NO SOONER was it mentioned on here, this lovely document was blasting through mainframes and datacentres only to land in my grateful mailbox. We can now see for ourselves whether Peter Callow has carried out his manifesto promises. Lets get to it, beginning with the introduction. A message from Councillor Peter Callow… I believe that [...more]
REGULAR READERS will know that a pet hate of mine is the level of litter in Blackpool: I believe the local authority is neither working hard enough nor prepared to be flexible enough to cope with a demand that is varying but predictable. Don’t be confused here; this isn’t about weekly or fortnightly collections; it [...more]
FOLLOWING A cash bonanza the Blackpool Promenade is now starting to look fit for a modern society, but one thing that locals and visitors both complain about is the lack of sufficient rubbish bins. A report came out in June suggesting that Blackpool had the fourth dirtiest streets in the North West, and in July [...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]
It is now well known that Fylde Borough Council have purchased and are deploying the Waste Collector computer system which in conjunction with microchips stored under the lip of your wheelie bins seeks to maintain a database of how much rubbish your household is producing, how much of it is recyclable and how much of [...more]
Not the most thrilling topic I grant you, but I noticed something on Devonshire Road that probably isn’t new but that I was quite pleased to see and wondered why I haven’t seen it in more locations. It also reminded me of a trip to southern Spain last year. What was it? Now I know [...more]
Just a quick follow up to my last post about Fylde and Wyre councils implementing the Waste Collector data mining system. I’ve had a look at my wheelie bins in and two of them have RFID chips already implanted. These are the non-recyclable waste (grey) bin and the garden/cardboard waste (green) bin. The RFID chips [...more]
Disgruntled council tax payers have often muttered about the lengths their council will go to in order to extract cash from them. This is no more apparent than in Fylde: residents are quite rightly enraged about the underhand, number-fiddling methods employed by John Coombes’ apparat in order to raise their council tax. In order to [...more]