APPEAL TO COUNCIL BOSS
I WANT to make a direct personal appeal to council leader Sam Corcoran to reconsider the decision to close temporally or permanently the recycling centres in Poynton and Bollington.
Both are very well used and are hugely valued by their communities and are extremely important on many levels.
Your council’s reputation for recycling has been excellent.
People rightly feel that good recycling is one of the most important practical steps that they take as individuals to mitigate climate change.
Closing these centres sends the terrible message that you no longer as a council believe in becoming carbon neutral that you are giving up on climate change.
Our planet can not afford for us to give up.
I am only too well aware of how perilous council finances are after the terrible mismanagement of our country by the current government.
They will pay the price for this at the coming election.
The next government needs to get to grips with social services financing and give a much improved settlement to councils.
We need you to fight to retain our infrastructure and then ensure you get sufficient resources from local taxes and central government to maintain them going forward.
We need you to summon the spirit of Aneurin Bevan and other great Labour politicians.
The people of Bollington and Poynton have a massive pride in their towns - it is their tips you want to close.
Give them the chance to save them through volunteering, running them through their town council’s raising private finance to run them or a public private partnership.
We will be exploring all these options and more at a meeting at Prestbury Plant and Garden centre on Sunday, March 17, at 4pm to which I extend an invitation to you and all the Cheshire East councillors.
Please postpone these closures and give us a chance to help you deliver the services that we expect and deserve, Christopher Wellavize, via email
project that was not coming for 20 years and now isn’t coming at all.
This is planning way outside a much vaunted four-year plan that was struggling after quarter one.
Plus £90 million, on a Dedicated Schools Grant
deficit, within a plan that originally had a range of £63.6m to £90.3 million depending on mitigations.
The mitigated value is now £90 million and a second plan has been approved that has an unmitigated spend of £1.2
billion by 2030. No attempt has been made to address these costs in this medium-term financial statement, that makes the scramble to find £13 million a meaningless exercise.
As far as listening goes, a member of this council
stated ‘Poynton is a special case’.
Whatever your point of view on that, Poynton is a key service centre and this Labour/Independent administration is doing its best to take away the accredited services that the 25000 residents value.
The plan to close the waste site, introduce car park charges and decimate a much prized local Poynton pool, despite massive vocal objections, proves this council is not listening.