Brentwood's Conservative administration has ruled out a full review of the overall parking restrictions in Clements Park, despite a number of unhappy residents. Parking restrictions, of which there are significant amounts of double yellow lines, were introduced in December 2007.
New recycling boxes issued by Shepway Council are no longer supplied with lids according to their customer services department, but ARE according to their own web site!
The latest victim of the cutbacks in footpath maintenance is local Councillor Ros Webb. She tripped and injured herself on uneven block paving in Market Square, Chelmsford town centre.
Lib Dem Councillor for Patching Hall, Ashley Final is calling for an empty Chelmer Housing Partnership property in Eves Crescent (no. 34/36) to be brought back into use to provide much needed rented social housing. The very large house - once a pair of semis - has stood empty and boarded up for well over a year and is now much used as a local dumping ground for litter and (some say) an invitation to illicit drinking and drugging.
The Liberal Democrat group on Shepway District Council have tabled a motion for the next full Council meeting on 21st January to ensure that the V.A.T. reduction from 17.5% to 15% is passed on fully to Shepway residents and service users, or where this is not possible, the windfall extra income passed to local charities or communities.
British Energy have announced a series of public meetings to explain their plans to nominate land next to the existing Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station for a new nuclear power station. The meetings are open to the public, and British Energy say they are to "hear about our plans and raise any issue you feel British Energy needs to consider."