The Woking Borough Council is to increase the cost of parking in the town's car parks despite the Conservatives boasting just 8 months ago that they had frozen parking charges and would not increase them in 2016.
Wiltshire Council is looking to raise some money by selling off some of its agricultural smallholdings. A report to the Capital Assets Committee proposes the sale of three small dairy farms at Sedgehill. WC says the farms have: "limited and outdated fixed equipment and would require significant investment prior to re-letting. Two of the farms have Grade II listed residential dwellings, one of which has structural defects and is uninhabitable. Each of the farms have (sic) ranges of traditional farm buildings which are unsuited to modern agriculture but ideal for conversion to other uses. Their value is best realised by disposing of them rather than via re-letting."
Mayoral Candidate Jane Brophy has called on the Greater Manchester Spacial Framework to be scrapped, withdrawing support from the...
Newcastle City Council was asked to note the many critical comments on social media, Trip Advisor etc about there no longer being a tourist information centre in the city, and to request the Cabinet to review and reconsider the situation, including the possibility of establishing a centre in the Laing Art Gallery where there is already a shop facility and onsite staff, if necessary with private sector sponsorship. Most of the Labour Party voted against this modest, potentially cost free, proposal, although their more thoughtful councillors supported the motion or abstained. Moving the motion, Cllr David Faulkner said : Just a few years ago, the City Council played a positive role in tourism, being responsible for the tourism infrastructure such as signage and of course visitor information centres of which we had two, with NewcastleGateshead Initiative responsible for marketing and promotions. The centre in the Guildhall was closed when Quayside footfall reduced but I never imagined a day when a city of the s
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has called for serious criminal cases to be dealt with more quickly, as it is revealed that a number of individuals charged with sexual offences in Cumbria were on bail for almost two years.
Last night, the Liberal Democrats selected Rebecca Hanson as our candidate for the Copeland by-election.