Tag: Simon Machin

Councils deny plans to merge

07:21 Monday 27th July 2015
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

CHRIS MANN: A joint team of planners shared between Fenland District Council and Peterborough City Council could save nearly £800,000 over the next three years. The shared service will be in place by January next year, after a consultation with affected staff. Simon Machin joins me. He’s Corporate Director of Growth and Regeneration at Peterborough City Council. Morning Simon.
SIMON MACHIN: Morning Chris. ..
CHRIS MANN: Now you’ve got together with Fenland. Tell us all about it.
SIMON MACHIN: That’s right. We’ve been working with Fenland District Council for probably about four years now. We help them put in place their new Local Plan. And increasingly the two councils have realised that there’s greater efficiencies to be made by working together. Both councils have got a very ambitious growth agenda, and a planning service is critical to delivering that.
CHRIS MANN: So you’ve just woken up to the fact that if you work together you could save some money.
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Carter Jonas on Redevelopment and Council Disunity

Chris Haworth from Carter Jonas expresses his frustration at the lack of progress on major development schemes in Peterborough. Broadcast at 07:20 on Tuesday 18th May 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Chris Haworth from Carter Jonas expresses his frustration at the lack of progress on major development schemes in Peterborough. Broadcast at 07:20 on Tuesday 18th May 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. The interviewer is Paul Stainton.

STAINTON: Now last week MP for the city Stewart Jackson criticised Opportunity Peterborough for not selling the city enough.
JACKSON: (TAPE) One of the big things that we haven’t done, and a big failure, and I have to say I lay it at the door of Opportunity Peterborough, because it’s no-one else’s fault. We have not sold Peterborough on the national stage as robustly as we should. We haven’t had ads on the sides of taxis, ads in the Financial Times, radio ads, nationally. We need to get really serious about businesses coming to this city.
STAINTON: (LIVE) Well that’s Stewart Jackson MP for Peterborough, very critical. Now a large property consultancy firm has also come out in criticism. Chris Haworth from Carter Jonas in Peterborough is on the line. Morning Chris.
HAWORTH: Good morning.
STAINTON: We had the response from Opportunity Peterborough to what Stewart had to say. They said they are selling the city. They are going round. They are placing adverts. They’re doing lots of deals behind the scenes. Why are you critical? Continue reading “Carter Jonas on Redevelopment and Council Disunity”