I really cannot believe where the past few months have gone to and here is me neglecting my blog so I am going to try and carry out an early New Year’s resolution and update it at least twice a week!! I realised how time has flown when I met a friend of mine on the tram last night who is a school teacher who was telling me how well her pupils did in their GCSE’s – had I not seen her since then? apparently not oops!
So what is new in Whitefield at the moment – the fortnightly bin collections seem to be settling in but not without lots of emails and phone calls trying to sort out extra bins where required, recycling facilities in flats and missed bin collections. Many people have appraoched me to say how much they feel it has encouraged them to recycle.
The Whitefield Town Hall site was once again the topic of much discussion this week as an application went into planning to extend the permission granted in March 2011 for its demolition to allow further negotations to go on for the land transfer from the Council to the developer to take place. Unfortunately this was refused – I really hope that a solution to be reached and that the facade and return are able to be reserved in line with the residents’ wishes otherwise it will be lost forever.
The Halloween festival held on the 30 October was a huge success and I am looking forward to the Xmas Farmers’ Market on the 27 November!
Last week I attended the Radcliffe Township Forum meeting to which 9 members of the public turned up – I do question the merit of these meetings especially now when Councillors and indeed Council officers are so easily accessible via email or phone. The one in Whitefield is next Tuesday at 1pm but as I am working that afternoon will be unable to attend.
I suppose the hightlight of the last week was attending the Remembrance Day Service on Sunday at the cenotaph in Whitefield. A record number of people turned up and it was a most moving service. Afterwards a reception was held at Whitefield Hebrew Congregation onn Park Lane and I was delighted to welcome so many people to the synagogue I attend.