Showing posts with label Denholme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denholme. Show all posts
Sunday, 30 April 2017

Brownfield Green Belt: A glimpse of the stupidity of England's planning system

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Those of you who watched the Tour de Yorkshire might have caught a glimpse of Denholme as the cyclists swished through the little South Penn...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016

The two referendum campaigns.

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**** I got a call from the woman who runs Denholme Elders, a support group for older people in this village perched on top of the South Pe...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

All over bar the voting...thoughts on an election campaign

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A Denholme doorstep... It rained today. I mean really rained. Torrents of cold water pouring down onto the Pennine village of Denholme....
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012

A little point about housing and the 'green belt'

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There you have it - a little piece of Bradford's 'green belt'. In this case it's Hewenden Reservoir looking from the Great N...
Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Buck Park Landfill - Denholme wins!

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**** One of the very first letters I wrote as a councillor back in 1995 related to the quarry at Buck Park in Denholme. At that time it se...
Saturday, 25 February 2012

"One Million Pound A Vote" isn't quite enough for Labour to buy Green support....

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**** Windmills! Not sure about what I personally feel about them (although I'm unconvinced at their value as a solution to England...
Thursday, 23 February 2012

Decision-making, planning and the purposelessness of council strategies

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**** Yesterday evening was spent at Shipley Area Committee. Now while this sounds to be in the same category as Vogon poetry, it is quit...
Thursday, 16 June 2011

Planners, Big Society and how grazing horses isn't allowed in the 'green belt'

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I have a soft spot for planners. Partly through a continuing love affair with maps and plans and partly because planners get a raw deal – ...
Saturday, 16 April 2011

Campaign Comment: Funding Unions

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Yesterday afternoon I was delivering in Denholme - rushing a bit as I had a meeting to get to and wanted to finish the round before setting ...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Days Seven and Eight - white dots and chasing fairies

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  A quiet start to the week - took an evening off from the doorstep as Kathryn had driven to Milton Keynes and back therefore earning rest r...
Sunday, 10 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Day Six - well it is Bingley RURAL!

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Spent a really pleasant day exploring the rural in Bingley Rural. The picture above is the view looking back over Whiteshaw Estate towards D...
Friday, 8 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Day Four - Denholme, the AV referendum and curry!

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Of the 40 delivery rounds in Bingley Rural, only 16 remain on my dining room floor - this is excellent. Took some down to my ward colleague,...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Not the budget....

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  Hundreds of articles, blogposts, commentaries and critiques will be published in response to George Osborne's second budget. This ...
Tuesday, 15 March 2011

When is a saving not a saving? A tale of some libraries

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*** Readers will know that the Labour leadership of Bradford Council decided – with support from our local Liberal Democrats – that two ...
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