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13 Apr 2020
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Sebastian Field at Milton Avenue

City councillor welcomes planned improvements for Podsmead

A Liberal Democrat councillor has welcomed the improvements due to take place in a part of Gloucester. Work is due to begin at the open space at Milton Avenue in Podsmead following the award of a share of a Euroean Structural Investment Fund grant. A total of £1.4 million will be spent on 13 sites across Gloucestershire, including Milton Avenue, to enhance biodiversity and encourage wildlife. At Milton Avenue the new work could include tree planting, creating a meadow and wetlands. Since being elected to represent Podsmead in July last year, Councillor Field has helped the local community with Milton Avenue through facilitating clean-up days with the council and Leyhill inmates doing community service, and volunteering where possible with Podsmead Big Local and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. He has recently had it confirmed by the city council leader the money has been ringfenced and not affected by Brexit. "The plans for Milton Avenue are still being developed, so residents are welcome to make suggestions f

10 Feb 2020
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Jeremy Hilton in Oxford Road

Kingsholm parking review about to start

The county council's long-awaited review of on-street parking in Kingsholm is just about to start and should be completed by November this year. The first stage of the project will be a camera car survey this month to carried by contractors Atkins. This will take vehicle data to establish the occupancy, parking stress and demand on an area as well as duration of stay and generally how far people have travelled to park - are they local to area, the street, city or come from further away? The survey will take place over a week, picking two or three days that week and carrying out the surveys three times a day. The results of the traffic survey will take a month to come back. Afterwards, an informal consultation will be done from March to May with residents and businesses. Local Lib Dem councillors Jeremy Hilton and Isabel Brazil are pleased that work on the review is starting. They have received loads of complaints from residents about parking congestion in Kingsholm. They have passed on several emails to the t

7 Feb 2020
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Sarah Sawyer, Linda Castle and Ian Williams at one of the manhole covers on Cheltenham Road

Will it ever be fixed?

Will the damaged and noisy manhole covers on Cheltenham Road - near the university - be fixed? That is the question the Lib Dems are asking.

29 Jan 2020
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The Lib Dem Marketing Gloucester motion

Former council leader urged to apologise over Marketing Gloucester failures

Councillors are demanding that the former leader of Gloucester City Council apologise for the Marketing Gloucester debacle. The Liberal Democrats have tabled a motion to the city council calling on Councillor Paul James to apologise after the arms length organisation was bailed out to the tune of £240,000. The city council had to give Marketing Gloucester, which was responsible for promoting Gloucester and running events, the money for it to stay financially solvent. Councillor Paul James, who stood down as leader of the council in November last year, resigned as chair of the Marketing Gloucester board in May. Councillor Jeremy Hilton, leader of Gloucester Liberal Democrats, said: "Councillor Paul James was chair of the board for eight years, which had oversight of Marketing Gloucester when it racked up this huge overspend. "It's clear the board did not properly take a grip of expenditure and allowed things to get out of control. "Councillor James, as chair, should have had better control over the governance

26 Jan 2020
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Cameron Thomas MP

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