This year’s event will be the 41st annual Peterborough Beer Festival.
But, I’m starting to wonder if plans in the pipeline, announced in the City Council’s Local Plan consultation, seem to indicate that it maybe under threat?
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Do UNI plans mean the END for the #PBoroBeerFestival?
This year’s event will be the 41st annual Peterborough Beer Festival.
But, I’m starting to wonder if plans in the pipeline, announced in the City Council’s Local Plan consultation, seem to indicate that it maybe under threat?
Are YOU happy for Council staff to have Body Worn Cameras? #Consultation
Peterborough City Council are presently consulting on whether or not to use body worn cameras for their officers working in the Prevention and Enforcement Service.
- Only takes a second or two to have your say! Simply VISIT HERE!
According to the City Council, the scheme would enable officers, “..if they observe an offence occurring, to activate their camera during this offence and their interaction with the offender.”
Are YOU happy for Council staff to have Body Worn Cameras? #Consultation
Peterborough City Council are presently consulting on whether or not to use body worn cameras for their officers working in the Prevention and Enforcement Service.
- Only takes a second or two to have your say! Simply VISIT HERE!
According to the City Council, the scheme would enable officers, “..if they observe an offence occurring, to activate their camera during this offence and their interaction with the offender.”
Tories will make budget decision B4 consultation ends?
The Tories at the Town Hall have just launched the first phase of their budget plan, interestingly the consultation ends on 30th November, yet at “a Cabinet meeting on Monday 20 November 2017, members will be asked to approve the first set of proposals for consultation….” – So the Tories will be taking a decision before local people have had their final say?
“…we are no longer sufficiently funded by government to provide the services we want to deliver for residents and the 2018/19 budget will be the most challenging yet.” – Councillor John Holdich
Other interesting points this year are:
- When the austerity programme was first launched, local Tories described the cuts as with words like “efficiency“, now even the leader of the Tories is admitting the actions are “cuts!”
- This will be the first time the Tories at the Town Hall have had to put a budget together without their financial guru John Harrison for over a decade! (We’re STILL not sure why he left the authority the other month?)
“..the same time the council has seen unprecedented increases in demand for services, in particular those in housing need and adults and the elderly needing care and support.” – Peterborough City Council
Other bits to bear in mind:
- Thanks to the Tory Government’s austerity programme, in 2013/14 the city council received £55 million in Revenue Support Grant and this will have reduced to just £15 million in 2018/19 and then £10 million in 2019/20.
- In terms of homelessness, the council has seen a 200% rise in the number of homeless families requiring temporary accommodation in just the past two years.
- Senior Tory Councillors say they are lobbying government for extra funding and already have meetings set up with our MPs and have been in discussion with the Local Government Association, but I do wonder what there’ll be doing different this time and why they’ve not done it to date?
Have your say
- People are able to view and comment on the proposals by visiting the council’s budget consultation page.
Let me know below if you have any suggestions on what the City Council could do?
