Old postings
Monday, August 21st, 2006I finally sorted out the old postings from 2004 and 2005. These had been lost because the database on the old site had broken – in the end they just needed a “repair table”, but it wasn’t a top priority!
Some of the early messages relate to Up Holland when I was on the Parish Council.
Birkrig street cleaning
Saturday, August 19th, 2006I did a street surgery in Birkrig this morning. The main problem seems to be the state of the pavements, the rubbish and the “landscaped” areas that have been left to become overgrown, full of weeds, litter and broken bottles.
There are parts that feel like they’ve been abandoned by the Council, and from reports that [...]
Street surgeries
Thursday, August 17th, 2006I’ll be doing some street surgeries over the next couple of months, starting at Birkrig on Saturday from 10am. I’m hoping to get around the whole of the ward over the next 12 months running every two weeks (the Saturday after normal surgeries at Digmoor Community Centre).
Forthcoming dates are:
(West of Digmoor Road)
19th August – Birkrig
9th [...]
Quimble polling site
Monday, August 14th, 2006I’m just testing a polling site that I came across (thanks to the snipperoo website) called quimble. I’ll try and use this in future when issues come up and tie it in with posted newsletters.
Chequer Lane – Campaign website
Monday, June 26th, 2006Local residents in Up Holland have put together a website as part of their campaign to save the Chequer Lane playing fields. It’s at www.chequerlane.co.uk.
If you have any memories of the playing fields, information about when they were donated to the people of Up Holland, or would like to help the campaign then please contact [...]
Gulley cleaning
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006At last week’s EMB meeting there was a complaint that machines clearing the gulleys on the streets weren’t going down side roads. In particular, they would enter an estate, go down the middle road of an estate but ignore the smaller ones. On the face of it, it sounds like some penny-pinching, but I’m looking [...]
Loss of playing fields at Chequer Lane – Public meeting
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006The District Council recently decided to sell off the playing fields in Chequer Lane, Up Holland – just over the road from Holland Moor, and well used by people in Up Holland and Moorside.
There will be a public meeting in the Up Holland Library Meeting Rooms, on Friday 30th June at 6pm to see how [...]
Back online – finally
Saturday, May 27th, 2006Things are slowly starting to get back on track after the election. It seemed a lot harder this year for many many reasons, and personally campaigning was very difficult when our house move finally happened on the 13th April (after just under a year). So right in the middle of an election we had to [...]
Going offline
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006There won’t be too many posts here through ’till the local elections on the 4th May. For two reasons: firstly, this isn’t an election site and I don’t want to post anything that could be mis-interpreted as that. Secondly, I’m just too damn busy with the campaign, work and a house move that might happen [...]
Liverpool ‘08 and West Lancs. A City Region of Culture?
Sunday, March 26th, 2006The Liverpool ‘08 Capital of Culture project is in chaos – this isn’t new news. They’ve only just appointed a new Chief Exec for the Liverpool Culture Company, many projects are in free-fall and events might not happen as described recently in the Guardian and here. Plus, there’s no guarantee that the political mess left [...]
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