December 2009

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• Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council

  Questions unanswered

  12.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  My colleague Chris Mawdsley asked a couple of formal questions at full council last week relating to what money had been spent on the clock tower and on Coronation Park in Ormskirk over the last few years, and where the money had come from.
  This is standard stuff, and the questions were submitted for consideration and [...]

• Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council, Leisure and culture

  The missing strategy

  12.21.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The council’s Open Space Strategy is supposed to inform decisions about, erm, open space in West Lancashire. 
  It’s supposed to inform the ongoing and delayed Local Plan process, and it’s supposed to have informed a discussion last week at full council about playing fields in West Lancashire which I can’t mention too much because it was [...]

• Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council

  West Lancs Borough Council: presentation vs. performance

  12.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ll no doubt be covering the council’s very worrying Comprehensive Area Assessment report a lot in the coming days and weeks, as it and the Tory council’s response to it raises enormous concerns and reveals a lot about the council’s mix of ineptness and arrogance, but for starters here’s the complete press release about it.  It didn’t get printed [...]

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