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Monday 19 October 2015
Saturday 17 October 2015
Folkore in the basement
A few of the scenes from British legend and folklore / folklife, as Minton tiles from the basement of the former Stoke town public library, Stoke-on-Trent. Creative Commons Attribution, although the designs themselves are of an age to be in the public domain.
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Ideas for the Stoke Neighbourhood Plan planning day
My ideas for the Stoke Neighbourhood Plan planning day today. Just a few of my own ideas and notions, so don't freak out if you see I've marked your shop-front for demolition! The big grey circles mean nothing - they were just on the 1:10000 map I found.
* Protect:
- Protect the south half of the Minster churchyard (the bit that's over the main road from the main churchyard).
- Make a new micro-park in the currently fenced-off and weed-filled south-west corner of Sainsbury's car park.
- Protect local allotments (Boothen and Richmond St.) from being built on.
* Re-open:
- Re-open the former public bicycle-path across the old Victoria Ground. Do not allow St. Modwen to re-route the cyclepath (when they build a new housing estate on the old football ground), such that the path ends up jammed right up against the A500 wall.
- Re-open the blocked-off footpath from Hunters Way (Hartshill) via the green back-lane of the Villas and down to the London Road Bakehouse - thus providing a green off-road footpath from Hartshill down to the lower end of the London Road.
- Re-wild the margins of the Fowlea Brook from North Street right the way down to the eastern edge of the Spode site. Do not allow future Spode re-development to wall itself off from the Brook.
* Build:
- Allow the University to expand onto the abandoned space at the back of Stoke Station (just north of the station's new back car-park). Don't keep waiting in vain for a chic modern hotel or conference centre to land there.
- Employment use should be preferred for the abandoned North Street / former Irish Centre sites.
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Wednesday 14 October 2015
Wednesday 7 October 2015
City council approves £2.5m battle against dumping
Good news today that the Stoke-on-Trent City Council cabinet has given the green light to £2.5m of new proposals to clean up the city. There will be a 'zero tolerance' approach to fly-tipping, with the council prosecuting every case of dumping. Plus four extra new fly-tipping clearance teams, enabling the council to clear fly-tipping from land that's not council-owned and to generally do more.
The Council will also undertake "low-level" hedge-trimming and minor repairs on privately-owned heritage buildings, to prevent neglected corners from becoming attractive to fly-tippers.
There's also now a new online form to report waste dumping and dog fouling to the council, though you may also want to use Fix My Street as it allows photo uploads.
Thursday 1 October 2015
Toward a cleaner city
Details of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's forthcoming £2.5m fly-tipping and litter blitz. Great news.
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