Category Archives: Glossop

Polling Day: Midday Update

Our polling day reminders were all delivered in in the ward this morning by some kind volunteers, Garry and myself.

Glossopdale Labour’s loud-hailer car is out and about in our ward and others with Roger Wilkinson at the helm!

We also have a street stall out down on Norfolk Square to remind people to use their vote and to vote for their local Labour candidates.

Just finished our lunch so its now back on it by going down to the Campaign HQ in Glossop’s Labour Club  to start phone canvassing to get the vote out.

The Final Countdown (Campaign Update)

It has been a busy few days since I last blogged, with many daily door-knocking and phone canvassing sessions carried out across Glossopdale. Our garden stake boards have gone up  on key routes throughout the town, with many more posters in windows too.
Our final leaflets that remind people that this Thursday is polling day have and are continuing to go out throughout the Borough; and also remind people that they have up to two votes in Old Glossop ward and other multi-seat wards.

Knock Knock…

This week will see the start of Garry and I, with some of Glossopdale’s Labour Team, hitting the streets of Old Glossop to speak with residents on their doorsteps.

We hope to have the same good levels of response as we have had on the Team’s Street Stalls in the town centre on Saturday mornings.

See you very soon!

Our Priorities for Old Glossop

Today Damien Greenhalgh and Garry Parvin, the Labour Party candidates for Old Glossop set out their priorities for Old Glossop:

They stated that despite the being imposed on the Borough Council by the Conservative-led Government, already being felt by people, they plan to keep Old Glossop a “clean and attractive” where people are “happy, safe, and healthy”.

The full version of their priorities document is available here:   Old Glossop – Priorities

Damien and Garry ‘set out their stall’

Candidate/Councillor on your Corner

The campaigning of  activists, Garry and I against cuts to adult social care was highlighted in both the town’s papers this week.

Glossopdale Labour will be holding further street stalls outside the town hall arcade on the High Street into February on Saturday 11am to 1pm.

We are very keen to listen to any comments and/or concerns you may have.
We, unlike the controlling Conservative group on the Council, feel that its better to chat to you in person rather than relying on gimmicky internet consultations.
So pop down and have a chat with one of us!

Glossop Chronicle article:
Glossop Advertiser article:

Candidates reply to Cllr Bell’s fanciful ideas

Re: Should Glossop move next door?

What Cllr Bell said sums up his approach to representing the people of Old Glossop: whimsical at best! Whilst the general argument has some long term merits and ignoring the fact that the changes would require an Act of Parliament, is this what currently troubles the people of Old Glossop ward? Glossopdale? the Borough? I think not.

Cllr Bell - Should Glossop move next door?

The Glossop Chronicle article: another of Cllr Ivan Bell's fanciful ideas. (Please click to enlarge.)

When people are thinking about the impacts of the cuts in the provision of services provided by our local councils, in the wake of the devastating cuts to their funding settlements, Ivan is pointing out that Tameside’s ‘roads are better’ than ours. Instead of working to improve our area he seems to think it to be more constructive to covet what our neighbours have; bizarrely seeming to ignore the sheer complexity and length of a process to redraw the boundaries of four council areas which lie in three counties and three separate regions.

There’s a saying that a society can be judged on the basis of how it treats its most vulnerable members, but these cuts will disproportionately affected the young and older people of the ward seeing many service withdrawn or decreased especially regarding care for the elderly and transport, with the withdrawal of half price travel into Manchester with the Gold Card for the ward’s elderly cards a proposed cut a perfect example of this. This is not fair and what does it say about our society?

We feel that Old Glossop deserves better, with people that can put forward serious suggestions and have some influence in the decision-making processes of the Council unlike the incumbent members.

Damien Greenhalgh and Garry Parvin
Labour Candidates for Old Glossop Ward

NB – The article “Should Glossop move nextdoor?” can be found online on the Glossop Chronicle’s website here

UPDATE:

Our letter was published in this week’s (27.01.2011) Glossop Chronicle on page 8 – the letters page:

Should Glossop move next door?

Neighbourhood Policing Team Meeting

Glossop residents, including those in the Old Glossop, have the opportunity to raise concerns and set priorities for policing in Glossop at a forthcoming public meeting. Derbyshire Constabulary’s Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team is holding a meeting in the community room at Glossop police station on Tuesday, 2nd February at 2pm.

http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/279.html

Tip Closure Letter

Letter sent to the Glossop Chronicle and the Glossop Advertiser on the week of 26th July 2010:

Glossop Household Waste Recycling Centre has been closed since February.

Dear Sir/Madam

What a shambles the current ‘indefinite’ closure of Glossop’s tip is. Last week, maybe like many others, I made a trip to the tip to dispose of some bulky household waste.

When I arrived at the Melandra Road centre, which according to the council  is indefinitely closed ‘for vital repairs to a weak bridge on the access road’, I was greeted by a sign informing me of its continued closure and advised to go to the Green Fairfield household waste recycling centre in Buxton – a round trip of over 40 miles! Not only is this inconvenient for most people in the north of the borough but costs us more in fuel and emissions which many of us are trying to reduce.

I have since learned of the meagre three hours window of opportunity to dispose of bulkier items on Saturday mornings at High Peak Borough Council’s Surrey Street Depot. But why are people not informed of this when they go the Melandra Road site? Many I have spoken with simply just prefer to pop over into Tameside to use the Waste Recycling Centre in Stalybridge instead, which is what I ended up doing last week.

So now into the fifth month of the tip’s closure why are Derbyshire County Council not showing any leadership in resolving this issue; only seeming to speak up to lay blamed at United Utilities’ door? The people of Glossopdale are now becoming tired of the lack of progress and simply want the reinstatement of the sorely needed service they pay for and deserve.

Damien Greenhalgh