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According to local media "A deadly disease, known as Ash dieback which could decimate Britain’s woodland could have arrived in the Peterborough area."
Commenting Darren Fower said: "The highly destructive fungal infection chalara fraxinea, commonly known as Ash dieback has prompted Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) to develop a pest and disease strategy with Peterborough City Council. "I would be interested to hear from any residents in South Werrington and North Gunthorpe, who may have seen examples of this disease in the local area?" Delete the scoop?
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A scheme which could see every Peterborough resident save money on their energy bill will be discussed by Peterborough City Council's Cabinet at a meeting on Monday 5 November 2012.
The Peterborough Collective Energy Scheme will enable people from across the city, and from other communities in the UK, to join together as a single unit to negotiate cheaper energy bills. It's expected that residents could see energy savings of between £60 to £200 a year.
If the initiative is approved by councillors, Peterborough would lead the UK’s first ever collaborative scheme for collective energy switching. Fifteen local authorities will join the city council as part of the scheme, which in total will open up potential savings to two million UK households.
The Peterborough Collective Energy Scheme is a response to rising energy prices and an increase in the number of households in fuel poverty. To that end, the scheme will also be the first in the UK to allow residents who use pre-payment meters to register. Delete the scoop?
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Thanks to ESP Mag for article about @ShineUKCharity ON RADIO 4 tomorrow! - ESP Magazine @espmagazine
On Sunday October 21 the BBC Radio 4 Appealwill feature Ex-England Footballer, Celebrity MasterChef Finalist, and Shine Patron, Danny Mills.
With its headquarters in Peterborough, SHINE (Spina Bifida – Hydrcephalus – Information – Networking – Equality) is a community of 75,000 individuals, families, friends, and professionals, sharing achievements, challenges and information on living with hydrocephalus, or spina bifida, and related issues. Delete the scoop?
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Link4Drinks are informal drop in sessions that provide an ideal opportunity to unwind and connect with - not just local business people -but all kinds of interesting individuals from your local community; artists, musicians, doctors, teachers, geeks, policymakers, students, chefs, lawyers, retailers - we even welcome traffic wardens and tax collectors! :)
Like our popular Coffee events there are no attendance fees or barriers, just come along, buy your own drinks and prepare to engage! Delete the scoop?
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A primary schoolin Peterborough has beengiven the all-clear to re-opentomorrow.
The Newark Hill Primary Schoolwas closed last week after a deadly bacteria was found inthe water system. Delete the scoop?
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Support for the Connecting Cambridgeshire campaign, which is aiming to bring superfast broadband to the entire county, is growing.
Commenting Lib Dem city councillor, Darren Fower said: "I've signed and would encourage others to do so as well before the end of the year, when data on the level of support from across the country will be passed to large network providers, who will then decide where to invest." In Peterborough and the surrounding villages 2,322 people have signed up, representing 15.68 per cent of the total who have registered across the county (14,805). Delete the scoop?
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The latest article relating to the oh-so-shiney new hiospital in Peterborough make for GRIM reading!
* The trust are committed to loan repayments on the £290m, which opened in 2011. * Repayments this year stand at £41.3m, rising to £43.3m in 2013/14. * The loan repayments for the private finance initiative ends in November, 2042. * The trust’s financial deficit, this year alone is forecast to be £54.3m * The trust plans to make efficiency savings of £58.7m over the next five years * In February the trust received a £46m payout from the Government to cover its running costs for the rest of the financial year. * The trust’s aims to generate an extra £25m a year by 2016/17 by attracting more patients from the wider area?
"We have got this hospital at Peterborough which is fit for purpose for the next 60 years." - ARE YOU SURE???? Delete the scoop?
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Councillors agree to set aside up to £200,000 to pay for legal action against the plan.
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Peterborough City Council’s councillor responsible for planning will consider a bid to widen a road near a roundabout by this Friday.
The cabinet member for housing, neighbourhoods and planning will decide whether or not to approve a contract for the widended road at the junction between Boongate and the Frank Perkins Parkway. The estimated cost to the council is £500,000 and if agreed by Cllr Peter Hiller, the contractor will be the Midlands Highways Alliance (MHA).Peterborough City Council’s councillor responsible for planning will consider a bid to widen a road near a roundabout by this Friday.
The cabinet member for housing, neighbourhoods and planning will decide whether or not to approve a contract for the widended road at the junction between Boongate and the Frank Perkins Parkway. The estimated cost to the council is £500,000 and if agreed by Cllr Peter Hiller, the contractor will be the Midlands Highways Alliance (MHA) Delete the scoop?
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The new Peterborough City Council Roundabout Sponsorship scheme launched in January 2010.
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"Firefighters called 2 city's fireworks factory Le Maitre" - BUT where do they test their fireworks?
Monday, 11am: An investigation is underway to establish the cause of an explosion at a fireworks factory in Peterborough yesterday (Sunday, August 19).
Crews from Stanground, Dogsthorpe and the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Station were called to La Maitre, in Fourth Drove, Fengate, at about 4.15pm. Delete the scoop?
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Telepgraph website gets 4k+ hits a day from City Council staff during work hours
Under a Freedom of Information request, figures show the Peterborough Telegraph topped a list of domains websites visited by City Council members of staff. They received event more hits that Google!
See: http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/PCC/FOI/Docs/FOI-11-0570-R.pdf
Commenting, Cllr Darren Fower said, "Its seems to me that this shows despte the City Council having a communications department, many of their own staff rely upon the Telegraph to keep up to date with what's going on in the City?"
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The world is an ever changing place and it's important to maintain an aspect of reality and importance within our thinking! Therefore please HELP STOP Zombies from "taking over" BRIDGE STREET throughout the year by allowing cyclists to be given a dedicated lane by signing the petition! http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/peterborough-city-council-introduce-a-dedicated-cycle-lane-along-bridge-street-peterborough
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A plan which sets out the policies Peterborough City Council will use when determining planning applications has been stamped as 'sound' by the Government's Planning Inspectorate.
The Peterborough Planning Policies Development Plan Document (DPD), together with the inspector’s report will be considered by the city council's Cabinet on Monday 5 November 2012 before being debated by the full council on Wednesday 5 December 2012.
The report was prepared by Planning Inspector Roland Punshon at the request of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. His report makes a number of recommendations for modifications, all of which were suggested by council officers at the public examination stage.
The planning policies contained in the DPD cover issues such as the quality of new design, the impact of new development on people living nearby, the car parking standards that will be required for new developments, the amount of open space that will be required in new housing schemes and the protection of Peterborough’s heritage assets such as listed buildings and conservation areas.
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Peterborough City Council claims it wants more people to cycle, yet the Leader, Marco Cereste says people DO NOT WANT a cycle lane along Bridge Street? A cycle lane WOULD increase safety, enable continuous cycling, allow police to concentrate on more pressing matters, remove the need for silly signs and prove Peterborough can emulate other leading cities in the UK who have managed to integrate cycle lanes throughout their centres.
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According to a local blogger......http://parkfarmneighbourhoodwatch.blogspot.fr/2012/09/cllr-marco-cereste-and-others-formally.html?spref=tw&m=1
"The Trib. has had sight of, and closely examined a circa 100 page highly detailed document, in the form of an open letter, and detailed indexed enclosures, which have now been formally served on Peterborough City Council, Central Complaints Department, the bundle also copied to Shalesh Vara MP , and served on the Local Government Ombudsman.
"The documents form a complex paper audit trail chronicling, the authors say 'a whole catalogue of complaints and serious allegations' relating to the legal challenges and the subsequent alleged manipulation and granting of planning permission for a controversial residential development at 157-161 Fletton Avenue under references 05/01449/OUT. 08/00070/REM. 08/00892/REM. 08/01504/REM. 09/01155/FUL & 10/00328/FUL all relating to 157-161 Fletton Avenue."
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A recent blog entry from a Park Ward resident, taxpayer, parent + local activisit, Fiona Radic, shows a response from Tory councillor Pam Kreling, after sending an email about the serious issue of the Tory controlled city council's planned incinerator.
Cllr Kreling, who sits on several council committees including Planning and Environmental Protection + Strong and Supportive Communities.........responded:
“I have evaluated all your points & have complete confidence in the Council to do the right thing. If you had your way, we would all be living in caves."
Commenting, Cllr Daren Fower fower said:
"In my opinion, this response shows just how out of touch some of the Tories on the Council are! It also helps you realise how simple it must have been for Cllr Cereste to take control of the local Cons, if this is the sort of person amongst the Peach Brigade ranks!
"Irrespective of Fiona's political persuasion, Cllr Kreling should remember that as a city councillor you should at least recognise other people have a right to their views and you should certainly not respond in such a degrading manner."
Wonder if a formal complaint will now be made????? Or whether Cllr Kreling will at least apologies???
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A recent article claims that CCTV cameras failed to record bike thefts "...in Peterborough city centre because trees obscured the view.."
I say what a load of BALLS! I suspect its more likely that the cameras are like too many other things at the TOWN HALL - cheap and out of date!
Equally importantly, who the hell put them up in the first instance? Who failed to notice the trees, who in this city is unfamiliar with "leaves" and "branches" ???
According to the article a police spokesman said; “CCTV was viewed for the time of the theft but the rack where the cycle had been locked up was blocked by the trees.”
He added: “We can’t just lop or cut trees down. The cameras and their use is controlled by Peterborough City Council.”
ANSWER: Move the CAMERAS and get decent locks for your bike.
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An environmental health chief at Peterborough City Council has said that on the whole, city businesses which either produce or sell food often struggle to meet hygiene or health and safety standards.
Pest infestations; a lack of hot or even running water; contaminated food and dirty premises have all prompted warnings from the council and officers have the power to immediately shut down a business if there is a serious risk to public health.
In 2011, around 130 warning notices were issued to catering or food businesses.
There are 1,800 food businesses registered in the council area, some of which will be inspected every six or 12 months, but others will only be inspected every two or three years.
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Peterborough TelegraphBronze and silver for Peterborough Paralympic pairPeterborough TelegraphThe shooter used to play Wheelchair Basketball with the Peterborough Phoenix, but discovered he had a natural talent for Shooting at the 2006 Spinal Games...
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Traces of E. coli have been found at a water park in Peterborough which was due to reopen this weekend. Bretton Water Park has been closed since 26 July after children became ill due to an outbreak of norovirus.
HOWEVER, on the 24th August, when asked if the park would be open "...the Bank Holiday weekend?" The senior Council Officer stated, "99.9% certain. We still haven’t got the certification results yet. They’re not through ’till just past lunchtime today, but the early indications are that the water quality is perfectly OK." aka WRONG!
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After reports that the Council's contractors had not been keeping grass verges cut and had allowed them to become overgrown, local LIB DEM ward councillor Darren Fower paid a visit to assess the situation.
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Leader of the council Marco Cereste has had a change of heart and promised to meet campaigners who are protesting against the closure of two care homes.
Cllr Cereste was invited to meet the Greenwood House and Welland House Service Users Support Group, which was set up following the start of a consultation on the future of the two homes.
Peterborough City Council has earmarked both for closure which would force 32 residents to move out and about 80 day care residents to find another centre.
On Friday, the group received a letter from Cllr Cereste who said it was not necessary to meet campaigners during the consultation but today (Monday) he changed his mind.
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