Here’s a quick summary of news, events and casework for May 2006
31st – the death of Viv Bell, Mapperley resident, and Labour Chair of Notts Social Services for four years in the eighties, is announced;
31st – Police investigation launched after a man's body was found on Ball Street;
25th – attend meeting in the Meadows where Alan Simpson MP proposes new technologies to secure sustainable and secure forms of energy supply for the future;
25th – get car, parked badly on Boynton Drive, removed after pressing to establish whether the owner could be traced;
24th – presentation on the proposed Nottingham Midland station improvements at the Council House;
23rd – Executive Board; adopt the corporate plan - with a new focus on 5 priorities - - Choose Nottingham; - Respect for Nottingham; - Transform Nottingham Neighbourhoods; - Nottingham People; - Serving Nottingham Better.
22nd – meet the managers of the childrens home on Tavistock Avenue with residents at a meeting chaired by the Police; improvements to communication are agreed, to build on the improvements in the running of the home seen since the matter was raised at the MPRA AGM;
22nd – protests are made about yet another national survey that gets information about crime in Nottingham wrong;
22nd – Nottingham's entry to Digital Challenge reaches the regional stage;
22nd – Proposals for changes to Primary School provision in St Ann’s and Mapperleyannounced - Walter Halls to expand slightly; St.Anns Well Junior to be combined with St.Ann's Wells Infants, on the Infants' site; it's better to spend money on teaching and learning rather than on empty or under-utilised classrooms;
20th – Mo Munir and I deliver a leaflet on the Millennium car showrooms; meanwhile, the Tories have put out a leaflet playing the issue down, despite over 70 households having objected;
18th – More LibDem letdowns; Leicester Liberal Democrats split in Leicester; this after a failed attempt by the Derby Liberal Democrats to form a coalition with the Tories in Derby, only having reported the Derby Tories to the Police a fortnight before; the 11 Nottingham Liberal Democrats split 6-5 only 2 months after being elected in 2003 - when challenged to vote for Labour's anti-social behhaviour measures;
17th – Development Control committee refuse outline planning application to develop on Millennium car showrooms; report recommending refusal is agreed;
16th – Mapperley & Sherwood Area Cttee.;
16th – tackling dependency on Incapcity Benefit in Nottingham is debated at Parliament;
14th – 17th – tssa annual conference at Llandudno; I represented local branch, AtosOrigin East;
10th – 12th - Big Spring Campaign cleaning up in and around Pearmain Drive, Pippin Close, Woodlane Gardens and Emneth Close;
10th – Honeywood Estate Action Team meeting; main item - future of garages on the estate; also discuss new Honeywood community centre and the road works on Porchester Road;
9th – leader of Chinese city, Ningbo, visits The Council House, to improve partnership arrangements with Nottingham;
8th – received a complaint from a resident in Folkton Gardens that an abandoned but taxed car was both being damaged and attracting criminal activity to the area; had the car removed by 5p.m.;
8th – full Council; Mo Munir nominated for Deputy Lord Mayor; John Pennington, Mapperley Labour Party member, honoured for his work for the city as an Honorary Alderman;
7th – walk from Astley Drive to Coppice Grove park to Byford Close to report a number of neighbourhood issues;
5th – over 70 objections to the outline development proposed for Millenium showrooms;
5th – Ministerial re-shuffle - John Heppell MP remains a Government whip; whilst Vernon Coaker, MP for neighbouring Gedling, becomes a Home Office Minister;
5th – 2 potholes in Penarth Rise patched - just a small part of the day job; holes on Mission St. to be repaired soon too;
4th – local elections;
1st – May Day - and nine years of progress for the trade union movement under Labour;
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