Preperations are underway as Nottinghamshire County Council are busy developing a proposal to present to central government, after councillors voted in favour of abolishing seven district councils in favour of a larger ‘super-council’.
Jason Zadrozny, Ashfield District Council leader said that Nottinghamshire County Council’s vote in favour of getting rid of District Councils in the County will be a “disaster for places like the Ashfield District.”
Councillors from across Nottinghamshire voted today to go ahead with plans to scrap district and borough councils and create a new authority for the whole of the county.
Mansfield’s MP Ben Bradley has described the Prime Minister’s Chequers agreement as “fundamentally the wrong deal for the UK and the Conservative Party” following his resignation on Tuesday.
Today (July 12), Nottinghamshire County Council will vote on whether to go ahead with a plan to abolish all seven county and district councils in Nottinghamshire.
Opposition politicians have criticised Sheffield City Council’s planned changes to recycling collections, set to be rolled out over the city over the next few months.
Edwinstowe’s County Councillor John Peck is set to present a petition to Nottinghamshire County Council, opposing proposal to frack in or around Sherwood Forest.
A pension agreement between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Mineworkers Pension Scheme is “just the first step”, according to a pensions lobbyist.
MPs covering Mansfield, Ashfield and Sherwood agree that cannabis oil for medical purposes should be used more frequently, but are split on the overall legality of the substance.
