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Sep 25
A survey paid for by council tenants to the tune of £118,000 will not be released to them by Labour controlled Stoke-on-Trent City Council in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Information control officers claim releasing the results would create “an increase in customer enquiries relating to when improvements will be …
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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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Jun 28
A report by Stoke-on-Trent City Council Audit Services Manager, Sue Woodall, regarding the demolition of a church and subsequently, a £4m regeneration programme, never made it to the City Council Audit Committee, the body legally charged with keeping tabs on the council’s finances and their legal compliance. The carefully worded report and it’s content only …
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Jun 26
Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s wall of secrecy took a battering as it is forced to release an audit report first requested by a member of the public through an FOI request 9 months ago, and that it refused to publish saying that it was: exempt under section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act …
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May 23
Labour Cabinet members on Stoke-on-Trent City Council are not allowed to speak except through the City Council Press Office, Mohammed Pervez, leader of the council says in a statement. Sarah Hill former Cabinet member and councillor resigned over Pervez’s part time role and the draconian control over Labour councillor freedom to speak. Labour members who …
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May 11
On Tuesday 8th May The Sentinel published a story on how much local councils have recently spent on iPads, it claimed that Stoke-on-Trent Council had spent £29,000 on 110 iPads, but had yet to distribute any. Cllr Hamer said that some would go to children’s centres and schools, to increase parental involvement with child learning at an early age. …
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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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