Oct 15
Planning Officers from Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council said that the Potteries Shopping Centre £14m expansion posed no threat to the City Council backed “City Sentral” scheme before John van der Laarschot sent a letter to Realis promising to block the rival scheme. PotteriesEYE exposed a secret letter written by the council’s chief executive, John …
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Sep 04
Stoke-on-Trent City Council are set to gag councillors with a social media policy described as “draconian” by worried elected members. Councillors from the Labour run local authority yesterday received a copy of the council’s draft social media policies via email before they are introduced across the council for both staff and councillors. In the email, Karen …
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Aug 29
Councillors Forced to Pay for Coffee Whilst Leader & Officers Spend £25,929.12 on Freebie Drinks Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council withdrew its free tea and coffee machine for use by councillors as part of it’s £20m budget savings back in February 2012 claiming the freebie for councillors had to go to help justify other controversial …
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Aug 28
Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Cabinet are to receive a financial update this Thursday showing, for the third year running since the appointment of consultants Vanguard, an overspend in the council’s housing repairs budget. The Cabinet, led by Mohammed Pervez, will receive the report from Assistant Director of Finance, Peter Bates, showing a predicted overspend …
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Aug 14
Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s is to get rid of 10% more of its staff come 2013 to make further saving a number of senior sources from inside the City Council claim. As the council moves forward with borrowing £50m to buy a new civic centre in Hanley and after it has already cut hundreds …
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Aug 07
OPINION: Mike Barnes Today it has been revealed that a request for information over the botched closure of the Dimensions Splash Pool that the Information Commissioner has ruled that the council can keep the emails and correspondence between the City Council and Dimensions competitor Waterworld secret. A victory for this secretive and inept council is …
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Oct 13
Soapbox: Hanley Regeneration – A Price Worth Paying?
News, Opinion
by PottEye
October 13, 2012
Regenerating Stoke-on-Trent after the demise of its hardcore industrial past has been the primary aim of our political leaders for over two decades now. It’s a never-ending work in progress. There has been some limited success most notably Trentham Lakes with its high-tech/ low man power logistic sprawl. However, it is becoming an increasingly desperate …
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