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The Full Council meetings since the summer have been downright depressing. There was a meeting on Local Government Reorganisation (2nd Sept ) <a href="http://<a href="http://Youtube pm <a href="http://<a href="http://Youtube am Comment on city at about 1’15 The leading group voted with Tories to put Rushcliffe with north Notts, and Gedling and Broxtowe with the City.
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Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is an opportunity to improve delivery of our local services and undo mistakes made when the City was split from the rest of the County 30 years ago. But unfortunately it seems the process is being undermined by people on all sides of the political spectrum. I wrote a long blog
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Because there are now so few councillors, some party members with particular areas of expertise are helping us to keep abreast of all the meetings, to make sure nothing falls through the net. The following a report from a member on the Health Scrutiny Meeting on 1st July. She has inspired me to try to
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Thank you, Mr Mayor. The Labour Group have submitted an amendment to the recommendations set out by this administration for Rushcliffe’s vision for local government reorganisation — because we believe this proposal is unbalanced, is based on bad data and potentially damaging to not only Rushcliffe but also the wider Nottingham & Nottinghamshire. Unfortunately, despite our
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“When people realistically look at what the county and districts and boroughs do, they’ll realise the borough doesn’t have much responsibility, yet somewhere like Rushcliffe is holding onto a lot of money.”
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First full Nottinghamshire County Council meeting was last Thursday. The photo shows our small Nottinghamshire Labour group now. It is very sad that we have lost so many hardworking experienced councillors (and members of group staff), particularly our previous leader Kate. It is also sad that so many enthusiastic candidates didn’t get elected. However, although we are small
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Local Government Reorganisation is causing a lot of discussion at the moment. First it is probably useful to explain that in West Bridgford we pay our council tax to Rushcliffe Borough Council who provide services like parks and rubbish collection. But Rushcliffe then pass on most of the money to Nottinghamshire County Council (NottsCC) who
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The Football, Cricket and Rugby grounds are running ever more events with ever larger crowds: sports, music, beer festivals and drone shows. We all want these venues to be successful but not at the expense of residents. It isn’t true that we knew it would be like this when we moved in as matches and

