According to the Gasjet’s outgoing Fylde reporter Joe Robinson, the housebuilding targets that have generated the housebuilding blight across Marton Moss, Queensway and the farmland around the end of the M55 are under review by the government. The green and pleasant land surrounding Blackpool and Fylde could actually be saved from execution by bulldozer. Peter [...more]
Once again a great story dug out by Blackpool Aloud, but it appears that Winning Moves UK wants to create a Blackpool & Fylde version of popular board game Monopoly. I can see it now. Banker: Your turn, Mr Fowler Fowler: I’ll put 650 houses on Marton Moss Banker: Mr Marsden? Marsden: I’ll buy Blackpool [...more]
Like everyone else’s, Lancashire County Council’s purse strings are being tightened evermore as the recession bites, but in a major blow to the recycling effort on the Fylde Coast they intend to close the tip in St. Annes despite opposition from 1500 residents. According to county councillor Michael Devaney, £1m per year can be saved [...more]
1.1 I am Stephen H Weaver BA (Hons), Dip Ed, Dip URP. I have been Chief Executive of Blackpool Council (an upper tier unitary authority) since April 2002. Previously to that I worked for Blackburn with Darwen Council for 28 years and prior to that for Lancashire County Council. 1.2 In my 36 years working [...more]
I received this in my inbox yesterday and I thought I would share it. Doubtless some of you also got it and therefore have already seen it. It’s Paul Maynard’s first letter from Westminster, with a bit of a weekly diary thing going on. During the campaign, I promised to issue a regular report of [...more]
Well well well, reports have emerged today that Councillor David Eaves JP of Ansdell ward is to become the next leader of the Fylde Politbüro. He replaces the outgoing Commissar John Coombes, who quit “to spend more time with his family” after single-handedly signing Fylde up to the new Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Economic Development [...more]
May 7; the eagerly-awaited results come in and there is joy and equally disappointment depending where on the Fylde Coast you live. Fylde remained blue, but Labour was never a threat anyway and Mark Menzies looks to be a very good candidate, the very popular Ben Wallace kept hold of Wyre where again Labour was [...more]
The Gasjet is reporting that Fylde council advisors have told the council to approve Trevor Hemmings’ plan to construct 275 homes on the former Pontins site on Clifton Drive, despite opposition from Blackpool Airport. The decision will be rubber stamped next week. It’s a joke – the planning officer Mike Atherton has recommended it because [...more]