Titan Lorry Park agent Brian Pooley informed YourThurrock that since the last planning meeting he had not made any communication whatsoever with any member of the councils' planning committee. YourThurrock then asks him to account for an e-mail sent from his address to cllr Terry Hipsey inviting him to a meeting with ICG Managing Director John Carver.
The government have stressed that such a framework should be "clear, succinct and understood by all." Thurrock Council's LDF is 326 pages long. Indeed, when the council presented the weighty tone at a full council meeting in January the meeting descended into farce after mistake after mistake was found in the document and the meeting had to be suspended.
The DC are backed by a host of organisations whose criticisms range from plans to build in flood zones to a failure to predict the amount of housing needed for the past five years. There is also a representation from the former Mayor of Thurrock, Colin Churchman who states: "The process has been undemocratic. The question of members (councillors) interests must be revisited."
But now the home is under threat of closure after the NHS have detailed plans to pull £750,000 worth of funding. The financial blow leaves Thurrock Councils adult social care department to pick up the bill. The council have their own fiscal headaches, having just launched a consultation to save £25 million over two years.
AN ambitious plan to being a football and sports academy to the west of the borough by the former England and Tottenham manager Terry Venables has been submitted to Thurrock Council. The "Academy of Dreams" was submitted as one of the proposals to the Local Development Framework (LDF) earlier this year.
It appears that no-one can tell us if any crimes in Thurrock have actually been solved. Three months ago we asked: "Could you supply the detection rates for the following crimes in Thurrock over the 2006-7, 07-08 and 08-09 periods: Violence Against Person, sexual offences, robbery,fraud,drugs,criminal damage and burglary" The struggle to get an answer continues.
The protest in Corringham which took place today, Saturday, October 16, has ended. Officers reopened The Manorway just before 6.30pm and the last of the protesters had cleared the area by 7pm.
Protest group spokesperson Terri Orchard, who is taking part, said: “We don’t have a hope of tackling climate change if we don’t find a way to start moving beyond oil. But Big Oil is relentless. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic to the Canadian tar sands, oil companies are devastating local environments, trampling the rights of local communities, and pushing us over the edge to catastrophic climate change.
THERE are reports of several eco-protestors who have chained themselves to petrol tankers on the Manorway in Corringham.
Police appear to be prepared for a major protest with dozens of police vans parked in Stanford-le-Hope, roads blocked off and helicopters flying overhead. Police are at Fenchurch Street preventing protestors getting to Stanford-le-Hope station.
Andrew Cozens, adult social care lead at the Local government Association, said the move was not in the spirit of the Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) guidance to introduce a ‘higher substantial’ eligibility criteria. “It’s not a reliable way of making savings,” he said.
In conclusion, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Saville, and his team have done more than present an exceptional report on Bloody Sunday; they have reinvigorated the quest for truth. Governments, in setting up the inquiry and in the way that they have responded, have helped to create confidence in the process of truth and investigation. The challenge now is to ensure that everything possible is done to maintain economic and political stability for the whole of the community, and that the way forward meets the needs of the future and does not ignore, but properly deals with, the issues of the past.
The government has officially announced the abolition of the DC in a a huge cull of quangos. It is a move it says will improve accountability and cut costs. It will axe 192 of the public bodies - such as the Film Council and the Audit Commission - while 118 will be merged. The future of some bodies is still under consideration but 380 will definitely be kept, the list says.
To ensure that students do not end up with increased amounts of debt from which they then do not reap the rewards, what support does the Secretary of State intend to give pupils to ensure that they choose the right courses,
Every year, we waste hundreds of hours of daylight by sleeping through the morning light. “Lighter Later is a campaign to shift one hour of light from the morning to the evening where we can actually use it,” said campaign manager Daniel Vockins.
Carl doesn't pull his punches when it comes to the salary of chief executives of councils including Thurrock Council's Graham Farrant. Carl is amazed that when everybody else is taking a pay cut or imposing a pay freeze, there appears to be a "stony silence" from the cabal of council chiefs.
The Government face a real challenge in ensuring that the big society does not just become empty rhetoric or a buzzword, but something that we can all support and play a part in. We should see the contribution that is already being made at national and local levels as something on which we can build.
In the Government's drive for what it calls a smaller state, is it expected that these kinds of organisations should have to pick up services that are no longer provided by central or local government? Are the cuts being made in public expenditure likely to put pressure on services that are already provided by the third sector? If we have a smaller state, these problems will not go away
