Flytipping off Castlehey
Thursday, July 22nd, 2004On passing Castlehey last Sunday there was a fridge, sun-bed and other odds and sods left on the corner of the road.
After a meeting with the officers in charge of waste collection, it seems that there are skips that go out every two weeks where this stuff could have been taken. There’s absolutely no need [...]
Bench in front of Co-op
Thursday, July 22nd, 2004I understand the bench in front of the co-op has been replaced. It takes so long to get these things through, it’s unbelievable. But it’ssorted now. If I get the chance I’ll get some pictures of it.
Elections, results and public service
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004The past couple of months have been tied up with elections and all the hullabaloo that goes with it. In the end the results were bitterly disappointing, but not as bad as in neighbouring areas. Although it feels nice to say that we did OK comparatively, the idea of another two years in opposition doesn’t [...]
Cycle of elections
Friday, February 27th, 2004In writing the last entry, I noticed this report on the Electoral commission website. It looks like they’re proposing all-out, four yearly elections for all local elections.
I used to be very much against the four yearly elections. There is always the possibility of winning back control of a council if there are elections each year. [...]
Postal votes in the North West
Thursday, February 26th, 2004The house of lords voted to remove the North West from the list of trial regions in June.
The reasons given range from the risk of fraud to the fact that ballot papers are sent out a couple of weeks before election day, apparently before people have made up their mind. Mainly the excuse seems to [...]
Budget differences
Thursday, February 26th, 2004What should the budget be for? Cllr Owens at the district budget last night said that it shouldn’t be about throwing money at people – a reference to details in the Labour budget that he clearly knew was coming.
Both budgets were clearly written with one eye on the election in June (perhaps even both eyes). [...]
Boundary Survey
Monday, February 16th, 2004In the end I received 29 responses to the survey. I delivered around 600 letters, so that represents approx 0.5% response. Of course, more would have been better, but I’ll send a note to the committee with details of these responses.
13 were returned by post, and 14 were returned by email or through the webpage [...]
Boundary Changes – Survey closed
Sunday, February 15th, 2004I’ve turned off the boundary change survey and removed the link. I had a few submissions, though not as many as I’d hoped (I’ll put up the results tomorrow when I sort them out). It was unfortunate that I basically had to stop putting out the letters, since I think that Parish Councillors should be [...]
It’s all been very quiet
Sunday, February 15th, 2004I’ve been off for two weeks after having a small operation on my nose! (a septoplasty). Time spent writing leaflets and trying to get the boundary submission written… which I haven’t even nearly done yet. I guess it’s back to business here in the run up to the budgets, elections, right to manage and greenbelt [...]
Assembly meeting
Saturday, January 31st, 2004Nothing much of interest happened at the meeting in the end. We got out our leaflets trying to put across the Labour position on the boundary changes. However, the surprising thing was that there weren’t actually that many people there.
I had printed 600 leaflets thinking that there would be more people in the Civic [...]
