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Conservatives ditch plans for West Berkshire Council to meet the public at the Royal County of Berkshire Show this year

Tue 2nd Jun 2009

District Councillor Keith Woodhams (Lib Dem, Thatcham West) said that he was astonished to learn from the Leader of Council, Graham Jones, that he was pulling the Council out of the Royal County of Berkshire Show this year.

Hearing

Lib Dems Urge Residents to Respond to Consultation on New Housing - If It Ever Gets Underway

Wed 27th May 2009

West Berkshire Council Liberal Democrats are urging all residents to respond to the Council's consultation on the distribution of 10,500 new homes allocated to the District in the South East Plan. The consultation relates to the document Options for the Future - West Berkshire Core Strategy which proposes locating 75% of the new homes in and around the major settlements of Newbury, Thatcham and the western part of Reading, and 20% in seven "Rural Service Centres", i.e. Burghfield Common, Hungerford, Lambourn, Mortimer, Pangbourne and Theale. It also presents options on strategic sites where major development will be concentrated.

Plans for the Kennet Valley 'mini-town' have temporarily been withdrawn

Theale Councillor creates website to help fight unacceptable housing site proposal

Mon 18th May 2009

Theale Lib-Dem councillor for Theale, Alan Macro, has set up a special website to help fight West Berks Council's proposal to put a site for 450 houses in Theale in its Local Development Framework.

Alan Macro (photography: Dave Wood)

Resurfacing the Roads in West Berkshire?

Mon 18th May 2009

Residents are becoming increasingly angry at the Conservatives lackadaisical attitude to maintaining West Berkshires highways. The district's road surfaces are now turning into a slalom course with vehicles steering cautiously to avoid being caught up in dangerous holes and troughs. Why are we repeatedly paying out thousands of pounds for patching the roads, surely this cannot be a cost effective or economical way of improving our road network?

Pot Hole 1 (photography: John Vincent)

Tories Parking concessions "too little, too late" say Liberal Democrats

Fri 8th May 2009

Roger Hunneman, Deputy Leader of the West Berkshire Council Liberal Democrats, has responded scathingly to the Council's plans to introduce free parking for a number of Thursdays in central Newbury as well as Hungerford, Theale, Pangbourne and Thatcham.

Town Centre ward member Roger Hunneman in Northbrook Street (photography: Dave Wood)

Rendel blasts 'above inflation' council tax rise

Thu 12th Feb 2009

West Berkshire residents struggling to pay mortgages or facing unemployment will be furious to find they are faced with an average £46 increase on their council tax bill this year, according to Lib Dem Finance spokesperson David Rendel. The 3.9% increase announced yesterday is well above inflation now and within a few months inflation is expected to tumble towards zero.

Another Tory tax rise. (photography: Tim Prater)

Come clean on mixed waste - Lib Dems

Mon 19th Jan 2009

The Liberal Democrats have learned that the Council's waste contractor, Veolia, is using Partially Segregated Recovery Vehicles (PSRVs) on three of its eight collection routes in West Berkshire. Use of these vehicles involves mixing together and compacting the various types of waste material set out by householders for recycling, in contrast to vehicles used on the other five routes where the different types of recyclables are kept separate. The usual excuse is being trotted out again: the amount of waste set out for recycling has exceeded all expectations and the Contractor has insufficient capacity to the meet this demand.

Bulldozer in rubbish landfill site. (photography: Courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the United States of America's Department of Energy)

"Tories delay crucial credit crisis aid" - Macro

Mon 15th Dec 2008

Vulnerable residents could be left out in the cold this winter after crucial measures to help were delayed by Tory Councillors. An urgent raft of measures designed to ease the pressure on West Berkshire people struggling financially were deferred at Thursday night's meeting of full Council.

Credit Cards

"Tories refuse to end £3.2m annual growth on wage bill" - Brooks

Mon 15th Dec 2008

Council tax payers in West Berkshire are facing continued uncontrolled rises in the public sector wage bill at the Council after Tories voted against a measure to stop creating new positions.

UK Money - notes and coins

"Council watchdog? More like Tory lapdog" - Brooks

Mon 15th Dec 2008

Cross-party recommendations made by the Council's watchdog committee, the Overview and Scrutiny Commission (O&SC), and intended to improve Council performance were very largely ignored at Tuesday's Executive meeting.

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