Greenhill Road takeaway update (26 Feb)

There's bad news for people opposed to the scheme for a takeaway at the junction of Greenhill Road and Melbreck Road.

Council planners seem to want the idea to have the go ahead.

Despite a large number of resident objections, the Council is recommending that the application be approved.

It has still to go to planning committee and Richard Oglethorpe and I will be arguing on residents behalf against the idea.

Amazing really though that the Council can want to say yes when so many residents say no.

I will blog again when I have more details but its only fair that people know the way the Council is thinking.

Community Skips in L19

The City Council has a community skip programme which makes skips available for community clean ups or for areas where people are complaining about dumping etc.

My colleague Richard Oglethorpe has arranged for the skips to be available for people in the streets near the library this coming Friday (1st March)

The skip will be at the junction of Basing Street and Duncombe Street south.  Do use it if it helps keep your area cleaner.

The skip will be back on two following Fridays - also on Dumcombe Street South at the Calthorpe and Stormont Road junctions.

Cressington Community First - what we fund

I've been working on some articles to illustrate the sort of things the Cressington Community First Fund actually funds.

It's involved visiting projects and interviewing staff and volunteers.

The first three articles - about the Clothes Exchange, the South Liverpool Foodbank and the Garston Adventure Playground are now published on the fund's website.

You can see these articles at this link.

Office space available for hire in Garston

The Garston Community House (that's the building on the corner by the bridge) has space available for hire.  It might suit local organisations looking for a work base.


There are two rooms going and the organisation says that it's prepared to hire them out on a daily, weekly, monthy or annual basis.
The benefits include a staffed reception (this is the same building as the CAB), a fully accessible building and access from 8 30 in the morning Monday to Friday. (closes at 5)

The person to contact if you are interested is Angela Taylor on 0151 427 5437

Or angela.taylor@southliverpoolcab.org.uk

The CAB website has images of what the space is on its website.
www.southliverpoolcab.org.uk/index.php/en/office-space-available

Friends of Garston Library (update 16th February)

We've just finished a first meeting to set up a Friends of Garston Library group.  Plenty of ideas and it's clear there is scope to organise events and to get more people using the library.

We've got a follow up meeting, to make more organisational progress, on 2nd March at the Library.

Because there aren't an infinite number of chairs there, it would really help to know if you are coming (if you are one of the people who wasn't here today).  You can e mail me at paulakeaveney@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks to Denise from the library service also for updating us on some great plans for celebrations of reading in Liverpool.

Survey on the bin service

Liverpool City Council is talking about changing the bin service so that the purple bins are collected every fortnight rather than every week.

The proposal at the moment is that this would only apply to parts of the City although its not clear from the definitions exactly which those parts would be.

We believe that these sorts of changes shouldn't come in without a serious attempt to collect people's views and act on them.

My Lib Dem colleagues and I are now doing just that.

If you want to fill in our on line survey on this topic, please use this link

Taggart Avenue closure U turn

Thanks to everyone who filled in the survey about the plans to block off part of Taggart Avenue.

The news today is that the Council has done a U turn on this one and it now won't happen.

My colleague Cllr Pat Moloney, who represents Childwall, collected hundreds of responses about the idea.  They were all against and people were angry that the first they heard about the proposal was in the media.