The Crystal Road scheme is a pilot (in haste I actually wrote polit there at first – hopefully not a bad omen) project being tried by Blackpool Council in conjunction with the Homes and Communities Agency, intended to set a benchmark upon which their speculative £35m Foxhall blitzkrieg can be based. Crystal Road is home [...more]
Today it was revealed that the Council are planning to revamp Crystal Road. Right. I heard this somewhere before in an almost identical article in the Gasjet last July. So why reannounce a plan, particularly when you’re supposed to be bulldozing the area by 2025? Well, this time the Council have named a suite of [...more]
Meet Maxine and Peter Callow, two of our friendly Conservative councillors in Blackpool. Maxine and Peter are dinosaurs of local politics. They have been on the council scene for a long time and as a result of the last local election, despite the fact only 1719 people voted for him as a councillor, Peter became [...more]