Home » 2009 » June

The road widening threat to Woodhouse Moor is back, and it’s called NGT

Last Thursday, the 18th June, Leeds City Council and Metro unveiled their plans for New Generation Transport (NGT), a scheme that would see trolleybuses running in leeds for the first time since 1928.  The plan is to have three routes; the East Route, the South Route, and the North Route, with the trolleybuses running along [...]

A Critique of the Report of the Director of City Development to the Scrutiny Board, 9th June 2009

This report gives cause for grave concern. Not only is it tellingly sub-literate in its writing (I take it that Officers who cannot distinguish illicit from elicit are likely to be illicit in their dealings, because they know no better) but it begs questions from start to finish.

Executive Summary #3 : ‘The Council has [...]

Fudge

Over a year ago, Council and Leeds University staff held a series of closed-door meetings to discuss anti-social behaviour on Woodhouse Moor. Councillors Jamie Matthews and Penny Ewens were at those meetings; but although reps from the Students’ Union were present, no other community groups were represented.
 
It was then that the scheme for a barbecue [...]

Where is the cost-benefit analysis in support of designated barbeque areas ?

In their report to the Executive Board dated the 8th October 2008, Parks and Countryside accept that the use of barbeques on the Moor causes damage to the park and is associated with anti-social behaviour. The report then states that their preferred solution to the problem is to restrict barbecuing to designated areas of the [...]

When the end justifies the means, truth is the first casualty

In February 2006, Leeds City Council’s Department for Learning and Leisure obtained £170,341 to build a pay and display car park on Woodhouse Moor. They obtained the funds by telling Leeds City Council’s Director of Resources there had been consultation with local community groups. In reality, there had been no consultation.  (1)

Then in November 2008, [...]

The views of the parties responsible for this fiasco

These are the views of the parties who were present at the multi agency meetings that took place in May, June and July last year.

Councillor Penny Ewens (chair)
“Where are people without gardens to have barbeques if not on the Moor?”
Councillor Jamie Matthews
“The reports of anti social behaviour have been exaggerated.  If some people had [...]

Home