Were my 16 years on Sefton Council productive and worthwhile?
Well I have been having a ponder but I suppose the first thing that readers of this posting may say to themselves is that ‘it’s not for you to say but for us to judge’. You could also add that the...
View ArticleMy response to Labour’s Neighbourhood Plan for Lydiate
Looking at Green Belt & high grade agricultural land off Lambshear Lane in Lydiate which Labour-run Sefton Council is saying will be reserved as future building land. Why do Labour want to do a...
View ArticleAintree Village – Another bid to use Aintree Library for the community gets...
www.champnews.com/newsstory.aspx?story=3067550&word=&userid= The Aintree & Maghull Champion has the story – See link above How sad but I can’t say I am surprised by Sefton Labour’s latest...
View ArticleSefton’s Green Belt and High Grade agricultural land now under even greater...
Readers of this blog site will know how passionate I am to preserve Sefton’s Green Belt land from development mainly because it is almost all of the highest grade of agricultural land in England. To my...
View ArticleSefton Green Belt the staggering new stats!
Yesterday I mentioned some disturbing news that had been put before our local Labour rulers about the number of houses that will ‘need’ to be built in Sefton (virtually all on high grade agricultural...
View ArticleSefton Borough – What on earth do you do when you may ‘need’ to build up to...
My posting of yesterday gave details of the staggering new range of house building figures that ‘experts’ are saying ‘need’ to be built in Sefton in the coming years. It was a target of 615 per year...
View ArticleSefton Council – We will try to build the houses on another Council’s patch
This is my 4th and for the moment last posting about the huge house building problem that will seemingly be foisted on the Borough of Sefton and more precisely on Maghull, Lydiate, Aintree and Melling...
View ArticleFood hubs to drive rural food revolution but not where high grade...
This comes from a Government press release from the Dept. of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. All well and good but here in Sefton the Labour-run Borough Council is hell bent on concreting over...
View ArticleSefton Local Plan – Residents take on Council spin
A commentary on Sefton Council’s bizarre Local Plan process from Malcolm and Joan Gore of Maghull:- I read with interest this weeks article [Champion newspaper of 22nd July] on the Local Plan and...
View ArticleSefton’s foggier Local Plan – Another guest posting from Peter Greener
The mist has not cleared and the fog thickens by the day! Lydiate resident and environmental campaigner Peter Greener writes:- I don’t know if the DCLG [Department for Communities & Local...
View Article‘The green belt can be rightly protected’– Really? Do you mean it? Just look...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33472405 This is a major Green Belt and high grade agricultural land site for future development in Lydiate off Liverpool Road, Lambshear Lane, Sandy Lane & Moss...
View ArticleFormby – Bill seems to be at odds with his Labour Sefton councillors again
www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/southport-west-lancs/mp-formby-car-park-charging-9919399 The Southport Visiter has the story – see link above So Labour MP Bill Esterson seems again to be at odds with...
View ArticleLiverpool’s sunrise today – Maghull and Walton
A few shots of the lovely sunrise today. The sunrise as seen looking over Maghull’s Smallholdings off Park Lane/Kenyons Lane. Sunrise over the presently farmed land off Poverty Lane, Maghull. I wonder...
View ArticleHistory teaches us a great deal – You just would not build on the...
I came across the fascinating web site British History On Line the other day:- www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp215-221 www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp200-208 The above links are...
View ArticleNeighbourhood Plans – Are they Labour’s apology?
Having spent a couple of years on Sefton Council’s Planning Committee as the Lib Dem opposition spokesperson (2013/14 and 2014/15) and fought Labour’s Local Plan for the Borough every inch of the way I...
View ArticleMerseyside has 8,528 empty houses but don’t worry Sefton Council will allow...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/8500-homes-empty-across-merseyside-10519948 Campaigners, outside Maghull Town Hall trying to save Sefton Borough’s high grade agricultural land from development. The...
View ArticleKnowsley – Green Belt building protests – Can’t say I’m surprised
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/police-called-protesters-disrupt-crucial-10612935 The Liverpool Echo has the story on its web site – see link above I missed this story when it was published...
View ArticleSefton Borough – So building thousands of new houses on land that can cause...
Another aspect of the recent flooding which I covered in my Radio Merseyside interview yesterday is the barmy quest of Sefton Council, via its Local Plan, to build thousands of new 3 and 4 bedroom...
View ArticleLydiate – Another Green Belt dilemma? Probably not in this case
A planning application has been made to Sefton Council to develop a small piece of land off Southport Road for a handful of houses. The site is at Oaklea Riding Stables Trouble is the land is...
View ArticleSefton Local Plan – Labour has concerns about it? Really, then why do they...
The letter below was written in response to the lead article in the Aintree & Maghull Champion on 13th January entitled ‘Concerns at Local Plan put to Inquiry’ Dear Sir, I read with mounting...
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