Author: Andy Hadley
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Care for people and planet
Interesting to see in some leaflets from other parties claiming that they do support the Climate and Ecological Emergency declaration that we all agreed in 2019 (bar one of 76 Councillors), and yet amongst other things they want to reverse the “Daft Grass Policy” of leaving areas to grow longer. They seem to ignore that…
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Loss of Trees at Poole Station Yard
The Poole People Ward Councillors were attempting to get the Monterey Pine trees in the station yard protected back in 2021, when the short waiting area below them was rendered unusable because the tree-roots had broken up the tarmac, creating a trip-hazard. Cllr Mark Howell wanted a Tree Protection Order (TPO) put in place, and…
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Pause on redevelopment
In Full Council this week, Poole People Councillor L-J Evans called for a stop to the Conservatives playing Monopoly with taxpayers money. They seemed on a mission to commit several Million pounds to creating Full business cases for projects to turn both Poole Civic Centre, and the Christchurch Civic Offices into Boutique Hotels, with housing…
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Urban Transport challenges
Every urban area in the UK has increasing problems of congestion and frustration with getting around. The BCP area has always been challenging to move around, bounded by the sea, and historically being partly Hampshire, partly Dorset, with road systems and bus operations that were not well connected. But congestion has progressively become worse. The…
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Poole Crematorium update
Poole Crematorium goes back to Cabinet for an outline decision next week. Back in September, the Conservatives were keen to just wait and see how the technology develops over the next 5 years, in particular the move from Gas to Electric cremators. Councillor Andy Hadley researched and found it was not nearly as novel as…
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Budget Setting 2023/4
The February Council meeting is always a long and painful one. The papers for the meeting extend to over 1000 pages. In anticipation that the meeting may continue until the small hours of Wednesday morning, a contingency has been set to adjourn until the following day. Full Council tomorrow night will set the BCP Council…