Building a greener, cleaner, safer community
In a rather unusual but not altogether surprising step, opposition councillors were not allowed to speak at tonight’s meeting to discuss last week’s call-in of the Family Hubs paper that was approved at Cabinet on 30th April. Here’s what leader of the opposition Cllr Simon Werner (Pinkneys Green) would have said, had he been invited […]
Written by Cllr John Baldwin I know that to many of you the inner workings of your Council must seem arcane and deeply uninteresting. So, the thought of reading a blog about a meeting of the Adults, Children and Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel on the 14th of May will fill you with dread. But […]
By Cllr John Baldwin (Belmont ward) Foodshare Maidenhead (FM) has been a lifeline to the poorest and most vulnerable in our community for nearly as many years as I have lived in the town. My wife and I have been adding a few bits to the shopping every week for as long as we can […]
Thursday 29 April saw the Council resume some measure of ‘business as normal’. The Conservative administration brought forward their proposals to slash £600,000 of services in the name of ‘transforming’ Children’s Centre, Youth services and Family Resilience teams into the controversial Family Hub model. The meeting was a virtual one with a live YouTube feed. […]
* Councillors often vary their speeches as a result of the debate, and Cllr Bond wishes to point out that this blog may not represent exactly what he said. It does, however, represent his views. We have neighbourhoods of Victorian & Edwardian housing built before the motor car with minimal off‑street parking, only a short hop from a town centre. Without residents’ parking permits, they become overspill town centre parking and residents feel they have very little choice about paying. If the definition of a charge is paying […]
After 12 years of Conservative rule, the full impact of the Tories’ ‘cut tax, wield axe’ approach is being felt in Windsor and Maidenhead with the publication of the 2020/2021 budget savings report. Despite recently declaring a climate emergency, several of the measures announced will serve to slow down our progress towards net-zero emissions: Removing […]