Serious questions are being raised, after it was announced that the Leader of Peterborough City Council Marco Cereste has added the Chairmanship of Larkpoint, specialists in healthcare and retirement living development, and who are engaged in land development in Peterborough, to his long list of outside interests. In essence the claim is that he has too many jobs, too closely interwoven, to carry out his public duties in a proper manner. Councillor Cereste denies this, and says that in any case Leader is a part-time job, and he needs the money.
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Category: Conversations
When will Cathedral Square be Finished?
Cathedral Square and St John’s Square Peterborough are in the process of being renovated, and some of the work has over-run by more than a year, and is still not complete. A caller with a lifetime’s experience in the building trade says from what he has seen the contractors Osborne may need to crack on, if they are to get the work done within the revised timescale discussed by Andrew Edwards, namely the second week in January. And he thinks that some completed work may need to be redone.
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British Leafy Salads Association Conference 2010
British Leafy Salads Association
The British Leafy Salads Association holds its conference today Wednesday 24th November 2010 at the East of England Showground. John Allan from the Association talks to the BBC’s Paul Stainton
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Buying a House in Peterborough
Paul Sanders from Haart Estate Agents in Peterborough talks to the BBC about current conditions in the UK housing market.
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Shailesh Vara on Great Haddon
Peterborough City Council has submitted planning applications for Great Haddon, in essence a new town of over five thousand homes to the south of Peterborough. A number of significant concerns have been raised about what will become one of the county’s largest new developments.
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Yaxley Up in Arms About Great Haddon
Peterborough City Council plans another large housing development at Great Haddon. The village of Yaxley, just across the border in Cambridgeshire, believes that this will considerable worsen the quality of life for existing residents, and they see nothing coming forward to contradict the belief that Peterborough, with its apparent obsession with expansion, is a bad neighbour to have.
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Opposing Views on the Cost of Translation Services.
Peterborough City Council is compiling its very first translation policy, after a number of local councillors complained that too much money was being spent on these services in Peterborough. It comes after the City Council spent a hundred and fifty four thousand pounds on translators and interpreters last year, even though other services are being cut.
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What Now for Peterborough’s Neighbourhood Councils?
The way Neighbourhood Councils are being run in Peterborough could soon change. The new proposal would see the twenty five thousand pounds given to Neighbourhoods come from a different source. If approved, the changes would also see the meetings take place less often.
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