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Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council, Planning applications
It’s confirmed: £125,000 going to waste under West Lancs Tories
Further to this post the Tories’ shocking disregard for anything to do with taking responsibility for anything at all has been confirmed with the appearance of the most recent (July – Oct 2010) Key Decision Forward Plan.
This is where the administration is supposed to set out what its main decisions will be over the next four month [...] -
Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Cotterill on the Council, Planning applications
How to insult people Tory style
For planning committee the other night I submitted the following motion:
“That this council recognises the right of residents of Scarth Hill Lane, Bickerstaffe Ward, and their representatives in Bickerstaffe Parish Council, South Lathom Parish Council and South Lathom Residents’ Association, to full consultation and committee speaking rights in respect of any planning application made by [...] -
Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council, Planning applications
The Tories and radioactive waste
03.03.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSupported by Labour councillors, West Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper’s campaigning against proposals for the expansion of the Whitemoss Landfill site on the edge of Skelmersdale to receive hazardous and radioactive waste.
That is why I’m encouraging people to go to online and sign the petition so that we can make our voices heard loud and clear: Don’t dump hazardous [...] -
Cotterill on the Council, Planning applications
Tox story: how the Tories don’t do waste
Below you’ll find West Lancashire Labour group’s response to the Lancashire County Council’s snazzily titled ‘Consultation on Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Development Plan Documents.’
Basically, it’s a consultation on where the tips and other waste management site (including hazardous waste).
Alert (or obsessive) readers will be aware that this matter was raised for Tory cabinet members to consider on 19 [...] -
Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News, Planning applications
New plans for proposed expanion of Edge Hill sports facilities
I don’t often just link to another website without much comment, but the news of new plans for the Eastward expansion of sports facilities at Edge Hill University, and the public exhibition on same, will be of interest to Bickerstaffe Ward residents on Scarth Hill Lane.
I’ll certainly be attending the exhibition to see what the plans are, [...] -
Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council, Planning applications
The reality of housing under the Tories in West Lancs
Here are Tory-controlled West Lancashire Borough Council’s stated priorities. They include to:
Improve housing and strive to achieve affordable housing that is available for local people.
In October the Council itself submitted and had approved at Planning Committee, where the majority of councillors are Tories, an outline planning application for a “a mixed use regeneration scheme comprising B1 commercial [...] -
Being Labour, Breaking News, Planning applications
Brilliant work, Bob and Nicki
Let’s make one thing crystal clear about the £800,000 secured for council housing on Elmstead in Tanhouse Ward, which will result in 17 new housing units and use council rents productively to match to the grant.
This is a victory for Cllr Bob Pendleton and Cllr Nicki Hennessy. They have driven this application to the Labour government council [...] -
Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Leisure and culture, Planning applications, The world beyond West Lancashire
The politics of tarmac
As part of the relocalisation strategy now being vigorously implemented at the Bickerstaffe Record, here’s coverage of a small piece of proposed tarmac at the Parish field.
I recently battered together the ‘greenbelt special circumsntances case’ for the Parish Council’s application to extend the car park slightly in view of the increased demand for space over recent years.
While the [...] -
Being Labour, Leisure and culture, Planning applications
West Lancs Conservative ideology: bad for your health
One of the aims of this blog is to expose to a wider audience the sometimes simply incompetent, often deliberately destructive Conservative administration here in West Lancashire.
Being no2 councillor blog in the UK should help in this, though even before that accolade landed in the inbox influential city types were starting to relay to their audience the kind of nonsenses [...] -
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Planning applications w/c 02 June and 09 June
Apologies, I forgot to post the planning applications for week commencing 02 June as I was away early in the week. This is therefore a double issue, with all applications for last week here and for this week (w/c 09 June) here.
In last week’s there is one application in South Lathom Parish (an extension to Skelmersdale [...]
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