Category: Trafford Council
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January 2020 and we’re building homes at Social Rent!
Weekly Update Gorgeous Gorse Hill Meeting Monday night’s meeting was all about planning for the new year. The work that Gorgeous Gorse Hill do is fabulous. Please do get involved. More information is on the Facebook page – Gorgeous Gorse Hill Noticeboard. Tuesday Sad funeral of Peter Cowburn. Peter and Margaret walked more miles delivering…
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The difference we make
We more than doubled the share of spend that the council spends locally. The difference a Labour Council makes.
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End of May 2019 – an update on 14 days
In which I report on ward tour with chief executive, bringing the United experience up to modern standards, environmental failures in Trafford Park village area as well as general activity in May 2019
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Hotel at Warwick Road
A 212 bedroom hotel is proposed at the corner of Chester Road and Warwick Road where the bronze windowed offices currently stand. In many ways I’m in favour. However at ground level, I feel the hotel fails to deliver sufficient active frontage on either road but particularly on Warwick Road. It should feel as though…
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Weekly Update 24th – 30th November 2018
Saturday Two sessions of campaigning in Davyhulme. Issues raised included George Carnall, leaf clearing, potholes and road resurfacing. My sense is that voters are willing to give Trafford Labour more time and appreciate that only Labour is willing to listen. Sunday Growing ever more frustrated with parliament and the inability of the parties there to…
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Should we care about insects?
Am I the only person to think that a 75% reduction in flying insects since the 1980s might be the scariest thing? And then you start wondering whether we’ll ever see Daddy Long-Legs again?