by Mary Sherwood & Nick Davies | Jul 26, 2019 | HMOs, News
Last year, a planning application to convert the former Tofts Building at 60 Bernard Street into a 17 unit student accommodation block provoked a lot of local opposition. Nick and Mary campaigned against it, but before it went to Planning Committee it was thrown out...
by Mary Sherwood & Nick Davies | May 27, 2019 | News, Personal Blogs
Councillors are always busy but 20th – 25th May 2019 was full of such interesting meetings and events I thought I’d share it as an example of the range of things we do int he process of representing residents and fulfilling the manifesto on which we were...
by Mary Sherwood & Nick Davies | May 8, 2019 | News
Jack Murphy’s is planning to take over the old Wasabi building. The premises already has a licence for the supply of alcohol until 11pm Monday to Saturday and 10:30pm Sunday. They have asked to extend these hours to midnight Monday to Thursday and 2am Friday to...
by Mary Sherwood & Nick Davies | Mar 5, 2019 | News
This month’s report focuses on news from the Council Chamber, which saw the adoption of both the LDP and the Budget, on February 28th. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN – with HMO safeguards at long last The LDP was finally presented to Council … along with some disappointing...
by Mary Sherwood & Nick Davies | Feb 4, 2019 | News
Ganges Field On Friday January 25th Mary and Nick attended an open meeting of the Friends of the Ganges group. Ganges Field is a much loved area of open space situated in Townhill, used and overlooked by Uplands residents. It’s a valuable ‘green lung’ in an area...
