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Yesterday Shropshire Council announced that they were restarting car park charges for the 1st of June. Restarting car park charges too soon is crackers. Shops won’t be opening until the 15th of June. Town centres don’t need any barriers to trade. They will be desperate for suitably distant footfall. Shropshire Council will be placing barriers… Read More »Restarting Car Park Charges too soon
I issued a Press Release ahead of the Public Accounts Committee inquiry into local councils buying commercial property that starts on Monday. The Shropshire Star has used some of it here: https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/business/2020/05/08/council-questioned-over-shopping-centres/ My Press Release in Full: Public Accounts Committee inquiry into council commercial spending 07 May 2020Embargo: none Commenting on the news that The… Read More »Public Accounts Committee Press Release
Household Recycling Centres reopened from today for essential use only. This is welcome news as reports of increased fly-tipping have been in circulation. Researchers from the universities of Southampton and Portsmouth have found that reports of fly-tipping in rural communities had increased by 300% during the lockdown. Shropshire Council scrapped all 120 of the local… Read More »Household Recycling Centres reopen
We are now well into the second month of lockdown. Easing Coronavirus restrictions is increasingly being called for. However, this must be done carefully and at the appropriate point. Easing Coronavirus restrictions too soon risks a new outbreak. All the signs are that it is going to be a long haul to get back to… Read More »Coronavirus update 2
It is welcome news that a parliamentary watchdog is to examine Shropshire Council’s £52m shopping centre purchase. This is part of a wider look at local council involvement in purchasing commercial property. The Public Accounts Committee will look at these purchases in May. The purchase of these shopping centres represents a huge risk to Shropshire… Read More »£52m shopping centre purchase inquiry
15 years ago I was campaigning to get Broadband into Bridgnorth. I was concerned then about slow speeds were putting us at an economic disadvantage compared to other areas locally and globally. Fast forward 15 years and we still find Shropshire in the Broadband slow lane! This is despite all of the bluster from Shropshire… Read More »Shropshire in the Broadband slow lane
Let me tell you a tale of two signs. Two ordinary road signs. One thing that always bugs me is inconsistency. As a colleague once said the hardest thing about consistency is being consistent. So when I see councils being inconsistent in does grate. Where a policy is applied one way in one situation and… Read More »A tale of two signs
The Coronavirus scourge that is rampaging across the globe is now causing increasing disruption across the UK, as normal life is increasingly suspended, including politics. Venues are closed. Meetings are cancelled. As people self-isolate and socially distance and we move towards more general isolation, it is important that we help stop the spread of coronavirus… Read More »Coronavirus update
In what seems like an age away now, Shropshire was swamped by floodwater. The latest flooding crisis to hit the county, last February, was only a few short weeks ago. For now, the Government and Shropshire Council have bigger worries with Coronavirus, but they mustn’t forget to take real action on floods & SuDS before… Read More »Time for REAL action on floods & SuDS