The Government made an announcement earlier this week about money for various cycle related schemes across the country.
Buried in a lot of the detail is some specific funding for South Liverpool.
Money will be going to create more secure storage for cycles at stations including Cressington, Aigburth, Hunts Cross and St Michaels. The idea is for the storage to be the sort that closes and that you get into using a fob.
This is good news for people who want to be able to cycle for part of their journey to work, or elsewhere. At the moment fewer than five bikes can be "parked" at Cressington so this new money could make quite a difference.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Funding for local community groups
The Liverpool Echo is promoting a Comic Relief linked scheme which gives smallish grants to local groups.
Here is the link to the story, which also tells you how to apply.
Don' forget also that the deadine for applications for the next round of grants from the Cressington Community First Fund is coming up (8 Feb).
There's a website which includes a downloadable application form, but if you have any problems downloading, please e mail me at paulakeaveney@yahoo.co.uk and I'll get one to you somehow.
Here is the link to the story, which also tells you how to apply.
Don' forget also that the deadine for applications for the next round of grants from the Cressington Community First Fund is coming up (8 Feb).
There's a website which includes a downloadable application form, but if you have any problems downloading, please e mail me at paulakeaveney@yahoo.co.uk and I'll get one to you somehow.
Friday, 25 January 2013
Garston Co op
People in Garston are worried about the future of the Co op building on St Marys Road.
The store closed on 12th January.
It wasn't everyone's favourite shop, but that location at the bottom of St Mary's road made it an important feature in Garston village.
I've been in touch with the Co op and they say they are negotiating re another business taking over the building.
They also say that there is a company being paid to keep an eye on the building and car park in the meanwhile.
I've got contact details for this company so please let me know if there are issues they need to be told about (obviously ongoing incidents are for the police!)
When we get more news about this site, I'll make sure it's posted on this blog.
Votes at 16?
There was a vote in the Commons earlier this week in favour of extending the right to vote to 16 and 17 year olds. It wasn't the sort of vote that means legislation so nothing will change straight away. But it's interesting that MPs are debating this and giving a view in favour.
I've been in favour of votes at 16 for ages now. We assume16 year olds are mature enough to do quite a few things, including being liable to pay tax, but we don't give them a say in the laws about those things.
This seems not only wrong but illogical.
However, I suspect those of us in favour have quite a way to go to persuade people of this. And oddly the people who seem most to need persuading are young people themselves.
You'd think that this would be something all 16 year olds would support. But every time I have spoken in schools to sixth formers about this, there has been a substantial group against. The argument is that they don't feel they know enough to vote.
I tried it out on third year undergraduates this week and the verdict about voting when under 18 was pretty much the same - they felt under 18s wouldn't know what they were doing.
Now obviously if under 18s were voting, politicians would put more effort into making sure they did know the issues, and schools would feel under more pressure to do so.
But frankly those of us in favour of this change need to do a lot more to convince the "non political" young people that this is something worth doing.
I've been in favour of votes at 16 for ages now. We assume16 year olds are mature enough to do quite a few things, including being liable to pay tax, but we don't give them a say in the laws about those things.
This seems not only wrong but illogical.
However, I suspect those of us in favour have quite a way to go to persuade people of this. And oddly the people who seem most to need persuading are young people themselves.
You'd think that this would be something all 16 year olds would support. But every time I have spoken in schools to sixth formers about this, there has been a substantial group against. The argument is that they don't feel they know enough to vote.
I tried it out on third year undergraduates this week and the verdict about voting when under 18 was pretty much the same - they felt under 18s wouldn't know what they were doing.
Now obviously if under 18s were voting, politicians would put more effort into making sure they did know the issues, and schools would feel under more pressure to do so.
But frankly those of us in favour of this change need to do a lot more to convince the "non political" young people that this is something worth doing.
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Getting more local news
I do an e mail bulletin once a month, with extra editions when there is urgent need
It mainly covers local news in L18 and L19.
If you don't already get this but want to, you can subscribe using this link
It mainly covers local news in L18 and L19.
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Booker Avenue update
People living on or near the Booker Avenue/Greenhill Road junction were told last year that a planning application would be in in December for building on the bit of land opposite the pub (not the former garage - the other bit).
It was a tad frustrating when that didn't happen so we've chased up what's going on. The land itself has a fence round it now and that naturally sparked lot of questions.
The latest news from South Liverpool Housing, which is the lead organisation for the plan for homes on the site, is that a planning application should be in by February.
Obviously once it is, that will be a chance for local people to comment on the plans
As soon as its in and available, I'll blog again and put a link to the on line comment system here.
It was a tad frustrating when that didn't happen so we've chased up what's going on. The land itself has a fence round it now and that naturally sparked lot of questions.
The latest news from South Liverpool Housing, which is the lead organisation for the plan for homes on the site, is that a planning application should be in by February.
Obviously once it is, that will be a chance for local people to comment on the plans
As soon as its in and available, I'll blog again and put a link to the on line comment system here.
Monday, 21 January 2013
Where do the gritters go?
There's an interesting map on the City Council website that shows the gritting routes and where the grit bins are.
You can look up your own address, or you can move the map around from north to south, east to west to get a sense of the bigger picture.
The link to the map is here.
Interestingly, there are several roads I spotted that don't get gritted and yet are on bus routes or right by day centres with mini buses coming in and out. Makes you wonder what is a priority area and what isn't!
You can look up your own address, or you can move the map around from north to south, east to west to get a sense of the bigger picture.
The link to the map is here.
Interestingly, there are several roads I spotted that don't get gritted and yet are on bus routes or right by day centres with mini buses coming in and out. Makes you wonder what is a priority area and what isn't!
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