WYRE RESIDENT Harold brings us the latest over the reopening of the Poulton to Fleetwood railway as an angry Fleetwood resident seeks assurances that amateur rail boffins will not be handed control of the line.
Feb 292012
MAN OF a thousand insults, Harold, takes the Blackpool benefits culture to task with an outrageous rant.
THE GASJET wouldn’t even mention the Crystal Road farce whilst it was taking place, but lately they can’t stop writing about it. On the 23rd of January the Gasjet ran a story about a £4,500 investigation, initiated by Tory councillor Peter Callow, into Simon Blackburn’s expenses claims. In the face of claims that this money [...more]
THERE’S ONLY one motion on the agenda for the council meeting on the 18th of January 2012, but it’s one that most Blackpudlians would surely be in support of.
UPDATE: Labour submitted a government-bashing amendment resulting in the Conservatives rejecting the motion.
THE LIVERPOOL firm that valued former councillor Ian Fowler’s property on Crystal Road at £180,000 as part of a bungled regeneration project has this week won a Compulsory Purchase Order which will see the remaining 25% of the Talbot Gateway/Central Business District land made available for council demolition squads.
HIGH STREETS are in a ‘dire state’ according to the retail consultant Mary Portas, and she has prepared a 55-page document with her own solutions. So where do we start?
COSTING £50M over 10 years, this is the biggest housing scheme in Blackpool for a generation and looks set to drag a dirty, dingy Bloomfield into the modern ages.
Jul 282011
LAUNCH OF the bloc|urban regeneration forum at Philtheone.com.