Category Archives: Local government

History as bunk

A brilliant critique of the Museum of Bristol project and its embarrassing heritage-lite approach to the city’s history has appeared on the Festival of Ideas website. The piece, by ‘Tetchy Steve’, is a response to a talk at the festival … Continue reading

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The million pound merry-go-round

Trebles all round! New city council chief exec, ‘Junket’ Jan Ormondroyd, finally makes her opening gambit down at the Council House with a deckchairs-on-the-Titantic-style senior management reshuffle accompanied by some very generous inflation-busting pay hikes indeed for the same old … Continue reading

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A trust for the Railway Path?

Charlie Bolton writes in the comments: Hi everyone I have seen Paul Smith suggest in a couple of places that we pursue the idea of setting up a trust to take ownership/control of the path. (I believe this was the … Continue reading

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And the end of another era …

by Keren Suchecki This is my last Double Devolution column – I’ll be leaving HWCP in a few weeks time. I was the first employee eight years ago in an empty shop without the luxury of a chair, let alone … Continue reading

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Report from last night’s Council Meeting

By Chris Hutt from the Comments It all started so well, with Charlie Bolton’s original motion getting beefed up by a Lib-Dem amendment which he accepted. Railway Path supporters cheered and clapped. It looked for a few moments like we … Continue reading

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From the comments …

Get out writes … I hear that the most serious concern within the leadership of Bristol Labour and Tory Parties right now is not the cycle path at all. By the sound of rumblings in the Council House the uppermost … Continue reading

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Plug.

Oh. And our man wandering around the Council House not doing very much passed the press office earlier and says Bristol City Council are preparing a press release about the path this very day … Ho! Ho! Ho!

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Prefabricated henhouse news

Right then. A big thanks to all our Bristol City Council readers who’ve sent in Jan Ormondroyd’s welcome message. Here it is: Dear Colleague I hope you have had a good Easter break and that despite the weather you had … Continue reading

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What the hell is this meant to mean?

From Lib Dem, Councillor Emma Bagley’s blog – translations welcome: What became apparent towards the end of this topic was that was going to be no stretch target (aka a performance indicator) under the new local area agreement. No stretch … Continue reading

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Fair cop?

The local press has confined itself to some typically soft reporting of Avon & Somerset Constabulary’s recent announcement that it is formally joining the Southwest One outsourcing initiative. Southwest One is a huge public-private partnership deal involving Somerset County Council … Continue reading

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