Archive for February 13th, 2008

Last Night’s Surgery

Published on February 13, 2008 in Walkden. 2 Comments

Last night Councillor Turner and I held our monthly surgery at the Guild Hall Community Centre. It was just as well that there were two of us as we had local residents queueing out of the door!

I think that is the busiest I have ever seen a Council advice bureau. I find advice bureaux very useful, but it is unusual to see a surgery quite so busy as increasingly local residents get in touch with their Councillors via phone or e-mail messages.

Obviously I can’t go into any detail about individual pieces of casework, but there does seem to be a recurring problem about refuse collection and in particular the collection of the pink-lidded green waste bins. Both myself and Les are receiving complaints from across Walkden about bins and we are in regular contact with officers from Environmental Services about this issue.

If you also have a bin-related problem, please let me know by e-mailing councillor.lindley@salford.gov.uk.

Local Labour Back St George’s Closure

Published on February 13, 2008 in Salford and Walkden. 2 Comments

One group of people who definitely won’t be listening to the views of local residents over the new Catholic school proposals are the Labour Councillors for Walkden North and Little Hulton - they’ve already jumped ship to support the closure of St George’s High School in favour of the new school in Wardley.

This is not a surprise as the Labour Party locally in Walkden & Little Hulton has spent the past 18 months saying as little as physically possible about St George’s in the hope of not offending their leadership. They have been silent when they should have been shouting from the rooftops.

I’ve received dozens of comments already from local residents, parents and pupils (past and present) about this week’s proposals. I want to hear as many views as possible, so please e-mail me at councillor.lindley@salford.gov.uk or leave a comment on this blog post!