I’ve yet to witness the Conservatives putting forward any decent ideas of their own as usually they just pay extortionate amounts of money to consultants to conjure up something they can plaster their names all over. Tonight was no exception with Cllr Mike Wilkinson (Ind) putting forward a motion to put together a working group […]
I haven’t attended development committee for sometime as I no longer sit on the committee and the Lib Dems are represented by our two other Councillors. However last night I had good cause to attend to speak on an item that I felt was worthy of additional support to my colleagues. Item 10 (1) on […]
I read with much amusement, (in this month’s Tory Times) the irony of MP Mark Francois, outraged over the road works and subsequent traffic chaos caused by…. his own national and local party’s desire to allow development without adequate infrastructure. To ‘mug off’ the electorate even further he taunts joe public with the illusion that […]
Action Group, ‘The Rochford Supporters’ have launched a new petition against Rochford District Council. They are convinced that the core strategy, which sets out land allocations for new housing amongst many other things, has been carried out with proper due diligence. Details of the petition which can be found on the Councils website is available […]
On World Heart Day, people across the world band together to shine a spotlight on cardiovascular disease (CVD). It draws attention to the fact that 17,900,000 die every year from CV diseases and encourages more and more people to have an awareness of the issues and help translate science into policy. This year, World Heart […]
You may remember some time ago, I posted on social media about the proposition of planting trees in our area. I have since received a response from officers with some suggestions of areas that we could plant in. Undoubtedly, planting trees will help with climate change – even if it makes a 0.0000000001% difference it’s […]
I don’t really do National politics here on my blog but I had to share this with you, after all we’ve all been long suffering over Brexit and the Governments shambolic governance of this country for the past ____years. Now I find that yes indeed, staunch Brexiteer, MP Mark Francois could be challenged for his […]
If you’ve been following me on social media (Facebook @cllrjamesnewport or Twitter @jimnewport), then you will have read this week how I’ve tried to get in contact with some of the Conservative ‘leadership’ Councillors. Why? The problems that the multiple roadworks around our town has caused for residents and businesses One of those Councillors that […]
Earlier this week I wrote on my Facebook page informing residents that I had written to Countryside about the traffic management and asked if they could do anything to offer residents some respite from the current traffic congestion that is caused, partially, by the works on the new spine road for Wolsey Park. Today I […]
I’ve sent the Portfolio Holder for Enterprise an email to find out what he intends to do about the damaging effects of Essex County Council’s bad planning and Rochford District Council’s desire to build without the infrastructure in place. From: Cllr James Newport <jamesn@onlinefocus.org>Subject: Congestion and impact on our local economy and residentsDate: 5 September 2019 at 08:15:49 […]