Monday 24 August 2009
Weeds!
Hampshire County Council are now in the process of spraying for weeds around Farnborough. If you know anywhere that needs particular attention let me know by tomorrow and we'll get on to it!
Sunday 23 August 2009
A-Level Results
Congratulations to all Rushmoor students who have achieved such excellent results in this year's A Level Exams. I have to admit that I am surprised at how much local students and teachers manage to achieve, despite the incredible levels of bureaucracy in our state run education system.
I will very soon be bringing a motion to council calling for parents in Hampshire to have the power to set up their own school and receive the money that would have been spent on their child's education in a failing school on education that best suits them.
If you look at the way this model has worked in Sweden you will see that it only takes about 10% of people to get involved in this kind of way to improve school performance for everyone. Competition works so well in improving standards in every other field of life. Surely it would be strange not to try it in the area that matters the most- education.
Please do turn up at the next council meeting to see what I hope will be a well informed debate on this issue.
I will very soon be bringing a motion to council calling for parents in Hampshire to have the power to set up their own school and receive the money that would have been spent on their child's education in a failing school on education that best suits them.
If you look at the way this model has worked in Sweden you will see that it only takes about 10% of people to get involved in this kind of way to improve school performance for everyone. Competition works so well in improving standards in every other field of life. Surely it would be strange not to try it in the area that matters the most- education.
Please do turn up at the next council meeting to see what I hope will be a well informed debate on this issue.
Sunday 16 August 2009
Town Centre
It has been a busy time recently in the council and things are only likely to get more busy!
The town centre is looking very good right now, as anyone who has been past it in recent weeks will have noticed, and I have been assured by the developers that despite the recession, they expect the development to be finished soon and up and trading well in time for Christmas.
The new town centre is more important now than ever. The town centre will bring jobs, it will bring investment and it will bring more visitors into the centre. It will revive the nightlife of the town centre and act as a deterrant to crime. In short, it will be the ideal antidote to all of the set backs that Farnborough has faced as a result of the national economic mess we are in.
In the council's Development and Control meeting on Wednesday I spoke in favour of a motion that will allow the developers to delay their contributions to local leisure and ammenities development under their section 106 obligations. We are still going to insist on the payment of this money but this is exactly the sort of pro-business, common sense measure I am happy to support in the short run to ensure that we get the town centre we have all been waiting for for so long.
The motion passed unanimously.
The next update will not be so long coming!
The town centre is looking very good right now, as anyone who has been past it in recent weeks will have noticed, and I have been assured by the developers that despite the recession, they expect the development to be finished soon and up and trading well in time for Christmas.
The new town centre is more important now than ever. The town centre will bring jobs, it will bring investment and it will bring more visitors into the centre. It will revive the nightlife of the town centre and act as a deterrant to crime. In short, it will be the ideal antidote to all of the set backs that Farnborough has faced as a result of the national economic mess we are in.
In the council's Development and Control meeting on Wednesday I spoke in favour of a motion that will allow the developers to delay their contributions to local leisure and ammenities development under their section 106 obligations. We are still going to insist on the payment of this money but this is exactly the sort of pro-business, common sense measure I am happy to support in the short run to ensure that we get the town centre we have all been waiting for for so long.
The motion passed unanimously.
The next update will not be so long coming!
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