Category: Trafford Council
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Understanding University Academy 92 – The Campus
Gary Neville’s University plans at core of a revised Stretford Masterplan What are the plans, what are the risks? The University itself Big launch, lots of photo-opportunities, noisy videos, but what do we really know of the plans? ..and what is the UA92 vision actually about? Universities have traditionally placed academic learning at the core…
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Everything is Fine at Trafford Council!
Things are getting really bad in Trafford! The honest assessment as I see it is that Trafford is almost at breaking point. You've seen the figures that show delayed discharges from hospital put Trafford in the bottom two of the league table for the whole country. Those are real figures, not some tame consultancy's award.…
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Trafford Council Budget Meeting
Trafford Council’s Budget Meeting 2016 The most important council meeting of the year. It’s by far the most unpleasant meeting of the year too. I don’t need a reminder that we in Labour failed to convince voters we should gain control in Trafford last year, but fail we did; and this, the consequence, a Tory…
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You pays your money and takes your choice
We’re now at a place where services that most of us take for granted are being withdrawn. And look at what we’re losing:
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A Question of Morality
Saturday night radio, I listened to BBC’s Moral Maze on the subject of taxation, a topic triggered by David Cameron’s recent assertion that he had a moral duty to cut taxes. Does morality come into it? And what about local taxes? Given that the panel included such consummate right wingers as Melanie Phillips and Portillo,…
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Question to Council 17th September 2014
Council I asked a question regarding wheelie bin thefts by ward. Since April 2013 630 bins have been reported lost/stolen in Gorse Hill Ward 620 bins in Clifford (Old Trafford) 286 bins in Bucklow/St Martins (Partington/Ashton upon Mersey) The grand total for the 21 wards of Trafford is 2395 So Gorse Hill and Old Trafford…