The complaints about West Sussex county council’s intention to move the town’s fire station from the town centre to Cheals roundabout are still appearing in the letters pages of the local papers. None of the letters mention the North-East sector in relation to this. The reason I am referring to it is that last week’s […]
Entries Tagged as 'WSCC'
Fire Stations
September 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Crawley Council·Pound Hill·Town Planning·WSCC
What a load of rubbish
August 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Today and yesterday Charlie and I made several trips to the tip to get rid of the waste from our bathroom re-modelling. When we arrived at the tip in Metcalf Way we discovered that the new tip is open and the old one next door has closed down. The new one is so much better […]
Tags: Crawley·Town Planning·Travellers·WSCC
Fire Station
August 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Fire Station · Politics
I may have to venture out into the unpleasantly hot weather[*] with my camera and do another ‘secret Crawley’ post on the land next to Cheals roundabout, while it is still there. The county council want to relocate the fire station there, on what the Crawley News describes as ‘precious land’. The borough council’s planning […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Town Planning·WSCC
West Sussex schools
July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on West Sussex schools · Politics
I was going to mention this a week ago, but Richard Symonds has beaten me to it on his new blog. (One of an astonishing 27 which he has under his profile on Blogger! That is a serious habit – or would be if more than 2 of them were ever updated.) Anyway, West Sussex […]
Tags: Education·Food·Schooldays·WSCC
Public meeting about antisocial behaviour
July 4th, 2006 · Comments Off on Public meeting about antisocial behaviour · Politics
Tonight there was a partially successful public meeting in the Broadfield community centre about antisocial behaviour – it all depends on how you define success. Obviously the wider problems of antisocial behaviour were not solved, and no individual problems were solved, so if anyone had turned up expecting a magic wand to be waved they […]
Tags: Broadfield·Broadfield Forum·BYCC·CAB·Crawley·Crawley Council·Crime/ASB·Police·WSCC
Cheals Roundabout
June 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on Cheals Roundabout · Life
What has happened to Cheals roundabout? All those lovely bushes have gone and all that is left is a couple of trees and the Cheals display shrubs. It looks so bare now. All I can think is that it was either a financial decision, which would be unfortunate, or for safety reasons, which would be […]
Its all about money for the Tories
April 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on Its all about money for the Tories · Politics
Although the Tories keep banging on about cutting costs to reduce tax, that only applies to services to the public (like closing down children's playgrounds, cutting hot school meals, etc.) and not if the money is going into their own pockets. Where they control the council at county level they created some new posts of […]
Council tax maths tricks
April 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
I really am full of admiration for the Tories’ latest leaflet, and for two main reasons. The first reason is trivial, but means a lot to me. The latest one actually followed basic design principles. Normally they get carried away with fonts and have so many different ones that it gives the impression of a […]
Missing the bus (route)
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Missing the bus (route) · Life, Politics
Someone is being bit useless. I do not know whether it is our county council or Southern railway, or a bit of both, but there are some new local information maps at Crawley station. These maps have the logos of Southern and West Sussex county council on them so I figure they are jointly responsible. […]
Some thoughts on today’s Fastway meeting
January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Some thoughts on today’s Fastway meeting · Politics
I could not stay for the entire meeting, but read through much of the paperwork and listened to some of the questions and answers, which prompted a few random and unconnected thoughts. I could not believe how much more serious and businesslike the meeting was than any of the borough council ones I have been […]
