Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams has launched a petition to support the campaign for Starbucks to pay its fair share of tax. The coffee shop giant paid no corporation tax last year in the UK, despite sales of nearly £400m. I believe that this is completely unacceptable, especially given that it’s UK-based competitor Costa Coffee […]

Greater Manchester Council for the Voluntary Organisations are looking for applications for their Generating Success Project. They are looking to find community renewable energy projects, based in the ‘rural’ wards of Greater Manchester, who might be eligible for start-up support from the project. They are are interested in any techonlolgy: solar panels, wind turbine, biomass […]

The organisers of the Greater Manchester ‘Get me Toasty’ scheme are putting out a special reminder to people in Prestwich. The grants scheme is expected to finish at the end of December 2012, because of the start of the Government’s bigger ‘Green Deal’ programme next year. Get me Toasty can give grants to local residents […]

The community feedback sessions have now taken place around the Stone Roses concerts in Heaton Park – so I wanted to feed back the main ‘learning points’ to local residents. This is a short summary of a larger presentation given by officers from Manchester City Council – the full version is here. Pre-event Communications – […]

The Government is giving all Local Councils the power to think about their policy regarding tenancies in social rented housing (‘council houses’), and is requiring all councils to have adopted a Tenancy Policy by January. The main change is that councils COULD decide to do away with what has been the practice to date of […]

A new planning application has been received as detailed below:- Application number: 55674 Type of application: Full Date Registered: 03/10/2012 14:03:22 Location: 211 Heywood Road, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 2QH Proposal: Two storey extension to side and single storey extension to front. Plans will be available to view on the Council’s website using the above application […]

Manchester City Council are going to consult on a new pay and display parking charging operation in Heaton Park. If introduced, it would mean that there was all year round charging in the park (at present it is just weekend and school holidays). The highest charge (presumably for the bulk of a day) will be […]

Prestwich Lib Dem’s idea that Manchester Council should be giving some of the money it makes from concerts in Heaton Park to Prestwich made it to the MEN.

Last week I attended a consultation meeting in Heaton Park about the Stone Roses concerts at end of June 2012. We were briefed by a represtative of SJM event management, who are leading the organisation of the event. Potential Disruption to Residents The concerts take place on three consecutive days (Friday 29 June, Saturday 30 […]

Just a quick note to thank everyone who gave us their support in yesterday’s local elections in Prestwich and throughout Bury. Although our share of the vote was up in Prestwich from last year, regrettably this wasn’t enough to stop Labour winning again in all three wards. The results were: Holyrood Ward Labour 1510 (up […]