People buy benefits and to create a destination is to provide just that. High streets that survive offer entertainment, café society and green spaces to enjoy alongside retail. It's not enough to stick shops in a row and cross fingers - a suitable infrastructure must support access, encourage footfall flow and provide ambience.
Much of the depth of Surrey's financial crisis can be tracked back to the chaotic introduction of computer systems which an audit has revealed, among other things:
During Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon, local MP Tim Farron urged Theresa May to properly compensate communities that have been abandoned by the banks and forced to use online banking instead.
Saturday 16 March 2019, Bootham Room, Hilton York Hotel
The Draft Local Plan was submitted to the Council's Executive Board on the 4th March.
Newcastle's Liberal Democrats Opposition has announced a programme of budget amendments ahead of this Wednesday's Newcastle City Council meeting which will set the authority's budget for 2019-2020. The Liberal Democrats Opposition's budget amendments seek to: · Rethink Labour's planned cuts to keep the city's museums open on Bank Holidays · Reverse Labour's proposed funding cut to the city's Libraries to preserve opening hours at current levels; · Commit to an open and transparent review of the provision of Household Waste Recycling Centres in the North of the City, rather than operating on the presumption of the closure of Brunswick in 2020/21; · Abandon Labour's plan to charge disabled blue badge holders for using city car parks and maintain the Shopmobility scheme at its current level; · Pump prime the voluntary sector with a £1m injection of cash for capacity building via the Newcastle Fund. Firstly, the Liberal Democrats Opposition would axe Labour's weak proposal to spend £800,000 on an anti-fly tippin