, but the executive meeting that will consider the deliberation made including a recommendation from the controlling group’s members of the committee for the council tax rise to be only 2.5% instead of the recommended 3 % As well as considering the council tax rate, the […]
High Peak Community Housing was a bit of a theme last week, with the monthly board meeting on the Wednesday, and a board away day on the Friday. As flagged up previously the board meeting considered a range of reports including updates on finance and performance, the management agreement, the impact of the credit crunch, […]
Last Saturday morning (31st January) saw a trip to Tesco’s, for Tom Levitt’s monthly surgery. As is quite often the case it was a busy morning for Tom with at times a queue of people waiting ! The reason for flagging this up, was for a meeting that took place at the end of the […]
Not far to go for this months Labour Party meeting which took place on Gamesley in the Gamesley Sport and Community Centre. We had a packed agenda which included discussion around prescription charges, royal mail and the current situation in Gaza, along with the usual items and regular reports. The discussion on prescription charges stemmed […]
Originally scheduled to take place last year, but now rearranged to take place on Thursday 12th February will be a public meeting organised by Tameside Hospital to discuss local residents ideas and concerns around improving services at the hospital. The meeting which starts at 6.30pm but will be preceded by a display on the new […]
The Department for Transport have just started on a consultation exercise around the theme of improving access to taxis. The consultation document is asking for views on improving access to taxis because of anecdotal evidence that there is not enough access to taxis for disabled people especially outside of London, and that the limited access […]
This Saturday (7th February) sees the High Peak Stop the War Coalition presents Mohammed Alatar’s 2006 documentary film about Palestine, The Iron Wall, at the Central Methodist Church in Chapel Street, Glossop. The event starts at 7.30pm and the film will be introduced by Tom Levitt MP, there is no cost for attending the event […]
This year’s fair-trade fortnight runs from Monday 23rd February until Sunday 8th March. As in previous years there will be a range of events running to highlight the campaign, including I hope a number of local events. Closer to the date, I hope to be able to give a round up of events taking place, […]
Last Saturday (31st January) saw the first team draw 3 all away to Linotype/Cheadle HN, however unfortunately the reserves who were playing the reserve side of the first team opposition didn’t have the same luck losing 2 – 1. This coming week sees a Wednesday evening mid week game for the first team away to […]
Next Wednesday (4th February) sees an extra meeting of the EnvironmentSelect Committee, to consider reports on the partnership the council istrying to establish with the police to enable PCSO's to be able to issuesfines for some 'environmental' crimes such as dog fouling, along with areport on the performance of Veolia who run the waste and […]