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£22,000 BBQ Scheme “A Crackpot Idea”

On the eve of the Council’s Executive Board meeting tomorrow, the Yorkshire Evening Post has spoken out fiercely on the Woodhouse Moor concrete barbecue zone.
 Leeds City Council, it says in its editorial, “has taken fence-sitting to amazing new levels: it has made it an Olympic sport”.
 The paper is unequivocal: “Our message to the council is [...]

April Fools

Next week, on the 26th August, the Council’s Executive Board will meet at the Civic Hall; and one of the items our senior councillors will be considering is the Woodhouse Moor barbecue issue.
The report sets out three options: enforce the bylaws; put in a concrete barbecue area as originally suggested; or trial a barbecue area [...]

Another Leeds University assault on our area

n yet another assault on Hyde Park and Woodhouse, the City Centre plans panel this afternoon gave it’s approval to a planning application from Leeds University to relocate the School of Law to a single site at the junction of Moorland Road and Belle Vue Road. It will mean the demolition of the [...]

Going after the student vote – part 3

ocal residents were stunned when they learnt recently that the Lib Dems are trying making it easier for students to vote, regardless of whether this makes voting more difficult for other residents. Local resident Kathleen Mason felt so strongly about the Lib Dems’ proposal, that she wrote to the paper to complain about it. Three [...]

The double standards of our local police

he duty of the police is to apply the law impartially to all. But here in Hyde Park and Woodhouse, the local police do not apply the law impartially to all. They have a duty to enforce the byelaws and yet they turn a blind eye to the people who light fires, drop litter and [...]

I assure you – if Labour is re-elected – we’ll undo this crazy scheme

epresentatives from the three local community groups recently paid a visit to Keith Wakefield the leader of the Labour group to express their concern about the council’s clear determination to press ahead with its scheme to create designated barbeque areas on Woodhouse Moor in the face of overwhelming evidence that the consultation exercise was flawed. [...]

Visible evidence that the survey forms were never delivered as claimed

arks and Countryside and the delivery firm claim that 9,982 survey forms were delivered to all of the 454 streets that lie within 800 metres of the Moor’s perimeter. And they tell us that they’ve received back 587 forms from 155 streets. That means that 299 streets never returned a form. Statistician Paul Marchant has [...]

Statistical evidence that the survey forms were never delivered as claimed

Statistician Paul Marchant has kindly agreed to let me publish an email he sent to the council explaining to them that the likelihood of  receiving no survey forms from 299 streets is less than 13 in a billion.  Paul addressed the email to Councillor Ryk Downes as Councillor Downes is the Scrutiny Board councillor who [...]

Going after the student vote – part 2

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