Lancaster has been combined with Fleetwood & Over Wyre to form the new Lancaster & Fleetwood parlimentary Constituency.
Residents group Its Our City have produced a briefing for people who want to send in representations to the City Council Planning Dept on the current Centros applications for the Canal Corridor. Details can be found on the Its Our City website.
The deadline for getting responses in is Aug 7th.
A new paper entitled The Big Green View has been launched by the Green party in North Lancashire, covering Lancaster, Morecambe, Fleetwood and all places in-between. The paper covers green politics from a wide variety of different angles
- from the global to the local.
A packed public meeting organised by residents action group It’s Our City on Tuesday 24th June 2008 in Lancaster Town Hall heard speakers deliver damning criticism of the revised planning application submitted by developers Centros for the shopping centre and carpark on the canal corridor area. (more…)
There was a full cycle rack outside Morecambe town hall this week as councillors took part in national cycle to work day. At the invitation of the Green group a number of councillors from other parties joined the Greens in backing the districts cycle demonstration town team’s call for people to get on thier bikes and cycle to work.
The way the decision to site a new mental health unit on Royal Albert fields in Lancaster was taken is to be looked into by Lancashire County Council’s health scrutiny committee. A task group is being set up to consider whether the site selection consultation by Lancashire Care Trust was properly carried out. (more…)
Following coverage in the local Citizen newspaper of the discovery of a hidden ‘litter trap’ in Burrow Beck. (At the point where it goes under the canal at Deep Cutting via a sump.) Prompt action by local Green Councillor Chris Coates and City Council Direct Services has seen the eyesore cleaned up in double quick time. (more…)
Appletree Nursery & Children’s Centre on Milking Stile Lane threw open its doors on Thursday 8th May for a Vision Day. People from the local community were invited to come and look around the newly extended and refurbished building and add their voice to the vision of the new children’s centre.
Green County Councillor Chris Coates Said after his tour “The facilities here are superb. The classroom in the nursery is equipped with the highest quality play equipment and the sensory room is a real treat.”
Appletree has extended it range of services and is hoping to expand further in the future with plans for a community garden on land next to the nursery.For more information see the Appletree website.
Last weeks local elections saw gains for the Green Party across the country. The biggest gains were in Norwich where the party won 3 seats and became the official opposition on the council. The party also won seats in Solihull and Cambridge places where it had previously no councillors. In the London Assembly election the Green vote increased and the parties two assembly members were returned with over 8% of the vote. (more…)
Lancaster University vice-chancellor has unilaterally announced that he wants to cut staff in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Lancaster. This will have a massive impact on access to education in the region’s communities.
Developers Centros have been back in town showing the latest version of their plans for the controversial redevelopment of the Canal Corridor area of town to local councillors and interested parties. Planning applications for this version of the scheme are due to be submitted in the 2nd week of June.
The new Centros proposals can be downloaded here:
