Very useful meeting this afternoon with leading Southborough residents. Subject: driving schools! Apparently there are 90 of them operating in the Southborough area. I saw 5 separate ones in as many minutes on my way home.
It would be greatly appreciated all round if there could be an agreed code of conduct on these operations. The [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Environment’
November 2, 2009
Driving me up the wall!
April 14, 2009
Equality before the Law vs. ‘Human Rights’
I read in the Telegraph today about a woman who has been told she can’t have planning permission to put a caravan on her organic vegetable garden to enable her to live near the plants she is growing. Fair enough, you might say.
However 20 miles from her garden a group of ‘travellers’ have bought a [...]
December 2, 2008
The pleasant part of council work
Last night I was asked to present the awards at School Lane Estate’s gardening tournament for 2008. The residents set out to show what could be done in an estate of maisonettes and sheltered flats to make the environment more colourful and greener. There isn’t much amenity space for tenants and leaseholders but people used [...]
April 30, 2008
You’re never too old!
No-one in public life should ever feel too old to take on fresh ideas. I received this today and recommend the link to London readers especially, but others past the first flush of youth elsewhere in Britain might find it thought provoking too……..
My City Too Manifesto
London’s teenagers’ manifesto for better spaces in the [...]
April 1, 2008
Boris Johnson launches Environment Manifesto
Boris Johnson has launched a detailed manifesto for Environmental policy for London. See the link on the ‘Back Boris’ page.
March 2, 2008
Weak thinking, Brian!
This section from the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate’s transport manifesto should sink his chances with most Kingstonians without trace. The first idea isn’t a bad one but the consequential second policy is just plain barmy:-
Scrap the Western Extension Zone
Introduce in its place a 24/7 £10 greater London congestion zone for non-Londoners. Commercial vehicles and London [...]
