Our Blog Posts

  • Radcliffe Needs a Councillor who Looks Ahead at what Residents will Need in the Future

    Affordable housing is in short supply, and there are plans to build as many as 1000 homes in Radcliffe which will dramatically affect life in the village. Such a massive population influx is going to have a big impact on Radcliffe life over the next few years: but it is not clear that our Councillors

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  • New Schools on Regatta Way

    For many years the need for school places in Rushcliffe has been growing and schools have struggled to keep up. With so many new homes being built, it has got to the point that many children are now unable to get into their local school and are having to travel out-of-area, away from their friends.

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  • Our Council Should Support the NHS to Improve Radcliffe’s Health Centre

    The Health Centre in Radcliffe is already too small, and with 1000 homes due to be built in the next few years, everybody agrees that we need an expanded facility. New, modern Health Centre facilities would be really great for Radcliffe but it is really important also to think about where it should be and

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  • Nottinghamshire Council Should do more to keep our National Cycle Routes Safe

    Holme lane forms part of Nottinghamshire’s National Cycle Route 15 and if the condition of this road wasn’t so terrible it could have been a beautiful route away from the A52 for cyclists, and walkers who want to visit Skylarks Nature reserve and the National Watersports Centre. Unfortunately, many are prevented from being able to

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  • We Should Invest to Improve Radcliffe’s Library

    Even though Councils are required by law to provide “comprehensive” Library services, it is down to local decision makers what this actually means. Some of Nottinghamshire’s Libraries have received substantial investment to improve facilities, but our overall Library budget has been slashed over the last few years. This means that the strain of cuts has

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  • The New Schools Plan

    The New Schools Plan

    Expensive, wrong and too late

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  • Citizen’s Assembly and CEE Bill

    On the 4th of March 2021 I submitted a motion to the full council on behalf of the Rushcliffe Labour Group. We wre asking the Council to form a citizen’s assembly and voice it’s support for the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. I believe that this is the most important issue of our time, it

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  • Social Care

    Social Care

    Last year showed that we can’t expect companies to cope with organizing social care on their own. We all know of carers who have to drive backwards and forwards across the county because of a lack of organization. This fragmentation is very wasteful- waste that we can’t afford when budgets have been decimated by central

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  • Public Space within Rushcliffe

    The green spaces that lie between houses, particularly on newer estates can belong to the Borough or County Councils, or to the developer who built the estate. These patches of green are fundamental to the visual appearance of the estates, and the community gardens, vegetable patches and bug and bird houses springing up on them

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  • Questions for Cabinet March 2021

    Last month I wrote a little about how to ask public questions at the Rushcliffe Borough Council Cabinet. In short you can ask a question on items on the agenda, as long as you email democraticservices@rushcliffe.gov.uk or write to the council within the allotted time frame (this month’s cut off is today (sorry it’s been

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