Wiltshire Council is proposing to spend £2,730,000 on installing biomass boilers in 32 schools in the county. It's estimated that over a twenty year period the new boilers would pay for themselves and return a £3m profit as schools would pay the council for the heat generated.
Councillors were told by the Tory administration that it could be early February before the Auditors work is complete and the council's accounts for 2010/11 are signed off.
Cllr Vicky Davies is demanding Brentwood Council take urgent action to rectify the ridiculous issue of the gap between the new pathway in Bishops Hall Park and Green Lane pathway in Pilgrims Hatch.
As I've written here previously, as I talk to residents across the Borough it is striking how often the issue of speeding traffic on our residential roads comes up as a primary concern of people in all of our communities. Key to bringing speeds down to safer levels is of course enforcement, and while this is a police responsibility we are working with the police and the Chief Constable has reassured me that he shares effective enforcement as a priority. As far as the Council is concerned, we oversee speed limits on local roads across the Borough, in consultation with the police, and in response to the number of concerns raised with me I launched a review of speed limits across the Borough last year.
This year's Liberal Democrat Spring Conference will see a joint fringe meeting organised by HSLD and Liberal Democrat Christian Forum.
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