I have contacted the Conservative Cabinet member at Peterborough Council directly, demanding to know which primary schools have been cut and when and where the children will get the additional places that are urgently required. He replied promptly to say he would not know more about West Town when council officrs are back from holiday and I could remind him about this in September.

We had been assured that new primary schools plans such as West Town would not be affected by any change in government as the Peterborough City Council had already banked the funding required and provided by the Labour government. Indeed expectations were that a new school would be opened to take the additional pupils and growth in the population. However council officer have explained that primary school building plans for the Peterborough constituency area are now in jeopardy and no contracts are being undertaken to replace overcrowded victorian schools.

I reckon the council budget is in a mess and they are also scared of spending anything on capital before the governments spending cuts are decided. Peterborough has already had its migrant impact funds cut.

Excellent Matthew. Now make sure that we are not misinformed and tell us exactly how this will be measured. What will be the baseline? What will be measured to prove the case? What savings will be made? In what time frame will they be made?
Or will you just not say so that when someone queries the communications costs in a year as compared with last year you will just reply that they are misinformed.

Come on Matthew inform us all up front exactly what the savings will be and how we can measure them.

In the end they have provided the information, assuming the information given is correct as of today. Obviously they have presented it in a way that makes it difficult to decipher and forty days late. They could have presented it in a clearer way as requested with minimal effort. The will to oblige the requester is not there. In that circumstance I think it wouldn’t be worth the effort to struggle with them in that way. There should be other ways to skin the cat.

And apparently when the reshuffle was made then both the ET and the BBC Local had sight of the simple list of new Members and Responsibilities. Neither of them published that information as-is, just publishing snippets and soundbites. They both chose to keep that full list to themselves. Secrecy is everywhere.

However, I feel this is going to harm the park and these events should be on the embankment or at the Showground.

Even though we use Ferry Meadows every day, we were told we don’t get a say because we don’t live next to it.

I think there are some financial aspects that the Trust aren’t telling us.
Their accounts seem to suggest they didn’t do well with investments when the changed their funding from rents.
I think all this is a crazy way of getting more funding.

It’s totally bizarre that they rip up roundabouts and plant all new plants every year, but other areas are left ugly shrubs.

The council need to plant fruit trees and bushes in common areas.

The only justification for replaceing with grass is the very small areas at junctions where overgrown shrubs obscured the view and it was dangerous.

Also, slip road on/off the parkway are also dangerous due to poorlt managed planting.

It certainly isn’t OK to use hoses to water plants.
This is totally inefficient, and actually helps spread plant diseases.
Water should be directed to the roots with a watering can.
Burying a bottle/pipe next to large plants/trees or using a mound/trough to stop water running away also helps.

Yes we’ve water, but it still takes energy and money to treat and distribute it.
It’s not a free resource.